[AISWorld] CfP: 5th International Workshop on Requirements, Intentions and Goals in Conceptual Modeling (RIGiM'13) in Conjunction with ER'13

[Jennifer Horkoff]

** Call for Papers RIGiM'13**

5th International Workshop on Requirements, Intentions and Goals in
Conceptual Modeling (RIGiM'13)
in Conjunction with the 32nd International Conference on Conceptual
Modeling (ER'13)
Hong Kong

November 11-13, 2013

Web site: https://sites.google.com/site/rigimworkshop13/

** Organizers **

* Colette Rolland - Université Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne, France.
* Lin Liu, Tsinghua University, China
* Eric Yu - University of Toronto, Canada.
* Jennifer Horkoff - University of Trento, Italy.

** Scope and Topics ***

The use of intentional concepts, the notion of "goal" in particular, has
been prominent in recent approaches to requirements engineering.
Goal-oriented frameworks and methods for requirements engineering (GORE)
have been keynote topics at requirements engineering conferences, and at
major software engineering conferences. What are the conceptual modelling
foundations in these approaches?

Traditionally information system engineering has made the assumption that
an information system captures some excerpt of world history and hence has
concentrated on modeling information about the Universe of Discourse. This
is done through conceptual modeling that aims at abstracting the
specification of the required information system, i.e., the conceptual
schema, from an analysis of the relevant aspects of the Universe of
Discourse about which the user community needs information. This
specification concentrates on what the system should do, that is, on its
functionality, serving as a prescription for system construction.

Whereas conceptual modelling allowed system developers to understand the
semantic of information and led to a large number of semantically powerful
conceptual models, experience demonstrates that it often fails in
supporting the delivery of systems that were accepted by the community of
users. Indeed, a number of studies have shown that many systems fail due to
an inadequate understanding of the requirements they seek to address.
Furthermore, the amount of effort needed to fix these systems has been
found to be very high.

To correct this situation, it is necessary to view information systems as
fulfilling some purpose in an organisation. Understanding purpose, goals,
and intentions is a necessary condition for the design of successful
systems. Conceptual modelling therefore needs to go beyond functionality
requirements that specify the 'what', to encompass the deeper contextual
understanding of the 'whys'.  The 'why' questions are answered in terms of
organisational objectives and the desires and motivations of stakeholders
and participants. Modelling the 'whys' helps focus requirements
elicitation, validation, and specification. Goal-oriented approaches in
requirements engineering have emerged to meet this expectation.

The Workshop aims to provide a forum for discussing the interplay between
requirements engineering and conceptual modeling, and in particular, to
investigate how goal- and intention-driven approaches help in
conceptualising purposeful systems. What are the fundamental objectives and
premises of requirements engineering and conceptual modelling respectively,
and how can they complement each other? What are the demands on conceptual
modelling from the standpoint of requirements engineering? What conceptual
modelling techniques can be further taken advantage of in requirements
engineering? What are the upcoming modelling challenges and issues in GORE?
What are the unresolved open questions? What lessons are there to be learnt
from industrial experiences? What empirical data are there to support the
cost-benefit analysis when adopting GORE methods? Are there applications
domains or types of project settings for which goals and intentional
approaches are particularly suitable or not suitable? What degree of
formalization and automation or interactivity are feasible and appropriate
for what types of participants during requirements engineering? e.g.,
business domain stakeholders, requirements modelers, ontology engineers,
etc.

**Topics**

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* modeling and semantics in GORE frameworks
* analysis and reasoning with intentions and goals
* ontological and epistemological foundations
* cognitive, behavioral, and sociological perspectives
* goals, scenarios, and business process modeling
* goals and viewpoints, management of conflicts and inconsistencies
* goals in requirements and design patterns
* goals in reuse
* goals and traceability
* goals and aspects
* change management, versioning and view management for GORE
* visualization and tool support for GORE
* software engineering process and organization for GORE
* GORE and agile methods
* GORE in distributed software development
* GORE for COTS system development and selection
* GORE for product families and high-variability software
* GORE for adaptive systems and agile enterprise
* comparison and evaluation of GORE approaches
* industrial experiences and empirical studies
* GORE for services design and engineering
* GORE and business modeling and strategy reasoning
* goal-oriented conceptual modeling for security, privacy, and trust
* goal-oriented modeling for user experience and interaction design
* goal-oriented modeling of system architecture
* evolution and adaptation of goal-oriented models
* capturing business strategy with goal-oriented models
* interaction and integration with other conceptual modeling paradigms,
e.g., object-oriented and agent-oriented models
* goal-oriented modeling for specific application domains - e.g.,
healthcare, e-government, mobile commerce, ambient intelligence, social
media and networks

** Format and Duration **

We aim for a highly interactive forum. Discussants and discussion
facilitators will be formally appointed for each paper and session,
respectively, to ensure an atmosphere of productive interaction.

The working language is English.

Workshop proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS
series. Thus, authors must submit manuscripts using the Springer-Verlag
LNCS style for Lecture Notes in Computer Science. See
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for style files and details.

** Types of papers **

We solicit three types of papers: full papers (10 pages max), position
papers (6 pages max) and industrial problem statements (6 pages max) in
LNCS format.

** Paper Submission **

Submission via easychair site:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rigim13

** Important Dates **

Paper submission: May 20, 2013
Author notification: June 17, 2013
Camera-ready:  July 1, 2013

** Program Committee **

Raian Ali, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom
Thomas Alspaugh, University of California, Irvine, USA
Daniel Amyot, University of Ottawa, Canada
Mikio Aoyoma, Nanzan University, Japan
Ian Alexander, Scenario Plus, United Kingdom
Daniel Berry, University of Waterloo, Canada
Jaelson Castro,Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
Luiz Cysneiros, York University , Canada
Fabiano Dalpiaz, Trento University, Italy
Vincenzo Gervasi, University of Pisa , Italy
Aditya K. Ghose, University of Wollongong , Australia
Paolo Giogini, University of Trento, Italy
Renata Guizzardi, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), Brazil
Patrick Heymans, University of Namur, Belgium
Zhi Jin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Haruhiko Kaiya, Shinshu University, Japan
Aneesh Krishna, Curtin University, Australia
Régine Laleau, Université Paris XII, France
Axel van Lamsweerde, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Alexei Lapouchnian, University of Trento, Italy
Sai Peck Lee, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Julio Leite, Pontificia Universidade Catolica, Brazil
Emmanuel Letier, University College of London
Sotirios Liaskos, York University, Canada
Peri Loucopoulos, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway
Xin Pen, Fudan University, China
Anna Perini, FBK - Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Yves Pigneur, HEC, Lausanne, Suisse
Naveen Prakash, MRCE, India
Jolita Ralyte, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Motoshi Saeki, Tokyo Institute Of Technology, Japan
Camille Salinesi, Université Paris 1 Panthéon, Sorbonne, France
Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel
Sam Supakkul, Keane, An NTT DATA Company, USA
Angelo Susi, FBK - Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Juan Trujillo, University of Alicante, Spain
Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, Netherlands
Carson Woo, University of British Columbia, Canada
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