• 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 setting, 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.(DOWNLOAD)

The paper types are described in detail here.

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
• How requirements relate to 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.