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The First <b>International Workshop on Requirements, Intentions and Goals
in Conceptual Modeling (RIGiM) </b>in conjunction with the Twenty-Sixth
International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2007) aims to provide
a forum for discussing the interplay between requirements engineering and
conceptual modeling, and in particular, to investigate how goal- and
intention-driven approaches help in conceptualising purposeful systems.
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Please find underneath the Call for Paper for the First International
Workshop on Requirements, Intentions and Goals in Conceptual Modeling<b>
</b>(RIGiM) organized by <b>Colette Rolland</b> and <b>Eric Yu</b>.
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A selection of best accepted papers at the Workshop will be invited for
submission to the IET Software Journal, re-reviewed and if accepted
published in a dedicated special issue.<br>
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<b>We invite you to submit your work in RIGiM'07.<br>
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</b>We will be also grateful to you for advertising RIGiM'07 and
inviting your colleagues and/or research students to submit their
work.<br>
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I hope to meet you in Auckland.<br>
Best regards,<br>
<br>
Selmin Nurcan<br>
RIGiM'07 Publicity Chair<br>
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Call for Papers<br>
<b>First International Workshop on Requirements, Intentions and
Goals in Conceptual Modeling (RIGiM) <br>
</b>in conjunction with ER 2007<br>
November 5– 9, 2007 Auckland, New Zealand<br>
<font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://www.cs.toronto.edu/km/RIGiM/index.shtml" eudora="autourl">http://www.cs.toronto.edu/km/RIGiM/index.shtml</a><br>
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</font></u><b>Organizers:<br>
</b>Colette Rolland, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France<br>
Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Canada<br>
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<b>Papers submission deadline: May 11, 2007<br>
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</b>Detailed Call for Paper is below<br>
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<b>RIGiM'07 Poster</b> can be <b>downloaded </b>from the Web site <br>
<font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://www.cs.toronto.edu/km/RIGiM/RIGiM%20workshop%20Poster.pdf" eudora="autourl">http://www.cs.toronto.edu/km/RIGiM/RIGiM%20workshop%20Poster.</a><a href="http://www.cs.toronto.edu/km/RIGiM/RIGiM%20workshop%20Poster.pdf" eudora="autourl">pdf<br>
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</a></font></u>A selection of best accepted papers at the Workshop will
be invited for submission to the <br>
<b>IET Software Journal,</b> re-reviewed and if accepted published in a
dedicated special issue.<br>
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</font></i><b>RIGiM</b> <b>2007 <br>
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</b>CALL FOR PAPERS <br>
<br>
<b>First International Workshop on Requirements, Intentions and
Goals in Conceptual Modeling</b> <br>
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in conjunction with ER 2007<br>
November 5–9, 2007 Auckland, New Zealand<br>
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<b>Papers submission deadline: </b>May 11, 2007<br>
<font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://www.cs.toronto.edu/km/RIGiM/index.shtml" eudora="autourl">http://</a>www.cs.toronto.edu/km/RIGiM<a href="http://www.cs.toronto.edu/km/RIGiM/index.shtml" eudora="autourl">/index.shtml</a><br>
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</font></u><b>Organizers:<br>
</b>Colette Rolland, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France<br>
Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Canada<br>
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<b>SCOPE AND
TOPICS:</b><x-tab> </x-tab><br>
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The use of intentional concepts, the notion of "goal" in
particular, has been prominent in recent approaches to requirement
engineering (RE). Goal-oriented frameworks and methods for requirements
engineering (GORE) have been keynote topics at requirements engineering
conferences, and at major software engineering conferences. What are the
conceptual modelling foundations in these approaches?<br>
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Traditionally information system engineering has made the assumption that
an information system captures some excerpt of world history and hence
has concentrated on modeling information about the Universe of Discourse.
This is done through conceptual modeling that aims at abstracting the
specification of the required information system, i.e., the conceptual
schema, from an analysis of the relevant aspects of the Universe of
Discourse about which the user community needs information. This
specification concentrates on what the system should do, that is, on its
functionality, serving as a prescription for system construction.<br>
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Whereas conceptual modelling allowed system developers to understand the
semantic of information and led to a large number of semantically
powerful conceptual models, experience demonstrates that it often fails
in supporting the delivery of systems that were accepted by the community
of users. Indeed, a number of studies have shown that many systems fail
due to an inadequate understanding of the requirements they seek to
address. Furthermore, the amount of effort needed to fix these systems
has been found to be very high.<br>
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To correct this situation, it is necessary to view information systems as
fulfilling some purpose in an organisation. Understanding purpose, goals,
and intentions is a necessary condition for the design of successful
systems. Conceptual modelling therefore needs to go beyond functionality
requirements that specify the ‘what,' to encompass the deeper contextual
understanding of the ‘whys.' The why questions are answered in terms of
organisational objectives and the desires and motivations of stakeholders
and participants. Modelling the ‘whys' helps in requirements elicitation,
validation, and specification in a more focused manner. Goal-oriented
approaches in requirements engineering has emerged to meet this
expectation.<br>
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The Workshop aims to provide a forum for discussing the interplay between
requirements engineering and conceptual modeling, and in particular, to
investigate how goal- and intention-driven approaches help in
conceptualising purposeful systems. What are the fundamental objectives
and premises of requirements engineering and conceptual modelling
respectively, and how can they complement each other? What are the
demands on conceptual modelling from the standpoint of requirements
engineering? What conceptual modelling techniques can be further taken
advantage of in requirements engineering? What are the upcoming modelling
challenges and issues in GORE? What are the unresolved open questions?
What lessons are there to be learnt from industrial experiences? What
empirical data are there to support the cost-benefit analysis when
adopting GORE methods? Are there applications domains or types of project
settings for which goals and intentional approaches are particularly
suitable or not suitable? What degree of formalization and
automation or interactivity are feasible and appropriate for what types
of participants during requirements engineering? e.g., business domain
stakeholders, requirements modelers, ontology engineers, etc.<br>
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<b> Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:<br>
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</b> * modeling and semantics in GORE frameworks<br>
* analysis and reasoning with intentions and
goals<br>
* ontological and epistemological foundations<br>
* cognitive, behavioral, and sociological
perspectives<br>
* goals, scenarios, and business process
modeling<br>
* goals and viewpoints, management of conflicts and
inconsistencies<br>
* goals in requirements and design patterns<br>
* goals in reuse<br>
* goals and traceability<br>
* goals and aspects<br>
* change management, versioning and view management
for GORE<br>
* visualization and tool support for GORE<br>
* software engineering process and organization for
GORE<br>
* GORE and agile methods<br>
* GORE in distributed software development<br>
* GORE for COTS system development and selection<br>
* GORE for product families and high-variability
software<br>
* GORE for adaptive systems and agile enterprise<br>
* comparison and evaluation of GORE approaches<br>
* industrial experiences and empirical studies<br>
* GORE for services engineering<br>
* GORE and business modeling and strategy
reasoning<br>
* goal-oriented conceptual modeling for security,
privacy, and trust<br>
* goal-oriented modeling for user experience and
interaction design<br>
* goal-oriented modeling of system architecture<br>
* interaction and integration with other conceptual
modeling paradigms, e.g., object-oriented and agent-oriented models<br>
* goal-oriented modeling for specific application
domains - e.g., healthcare, e-government, mobile commerce, ambient
intelligence<br>
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<b>PAPER SUBMISSION<br>
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Format and Duration:<br>
</b>We aim for a highly interactive forum. Discussants and discussion
facilitators will be formally appointed for each paper and session,
respectively. The working language is English, and will last one full
day.<br>
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Workshop proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS
series. Thus, authors must submit manuscripts using the Springer-Verlag
LNCS style for Lecture Notes in Computer Science. See
<a href="http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html</a>
for style files and details.<br>
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<b>Submission and types of papers:<br>
</b>We solicit technical research papers, industrial experience reports, and speculative/visionary papers. Submissions should be in LNCS and pdf format. The maximum length is 10 pages. Accepted papers will be published in the LNCS workshop proceedings<br>
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A selection of best accepted papers at the Workshop will be invited for submission to the <b>IET Software Journal,</b> re-reviewed and if accepted published in a dedicated special issue.<br>
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<b>Submit papers by e-mail to:<br>
</b>rolland@univ-paris1.fr<br>
eric.yu@utoronto.ca<br>
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<b>IMPORTANT DATES<br>
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<font color="#0000FF">Paper submission:</b> <x-tab> </x-tab><b>May 11, 2007<br>
</font></b>Author notification:<b> <x-tab> </x-tab>June 20, 2007<br>
</b>Camera-ready: <b><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>July 06, 2007<br>
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE :<br>
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</b>Daniel Amyot, University of Ottawa, Canada<br>
Mikio Aoyoma, Nanzan University, Japan<br>
Ian Alexander, Scenario Plus, United Kingdom<br>
Aybuke Arum, University of New South Wales, Australia<br>
Franck Barbier, University of Pau, France<br>
Daniel Berry, University of Waterloo, Canada<br>
Sjaak Brinkkemper, VU University Amsterdam, Netherland<br>
Lawrence Chung, University of Texas at Dallas, USA<br>
Luiz Cysneiros, York University , Canada<br>
Eric Dubois, Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor, Luxembourg<br>
Vincenzo Gervasi, University of Pisa , Italy<br>
Aditya K. Ghose, University of Wollongong , Australia<br>
Peter Haumer, IBM Rational, USA<br>
Zhi Jin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China<br>
John Krogstie, Norwegian University of Science and Technology , Norway<br>
Lin Liu, Tsinghua University, China<br>
Peri Loucopoulos, University of Manchester, United Kingdom<br>
John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada<br>
Selmin Nurcan, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France<br>
Bashar Nuseibeh, Open University, UK<br>
Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen , Norway<br>
Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy<br>
Klaus Pohl, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany<br>
Jolita Ralyte, University of Geneva, Switzerland<br>
Bjorn Regnell, Lund University , Sweden<br>
Camille Salinesi, Université Paris 1, France<br>
Motoshi Saeki, Tokyo Institute Of Technology, Japan<br>
Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel<br>
Carine Souveyet, Université Paris 1, France<br>
Leon Sterling, University of Melbourne, Australia<br>
Yair Wand, University of British Columbia,Canada<br>
Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, Netherlands<br>
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<b>Publicity:</b> Selmin Nurcan, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France<br>
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</font><font face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Université Paris 1 - Panthéon - Sorbonne<br>
Centre de Recherche en Informatique<br>
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</font><font face="Comic Sans MS" size=2 color="#008080">The First International Workshop <b>on Requirements, Intentions <br>
and Goals in Conceptual Modeling (RIGiM) </b>will be organised in <br>
conjunction with the 26th International Conference on Conceptual <br>
Modeling (<b>ER 2007</b>) in Auckland, New Zealand -- Nov 05-09, 2007 <x-tab> </x-tab> <x-tab> </x-tab><br>
<b>Detailed information is available </b>at <br>
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