[Fwd: Reminder: Call for Papers: Fourth International Conference on Open Source Systems, 7-10 September 2008, Milan, Italy]

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Due to the numerous requests of extension, the deadline of the call for
papers of OSS2008 has been extended to the 18th of December.

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Your contribution is welcome!

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The track chairs

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 Barbara Russo

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 Bjorn Lundell

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 *Call for Papers: Fourth International Conference on Open Source
Systems*

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                                                              OSS 2008

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s2007.dti.unimi.it/


                       THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON OPEN
SOURCE SYSTEMS

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                                                           7-10
September 2008, Milan, Italy


                                                    co-located with IFIP

                                                          World Computer
Congress 2008


                     CALL FOR PAPERS, WORKSHOPS, TUTORIALS, PANELS AND
DEMONSTRATIONS

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Over the past decade, the Open Source Software (OSS) phenomenon has  had
a global impact on the way organizations and individuals create,
distribute, acquire and use software and software-based services. OSS
has challenged the conventional wisdom of the software engineering
and software business communities, has been instrumental for educators
and  researchers, and has become an important aspect of e-government and
information society initiatives. OSS is a complex phenomenon and
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The goal of OSS 2008 is to provide an international forum where a
 diverse community of professionals from academia, industry and public
 administration can come together to share research findings and
practical experiences. The conference is also meant to provide
 information and education to practitioners, identify directions
forfurther research, and to be an ongoing platform for technology
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 *Conference Topics*

 The conference will consist of research papers presentations,
 workshops, tutorials, panels, and project demonstrations.

 Authors are invited to submit papers and proposals on a variety of OSS
 topics, including but not limited to:

     * OSS Historical Foundations and Emerging Trends
     * Public and Private Sector Adoption of OSS Solutions
     * OSS, Open Science and "Open Knowledge"
     * OSS, Health Services Management and E-Health
     * Knowledge Management, e-Learning and OSS
     * OSS Education and Training
     * Socio-cultural Dynamics of OSS
     * OSS and Social Networks
     * OSS Usability, Scalability, Maintainability and other quality
issues
     * Tools and infrastructures for OSS Development
     * Architectures and patterns for OSS Development
     * Techniques and processes for OSS Development
     * OSS and Agile Development
     * OSS and Distributed Development
     * Documentation of OSS projects
     * Licensing, IPR and other legal issues in OSS
     * Free software and GPLv3
     * OSS and Innovation
     * OSS and e-Government
     * OSS Business models and strategies
     * Cost, value and economic models of OSS
     * Empirical analysis of OSS including surveys, field studies, case
       studies, experiments and experience reports

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 *Authors are invited to visit the wep page of the tracks for more
details *

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 *Conference Tracks*

     * Open Source Development
       <http://oss2008.dti.unimi.it/index.php?id=3Dtrack1.htm>
     * Open Source Communities and Platforms
       <http://oss2008.dti.unimi.it/index.php?id=3Dtrack2.htm>
     * Open Source Adoption and Quality
       <http://oss2008.dti.unimi.it/index.php?id=3Dtrack3.htm>

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IMPORTANT DEADLINES:

Submission of Research Papers: December 14st, 2007
Results to Authors: February 18th, 2008

Camera Ready due: April 7th, 2008
OSS2008 Conference in Milan: 7-10 September 2008
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION:

Submissions are invited for original research papers and proposals for
tutorials, workshops, panels, or demonstrations. The official language
of the conference is English.

Full papers should be between 3000-4000 words including references,
following the template provided in the Author's Kit section. Each
submission must include a cover page with the full title of the paper.
The body of the paper should include title, abstract, list of keywords
and a complete list of references.

Accepted papers, panel positions and workshop/tutorial/demonstration
descriptions will appear in the conference proceedings. All submissions
should be submitted electronically in either .sxw
(OpenOffice), .doc, .rtf, .pdf or LATEX format through the conference
website.


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