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CALL FOR PAPERS
WER 2022 – 25th Workshop on Requirements Engineering
August 23 - 26, 2022
UFRN, VIRTUAL https://wer2022.dimap.ufrn.br/
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IMPORTANT DATES – NEW DATES!!!
Regular Research Track and Software Requirement Tools Track
Abstract submission: March 21th, 2022
Paper submission: March 28st, 2022 (HARD DEADLINE!!!)

Master's and Doctoral Track, Tutorial Track and Journal First Track
Abstract submission: April 11th, 2022
Paper submission: April 18th, 2022 (HARD DEADLINE!!!)

Notification: May 20th, 2022
Camera-ready: June 10th, 2022
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The Workshop on Requirements Engineering 2022 is now in its twentieth-fifth edition (Silver Jubilee!). This series of workshops on the area started in 1998 as a meeting of the Ibero-American requirements engineering community. However, since then, it has attracted attention from researchers and practitioners from other parts of the world. The WER format promotes discussion and knowledge exchange between the academy and industry members. As in the last editions, this one will also feature invited lectures from well-known researchers and practitioners, and tutorials. This edition will introduce a track for journal manuscript presentations. WER 2022 invites authors of papers on the topics of interest of the conference and accepted in journals to present their research at WER. This is an opportunity for the authors to discuss their work in order to obtain feedback and improve their research.

Accepted papers will be published at WERPapers (http://wer.inf.puc-rio.br/WERpapers/), a repository indexed by DBLP. Therefore, the accepted papers will be listed by Google Scholar.

Best papers will be invited to publish an extended version to the journal Cadernos do IME -série informática (https://www.ime.uerj.br/cadernos/).

TOPICS OF INTEREST
- Requirements elicitation, analysis, and documentation, management, traceability,
prioritization, validation, verification, and negotiation;
- Requirements engineering education and training;
- Requirements engineering for specific software development paradigms, such as the
agent-driven, aspect-driven, model-driven, or service-driven;
- Requirements engineering for specific fields, like safety-critical, web-based, or
mobile applications systems;
- Requirements engineering in agile methodologies;
- Requirements specification languages, methods, processes, and tools;
- Model-driven software engineering
- Regulatory compliance.

* The topics of interest are not exhaustive listed

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Submissions must be written in Portuguese, Spanish or English. They must be formatted according to the LNCS page format.
All accepted papers will be published with Open Access through the WERpapers repository.

Please submit your work in PDF format via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wer2022

For further questions, please contact wer2022@dimap.ufrn.br

WER 2022 invites submission in the field of Requirements Engineering as part of the following tracks:

•REGULAR TRACK (WER-RT)
•TUTORIAL TRACK (WER-TT)
•MASTER’s AND DOCTORAL TRACK (WER-MDT)
•SOFTWARE REQUIREMENT TOOLS TRACK (WER-SRTT)
•JOURNAL FIRST TRACK (WER-JFT) - NEW!

TRACKS DESCRIPTION

REGULAR TRACK (WER-RT)
Papers presenting original results on research, teaching and industrial viewpoints on all aspects of Requirements Engineering are welcome. The selection process will consider applicability and relevance to Requirements Engineering, originality, and clarity.
The paper should not exceed 14 pages according to the LNCS format.

TUTORIAL TRACK (WER-TT)
The proposal for a 3-hour tutorial should not exceed two pages, formatted according to the LNCS page format.

MASTER’s AND DOCTORAL TRACK (WER-MDT)
The paper should not exceed 7 pages of content for Master's work and 10 pages of content for Doctoral work, according to the LNCS page format. We recommend, although it is not compulsory, that the research be at an intermediate stage so that experts’ suggestions could be included in the MSc and PhD work.
The works will receive feedback from the Program Committee with questions and suggestions about its content. The author should use these comments in the preparation of the paper's final version. Selected works must be presented by students during the MDT. On this occasion, they will receive opinions and constructive criticism from a Guest Panel, composed of researchers in the field of Requirements Engineering, as well as the audience.

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENT TOOLS TRACK (WER-SRTT)
Submissions for the Software Requirements Tool track must include a paper and a demo video with audio comments. The paper must have at most 10 pages, formatted according to the LNCS paper format.

JOURNAL FIRST TRACK (WER-JFT) - NEW!
The Journal-First Track at WER 2022 welcomes submissions from authors of top peer reviewed journal papersthat address the topics of interest of the workshop. This offers an opportunity for the authors to discuss their work with the community as well as to enrich the technical program of WER. Presentations of journal-first paperswill be included into WER 2022 Regular Track.
A submission to the WER 2022 Journal-First Track must be a journal paper accepted or published no earlier than September 1, 2020. The paper must report original results that are not extensions of previous conference papers. The paper must not have been presented at, and is not under consideration for, journal-first programs of other conferences. At least one author per selected submission must register and attend the workshop to present it.

GENERAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE:

LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIRS
Isabel Nunes, Universidade Federal de Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Lyrene Fernandes da Silva, Universidade Federal de Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Márcia Lucena, Universidade Federal de Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

REGULAR TRACK PROGRAM AND TUTORIAL CHAIRS
Maria Lencastre, Universidade de Pernambuco, Brazil.
Leandro Antonelli, Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Argentina.
Victor Santander, Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná, Brazil

MASTER'S AND DOCTORAL TRACK CHAIRS
Fernanda Alencar, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil.
Johnny Marques, Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, Brazil.

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS TOOLS TRACK CHAIRS
João Henrique Correia Pimentel, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brazil

JOURNAL FIRST CHAIRS
Jaelson Castro, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
Julio Leite, CNPq Researcher 1, Brazil

PUBLICITY CHAIRS
Gladys Kaplan, Universidad Nacional de La Matanza, Argentina
Enyo Gonçalves, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil
Maria Pinto-Albuquerque, Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

PROCEEDINGS CHAIR
Roxana Portugal, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Peru
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