Call
for Papers
INFOS 2008
The 6th International Conference on Informatics and Systems
27-29 March, 2008
Cairo, EGYPT
Special Track
On
Requirements Engineering
Requirements
Engineering (RE) continues to occupy central importance in information and
software systems engineering. As inadequate attention has been often given to
the practice of defining the information and software systems requirements
prior to involvement with the development. Software and Information Systems
requirements definition problems has long been, and continue to be, a major
case for systems failure, which can sometimes be catastrophic. Even without
failure, problems with requirements determination activities can have a major
effect on the total quality of the resultant information systems and the
maintenance efforts that continue for years afterwards.
This track aims to shed light on recent issues, the approaches proposed for resolving them, and to instigate a healthy debate for dealing with current requirements engineering issues.
The main
aim of this track is to establish a dialogue about the effective use of
techniques, formalisms and tools, as well as their combinations in order to
address requirements engineering issues for software and technology-intensive
information systems. The track also aims to highlight outstanding issues that
should form a part of the forthcoming research agenda in the area of the
relevance and operationalization of research methodology issues in requirements
engineering.
Topics
The following
is a non-exhaustive list of topics covered by the track:
- Alternative
philosophies and paradigms in Requirements Engineering.
- Qualitative
Vs, quantitative approaches to RE.
- Requirements
modeling, validation and evaluation.
- Requirements
change: sources, impacts, management plans, and risk management.
- Successes and failures of requirements engineering and management initiatives.
- Project situation assessment for RE processes.
- RE processes in an open source context.
- Typical project situations requiring specific RE methods, techniques and tools.
- Domain-specific RE processes.
- Globally distributed RE processes.
- RE for service-oriented architectures and networked organizations.
- RE for product software.
- Method Engineering techniques for situational RE method construction.
- Adaptation and configuration of RE methods.
- Combination and selection of different RE methods, techniques and tools.
- Cultural diversity in RE processes.
- Agile RE processes.
- Flexible CASE tools for RE.
- The evaluation and selection of requirements engineering process models and methods.
- Requirements engineering education and training.
- Requirements engineering for composition-based software systems.
- Requirements engineering for socio-technical systems.
- Specifying and verifying requirements for human-computer interaction.
- RE for vague, turbulent and unstable work environments (e.g. as in newly developing economies).
- RE for workflow systems.
- Requirements visualization.
- Tools to support stakeholders collaboration and debate.
- CSCW systems to support RE processes.
Invited Speaker
Prof. Colette Rolland, Professor of Computer Science.
Informatics & Mathematics Department
University Paris-1 Pantheon Sorbonne, France.
Track
Chair
Galal Hassan Galal-Edeen,
Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University.
Program
Committee
TBA
Submission Categories
High quality submissions are sought under the following categories (each submission should indicate category as footnote in the first page of the paper):
- Technical papers should present novel and solutions that the state of the art for Requirements Engineering.
- Industrial practice and experiences papers should present problems or challenges covering the state of practice and real-world experiences in RE.
- Vision papers should be revealing, thought-provoking and propose new views and theories underpinning the RE theory and practice.
For
further information
Dr. Galal H Galal-Edeen, g.galal@fci-cu.edu.eg