-------------------------------------------------------------------- C a l l f o r p a p e r s -------------------------------------------------------------------- R e f s Q ' 0 8 -- The 14th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality Montpellier, France, June 16-17, 2008 Submission: December 7th, 2007 (extended) -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.refsq.org (more news to come on this website -- stay tuned) -------------------------------------------------------------------- O V E R V I E W Our economic productivity and well-being in every-day life strongly hinges on IT, and thus software quality. In most systems, quality is determined through the development process. With the spread of service-oriented and autonomic systems, software quality is continuously negotiated and adapted at run-time. Requirements Engineering (RE) sets the stage for quality, both at development- and run-time. In spite of the constant emergence of new technologies and development paradigms, basic issues such as effective communication between stakeholders or correctness, consistency and completeness of large requirements documents are the dominant issues in industry. Against this background, RefsQ'08 seeks reports of innovative work in RE that enhances the quality of software and systems, both when challenged by new development paradigms or technologies, and also when needed to establish proven RE practices in industry. 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, human and computer interaction, economics and management and social sciences are very welcome for the insights they provide in RE. T H E M E : FITNESS OF REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING We encourage submissions on any aspect of RE but we particularly welcome submissions that address how the fitness of the RE processes and products to the context can be assessed, established, improved and changed over time. Examples of such contexts are the following: - business and product strategies - quality goals (e.g. security) - stakeholders (e.g. small or large companies, global or market-driven development) - development methods (e.g. product-line-driven, model-driven development) - development processes (e.g. agile) - project management (e.g. offshoring, portfolio management) - technology (e.g. service-oriented computing) 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. Attendance of RefsQ is not restricted to paper authors, but the number of participants will be restricted to encourage the active involvement 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'08 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: December 7th, 2007 (2359 GMT) (extended) Notification of acceptance: February 1st, 2008 RefsQ'08 in Montpellier: June 16th-17th, 2008 V E N U E RefsQ'08 will take place in Montpellier, France, where it will be co-located with CAiSE'08. P R O G R A M C O - C H A I R S Colette Rolland Universite Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, France Barbara Paech University of Heidelberg, Germany O R G A N I S A T I O N C O - C H A I R S Patrick Heymans University of Namur, Belgium Anne Persson University of Skovde, Sweden 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 C O M M I T T E E Ian Alexander Thomas Alspaugh Aybuke Aurum Claude Baron Daniel M. Berry Juergen Boerstler Sjaak Brinkkemper Pierre-Jean Charrel Lawrence Chung Alan Davis Eric Dubois Christof Ebert Gauthier Fanmuy Anthony Finkelstein Vincenzo Gervasi Jean-Pierre Giraudin Martin Glinz Michael Goedicke Jaap Gordijn Tony Gorschek Andrea Herrmann Ann Hickey Jane Huang Matthias Jarke Marina Jirotka Sara Jones Natalia Juristo Erik Kamsties John Krogstie Regine Laleau Soren Lauesen Julio Leite Michel Lemoine Lin Liu Peri Loucopoulos Nazim Madhavji Neil Maiden Raimundas Matulevicius Daniel M. Moody Johan Natt och Dag Cornelius Ncube Bashar Nuseibeh Antoni Olive Andreas Opdahl Klaus Pohl Colin Potts Naveen Prakash Jolita Ralyte Bala Ramesh Lucia Rapanotti Bjorn Regnell Matti Rossi Alessandra Russo Camille Salinesi Kristian Sandahl Peter Sawyer Kurt Schneider Andres Silva Guttorm Sindre Ian Sommerville Janis Stirna Roel Wieringa Claes Wohlin Eric Yu Didar Zowghi C O N T A C T If you have any further requests, please address your e-mails to refsq08@informatik.uni-heidelberg.de