[AISWorld] CfP: RIGiM'13 (in Conjunction with ER'13) - Extended Deadline - June 3

[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: June 3, 2013  *Extended Deadline*
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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