[ecoop-info] CfP MeRE'07.de: 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Requirements Engineering

[Oliver Creighton]

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CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS --- Co-located Workshop with the Conference  
on Software Engineering (SE 2007)

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Workshop Date:        Tuesday, 27th of March 2007
Location:                  Hamburg, Germany


                     Second International Workshop on

Multimedia Requirements Engineering (MeRE'07.de) - Beyond Mere  
Descriptions


Website:               http://www.mere07.de/

Abstracts:             18th of December 2006
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Co-located Workshop (WH4) with the
Conference on Software Engineering (SE 2007)

Conference Homepage: http://www.se2007.de/


IMPORTANT DATES
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     * 18 Dec 2006: Abstracts
     * 19 Jan 2007: Submissions
     * 16 Feb 2007: Notification of Authors
     * 23 Feb 2007: Camera-ready Papers
     * 09 Mar 2007: Participant Registrations


THEMES
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Good requirements are an important precondition of successful  
software development. Novel ways to produce high-quality requirements  
that add value to the entire software development lifecycle are needed.

Most requirements development and management efforts focus on the  
production of textual descriptions. This approach has several  
disadvantages. First, text constitutes a language barrier,  
particularly a challenge for global companies. Second, text is an  
abstract form of communication and its interpretation is always based  
on experience, preconceptions, and digestibility. Third, without  
proper tool support, requirements quickly become outdated,  
inconsistent, or overwhelmingly long.

This workshop builds on ideas of the First International Workshop on  
Multimedia Requirements Engineering (MeRE'06): Instead of considering  
writing as the foremost subject of requirements engineering, we  
stress understanding and evolution. Multimedia, which includes the  
universal meta-medium of text, may bring requirements "to life." The  
general theme of the workshop is communication and modeling of  
requirements in media other than text.


TOPICS
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Topics of interest include experience papers, formal methods,  
emerging technologies, best practices, research proposals,  
evaluations and comparisons that focus on multimedia use in  
requirements development/analysis. Typical topics of interest  
include, but are not limited to:

     * Media languages/techniques for requirements development/analysis
     * Semiological modeling
     * Metadata annotation and harvesting technologies
     * Case studies of multimedia requirements development/analysis
     * Multimedia techniques and tools to facilitate evolution of  
representations
     * Use of portable devices for realtime media capture and annotation


GOALS
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The workshop aims to provide a collaborative session in which ideas  
related to multimedia use for requirements engineering are shared,  
reviewed and debated. The controversy surrounding the practicality of  
emerging requirements engineering techniques will also be discussed.  
The workshop will be used to identify future work, issues, problems  
and priorities, and to propose recommendations around these  
dimensions for multimedia requirements research.


TARGETED ATTENDEES
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     * RE researchers working in the development of RE tools,  
techniques and methods
     * RE researchers and practitioners investigating the deployment  
of products of RE research in industry
     * RE practitioners with experiences in selection of RE tools,  
techniques and methods for specific projects
     * Multimedia experts who wish to explore scientific and  
professional use of multimedia technology
     * Backgrounds in pedagogy, semiology, or communication design a  
plus!


WORKSHOP FORMAT
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MeRE'07.de will provide attendees with an opportunity to become  
familiar with a new topic and establish a good foundation for  
discussions about multimedia in requirements engineering. We intend  
to make the workshop discussion- and interaction-oriented. Paper  
presentations will be used to provoke discussion and participants  
will break out into small groups for more detailed discussion. These  
small groups will be organized around common themes or goals  
identified either from the papers, or by the participants during the  
workshop. At the end of the day, there will be a plenary session  
where the groups report back to the workshop as a whole on the  
results of their discussion and future work. Results may be used as a  
basis for continued publications.


PAPER EVALUATION
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Position papers (3-5 pages) Short papers, stating the position of the  
author(s) on any of the topics within the scope of the workshop. For  
example, positions papers could describe experience with a particular  
research evaluation method, or could propose an area of RE that is  
ripe for benchmarking, or could propose a benchmark. Position papers  
will be evaluated based on their potential for generating discussion,  
and on the originality of the positions expressed.

Full papers (8-10 pages) Full papers either describing experience of  
comparative evaluation, or report on the results of such evaluation.  
For example, a full paper might describe how a comparative evaluation  
of RE techniques was performed in practice, either by controlled  
experiments in the labs or in industrial settings; or it may present  
the results of the actual performance of RE tools, methods or  
processes, in lab-based experiments or in field trials.


DURATION
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1/2 day


ORGANIZERS
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Oliver Creighton
Siemens AG
Corporate Technology (CT)
Software & Engineering 1 (SE 1) - Development Techniques
Otto-Hahn-Ring 6
D-81730 Munchen, Germany

Bernd Bruegge
Applied Software Engineering
Technische Universitat Munchen
Boltzmannstrase 3
D-85748 Garching, Germany


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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     * Len Bass, Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering  
Institute, USA
     * Olly Gotel, Pace University, USA
     * Paul Grunbacher, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
     * Jane Cleland-Huang, DePaul University, USA
     * Heinrich Husmann, Media Informatics Group, Ludwig-Maximilians- 
Universitat Munchen, Germany
     * Filippo Lanubile, Universita degli Studi di Bari, Dipartimento  
di Informatica, Italy
     * Seok-Won Lee, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
     * Martin Purvis, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
     * Asarnusch Rashid, FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik Karlsruhe,  
Germany