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Participants at the workshops, please have a look at the latest information page !
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(REET) Requirements Engineering Education and Training
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Organized by : |
Didar Zowghi (University of Technology, Sydney), Jane Cleland-Huang (De Paul University) |
Effective Requirements Engineering (RE) is increasingly recognized as a critical component in the success of a software development project. This has led to a growing identification of the importance of incorporating significant RE components into the curriculum of university degrees in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology and other related areas. Furthermore many industrial organizations are recognizing the need to develop RE related training programs as part of their ongoing process improvement initiatives.
In addition to topics related to curriculum development, creative contributions related to pedagogical techniques for teaching RE skills are strongly encouraged. These skills include requirements elicitation, modeling, analysis, conflict negotiation, consensus building, and requirements specification writing, interviewing, and reviewing skills.
Deadline for submission : May 30, 2005
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(SREP) Situational Requirements Engineering Processes – Methods, Techniques and Tools to Support Situation-Specific RE Processes
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Jolita RALYTE, University of Geneva, Switzerland, (jolita.ralyte@cui.unige.ch), Naoufel KRAIEM, University of Manouba, Tunisia, (naoufel.kraiem@ensi.rnu.tn), Pär J. ÅGERFALK, University of Limerick, Ireland, (par.agerfalk@ul.ie)
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Engineering situations vary considerably from one software or information system development project to another. A number of different characteristics such as project objective, application domain, different features of the product to be developed, involved stakeholders, and various technological conditions and constraints have a significant impact on the Requirements Engineering (RE) process. As a consequence, each software or information systems project requires a specific RE method and tool to support the RE process. The question then, is how to select, adapt or construct, and manage (perhaps changing) requirements on a RE method that best suits the situation of the project at hand?
Deadline for submission : June 24, 2005
Call For Papers
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(REProMan) Interplay of Requirements Engineering and Project Management in Software Projects
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Organized by : |
Andrea Herrmann (University of Heidelberg), Sari Kujala (Helsinki University of Technology), Marjo Kauppinen (Helsinki University of Technology), Soren Lauesen (IT University of Copenhagen), Barbara Paech (University of Heidelberg), James Robertson (The Atlantic Systems Guild)
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Requirements engineering usually is regarded as a technical discipline and project management as a managerial activity. They are often treated separately, although in real software projects they are interrelated in both directions and in many ways. This workshop will identify benefits and risks in the interplay of requirements engineering and project management.
Deadline for submission : June 15, 2005
Call For Papers
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(REBNITA) Requirements Engineering for Business Need and It Alignment
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Organized by : |
Karl Cox (National ICT Australia Ltd), E. Dubois (Public Research Centre Henri Tudor), Y. Pigneur (HEC Lausanne), June Verner (National ICT Australia Ltd.), Steven Bleistein (National ICT Australia Ltd.), Alan M. Davis (University of Colorado), Roel Wieringa (U. Twente)
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It is no longer possible to consider IT separate from the business organization it supports, and hence requirements engineering should address the business needs of an organization. Business needs can be described through IT alignment with business strategy, explicit value analysis of IT, integrated market analysis and product development, as well other types of analysis of business processes, organization infrastructures, business goals and objectives. Though it is recognised that requirements engineering (RE) is a natural bridge that connects the business world and the IT world, much of RE research continues to be solution-oriented and avoids addressing the hard, real-world business problems that confront business practitioners every day. This trend, if continued unchecked, threatens to ultimately make requirements engineering research of little relevance or importance to industry. As such, the goal of this workshop is to provide a specific forum for research that is motivated by requirements engineering approaches that encompass organizational business needs.
Deadline for submission : June 17, 2005
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(DiSD) Distributed Software Development
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Organized by : |
Daniela Damian (Univ. of Victoria), Schahram Dustdar (Vienna Univ. of Technology)
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Software development in geographically distributed settings (Distributed Software Development) is increasingly becoming common practice in the software industry. More and more software companies use computer-supported cooperative tools to overcome the geographical distance and benefit from access to a qualified resource pool and a reduction in development costs. However, the increased globalization of software development creates software engineering challenges due to the impact of temporal, geographical and cultural differences, and requires development of techniques and technologies to address these issues.
The processes of communication, coordination, and collaboration are key enablers of software development processes. In particular, one set of development activities directly affected by challenges in communication is Requirements Engineering (RE) activities that pervade the entire development life-cycle. Industrial case studies reveal the significant impact that distance has on the management of requirements and how well-known problems of RE are exacerbated in Distributed Software Development. The majority of distributed projects are characterized by distributed customer-developer relationships, be they inter-organizational projects or projects internal to multinational organizations. Failure to achieve a common understanding of system features, reduced trust and the inability to effectively resolve conflicts result in budget and schedule overruns and, ultimately, in damaged client-supplier relationships. Further, the developer team itself is often geographically distributed and experiences significant problems in requirements management and related activities such as testing and project management (e.g. project planning, progress tracking).
The goal of this workshop is to provide an opportunity for researchers and industry practitioners to explore both the state-of-the art and the state-of-the-practice in Distributed Software Development. In particular, we intend to explore the specific challenges experienced by Distributed Software Development projects in conducting effective Requirements Engineering.
Deadline for submission : May 30, 2005
Call For Papers
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(SREIS) Symposium on Requirements Engineering for Information Security
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Organized by : |
John Mylopoulos (U. Toronto), Gene Spafford (Purdue), Annie Anton (NCSU), Fabio Massacci (UTrento), Haris Mouratidis (UEL-UK) and Loris Penserini (ITC-IRST).
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The symposium is intended to provide researchers and practitioners from various disciplines with a highly interactive forum to discuss security and privacy-related requirements. The symposium can be seen as the continuation of the SREIS (http://www.sreis.org) series.
Theoretical, experimental, and experience papers are all welcome. We would encourage attendance from those in the fields of requirements engineering, software engineering, information systems, information and network security and trusted systems as well as those interested in approaches to analyzing, specifying, and testing requirements to increase the level of security provided to users interacting with pervasive commerce, research and government systems. The symposium will be open to all RE conference attendees.
Deadline for submission : June 17, 2005 Call For Papers
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(SOCCER) Service-Oriented Computing: Consequences for Engineering Requirements
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Organized by : |
Luciano Baresi (Politecnico di Milano), Neil Maiden (City University), Xavier Franch (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
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The service-oriented approach is becoming more and more popular to integrate highly heterogeneous systems. Web services are the natural evolution of conventional middleware technologies to support Web-based and enterprise-level integration, but the paradigm can also serve as basis for other classes of systems. To realize a service-oriented architecture we need techniques to identify and specify requirements on services in a machine-interpretable way to enable the dynamic composition and deployment of systems that meet the expectations of the different stakeholders. We need new capabilities to monitor the behavior of deployed systems and reasoning on partial matches, deviations, and corrective actions. We need to integrate service-oriented architectures with existing component- and COTS-based architectures that deliver capabilities not suited to services. And finally, we need to be able to exploit the availability of services to discover new opportunities that improve existing requirements processes and techniques. The workshop intends to provide an opportunity for the communities that work on requirements and service-oriented applications to meet and share their knowledge to set appropriate theoretical foundations, define special-purpose methodologies for requirements specification, and develop supporting technology.
Deadline for submission : June 13, 2005
Call For Papers
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(CERE) Comparative Evaluation in Requirements Engineering
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Organized by : |
Alistair Sutcliffe (University of Manchester), Ann Hickey (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs), Vincenzo Gervasi (University of Pisa)
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The need to assess the effectiveness and impact of RE research has been a growing concern within the RE community. The basics are known and have been investigated in previous CERE workshops. There are now many signs that research in RE is becoming mature enough that the community can begin to make detailed comparative evaluations of alternative techniques. Different types of research will have differing impacts and hence will require differing evaluation criteria, especially considering the range of research from theory to methods, tools, frameworks, formalisms and ethnographic studies. In this CERE workshop we will broaden the mission of previous workshops by explicitly considering how to assess the contributions and validation of different types of RE research. The goal of the workshop is to produce a roadmap of RE research from theory to application, with appropriate comparative evaluation and validation criteria.
Deadline for submission : June 20, 2005
Call For Papers
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(REDECS) Requirements Engineering Decision Support
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An Ngo-The (University of Calgary), Günther Ruhe (University of Calgary)
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The growing importance of Requirement Engineering has also intensified the need for decision support. This requires a closely collaboration with researchers from other disciplines, particularly management sciences and decision theory. The workshop is an initiative to gather researchers and practitioners in an effort to promote the awareness of the role of decision support in requirements engineering. Its expected outcome includes identification of problems and challenges, directions for future research and, most importantly, collaborative initiations with researchers in management sciences and decision theory.
Deadline for submission : June 9, 2005
Call For Papers
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(RHAS) Requirements Engineering for High-Availability Systems
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Organized by : |
Donald Firesmith (Software Engineering Institute)
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The 4th International Requirements Engineering for High-Assurance Systems Workshop (RHAS'05 - Paris) is a one day workshop that addresses the special challenges of engineering the requirements of high-assurance systems.
For such software-intensive systems, performance and dependability are mission-critical, which means that the engineering of performance and dependability (e.g., defensibility, operational availability, predictability, reliability, robustness, safety, security, stability, and survivability) requirements is also critically important.
Position papers will be submitted and reviewed prior to the conference, and published for the conference if accepted. During the morning of the workshops, authors of accepted position papers will present a brief summary of their papers. During the afternoon of the workshop, the attendees will work in a collaborative setting to:
- Identify and explore important challenges and risks
- Propose, formulate, and evaluate promising solutions
Deadline for submission : June 20, 2005 (Final extention)
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(FRU) How to model Firms’ Requirements and make them Understandable by Business Directors, Information Systems & Process owners and IT managers (colocated event)
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(MEAP) Managing Enterprise Architecture Projects (colocated event)
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Organized by : |
Jean-Christophe Bonne (Renault), René Mandel (Oresys consulting).
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Objectifs :Rendre cohérents les systèmes d'information (les " quoi ") avec les objectifs et enjeux business (les " pour quoi ") qu'ils soutiennent est important, et ce problème est reconnu tant par les chercheurs que par les professionnels. Ainsi une enquête menée auprès de 226 entreprises [Sabherwal01] a démontré clairement que cet alignement améliore les performance de façon significative.
Les projets d'urbanisme des SI cherchent à concrétiser les relations synergiques entre SI et business, en associant d'une part modèles du business (BRM : Business Requirements Model) et modèles du SI (Information System Model). Du point de vue du Club des Urbanistes et Architectes des Systèmes d'Information (Club Urba-SI), la métaphore de l'urbanisme de la cité est pertinente pour structurer ces modèles et pour gouverner leurs relations. La question se pose d'évaluer les avantages de cette métaphore, comparée à d'autres approches et standards industriels d'architecture.
Par ailleurs, représenter cet alignement, bien que nécessaire, n'est pas suffisant. Pour évaluer le degré de conformité avec la stratégie de l'entreprise, une métrique est souhaitable. Cette représentation et cette métrique sont d'autant plus utiles que le SI comme les enjeux stratégiques évoluent, créant ainsi le besoin de maintenir, préserver et améliorer l'alignement.
Le workshop a pour objectif de traiter de ces sujets et d'offrir un forum de discussion pour progresser sur ces thèmes. Les principales questions traités porteront sur :
- Les relations entre la modélisation des SI et celle des besoins et exigences business,
- Avantages compares des métaphore de l'urbanisme et de l'architecture, ainsi que des outils associés,
- Propositions de métriques sur ces sujets, et intérêts de l'indicateur défini par le club Urba-SI,
- Identification et définition des processus de l'urbanisme des SI, et similitudes ou différences par rapport aux processus du SI.
Participants : Chercheurs, étudiants et praticiens de l'urbanisme des SI, l'architecture d'entreprise et l'expression des besoins, ainsi que des méthodes et outils, seront invites à participer au workshop. Le Workshop sera ouvert à tous les participants à la conférence.
Formation du Workshop : 8 à 10 participants actifs seront invités à présenter leurs contributions. Ces contributions seront soit des recherches récentes soit des présentations d'expériences sur les thèmes du workshop. Les présentations comprendront celle du Club Urba-SI sur ces sujets. Les contributions seront disponibles pour les participants, sous forme électronique. Une table ronde de DSI et Urbanistes sera organisée en conclusion du workshop.
Deadline for submission : June 15, 2005
Contact : rene.mandel@oresys.fr (see also www.urba-si.asso.fr)
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(RHVU) Des exigences d'humanité pour les divers utilisateurs du SI (Requirements of humaneness for the various IS users) (colocated event)
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Organized by : |
Pierre Marchand (Paris 1 University), Yves Chaumette (Independant consultant).
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Les humains s’approprient les outils et les détournent selon leurs propres buts, ils se créent leurs propres règles. Si les utilisateurs sont humains, les modélisateurs - concepteurs doivent prendre cet aspect en compte, en eux aussi. L’urbanité est un sous-ensemble de cette pratique d’humanité.
Elle est un mode d'échange permettant un enrichissement mutuel.
Cet atelier vise à donner la parole à ceux que l'on n'entend jamais, des informaticiens qui mettent en place des logiciels, des utilisateurs qui se servent des outils dans leurs activités. La pratique, en des expériences renouvelées, suscite des questions fondamentales :
- Le client du SI est-il un « client 3D », un robot réduit au format voulu ?
- Dans la description des connaissances, comment favoriser la créativité ?
- La finalité des actions est-elle définie par les acteurs eux-mêmes ou par d'autres ?
- Comment aménager le lien entre des outils (produit du passé) et d'une activité (présente) ?
- Comment aménager un espace reliant le collectif et l'individuel ?
- Comment faire reconnaître l’accumulation de « patrimoine » en termes de connaissances qu’apporte à l’entreprise la réalisation de chaque affaire ou contrat ?
Deadline for submission : May 17, 2005
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