R2oSE 2010

Collaborative research appears to be a must for significant advances in any field, and this naturally include SE. This is testified for instance by the SWEBOK and SEMAT initiatives (swebok.org and semat.org). Additionally, because of its nature, software is a kind of “borned-digital data”, one of the important conditions for successful Research 2.0. For instance, software repositories such as sourceforge.org provide good opportunities to collaborative and experimental research. We believe indeed that R2.o is likely to have a strong impact in the future of Software Engineering Research.

This workshop has the following goals:

• (G1) to investigate the many different facets that constitute the intersection between Research 2.0 and Software Engineering;
• (G2) to investigate which experiences led in other scientific disciplines could be applied to the field of SE,
• (G3) to increase the awareness and promote the importance of Research 2.0 among the SE community;
• (G4) to establish a roadmap for further collaborative actions;
• (G5) to consolidate a map of available research 2.0 entities (e. g. books, tools, events, articles, PhDs, communication channels, web sites, teams, researchers, etc);
• (G6) to promote collaborations between SE researchers and other R2.o researchers,
• (G7), to promote the integration between tools and repositories for software engineering research.

As a fluid event, in situ synchronous activities (G1-G4) will be complemented by pre and post asynchronous on-line activities (G5-G7).