EmpiRE 2011 - International Workshop on Empirical Requirements Engineering

Trento, Italy - August 30, 2011

@ Requirements Engineering 2011

http://selab.fbk.eu/empire2011/

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The first International Workshop on Empirical Requirements Engineering (EmpiRE)
encourages the cross-fertilization between Requirements Engineering and
Empirical Software Engineering. On one side, EmpiRE promotes the exchange of
ideas to understand why and how empirical methods from Empirical Software
Engineering can assess existing or new approaches in Requirements Engineering.
On the other side, EmpiRE intends to push toward new evaluation techniques,
domains and problems for exercising empirical methods or building new ones.

The topics of interest of the workshop include all the concerns related to the
join of Requirements Engineering and Empirical Software Engineering and,
in particular, the following:

- Research method and evaluation techniques in requirements engineering;
- State of the art in the field of empirical studies (e.g., surveys, case
studies and experiments) in requirements engineering;
- Critical factors, properties and metrics of requirements engineering
approaches to be empirically evaluated;
- Approaches and techniques to conduct empirical studies and comparative
evaluations;
- Different types of approaches and techniques to evaluate requirements
engineering research;
- Experimental designs for empirical studies;
- Frameworks and infrastructures for experimentations;
- Definition and development of benchmarks for experimental evaluations;
- Reporting on the results of empirical studies about techniques, methods and
tools in requirements engineering;
- Lessons learned in running empirical studies and comparative evaluations;
- Identification of strengths and weaknesses of empirical and comparative
evaluation approaches;
-...

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Contribution format

We solicit submissions in the following categories:

- Technical papers (max 8 pages in IEEE format). Full papers describing
empirical experiences in requirements engineering and reporting the results of
such experiences
- Position papers (max 4 pages in IEEE format). Short papers introducing the
position of the author/s on any of the topics within the scope of the workshop
or visionary papers exploiting new ideas about the contribution of the empirical
method in requirements engineering.
- Young Position papers (max 4 pages in IEEE format). Short papers written by
PhD/master students presenting the experimentation they performed/plan to
perform during their research work.

All the submissions to the workshop will be peer reviewed by three members of
the Program Committee. Acceptance will be primarily based on originality,
contribution to the area, ability to generate discussion, quality of the paper
and of the research, research completeness and maturity. Young position papers
will be reviewed, but more "helpfully" than "critically". Only original papers
not submitted to journals or other conferences will be considered. All
submissions must be in English.

All the accepted papers will be published in the IEEE digital library with the
support of the RE 2011 conference. Authors of the best papers presented at
EmpiRE 2011 will be invited to extend their work for possible inclusion in a
special issue of Journal of Software and Systems - Elsevier (under
negotiation).

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Important dates

Abstract submission: June, 1 2011
All paper categories: June, 6 2011
Notification: July, 5 2011
Camera Ready: July, 18 2011
Workshop: August, 30 2011

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Workshop format

The workshop will be organized based on different sessions:

- Invited speaker presentations by Prof. Neil Maiden (City University London, UK)
and by Prof. Fabio Massacci (University of Trento, Italy)
- Traditional presentations of the submitted contributions
- Tutorial about experimentation by Prof. Massimiliano Di Penta, University of
Sannio, Italy
- Panel discussion among experts working on Requirements Engineering and
Empirical Software Engineering to discuss the cross-fertilization

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Organizing Committee

Maya Daneva, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Vincenzo Gervasi (chair), University of Pisa, Italy
Andrea Herrmann, Axivion, Germany
Alessandro Marchetto, FBK, Italy
Oscar Pastor, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Marco Torchiano, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

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Program Committee

Maya Daneva, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Vincenzo Gervasi, University of Pisa, Italy
Andrea Herrmann, Axivion, Germany
Alessandro Marchetto, FBK, Italy
Oscar Pastor, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Marco Torchiano, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio, Italy
Filippo Ricca, University of Genova, Italy
Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Andreas Jedlitschka, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
Bjorn Regnell, Lund University, Sweden
Fabio Masacci, University of Trento, Italy
Susan Elliott Sim, University of California, USA
Anna Perini, FBK, Italy
Giulio Antoniol, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
Pete Sawyer, Lancaster University, UK
Dan Berry, University of Waterloo, Canada
Dietmar Pfahl, Lund University Sweden
Angelo Susi, FBK, Italy
Olly Gotel, Independed Researcher, USA
Daniela Damian, University of Victoria, Canada
Jane Cleland-Huang, De Paul University, USA
Jolita Ralyte, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Mahmood Niazi, Keele University, UK
Joerg Doerr, Fraunhofer IESE & University Kaiserslautern, Germany
Barbara Paech, University Heidelberg, Germany
Norbert Seyff, City University London, UK

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