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Call for Papers
8th INT. WORKSHOP ON MODEL-DRIVEN REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING (MoDRE)
Co-located with the 26th IEEE Int. Requirements Engineering (RE)
Conference in Banff, Canada, August 20th, 2018
http://www.modre2018.ece.mcgill.ca/
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IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submission : June 5th, 2018
Paper Submission : June 12th, 2018
Author Notification : July 6th, 2018
Camera Ready Due : July 17th, 2018
Workshop Date : August 20th, 2018

All deadlines are 23:59:59, Anywhere on Earth (AoE) Standard Time.

ABOUT MoDRE

The 8th International Model-Driven Requirements Engineering (MoDRE) workshop
continues to provide a forum to discuss the challenges of Model-Driven
Development (MDD) for Requirements Engineering (RE). Building on the interest
of MDD for design and implementation, RE may benefit from MDD techniques when
properly balancing flexibility for capturing varied user needs with formal
rigidity required for model transformations as well as high-level abstraction
with information richness. MoDRE seeks to explore those areas of requirements
engineering that have not yet been formalized sufficiently to be incorporated
into a model-driven development environment as well as how requirements
engineering models may benefit from emerging topics in the model-driven
community, such as flexible modeling or collaborative modeling. This workshop
intends to identify new challenges, discuss on-going work and potential
solutions, analyze the strengths and weaknesses of MDD approaches for RE,
foster stimulating discussions on the topic, and provide opportunities to
apply MDD approaches for RE.

For more information, see the complete CFP at
http://www.modre2018.ece.mcgill.ca/cfp.htm
or contact the organizers at modre2018-info at cs.mcgill.ca.

TOPICS

Submissions are welcome in all workshop topics including (but not limited to)
the following:

* Modeling languages and metamodels for requirements engineering approaches.
* Modeling languages and metamodels for supporting separation of concerns in
requirements models.
* Modeling languages and metamodels for non-functional requirements.
* Modeling languages and metamodels for requirements engineering for specific
domains, such as cyber-physical systems or Big Data applications.
* Synchronicity and consistency of different requirements models and views.
* Requirements models at runtime.
* Automatic analysis of requirements models.
* Automatic generation of tools for requirements engineering using MDD.
* Traceability and correctness of model transformations involving requirements
models.
* Empirical studies on model-driven requirements engineering.
* Simulation of requirements models. Flexible and collaborative modeling in
requirements engineering.
* Requirements models for simplicity and complementarity.

Moreover, industry papers covering topics such as the following are highly
welcome:

* Industry problems and practices about model-driven requirements engineering.
* Success stories about adopting model-driven requirements engineering in
industry.
* Industrial empirical studies on model-driven requirements engineering.

SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS PUBLICATION

Participants are invited to submit four kinds of papers:

(1) Full research papers with a length of eight (8) to ten (10) pages,
reporting on findings for problems related to model-driven requirements
engineering that are novel and improve on or analyze existing solutions.
(2) Short research papers with a length of four (4) to five (5) pages,
reporting on initial work that may not yet have been fully developed.
(3) Position papers with a length of four (4) to five (5) pages, reporting on
ideas and visions for the future of model-driven requirements engineering.
(4) Industry Papers, with a length of four (4) to ten (10) pages, describing
experiences related to the adoption of model-driven requirements
engineering practices in the industry or highlighting future challenges.

Accepted papers will become part of the workshop proceedings and will be
submitted for inclusion into the IEEE Digital Library.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Ana Moreira, Associate Professor, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Gunter Mussbacher, Assistant Professor, McGill University, Canada
João Araújo, Assistant Professor, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Pablo Sánchez, Assistant Professor, Univ. de Cantabria, Spain

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Vasco Amaral, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Joanne M. Atlee, University of Waterloo, Canada
Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Nelly Bencomo, Aston University, UK
Jean-Michel Bruel, Université de Toulouse, France
Betty Cheng, Michigan State University, USA
Ruzanna Chitchyan, University of Bristol, UK
Jane Cleland-Huang, University of Notre Dame, USA
José María Conejero, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain
Mustafa Berk Duran, McGill University, Canada
Kleinner Farias, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos), Brazil
Xavier Franch, University Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Martin Glinz, Universität Zürich, Switzerland
Arda Goeknil, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Martin Gogolla, Universität Bremen, Germany
Renata Guizzardi, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil
Emílio Insfran, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Juan de Lara, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Julio Leite, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Nicholas Matragkas, University of Hull, UK
Anna Medve, Pannon Egyetem, Hungary
John Mylopolous, Università di Trento, Italy
Elena Navarro, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Nan Niu, University of Cincinnati, USA
Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Anna Perini, FBK Center for Information Technology - IRST, Italy
Alfonso Pierantonio, Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy
Carme Quer, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech, Spain
William Robinson, Georgia State University, USA
Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Eugene Syriani, University of Montreal, Canada
Massimo Tisi, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France
Jose Luis de la Vara Gonzáles, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Antonio Vallecillo, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Manuel Wimmer, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
Tao Yue, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway