[Dbworld] Preliminary Call for Papers RE'05

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Call for Papers
13th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference 
August 29th - September 2nd, 2005 Paris, France 
http//www.re05.org 
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Engineering Successful Products High-quality requirements are at the heart of 
successful systems engineering, in that a successful product is one that 
effectively satisfies some essential need. To engineer a successful product, we 
must build according to the goals for, functions of, and constraints on the 
product, with respect to the contexts in which the product will be used. This 
involves understanding the needs of users, customers, and other stakeholders in 
the product; specifying, modelling, and analyzing the stakeholders 
requirements; and using these requirements to guide design decisions, to define 
acceptance criteria for evaluating the final product, and to constrain the 
product s evolution. Requirements encompass more than desired functionality ; 
users increasingly demand systems that are usable, reliable, secure, and 
responsive, while product developers expect to be able to adapt and evolve 
products rapidly, in response to users changing needs. As such, requirements!
  act ivities are multi-disciplinary, drawing on research and experience in 
computer science, mathematics, engineering, human-computer interaction, and 
social and cognitive sciences.

RE05 will bring together researchers, practitioners, and students to exchange 
problems, solutions, and experiences concerning requirements. The conference 
will emphasize the crucial role that requirements play in the successful 
development and delivery of systems, products, and services. Topics of interest 
include, but are not restricted to 

- Requirements elicitation and identification
- Informal modelling of requirements
- Domain modelling
- Formal modelling of goals and requirements
- Specification languages
- Formal analysis and verification
- Multiple viewpoints, managing inconsistency
- Nonfunctional and quality requirements
- Prioritization, negotiation, and resolution of conflicting requirements
- Prototyping, animation, simulation
- Requirements validation
- Requirements evolution over time, across product families; variability 
requirements
- Requirements management, traceability, metrics
- Requirements methodologies (e.g., Agile methods)
- Social, cultural, and cognitive factors in requirements activities
- Aligning requirements to business goals and processes
- Relating requirements to system architecture, testing
- Requirements for COTS-based systems
- Requirements for interoperating, multi-organizational systems
- Domain-specific problems and solutions (e.g., high- assurance systems; secure 
systems; socio-technical systems; telecommunications and distributed systems; 
business and information systems)


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Papers and Evaluation
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To provide a forum for exchanging practical experiences and challenges, as well 
as research results, we will run both researcher-oriented and 
practitioner-oriented technical tracks. We invite submissions of high-quality 
papers in the following categories

- Technical research papers present original results from basic or applied 
research, including at least preliminary evaluation of results. Technical 
research papers will be reviewed for originality, soundness, and potential 
utility of the research to the state-of-the-art. Papers must not exceed 10 
pages.

- Research evaluation papers present case studies, empirical studies, 
experiments, or analyses that evaluate scientifically the effectiveness and 
applicability of requirements techniques. Evaluation papers will be reviewed 
for quality and rigor of evaluation, and for significance and generality of 
results. Papers must not exceed 10 pages. 

- Reflection-on-practice papers introspectively evaluate industrial experience 
with using requirements techniques. Reflection papers should describe not only 
the requirements techniques employed, but also the setting in which the 
techniques were used, the results obtained, the lessons learned, and any 
conclusions that can be drawn. Reflection papers will be reviewed for 
significance of the insights presented. Papers must not exceed 10 pages. 

- Industrial practice reports pose requirements problems or challenges 
encountered in practice, relate success or failure stories, or report on 
industrial practice. Industrial-practice reports must not exceed 5 pages. 
Authors who want to submit longer papers should consider submitting a 
reflection paper.

Papers must describe work that has not been submitted to or presented at 
another forum. Accepted papers will appear in an IEEE CS Press Conference 
Proceedings. Revised versions of a selection of best papers from the conference 
will appear in special issues of the Requirements Engineering Journal and IEEE 
Software.

We seek also proposals for workshops, tutorials, panels, research tool 
demos,and poster presentations.


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Submission Information
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Electronic submissions will be accepted at the RE05 Paper submission site. 
Authors without web access must make advance arrangements with the Program 
Chair at least one week before the deadline. To be considered for review, a 
paper submission must be in the IEEE CS Press Proceedings format (see 
http//computer.org/cspress/) and must not exceed its category s page limit (see 
above). See the www.re05.org web site for information on how to submit papers; 
workshop, panel, and tutorial proposals; doctoral workshop papers; posters; and 
research tool demonstrations.


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Key Dates
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Paper abstracts (technical, evaluation, reflection papers) : 7th February 2005
Paper submissions (technical, evaluation, reflection, practice papers) : 14th 
February 2005
Notifications sent to authors 22nd April 2005
Camera-ready papers received : 3rd June 2005
Workshop, tutorial, and panel proposal submissions : 11th March 2005
Doctoral symposium submissions : 28th April 2005
Poster and research demonstrations submissions : 28th April 2005


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Organisation
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Steering Committee Chair Roel Wieringa U. Twente, Netherlands 

General Chair Colette Rolland U. Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne, France 

Program Chair Joanne Atlee U. of Waterloo, Canada 

Practitioner Track Nancy Mead SEI, CMU, USA, 
Michel Lemoine ONERA, DPRS, France 

Workshops Steve Easterbrook U. of Toronto, Canada 
Björn Regnell Lund University, Sweden 

Tutorials Daniel Berry, U. of Waterloo, Canada 

Posters and Research Demos Sebastian Uchitel Imperial College, UK 

Doctoral Symposium Nancy Day U. of Waterloo, Canada 

Local Arrangement Chair Camille Salinesi U. Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne, France 

Financial Chair Carine Souveyet U. Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne, France 

Publications Chair Ridha Khedri McMaster University, Canada 

Publicity Chair Selmin Nurcan U. Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne, France 

Publicity Co-Chairs Judith Barrios, U. Los Andes, Venezuela 
Daniel Amyot, U. of Ottawa, Canada
Mikio Aoyama, Nanzan U., Japan 
Oscar Pastor, DSIC-UPV, Spain 
Didar Zowghi, U. Tech. Sydney, Australia 

Web Master Saïd Assar INT, France
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