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<div><br></div><div>Call for Papers</div><div><br></div><div>3rd Requirements Engineering Efficiency Workshop (REEW 2014)</div>
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in conjunction with REFSQ 2014 (April 07-10th, 2014)</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/reew2014/home" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/reew2014/home</a></div><div><br></div><div>
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</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Motivation & Goal:</div><div><br></div><div>Requirements engineering (RE) research has focused on specification quality for a long time, leading to recommendations of how to engineer high quality requirements specifications by using different methods for elicitation, specification, analysis, etc. </div>
<div>Practitioners, however, often do not have the time and resources for developing theoretically best requirements, especially when they have to cope with a high number of (distributed) stakeholders, requirements, or change requests. Hence, many situations call for short-cuts that allow investing effort in those concerns that are critical for success, while reducing effort in other areas where the risk is comparably smaller. The strong trend towards agile software development, but also the increasing interest in better automation support underpins this claim. </div>
<div>The Requirements Engineering Efficiency Workshop (REEW 2014) therefore aims at initiating, facilitating, and nurturing the discussion on efficient approaches to engineer fitting, good-enough requirements. Requirements engineering is here seen as a means that can be combined with other practices to achieve a successful system in an economically efficient manner. REEW 2014 will provide a platform for the community of practitioners and research experts that are interested in efficient, scalable and pragmatic approaches to requirements engineering.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Key Questions & Topics of Interests:</div><div><br></div><div>Specific interests this year are concerned with the following questions but any other contribution regarding RE efficiency is welcome:</div>
<div>- How will agile approaches such as Scrum, Kanban, eXtreme Programming, and FDD affect RE efficiency, but also the number and quality of RE artifacts? </div><div>- How will emerging technologies (such as data mining, social media, mobile devices, etc.) affect RE efficiency and especially scalability? Which opportunities will these technologies provide and which challenges do these technologies impose on RE?</div>
<div>- How can RE be made more efficient even for complex (e.g., computer games) and critical system (e.g., medicine, nuclear engineering) development? </div><div>- Where are the limits and what are the risks of RE efficiency improvements? </div>
<div><br></div><div>Derived from that, REEW is particularly interested in papers dealing with</div><div>- Characteristics of efficiency and inefficiency in RE</div><div>- Tools and methods to increase the efficiency and scalability of the entire RE lifecycle (especially when dealing with high numbers of (distributed) stakeholders and / or requirements)</div>
<div>- Emerging and advances technologies to improve RE efficiency in a ìnon-traditionalî way (e.g., different mining approaches, mobile data collection, etc.) </div><div>- Efficiency improvements by agile RE, respectively RE in agile development</div>
<div>- Risk-and value-oriented requirements prioritization and quality assurance</div><div>- Efficient product family management</div><div>- Efficient interactions with neighboring processes such as business analysis, architecting, testing, project and release management, etc.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Submissions:</div><div><br></div><div>Original submissions (up to 6 pages) from research and practice in four categories are welcome</div><div>- Problem statements explaining issues regarding RE efficiency</div>
<div>- Vision statements explaining strongly explorative ideas on how RE efficiency could be improved </div><div>- Experience reports that give insights in exiting RE practice.</div><div>- Research papers highlighting novel methods and tools in order to improve RE efficiency. This also includes papers which discuss empirical studies of such approaches. </div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Important Dates:</div><div><br></div><div>Paper Submission: January 22nd, 2014</div><div>Notification: February 15th, 2014</div><div>Camera-ready Due: March15th, 2014</div><div><br></div>
<div><br></div><div>Program Committee:</div><div><br></div><div>Daniel Berry, University of Waterloo (Canada)</div><div>Stefan Biffl, Technische Universit‰t Wien (Austria)</div><div>Oliver Creighton, Siemens AG (Germany)</div>
<div>Maya Daneva, University of Twente (Netherlands)</div><div>Deepak Dhungana, Siemens (Austria)</div><div>Remo Ferrari, Siemens (USA) </div><div>Xavier Franch, Universitat PolitËcnica de Catalunya (Spain) </div><div>Samuel Fricker, Blekinge Institute of Technology (Sweden)</div>
<div>Vicenzo Gervasi, University of Pisa (Italy) </div><div>Eric Knauss, University of Victoria (Canada)</div><div>Peter Spˆrri, Zuehlke Engineering AG (Switzerland)</div><div>Soo Ling Lim, University College London (UK)</div>
<div>Nazim Madhavji, University of Western Ontario (Canada)</div><div>Andriy Miranskyy, IBM (Canada)</div><div>Anna Perini, Fundazione Bruno Kessler (Italy)</div><div>Norman Riegel, Fraunhofer IESE (Germany)</div><div>Kurt Schneider, Leibniz Universit‰t Hannover (Germany)</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Organizers:</div><div><br></div><div>Norbert Seyff</div><div>University Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland</div><div><a href="mailto:seyff@ifi.uzh.ch" target="_blank">seyff@ifi.uzh.ch</a><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></div>
<div><br></div><div>Sebastian Adam</div><div>Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern, Germany</div><div><a href="mailto:sebastian.adam@iese.fraunhofer.de" target="_blank">sebastian.adam@iese.fraunhofer.de</a></div></div>
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