THIRD IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING

THEME : Putting Requirements Engineering to Practice

An IEEE Software Technology Transfer Conference

April 6-10, 1998, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society - Technical Council on Software Engineering With Corporate
Support from Fujitsu and INCOSE

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

ICRE '98 with two pre-conference and two post-conference tutorials is the third in a biennial series of conferences aimed at bringing together practitioners and researchers to discuss software requirements engineering related problems and results. Further, as a technology transfer conference, it is designed to provide (1) practitioners with an evaluation of promising requirements research and practice, and (2) researchers with an exposure to real-world requirements problems. ICRE is the only conference to earn the designation "An IEEE Software Magazine Technology Transfer Conference " for meeting the stringent requirements concerning emphasis on technology transfer. Participants should leave the conference with unique understanding of (1) the challenges facing writers and maintainers of requirements documents for complex systems, (2) available short-term solutions to requirements problems, and (3) solutions that may be available in the future as well as pointers to short and long-term research directions.

Keynote Speakers

Edward Yourdon

Title: "Requirements Engineering for Y2000 Projects: Why Is It Harder Than It Seems?"

Gerald M. Weinberg

Title: "Experiencing Requirements"

Abstract:
This will be a chance to experience a requirements process in a new way, and to share experiences with the real requirements for a requirements process.

Biography:
Jerry Weinberg is the co-author (with Don Gause) of Exploring Requirements. He has written a number of other books on how people work and communicate.

Tutorials

Larry Constantine

Tutorial Title: "Joint Essential Modeling: Collaborative User Requirements Modeling for Usability"

More information about tutorial click here.

Don Gause

Tutorial Title: "Seeing Customer Requirements, Defining Quality Before Design, Assuring Quality During Desing, Improving Quality after Design"

More information about tutorial click here.

Marina Jirotka

Tutorial Title: "Video-Supported Ethnography for Requirements Capture"

More information about tutorial click here.

Roel Wieringa

Tutorial Title: "Advanced Structured and Object-Oriented Requirements Specification Methods "

More information about tutorial click here.

Panels

ICRE'98 includes panels that focus on requirements engineering controversies, especially those that highlight the gulf between requirements research and practice.

"Delivering Requirements Engineering"

Moderator : Sol Greenspan
GTE Laboratories, USA. e-mail : greenspan@gte.com

"Report from the Pre-Conference Workshop"

Moderator : Brian Lawrence
Coyote Valley Software Consulting, USA. e-mail : lawrence@acm.org

"Specifying Requirements for Survivable Systems"

Moderator : Richard Linger
Software Engineering Institute, USA. e-mail : rlinger@sei.cmu.edu

"The Role of the Facilitator in Requirements Engineering"

Moderator : Linda A Macaulay
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Department of Computation, England. e-mail : lindam@sna.co.umist.ac.uk

"A Case for Priority" Mini Tutorial

Moderator : Ivy Hooks
Compliance Automation, Inc., USA. e-mail : ivyhooks@tlmworks.com

Location

Conference Hotel and Local Attractions

Program

ICRE'98 Program includes papers on a wide range of requirements topics addressing theory and/or practice.

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.

The best papers in the conference will be considered for publication in IEEE Software.

Registration

Please fill the Conference Registration Information and mail it to the Registration Chair: Charlene Svitek (105572.2622@compuserve.com)

Charlene Svitek
ICRE'98 Registration Chair
2620 Oakhill Drive
Library, PA 15129

Personnel