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> Workshops
Six workshops will be held in conjunction with RE'06 to encourage interaction between academia and industry, researchers and practitioners. Workshop deadlines
Submission of accepted workshop papers Authors of accepted workshop papers have to prepare and submit their camera-ready papers according to the instructions given in the RE'06 Workshop Paper Author Kit and in the acceptance letter they received from the workshop organizers. At least one author of every accepted paper must register for the workshop where the paper was accepted by July 31. Authors of workshop papers are strongly encouraged to register also for the main conference.
Workshop schedule Monday, September 11, 2006 Tuesday, September 12, 2006
W1 AuRE'06
– International Automotive Requirements Engineering
Workshop Workshop
Organizers Over the last years,
software has become a major force in automotive business.
Modern premium cars often embody more than 50 electronic
control units with several hundreds of thousands lines of
software running on them. More than 80 percent of automotive
innovations are driven by electronics, and amongst them, 90
percent are implemented by means of software. A large
portion of this software is not implemented by the OEMs
themselves, but by external suppliers. Without proper
requirements engineering, mature software and system
development is hardly possible. But not only the high system
complexity and OEM-supplier relationships force rigid
requirements engineering. Sometimes we also see distributed
development activities, where, for example, a software
subcontractor implements part of the software, COTS
components are integrated or needs from globally distributed
departments have to be considered properly. In these
settings, requirements management becomes even more
challenging. Download workshop proceedings (password required) W2 REV'06
– First International Workshop on Requirements
Engineering Visualization Workshop
Organizers With the increasing complexity of software requirements, problems of traditional requirements engineering techniques, including the use of unstructured text and lists, are becoming increasingly apparent. Allowing a large amount of unstructured textual information with redundancy, these approaches typically suffer in understandability, scalability and analysis. Visualization techniques have long been used to overcome these problems in other fields. This workshop aims to provide a collaborative session in which ideas related to visualization of requirements and ways of making them practical are shared, reviewed and debated. Topics of interest include experience papers, formal methods, emerging technologies, best practices, research proposals, evaluations and comparisons that focus on visualization techniques for requirements elicitation/analysis. Papers can be on any aspect of visualization languages/techniques for requirements elicitation/analysis including, for example, such topics as visualization support for elicitation/analysis techniques, process modeling, quality assurance, formal verification/validation, surveys, etc. The workshop will be used to identify future work, issues, problems and priorities, and to propose recommendations around these dimensions for requirements visualization research. Download workshop proceedings (password required) W3 CERE'06
– Fourth International Workshop on Comparative
Evaluation in Requirements Engineering Workshop
Organizers The need to assess the effectiveness and impact of RE research has been a growing concern within the RE community. One of the symptoms of this concern has been the interest shown at the 2003 - 2005 CERE workshops. These workshops have investigated the foundations of RE assessment and have shown that RE is now mature enough that the community can begin to make detailed comparative evaluations of alternative techniques. In this CERE workshop we will broaden the mission of previous workshops by explicitly considering the role of theory in comparative evaluation in addition to CERE's traditional themes of RE research methods and validation, the role of comparative evaluation in RE, and results of empirical studies and comparative evaluations of RE techniques, methods and tools. This workshop will aim to develop a deeper understanding of the state of theory in RE, the different types of theory currently available, how those theories can be used to guide evaluation, what refinements or new theories are needed to provide a more comprehensive framework for comparative evaluation in RE, as well as analyzing results of applying theory in comparative evaluations of RE techniques, method, and tools. Download workshop proceedings (password required) W4 RE-Lite'06
– Lightweight Requirements Engineering for
Off-The-Shelf-Based Software Development Workshop
Organizers This workshop has been
cancelled. W5 MeRE'06
– First International Workshop on Multimedia
Requirements Engineering – Beyond Mere
Descriptions Workshop
Organizers Most requirements
development and management efforts focus on production of
accessible and validated descriptions. Several methods and
tools are in use today that aid the requirements engineer in
writing, revising, and communicating requirements as text.
This approach has several disadvantages. First, text
constitutes a language barrier, particularly a challenge for
global companies with distributed product teams. Second,
text is an abstract form of communication and as such
requires the reader to interpret what is written. This is
always based on individual experience, preconceptions, and
digestibility of the text (style, amount, intended
audience). Third, without supporting tools, requirements
texts may quickly become outdated, inconsistent, or
overwhelmingly long. Download workshop proceedings (password required) W6 IWSPM'06
– International Workshop on Software Product
Management Workshop
Organizers In today's competitive software markets it is of utmost interest to have winning products. The success of any software product depends on skill-full and competent product management. Software product management includes product requirements, release definition, product release lifecycles, creating an effective multifunctional product introduction team and - above all - assuring a winning business case. Indeed software product management is complex: there are many stakeholders, many responsibilities and no formalized education or body of (scientific) knowledge. This workshop aims at increasing the body of knowledge for this specific area of requirements engineering by providing a forum to exchange ideas and publish results. It will build and shape the community of leading practitioners and research experts. Given the relevance of product management in IT and software companies, and the rather unexplored scientific contribution in this field, the workshop will deliver a state-of-the-art overview of the available scientific and practical knowledge on software product management, as well as an overview of areas within software product management for further research. Specific topics of interest include product software requirements management, release definition, roadmapping, product families, product line management, portfolio management, product lifecycle management, product strategy definition, and more. Download workshop proceedings (password required) W7 SOCCER'06
– Service-Oriented Computing: Consequences for
Engineering Requirements Workshop
Organizers SOCCER'2006 is seeking
significant and high-quality contributions in all topics
related to requirements engineering for service-oriented
software, with the goal of letting participants gain
insights into the current state of the art and future
challenges, create synergies through integration, and foster
cross-cooperation. The main result will be the continued
development of a research agenda to guide and support
researchers working at the intersection of requirements
engineering and service-centric computing. Download workshop proceedings (password required)
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