Workshop in conjunction with the 16th IEEE Requirements Engineering
Conference Barcelona, Spain - September, 8.09.2008

http://www.re08.org/

Submissions deadline July 1st, 2008

MOTIVATION

Research has shown that capturing and sharing of tacit knowledge about requirements enhances reuse, enables traceability, supports requirement evolution and improves collaboration between participants in distributed projects. However, current requirements engineering processes and tools do not give enough room for managing requirements knowledge. In the age of agile methodologies and with the increasing distribution, scale and complexity of development projects, the need for managing requirements knowledge continues to increase, while the major constraint is to have a lightweight, usable, intelligent and personalized capturing and sharing approach. Requirement engineering infrastructures should capture and formalize tacit knowledge and requirement stakeholders should be able to answer questions about requirements at any time, using their common vocabularies.

Advancements in knowledge management such as ontological engineering, mining techniques, semantic annotation as well as search and assistance tools brings new potentials for the requirement engineering community. Therefore, this workshop discusses the issues and approaches regarding capturing, externalising, accessing, sharing and maintaining of knowledge in requirements engineering.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

The topics of the workshop include, but are not restricted to:

• Approaches to supporting sharing knowledge related to requirements
• Automatic and context-aware capture of problem domain knowledge
• Intelligent assistance tools such as semantic search and recommendation on requirements, or context awareness tools for supporting requirements elicitation, analysis, traceability and reuse
• Mining requirements repositories
• Ontology-based requirements and traceability management
• Methodologies supporting knowledge capture during requirements engineering activities such as elicitation, specification, analysis and change management
• Capture and maintenance of rationale information for volatile and evolving requirements
• Rationale management for product lines and service-oriented architectures
• Economic models for applying knowledge management in requirement engineering
• Empirical studies on advantages and drawbacks of particular knowledge management approaches

TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS

• Short papers (3-5 pages) state the position of the authors within the scope of the workshop, and can describe solution concepts in a premature state.
• Full papers (6-10 pages) describe problems, needs, novel approaches and frameworks within the scope of the workshop. Evaluations of new approaches are to be included in a full paper. Empirical evaluation papers and industrial experience reports are also welcome for submissions.
• Posters and demo papers (1-2 pages) summarize work results.

SUBMISSION

Submissions are to be done via EasyChair from the workshop homepage. Only electronic submissions are accepted. To be considered for review, a paper submission must be in the IEEE CS Press Proceedings format. (http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm) Paper submissions must not exceed 5 pages for a position paper or 10 pages for a full paper. Submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three members from the MaRK’08 program committee. Papers will be accepted based on originality and relevance to the workshop. Accepted papers will be published as workshop proceedings in the IEEE Digital Library. At least one author should participate at the workshop and register for the RE’08 conference.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submissions deadline: July 1st, 2008
Review feedback: July 25th, 2008
Camera ready: August 8th, 2008
Workshop: September 8th, 2008

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

• Bernd Brügge, TU München, Germany
• Oliver Creighton, Siemens AG, Germany
• Björn Decker, empolis GmbH, Germany (co-chair)
• Jörg Dörr, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
• Paul Grünbacher, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
• Hans-Jörg Happel, FZI Karlsruhe, Germany (co-chair)
• Leonid Kof, TU München, Germany
• Seok-Won Lee, University of North Carolina, USA
• Walid Maalej, TU München, Germany (co-chair)
• Gregoris Mentzas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
• Barbara Paech, University of Heidelberg, Germany
• Ernst Pohn, Rohde und Schwarz, Germany
• Renate Stücka, Telelogic Central Europe
• Anil Kumar Thurimella, Siemens AG, Germany (co-chair)
• Timo Wolf, University of Victoria, Canada
• Thomas Zimmermann, University of Calgary, Canada

PDF is available at http://www1.in.tum.de/static/mark08/images/cfp.pdf

MORE INFORMATION

http://www1.in.tum.de/mark08