CALL FOR PAPERS

First International Workshop on Requirements Engineering and Law (RELAW)
Tuesday, 9 September 2008, Barcelona, Spain
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tdbreaux/relaw

Held in conjunction with the 16th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'08)
http://www.re08.org

WORKSHOP OVERVIEW

What must organizations do to demonstrate that their software systems and data practices comply with government laws and regulations?

The 1st International Workshop on Requirements Engineering and Law is a multi-disciplinary, one-day workshop that will bring together practitioners and researchers from government, industry and academia to investigate the challenges to ensuring that software systems comply with the law. Recent compliance challenges include electronic voting, patient medical records, corporate governance and national identification cards. Authors are invited to submit papers that address one or more of the following topics of interest:

* Identifying, prioritizing and integrating relevant laws and jurisdictions
* Legal requirements acquisition, specification, analysis and validation
* Formal and informal modeling of laws, policies and requirements
* Traceability between laws, policies and requirements
* Coordinating requirements change and the evolution of law
* Introducing existing products and services into new jurisdictions
* Requirements verification; documenting and auditing evidence of compliance
* Acceptable degrees of compliance assurance and system certification

SUBMISSION FORMAT

Authors may submit papers in two general categories:

* Research/Experience papers (4 pages)
* Industrial/Government problem statements (2-4 pages)

Submissions will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee for relevance to the workshop topics of interest. Preference will be given to submissions that emphasize informed, legally and technically sound descriptions of important challenges and problems as opposed to proposed solutions. Accepted submissions will be archived in an online proceeding in IEEE Xplore. Papers must be formatted to conform to the IEEE Computer Society proceeding guidelines and submitted electronically in Adobe PDF to the Microsoft Research Conference Management service:

https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/RELAW2008

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for Submissions: 4 July 2008
Notice of Acceptance: 28 July 2008
Camera-ready Due: 8 August 2008
Workshop Date: 9 September 2008

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Annie Anton, North Carolina State University
Travis Breaux, North Carolina State University
Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna
John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Steven Adler, IBM Data Governance Council
Dan Berry, University of Waterloo
Efrim Boritz, University of Waterloo
Eric Dubois, Henri Tudor Research Institute
Patrick Heymans, University of Namur
John Mitchell, Stanford University
Seok-Won Lee, University of North Carolina
Luigi Logrippo, University of Quebec - Outaouais
Louis Marinos, ENISA
Fabio Massacci, University of Trento
Deirdre Mulligan, UC Berkley Center of Law
Bashar Nuseibeh, Open University
Henry Prakken, Utrecht University
Richard Purcell, Corporate Privacy Group
Giovanni Sartor, University of Bologna
Peter Sommer, London School of Economics
Gene Spafford, Purdue University
George Spanoudakis, City University - London

CONTACT INFORMATION

Please send inquiries to: relaw@csc.ncsu.edu