ISDE 2014 PC Co-Chairs Message

摘要

Information System in Distributed Environment (ISDE) is becoming a prominent standard in this globalization era due to advancement in information and communication technologies. In distributed environments, business units collaborate across time zones, organizational boundaries, work cultures and geographical distances, to an increasing diversification and growing complexity of cooperation among units. The advent of the Internet has supported Distributed Software Development (DSD) by introducing new concepts and opportunities, resulting in benefits such as scalability, flexibility, interdependence, reduced cost, resource pools, and usage tracking. DSD brings challenges to distributed software development activities due to geographic, cultural, linguistic, and temporal distance among project development teams. The number of organizations distributing their software development processes worldwide to attain increased profit and productivity as well as cost reduction and quality improvement is growing. Despite the fact that DSD is widely being used, the project managers and software professionals face many challenges due to increased complexity, cultural as well as various technological issues. Therefore, it is crucial to understand current research and practices with researchers and practitioners in these areas. Following selected papers of ISDE 2014 international workshop in conjunction with OTM conferences present recent advances and novel proposals in this direction.