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CALL FOR PAPERS</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING TRACK, 8th Edition</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> <a href="http://sac2015.ecomp.poli.br/" target="_blank">http://sac2015.ecomp.poli.br/</a></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> at The 30th Annual <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">ACM</span></span> Symposium on Applied Computing (<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">SAC</span></span>-2015)</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> Salamanca, Spain</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> April 13-17, 2015</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">For the past twenty-nine years, the <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">ACM</span></span> Symposium on Applied Computing</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">(<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">SAC</span></span>) has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists,</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">around the world. The Eight Edition of the Requirements Engineering Track</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">(RE-Track'15) is part of the 30th <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">ACM</span></span> Symposium on Applied Computing. <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">SAC</span></span></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">2015 is hosted by University of Salamanca. Further details may be found at:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://sac2015.ecomp.poli.br/" target="_blank">http://sac2015.ecomp.poli.br/</a>. The objective of this track is to explore</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">different advances in requirement engineering in a general way, its</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">relation with different areas, reducing the gap between software</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">engineering solutions and the way one specific domain of knowledge was seen</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">up to given point.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">IMPORTANT DATES</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">-----------------</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Paper submission: Sept. 12, 2014</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Authors Notification: Nov. 17, 2014</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Camera-Ready: Dec. 8, 2014</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">PAPER SUBMISSION</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">-----------------</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Authors are invited to submit in all areas of Requirement Engineering. The</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">program committee will blindly review submissions to that track. The</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">facilitate blind review. The paper should not exceed 6 pages in <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">ACM</span></span> format.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Please note that the maximum page length for the conference is 6 pages</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">(without extra-fee), 8 is the maximum (with extra-fee). Submissions should</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">be printable on a standard printer on common paper formats, such as US</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">letter and A4. Papers should not be submitted to more than one <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">ACM</span></span>-<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">SAC</span></span></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">track. Paper submissions should be done electronically through the</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">website at</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<a href="http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2015/Paper-SubmissionUploadPage.htm" target="_blank">http://www.<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">acm</span></span>.org/conferences/<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">sac</span></span>/sac2015/Paper-SubmissionUploadPage.htm</a>.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Further information may be found at:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2015/" target="_blank">http://www.<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">acm</span></span>.org/conferences/<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">sac</span></span>/sac2015/</a>.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">SAC</span></span> MUST</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> included in the <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">ACM</span></span>/IEEE digital library. No-show of registered papers and</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">posters will result in excluding them from the <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">ACM</span></span>/IEEE digital library.</div>
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">-----------------</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Active graduate students seeking feedback from the scientific community on</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
their research ideas are invited to submit abstracts of their original</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">unpublished and in-progress research work in areas of experimental</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
computing and application development related to <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">SAC</span></span> 2015 Tracks. Please</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
visit <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">SAC</span></span> 2015 website.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Paper registration is required for inclusion of the paper in the conference</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">proceedings. An author or a proxy attending <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">SAC</span></span> MUST present the paper.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">This is a requirement for the paper to be included in the <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">ACM</span></span>/IEEE digital</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">library. No-show of registered papers will result in excluding them from</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">the <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">ACM</span></span>/IEEE digital library</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">TOPICS</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">-----------------</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Automatic software generation</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
- Requirements Engineering for Scientific Areas</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
- Requirements specification languages, methods, processes, and tools</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Requirements management, traceability, viewpoints</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
- Modeling of requirements, goals, and domains</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Non-functional requirements</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Requirements engineering and software architecture</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Aspect-oriented requirements engineering</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Agent-oriented requirements engineering</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
- Requirements for COTS-based systems</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Case studies and experiences based on requirements engineering</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
- Social, cultural, and cognitive factors in requirements engineering</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Requirements engineering: education and Training</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
- Requirements and Simulation</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Requirements and Autonomic Systems</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Requirements Reuse</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">TRACK CO-CHAIRS</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">-----------------</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Maria Lencastre (<a href="mailto:mlpm@ecomp.poli.br" target="_blank">mlpm@ecomp.poli.br</a>)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Universidade de Pernambuco, Brazil</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Joao Araujo (<a href="mailto:joao.araujo@fct.unl.pt" target="_blank">joao.araujo@fct.unl.pt</a>)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">PROGRAM COMMITTEE</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
-----------------</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Alberto Silva, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Ana Moreira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Carme Quer, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Camille Salinesi, Universite Paris 1 Pantheon - Sorbonne, France</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Carla Silva, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Daniel M. Berry, University of Waterloo, Canada</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">E. A. Schmitz, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Emilio Insfran, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Gilles Perrouin, University of Namur, Belgium</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Guilherme Horta Travassos, COPPE/UFRJ, Brazil</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Gunter Mussbacher, McGill University, Canada</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Guttorm Sindre, IDI/NTNU, Norway</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Gustavo Rossi, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Hermann Kaindl, Vienna University of Technology, ICT, Austria</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Hernan Astudillo, U. Tecnica Frederico Santa María, Chile</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Jaelson Castro, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Joao Araujo, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Joao Pascoal Faria, FEUP, Portugal</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Joost Noppen, University of East Anglia, UK</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Juan Pablo Carvallo, Universidad del Azuay, Cuenca, Equador</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Julio Leite, PUC-Rio, Brazil</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Kamel Rouibah, Kuwait University, Kuwait</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Lawrence Chung, University of Texas, Dallas</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Maria Lencastre, Pernambuco State University, Brazil</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Maritta Heisel, Duisburg-Essen University, Germany</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Mauricio Alferez, INRIA, France</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Olly Gotel, Independent Researcher, USA</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Pete Sawyer, Lancaster University, UK</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Uirá Kulesza, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Rosangela A. Dellosso Penteado, Federal University os Sao Carlos, Brazil</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Seok-Won Lee, Ajou University, Republic of Korea</font></div></div></div>