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12th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'04)

6th-10th September 2004, Kyoto, Japan
http://www.re04.org

"Requirements for Innovation in a Changing World"
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Requirements Engineering (RE) is the branch of systems engineering concerned
with the goals, desired properties and constraints of complex systems,
ranging from embedded software systems and software-based products to large
enterprise and socio-technical systems that involve software systems,
organisations and people. It covers all activities related to the
acquisition, specification and maintenance of requirements throughout the
life cycle. It also covers how requirements relate to business processes,
work redesign, system and software architecture, and testing.

RE'04's theme - requirements for innovation in a changing world - is
reflected in a program that includes:


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Professor Nigel Cross, Open University, UK
How Creative Design Happens

Professor Axel van Lamsweerde, Universite de Louvain, Belgium
Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering: A Roundtrip from Research to
Practice

Ikuo Minakata, Matsushita (Panasonic) Electric Co., Ltd
Requirements for Ubiquitous/Embedded Products, - Digital TV, Mobile Phones
and Consumer Products


A FULL TECHNICAL AND INDUSTRIAL PROGRAM

Attend 9 sessions from our technical research program of 27 papers selected
from almost 100 high-calibre submissions. Session themes include
aspect-oriented requirements engineering, requirements engineering for
COTS-based systems, visualising and animating requirements and goals, use
cases in the requirements process, improving requirements process, managing
requirements change and traceability, organisational and socio-technical
systems, handling non-functional requirements, and transforming
requirements. There will also be a program of 10 reports on industrial
experiences with requirements processes, techniques and tools.


STATE-OF-THE-PRACTICE TALKS

All delegates will have access to 8 presentations from leading experts in
requirements engineering on topics that matter to you and your
organisations. Topics include use cases, the RUP and future RE directions.


16 WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS

Nine tutorials and seven workshops will take place on the first 2 days.
Tutorial topics include requirements-based product line engineering and
development, requirements to bridge between business and development,
requirements and creativity, software traceability, practical use of
scenarios, and financially-informed requirements prioritisation. Two more
tutorials, on scenario analysis and traceability, will be held in Japanese.
The seven workshops also cover a range of topics including requirements for
COTS-based systems, requirements for service-oriented systems, requirements
for high assurance systems, patterns in requirements engineering, and
evaluating our requirements research. The automotive requirements
engineering workshop will take place in Nagoya, and the International
Workshop on Software Evolution will be co-located in Kyoto!


PANELS, INVITED TALKS AND EXHIBITION

In addition RE'04 will offer three exciting panels - on software engineering
trends in Japan, what theories do we have in requirements engineering, and
educating requirements engineers - and invited talks on related themes.
RE'04 will also have a major vendor and publisher exhibition.


ABOUT KYOTO AND RE'04

Kyoto is in central Japan, easily reachable by train from major
international airports. It is one of Japan's most beautiful cities, and the
conference location is only 10 minutes walk from 2 of the world heritage
sites shown above. Kyoto and RE'04 also very affordable. Conference fees for
early registration will be only $400 USD, whilst some recommended hotels are
downtown Kyoto will cost less than $100 USD per night - comparable with
European and North American locations. There is no excuse not to attend RE
in its most beautiful location yet in 2004! For more information contact us
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SPONSORS

Sponsors include:

- Information Processing Society of Japan
- IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering
- ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT)
- BCS Requirements Engineering Specialist Group
- Nanzan University, Japan
- City University, London, School of Informatics


CONFERENCE ORGANISATION

STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR: Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, Netherlands

GENERAL CHAIRS: Mikio Aoyama, Nanzan University, Japan & Motoshi Saeki,
Tokyo Institute Technology, Japan

PROGRAM CHAIR: Neil Maiden, City University, UK

TUTORIAL CO-CHAIRS: Didar Zowghi, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
& Kenji Takahashi NTT, Japan

WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS: Colette Rolland, Universite de la Sorbonne, France &
Sanya Uehara, Fuijitsu Labs, Japan

DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM CHAIR: Martin Glinz, University of Zurich, Switzerland

POSTERS & RESEARCH DEMOS CHAIR: Andrea Zisman, City University, UK

INDUSTRY TOOL EXHIBITION: Taichi Nakamura, Tokyo University of
Technology, Japan

LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR: Atushi Ohnishi, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

FINANCIAL CHAIR: Takako Nakatani, S-Lagoon, Japan

PUBLICATIONS CO-CHAIRS: George Spanoudakis, City University, UK & Tuneo
Ajisaka, Wakayama University, Japan

PUBLICITY CHAIRS: Katsuro Inoue, Osaka University, Japan
Annie Anton, North Carolina State University, USA
Xavier Franch, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Didar Zowghi, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Jaelson Castro, University Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

SECRETARY: Haruhiko Kaiya, Shinshu University, Japan

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Ian Alexander, UK
Joanne Atlee, Canada
Dan Berry, Canada
Betty Cheng, United States
Al Davis, United States
Eric Dubois, Luxembourg
Christof Ebert, France
Steve Fickas, United States
Anthony Finkelstein, UK
Don Gause, United States
Martin Glinz, Switzerland
Michael Goedicke, Germany
Orlena Gotel, United States
Sol Greenspan, United States
Anthony Hall, UK
Mats Heimdahl, United States
Connie Heitmeyer, United States
Frank Houdek, Germany
Peter Hruschka, Germany
Matthias Jarke, Germany
Marina Jirotka, UK
Kyo Kang, South Korea
Soren Lauesen, Denmark
Julio Leite, Brazil
Michel Lemoine, France
Peri Loucopoulos, UK
John Mylopoulos, Canada
Bashar Nuseibeh, UK
Atsushi Ohnishi, Japan
Andreas Opdahl, Norway
Oscar Pastor, Spain
Klaus Pohl, Germany
Colin Potts, United States
Bjorn Regnell, Sweden
Suzanne Robertson, UK
Bill Robinson, United States
Colette Rolland, France
Kevin Ryan, Ireland
Jawed Siddiqi, UK
Guttorm Sindre, Norway
Ian Sommerville, UK
Alistair Sutcliffe, UK
Tetsuo Tamai, Japan
Axel van Lamsweerde, Belgium
Roel Wieringa, Netherlands
Eric Yu, Canada
Didar Zowghi, Australia


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