Call for Paper

Tenth Anniversary International Workshop on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality

In connection with CAiSE'04 in Riga, Latvia - June 7-8, 2004.

At nine previous REFSQ workshops, researchers and practitioners from various disciplines have contributed to improve the definition and implementation of quality requirements. REFSQ'04 will continue this tradition as a highly interactive stage for discussion of quality-related problems in requirements engineering (RE) as they have developed over the last years. In particular, we encourage people from the requirements engineering, software engineering, embedded systems and information systems fields to present innovative approaches to higher software quality and to discuss how requirements engineering can contribute to it.

Themes

REFSQ'04 invites general submissions addressing a wide range of RE issues, such as (but not limited to):

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understanding and improving RE-processes;

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new methods and method engineering approaches for RE;

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evaluations of RE methods, techniques and tools;

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empirical studies of industrial RE practice; as well as

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transdisciplinary theories of and paradigms for RE.

In addition, the REFSQ'04 special theme is “Quality Requirements as Business Advantage”. Are investments in RE justified in terms of ROI? Do better RE practices lead to more profitable business? Is industry making money on RE?
Papers exploring these issues or providing new evidence are particularly welcome.

Workshop Format and Submissions

The workshop will be highly interactive. Attendance is limited to 30 people and participants should have a paper accepted for the workshop. The workshop language is English. Three types of submissions are solicited: full papers, position papers, and industrial problem statements (see guidelines for authors).

Send your contribution in LNCS style by e-mail, in PDF format, to: refsq@sse.uni-essen.de

Publication

Workshop proceedings will be published, as in previous years, by Essener Informatik Beiträge. In addition, revised versions of the best papers presented at the workshop will be published in a special issue of the Requirements Engineering Journal (Springer).

Program Co-Chairs

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Björn Regnell

Lund University, Sweden

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Erik Kamsties

University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

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Vincenzo Gervasi

University of Pisa, Italy

Advisory Committee

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