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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoTitle">Special Issue: “Complexity of Systems Evolution: Requirements Engineering Perspective“<span style="font-size:10.0pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The motivation of this special issue is that many of the RE assumptions are now in suspect or related research delivers decreasing returns. The community has recognized for some time a need for a shift in RE focus which is also amplified by changes in computational paradigms and capabilities that draw upon platform strategies, web services, and virtualization of both application services and development platforms. These trends have significant implications for views of modularity and requirements evolution, complexity of RE tasks, and the economics and costs related to application and service use and development. The aim of the proposed special issue is to introduce, refine, validate models and theories around system complexity, evolution and requirements. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The proposed special issue has three distinguishing features in its effort to frame, influence, and direct the discourse around requirements engineering. First, it examines RE as shaping “socio-technical systems,” reflecting the emerging interactions of people and technology that need to be recognized in system requirements. This requires simultaneous understanding of both the social and the technical. Second, it addresses evolutionary and complexity aspects of RE that affect development, adoption, mutual-adaptation, and co-evolution of increasingly multifaceted socio-technical systems. We are less interested in discussion of how great some RE methods are or will be and more interested in the mechanisms by which RE activity in complex settings comes to pass. Third, it embraces issues of scalability. There are some existence proofs that digital infrastructure can enable large-scale RE as for example experiences from open source software development testify. There is, as yet, little <i>systematic</i> investigation of how scalability occurs in RE for complex settings.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In particular the special issue will focus on a series of interrelated questions such as:</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings"><span style>§<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">How to theorize and study complexity within RE tasks? </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings"><span style>§<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">New perspectives on RE complexity: biological systems, complexity evolutionary economics</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings"><span style>§<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">What theoretical perspectives can inform how and why complex requirements knowledge evolves as it is generated, validated, and distributed? </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings"><span style>§<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">How requirements, system evolution, and environmental change interact? </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings"><span style>§<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">How different types of knowledge interact to shape requirements and their evolution?</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings"><span style>§<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">What are the origins and flows of influence of requirements knowledge for complex evolving systems? How can non-linear influences be effectively managed in RE evolution?</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings"><span style>§<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">What is the effect of speed and scale in requirements processes? </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings"><span style>§<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">What is the role of goals and constraints and their complex interactions in RE?</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings"><span style>§<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">What are the effects of Governance on requirements complexity?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">We encourage submissions of high-risk, creative scholarship that include one or more of the following: strong theoretical contributions, attention to design of design, solid quantitative studies, qualitative longitudinal case-based research on RE processes, and attention to challenges of scale and complexity (of people, of artifacts, of world-views, design elements) relevant to the RE. A wide variety of topics might be considered appropriate. Examples include:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">New, alternative, or evolving forms of RE focused on scalability and evolution </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">RE for knowledge-intensive, technical fields such as science and engineering, software development, and product design and development</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">RE for and during organizational transformation</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">RE for digital infrastructures, platforms, and standards</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">RE for business innovations</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Organizing large-scale RE teams and related socio-technical arrangements</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The interplay of institutional persistence and change related to large scale RE</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Role of digital infrastructures in organizing RE</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Public policy and RE for large-scale public-private projects</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Relationships between product and software architecture, and organizational and industrial structures and RE</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Organizing for RE associated with product design and development, research and development activity, or scientific collaboration</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Organizational and technological governance for large scale RE</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The planned schedule is as follows:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:5.4pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">April 10, 2013 </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Deadline for submissions </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:5.4pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">June 30, 2013 First round reviews complete and returned to authors</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:5.4pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">September 30, 2013 Revised papers due</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:5.4pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">December 30, 2013 Second round reviews complete and returned to authors</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:5.4pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">February 15, 2014 Final papers due</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:5.4pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">March 30, 2014 Decision on papers for inclusion</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:5.4pt">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">June, 2014 Special issue published</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Guest Editors: </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Matthias Jarke, RWTH-Aachen (</span><a href="mailto:jarke@dbis.rwth-aachen.de"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">jarke@dbis.rwth-aachen.de</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> Kalle Lyytinen Case Western Reserve University (</span><a href="mailto:kalle@case.edu"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">kalle@case.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">
Kalle Lyytinen [<u><span style="color:blue"> mailto: <a href="mailto:kalle@po.cwru.edu"><span style="color:blue">kalle@po.cwru.edu</span></a></span></u>]<br>Iris S. Wolstein Chair; Director of Academic Affairs</p><p class="MsoNormal">
Doctor of Management Programs: <a href="http://weatherhead.case.edu/degrees/doctor-management/">http://weatherhead.case.edu/degrees/doctor-management/</a><br>The Weatherhead School of Management<br>Case Western Reserve University<br>
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7235<br>Tel: +1-216-368 5353, fax: +1-216-368 4776, Mobile: +1-216-543 6667<br>Home page <u><span style="color:blue">URL:</span></u> <a href="http://home.cwru.edu/~kjl13/"><span style="color:blue">http://home.cwru.edu/~kjl13/</span></a><u><span style="color:blue"> <br>
Research Projects: Digitalization of routines: <a href="http://www.orgdna.net/the-research-project/">http://www.orgdna.net/the-research-project/</a></span></u>; Requirements: <a href="http://weatherhead.case.edu/requirements"><span style="color:blue">http://weatherhead.case.edu/requirements</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Publications: <i>scholar.<b>google</b>.com/citations?user=yX-R0QwAAAAJ&hl=en</i></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>