Grand Societal Challenges in Information Systems Research and Education Ideas from the ERCIS

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination, SPICE 2015, held in Gothenburg, Sweden, in June 2015. The 17 revised full papers presented together with three short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on industrial frameworks; implementation and assessment; process improvement; agile processes; assessment and maturity models; process and education.

domains like software effort estimation, production planning and education.

domains; gamification and education issues in SPI; SPI in agile and small settings; SPI and assessment

management; design and education; naval engineering and shipbuilding; aeronautical and automotive engineering

Engineering Change -- Education studies -- Cyberphysical and Smart Systems -- Design and Integration issues

for government innovation -- 3 Big Data and education: massive digital education systems -- 4 Big Data

findings about prototyping—a core element in design thinking. Finally, design thinking education and

education by gathering scientific evidence that supports design activities. The first part of this book

engineering education -- Knowledge technologies for semantic web and ontology engineering -- Knowledge-based