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IT-OUTSOURCING AND IT-OFFSHORING: TRENDS AND IMPACTS ON SE/KE CURRICULA

RON HIRA

College of Liberal Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology, 1348 Eastman, Rochester, USA

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OSCAR DIESTE

Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo, Boadilla del Monte 28660, Spain

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GEORGE SPANOUDAKIS

Department of Computing, City University, Northampton Square, London, EC1V 0HB, UK

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GIUSEPPE VISAGGIO

Department of Informatics, University of Bari, Via E. Orabona, 4 – 70126 Bari, Italy

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GUIDO WIRTZ

Distributed and Mobile Systems Group, University of Bamberg, Feldkirchenstrasse 21, Bamberg, 96047, Germany

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S. K. CHANG

Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218194007003409Cited by:1 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

As a result of IT outsourcing and offshoring, IT professionals and educators are faced with the following question: What SE & KE skill sets will make a software engineer or a knowledge engineer immune to the impact of outsourcing and offshoring? This article summarizes the position papers from a panel held during the 2006 International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering from July 5 to 7 at the Hotel Sofitel, Redwood City in California, USA. Bringing software and knowledge engineers closer to the needs of their prospective customers and providing more value than simply pure software development and maintenance, is an open challenge at least for traditional computer science and software engineering curricula.

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