Topics of Interest

Workshop topics include (but are not limited to):

• Requirements and challenges of building and using social software, including concerns such as scalability, performance, security, sensitivity and other legal issues.
• Organization and interaction schemes in social software.
• Automated approaches, best practices, architectures, frameworks, methodologies, technologies, tools, and environments for social software engineering.
• Industrial involvement in social software: building, managing and interfacing with communities, opening up software platforms, integrating social software.
• Building social software engineering communities: the role of companies, research groups, governments, NGOs, and individuals.
• Social software engineering versus other forms of globalization such as global software development, distributed software engineering, open source, volunteer computing, etc.
• Experience reports and lessons on building social software and its use in software development.
• Evaluation of socialness of software.
• Teaching social software.