W-1(Monday full-day) RHAS04
RHAS `04 - International Workshop on Requirements for High Assurance Systems

September 6, 2004 - Kyoto, Japan

A high assurance system is a software-intensive system that must dependably deliver its services by exhibiting sufficient safety, security, survivability, reliability, robustness, and performance. Safety critical systems are those high assurance systems that can cause accidents resulting in significant harm to people, property, or the environment. For such systems, safety risks must be reduced to an acceptably low level. Thus, developers of such systems must eliminate or minimize hazards to avoid accidents and minimize the negative consequences of any accidents that do occur. The workshop goal is to bring together, in a set of small focused working groups, researchers and practitioners from the fields of safety engineering and requirements engineering to exchange ideas and their experiences concerning the engineering of safety requirements, safety constraints, and safety-critical functional, data, and interface requirements.

Submission deadline: June 18, 2004

For further information see: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/community/rhas-workshop/

W-3(Monday full-day) REP04
International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Patterns

September 6, 2004

This international workshop seeks to collect successful Requirements Engineering Patterns which have been observed in at least two different projects. The patterns should describe successful practices for common RE activities in a well-structured and instructive format. The objective is to make RE expert knowledge and experience available to organizations who are in the process of adopting RE, and to develop a pattern format for promoting reusability of RE knowledge and experience.

Submission deadline: June 14, 2004

http://rep04.desy.de/.

W-4(Tuesday full-day) CERE04
2nd International Workshop on Comparative Evaluation in Requirements Engineering

September 7, 2004

The need for an assessment of the progress made in RE research is now commonly felt across the RE community. A number of requirements and specification exemplars have been used informally over the years. These exemplars have been useful for illustrating new RE tools, techniques and methods, and for identifying potential lines of research. Unfortunately, the commonly used exemplars in RE all lack standardized descriptions and well-defined and universally accepted evaluation criteria, so different approaches cannot be compared with each other directly. CERE focuses on comparative studies in Requirements Engineering, both in terms of results of actual evaluations of and comparisons between published methods, tools and techniques, and of comparison methods themselves.

Submission deadline: June 25.2004
Notification acceptance: July 16.2004

http://www.di.unipi.it/CERE04