The main track submissions included full research papers (15 pages), short research papers (6 pages), industrial track presentations (abstract) and posters. Research papers must not have been previously published or submitted elsewhere.

The submission deadline is December 31st Extended to February 1st, 2014.

All paper submissions will be double blind reviewed. The decisions of the peer-review shall be communicated to the authors by email.

Accepted full papers and short papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by Springer as a volume in Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series (if at least one author of the paper attends the conference and presents the paper).

Previous ICSOB Proceedings:


Extended versions of the best papers selected from ICSOB 2014 will be published in a special issue of Journal of Systems and Software.

All papers must be submitted according to the LNBIP instructions.

• Download Latex formatting package
• Download Word formatting package

The conference submission system is located at www.easychair.org

We invite proposals for workshops. Workshops are intended to provide a forum for the discussion of a specific topic from the field of software business between an international group of researchers. Software business creates a noticeable spillover within other industries (e.g. manufacturing, entertainment industry) enabling new business models: companies bundle their physical products and software services into solutions (e.g. using subscription models or in-app purchases) and start to sell independent software products in addition to physical products. Therefore, we invite workshop proposals that focus on software business in new and emerging industries. Finally, we also warmly welcome workshop proposals aligned with the theme of ICSOB 2014: "Shortening the time-to-market".

Each workshop should have at least four paper presentations. The workshop organiser will be responsible for advertising the workshop, reviewing and selecting the papers. Financial assistance for the workshop organiser will be limited to one fee waiver for the conference. Papers accepted for workshops are planned to be published under the CCIS proceedings, http://link.springer.com/search?facet-series=%227899%22&facet-content-type=%22Book%22.

• Title of the workshop
• Name, affiliation, mailing address and e-mail address of the proposer(s).
• A brief introduction of the proposer, explaining his/her qualifications.
• Names of at least three PC members for the workshops
• A description of the topic of the session (not exceeding 100 words)
• A short description on how the session will be advertised so as to ensure a sufficiently wide range of authors.
• A description of how the workshop will contribute to the field of Software Business.
• Please send your proposals to the Program Chairs of ICSOB 2014 and to workshop chair:
  Casper Lassenius, Aalto University, Finland, workshops@icsob.org
  Kari Smolander, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland, workshops@icsob.org
  Krzysztof Wnuk, Lund University, Sweden, workshops@icsob.org

Papers for workshops should be submitted directly to the workshop using our paper submission system. The workshop organizer will be required to use the ICSOB 2014 paper submission engine and to review the papers on basis of the same criteria as those in the main track. The list of papers accepted for a workshop should be sent to the Program Chairs before April 15, 2014.