Proceedings of European Workshop on Software Ecosystems: 2012 - Walldorf - Softcover

Proceedings of the European Workshop on Software Ecosystems 2012 The research on software ecosystems still is a young and emerging field. We created the European Workshop on Software Ecosystems to: - bring together the research community from all over Europe and - share, present and discuss their latest research with business experts from the software industry A big thank you to the many people who supported this workshop and the proceedings. Researchers and Presenters: - Josef Waltl / Technical University of Munich, Germany What makes a software platform attractive for ecosystem partners? - Karthik Jayaraman / University of Oslo / Norway Managing the Arbitrage of Control and Generativity in Software Ecosystems - M. Schreiner, T. Hess / Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany The Success of Software Companies Internationalization: The Case of Germany - K.-B. Schultis, C. Elsner, Siemens AG, D. Lohmann / FAU University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Architectural guidance and governance in industrial software ecosystems - S. Hyrynsalmi, A. Suominen, T. Mäkilä & A. Järvi / University of Turku, Finland Analyzing Developers Challenges in Mobile Application Marketplaces - J. Wollersheim, A. Teufl, P. Hoberg, P. Wolf, fortiss GmbH, H. Krcmar, Technical University of Munich, Germany Mechanisms to gather customer feedback - Requirements in the cloud service ecosystem Industry Sponsors: BlackDuck Software, Corum M&A, fluid Operations, InnoWerft, Netfira, Partner-Port, Suse Software, Synomic. WWW.EWSECO.ORG

Prof. Dr. Peter Buxmann / Technical University Darmstadt. Peter Buxmann is Professor for Software Business & Information Management at Darmstadt University of Technology. His research fields include Software Business, Cloud Computing, Standardization of Information Systems, and the Economics of Open Source Software. Moreover, he serves as a Department Editor of the Journal Wirtschaftsinformatik resp. Business & Information Systems Engineering. He is also the author of more than 200 publications, among them the book "The Software Industry". Peter Buxmann is head of several research and consulting projects and supports entrepreneurships in the IT sector. Furthermore, he is a member of the Executive Board and Research Director of the "House of IT". Peter Buxmann was born in 1964 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He studied and received his Doctoral Degree at Frankfurt University. Afterwards he worked as a visiting scholar at the Haas School of Business, University of California in Berkeley and as an Assistant Professor at Frankfurt University. From 2000 to 2004 he was Full Professor at Technische Universität Freiberg before he accepts the offer of Darmstadt University of Technology. http://www.is.tu-darmstadt.de http://www.house-of-it.eu