---------------------------------------------------- C a l l f o r P a p e r s LSO 2000 2nd International Workshop on Learning Software Organizations (LSO) June 20, 2000 (http://www.iese.fhg.de/LSOworkshop2000) ---------------------------------------------------- in conjunction with 2nd International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (Profes 2000) June 20-22, 2000, Oulu / Finland (http://www.ele.vtt.fi/profes2000/) Description ---------------------------------------------------- Software is the key element that governs competition at the threshold to the 21st century. To keep pace in the accelerating business, software and software processes have to be improved continuously. However, achieving quantum leaps in improvement requires leveraging the knowledge of highly educated, skilled, and experienced employees. A Learning Software Organization establishes the means to manage this knowledge and turns Intellectual Capital into market shares and profit. The related Knowledge Management activities can be arranged in a cycle, which starts with setting goals and ends with measuring the benefit of actions. Steps of this cycle are, among others, the acquisition, preparation, and distribution of knowledge, and the maintenance of an organizational memory. On their way towards a Learning Organization, companies have to create a culture that promotes continuous learning and fosters the exchange of experience. This requires an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together experts from computer science, business and organization science as well as cognitive science. However, many questions are still unresolved in organizational learning and its application to the software business. The LSO workshop series is designed as a communication forum that addresses the questions of organizational learning from a software point of view and builds upon existing work on Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning. It aims at bringing together practitioners for an open exchange of experience with successes and failures in organizational learning and will provide an opportunity to meet researchers to learn about new ideas. Fostering interdisciplinary approaches is one key concern of this workshop series. We encourage contributions that go beyond the presentation of mere IT solutions and extend into the fields of social sciences, psychology,management sciences, and Artificial Intelligence. This year's workshop, held in conjunction with the PROFES 2000 conference, emphasizes the relation between Organizational Learning and Software Process Improvement. We expect conference and workshop to complement each other and provide groundbreaking insights into current approaches used to establish Learning Software Organizations. Contributions sought ------------------------------------------------------------ The workshop addresses mainly members of the software engineering community who are concerned with Knowledge Management, Organizational Learning, or experience handling in software process improvement. However, members from others communities who can contribute experience in installing and running Learning Organizations are highly welcome. The topics include, but are not limited to: - Success stories and failures - what can we learn? - Knowledge acquisition in improvement programs - Activation and distribution of explicit knowledge - Establishing continuous improvement - the role of experts - Establishing learning cycles and feedback mechanisms - Making tacit knowledge explicit - Cultural changes for successful organizational learning - Evaluation of knowledge management activities - Knowledge sharing between different groups - WWW-based knowledge management - Building, adaptation, and evolution of corporate repositories Important dates ------------------------------------------------------------ Submission deadline: March 26, 2000 Notification of acceptance: April 14, 2000 Camera (Web)-ready: May 15, 2000 Workshop: June 20, 2000 Submission details ------------------------------------------------------------ Submitted papers should be full papers up to 12 pages (A4 or 8.5x11 inches). Each paper should contain on its first page the title, the name/affiliations incl. email of each author, and the name of the responsible author. Papers should be created according to the PROFES document layout guidelines (http://www.iese.fhg.de/profes2000/callfpapers/layout.rtf) and should include an abstract of 250 words. The abstract of every accepted contribution will be published prior to the workshop on the WWW and will be distributed in advance to all workshop participants. Electronic submissions are recommended. Strongly preferred file format is Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf). All submissions should be sent electronically to the contact person mentioned below. The workshop proceedings will be published on the WWW and as a report. Workshop Organizing Committee ------------------------------------------------------------ Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Susanne Hartkopf, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Wolfgang Müller, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Contact Person Klaus-Dieter Althoff Address: Fraunhofer IESE, Sauerwiesen 6, 67661 Kaiserslautern, Germany Phone: +49 6301 707 230 Fax: +49 6301 707 203 Email: althoff@iese.fhg.de WWW: http://www.iese.fhg.de/ Program Committee ------------------------------------------------------------ Andreas Abecker, DFKI (Germany) Brigitte Bartsch-Spörl, BSR Consulting (Germany) Ralph Bergmann, University of Kaiserslautern (Germany) Peter Brössler, sd&m (Germany) Reidar Conradi, University of Trondheim (Norway) Raimund Feldmann, University of Kaiserslautern (Germany) Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim, University of Santa Catarina (Brazil) Scott Henninger, University of Nebraska (USA) Knut Hinkelmann, Insiders (Germany) Matthias Jarke, Aachen University of Technology (Germany) Yannis Kalfoglou, University of Edinburgh (UK) Ralf Klamma, Aachen University of Technology (Germany) Julio Leite, University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Frank Maurer, University of Calgary (Canada) Werner Mellis, University of Cologne (Germany) Tim Menzies, NASA (USA) Enrico Motta, Open University (UK) Ulrich Reimer, Swiss Life (Switzerland) Kurt Schneider, DaimlerChrysler (Germany) Hideo Shimazu, NEC (Japan) Rudi Studer, University of Karslruhe (Germany) Carsten Tautz, Fraunhofer IESE (Germany) Ralph Traphoener, tec:inno (Germany) Eric Tsui, CSC (Australia)