CfP - RefsQ'10 (International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality)

R e f s Q ' 10 The 16th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering:Foundation for Software Quality 30 June - 2 July, 2010 Essen, Germany Important dates Abstracts January 7, 2010 Papers January 15, 2010 Posters March 13, 2010 Workshop proposals November 30, 2009 www.refsq.org (more news to come on this website --stay tuned) Since 1994, when the first RefsQ took place, Requirements Engineering (RE) continued to be a dominant factor influencing the quality of software, systems and services. The RefsQ working conference series has now established itself as one of the leading international forums to discuss RE in its (many) relations to quality. RefsQ'09 seeks reports of novel ideas and techniques that enhance the quality of RE's products and processes, as well as reflections on current research and industrial RE practices. In the past, REFSQ has been organised in conjunction with other conferences, mainly the International Conference for Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE). For the first time, REFSQ will in 2010 be a stand-alone conference. WORKING CONFERENCE FORMAT RefsQ has a long tradition of being a highly structured and interactive forum. Each session is organised in order to provoke discussion among the presenters of papers, pre-assigned discussants and all the other participants. Scope We invite submissions on any aspect of RE. We encourage researchers and practitioners from the RE, software engineering, information systems, service science and embedded systems fields to present original work. Contributions from related areas such as formal methods, systems engineering, human computer interaction, economics, management and social sciences are very welcome for the insights they provide in RE. CALL FOR PAPERS We invite original submissions in various categories: * Full research papers (up to 15 pages), including solution papers, empirical studies, surveys, and comparative studies, * Experience reports (up to 15 pages), describing positive and negative experiences, * Vision papers (up to 6 pages) stating where the research in the fi eld should be heading towards, * Problem statements (up to 6 pages) describing open issues of pratical or theorectical nature, * Research previews (up to 6 pages) reporting on research results at a premature stage. * Posters (1 page) describing ongoing work. N.B. Posters will be published in the proceedings. See http://www.refsq.org for detailed instructions to authors about format, evaluation criteria and submission procedure. CALL FOR WORKSHOPS This year we invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference, related to the RefsQ topics. Contact the workshop chair for more information about submission of proposals. PUBLICATION The proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. ORGANISATION General chair Klaus Pohl, University of Duisburg Essen, Germany Programme co-chairs Anne Persson, University of Skövde, Sweden Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, The Netherlands Workshop and Poster chair Andreas Gehlert, University of Duisburg Essen, Germany Organisational chair Ernst Sikora PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Aybüke Aurum, University New South Wales, Australia Daniel M. Berry, University of Waterloo, Canada Jürgen Börstler, University of Umeå, Sweden Sjaak Brinkkemper, Utrecht University, Netherlands David Callele, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Alan Davis, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA Jörg Dörr, Fraunhofer-IESE, Germany Christof Ebert, Vector, Germany Xavier Franch, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Samuel Fricker, University of Zürich, Switzerland Vincenzo Gervasi, Università di Pisa, Italy Martin Glinz, University of Zürich, Switzerland Tony Gorschek, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Olly Gotel, Independent Researcher, New York City, USA Paul Grünbacher, University of Linz, Austria Peter Haumer, IBM Rational, USA Patrick Heymans, University of Namur, Belgium Matthias Jarke, RWTH Aachen, Germany Sara Jones, City University, London, UK Natalia Juristo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Erik Kamsties, Univ. of Applied Sciences, Lübeck, Germany Kim Lauenroth, University of Duisburg Essen, Germany Søren Lauesen, IT-University of Copenhagen, Denmark Seok-Won Lee, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Nazim H. Madhavji, University of Western Ontario, Canada Raimundas Matulevics, University of Tartu, Estonia Haris Mouratidis, University of East London, UK Cornelius Ncube, Bournemouth University, UK Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway Barbara Paech, University of Heidelberg, Germany Oscar Pastor, Valencia University of Technology, Spain Björn Regnell, Lund University, Sweden Colette Rolland, University of PARIS-1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France Camille Salinesi, Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne, France Kristian Sandahl, Linköping University, Sweden Peter Sawyer, Lancaster University, UK Kurt Schneider, University of Hanover, Germany Norbert Seyff, City University, London, UK Guttorm Sindre, NTNU, Norway Janis Stirna, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Canada Didar Zowghi, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Anne Persson Professor in Informatics Informatics Research Centre University of Skövde P.O. Box 408, SE-541 28 Skövde SWEDEN tel: +46 500 448342 email: anne.persson@his.se www.his.se/pera