RefsQ’06 Call for Papers

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The Twelfth International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality

In connection with CAiSE'06 in Luxembourg

REFSQ site: www.refsq.org

CAiSE'06 site: www.tudor.lu/caise06

Submission deadline: March 15th, 2005

Overview

Now in its twelfth year, REFSQ is a highly interactive forum for researchers and practitioners to address the problem of ensuring software quality through requirements engineering (RE). The last decade has seen improvements in our understanding of RE with better practices supported by better techniques, methods and tools. Despite these successes, many quality-related problems remain, while new challenges for RE constantly emerge. REFSQ seeks reports of innovative work in RE that contributes to the achievement of higher software quality. In particular, we encourage people from the requirements engineering, software engineering, information systems, and embedded systems fields to present their approaches to RE. Contributions from related areas such as formal methods, systems engineering, economics and management and social sciences are especially welcome.

Themes

Submissions may be on any aspect of RE and its relation to other fields, for instance:

Estimation in RE
Best Practices in Specific Domains
RE for Autonomic and Self-conscious Systems
Encoding, Transferring, Analysing and Applying RE Knowledge
RE in Large Projects: Compositionality and Scalability

Case studies, experience reports and industrial problem statements are particularly encouraged.

Format and Submissions

REFSQ has a long tradition of being a highly interactive forum. In the past, attendance was limited to authors of accepted papers only. This year, for the first time, attendance to the event is open to every interested person. Discussants and Discussion Facilitators will be formally appointed for each paper and session, respectively, to ensure an atmosphere of productive interaction. The working language is English.

Three types of paper are solicited: full papers (15 pages max, 12 recommended), position papers (6 pages max) and industrial problem statements (6 pages max) -- see http://www.refsq.org for details about format and evaluation criteria. Submission is handled electronically through the REFSQ web site.

Publication

Proceedings will be published, as in previous years, by Essener Informatik Beiträge. In addition, revised versions of the best papers presented at the conference will be published in a special issue of the Information and Software Technology journal (Elsevier).

Important Dates

Submission deadline:	March 15th, 2006
Notification of acceptance:	April 18th, 2006
REFSQ'06 in Luxembourg:	June 5th-6th, 2006

Organization

Program Co-Chairs	Advisory Board
Vincenzo Gervasi University of Pisa, Italy	Klaus Pohl University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Pete Sawyer Lancaster University, UK	Andreas Opdahl University of Bergen, Norway
Barbara Paech University of Heidelberg, Germany	Eric Dubois CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg

Program Committee

I. Alexander M. Goedicke N. Maiden M. Rossi

T. Alspaugh P. Haumer J. Natt och Dag A. Russo

A. Aurum P. Heymans A. Opdahl C. Salinesi

D. Berry F. Houdek B. Paech K. Sandahl

S. Brinkkemper N. Juristo A. Persson P. Sawyer

P. Charrel E. Kamsties K. Pohl A. Silva

K. Cox J. Krogstie N. Power G. Sindre

A. Davis G. Lami J. Ralyte M. Winter

E. Dubois S. Lauesen L. Rapanotti C. Wohlin

V. Gervasi P. Loucopoulos B. Regnell E. Yu

S. Gnesi K. Lyytinen C. Rolland D. Zowghi