<div dir="ltr"><div><div>CALL FOR PAPERS</div><div>----------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>Eighth International i* Workshop (iStar'15) co-located with the 23rd International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE’15)</div><div><a href="http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~istar15/">http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~istar15/</a></div><div>24-25 August, 2015</div><div>Ottawa, Canada</div><div><br></div><div>Scope and Motivation</div><div>-----------------------------</div><div>A growing number of groups around the world have been using the i* modelling framework in their research on requirements engineering, business process design, organization modelling, software development methodologies, evolution and more. Following successful workshops in Trento (2002), London (2005), Recife (2008), Hammamet (2010), Trento (2011), Valencia (2013), and Thessaloniki (2014) it is time for another meeting focusing on i*, GRL, Tropos, Techne, and related goal frameworks, to exchange ideas, provide updates on recent work, compare notes, and forge new collaborations.</div><div><br></div><div>We cordially invite you and members of your group to join us at the Eighth International i* Workshop.</div><div><br></div><div>The topics of interests include, but are not limited to:</div><div><br></div><div>- Adaptive requirements-driven systems</div><div>- Agent-oriented systems development</div><div>- Business intelligence and data analytics</div><div>- Business modeling</div><div>- Business process analysis and design, reengineering</div><div>- Business, service, and software ecosystems</div><div>- Enterprise, systems, and organizational architecture</div><div>- Evaluation, verification and validation</div><div>- Experience reports and case studies</div><div>- Evolution, adaptation, and system dynamics</div><div>- i* modeling techniques: i* modeling concepts, variations and extensions</div><div>- Knowledge management</div><div>- Law and regulatory compliance</div><div>- Metamodels</div><div>- Model analysis and reasoning</div><div>- Networking or integration with other modeling languages or techniques</div><div>- Ontological foundations</div><div>- Requirements engineering</div><div>- Scalability and uncertainty in modeling</div><div>- Security requirements engineering, privacy, and trust</div><div>- Socio-technical systems</div><div>- Software engineering processes and organizations</div><div>- Strategy modeling and business model innovation</div><div>- Tools, visualization, and interaction</div><div>- Variability and personalization</div><div><br></div><div>All submissions should be uploaded to easychair (<a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=istar15">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=istar15</a>).</div><div><br></div><div>Important Dates</div><div>----------------------</div><div>Title & Abstract Submission deadline: June 2th, 2015</div><div>Paper Submission deadline: June 9th, 2015</div><div>*All deadlines are 23:59 Baker Island Time.</div><div><br></div><div>Organizing Committee</div><div>------------------------------</div><div>Jaelson Castro,<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil</div><div>Sotirios Liaskos, York University, Canada</div><div><br></div><div>Steering Committee</div><div>---------------------------</div><div>Xavier Franch, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain</div><div>John Mylopoulos, University of Trento, Italy</div><div>Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Canada</div><div><br></div><div>We also encourage you to submit to and participate in the complementary event: the iStarT’15 workshop, co-located with CAiSE in Stockholm, June 9th, 2015 (<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/istarteaching15/">https://sites.google.com/site/istarteaching15/</a>). The iStarT workshop aims to provide a forum for sharing ideas and experiences on the teaching of i* and related frameworks.</div><div><br></div><div>For further questions, please contact <a href="mailto:istar15@cin.ufpe.br">istar15@cin.ufpe.br</a> (Subject: iStar'15)</div><div><br></div></div>
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