Special Issue on ‘Knowledge Management in Software Development Process’
International Journal of Business Information Systems (IJBIS)
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijbis

Guest Editors:

Dr Zaigham Mahmood
Senior Lecturer and Reader in Applied Computing, School of Computing, University of Derby, UK
z.mahmood@derby.ac.uk

Saqib Saeed
Dept. of Information Systems and New Media, University of Siegen, Germany
saqib.saeed@uni-siegen.de

Aim of the special issue:

Software development is a complex activity which requires application of innovative ideas without compromising the reliability and quality in the end products. It requires better tools and techniques to be employed. Recent growth in knowledge management notion has also been seen as highly instrumental in improving organizational performance. In order to achieve the goal of efficient production of software and effective development processes, numerous KM approaches and standardization efforts have been suggested. However, a majority of the organizations are finding it difficult to adopt the guidelines and approaches, as there are numerous inherent issues.

The aim of this special issue is to: 1) invite and publish high quality original research contributions on the specialized theme of KM applications relating to software development processes; 2) to examine the impact of KM on software development processes; 3) to investigate the inherent issues and limitations with respect to KM strategies and 4) to disseminate the elements of good practices suggested and employed by researchers and practitioners in this field.

Subject Coverage:

The special issue invites research contributions, including case studies, on all aspects of knowledge management (KM) methodologies related to software development processes. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Strategies to promote KM in software industry
- Empirical studies of adopting KM methodologies in software houses
- Lessons learned (Success and Failure Cases)
- KM approaches for requirements elicitation
- Best practices in relation to KM in software development processes
- KM applications in system design
- Testing methodologies and novel KM paradigms
- Software standards in relation to KM
- KM for web services and SOA
- KM with respect to cloud computing environment
- Metrics to evaluate KM applications and strategies
- Workflow systems and KM methodologies
- Tools and technologies for effective KM
- KM and global software engineering
- Issues and barriers to effective KM implementation
- Case studies relating to KM in software development processes.


Notes to prospective authors:

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. The contributions should be completely anonymous and the reference to authors’ own previous work should be provided without disclosing the identity of authors. All submissions will be double-blind reviewed and evaluated on the basis of originality, relevance and quality. Authors should submit two files in MS-word format: one containing the manuscript (without any reference to author information) and the other containing author information (author names, affiliation, email addresses, correspondence author’s name). Author guidelines are available at: http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31

Important Dates:

Deadline for papers submission: 31 May 2011
Notification of review results: 30 September 2011
Camera-Ready Paper Submission: 31 December 2011

Submission of manuscripts:

Manuscripts should be formatted according to the author guidelines and submitted as email attachments, two MS-word files in each case, to:

Saqib Saeed
Dept. of Information Systems and New Media, University of Siegen, Germany
saqib.saeed@uni-siegen.de