CALL FOR PAPERS

experience paper

evaluates the effectiveness of a requirements engineering technology, which may have begun as a research effort, in a real-world, industrial setting on non-trivial requirements engineering problems, and a

research paper

describes an innovative requirement engineering technology aimed at cracking previously unsolved problems in requirements engineering and demonstrates, perhaps by application to an exemplar, the usefulness of the technology in solving these problems.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

Requirements problems, techniques & tools Defining the system-human interface requirements Business process relationship to system requirements Supporting requirements elicitation & evolution Requirements engineering in legacy system migration Advances in formal methods & their practical use Requirements-based system testing

Requirements definition, analysis & validation Prototyping, animation & visualization of requirements Non-linear & heterogeneous requirements descriptions Requirements engineering as a group activity Role of software architecture in requirements Lessons from domain-specific requirements practices Role of requirements standards

EARLY FEEDBACK:
All authors are strongly encouraged to submit extended abstracts of from one to three pages by May 19, 1997. In the interest of rapid response, these must be submitted either as a plain text file in ASCII form by e-mail to icre98@cs.technion.ac.il or by fax to Prof. D.M. Berry at +972-4-822-1128, with a preference to e-mail. The feedback will be in the same form in which the abstract was submitted. The abstract should summarize the problems addressed, the plan of the paper, the conclusions, and the contributions. Promising papers will receive early feedback by June 16 that can be applied to improving the full paper. Full papers received by 1 August without a previous extended abstract or for abstracts for which no feedback was given will nevertheless be given full consideration.

PANELS:
Proposals that focus on requirements engineering controversies are encouraged, especially those that highlight the gulf between requirements research and practice. Preference will be given to panels that present a diversity of views on the topic chosen. Proposals should include the panel's title, a brief description of issues to be debated, the names of prospective panel members, and a description of their roles.

SUBMISSION:
Full length papers are limited to 6000 words, typeset with enough room for comments by reviewers. They should include a short (150-word) abstract, a list of descriptive keywords, specification of the paper's category (experience / research), and complete contact information for the lead author. Authors should send six hard copies of their papers and panel proposals, in English, to one of the program chairs:

INTERNET HOTLINE:
Further information on ICRE '98 may be obtained by sending Internet electronic mail to icre98@cs.technion.ac.il, or through the WWW using the URL http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~icre98/.