The 18th International Conference of Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2017)

ROFES, the International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, is among the top recognized software development and process improvement conferences.
The 18th International Conference of PROFES will be held for the first time in Innsbruck, Austria, from November 29 to December 01, 2017. PROFES organization is composed of local and international recognized researchers in software engineering.
The objective of the International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES) is to provide a premier forum for practitioners, researchers, and educators to present and discuss experiences, ideas, innovations, as well as concerns related to professional software process improvement motivated by product and service quality needs.
PROFES conferences encourage the exchange of ideas that help explore, understand, and model phenomena in software engineering from the point of view of process-product relationships. Traditionally, PROFES provides topics, which are up-to-date, important, and interesting to both practitioners and researchers. To ensure that PROFES will retain its high standards and that it will keep focusing on the most relevant research issues, we are looking for original research on current trends in software engineering aspects addressing products and services. Further, PROFES asks for studies reporting about the application of respective methods or technologies in real settings.