------------------------------------------------------------------------ F I N A L C a l l f o r p a p e r s ------------------------------------------------------------------------ R e f s Q ' 0 7 -- The 13th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality Trondheim, Norway, June 11-12, 2007 Submission: January 1st, 2007 (extended) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NEW: For 2007, RefsQ evolves into a working CONFERENCE! NEW: The RefsQ'07 proceedings will be published by Springer as a special volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.refsq.org (more news to come on this website -- stay tuned) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ O V E R V I E W 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. T H E M E : R E A N D I N N O V A T I O N I N S O F T W A R E E N G I N E E R I N G 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. W O R K I N G C O N F E R E N C E F O R M A T 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. S U B M I S S I O N S Three types of papers are solicited: - full papers (15 pages max, 12 recommended), - position papers (6 pages max), - industrial problem statements (6 pages max). See http://www.refsq.org for details about format and evaluation criteria. Submission is handled electronically through the RefsQ web site. P U B L I C A T I O N The RefsQ'07 proceedings will be published by Springer as a special volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). I M P O R T A N T D A T E S Submission deadline: January 1st, 2007 (2359 GMT) Notification of acceptance: February 19th, 2007 RefsQ'07 in Trondheim: June 11th-12th, 2007 V E N U E RefsQ'07 will take place in Trondheim, Norway where it will be co-located with CAiSE'07. P R O G R A M C O - C H A I R S Barbara Paech University of Heidelberg, Germany Pete Sawyer University of Lancaster, UK Patrick Heymans University of Namur, Belgium A D V I S O R Y B O A R D Klaus Pohl LERO, Ireland & University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Andreas L. Opdahl University of Bergen, Norway Eric Dubois CRP Henri Tudor, Luxemburg P R O G R A M B O A R D Ian Alexander Thomas Alspaugh Aybuke Aurum Franck Barbier Daniel M. Berry Sjaak Brinkkemper Pierre-Jean Charrel Alan Davis Eric Dubois Christof Ebert Anthony Finkelstein Vincenzo Gervasi Carlo Ghezzi Martin Glinz Michael Goedicke Tony Gorschek Peter Haumer Ann Hickey Frank Houdek Marina Jirotka Sara Jones Natalia Juristo Erik Kamsties John Krogstie Giuseppe Lami Soren Lauesen Michel Lemoine Peri Loucopoulos Kalle Lyytinen Neil Maiden Raimundas Matulevicius Daniel M. Moody Cornelius Ncube Bashar Nuseibeh Andreas L. Opdahl Anne Persson Klaus Pohl Jolita Ralyte Balasubramaniam Ramesh Lucia Rapanotti Bjorn Regnell Colette Rolland Matti Rossi Alessandra Russo Camille Salinesi Kristian Sandahl Kurt Schneider Andres Silva Guttorm Sindre Ian Sommerville Roel Wieringa Claes Wohlin Didar Zowghi C O N T A C T If you have any further requests, please address your e-mails to refsq@comp.lancs.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ C a l l f o r p a p e r s ------------------------------------------------------------------------ R e f s Q ' 0 7 -- The 13th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality Trondheim, Norway, June 11-12, 2007 Submission: January 1st, 2007 (extended) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NEW: For 2007, RefsQ evolves into a working CONFERENCE! NEW: The RefsQ'07 proceedings will be published by Springer as a special volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.refsq.org (more news to come on this website -- stay tuned) ------------------------------------------------------------------------