Call for Papers
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International Working Conference on
Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality
Co-located with CAiSE’07 in Trondheim, Norway
REFSQ website: www.refsq.org
Requirements engineering (RE) is as integral to the assurance of software quality now as it was when the first REFSQ took place in 1994. Compared to 1994, our understanding of RE has improved, while newer and better methods and tools are available to practitioners. At the same time, however, new challenges have emerged. These include increased economic pressures on developers and customers and the pace of change caused by new technologies and new application domains. Meanwhile, many old problems stubbornly resist attempts to solve them. We still make poor trade-offs between incompatible requirements; we still struggle to derive appropriate software architectures from requirements; and too many ambitious development projects still end in recriminations instead of useful software. Against this background, REFSQ’07 seeks reports of innovative work in RE that enhances the quality of software and systems, particularly where challenged by new development paradigms or technologies. We encourage researchers and practitioners from the RE, software engineering, information systems, and embedded systems fields to present original work. Contributions from cognate areas such as formal methods, systems engineering, economics and management and social sciences are very welcome for the insights they provide in RE.
Theme: RE and innovation in software engineering
We encourage submissions on any aspect of RE but we particularly welcome submissions that address how RE is affected by or affects innovations such as:
- Service-oriented computing
- Model-driven development
- Software product lines
- Aspect-oriented software development
- Adaptive and autonomic systems
- Situational and domain-specific RE
Case studies, experience reports and industrial problem statements are particularly encouraged.
Working conference format
REFSQ has a long tradition of being a highly structured and interactive forum and this remains as we make the transition to a working conference. What has changed is that attendance of REFSQ is no longer restricted to paper authors, although we will restrict numbers to encourage the active participation of all attendees. The working language is English.
Submissions
Three types of paper are solicited: full papers (15 pages max, 12 recommended), position papers (6 pages max) and industrial problem statements (6 pages max) – see instructions for authors for details about format and evaluation criteria. Submission is handled electronically through the REFSQ web site.
Publication
The REFSQ’07 proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as a special volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Important Dates
Submission deadline: extended until January 1st, 2007 (2359 GMT)
Notification of acceptance: February 19th, 2007
REFSQ’07 in Trondheim: June 11th-12th, 2007
Organization
Program Co-Chairs
Pete Sawyer
Lancaster University, UK
Barbara Paech
University of Heidelberg, Germany
Patrick Heymans
University of Namur, Belgium
Advisory Board
Klaus Pohl
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany & LERO, Ireland
Andreas Opdahl
University of Bergen, Norway
Éric Dubois
CRP Henri Tudor, Luxemburg
Programme Committee
The following persons have confirmed their participation to the PC.
| Ian Alexander | Peri Loucopoulos |
| Thomas Alspaugh | Kalle Lyytinen |
| Aybuke Aurum | Neil Maiden |
| Franck Barbier | Raimundas Matulevičius |
| Daniel M. Berry | Daniel M. Moody |
| Sjaak Brinkkemper | Cornelius Ncube |
| Pierre-Jean Charrel | Bashar Nuseibeh |
| Alan Davis | Andreas L. Opdahl |
| Éric Dubois | Anne Persson |
| Christof Ebert | Klaus Pohl |
| Anthony Finkelstein | Jolita Ralytė |
| Vincenzo Gervasi | Balasubramaniam Ramesh |
| Carlo Ghezzi | Lucia Rapanotti |
| Martin Glinz | Bjorn Regnell |
| Michael Goedicke | Colette Rolland |
| Tony Gorschek | Matti Rossi |
| Peter Haumer | Alessandra Russo |
| Ann Hickey | Camille Salinesi |
| Frank Houdek | Kristian Sandahl |
| Marina Jirotka | Kurt Schneider |
| Sara Jones | Andres Silva |
| Natalia Juristo | Guttorm Sindre |
| Erik Kamsties | Ian Sommerville |
| John Krogstie | Roel Wieringa |
| Giuseppe Lami | Claes Wohlin |
| Soren Lauesen | Didar Zowghi |
| Michel Lemoine |