CALL FOR PAPERS ___________________________________________________________________ 12th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'04) 6th-10th September 2004, Kyoto, Japan http://www.re04.org "Requirements for Innovation in a Changing World" ___________________________________________________________________ Requirements Engineering (RE) is the branch of systems engineering concerned with the goals, desired properties and constraints of complex systems, ranging from embedded software systems and software-based products to large enterprise and socio-technical systems that involve software systems, organisations and people. It covers all activities related to the acquisition, specification and maintenance of requirements throughout the life cycle. It also covers how requirements relate to business processes, work redesign, system and software architecture, and testing. In 2004 the RE conference will take place in Kyoto, Japan for the first time. To reflect this, RE'04 will continue to be interested in all aspects of RE, but will be particularly interested in requirements for embedded systems in automotive and consumer products, and requirements engineering for innovative product design. PAPER SUBMISSIONS RE'04 will contain tracks for presenting papers of interest to RE researchers and practitioners. Papers to the Research Track, intended primarily for a researcher audience, are: - Technical research papers that report an original research result; - Research experience papers that report the application of original research results using experimental, empirical and analytic methods. Papers to the Practitioner Track, intended primarily for a practitioner audience, are: - Empirical results that report the use of requirements techniques in practical settings, with particular emphasis on general lessons learned; - Case studies that report the use of requirements techniques in a practical setting, describing the setting, results obtained and any conclusions that can be drawn; - Industry experience reports which communicate the use of requirements techniques in practical settings for the benefit of other practitioners. Topics of interest for both tracks include, but are not restricted to: - Acquiring, discovering and creating requirements - Validating requirements - Prioritising and negotiating about requirements - Requirements management and traceability - Goal-oriented requirements engineering - Use cases and scenarios in the requirements process - Prototyping, animating and executing requirements - Requirements engineering for agile processes - Combining formal and informal requirements specification techniques, making formal techniques usable - Social, cultural and cognitive factors in requirements engineering - Requirements metrics - Requirements engineering education - How requirements relate to business processes, work re-design, and software architectures - Intertwining requirements and design, and requirements and testing - Tool support for requirements engineering Papers are invited on requirements for high-assurance systems; secure systems; socio-technical systems; product families, product software and COTS-based systems development; business systems, e-services and ubiquitous computing; and industrial product design, computer games and designing for pleasure. BEST PAPERS Revised versions of best research track papers will appear in a special issue of the Requirements Engineering Journal, and best experience papers may be published in a special issue of IEEE Software. SUBMISSION INFORMATION Electronic submissions will be accepted at the RE'04 Paper submission site. Authors without web access must make advance arrangements with the Program Chair at least one week before the deadline. All paper submissions must be in the IEEE CS Press Proceedings format (see http://computer.org/cspress/) and not exceed 10 pages in length. See the www.re04.org for information on how to submit papers, workshop, panel and tutorial proposals, doctoral workshop papers, posters, and research demonstrations. For all queries, please contact info@re04.org. KEY DATES Full paper submissions: 26th January 2004 Industry experience report submissions: 26th February 2004 Notifications sent to authors: 2nd April 2004 Camera-ready papers received: 11th June 2004 Workshop and tutorial proposal submissions: 14th February 2004 Doctoral symposium submissions: 16th April 2004 Research demonstration submissions: 23rd April 2004 CONFERENCE ORGANISATION STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR: Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, Netherlands GENERAL CHAIRS: Mikio Aoyama, Nanzan University, Japan & Motoshi Saeki, Tokyo Institute Technology, Japan PROGRAM CHAIR: Neil Maiden, City University, UK TUTORIAL CO-CHAIRS: Didar Zowghi, University of Technology Sydney, Australia & Kenji Takahashi NTT, Japan WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS: Colette Rolland, Universite de la Sorbonne, France & Sanya Uehara, Fuijitsu Labs, Japan DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM CHAIR: Martin Glinz, University of Zurich, Switzerland POSTERS & RESEARCH DEMOS CHAIR: Andrea Zisman, City University, UK INDUSTRY TOOL EXHIBITION: Taichi Nakamura, Tokyo University of Technology, Japan LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR: Atushi Ohnishi, Ritsumeikan University, Japan FINANCIAL CHAIR: Takako Nakatani, S-Lagoon, Japan PUBLICATIONS CO-CHAIRS: George Spanoudakis, City University, UK & Tuneo Ajisaka, Wakayama University, Japan PUBLICITY CHAIRS: Katsuro Inoue, Osaka University, Japan Annie Anton, North Carolina State University, USA Xavier Franch, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Didar Zowghi, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Jaelson Castro, University Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil SECRETARY: Haruhiko Kaiya, Shinshu University, Japan PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ian Alexander, UK Joanne Atlee, Canada Dan Berry, Canada Betty Cheng, United States Al Davis, United States Eric Dubois, Luxembourg Christof Ebert, France Steve Fickas, United States Anthony Finkelstein, UK Don Gause, United States Martin Glinz, Switzerland Michael Goedicke, Germany Orlena Gotel, United States Sol Greenspan, United States Anthony Hall, UK Mats Heimdahl, United States Connie Heitmeyer, United States Frank Houdek, Germany Peter Hruschka, Germany Matthias Jarke, Germany Marina Jirotka, UK Kyo Kang, South Korea Soren Lauesen, Denmark Julio Leite, Brazil Michel Lemoine, France Peri Loucopoulos, UK John Mylopoulos, Canada Bashar Nuseibeh, UK Atsushi Ohnishi, Japan Andreas Opdahl, Norway Oscar Pastor, Spain Klaus Pohl, Germany Colin Potts, United States Bjorn Regnell, Sweden Suzanne Robertson, UK Bill Robinson, United States Colette Rolland, France Kevin Ryan, Ireland Jawed Siddiqi, UK Guttorm Sindre, Norway Ian Sommerville, UK Alistair Sutcliffe, UK Tetsuo Tamai, Japan Axel van Lamsweerde, Belgium Roel Wieringa, Netherlands Eric Yu, Canada Didar Zowghi, Australia