REFSQ 2013 - International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality

Requirements Engineering (RE) is a dominant factor that influences the quality of software, systems and services. The REFSQ working conference series is well established as one of the leading international forums for discussing RE and its many relations to quality. The first REFSQ took place in 1994, and since 2010 REFSQ has been organised as a stand-alone conference. In April 2013, we again welcome participants to attend REFSQ’13, which will be held in Essen, Germany.
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
REFSQ 2013 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. 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. We have chosen “Interdisciplinary RE” as the special theme for REFSQ’13. In addition to general papers on RE and quality, we therefore encourage submissions that highlight the interplay of RE with related disciplines such as software architecture, quality assurance, user interface design, project management, and agile software development. Contributions from further related areas such as systems engineering, economics, and management are also very welcome for the insights they provide to 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 field should be heading towards
Problem statements (up to 6 pages) describing open issues of practical or theoretical nature
Research previews (up to 6 pages) reporting research results at an early stage
Submissions
Papers should be submitted using Easychair at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=refsq1...
Other Events
REFSQ 2013 will also call for submissions for:
Half-day workshops focussing on topics related to REFSQ
A doctoral symposium in which PhD students present their RE-related research
Empirical studies to be run during REFSQ and in collaboration with companies
Publications
The REFSQ 2013 proceedings are intended to be published in Springer’s LNCS series.
Program Co-Chairs
Joerg Doerr ? Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
Andreas L. Opdahl ? Univ. of Bergen, Norway
Programme Committee
Aybüke Aurum
Brian Berenbach
David Callele
Eric Dubois
Armin Eberlein
Xavier Franch
Samuel Fricker
Don Gause
Vincenzo Gervasi
Tony Gorschek
Olly Gotel
Paul Grünbacher
Patrick Heymans
Matthias Jarke
Natalia Juristo
Erik Kamsties
Peter Karpati
Kim Lauenroth
Pericles Loucopoulos
Raul Mazo Pena
Nazim Madhavji
Raimundas Matulevicius John Mylopoulos
Cornelius Ncube
Bashar Nuseibeh
Barbara Paech
Oscar Pastor
Anne Persson
Kai Petersen
Jolita Ralyté
Gil Regev
Björn Regnell
Colette Rolland
Camille Salinesi
Kristian Sandahl
Peter Sawyer
Kurt Schneider
Norbert Seyff
Guttorm Sindre
Janis Stirna
Christer Thörn
Thorsten Weyer
Roel Wieringa
Didar Zowghi