<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">CALL FOR PAPERS MReBA'14</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">First International Workshop on Conceptual Modeling in Requirements and Business Analysis (MReBA)</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Formerly "Requirements, Intentions, and Goals in Conceptual Modeling" (RIGiM)</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">in Conjunction with the 33rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER'14)</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">October 27-30th, 2014</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/mrebaworkshop14/" rel="external nofollow" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:arial,sans-serif">https://sites.google.com/site/mrebaworkshop14/</a><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">SCOPE AND TOPICS</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">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.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">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.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">The MReBA workshop arises from a revitalization of the RIGiM (Requirements, Intentions, and Goals in Conceptual Modeling) workshop series. 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.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">TOPICS OF INTEREST</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">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:</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Modelling for Business Analysis and Business Intelligence</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Motivations/Intentions as part of Enterprise Modelling</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Goal-based Business Process Modelling</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Modeling for Enterprise Architecture</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Modelling for process (re-)engineering or selection</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Modelling and analysis of distributed systems</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Modelling for Knowledge Management/Acquisition/Sharing</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Modelling as part of collaborative RE/BA</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Goal/Intention-Oriented Requirements Engineering (GORE)</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Ontological perspectives on RE/BA models</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">- RE/BA language interoperability, integration, transformation</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Capturing laws, regulation, and compliance</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Industrial or systems requirements modeling</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Dealing with model uncertainty</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Visual notation for RE/BA models</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Analysis and reasoning, including decision support</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Modelling security, privacy, risk, and safety</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Capturing prioritization, customization and preferences</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Modelling methodologies, processes, and methods</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">- RE/BA model scalability, complexity, and modularity</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Model feedback and validation</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Industrial experiences and empirical studies related to RE/BA modelling</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">FORMAT AND DURATION</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">We aim for a highly interactive forum with an emphasis on discussion. The working language is English.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">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</span><a href="http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:arial,sans-serif">http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"> for style files and details.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">TYPES OF PAPERS</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">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).</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">PAPER SUBMISSION</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Submission via easychair: </span><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mreba14" rel="external nofollow" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none;font-family:arial,sans-serif">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mreba14</a><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">IMPORTANT DATES</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Abstract Submission:    May 23rd, 2014</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Paper Submission:   May 30th, 2014</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Notification:  June 20th, 2014</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Camera Ready:       July 8th, 2014</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">ORGANIZERS</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Jennifer Horkoff, University of Trento, Italy</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Camille Salinesi, Université Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne, France</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Renata Guizzardi, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), Brazil</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">STEERING COMMITEE</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Colette Rolland, Université Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne, France</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Canada</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">PROGRAM COMMITTEE</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Thomas Alspaugh, University of California, Irvine, USA</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Daniel Amyot, University of Ottawa, Canada</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Claudia Cappelli, NP2TEC/Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Jaelson Castro,Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Fabiano Dalpiaz, Utrecht University, Netherlands</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Sergio España, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Aditya Ghose, University of Wollongong, Australia</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Aneesh Krishna, Curtin University, Australia</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Paul Johannesson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Ivan Jureta, University of Namur, Belgium</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Sotirios Liaskos, York University, Canada</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Lin Liu, Tsinghua University, China</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Lidia Lopez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Pericles Loucopoulos, University of Manchester, United Kingdom</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, Bizzdesign, The Netherlands</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Anna Perini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Jolita Ralyté, University of Geneva, Switzerland</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Bill Robinson, Georgia State University, USA</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Samira Si-Said Cherfi, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Vitor Souza, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Sam Supakkul, Sabre Travel Network, USA</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Lucineia Thom, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, Netherlands</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Jelena Zdravkovic, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden</span><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Renata S.S. Guizzardi<br>Núcleo de Estudos em Modelagem Conceitual e Ontologias (NEMO) - <a href="http://nemo.inf.ufes.br/">http://nemo.inf.ufes.br/</a><br>
Departamento de Informática, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), Brasil<br><a href="http://www.inf.ufes.br/~rguizzardi/">http://www.inf.ufes.br/~rguizzardi/</a><br><br>Renata S.S. Guizzardi<br>Ontology and Conceptual Modeling Research Group (NEMO) - <a href="http://nemo.inf.ufes.br/">http://nemo.inf.ufes.br/</a><br>
Computer Science Department, Federal University of Espirito Santo (UFES), Brazil<br><a href="http://www.inf.ufes.br/~rguizzardi/">http://www.inf.ufes.br/~rguizzardi/</a><br>
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