Abstract: The globalization of the software industry creates business opportunities for organizations that acquire and offer IT products and services in several domains. However, the growing dependency on the networks of suppliers and external developers to reach organizational objectives and to analyze diversified stakeholders' demands brings several challenges. The reason is the fact that the set of technologies and applications – extensible and/or integrated – forms a common technological platform that joins a community of suppliers, external developers and users, generating networks known as software ecosystems (SECO). An important concern refers to SECO modeling and analysis since IT managers should make decisions based on a systemic perspective. In this talk, we aim to introduce some concepts and factors that affect SECO modeling and analysis in industry. In addition, some SECO implications on the applied software engineering & sustainability and diversity will be pointed out.

 

Bio: Rodrigo Santos is an Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Informatics at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO). He is Research Productivity Fellow Level 2 by the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and Young Scientist Fellow by the Carlos Chagas Filho Research Support Foundation of the State of Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ). PhD in Software Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (COPPE/UFRJ). He was Academic Visitor at University College London (UCL) and Postdoc Researcher at COPPE/UFRJ. Head of the Complex Systems Engineering Laboratory (LabESC), leading a team of 20 students with more than 30 partners over the world. His research interests are Complex Systems Engineering (especially software ecosystems and systems-of-systems) and Software Engineering Education. He is the steering committee chair for SESoS@ICSE and ;was guest editor for special issues/sections for Information and Software Technology (Elsevier), Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (Wiley), Communications in Computer and Information Science (Springer), Journal of Internet Services and Applications (SBC & Springer), and Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC & Springer). He also served as PC member for ICSE-SEET, ICSE-SCORE. SESoS, ECSA, MODELS, ICSOB, CIbSE, IWSiB, ECIS, ACM MEDES etc., and as reviewer for IEEE TSE, JSS, IST, COMIND, ESWA, SCP, JSEP, FGCS, IJDRR etc.