CFP: 4th IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING
William N. Robinson
FOURTH IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING (RE'99)
THEME: Requirements in a Changing World
7-11 June 1999 University of Limerick, IRELAND
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Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society
In cooperation with ACM SIGSOFT and
IFIP Working Group 2.9 (Software Requirements Engineering) and
RENOIR (Network of Excellence in Requirements Engineering)
For more information, http://www.ul.ie/~isre99
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Requirements engineering (RE) involves the gathering, documenting,
validating and use of requirements for software-intensive systems from
all stakeholders who may be affected by the resulting system. As
software
products penetrate further and increasingly invisibly into everyone's
personal and professional lives, it is becoming more vital that these
products be developed to meet real requirements and that RE become part
of every development organization's development process. RE includes
all the technical, managerial, and interpersonal techniques involved in
meeting this goal.
RE is emerging as a mature field of research and practice within
software
engineering and information systems, and has widespread implications in
such allied fields as human-computer interaction, organizational design
and systems engineering. All these fields deal with technological and
procedural interventions into some existing states of affairs: a manual
operation is automated, an existing software system is enhanced, a work
practice is augmented with tools, an engineering system is monitored and
controlled by software. Requirements for new or enhanced systems,
therefore, come from changes in the world: changes in people's
expectations, in business practices, in social forces, in enabling
technology opportunities.
Examples of the changes that may be discussed at RE99 include:
- the transition from custom systems development to the integration of
off-the-shelf products and online services;
- the growing concern with end-user responsiveness and reduced
development cycle times;
- the ubiquitous embedding of software artifacts in the industrial
environments and in the everyday activities of business and home life;
- the restructuring of the business world so that an enterprise is
increasingly dependent on others to meet its own requirements.
The RE series of international symposia has established itself as a
prestigious gathering of requirements engineering researchers and
practitioners. RE99, the fourth in the series, will be held on the
scenic
campus of University of Limerick, Ireland. It will bring together
researchers and practitioners of requirements engineering to discuss and
exchange the latest developments and concepts. The program will consist
of invited talks, paper presentations, panels, tutorials, birds of a
feather
sessions, demonstrations, and a doctoral consortium.
CONTRIBUTIONS
Papers
Submissions on all aspects of requirements engineering are invited.
Contributions with direct relevance to the conference theme are
especially
welcome. We will encourage interaction between practitioners with a
commitment to step back and reflect on their knowledge and members of
the research community who have a commitment to the practical
evaluation of their ideas.
All submissions will be subject to critical review and will be expected
to
advance scholarship in the area of RE in one of several ways. Below are
the categories of submission and their evaluation criteria.
Discovery and invention: A new language, method or automated way of
working that supports the RE process. Contributions should be novel.
They need not be empirically validated, but should include a serious
discussion of their relevance and practicality.
Integration and analysis: An integration, review or analysis of
previously
known ideas that presents them in a fresh light. The ideas that are
integrated do not have to be novel, but the integration must be
insightful
and useful to those already familiar with them.
Application and evaluation: One or more cases of a new or previously
described technique being used in practice. Qualitative and
metrics-based
evaluations are equally welcome, but in all cases there should be
serious
reflection that goes beyond the case or cases at hand. Contributions
should be sound and potentially useful to practitioners.
Scholarship of education and learning: Descriptions of courses in
requirements engineering or the treatment of RE in other courses
together
with rationale and evaluation. Contributions may deal with higher
education or professional courses. There should be a discussion of the
implications to the future of the profession.
Within these categories, papers are welcome in any area of requirements
engineering. Symposium organizers extend a special invitation for paper
submission and participation by researchers and practitioners working in
areas directly relevant to the conference theme including, but not
limited
to:
Agent oriented RE, COTS - component based RE Legacy systems
Global RE - doing RE on the Internet
Ubiquity and Interoperability - new demands on RE
Panels
Proposals for panel sessions should have one topical question to be
discussed or debated by the panelists. Novel strategies for managing the
panel and stimulating audience participation are especially encouraged.
Doctoral Student Symposium
A one-day symposium is being arranged for graduate (post-graduate)
students who have made substantial progress in their RE work but are not
expecting to graduate for at least one year. Students will present their
work-in-progress to selected senior members of the Requirements
Engineering community, for purposes of feedback and discussion.
Presenters will be selected on the basis of a research summary, not
exceeding 2,000 words in length. The reports of presenters will be
published as notes for consortium participants. Limited financial
assistance will be available for presenters. Doctoral students should
contact the consortium chair for details.
Demonstrations
Automated tools may be demonstrated during sessions that will be
scheduled in parallel with the presentations and panel sessions.
Technologies developed by not-for-profit and commercial organizations
are welcome. However, commercial demonstrations should be given by
development or technical support staff who are able to provide detailed
information about the tools demonstrated.
The symposium will provide free facilities for demonstration of selected
tools. Potential demonstrators should submit a description of the system
they propose to demonstrate, not to exceed 1000 words, to the general
chair.
Tutorials
One or two days before the technical program will be devoted to half-day
and full-day tutorials. A tutorial submission should emphasize the
audience for whom the tutorial is intended and their learning
objectives.
INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS
Authors must submit each submission using the WWW based facility
available through the RE'99 World Wide Web site,
http://www.ul.ie/~isre99. Each submission must be in PDF
(preferred) or plain Postscript format.
Submissions should be unpublished and not under consideration by
another conference or journal. Papers should not exceed 6,000 words in
length. Each paper should be accompanied by full contact information
including name, address, E-mail address, telephone number, and fax
number.
To aid the PC in planning the conference, authors are also requested to
submit an ASCII text copy of the title and abstract of each paper using
the
WWW based facility available at the RE'99 World Wide Web site,
http://www.ul.ie/~isre99, two weeks before the full paper is due.
All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of the symposium, to
be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. The best papers will
also be considered for publication in a special issue of the
Requirements
Engineering Journal.
IMPORTANT DATES
- 2 Nov 1998, paper title, abstract received by RE'99 via WWW
submission.
- 23 Nov 1998, full papers, panel proposals and tutorial proposals due.
- 1 Feb 1999, notification of acceptance of accepted papers, panel
proposals, and tutorial proposals; deadline for doctoral student
symposium submissions and demonstration proposals.
- 1 March 1999, camera-ready copy of accepted papers and panel
introductions due; notification of acceptance of doctoral student
symposium submissions and demonstration proposals; receipt of
audience handout master copies for accepted tutorials.
RE99 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chair
Prof. Kevin Ryan
University of Limerick, Ireland
Kevin...@ul.ie
Program Chair
Prof. William N. Robinson
Georgia State University, USA
wrob...@gsu.edu
Tutorials Chair, Annie Antón
an...@adm.csc.ncsu.edu, NC State University, Raleigh
Doctoral Consortium, Klaus Pohl
po...@informatik.rwth-aachen.de, RWTH Aachen
Financial Chair
Harriet Cotter, University of Limerick
Steering Committee
Stephen Fickas, Anthony Finkelstein, Sol Greenspan,
Connie Heitmeyer, John Mylopoulos, Pamela Zave
RE99 PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Annie Antón, NC State University, Raleigh, (USA)
Jo Atlee, University of Waterloo, (Canada)
Daniel Berry , Technion, (Israel)
Janis Bubenko , Royal Institute of Technology, (Sweden)
Lawrence Chung, University of Texas, Dallas, (USA)
Eric Dubois , S.W.I.F.T., (Belgium)
Steve Easterbrook , NASA/West Virginia University, (USA)
Martin Feather, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratories, (USA)
Mark Feblowitz, GTE, (USA)
Steve Fickas , University of Oregon, (USA)
Anthony Finkelstein , University College London, (UK)
Carlo Ghezzi , Politecnico di Milano, (Italy)
Martin Glinz, University of Zurich, (Switzerland)
Sol Greenspan , GTE, (USA)
Connie Heitmeyer, Naval Research Laboratory, (USA)
Micheal Hinchey, University of Nebraska-Omaha, (USA)
Matthias Jarke , RWTH Aachen, (Germany)
Hans Jüergen Kugler, Q-Labs, (Sweden)
Julio Cesar Leite , PUC-Rio University, (Brasil)
Kalle Lyytinen, University of Jyvaskyla, (Finland)
Neil Maiden, City University, (UK)
John Mylopoulos , University of Toronto, (Canada)
Bashar Nuseibeh , Imperial College, (UK)
Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen, (Norway)
Klaus Pohl, RWTH Aachen, (Germany)
Colin Potts , Georgia Institute of Technology, (USA)
Bala Ramesh, Georgia State University, (USA)
William Robinson , Georgia State University, (USA)
Kevin Ryan , University of Limerick, (Ireland)
Motoshi Saeki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, (Japan)
Alastair Sutcliffe , City University, (UK)
Axel van Lamsweerde , University of Louvain, (Belgium)
Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, (The Netherlands)
Eric Yu, University of Toronto, (Canada)