Research PapersREFSQ 2021
Requirements Engineering (RE) is a critical factor in developing high-quality and successful software, systems and services. The REFSQ working conference series is an established international forum for discussing current and state-of-the-art RE practices, celebrating its 26th year.
The special theme of REFSQ 2021 is “Ethics as a cornerstone of Requirements Engineering” to emphasize the importance of human values, such as privacy and fairness, when designing software-intensive systems as well as the challenges that intelligent and autonomous systems pose due to the tight interplay with humans.
Other Contributions
REFSQ 2021 also calls for workshops focussing on relevant topics, posters and tools, doctoral symposium submissions, and an OpenRE track. Information will follow soon!
Tue 13 AprDisplayed time zone: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna change
10:00 - 10:15 | Conference OpeningResearch Papers at Room 1: Essen Chair(s): Fabiano Dalpiaz Utrecht University, Paola Spoletini Kennesaw State University | ||
10:15 - 11:15 | Paper Session 1: Adaptive SystemsResearch Papers at Room 1: Essen Chair(s): Norbert Seyff FHNW & University of Zurich | ||
10:15 30mPaper | AdaptationExplore– a Process for Elicitation, Negotiation, and Documentation of Adaptive Requirements Research Papers | ||
10:45 30mPaper | Defining Utility Functions for Multi-Stakeholder Self-Adaptive Systems Research Papers |
11:15 - 11:30 | |||
11:30 - 12:30 | Paper Session 2: Analysts' Competence and TrainingResearch Papers at Room 1: Essen Chair(s): Martin Glinz University of Zurich | ||
11:30 30mPaper | On Understanding the Relation of Knowledge and Confidence to Requirements Quality Research Papers Razieh Dehghani , Krzysztof Wnuk Blekinge Institute of Technology , Daniel Mendez Blekinge Institute of Technology, Tony Gorschek Blekinge Institute of Technology / DocEngineering, Raman Ramsin | ||
12:00 30mPaper | SaPeer Approach for Training Requirements Analysts: an Application Tailored to a Low-resource Context Research Papers |
11:30 - 12:30 | Paper Session 3: Software EcosystemsResearch Papers at Room 2: Duisburg Chair(s): Erik Kamsties FH Dortmund | ||
11:30 30mPaper | Requirements Engineering in the Planning Phase of a Software Ecosystem Research Papers | ||
12:00 30mPaper | Power and Privacy in Software Ecosystems: A Study on Data Breach Impact on Tech Giants Research Papers Maria Eduarda Rebelo , George Valença Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco (UFRPE), Fernando Aires |
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15:30 - 16:30 | |||
15:30 60mKeynote | Practicing (whose?) values: requirements engineering as a catalyst for technology justice. Research Papers |
16:30 - 17:30 | Social(ly distanced) Get-TogetherBreak at Room 1: Essen We are very sad that we will not be able to have a typical REFSQ dinner with great food, good music and lots of dancing! But we will use this session to foster the social gathering with new and old acquaintances, share old memories, discuss new ideas and conduct some very new “virtual REFSQ” activities. News: During this session the winner of the best paper award will be announced! | ||
Thu 15 AprDisplayed time zone: Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna change
10:00 - 10:15 | Award SessionResearch Papers at Room 1: Essen Chair(s): Fabiano Dalpiaz Utrecht University, Paola Spoletini Kennesaw State University | ||
10:15 - 11:15 | |||
10:15 60mKeynote | The Challenge(s) of Teaching Requirements Engineering Research Papers File Attached |
11:15 - 11:30 | |||
11:30 - 13:00 | Paper Session 5: Generating and Tracing RequirementsResearch Papers at Room 1: Essen Chair(s): Andrea Herrmann Herrmann & Ehrlich | ||
11:30 30mPaper | Iterative and Scenario-based Requirements Specification in a System of Systems Context Research Papers Carsten Wiecher FH Dortmund, Joel Greenyer FHDW Hannover, Carsten Wolff , Harald Anacker , Roman Dumitrescu | ||
12:00 30mPaper | Improving Trace Link Recovery using Semantic Relation Graphs and Spreading Activation Research Papers Link to publication DOI Pre-print | ||
12:30 30mPaper | CORG: A Component-Oriented Synthetic Textual Requirements Generator Research Papers Aya Zaki Ismail , Mohamed Osama , Mohamed Abdelrazek Deakin University, Australia, John Grundy Monash University, Amani Ibrahim |
11:30 - 13:00 | Paper Session 6: AI ServicesResearch Papers at Room 2: Duisburg Chair(s): Maya Daneva University of Twente | ||
11:30 30mPaper | Trustworthy AI Services in the Public Sector: What Are Citizens Saying about it? Research Papers | ||
12:00 30mPaper | Risk-driven Compliance Assurance for Collaborative AI Systems: A Vision Paper Research Papers Matteo Camilli Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Michael Felderer University of Innsbruck, Andrea Giusti , Dominik Tobias Matt , Anna Perini Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Barbara Russo Free University of Bolzano, Angelo Susi Fondazione Bruno Kessler | ||
12:30 30mPaper | Specifying requirements for data collection and analysis in Data-Driven RE. A Research Preview Research Papers Maurizio Astegher , Paolo Busetta , Anna Perini Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Angelo Susi Fondazione Bruno Kessler |
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15:30 - 16:30 | |||
15:30 60mKeynote | What makes intelligent visual analytics tools really intelligent? Research Papers |
16:30 - 16:45 | |||
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Accepted Papers
Call for Papers
Requirements Engineering (RE) is a critical factor in developing high-quality and successful software, systems and services. The REFSQ working conference series is an established international forum for discussing current and state-of-the-art RE practices, celebrating its 27th year.
Working Conference Format
REFSQ has a long tradition of being a highly structured and interactive event. Each session is organised to emphasize discussion among the presenters of papers, pre-assigned discussants, and all the other participants. The REFSQ’21 program will include keynote speakers, technical papers, research previews, industrial presentations, as well as posters and tools. Workshops and the REFSQ doctoral symposium will be co-located with the main conference.
Scope
REFSQ 2021 seeks reports of novel ideas and techniques that enhance the quality of RE products and processes, reflections on current research and industrial RE practices, as well as new views on RE. We invite submissions on any aspect of RE. We encourage researchers and practitioners from the RE, software engineering, information systems, service science, embedded systems, and product management fields to present original work. RE methods, tools and processes are expected to support engineering diverse types of systems of different scale and complexity and are applied in diverse domains. As such, contributions from related areas such as systems engineering, economics, and management, providing insights to RE, are welcome.
The special theme of REFSQ 2021 is “Ethics as a cornerstone of Requirements Engineering” to emphasize the importance of human values, such as privacy and fairness, when designing software-intensive systems as well as the challenges that intelligent and autonomous systems pose due to the tight interplay with humans.
Submissions
We invite original submissions in several categories:
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Technical design papers (15 pages) describe the design of new artifacts, i.e., novel solutions for requirements-related problems or significant improvements of existing solutions.
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Scientific evaluation papers (15 pages) investigate existing real-world problems, evaluate existing real-world implemented artifacts, or validate newly designed artifacts, e.g., by means such as case studies, experiments, simulation, surveys, systematic literature reviews, mapping studies, or action research.
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Vision papers (6 pages) state where research in the field should be heading.
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Research previews (6 pages) describe well-defined research ideas at an early stage of investigation which may not be fully developed.
Formatting
All submission must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS/LNBIP conference proceedings template (for LaTeX and Word): https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines. As per the guidelines, please remember to include keywords after your abstract.
Furthermore, to facilitate accurate bidding and a better understanding of the papers, each paper submitted to REFSQ 2021 is required to have a structured abstract. The imposed structure demands each abstract to have exactly 4 paragraphs with the following content:
- Context and motivation: Situate and motivate your research.
- Question/problem: Formulate the specific question/problem addressed by the paper.
- Principal ideas/results: Summarize the ideas and results described in your paper. State, where appropriate, your research approach and methodology.
- Contribution: State the main contribution of your paper. What’s the value you add (to theory, to practice, or to whatever you think that the paper adds value). Also state the limitations of your results.
Three examples of structured abstracts are given here.
Submission, Reviewing and Publication
Contributions must be submitted on https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=refsq2021.
Each submission in the scope of REFSQ will undergo a single-blind review process that will involve at least three members of the program committee.
The REFSQ 2021 proceedings will be published in Springer’s LNCS series. The best papers will be invited to a special issue of the Requirements Engineering Journal.