About SEAFOOD

Industrial software development as practiced today is increasingly distributed: teams cooperate across many different locations. This new state of affairs is in particular the result of software outsourcing and offshoring (see an article) on this topic, but exists even in the absence of outsourcing. The software engineering implications of distributed development are considerable.

The SEAFOOD series examines distributed software development from a software engineering perspective. Its goals include:

• Highlighting problems faced by industry and provide a forum to share good practices.
• Spotlighting new processes, models, techniques and tools emerging from research efforts that are crucial to distributed development, and provide an opportunity for industry transfer.
• Building a community of educators either offering or planning to offer global software development experiences for students, so as to share project plans and lessons.

The conference includes many practical sessions including an industry panel and a educational panel.

Steering committee

• Bertrand Meyer, ETH Zurich and Eiffel Software, Switzerland.
• Martin Nordio, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
• Andrey Terekhov, Saint Petersburg State University and Lanit-Tercom, Russia.

Next SEAFOOD conference

• SEAFOOD 2013: Fifth International Conference on Software Engineering Approaches For Offshore and Outsourced Development
  7-8 March 2013, Madrid, Spain.

Previous SEAFOOD conferences

• SEAFOOD 2010: the Forth International Conference on Software Engineering Approaches For Offshore and Outsourced Development
  17-18 June 2010, Peterhof (Saint Petersburg), Russia.
• SEAFOOD 2009: the Third International Conference on Software Engineering Approaches For Offshore and Outsourced Development
  July 2-3 2009, Zurich, Switzerland.
• SEAFOOD 2008, the Second International Conference on Software Engineering Approaches For Offshore and Outsourced Development
  July 3-4 2008, Zurich, Switzerland.
• SEAFOOD 2007, the First International Conference on Software Engineering Approaches For Offshore and Outsourced Development
  5-6 February 2007, Zurich, Switzerland.

Proceedings

The SEAFOOD proceedings are published by Springer: