Workshops
Monday August 31, 2020
Monday August 31, 2020
Organizers:
Anne Hess (Fraunhofer IESE, Germany)
Marcus Trapp (Fraunhofer IESE, Germany)
Oliver Karras (Leibniz University Hannover, Germany)
Norbert Seyff (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland & University of Zurich, Switzerland)
The D4RE workshops brings together a diversity of people who are interested in discussing the question “What can requirements engineering learn from other disciplines?” The overall goal of the workshop is to collaboratively work with experts from non-SE disciplines in order to develop a body of best practices from these disciplines and identify possible synergies with RE. In this fourth edition, we aim to further enrich our existing body of valuable synergy ideas that we elaborated in the previous successful workshop editions. Moreover, as a special issue of this fourth edition, we aim to explicitly examine the reverse synergy direction by discussing the question “What can other disciplines learn from RE?”. The workshop results are intended to serve as “inspiration” for the development of new RE methods when it comes to addressing current RE-related challenges and to foster future collaborations across the boundaries of RE with other disciplines.
Monday August 31, 2020
Organizers:
Kristian Beckers (Airbus Cybersecurity GmbH, Germany)
Duncan Ki-Aries (Bournemouth University, UK)
Seok-Won Lee (Ajou University, South Korea)
Yijun Yu (The Open University, UK)
The Evolving Security and Privacy Requirements Engineering (ESPRE) Workshop is a multi-disciplinary, one-day workshop. It brings together practitioners and researchers interested in security and privacy requirements. ESPRE probes the interfaces between Requirements Engineering and Security & Privacy, and aims to evolve security and privacy requirements engineering to meet the needs of stakeholders; these range from business analysts and security engineers, to technology entrepreneurs and privacy advocates.
Monday August 31, 2020
Organizers:
Sophie Ebersold (University of Toulouse, France)
Regine Laleau (University of Paris-Est Creteil, France)
Manuel Mazzara (Innopolis University, Russia)
Quality of software systems is to a large extend determined by the quality of their original requirements. Such requirements, typically written in natural language, sometimes lack precision. Formal approaches can help in solving the problem: methods and notations already exist as a result of long-term research effort. In order to broaden the industrial applications of formal approaches, the workshop brings together practitioners and academics aiming at contributing towards requirements formalization. In particular, we will focus on the state-of-the-art in “formal” approaches to requirements, new ideas and techniques for formal requirements Engineering, and Industrial applications of “formal” approaches. Studies focusing on a better understanding of the industrial success of existing methods are welcome together with proposal for new techniques and notations
Monday August 31, 2020
Organizers:
Sarah Gregory (Intel Corporation, USA)
Alicia M. Grubb (Smith College, USA)
Zachary J. Oster (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA)
REET aims to discuss the latest challenges and solutions regarding requirements engineering education and training in all contexts including undergraduate, graduate, and professional education. This workshop focuses on teaching and learning of RE skills and methodologies. REET fosters connections between educators, researchers, and industry practitioners in fruitful discussion about the science of learning and transfer. By focusing on educational transfer, we hope to increase the impact of RE curriculum content while addressing pedagogical challenges. We also aim to foster collaboration and sharing of training materials and best practices, from learning outcomes to active learning techniques. We invite participants to submit summaries of RE teaching/training activities that they have used, in addition to extended abstracts and research papers.
Monday August 31, 2020
Organizers:
Deepika Badampudi (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Farnaz Fotrousi (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Fabiano Dalpiaz (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Christoph Becker (University of Toronto, Canada)
The software engineering code of ethics asks professionals to ensure software that does not diminish the quality of life, diminish privacy or harm the environment among other things. Requirements Engineering inevitably raises ethical concerns and questions about the role of human values in software engineering. It is essential to identify these early and consider them throughout the range of RE activities. Failing to do this will lead to consequences such as violations of privacy and breaches of confidentiality. Failing to account for the role of human values in RE will mean that they will drive RE implicitly. Ethics is equally important in requirements engineering research, in particular when humans are involved. The objective of this workshop is to explore the intersection of ethics, human values, and requirements engineering. Discussions will address the role of ethics and values in RE practice and research and identify emerging trends and research directions.
Monday, August 31, 2020
Organizers:
Daniel Amyot (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Meira Levy (Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Israel)
Lin Liu (Tsinghua University, China)
Eric Yu (University of Toronto, Canada)
The First International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Well-Being, Aging, and Health (REWBAH) workshop fosters discussion related to requirements engineering resulting from the need to build software systems that not only support healthcare, but also promote well-being, encourage patients and the population in general to live according to healthy lifestyle recommendations, and address the specific needs of an aging population. These systems can provide, for example, personalized and tailored behavioral change programs for decreasing health risk factors. This multi-disciplinary workshop will bring together practitioners and researchers from Software and Requirements Engineering, Medicine, Health Sciences, Health Informatics/IS, and Psychology. Among other objectives, REWBAH aims to i) develop RE approaches that support multiple perspectives of well-being, aging, and health; ii) develop methods for defining and monitoring requirements of systems and services that promote well-being or health; and iii) identify open research and industry challenges, as well as validation objectives for proposed solutions.
Tuesday September 1, 2020
Tuesday September 1, 2020
Organizers:
Nelly Bencomo (Aston University, United Kingdom)
Alessio Ferrari (CNR-ISTI, Italy)
Fatma Başak Aydemir (Bogazici University, Turkey)
Mona Rahimi (Northern Illinois University, United States)
The primary purpose of this workshop is to explore synergies between AI and RE in order to identify complex RE problems that could benefit from the application of AI techniques and the other way round. AIRE also aims to strengthen the links in the community and foster the communication between industry and academia, as well as between researchers in this field. In addition, this workshop aims to build and share standard datasets that can help the community develop state of the art systems for RE. These datasets can also be used to compare different systems and approaches as in other communities like Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. Finally, the workshop aims to make researchers showcase and compare their work through informal tool demonstrations. This way, we can interactively compare the state of the art, understand research gaps, and inspire new work.
Tuesday September 1, 2020
Organizers:
Jan Ole Johanssen (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
Kuldar Taveter (University of Tartu, Estonia)
James Tizard (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Kelly Blincoe (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Affective computing spans a broad research field from the recognition to the expression of emotions, which is of interest for software systems as they are designed and used by humans. For requirements engineering (RE), understanding and utilizing personality traits, attitudes, moods, and emotions play a crucial role in various facets, reaching from the consideration of individual professionals and team performance during RE activities to the utilization of end user emotions as a means to verify and validate requirements. The AffectRE workshop aims at creating an international, sustainable community where researchers and practitioners can meet, present, and discuss their current work to affect the RE community with ideas from affective computing. In its third edition, this workshop fosters high-quality contributions about empirical studies, theoretical models, and tools that raise emotion awareness in RE.
Tuesday September 1, 2020
Organizers:
Muneera Bano (Deakin University, Australia)
Eduard C. Groen (Fraunhofer IESE, Germany)
Irit Hadar (University of Haifa, Israel)
Anas Mahmoud (Louisiana State University, USA)
The rise of mobile, social and cloud apps requires requirements engineering (RE) to adapt. The traditional methods of RE are very inefficient in situations involving thousands to millions of current and potential users of a (software) product. The crowd is an interesting source for RE because it produces user feedback in texts and usage data. Being able to respond quickly, effectively and iteratively to the requirements, problems, wishes and needs identified in user feedback can increase a product’s success. Crowd-Based RE (CrowdRE) seeks to provide RE with suitable means for this crowd paradigm.
The Fourth Workshop on Crowd-Based Requirements Engineering (CrowdRE’20) builds on the successes of its previous editions, which unified the vision (CrowdRE’15), established a roadmap and shared resources (CrowdRE’17), strengthened relationships to AI (CrowdRE@AIRE’18), and redefined its scope (CrowdRE’19). CrowdRE’20 will assess the implications of Glinz’ revised definition of CrowdRE, and the streams of CrowdRE research and practice.
Tuesday September 1, 2020
Organizers:
Renata Guizzardi (Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil)
Gunter Mussbacher (McGill University, Canada)
Marcela Ruiz (Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland)
The iStar workshop series is dedicated to the discussion of concepts, methods, techniques, tools, and applications associated with i* (iStar) and related goal modelling approaches. The objective of the workshop is to provide a unique opportunity for researchers in the area to exchange ideas, compare notes, promote interactions, and forge new collaborations. For that, we intend to organize a program with a mix of paper presentations and interactive moments. In line with the RE20 conference theme “Requirements Engineering for a Digital World”, this edition also seeks to explore how i* may be best applied in the Digital World. For example, how does i* relate to other approaches that are relevant in the Digital World? What are the objectives of these other works, and how can they complement i*? How can i* interact with these works and support the understanding of specific domains and the design of systems?
Tuesday September 1, 2020
Organizers:
Ana Moreira (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
Gunter Mussbacher (McGill University, Canada)
João Araújo (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
Pablo Sánchez (Universidad de Cantabria, Spain)
The Tenth International Model-Driven Requirements Engineering (MoDRE) workshop discusses the challenges of Model-Driven Development (MDD) for RE. RE may benefit from MDD techniques when properly balancing flexibility for capturing varied user needs with formal rigidity required for model transformations as well as high-level abstraction with information richness. MoDRE seeks to explore those areas of RE that have not yet been formalized sufficiently to be incorporated into an MDD environment as well as emerging topics such as flexible modeling or collaborative modeling. In the Digital World, RE modeling techniques may help better understand stakeholders. For MoDRE’s 10th edition, we take a critical look over the last ten years and establish a research agenda for the future by identifying new challenges, discussing on-going work and potential solutions, analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of MDD approaches for RE, fostering stimulating discussions on the topic, and providing opportunities to apply MDD approaches for RE.
Tuesday September 1, 2020
Organizers:
Birgit Penzenstadler (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Colin Venters (University of Huddersfield, UK)
Ruzanna Chitchyan (University of Bristol, UK)
The RE4SuSy workshop series has established a strong and growing research community around the different aspects of sustainability and how to support them in requirements engineering. Since requirements define how and what a software will do, we maintain that requirements engineering is the key point in software engineering through which sustainability can be fostered. Thus, the RE4SuSy workshop series is concerned with research on techniques, tools, and processes for sustainability through requirements engineering.