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<div> at The 29th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC-2014)<br></div><div> Gyeongju, Korea <br></div><div> March 24-28, 2014</div><div>------------<br>
</div><div>IMPORTANT DATES</div><div>------------</div><div>Submission of regular papers and SRC abstracts: <b><font color="#ff0000">September 13, 2013</font></b><br></div><div>Notification of paper and SRC acceptance/rejection: November 15, 2013</div>
<div>Camara-ready copy: December 6, 2013</div><div>Author registration due date: December 13, 2013</div><div><br></div><div>------------</div><div>Overview</div><div>------------</div><div><br></div><div>For the past twenty-eight years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a primary </div>
<div>gathering forum for applied computer scientists,computer engineers, software engineers, and application </div><div>developers from around the world.</div><div><br></div><div>The Seventh Edition of the Requirements Engineering Track (RE-Track'14) is part of the 29th ACM </div>
<div>Symposium on Applied Computing. SAC 2014 is hosted by Seoul National University, Kyungpook National</div><div>University, Soongsil University, and Dongguk University. SAC 2014 will held in the historic city of Gyeongju,</div>
<div> known as the Museum without Walls</div><div><br></div><div>Further details may be found at: <a href="http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2014/" target="_blank">http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2014/</a>.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Requirement Engineering is defined as the branch of Software Engineering concerned with the real-world goals </div><div>for, functions of, and constraints on software systems; it is also concerned with the relationship of these factors</div>
<div>to precise specifications of software behaviour and to their evolution over time and across software families. </div><div>Requirements engineering is increasingly recognized as a critically important activity in any systems engineering </div>
<div>process. </div><div><br></div><div>The arising of many complex software applications in many multidisciplinary domains, the speed with which they </div><div>need to be developed, and the degree to which they are expected to change, all play a role in determining how the </div>
<div>systems development process should be conducted. Independently of the nature of the software, the elicitation, </div><div>analysis, negotiation, specification, validation and management of requirements are fundamental for the development </div>
<div>of quality in complex software. Only by fully understanding stakeholders' needs, and documenting them in a concise,</div><div> and unambiguous way, can consistently deliver quality products designed to meet the complexities of our advanced </div>
<div>information society. </div><div><br></div><div>However, there area number of inherent difficulties in the RE process. The existing methods for requirements specification </div><div>are far from being completely satisfactory. Requirements must be measurable, testable, related to identified business</div>
<div>and other field needs or opportunities, and defined to a level of detail sufficient for system design. The demand for better,</div><div>faster, and more usable software systems will continue, and RE will therefore continue to evolve in order to deal with different</div>
<div> development scenarios which must be considered. Besides that, many new areas are being investigated by requirements </div><div>engineering community (such as: aspect-oriented or agents-oriented development, COTS-based systems, use of simulation </div>
<div>techniques, autonomic system) to achieve better ways for leading with the involved complexity. </div><div><br></div><div>The objective of this track is to explore different advances in requirement engineering in a general way, its relation with different</div>
<div> areas, reducing the gap between software engineering solutions and the way one specific domain of knowledge was seen up</div><div> to given point. </div><div><br></div><div>------------</div><div>TOPICS</div><div>
------------</div><div><br></div><div>These are the main areas of concern in Requirements Engineering: </div><div>* Requirements Engineering for Scientific Areas</div><div>* Requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation</div>
<div>* Requirements specification languages, methods, processes, and tools</div><div>* Requirements management, traceability, viewpoints</div><div>* Modelling of requirements, goals, and domains</div><div>* Non-functional requirements</div>
<div>* Requirements engineering and software architecture</div><div>* Aspect-oriented requirements engineering</div><div>* Agent-oriented requirements engineering</div><div>* Requirements for COTS-based systems</div><div>
* Case studies and experiences based on requirements engineering</div><div>* Social, cultural, and cognitive factors in requirements engineering</div><div>* Requirements engineering: education and Training</div><div>* Requirements and Simulation </div>
<div>* Requirements and Autonomic Systems</div><div>* Requirements Reuse</div><div><br></div><div>------------</div><div>PAPER SUBMISSION</div><div>------------</div><div><br></div><div>Authors are invited to submit original papers in all areas of Requirement Engineering. </div>
<div><br></div><div>The program committee will blindly review submissions to that track. </div><div>The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper, </div><div>self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review. The paper should not exceed 6 pages in ACM format. </div>
<div>Please note that the maximum page length for the conference is 6 pages </div><div>(without extra-fee), 8 is the maximum (with extra-fee). </div><div><br></div><div>Submissions should be printable on a standard printer on common paper</div>
<div>formats, such as US letter and A4. Papers should not be submitted to </div><div>more than one ACM-SAC track.</div><div><br></div><div>Paper submissions should be done electronically through the website</div><div>at <a href="http://www.softconf.com/c/sac2014/" target="_blank">www.softconf.com/c/sac2014/</a>. Further information may be found at: </div>
<div><a href="http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2014/" target="_blank">http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2014/</a>.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>------------</div><div>PROGRAM COMMITTEE</div><div>------------</div>
<div>------------</div><div>CONTACT</div><div>------------</div><div><br></div><div>For further information please contact the track organizesr:</div><div><br></div><div>Maria Lencastre (UPE - Brazil) and João Araújo (UNL - Portugal)</div>
<div>Requirement Engineering Track Chair </div><div>--------------------------------</div><div>Programa de Engenharia de Computação</div><div>Escola Politécnica de Pernambuco</div><div>Universidade de Pernambuco</div><div>
Recife - PE - BRAZIL</div><div>Phone: <a href="tel:%2B%2055%2081%20%C2%A021193842" value="+558121193842" target="_blank">+ 55 81 21193842</a></div><div>Fax: <a href="tel:%2B%2055%2081%20%C2%A021193881" value="+558121193881" target="_blank">+ 55 81 21193881</a></div>
<div>E-mail: <a href="mailto:mlpm@ecomp.poli.br" target="_blank">mlpm@ecomp.poli.br</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>------------</div><div>RE TRACK WEB-SITE </div><div>------------</div><div><br></div><div>Updated information on the Requirement Engineering track may be found at: </div>
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