[ecoop-info] Call for contributions RE'08

[Joao Araujo]

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Call for Participation and Contributions
16th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'08)
September 8th - 12th, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
http://www.re08.org
REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD
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Sustainability of the earth and its natural resources represents a
crucial issue that must be addressed in this technology-centric
century. Although information services are generally not physical in
nature and therefore do not directly result in the emission of
greenhouse gasses or destruction of other natural resources, software
does play a vital role in controlling machines and buildings that have
a direct impact on the environment. When the target domain of software
to be developed has a potential impact on the global environment,
complex factors should be taken into consideration during the analysis
and definition of requirements. This is a new challenge facing
Requirements Engineering.

High quality requirements that are apparently unrelated to
environmental issues are also crucial in our modern
information-intensive society. Only by fully understanding
stakeholders' needs, and documenting them in a concise, and
unambiguous way, can we consistently deliver quality products designed
to meet the complexities of our advanced information society. Failure
to engineer high quality requirements or failure to develop products
that satisfy these requirements will ultimately lead to an information
society that naively prioritizes its short-term needs over issues of
long-term global sustainability.

The IEEE International Requirements Engineering conference provides
the premier international forum for researchers, educators and
industrial practitioners to present and discuss the most recent
innovations, trends, experiences and concerns in the field of
requirements engineering.

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: requirements
elicitation, analysis, documentation, validation and verification;
requirements specification languages, methods, processes, and tools;
requirements management, traceability, viewpoints, prioritization, and
negotiation; modelling of requirements (formal and informal), goals,
and domains; prototyping, simulation, and animation; interaction
between requirements and design; evolution of requirements over time,
product families, and variability; relating requirements to business
goals, products, architecture, and testing; social, cultural, global,
personal and cognitive factors in requirements engineering;
collaborative requirements engineering; domain-specific problems,
experiences and solutions.


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PAPER CATEGORIES
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We invite submissions of high quality papers in three categories:
Technical solution papers present solutions for requirements-related
problems which are novel or significantly improve existing solutions.
Evaluation criteria: The proposed solution technique or its
application to this kind of problem must be novel and sound. The
author(s) must provide a preliminary validation of the proposed
solution, such as a proof-of-concept and/or sound arguments that the
solution technique will work and that it will scale to
real-world-sized problems. Results must be stated clearly so that the
author(s) or others can further validate them in later research. A
technical solution paper should also be clear about its contributions
with respect to related work by others and to previous work by the
author(s). A paper of this category must not exceed 10 pages.

Scientific evaluation papers evaluate existing problem situations or
validate/refute proposed solutions with scientific means, i.e. by
empirical studies, experiments, case studies, simulations, formal
analyses, mathematical proofs, etc. Scientific reflection on problems
and practices in industry also falls into this category. Evaluation
criteria: The topic of the evaluation presented in the paper as well
as its causal or logical properties must be clearly stated. The
evaluation method or analysis approach must be sound and appropriate.
The research must be novel or, otherwise, the results must constitute
a significant increase of knowledge. The results must be relevant
and/or (statistically) significant. The research should be situated in
the context of related work by others and previous work by the
author(s). A paper of this category must not exceed 10 pages.

Industrial practice and experience papers present problems or
challenges encountered in practice, discuss insights, innovations in
industrial practice, success and failure stories. The focus is on
'what' and on lessons learned, not on an in-depth analysis of 'why'.
Otherwise, consider submitting a scientific evaluation paper.
Evaluation criteria: The practice must be clearly described and its
context must be given. Readers should be able to follow easily and to
draw conclusions for their own practice. The conclusion and lessons
learned should be justified by quantitative or qualitative evidence. A
paper of this category must not exceed 6 pages.

More details about the paper categories and corresponding review
evaluation criteria and submission dates are provided on the
conference website. Papers must describe original work not submitted
or presented at other forums. Accepted papers will be published in an
IEEE CS Press Conference Proceedings and will be available in the IEEE
CS Digital Library.


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SUBMISSION INFORMATION
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Submissions will be handled electronically at the RE'08 submission
site. Authors without web access must make advance arrangements with
the Program Chair at least one week before the deadline. Submissions
must be formatted according to IEEE CS proceedings format (see
http://www.computer.org/portal/site/cscps/index.jsp for instructions
and templates).
More details on submission procedures will be available on the
conference website.
Other contributions: We also invite proposals for tutorials,
workshops, panels, doctoral symposium, posters, videos and research
demonstrations.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper abstracts February 4, 2008
Paper submissions (all categories) February 11, 2008
Tutorial, workshop and panel submissions March 3, 2008
Notification to authors April 28, 2008
Doctoral symposium, poster, & other submissions May 5, 2008


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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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General Chair
Xavier Franch, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

Program Chair
Tetsuo Tamai, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

Local Arrangements
Carme Quer, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

Financial Chair
Pere Botella, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

Practitioner Track
Christof Ebert, Vector Consulting Services, Germany
Ann Hickey, Univ. of Colorado, USA

Workshops
Thomas Alspaugh, Univ. of California, Irvine, USA

Tutorials
Oscar Pastor, Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

Doctoral Symposium
Nazim Madhavji, Univ. Western Ontario, Canada

Posters and Demos
Guttorm Sindre, NTNU, Norway
M. Jose Casany, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

Publicity
Jane Cleland-Huang, DePaul Univ., USA
Joao Araujo, Univ. Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Selmin Nurcan, Univ. Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, France
Marc Alier, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

Proceedings
Motoshi Saeki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Sponsors
Joan A. Pastor, Univ. Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Maria R. Sancho, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

Student Volunteer
Claudia P. Ayala, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

Registration
Xavier Burgues, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

Webmaster
Gemma Grau, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain


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PROGRAM BOARD
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Jane Cleland-Huang, DePaul Univ., USA
Don Gause, State Univ. of New York, USA
Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Martin Glinz, Univ. Zurich, Switzerland
Jeff Kramer, Imperial College London, UK
Axel van Lamsweerde, Univ. of Louvain, Belgium
Neil Maiden, City Univ., UK
Bashar Nuseibeh, Open Univ., UK
Klaus Pohl, Lero, Univ. of Limerick, Ireland & Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Colette Rolland, Univ. Paris 1, France
Kevin Ryan, Lero, Univ. of Limerick, Ireland
Motoshi Saeki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Alistair Sutcliffe, Univ. of Manchester, UK
Roel Wieringa, Univ. Twente, The Netherlands


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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Ian Alexander, UK
Thomas Alspaugh, USA
Mikio Aoyama, Japan
Daniel Berry, Canada
David Callele, Canada
Jaelson Castro, Brazil
Betty Cheng, USA
Daniela Damian, Canada
Eric Dubois, Luxembourg
Christof Ebert, Germany
Martin Feather, USA
Stephen Fickas, USA
Anthony Finkelstein, UK
Michael Goedicke, Germany
Anthony Hall, UK
Mats Heimdahl, USA
Constance Heitmeyer, USA
Patrick Heymans, Belgium
Ann Hickey, USA
Michael Jackson, UK
Stan Jarzabek, Singapore
Marina Jirotka, UK
Haruhiko Kaiya, Japan
Kyo Kang, Korea
Soren Lauesen, Denmark
Julio Leite, Brazil
Michel Lemoine, France
Robyn Lutz, USA
Nazim Madhavji, Canada
John Mylopoulos, Canada
Andreas Opdahl, Norway
Oscar Pastor, Spain
Colin Potts, USA
Awais Rashid, UK
Bjorn Regnell, Sweden
Suzanne Robertson, UK
William Robinson, USA
Camille Salinesi, France
Guttorm Sindre, Norway
Eric Yu, Canada
Didar Zowghi, Australia


For additional information please contact the general chair Xavier Franch,
(franch at lsi.upc.edu) or program chair Tetsuo Tamai (tamai at graco.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp)