============================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS The 4th Requirements Engineering Track http://www.dsc.upe.br/~sac2011 at The 26th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2011) Tunghai University, TaiChung, Taiwan March 21-25, 2011 ------------ Overview ------------ For the past twenty-five years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. The Fourth Edition of the Requirements Engineering Track (RE-Track'11) is part of the 26th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. SAC 2011 is hosted by Tunghai University, TaiChung, Taiwan. Further details may be found at: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2011/. Requirement Engineering is defined as the branch of Software Engineering concerned with the real-world goals for, functions of, and constraints on software systems; it is also concerned with the relationship of these factors to precise specifications of software behaviour and to their evolution over time and across software families. Requirements engineering is increasingly recognized as a critically important activity in any systems engineering process. The arising of many complex software applications in many multidisciplinary domains, the speed with which they need to be developed, and the degree to which they are expected to change, all play a role in determining how the systems development process should be conducted. Independently of the nature of the software, the elicitation, analysis, negotiation, specification, validation and management of requirements are fundamental for the development of quality in complex software. Only by fully understanding stakeholders' needs, and documenting them in a concise, and unambiguous way, can consistently deliver quality products designed to meet the complexities of our advanced information society. However, there area number of inherent difficulties in the RE process. The existing methods for requirements specification are far from being completely satisfactory. Requirements must be measurable, testable, related to identified business and other field needs or opportunities, and defined to a level of detail sufficient for system design. The demand for better, faster, and more usable software systems will continue, and RE will therefore continue to evolve in order to deal with different development scenarios which must be considered. Besides that, many new areas are being investigated by requirements engineering community (such as: aspect-oriented or agents-oriented development, COTS-based systems, use of simulation techniques, autonomic system) to achieve better ways for leading with the involved complexity. The objective of this track is to explore different advances in requirement engineering in a general way, its relation with different areas, reducing the gap between software engineering solutions and the way one specific domain of knowledge was seen up to given point. ------------ TOPICS ------------ These are the main areas of concern in Requirements Engineering: * Requirements Engineering for Scientific Areas * Requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation * Requirements specification languages, methods, processes, and tools * Requirements management, traceability, viewpoints * Modelling of requirements, goals, and domains * Non-functional requirements * Requirements engineering and software architecture * Aspect-oriented requirements engineering * Agent-oriented requirements engineering * Requirements for COTS-based systems * Case studies and experiences based on requirements engineering * Social, cultural, and cognitive factors in requirements engineering * Requirements engineering: education and Training * Requirements and Simulation * Requirements and Autonomic Systems ------------ PAPER SUBMISSION ------------ Authors are invited to submit original papers in all areas of Requirement Engineering. The program committee will blindly review submissions to that track. The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review. The paper should not exceed 6 pages in ACM format. Please note that the maximum page length for the conference is 6 pages (without extra-fee), 8 is the maximum (with extra-fee, $80/each page). Submissions should be printable on a standard printer on common paper formats, such as US letter and A4. Papers should not be submitted to more than one ACM-SAC track. Further information may be found at: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2011/. ------------ IMPORTANT DATES ------------ All deadlines will be strictly enforced. Aug 31, 2010: Paper submissions (extended) Oct 12, 2010: Author notification Nov 2, 2010: Camera-Ready Copy ------------ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ------------ Ana Moreira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Christine Choppy, Université Paris XIII , France Daniel M. Berry, University of Waterloo, Canada Daniela Damian, University of Victoria, Canada Eber Assis Schmitz, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Emmanuel Letier, University College London, UK Guilherme Horta Travassos, COPPE/UFRJ, Brazil Gustavo Rossi, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina Guttorm Sindre, IDI/NTNU, Norway Jaelson Berlaz Castro, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil João Araújo, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada Jon Hall, The Open University, UK Jon Whittle, Lancaster University, UK Juan Hernández, University of Extremadura, Spain Júlio Leite, PUC-Rio, Brazil Joost Noppen, Lancaster, UK Kamel Rouibah, Kuwait University, Kuwait Klaus Pohl, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Lin Liu, Tsinghua University, China Lyrene Fernandes, UFRN, Brazil Maria Lencastre, UPE, Brazil Maritta Heisel, Duisburg-Essen University, Germany Mehmet Aksit, Univ. Twente Drienerlolaan Enschede, The Netherlands Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Patrick Heymans, University of Namur, Belgium Paulo Cesar Masiero, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil Richard Banach, University of Manchester, UK Ricardo Argenton Ramos, UNIVAS, Brazil Ruzanna Chitchyan, Lancaster University, UK Xavier Franch, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain ------------ CONTACT ------------ For further information please contact the track organizer: Maria Lencastre Requirement Engineering Track Chair -------------------------------- Escola Politecnica de Pernambuco, Universidade de Pernambuco Recife - PE - BRAZIL Phone: + 55 81 21193842 Fax: + 55 81 21193881 E-mail: maria@dsc.upe.br ------------ RE TRACK WEB-SITE ------------ Updated information on the Requirement Engineering track may be found at: http://www.dsc.upe.br/~sac2011