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Bridge the socio - technical chasm and submit your abstracts for RE'09!!! Deadlines approaching... CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS 17th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'09) 31 August - 4 September 2009, Atlanta, Georgia, USA www.re09.org =============== IMPORTANT DATES =============== ***Paper abstracts: February 2, 2009*** Paper submissions (all categories): February 12, 2009 Tutorial, workshop and panel submissions: March 9, 2009 Notification to authors: April 22, 2009 Doctoral symposium, poster and other submissions: May 11, 2009 ============================================== REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING: the Essential Bridge ============================================== The world is becoming ever more dependent on software intensive systems. They are central to our economy, to our society, to the services we depend upon and, increasingly to the very survival of the global ecosystem. Despite many failures, some of them very well publicized, the engineering of such systems has improved consistently over the past few decades. However many challenges remain. Every computer-based system involves relating the myriad, informal facets of the real world to the intricate and formal specifics of a software system. Understanding potentials or details of software systems is not expected of stakeholders, who have their own specialized concerns. Similarly, the eager and technologically capable developers are not expected to understand the nuances of the many domains where software applies. Requirements Engineering (RE) is the essential capability that can bridge the two perspectives. The RE activity is multi-disciplinary. When defining the requirements of major systems we must bring to bear expertise from a wide range of specialisms such as Human-Computer Interaction, Systems Modeling, and Security. The RE research field builds the effective bridges between these and other sub-disciplines of the Computer Science and Information Systems fields. The many computer-based system needs of business and society are often contradictory, inadequately defined, and rapidly changing. RE helps stakeholders communicate, helping to reconcile their conflicts, clarify their goals, and reflect their priorities. If our society is to seek a better future we will need all of the models, methods, and tools that RE can provide. The IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference provides the premier international forum for researchers, educators, industrial practitioners and students to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences and concerns in the field of requirements engineering. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, validation and verification; requirements specification languages, methods, processes and tools; requirements management, traceability, viewpoints, prioritization and negotiation; modeling of requirements (formal and informal), goals and domains; prototyping, simulation and animation; evolution of requirements over time, product families and variability; relating requirements to business goals, products, architecture and testing; social, cultural, global, personal and cognitive factors in requirements engineering; domain-specific problems, experiences and solutions. There is a particular welcome for papers that cross disciplines, combine paradigms or otherwise address the conference theme. ================ PAPER CATEGORIES ================ We will invite submissions of high quality papers in four categories: Technical solution papers present solutions for requirements-related problems that are novel or significantly improve existing solutions. A technical solution paper must include a preliminary validation of the proposed solution. Scientific evaluation papers evaluate existing problem situations or validate/refute proposed solutions with scientific means, i.e. by empirical studies, experiments, case studies, simulations, formal analyses, mathematical proofs, etc. Scientific reflection on problems and practices in industry also falls into this category. Industrial practice and experience papers present problems or challenges encountered in practice, discuss insights, innovations in industrial practice, success and failure stories. The focus is on 'what' and on lessons learned, not on an in-depth analysis of 'why'. Otherwise, consider submitting a scientific evaluation paper. Survey or review papers abstract from the current state of the art and provide insightful observations, fruitful analogies or propose significant and novel research directions. Contributions that link RE to other fields of endeavor would belong here. Please note that this is not a forum for research proposals or personal opinion pieces. More details about the paper categories, corresponding review evaluation criteria and submission dates will be provided on the conference website, http://www.re09.org. Papers must describe original work not submitted or presented at other forums. Accepted papers will be published in an IEEE CS Press Conference Proceedings and will be available in the IEEE CS Digital Library. Other Contributions: We also invite proposals for tutorials, workshops, panels, doctoral symposium contributions, posters, videos, and research demonstrations. ====================== SUBMISSION INFORMATION ====================== Submissions will be handled electronically at the RE'09 submission site. Authors without web access must make advance arrangements with the Program Chair at least one week before the deadline. Technical solution and scientific evaluation papers must not exceed 10 pages. Industrial practice/experience and survey/review papers must not exceed 6 pages. Submissions must be formatted according to the IEEE CS proceedings format (see http://www.computer.org/portal/site/cscps/ for instructions and templates). More detail on submission procedures will be available on the conference website. ==================== ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ==================== ++General Chair++ William Robinson, Georgia State University, USA ++Program Chair++ Kevin Ryan, Lero - University of Limerick, Ireland ++Local Arrangements++ Bala Ramesh, Georgia State University, USA ++Financial Chair++ Thomas A. Alspaugh, UCI, USA ++Practitioner Track++ Brian Berenbach, Siemens, USA Erik Simmons, Intel, USA ++Workshops++ Jane Cleland-Huang, DePaul University, USA Marjo Kauppinen, HUT, Finland ++Tutorials++ Daniel Berry, University of Waterloo, Canada ++Doctoral Symposium++ Patrick Heymans, University of Namur, Belgium Didar Zowghi, UT, Sydney, Australia ++Posters++ Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, University of Toronto, Canada Andrea Zisman, City University, UK ++Publicity++ Olly Gotel, Pace University, USA Patrick Maeder, TU Ilmenau, Germany ++Proceedings++ Susan Mitchell, Lero ñ University of Limerick, Ireland ++Local Organization++ Yi Ding, Webmaster David McDonald, Registration Carl Stucke, Student Volunteers Radu Vlas, Demos =============== PROGRAM BOARD =============== Jane Cleland-Huang, USA Carlo Ghezzi, Italy Martin Glinz, Switzerland Olly Gotel, USA Mats Heimdal, USA Patrick Heymans, Belgium Neil Maiden, UK Klaus Pohl, Germany Bjoern Regnell, Sweden Colette Rolland, France Alistair Sutcliffe, UK Tetsuo Tamai, Japan Roel Wieringa, The Netherlands ================== PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================== Ian Alexander, UK Annie Anton, USA Mikio Aoyama, Japan Brian Berenbach, USA Daniel Berry, Canada Jaelson Castro, Brazil Marsha Chechik, Canada Lawrence Chung, USA Daniela Damian, Canada Eric Dubois, Luxembourg Christof Ebert, Germany Martin Feather, USA Anthony Finkelstein, UK Xavier Franch, Spain Donald Gause, USA Michael Goedicke, Germany Connie Heitmeyer, USA Ann Hickey, USA Marina Jirotka, UK Haruhiko Kaiya, Japan Kyo Kang, Korea Marjo Kauppinen, Finland Soeren Lauesen, Denmark Julio Leite, Brazil Michel Lemoine, France Emmanuel Letier, UK Peri Loucopoulos, UK Robyn Lutz, USA Kalle Lyytinen, USA Nazim Madhavji, Canada John Mylopoulos, Canada Andreas Opdahl, Norway Oscar Pastor, Spain Norah Power, Ireland Bala Ramesh, USA Suzanne Robertson, UK Motoshi Saeki, Japan Camille Salinesi, France Erik Simmons, USA Guttorm Sindre, Norway Eric Yu, Canada Wei Zhang, China Andrea Zisman, UK Didar Zowghi, Australia For additional information please contact the general chair William Robinson ([log in to unmask]) or program chair Kevin Ryan ([log in to unmask]) -- Dr *Olly* Gotel *|* Dept Computer Science *|* Pace University *|* One Pace Plaza *|* New York NY 10038 *|* USA [log in to unmask] *|* http://csis.pace.edu/~ogotel/ *|* +1 212 346 1014 *|* Room 212, 163 William Street