RE 2009

The Requirements Engineering Track http://www.dsc.upe.br/sac2009

at The 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2009)

Honolulu, Hawaii, USA March 8-12, 2009

Overview

For the past twenty-three years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world.

The Second Edition of the Requirements Engineering Track (RE-Track'09) is part of the 24th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. SAC 2009 is hosted by University of Hawaii at Manoa and Chaminade University of Honolulu. Further details may be found at: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009/.

Requirement Engineering is defined as the branch of software engineering concerned with the real-world goals for, functions of, and constraints on software systems; it is also concerned with the relationship of these factors to precise specifications of software behaviour and to their evolution over time and across software families. Requirements engineering is increasingly recognized as a critically important activity in any systems engineering process. The arising of complex software applications in multidisciplinary domains, the speed with which they need to be developed, and the degree to which they are expected to change, all play a role in determining how the systems development process should be conducted. Independently of the nature of the software, the elicitation, analysis, negotiation, specification, validation and management of requirements are fundamental for the development of quality in complex software. Only by fully understanding stakeholders' needs, and documenting them in a concise, and unambiguous way, can  consistently deliver quality products designed to meet the complexities of our advanced information society.

The objective of this track is to explore different advances in requirement engineering in a general way, its relation with different areas, reducing the gap between software engineering solutions and the way one specific domain of knowledge was seen up to given point.

TOPICS

These are the main areas of concern in Requirements Engineering:
 * Requirements Engineering for Scientific Areas
 * Requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation
 * Requirements specification languages, methods, processes, and tools
 * Requirements management, traceability, viewpoints
 * Modelling of requirements, goals, and domains
 * Non-functional requirements
 * Requirements engineering and software architecture
 * Aspect-oriented requirements engineering
 * Agent-oriented requirements engineering
 * Requirements for COTS-based systems
 * Case studies and experiences based on requirements engineering
 * Social, cultural, and cognitive factors in requirements engineering
 * Requirements engineering: education and Training
 * Requirements and Simulation
 * Requirements and Autonomic Systems

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors are invited to submit original papers in all areas of Requirement Engineering.

The program committee will blindly review submissions to that track. The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review. The paper should not exceed 5 pages in ACM format. Please note that the maximum page length for the conference is 5 pages (without extra-fee), 8 is the maximum (with extra-fee).

Submissions should be printable on a standard printer on common paper formats, such as US letter and A4. Papers should not be submitted to more than one ACM-SAC track.

Paper submissions should be done electronically through the website http://sac.cs.iupui.edu/SAC2009. In case of any submission problems contact Jeff Allen at jallen@cs.iupui.edu. Further information may be found at: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009/.

Authors should also send a message to maria@dsc.upe.br, with the subject "PAPER SUBMISSION RE-ACMSAC09" with the title of the paper, the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and the contact address (including e-mail, telephone, and fax).

IMPORTANT DATES

Aug. 16, 2008: Paper submissions Oct. 11, 2008: Author notification Oct. 25, 2008: Camera-Ready Copy

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Alberto Silva, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Amador Durán Toro, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, UK Carla Silva, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Charles Haley, Asia Pacific Univ. College of Technology and Innovation, Malaysia Christine Choppy, Université Paris XIII, France Daniel M. Berry, University of Waterloo, Canada Didar Zowghi, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Canada Giancarlo Guizzardi, Lab. for Applied Ontology, Italy Guilherme Travassos, Universidade Federal do R.Janeiro, Brazil Gustavo Rossi, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina Guttorm Sindre, IDI/NTNU, Norway Jaelson Castro, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Jean-Michel Bruel, Univ. de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France João Araújo, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal João F. Cunha, Universidade do Porto, Portugal John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada Jon Hall, The Open University - United Kingdom, England Juan Hernández, University of Extremadura, Spain Julio Leite, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do R. Janeiro, Brazil Kamel Rouibah, Kuwait University, Kuwait Lin Liu, Tsinghua University, China Maria Lencastre, Universidade de Pernambuco, Brazil Maritta Heisel, Duisburg-Essen University, Germany Mehmet Aksit, Univ. Twente Drienerlolaan Enschede, The Netherlands Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Pankaj Jalote, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Indian Paolo Giorgini University of Trento, Italy Robin Laney, The Open University UK Rosana Braga, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil Vincenzo Gervasi, University of Pisa, Italy Xavier Franch, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Yijun Yu Open University, UK

CONTACT

For further information please contact the track organizer:

Maria Lencastre Requirement Engineering Track Chair

Departamento de Sistemas Computacionais Universidade de Pernambuco Recife - PE - BRAZIL Phone: + 55 81 21193842 Fax: + 55 81 21193881 E-mail: maria@dsc.upe.br

RE TRACK WEB-SITE

Updated information on the Requirement Engineering track may be found at: http://www.dsc.upe.br/sac2009 This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP