Abbrevation
SPICE
City
Gothenburg
Country
Sweden
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<pre>We would like to invite you all to participate in and to submit high quality contributions in the form of research papers and industrial experience reports on a wide range of topics to the SPICE 2015 conference&#046; All research (long) papers and industry (short) papers are planned to be published in the Conference Proceedings by Springer&#8211;Verlag as part of the as part of the CCIS (Communications in Computer and Information Science) book series&#046; For 2015 we will run three tracks dedicated as special session topics reflecting key interests in the community: * Agility in process improvement; * Functional safety and security; * Medical technology&#046; Other topics: * Case studies on model&#8211;based improvement * Knowledge and skills for process assessment and improvement; * Assessment approaches applied to agile development; * Definition of novel process quality characteristics to support process improvement; * Empirical studies on characteristics of high maturity organizations; * Emerging Process Reference Models and Process Assessment Models; * Use of process assessment in domains outside software, systems engineering and service management; * Conformity assessment approaches and schemes for process assessment; * New measurement and rating frameworks&#046; The breadth of the application of process assessment and improvement remains a topic of considerable interest, from both a practical and theoretical perspective; and so, accordingly, the SPICE 2015 Conference seeks contributions specifically relating to the following areas of application: * Automotive systems and software; * Aerospace systems and software; * Medical device systems and software; * Small and very small enterprises and ISO/IEC 29110; * Innovation, knowledge and technology transfer * Enterprise systems; * IT service management; * IT Security; * Safety&#8211;related systems and software; * Test process improvement; * Financial institutions and banks; * IT and Public Procurement: * IT Outsourcing;<br></pre>