Industrial Co-production in Software Engineering
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 March 2022) | Viewed by 10131
Special Issue Editor
Interests: market-driven software development; requirements engineering; software product management; decision making in requirements engineering; large-scale software; system and requirements engineering; management and empirical research methods
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Industry-academia collaboration is one of the cornerstones of empirical software engineering. The role of a software engineering researcher is the application of a scientifically based and valid methodology to develop, validate, and transfer said solution.
In this context, defining usable and useful is critical. Usable in it’s base form denotes if a solution can be used for its purpose, and to what extent. Useful denotes to what degree a solution delivers value during said use, and to what extent. A significant part of “proving” that your solution is good or not involves measuring if it is usable and useful.
One way to develop and transfer research results and solutions to industry is to use co-production as a collaboration approach. The term co-production refers to the collaborative work of researchers and practitioners in industry to identify challenges, and devise solutions that can be used in practice. Co-production has many origins and can be associated with for example action research. However, co-production is a macro framework of research methods in which many other micro-methodologies (e.g., case studies, action research, experimentation, etc.) can be used in combination to achieve co-production.
This special issue is looking for contribution regarding methodological aspects of co-production and experience reports from co-production project with industry partners. We welcome experiences associated with long-term co-production, building the partnership models, founding schema and knowledge dissemination activities.
Dr. Krzysztof Wnuk
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Industry-academia collaboration
- Co-production
- Knowledge dissemination
- Empirical software engineering
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