Call for Participation
As software development is now part of the global economy, requirements engineering is the key bridge between the customer and supplier. Understanding and translating users' needs into effective solutions has always been vital: however, as development is outsourced requirements have to reflect cultures and languages and local needs. Furthermore, understanding requirements becomes a collaborative activity across time and space.
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
Paper categories
We will invite submissions of high quality papers in four categories:
Technical solution papers present solutions for requirements-related problems which are novel or significantly improve existing solutions. A technical solution paper must include a preliminary validation of the proposed solution.
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, for example, 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).
Size: 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. Furthermore, the research should be situated in the context of related work by others and previous work by the author(s).
Size: 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 quanitiative or qualitative evidence.
Size: A paper of this category should be 4-6 pages long. It must not exceed 6 pages.
Theory / vision papers propose and illustrate new views and theories underpinning RE, present creative new ideas, rethink current notions, etc. Please note that this is not a forum for research proposals or immature technical solution papers.
Evaluation criteria: A vision/theory paper should be revealing and thought-provoking, thus providing new insight for the reader. Theory papers need sound propositions and argumentation with illustration of how the theory could (or has been) applied to improving RE. Papers that only sketch an idea or propose research on some topic will be rejected.
Size: A paper of this category must not exceed 6 pages.
Originality
Papers must describe original work that has not been submitted to or presented at other forums.
Submission information
Submissions will be handled electronically through the RE'07 electronic submission system. 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 the 8.5x11 inch IEEE CS proceedings format. For downloading instructions and templates, go to the Author Forms web page of the IEEE Computer Society.
Submission deadlines:
| Paper Abstracts | February 5th 2007 |
| Paper Submissions (all categories) | February 12th 2007 |
| Tutorial, workshop and panel submissions | March 9th 2007 |
| Notification to authors | April 27th 2007 |
| Doctoral symposium, poster and other submissions | May 11th 2007 |
Reviewing
All submissions will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the RE'07 Program Committee according to the criteria stated above. Based on the reviews and on the discussion of papers in the program committee, the RE'07 Program Board will decide which papers to accept for the conference.
Papers that do not conform to the submission instructions will be rejected without review. In particular, this will be the case for papers that exceed the size limit, are obviously out of the scope of the conference, or clearly do not fit the selected paper category. In the latter case, the Program Chair will first try to reclassify a submission to a proper category.
Publication of accepted papers
Accepted papers will be published in an IEEE CS Press Conference Proceedings and will be available in the IEEE CS Digital Library.
Other contributions
We also invite proposals for tutorials, workshops, panels, doctoral symposium contributions, posters, and research demonstrations.