[AISWorld] REFSQ’17: Workshops, Doctoral Symposium, Posters and Tools - Call for Papers
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** REFSQ’17: **
** WORKSHOPS, DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM, POSTERS and TOOLS **
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** JOINT CALL FOR PAPERS **
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The 23rd working Conference on Requirements Engineering and Software Quality (REFSQ’17) offers six WORKSHOPS to discuss timely topics of requirements engineering and bridge the gap between theoretical research and daily practice in the management of requirements for diverse types of systems of different scale, complexity and criticality. The objective is to stimulate a long term continuous dialog for RE innovation to lay the ground for improved practice and future research. Visit https://refsq.org/2017/submissions/call-for-workshop-papers/ for further details.
REFSQ’17 will also host a DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM for PhD students whose research area includes elements of Requirements Engineering to promote discussions about their research topics and receive advice and suggestions from a panel of senior researchers.
The conference also includes a forum to present POSTERS and demonstrate TOOLS covering any aspect of RE. It gives researchers the chance to present their most recent work and obtain early feedback on ongoing research.
So, please consider submitting to and participating at the following events.
CRE: 3rd Workshop on Continuous Requirements Engineering
https://wwwswt.informatik.uni-rostock.de/CRE17/
CreaRE: 6th International Workshop on Creativity in Requirements Engineering
https://sites.google.com/site/creare2017/
PrioRE: 1st International Workshop on Requirements Prioritization and Enactment
https://prioresite.wordpress.com/
RESACS: 3rd International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Self-Adaptive and Cyber Physical Systems
https://resacs2017.wordpress.com
RESTIB: 1st Workshop on RE for Startups and Innovative Business
https://www.haw-hamburg.de/ws-w/forschung/forschungsprojekte/1st-workshop-on-re-for-startups-and-innovative-business.html
WHERE: 1st Workshop on Application of Human Error Research to Improve Requirements Engineering
http://humanerrorinse.org/workshops/WHERE2017
DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM
https://refsq.org/2017/submissions/call-for-doctoral-symposium-papers/
POSTERS AND TOOLS
https://refsq.org/2017/submissions/call-for-posters-and-tools/
Important Dates:
WORKSHOPS
Workshop Paper Submission - January 9, 2017
Workshop Paper Notification - January 23, 2017
CRC of the Workshop Papers - February 3/10, 2017 (dependent on the workshop)
Workshops - February 27, 2017
DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM
Submission Deadline
(Research abstract + Letter of recommendation) - January 9th, 2017
Notification of Acceptance - January 27th, 2017
Camera-ready copy Deadline - February 10th, 2017
REFSQ2017 Doctoral Symposium - February 27th, 2017
POSTERS AND TOOLS
Submission - January 16, 2017
Author Notification - January 30, 2017
Camera-ready - February 10, 2017
Poster Display - February 28-March 2, 2017
Here below the CALL FOR PAPERS of the workshops, doctoral symposium, Posters and Tools
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**** CRE 2017 ****
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3rd Workshop on Continuous Requirements Engineering
Webpage: https://wwwswt.informatik.uni-rostock.de/CRE17/
February 27, 2017. Essen, Germany
Call for papers
Engineering approaches are or should be grounded on sound elaborated systems models, enterprise architectures, ontologies, and information logistics representations. Engineering approaches should also support transparency, reliability, and security in the whole lifecycle of the system. Currently engineering approaches are designed and are mainly applied to large enterprises that have relatively long change cycle times. When the changes are more frequent and higher flexibility is required, it is necessary to adopt continuous engineering approaches; especially during the requirements stage. Continuous requirements engineering is proposed to combine rigid engineering principles with agility, emergence, and spontaneity to support sustainability and viability of systems.
In different ways, smaller scale enterprises managing in a turbulent environment also need new approaches, methods, and tools to be capable of embracing the growing variety of opportunities and challenges offered by a fast changing and hardly predictable environment. In this type of system, continuous requirements engineering also can be a solution if integrated with management and design approaches applicable for smaller scale enterprises.
The aim of this workshop is to support continuous requirements engineering approaches, methods, models, and tools for multi-scale fast changing enterprises and both predictable and unpredictable configurations of enterprise networks. Reports about new ideas and of experience in this context will be presented and discussed. Also welcomed are reports about continuous requirements engineering approaches that have not yet been applied to continuous engineering but have the potential to do so. A cross-pollination of experiences in modeling and requirements management is assumed.
There are three types of submissions: position papers, research papers and reports. All types should treat a topic from the workshop themes.
- Position papers (2-6 pages): Such papers should state the position of the authors regarding any topic of the workshop.
- Reports (4-8 pages): Experience reports and case studies are expected to be submitted in this category.
- Research papers (8-10 pages): Research papers should describe innovative approaches.
Publication
Workshop contributions will be published in the in the joint REFSQ workshop proceedings at CEUR.
Selected extended papers can be published in the International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design and/or Journal Complex Systems Informatics and Modeling CSIMQ in a regular or special issue.
Contact
If further information is needed, please contact
Peter Forbrig · peter.forbrig at uni-rostock.de
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**** CreaRE 2017 ****
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Sixth International Workshop on Creativity in Requirements Engineering
Webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/creare2017/
February 27, 2017. Essen, Germany
*** Workshop Topic, Background and Motivation ***
Creativity techniques are recognized as one kind of several major groups of requirements elicitation techniques. Creativity is essential to discover delighter requirements, in addition to the basic and performance requirements. These delighters comprise innovative features, and thus are a driving force behind unique selling points (USPs) for software products. In spite of this, there are far more publications about survey techniques, document-centric techniques and observation techniques for requirements elicitation, than there are about the use of creativity in Requirements Engineering (RE). Many practical questions are still open, especially concerning the applicability and reliability of these techniques in different context, the significance and representativeness of the initial outcomes, and the completeness and post-processing of the requirements resulting from a creativity session. Different software applications domains like embedded systems, multimedia products or customer-specific business applications may require techniques to be applied differently, while creativity techniques contribute to shaping the landscape of emerging fields such as the Internet of Things and smart ecosystems. Meanwhile, the field of creativity techniques itself is also changing as tool support and trends like multimedia use with creativity techniques, mobile computing, and online participation such as crowdsourcing demand different approaches.
*** Goals of the Workshop ***
The CreaRE series of workshops brings together RE practitioners and researches who are interested in discussing the role of creativity in RE, the array of creativity techniques that can be applied to RE, and the ways in which creativity techniques from other disciplines can be leveraged in RE. Drawing upon the previous workshop editions, the intended purpose of the CreaREí17 workshop is to provide a forum for the exchange of emerging ideas, experience and research results.
It also aims at raising awareness in the RE community of the importance of creativity techniques, and creative elements in RE and development processes.
The unique goal of the CreaRE 2017 workshop is to foster collaborative brainstorming and exchange of experiences with creativity techniques useful to RE, with special emphasis on how creativity techniques can facilitate the customization of software to cater to the great diversity in users, contexts and modalities.
*** Important Dates ***
Jan 9, 2017: paper submission deadline
Jan 23, 2017: author notification
Feb 10, 2017: submission of camera-ready papers
Feb 27, 2017: workshop date
*** Workshop Organizers ***
Andrea Herrmann, Herrmann & Ehrlich
Eduard C. Groen, Fraunhofer IESE
Maya Daneva, University of Twente, Netherlands
Daniel M. Berry, University of Waterloo, Canada
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**** PRIORE 2017 ****
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1st International Workshop on Requirements Prioritization and Enactment
Webpage: https://prioresite.wordpress.com/
February 27, 2017. Essen, Germany
Call for Papers
The PrioRE'17 First International Workshop on Requirements Prioritization and Enactment is a multi-disciplinary workshop geared towards discussing how requirements can be best prioritized, and how the releases are planned and enacted.
The rationale stays in the consideration that a bad release planning could possibly compromise the effectiveness of the work done in the preceding phases of requirements gathering and analysis, ultimately affecting the overall quality of the developed software. While requirements prioritization and next release planning have received a considerable amount of attention from the research community, resulting in substantial contributions to research as well as industry, there are still outstanding issues that need to be addressed in both areas. Furthermore, the interaction between these two areas of research needs to be further researched, as does the collaboration between research and industry. An additional objective of PrioRE'17 is to seek to bring together practitioners and researchers, with the aim of discussing the challenges of improving release planning by supporting requirements prioritization and their enactment.
PrioRE mainly aims at discussing questions related to the finalization of the requirements engineering phase. Such questions include (but are not limited to):
– Requirements prioritization
– Requirements dependency management
– Distributed and collaborative requirements prioritization – Agile requirements prioritization
– Release planning
– Requirements negotiation
– Gamification approaches for decision making in requirements prioritization
– Tools and techniques for requirements prioritization
– Tools and techniques for release planning
Authors may submit papers in two categories:
– Research/Theoretical papers (Max 10 pages for both, submission and camera-ready)
– Industry Report papers (Max 10 pages for both, submission and camera-ready)
- The submission format is LNCS.
- The submission link is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=priore2017
Important Dates
- Deadline for Submissions: January 09, 2017
- Notification of Acceptance: January 23, 2017
- Camera-ready Due: February 03, 2017
- Workshop Date: February 27, 2017
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
- Alberto Siena (Delta Informatica)
- Fitsum Kifetew (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)
- David Ameller (Universitat Politèctnica de Catalunya, workshop chair)
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**** RESACS 2017 ****
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Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Self-Adaptive and Cyber Physical System
Webpage: https://resacs2017.wordpress.com
February 27, 2017. Essen, Germany
Call for Papers
Over the last ten years, research on self-adaptive systems (SAS) and recently research on cyber physical systems (CPS) have attracted the attention of the research community. These kind of systems represent novel categories of software-intensive systems insofar that they possess significantly different properties than traditional software systems or embedded systems. SAS and CPS interact with human users and other SAS or CPS through powerful communication networks and change their behaviour in reaction to changes in their context. For example, in its first instalment in 2015, RESACS identified context-awareness and trustworthiness as central issues that pose new challenges for the requirements engineering of such systems. These and other properties cannot simply be added on to SAS nor CPS, but require new techniques and processes on how to design such kind of systems addressing topics from requirements to code.
The Third International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Self- Adaptive and Cyber Physical Systems (RESACS) seeks original reports of novel ideas, emerging trends, and elaborations on the current state of practice and state of the art on any topic relevant for requirements engineering under special consideration of self-adaptation of systems and development processes, collaboration between systems, interaction between humans and systems, and cyber physicality of systems. System types include, but are not limited to Self- Adaptive Systems (SAS), Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Collaborative Systems (CES), Interaction-Intensive Systems (IIS), Social Media Systems (SMS).
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Methods for Assessing the Requirements of SAS, CPS, CES, IIS, or SMS
- Context Analysis and Domain Modeling for SAS, CPS, CES, IIS, or SMS
- Collaboration of Systems, Humans, between Humans and Systems
- Trustworthiness in SAS, CPS, CES, IIS, or SMS
- Specification of Requirements for System Collaboration
- Quality Assurance, Component Reuse, Design Space Exploration, and
- Communication Strategies
- Requirements Satisfaction
- Runtime Adaptation, Runtime Decision Making, and Planning
- Dealing with Uncertainty during Development or at Runtime
- Benefits and Application Areas of SAS, CPS, CES, IIS, or SMS
We accept original manuscripts in English with strict adherence to the Springer LNCS format for the following categories:
- Full Papers (up to 15 pages): New Methods, Transfer of Existing Approaches, Empirical Validation, Case Studies, Industry & Experience Reports
- Short Papers (up to 6 pages): Problem Statements, Vision Papers, Position Papers, New Ideas and Directions, Initial Evaluations
- Poster Papers (up to 4 pages): Tool Presentations, Meta-Modelling Approaches, Very Initial Research Ideas without Evaluation
Springer LNCS style guidelines are available at http://goo.gl/30WESG. Manuscripts that do not adhere to the LNCS style guide will be rejected without review.
Please submit your original manuscripts using the EasyChair Submission System: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=resacs2017
Organization
Marian Daun, University of Duisburg-Essen
Alessia Knauss, Chalmers University of Technology
Cristina Palomares, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Bastian Tenbergen, State University of New York
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**** RESTIB 2017 ****
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1st Workshop On RE For Startups and Innovative Business
February 27, 2017. Essen, Germany
Webpage: https://www.haw-hamburg.de/ws-w/forschung/forschungsprojekte/1st-workshop-on-re-for-startups-and-innovative-business.html
Call for Papers
Startups need innovations. They need innovative products and often innovative business models, especially with the focus on the usage of information and communication technology. And startups need speed. +++ In addition, startups are typically small enterprises with a strong focus on the customer and his needs. And a lot of today’s entrepreneurs and founders grew up as digital natives. +++ Therefore RE (Requirements Engineering) is important for startups. But: Are there any specific methods, best practices, problems for RE in startups? Can we integrate RE and techniques from innovation management?
Date and Place of the Workshop:
- 27 February 2017 in Essen (Germany) at the REFSQ 2017 Conference
- Workshop Paper Submission: January 9, 2017
- Workshop Paper Notification: January 23, 2017
- Camera-ready papers due: February 10, 2017
Topics of the Workshop:
The workshop will focus on the topics
- Implications of lean startup for requirements engineering
- Balance between quality and efficiency of RE
- RE methods in market research and collaboration with customers
- Best practices and problems for RE in startups
- Integration of RE and techniques from innovation management
- Learning RE – how inexperienced startups establish own practices
Target audience:
The workshop targets at staff from startups and innovative information technology companies as well as at researchers from both the RE and in- novation management community.
Paper submission and selection process:
Submissions will be accepted via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=restib2017
Paper submission should be in the LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-12-73062-0). Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers (at least one researcher and one practitioner).
The accepted papers will be published in the REFSQ workshop proceed- ings.
Program Committee:
- Leendert de Bell, Hogeschool Utrecht, Utrecht Center for Entrepreneur- ship (NL)
- Simone Bürsner, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences (H- BRS), St. Augustin (DE)
- Michael Jastram, Formal Mind GmbH, Düsseldorf (DE)
- Johan Linåker, Lund University, Lund (SE)
- Kim Lauenroth, Adesso AG, Dortmund (DE)
Organizers:
Andrea Herrmann, Software engineering trainer and researcher, Stuttgart (DE), herrmann at herrmann-ehrlich.de
Rüdiger Weißbach, HAW Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg (DE), ruediger.weissbach at haw-hamburg.de
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**** WHERE 2017 ****
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Workshop on Application of Human Error Research to Improve Requirements Engineering
Webpage: http://humanerrorinse.org/workshops/WHERE2017
February 27, 2017.
Location: Essen, Germany (Co-located with the 23rd Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality– REFSQ’2017) https://refsq.org/2017/welcome/
We are seeking academic researchers and industry practitioners with human error expertise or software quality expertise to attend the Workshop on Application of Human Error Research to Improve Requirements Engineering (WHERE 2017). The theme of WHERE 2017 is to provide a venue for researchers and practitioners to discuss how the concepts from human error research can be applied to improve the requirements engineering process. WHERE’17 aims to foster better understanding on how to appropriately instantiate various human error models for use during requirements engineering will likely lead to improved software quality.
Goals:
- Build a community of requirements engineering researchers and practitioners that can work together to effectively utilize human error research to improve requirements quality;
- Gather Reports of how Human Error Research Improves Software Quality;
- Collect Specific Instances of Human Errors during Requirements Engineering;
- Explore techniques that can be used to help detect and prevent human errors during the
requirements development.
Call for Papers:
We will invite researchers and practitioners to submit full or short, papers reporting:
- Specific examples of human errors in requirements engineering,
- Reports on the use of human error research in requirements engineering,
- Accounts of how requirements engineers’ judgements and decision-making can be erroneous
during requirements engineering, and
- Descriptions of practices or tools used to prevent or reduce the presence of human errors in requirements engineering.
In addition, we will solicit position papers that allow anyone who is interested in the topic, but does not have appropriate content for a full or short paper to state their position and have their thoughts included in the workshop.
Instructions to Authors:
All papers should be in the Springer LNCS format. All submissions should be submitted electronically in a PDF format, at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=where2017
The organizers will review the submitted position papers. We plan to produce an official proceeding to be included with the REFSQ proceedings. We will also make all papers available on the workshop website so interested attendees can read them.
Important Date:
The WHERE 2017 paper submission deadline is: January 9, 2017.
If you have any questions you may contact Jeffrey C. Carver (carver at cs.ua.edu) or Gursimran Walia (gursimran.walia at ndsu.edu).
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**** DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM ****
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Webpage: https://refsq.org/2017/submissions/call-for-doctoral-symposium-papers/
Call for Doctoral Symposium Papers
REFSQ2017 will host a Doctoral Symposium for PhD students whose research area includes elements of Requirements Engineering. The goals of the REFSQ2017 Doctoral Symposium are:
- to provide PhD students in early stages of their research with an opportunity to survey the field and get a feeling for what their colleagues are working on;
- to provide PhD students in advanced stages with an opportunity to present their plans and early results;
- to provide all participant students with advice and suggestions from a panel of senior researchers;
- to facilitate interaction among all the participants.
Following the time-honoured tradition of REFSQ, the Symposium will revolve around structured presentations and matching discussions, with ample time devoted to comments from the floor. A number of senior researchers will attend the event.
The Doctoral Symposium will host keynote speaker(s) to be announced.
Submission Instructions
Presenters should have set on a dissertation topic in the general area of RE, or in a related field (in which case your topic should have a significant component of RE). Typically, you have progressed beyond your first year in the program, or are close to doing so, but have not submitted your thesis yet. To apply to the Doctoral Symposium, you will need to submit an application consisting of:
- A Research Abstract (max 6 pages + 1 for references, LNCS style) describing the problem you are addressing (what is unsatisfactory in the current state of the world?), its relevance (why would anyone care if the problem was solved?), your proposed solution (how do you plan to attack the problem?), the novelty of the problem, of the solution, or both (nobody identified the problem or provided the solution before you – i.e., what is your original contribution), the research method you are applying (which method are you following to get to the solution, and how do you prove it solves the problem?), and the progress in your research (where are you, how long to the final destination?). The Research Abstract should contain a short survey and pointers to relevant literature.
- A Letter of Recommendation from your primary supervisor or advisor. The letter need not discuss the research (which is already covered in your abstract) but should include a short statement about your position as a PhD student, the starting and expected completion date of your PhD, and an assessment of the current state of your research (including expectations about the final delivery).
Submissions will be evaluated based on the quality of the Research Abstract, and of the interest of the research described therein. Accepted papers will be published in CEUR proceedings. Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=refsq2017 Doctoral Symposium Track.
Symposium Chairs
Jennifer Horkoff - City University London, UK, jenho at chalmers.se
Jolita Ralyté - University of Geneva, Switzerland, jolita.ralyte at unige.ch
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**** POSTERS AND TOOLS ****
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Webpage: https://refsq.org/2017/submissions/call-for-posters-and-tools/
Requirements Engineering (RE) is a dominant factor that influences the quality of software, systems and services. The REFSQ working conference series is well established as one of the leading international forums for discussing RE and its many relations to quality. The special theme of REFSQ’17 is "My RE" to emphasize an important issue: how can RE evolve to deal with growing diversity in systems, still keeping its objective: understanding what is the right software system and helping developing it in the right way.
REFSQ’17 also includes a forum to present posters and demonstrate tools covering any aspect of RE. It gives researchers the chance to present their most recent work and obtain early feedback on ongoing research. Posters may cover any topic in scope of the conference and should present (progress towards) a scientific result and should not be advertisements for commercial products. While posters need not describe completed work, they should at least present some preliminary results. The tools track provides researchers as well as practitioners with the opportunity to show how they support and enable the use of requirements solutions in practice, making the solutions more usable and useful. We encourage to discuss experiences and lessons learned when using the tool in practice.
The Call for Posters and Tools can be downloaded here.
Important Dates
- Submission January 16, 2017
- Author Notification January 30, 2017
- Camera-ready February 10, 2017
Poster Display
February 28-March 2, 2017
Poster Presentation
In addition to the poster session, the posters will be on display in the coffee hall outside the REFSQ’17 lecture rooms. There will also be brief and informal presentations of the posters. Well-crafted posters will present the work well by themselves, but authors of posters are encouraged to be available to describe and discuss their work during coffee break. The poster dimension will normally be A0 portrait, with poster content mounted on rectangular poster board that we will provide.
Tool Demonstrations
Tools will be presented at desks using your own laptop and screens provided by the REFSQ organizers.
Submission
For the submission, the general REFSQ submission guidelines apply. We encourage submissions between 3 and 6 pages in LNCS format. At least one of the authors must be registered at the conference and present the poster or tool, in order to have the work published in the proceedings. Poster and tools papers will be published in proceedings at CEUR.
Contributions should be submitted suing EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=refsq2017.
Posters and Tools Co-Chairs
Fabiano Dalpiaz - Utrecht University, Netherlands
Patrick Mäder - TU Ilmenau, Germany
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