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CALL FOR PAPERS
Special issue on Collaborative and Social Aspects of Software
Development.
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Special issue editors: Pablo Romero and Judith Good
General Theme
In recent years, collaborative and social approaches have been employed
in software development to address issues such as changes in
requirements, the need for on-time and continuous deliveries and the
emergence of human-centric development methodologies. These approaches
have led to the empowerment of individuals, the creation of small,
self-organised teams and an increase in face-to-face communication and
customer involvement, among others.
In academia, collaborative learning has become an important pedagogical
approach. Additionally, the teaching of programming has been influenced
by professional software development methodologies and techniques that
employ and value collaboration, notably eXtreme Programming. As a
result, collaborative approaches have been adopted in the teaching and
learning of programming.
Research to date has offered a generic and descriptive account of
collaborative and social approaches, frequently highlighting their
benefits. What is needed now is more detailed information which can
explain how and why these benefits occur, the factors affecting them
and how this knowledge can be applied in the design of methodologies,
techniques and tools to study and support collaboration.
Topics
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, we intend to focus this special
issue on the intersections and relationships between the following
topics of collaborative and social aspects of software development:
- Studies of XP and Agile methodologies;
- Studies of collaborative learning in programming;
- Evaluation of co-located and remote tools for collaborative software
development (not just integrated development environments but also
online tools such as instant messaging, blogs, wikis, etc);
- Collaboration in program design;
- Mixed background collaboration (collaboration between programmers and
non-programmers);
- External representations and visualisations for social use in
software development;
- Methodologies for the study of collaboration in programming.
Submissions
Original papers presenting unpublished material relating to research
in, but not restricted to, these topics are invited for consideration
for the special issue. Manuscripts should not exceed 8,000 words.
Special attention in the review process will be paid to how
contributors:
- Present some innovation related to one or several of the topics
presented above;
- Relate their contribution to previous work in the field;
Papers should be submitted in the IJHCS format, and will be refereed in
the standard way. Details of the IJHCS format can be found in the
journal, and are available from
http://authors.elsevier.com/journal/ijhcs. All manuscripts should be
submitted through Elseviers online EditorialManager:
http://ijhcs.edmgr.com.
Electronic submission instruction
- To submit to the `Collaborative and Social Aspects of Software
Development' Special Issue, please clearly state in the `Enter
Comments' section when submitting your paper online that it is intended
for the `Collaborative and Social Aspects of Software Development'
Special Issue being edited by Pablo Romero and Judith Good.
- If you are a first time user of the Editorial Manager, you will have
to register yourself as an author on the system by going to:
http://ijhcs.edmgr.com and clicking on the register button. You should
then follow the instructions for submitting a new manuscript,
remembering to state that this is for the Special Issue.
- If you have any problems with the system please contact Fred Kop,
Journal Manager, at the IJHCS Editorial Services Office at
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Important dates
- Submission deadline: 27 October 2006
- Notification to authors: 19 January 2007
- Final submission: 2 March 2007
Note that these dates are provisional, and may change in the near
future. Up-to-date information is available on the web at
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/events/ijhcssi/index.html
Guest Editors
Pablo Romero,
HCT group, Sussex University
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Judith Good,
HCT group, Sussex University
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Please feel free to contact the Editors by e-mail if you have any
questions.
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