[AISWorld] CfP: MReBA(Springer LNCS)@ER2016 - deadline 27th June!

[Jelena Zdravkovic]

Dear Colleagues,

The deadline for submissions to 3rd Workshop on Conceptual Modeling in Requirements and Business Analysis (MREBA) at ER 2016 (http://er2016.cs.titech.ac.jp/) has been extended to **27th June**! Accepted papers will be published in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS)

CALL FOR PAPERS MReBA'16
3rd International Workshop on Conceptual Modeling in Requirements and Business Analysis (MReBA)
Formerly “Requirements, Intentions, and Goals in Conceptual Modeling” (RIGiM)
in Conjunction with the 35th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER'16)
Gifu, Japan, November 14-17th, 2016
https://sites.google.com/site/mrebaworkshop16/

SCOPE AND TOPICS
Requirements Engineering (RE) aims at capturing desired system functionality and qualities.  Though often specified in natural language, such information is also captured in conceptual models for sharing a collaborative perception of requirements, to facilitate analysis, and to transform into architecture design and code.
In practice, requirements activities often fall under the heading of Business Analysis (BA), determining how a business can make use of technology in order to improve its operations, meet targets, and thrive in a competitive economy.  Use of models in this context allows for an explicit consideration of business strategy, including operationalization of strategies in terms of system requirements.    
The MReBA workshop arises from a revitalization of the RIGiM (Requirements, Intentions, and Goals in Conceptual Modeling) workshop series.  The third MReBA aims to provide a forum for discussing the interplay between Requirements Engineering and conceptual modeling, and in particular how requirements modeling can be effectively used as part of business analysis.  
   
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Submissions should address the relation between Requirements Engineering and/or Business Analysis and conceptual modelling on the selected topic. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Modelling for Business Analysis and Business Intelligence
- Elicitation, analysis and evaluation of requirements
- Domain understanding and scenarios analysis
- Management and reuse of requirements
- Capturing prioritization, customization and preferences
- Modelling methodologies, processes, and methods
- Stakeholder analysis and communication
- Requirements as part of Enterprise Modelling and Enterprise Architecture
- Goal/Intention-Oriented Requirements Engineering (GORE)
- Modelling as part of collaborative RE/BA
- RE/BA model scalability, complexity, and modularity
- Industrial or systems requirements modeling
- Model feedback and validation
- RE/BA language interoperability, integration, transformation
- Ontological perspectives on RE/BA models
- Capturing laws, regulation, and compliance
- Visual notation for RE/BA models
- Analysis and reasoning, including decision support
- Modelling security, privacy, risk, and safety
- Industrial experiences, empirical studies and tools related to RE/BA modelling

FORMAT AND DURATION
We aim for a highly interactive forum with an emphasis on discussion.  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), including technical papers and empirical evaluations (case studies, experience reports, surveys); position or vision papers (6 pages max); and industrial problem statements (6 pages max).
   
PAPER SUBMISSION
Submission via easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mreba16

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission	: June 27th, 2016 
Notification: July 15th, 2016 
Camera Ready: July 22nd, 2016 

ORGANIZERS
Takako Nakatani, The Open University of Japan
Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, Sweden
Jennifer Horkoff, City University London, United Kingdom

STEERING COMMITEE
Colette Rolland, Université Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne, France 
Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Canada
Renata Guizzardi, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), Brazil

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Thomas Alspaugh, University of California, Irvine, USA
Daniel Amyot, University of Ottawa, Canada
Claudia Cappelli, NP2TEC/Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Jaelson Castro,Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
Fabiano Dalpiaz, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Sergio España, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Aditya Ghose, University of Wollongong, Australia
Aneesh	Krishna, Curtin University, Australia
Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University, Sweden
Ivan Jureta, University of Namur, Belgium
Haruhiko Kaiya, Kanagawa University
Sotirios Liaskos, York University, Canada
Lin Liu, Tsinghua University, China
Lidia Lopez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Pericles Loucopoulos, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, Bizzdesign, The Netherlands
Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway
Atsushi Ohnishi, Ritsumeikan University
Anna Perini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Jolita Ralyté, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Iris Reinhartz-Berger, Israel
Bill Robinson, Georgia State University, USA
Kevin Ryan, Irish Software Engineering Research Centre
Junko Shirogane, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University
Samira Si-Said Cherfi, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France
Janis Stirna, Stockholm University, Sweden
Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel
Vitor Souza, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil
Sam Supakkul, Sabre Travel Network, USA
Lucineia Thom, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, Netherlands