[ecoop-info] IEEE RE'11 Open Calls & Co-Located Events

[Norbert Seyff]

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                         19th IEEE International
                Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'11)

                R E Q U I R E M E N T S   I N   M O T I O N

                      August 29 - September 2, 2011
                               Trento, Italy

                           http://www.re11.org

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         O P E N   C A L L S   &   C O - L O C A T E D   E V E N T S

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O V E R V I E W

The IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference series (RE) is
the premier international forum for researchers, educators, practitioners
and students to present and discuss the latest innovations, trends,
experiences and concerns in the field of Requirements Engineering.

RE'11 will take place in Trento, Italy, a cosmopolitan city set in a
spectacular mountain scenery, and home to a world-class university
and research centers.

Submissions are now open for a number of scientific events being
held in conjunction with RE'11.


I M P O R T A N T   D A T E S

- Short Industry Paper submission:                     May 16th, 2011
- Tutorials, Panels and Doc. Symposium submissions:    May 16th, 2011
- Posters and Tool Demos submissions:                  May 20th, 2011
- Workshops -- see below


All details are available at http://www.re11.org



W O R K S H O P S

The following workshops will be held prior to the main RE'11
conference on the 29th and 30th of August 2011.

August 29th
- Requirements Patterns (RP)
- Model-Driven Requirements Engineering (MoDRE)
- Requirements Engineering Education and Training (REET)
- Service-Oriented Computing: Consequences for Engineering Requirements
  (SOCCER)
- Requirements Engineering for E-Voting Systems (REVOTE)
- Requirements Engineering for Social Computing (RESC)

August 30th
- Software Product Management (IWSPM)
- Requirements Engineering and Law (RELAW)
- Requirements @ run.time
- Empirical Requirements Engineering (EmpiRE)
- Requirements Engineering for Systems and Systems of Systems (RESS)
- Multimedia and Enjoyable Requirements Engineering (MERE)
- Managing Requirements Knowledge (MaRK)

August 29th and 30th
- Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems (FMICS)
- i* Workshop (iStar)


All details are found below and at http://re11.fbk.eu/workshops



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Requirements Patterns (RP)
http://www.utdallas.edu/~supakkul/rp11
Submission Deadline: May 25, 2011
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Lawrence Chung, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Neil Maiden, City University, London, UK
Barbara Paech, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Sam Supakkul, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Getting requirements right is critical to the success of just about
any software development project, and yet oftentimes challenging and
in need of a large amount of knowledge and experience. "Patterns" have
been used to capture knowledge of software development, concerning
software architectures, component designs and programs, and more
recently requirements engineering too. This workshop provides an open
forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas and
experience, regarding pattern-based approaches to capturing,
organizing, and reusing all aspects of requirements
engineering-related knowledge, from both product and process
perspectives.

Submissions of specific patterns of all requirements
engineering-related knowledge are encouraged. Examples of such
patterns include, but not limited to, patterns of requirements
modeling, requirements engineering process/activities,
application/domain-specific or application/domain-independent
requirements, FRs/NFRs/goals/social aspects, and the transitioning
from requirements to architectures/designs. This workshop also
welcomes technical papers, including full and position research
papers, experience reports, empirical and case studies that report
findings on requirements pattern-related topics, including, but not
limited to, capturing, harvesting, mining, cataloging, organizing,
searching, reusing and applying patterns, quality of patterns, pattern
management and tool support.


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Model-Driven Requirements Engineering (MoDRE)
http://cserg0.site.uottawa.ca/modre2011/
Submission Deadline: June 1, 2011
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Gunter Mussbacher, Carleton University, Canada
Pablo Sanchez, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
Joao Araujo, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Ana Moreira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Model-Driven Development (MDD) is a new paradigm for software
development where models are no longer simple mediums for describing
software systems or only facilitating inter-team communication. In
MDD, models become first-class citizens, and a software system is
obtained through the definition of different models at different
abstraction layers. Models of a certain abstraction layer are derived
from models of the upper abstraction layer by means of automatic model
transformations, providing faster and more reliable results.

MDD processes that explicitly include requirements models are rarely
found as the main achievements of MDD have been related to the design
and implementation levels. Nevertheless, Requirements Engineering (RE)
could also benefit from model-driven techniques. For instance, model
transformations may be used to ensure consistency between different
kinds of requirements models (e.g., goal models, scenario models,
domain models), to automatically construct initial system or
architectural models from requirements (e.g., by deriving a more
detailed UML model from a goal or scenario model), or to increase
separation of concerns (e.g., MDD solutions may be applied more
concisely to RE models with clearly separated concerns).

This inaugural Model-Driven Requirements Engineering (MoDRE) workshop
provides a forum to discuss the challenges of MDD for RE. Building on
the success of MDD for design and implementation, RE may benefit from
MDD techniques when properly balancing flexibility for capturing
varied user needs with formal rigidity required for model
transformations as well as high-level abstraction with information
richness. MoDRE intends to identify new challenges, discuss on-going
work and potential solutions, and analyze the strengths and weaknesses
of MDD approaches for RE with the help of a case study problem that is
used during the workshop to stimulate discussions and to apply MDD
approaches for RE.


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Requirements Engineering Education and Training (REET)
http://www.ecs.westminster.ac.uk/REET11
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Joy Beatty, Seilevel, USA
Ljerka Beus-Dukic, University of Westminster, UK

Requirements Engineering Education and Training 2011 (REET'11) will
address issues related to RE education, both as part of a formal
university degree and as ongoing skills training within the workplace.
The workshop is intended to go much deeper than a surface discussion
of curriculum issues and will examine specific ideas and techniques
for teaching and assessing skills needed by an effective requirements
engineer. The format of the workshop will include full papers,
position papers, and pedagogical papers and activities that can be
demonstrated during the workshop. The intent is to involve workshop
attendees in performing the activities as well as interactive
discussions about the topic. Workshop topics may include curriculum
development and creative contributions related to pedagogical
techniques for teaching RE skills and could take the form of
experience reports or demonstrations of specific teaching techniques
and training materials.


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Service-Oriented Computing:
Consequences for Engineering Requirements (SOCCER)
http://home.dei.polimi.it/baresi/soccer11
Submission Deadline: May 12, 2011
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Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Neil Maiden, City University, London, UK

The objective of the SOCCER'2010 workshop is to host significant and
high-quality contributions in all topics related to requirements
engineering for service-oriented software, with the goal of letting
participants gain insights into the current state of the art and
future challenges, create synergies through integration, and foster
cross-cooperation. As well as continuing to build a community of
researchers interested in requirements engineering and
service-oriented software, the workshop will continue the development
of a research agenda to guide and support researchers in the relevant
fields. The workshop welcomes both full papers and position papers.


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Requirements Engineering for E-Voting Systems (REVOTE)
http://ed.fbk.eu/revote
Submission Deadline: May 25, 2011
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Rudiger Grimm, University of Koblenz Koblenz, Germany
Melanie Volkamer, Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany
Komminist Weldemariam, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy

The integrity and assurance of a complex and safety-critical systems
correct behavior with respect to specification can be achieved, if
good engineering practices are appropriately devised and used. With
respect to this, there are a number of engineering approaches to
tackle (some of) the issues existed in the domain. This workshop aims
to identify best practice for the engineering of electronic voting
(e-voting) system requirements and business process models, and to
improve the current specification and development of the e-voting
system standards and accreditation (certification) processes.
Particular attention will be given to the (formal) analysis of voting
requirements documents (e.g., recommendations, standards and
guidelines), including those that pre-date e-voting.


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Requirements Engineering for Social Computing (RESC)
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/research/resc11
Submission Deadline: May 27, 2011
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Amit K. Chopra, University of Trento, Italy
Fabiano Dalpiaz, University of Trento, Italy
Soo Ling Lim, University College, London, UK

The Web was conceptualized as a database. It has since evolved into a
platform for conducting business transactions. Today, we are
witnessing it evolve into a social platform, where autonomous actors
-- humans, organizations, and their software surrogates -- engage each
other in both business and social interactions. In short, we are
moving away from a data-centric model to an actor-centric one.

The evolution though has been largely ad hoc. The purpose behind this
workshop is to shed light on the semantic foundations of social
computing. In particular, the focus is on the identification of new
requirements engineering challenges and their solutions. We invite
contributions on (1) the modeling of interactions among actors, with
an emphasis on high-level concepts such as trust, commitments, and
contracts, (2) social middleware that supports interaction among
actors, and (3) actor models and strategies keeping in mind
interaction and social considerations.


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Software Product Management (IWSPM)
http://2011.iwspm.org/
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Marjo Kauppinen, Aalto University, Finland
Krzysztof Wnuk, Lund University, Sweden

Software product management is the discipline of managing
software-intensive products across their life-cycle. It includes
working with requirements, release definitions, product lifecycles,
the creation and interpretation of product strategies, balancing
long-term technology push with shorter-term market-pull, and assuring
a successful business case by selecting the right requirement for
realization. Software product management is complex: there are any
intra- and inter-organizational stakeholders and many
responsibilities. Currently, there is no formalized education on
software product management and only a small, but growing, body of
scientific knowledge.

Following the success of the 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010 workshops in
conjunction with the respective RE-conferences, the IWSPM 2011
workshop shall continue to increase the body of knowledge for software
product management by providing a forum to exchange ideas and publish
research results. It will build and shape the community of leading
practitioners and research experts.

Software product management is not only relevant for pure software
companies and companies that develop software intensive systems, but
also for companies that provide services to customers using long-lived
software infrastructures. The field of software product management is
relatively unexplored from both the scientific and industrial
perspectives. IWSPM brings together researchers and industrial
representatives for the purpose of exchanging ideas and to iteratively
guide the research agenda based on industry needs.


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Requirements Engineering and Law (RELAW)
http://relaw2011.dke.univie.ac.at
Submission Deadline: June 10, 2011
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Annie Anton, North Carolina State University (NCSU), USA
David Baumer, North Carolina State University (NCSY), USA
Travis Breaux, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria

The objective of the workshop is to foster the discussion related to
requirements engineering triggered by any legal regulation or law. For
the enrichment of information systems with requirements derived from
the regulations needed, a formalization of said is necessary and is
resolved by interpretation, focused discussion, negotiation and
reconciliation on the part of professionals with diverse viewpoints:
business managers, engineers, lawyers and regulators. This means an
active and continuous process: "Governance in Motion". Today's rapidly
changing environment which is accompanied by remarkable technology
innovation and presupposes easy and quick access to information, new
communication models, and increasing dependence on collaboration and
cooperation motivates the discussion further on. Additionally this
environment presents new challenges in trustworthy computing,
regulatory compliance, and highly flexible business processes with
traceability and accountability that require new and enhanced
concepts, frameworks and tools for business and software engineering.
The single organization will need to actively steer and determine its
organizational structures and processes on a permanent basis to ensure
the attainment of its strategy and targets. Compliance to legal
regulations is part of the organization's governance and requirements
incorporated in law need to be addressed in business and information
technology (IT).

The fourth RELAW workshop is a multi-disciplinary, one-day workshop
that brings together practitioners and researchers from two domains:
Requirements Engineering and Law. Participants from government,
industry and academic sectors investigate challenges to ensure that
information systems comply with policies and laws. The workshop will
probe important issues, including the processes for identifying
relevant policies, laws and jurisdictions, aligning laws with system
requirements, managing requirements and changes in the law and
demonstrating how systems comply with relevant laws through
evidence-based mechanisms such as documentation, testing and
certification.

For the first time since the workshop's inception, RELAW will include
a separate track from the requirements engineering research and
industry papers to include submissions from law scholars to address
emerging IT challenges in today's regulatory environment.


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Requirements at run.time
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~bencomo/RRT/
Submission Deadline: June 13, 2011
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Nelly Bencomo, INRIA (France) and Lancaster University (UK)
Jon Whittle, Lancaster University (UK)
Emmanuel Letier, University College London (UK)
Anthony Finkelstein, University College London (UK)

Requirements at run.time will explore a radical challenge to the
traditional view of requirements models as static, slowly-evolving and
purely design-time entities. requirements at run.time will explore the
potential for runtime abstractions and models of requirements as a
practical means to address the challenges posed by volatile or
poorly-understood environmental contexts. These include (e.g.)
business environments that are subject to dramatic and unforeseen
economic conditions, or physical environments that may be remote and
hostile to humans and computers. For such systems, detailed a-priori
domain understanding is not achievable at design-time. This inevitably
acts against the formulation of stable requirements. Rather, the
requirements will need to be revised and reappraised over periods too
short to be achieved by off-line adaptive maintenance. To achieve
this, systems will need to maintain requirements models that are
dynamic, runtime entities that support reasoning, sometimes with the
aid of human, and sometimes not, so that the systems can respond in
appropriate ways to changes in their environments.
requirements at run.time takes its cue from important recent work in a
number of areas, including requirements monitoring, computational
reflection, self-adaptive systems and multi-objective reasoning.


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Empirical Requirements Engineering (EmpiRE)
http://selab.fbk.eu/empire2011
Submission Deadline: June 1, 2011
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Maya Daneva, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Vincenzo Gervasi, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Andrea Herrmann, Axivion, Germany
Alessandro Marchetto, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Oscar Pastor, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Marco Torchiano, Politecnico of Torino, Torino, Italy

The first International Workshop on Empirical Requirements Engineering
(EmpiRE 2011) encourages the cross-fertilization between Requirements
Engineering and Empirical Software Engineering. On one side, EmpiRE
promotes the exchange of ideas to understand why and how empirical
methods from Empirical Software Engineering can assess and improve
existing or new approaches in Requirements Engineering. On the other
side, EmpiRE intends to push toward new evaluation techniques, domains
and problems for exercising empirical methods or building new ones.


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Requirements Engineering for Systems and Systems-of-Systems (RESS)
http://re.cs.depaul.edu/RESS
Submission Deadline: May 16, 2011
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Brian Berenbach, Siemens Corporate Research, USA
Jane Cleland-Huang, DePaul University, USA
Janice Hill, Florida Institute of Technology, USA

Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field focused on the
design and implementation of large and complex systems. A
System-of-systems integrates a set of otherwise independent and
self-contained systems that pool their resources in order to meet a
common goal. Such systems include transportation systems, hospital
networks, "smart" buildings, large scale defense systems, as well as
systems from many other domains. Managing requirements for such
projects can be extremely complex and challenging as requirements must
be addressed not only for individual components, but also for the
overall infrastructure, interfaces, and governance of the system. As
an emerging area of research, Requirements Engineering for systems and
systems-of-systems represents a critical discipline in which
methodologies, thought processes, frames of reference, and technology
support are still emerging. This workshop therefore invites
contributions addressing issues, challenges, and solutions related to
requirements engineering for such systems.


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Multimedia and Enjoyable Requirements Engineering (MERE)
http://www.mere-workshop.org/
Submission Deadline: May 26, 2011
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Oliver Creighton, Siemens, Germany
David Callele, TRLabs Saskatchewan, Canada
Olly Gotel, Independent Researcher, USA

MERE strives to make requirements engineering more engaging, desirable
and rewarding in order to increase its impact on the value creation
chain. Improving the interactions and interactivity between
stakeholders will allow requirements engineers to accommodate a more
diverse audience, thereby facilitating improved input to requirements
development as early and often as practical. As communication can
occur in forms other than written or spoken natural language, such as
facial expression or gesture, we draw inspiration for processes and
representations from domains as diverse as the movie and game
industries, storytelling, improvisation theater, industrial design,
marketing, and media production. MERE provides an opportunity for
researchers and practitioners to exchange new and innovative ideas
relating to challenges in the domain.


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Managing Requirements Knowledge (MaRK)
http://www1.cs.tum.edu/mark11/
Submission Deadline: May 20, 2011
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Walid Maalej, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Anil Kumar Thurimella, Harman International, Germany

MaRK'11 focuses on potentials and benefits of lightweight knowledge
management approaches, such as ontologies, semantic Wikis, recommender
systems, and rationale management techniques - applied to requirements
engineering. The workshop discusses emerging ideas, methodologies,
frameworks, tools, as well as industrial experiences for capturing,
representing, sharing, and reusing tacit knowledge in requirements
engineering. Furthermore, the workshop provides an interactive
exchange platform between the knowledge management communities,
requirements engineering community, and industrial practitioners.


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Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems (FMICS)
http://events.fortiss.org/fmics2011/
Submission Deadline: March 25, 2011
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Gwen Salauen, Grenoble INP - INRIA Grenoble (Rhone-Alpes) - LIG, France
Bernhard Schaetz, fortiss GmbH, Germany

The aim of the FMICS workshop series is to provide a forum for
researchers who are interested in the development and application of
formal methods in industry. In particular, FMICS brings together
scientists and engineers that are active in the area of formal methods
and interested in exchanging their experiences in the industrial usage
of these methods. The FMICS workshop series also strives to promote
research and development for the improvement of formal methods and
tools for industrial applications.


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i* Workshop (iStar)
http://re11.fbk.eu/colocated
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Jaelson Castro, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
Xavier Franch, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Canada

A growing number of groups around the world have been using the i*
modeling framework in their research on early requirements
engineering, business process design, organization modelling, software
development methodologies, and more. Following successful workshops in
Trento (2002), London (2005), Recife (2008), and Hammamet (2010), the
iStar 2011 workshop will offer the opportunity to researchers working
on i*, Tropos, and related frameworks, to exchange ideas, compare
notes, and hopefully forge new collaboration with like-minded folk.




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R E' 1 1   I S   S P O N S O R E D   B Y

* IEEE Computer Society
* Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy

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