ICSE 2026
Sun 12 - Sat 18 April 2026 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The rapid integration of AI components into software systems introduces new complexities for requirements engineering (RE). Despite the widespread adoption of AI, few public datasets of requirements and their associated trace links exist for these systems. This lack of available data hinders progress in RE4AI, limiting both the evaluation of existing techniques and the development of new approaches that address the unique challenges of AI. To help bridge this gap, we present a dataset from a real-world Generative AI application consisting of source code written in multiple languages and a diverse hierarchy of software artifacts, including features, functional and non-functional requirements, and design constraints. The dataset also provides manually constructed trace links between these natural language artifacts, with end-to-end traceability to code for a subset of AI-related features. We outline potential research applications of this dataset and describe four challenges encountered in specifying and maintaining requirements for the AI components. Additionally, we present our approaches for addressing these challenges as reusable traceability patterns. By releasing this dataset, we aim to provide a foundation for advancing further research in requirements engineering for AI-based systems.

Sun 12 Apr

Displayed time zone: Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil change

09:00 - 10:30
Engineering and Operationalising Requirements for AIMO2RE / RAISE at Bora Bora III
09:00
10m
Day opening
Opening and welcome
MO2RE
Walid Maalej University of Hamburg, Davide Fucci Blekinge Institute of Technology, Chetan Arora Monash University, Sallam Abualhaija University of Luxembourg, Carla Silva Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur Centre for Software Excellence, Huawei, Canada, Amel Bennaceur The Open University, UK
09:10
20m
Talk
Real-World Traceability Patterns for Generative AI Systems: With Insights from the Safa Dataset
RAISE
Katherine R. Dearstyne University of Notre Dame, Alberto Daniel Rodriguez Independent, Jane Cleland-Huang University of Notre Dame
09:30
20m
Talk
The Role of Requirements Engineering in AI Oriented Software
MO2RE
Julio Cesar Leite Federal University of Bahia (UFBA)
09:50
20m
Talk
Empowering AI-Powered Industrial Design Software: Introducing Constraint Satisfaction Problem for Requirement Alignment
RAISE
haoyu zheng University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, lance zhao Beihang University, zhe li Tsinghua University, yichi zhang Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
10:10
20m
Talk
A Gray Literature Study on Fairness Requirements in AI-enabled Software Engineering
RAISE
Thanh Nguyen University of Calgary, Chaima Boufaied University of Calgary, Ronnie de Souza Santos University of Calgary