SENSE 2009

=Software Engineering within Social Software Environments=

The full-day SENSE'09 workshop covers research issues about social software and software engineering including Web 2.0 business models. The main question is how both approaches can be combined in a new social software engineering methodology. Due to the new business models of the Web 2.0 and the new generation of Web users the development of social software requires a new SE approach. At the same time social software brings new possibilities for the SE process. Building on the positive experiences from the open source community we propose the term “social software engineering” which should include both Web 2.0 style engineering and engineering of the social software. The workshop will bring together researchers from SE area together with social software researchers to discuss these issues in detail.

Topics
Due to the new business models of the Web 2.0 and the new generation of Web users the development of social software requires a new SE approach. At the same time social software brings new possibilities for the SE process. Building on the positive experiences from the open source community we propose the term “social software engineering” which should include both Web 2.0 style engineering and engineering of the social software. Communication between different stakeholders, developers and end-users is an essential aspect for successful software engineering (SE). SE presents a social process that has to be supported by the communication enabling tools. SE-participants can express their opinion and exchange their ideas. With the globalization of software production, the social software can serve as a good option for socialization of SE processes. Special about social software is, firstly, its meritocracy; secondly, its extreme user-orientation and, thirdly, its focus on emerging scale-free structures. However, it is not enough to create tools using Web 2.0 business models. The development of social software is a social process itself. Using certain social software for SE, a community experiences endless evolution and requires continuous adaptation of tools to their changing needs. Therefore, the development of social software opens a new challenge for design of SE. The goal of the workshop is to bring together the researchers and practices interested in engineering process of social software, which in turn should/could be applied during software engineering. During the workshop a state-of-the-art discussion on advanced research and open issues on social software engineering will take place. The special focus will be put on design process and design guidelines of social systems created for SE support.

Committees

 * Workshop Chair
 * has workshop chair::Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aaachen University
 * has workshop chair::Volker Wulf, Siegen University
 * has workshop chair::Matthias Jarke, RWTH Aachen University
 * has workshop chair::Anna Glukhova, RWTH Aachen University


 * Program Committee Members
 * has PC member::Andreas Oberweis (Karlsruhe University, Karlsruhe, Germany)
 * has PC member::Asarnusch Rashid (Forschungszentrum Informatik, Karlsruhe, Germany)
 * has PC member::Balasubramaniam Ramesh (Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA)
 * has PC member::Barbara Paech (Heilderberg University, Heidelberg, Germany)
 * has PC member::Bernhard Rumpe (TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany)
 * has PC member::Dirk Veiel (FernUniversität Hagen, Hagen, Germany)
 * has PC member::Dominik Schmitz (Fraunhofer FIT, St. Augustin, Germany)
 * has PC member::Imed Hammouda (Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland)
 * has PC member::Jörg Haake (FernUniversität Hagen, Hagen, Germany)
 * has PC member::Kalle Lyytinen (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, US)
 * has PC member::Matthias Betz (University Siegen, Siegen, Germany)
 * has PC member::Matti Rossi (MetaCase, Jyväskylä, Finland)
 * has PC member::Mehdi Jazayeri (University of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland)
 * has PC member::Steffen Lohmann (University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany)
 * has PC member::Stephan Lukosch (Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands)
 * has PC member::Tommi Mikkonen (Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland)
 * has PC member::Volkmar Pipek (University Siegen, Siegen, Germany)
 * has PC member::William Robinson (Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA)
 * has PC member::Wolfgang Prinz (Fraunhofer FIT, St. Augustin, Germany)