Take your Chance and Participate in Interational Workshops, and Research Sessions! Become part of the Network.

IMPRESSIONS FROM THE CONFERENCE

EuroAsiaSPI had participants from nearly all EU countries, plus India, Japan, Turkey, and Mexico. Major Automotive industry and universities were present. All 8 workshops took place, 6 of them had more than 20 participants and 2 workshops had around 12 and 15 participants. The conference sessions had some 120 attendees in total. We will continue to develop the thematic topics and 2018 we will increase from 8 to 10 thematic workshops plus the research sessions.

In 2018 the conference will be hosted by Tecnalia in Bilbao, Spain (close to the airport in Bilbao in the technology park of Bizkaia), 5.-7.9.2018. Please remember to book tickets to Bilbao, it will be a great conference again.

Here are some impressions from 2017.

Conference Sessions:

Workshop 1 Gamify SPI:

Workshop 2 Industry 4.0:

Workshop 3: Traceability

Workshop 4: Improvement - Good and Bad Practices

Workshop 5: Functional Safety and Cybersecurity

Workshop 6: Agile

Workshop 7: Standards

Workshop 8: Team Skills and Diversity

Social Event at Vitkovice: Buses brought us there and teams were guided through the museum and the plant tower.

Social event at Tartra museum: We visited the Tatra car museum and after that invited all for food at Stramberk castle.

Join our community!

The New Springer book for 2017 is already online available. Chapter downlads are also available.

The EuroSPI conference is supported by the Moravian - Silesian region. Thank you.

PDF Conference Program for Download (New Version 2).

PDF Location Plan (Extracted from New Version 2).

  Hot! - Latest Updates on Key Notes

Onsite Handout - Overview of Presentations and Roms.

!!! NEW !!! Vitkovice Event Plan for evening.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

EuroAsiaSPI 2017 has 8 international workshop communities which organise workshops on day 1, day 2, and on day 3 as well as international key notes, a research stream, and presentations from leading industry and leading research institutes, and a joint paper award with the American Society of Quality. Open the HTML based program here.

EuroAsiaSPI 2017 creates a new theme and topic driven conference archtecture, where experience papers are grouped into major topics which can be attended in form of workshops. This allows leading industry to attend EuroAsiaSPI not only for a conference but also for a dedicated topic based training event.

PDF Conference Program for Download (New Version 2).

We are proud to announce keynotes by Volkswagen and by the president of the Austrian Computer Society, more key note announcements will follow.

PDF Program Flyer Download (Version 6).

Workshop Communities for Eight Hot Themes / Topics

Since 2010 a set of continuously organised interactive workshops has been taking place at EuroSPI² conferences. To address the involvement of leading industry we have extended the workshop community approach to give leadership to industry in special topics for which there are workshops around the conference. For instance, experts from Volkswagen,  Continental, Robert BOSCH, SQS, Japanese Union of Engineers, etc. are leaders of workshop communities. Workshop Papers will be published as a chapter in the annual Springer Book.

Workshop Community 1: Gamification and Persuasive Games for Software Process Improvement, Information Technology, and Innovation Management

Workshop Community 2: SPI in Industry 4.0 – The Digitalization of Design and Manufacturing

Workshop Community 3: Best Practices in Implementing Traceability

Workshop Community 4: Good and Bad Practices in Improvement

Workshop Community 5: Best Practices in Design of Systems applying Functional Safety, Cybersecurity, and how much Agile is Possible  (with examples from Automotive Industry, Medical Device Industry)

Workshop Community 6: Experiences with Agile and Lean

Workshop Community 7: Standards and Assessment Models

Workshop Community 8: Team Skills and Diversity Strategies Empowering Innovation and Improvement

Research Sessions - download the PDF Version of the Research Stream

HOW TO GET THERE

Ostrava can be reached easily

• If you take the plane to Prague, Czech airlines has a direct flight to Ostrava airport.
• If you take a plane to Vienna, from Vienna airport there is a direct bus to Ostrava.
• If you take a plane to Krakow in Poland, there is a direct bus from the airport to Ostrava.

EUROSPI SOCIAL AND NETWORKING SPACE

A Unique Historical Place to Visit!

Ostrava is a  A Unique Historical Place for Europe & Social Events.

The EuroSPI 2017 Social Events will show the history of Bohemia and Moravia and offer insight into a joint historic momemnt in the 19th century.

Have a look at previous impressions, videos and photos of the EuroSPI 2016, 2015, 2014 and 2013 Conferences:

EuroSPI² 2016 Multimedia Page >>

EuroSPI² 2015 Multimedia Page >>

EuroSPI² 2014 Multimedia Page >>

EuroSPI² 2013 Multimedia Page >>

 

Publications

Selected applied research and workshop papers are published in the SPRINGER CCIS series (IM factor 0.175).  Note: CCIS is a very new series and it shows an annual growing factor since its foundation. Also a set of best papers are selected for a publication in a Wiley Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (with an IM factor 0.729), giving the option to extend the idea and paper and get published in an international journal. 

EuroSPI is currently working on more journals to be involved, the IM factor is being a criteria for selection. In case of agreement more papers will be selected for extension and journal publication. e.g. there is an editorial for an IEEE Software magazin (IM factor 1.2)  with submission in June 2017 and EuroSPI board members are editors.

Publications are supported by:

The Springer book for 2016 is already online available.

 

For the 20th anniversary Wiley has created an entry page for EuroSPI as a library. Selected papers from EuroSPI 2014 is available from here... Also in 2017 EuroAsiaSPI will select to industry papers for a Wiley volume.

 

Industry and Research Proceedings - 24 Years of EuroSPI

There are 7 reasons to submit a research paper, an experience / industry paper or a workshop contribution to EuroSPI.

1.) Research papers will be published in the Springer CCIS Series and experience papers in the Wiley SPIP Series. All experience papers are published in a Publizon book as technical proceedings. EuroSPI also has a collaboration with the ASQ (American Society of Quality) SQP (SW Quality Professional) journal where selected topics are published in a joined volume. The selected workshop papers will be published in the SPRINGER CCIS Series, each Workshop Community has a specialised chapter in the book.

2.) Hot topics like future quality initiatives and global development strategies are discussed with highly recognized key notes.

3.) EuroAsiaSPI² helped founding the SPI Manifesto as a cornerstone to agree on values and principles for SPI. Get involved in the SPI Manifesto.

4.) EuroAsiaSPI² gives you the chance to present,discuss, publish and spread new approaches for process improvement. Meet business and research partners at the EuroAsiaSPI² social events.

5.) EuroAsiaSPI represents an experience forum collaborating with nearly all SPINs in Europe. Join our improvement community to which more than 28 nations have contributed since 1994.

6.) Joint best paper award of EuroAsiaSPI² and the ASQ (American Society of Quality / SW Division)

7.) INTACS and the German Automotive Association (VDA) recognize conference participation for the collection of experience evidences for ISO 15504 Assessors.

 

Best Paper Award:

Joint Best Paper Award EuroSPI has a close partnership with the ASQ (American Society of Quality) SW Division. The award-winning author is invited to present at the International Conference for Software Quality (www.asq-icsq.org), sponsored by the Software Division of the American Society for Quality.

 

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