PROFES 2021 - 22nd International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement

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22nd International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2021)
November 25-26, 2021, Turin, Italy
https://softeng.polito.it/profes2021/
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PROFES, the International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, is among the top recognized software development and process improvement conferences. The 22nd edition of PROFES will be held in Turin, Italy, from November 25 and 26, 2021. PROFES organization is composed of international recognized researchers in software engineering.
PROFES 2021 is part of a series of conferences presented by profes-conferences.org

The objective of PROFES is to provide a premier forum for practitioners, researchers, and educators to present and discuss experiences, ideas, innovations, as well as concerns related to professional software development and process improvement driven by product and service quality needs. PROFES especially welcomes contributions emerging from applied research to foster industry-academia collaborations of leading industries and research institutions.

PROFES conferences encourage the exchange of ideas that help explore, understand, and model phenomena in software engineering from the point of view of process-product relationships. Traditionally, PROFES provides topics, which are up-to-date, important, and interesting to both practitioners and researchers. To ensure that PROFES will retain its high standards and that it will keep focusing on the most relevant research issues, we are looking for original research on current trends in software engineering aspects addressing products and services. Further, we particularly encourage the submission of studies reporting on the application of respective methods or technologies in real settings.

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Topics of Interest
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The topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following:

- Agile and lean methods and processes
- Continuous deployment
- Continuous experimentation, A/B testing
- Crowdsourcing in software development
- Development approaches using customer feedback
- DevOps, Big data real-time analytics for software process improvement
- Empirical studies in industry about processes and methods
- Global or distributed software development and scaling
- Infrastructure and processes for iterative or incremental software delivery
- Predictive models for software engineering tasks
- Process modeling, management, assessment and improvement
- Processes and methods for commercial or open source development
- Processes for (digital) software product innovation
- Product quality models for software, system, and services
- Project management techniques
- Release planning
- Service engineering processes
- Software analytics with actionable insights on software products and processes
- Software development for Cyber Physical Systems
- Software ecosystems, software business and start-ups
- Value-driven software development

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 Submissions
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PROFES offers manifold opportunities to share scientific and practical findings and experiences. We thus invite submissions of:

- Full Research Papers (up to 16 pages)
- Industry Papers (up to 16 pages)
- Short Papers (up to 8 pages)
- Journal-First Papers

Please visit the Submission Procedures page to learn more about the details: https://softeng.polito.it/profes2021/

The submission Web page for PROFES 2021 is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=profes2021


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 Important Dates
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Full Research Papers
- Abstract: July 5, 2021
- Submission: July 12, 2021 -- hard deadline
- Notification: September 6, 2021


Short Papers and Industry Papers Proposals
- Submission: July 16, 2021
- Notification: September 6, 2021


Journal-First Papers
- Submission: August 9, 2021
- Notification: September 20, 2021


For all tracks:
- Camera ready: October 4, 2021


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 Organization
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General Chair
- Maurizio Morisio, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Program co-chairs
- Andreas Jedlitschka, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
- Marco Torchiano, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Short papers co-chairs
- Riccardo Coppola, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
- Barbara Russo, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Industry papers co-chairs
- Alessandra Bagnato, Softeam. France
- Michael Klaes, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany

Journal First chair
- Antonio Vetrò, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Proceedings chair
- Luca Ardito, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Local arrangement chair
- Mariachiara Mecati, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Web and social media co-chairs:
- Simone Leonardi, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
- Diego Monti, Politecnico di Torino, Italy