The Doctoral Symposium at the 30th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE’22) brings together Ph.D. students and academics working in all areas of requirements engineering. Each student presents his or her research project and receives constructive feedback from a panel of senior internationally renowned researchers in requirements engineering. The doctoral symposium is run in a highly interactive and collegial workshop-like format.

The Doctoral Symposium is scheduled to be held on Monday, August 15, 2022 between 9am and 2pm UTC+0 (7pm to midnight local time in Melbourne, Australia).
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Doctoral SymposiumDoctoral Symposium at Quokka
Chair(s): Nelly Bencomo Durham University, Seok-Won Lee Ajou University
19:00
5m
Day opening
Opening to Doctoral Symposium
Doctoral Symposium
D: Seok-Won Lee Ajou University
19:05
55m
Keynote
Doctoral Symposium Keynote: Getting your PhD Done – A Guided Tour
Doctoral Symposium
K: Martin Glinz University of Zurich
20:00
30m
Talk
Towards a Decision Support Tool to Prescribe Recreation for Older Adults in Social Isolation (RxOSI)
Doctoral Symposium
Namrata Bagaria University of Ottawa
20:30
30m
Talk
Creating Consistent Privacy Notices by Translating Code Segments into Privacy Captions
Doctoral Symposium
Vijayanta Jain University of Maine
21:00
30m
Talk
Documenting Regulatory Requirements Decision-Making as a Compliance Concern
Doctoral Symposium
Evelyn Kempe University of Maryland, Baltimore County
21:30
10m
Coffee break
Short Break
Doctoral Symposium

21:40
50m
Industry talk
Invited Talk from Industry
Doctoral Symposium
I: Alessia Knauss Veoneer Research, Sweden
22:30
30m
Talk
Evidence-driven Data Requirements Engineering and Data Uncertainty Assessment of Machine Learning-based Safety-critical Systems
Doctoral Symposium
Sangeeta Dey Ajou University
23:00
45m
Panel
Panel Discussion and Closing
Doctoral Symposium
D: Nelly Bencomo Durham University, D: Seok-Won Lee Ajou University

Not scheduled yet

Not scheduled yet
Talk
Developing A Privacy Risk Analysis Framework for Heterogeneous IoT Network
Doctoral Symposium
Sanonda Gupta University of Maine

Submission Instructions

To apply as a student participant to the Doctoral Symposium, you need to submit by Thursday, April 22, 2022, a package consisting of two parts: the Doctoral Symposium Paper and a Recommendation Letter.

Part 1: Doctoral Symposium Paper

The Doctoral Symposium Paper describes your PhD research and how you are going to conduct it. The paper must be single-authored by you and should include:

The title of your research,
Your contact information (name, affiliation, postal address, personal webpage, and e-mail address),
An abstract in the style of an abstract for a regular paper,
A motivation justifying the importance of the research problem,
Research questions and hypotheses clearly formulating what you want to achieve, solve or demonstrate,
Technical challenges associated with the research questions,
A discussion of the state of the art showing what existing work your research builds upon, which existing solutions of the state of the art have been developed including an explanation why they do not solve the problem,
A section sketching your current and planned contributions, including technical and other aspects,
A discussion on the originality of your contributions stating how your results go beyond existing approaches,
A description of the research methods you will use including a strategy for evaluating your work to provide credible evidence of your results,
A description of the progress you made so far towards completing the research, and
A list of relevant accepted or published papers you have written if any.


The sections of your paper do not have to follow the outlined structure, but they must have similar content. If you are at a relatively early stage of your research, you might have some difficulty addressing all of the content requirements, but you should attempt to do so as well as you can. Your submission should contain no proprietary or confidential material and should cite no proprietary or confidential publications.
Your paper must be formatted according to the IEEE formatting instructions and must not exceed 6 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures.


Part 2: Recommendation Letter

Ask your main or only dissertation advisor or supervisor for a letter of recommendation. This letter should include:

Your name,
An assessment of the current status of your dissertation research, and
The expected date for defending the dissertation.


The letter should be in PDF format and should be sent directly by your advisor or supervisor via e-mail to both RE’22 Doctoral Symposium Co-Chairs. This letter will be held confidential. The e-mail should have the subject “RE22-DS- Recommendation” and your family name.

Send the email to leesw[at]ajou.ac.kr and nelly.bencomo[at]durham.ac.uk

Call for Participation

The Doctoral Symposium welcomes any Ph.D. student who has already settled on a dissertation topic in the Requirements Engineering area and whose Ph.D. research will benefit from external feedback. Such a student is typically in the first half of the research towards the Ph.D. dissertation.


Evaluation Criteria

The Doctoral Symposium co-chairs will select participants using the following three criteria:

The quality and potential of the research and its relevance to Requirements Engineering,

The quality of the Doctoral Symposium paper (see section Submission Instructions above), and

The stage of the research and its suitability for the Doctoral Symposium.


The Doctoral Symposium papers of the selected participants will be published in the conference proceedings.


Doctoral Symposium Panel

The membership of the panel will be determined after we know who is planning to attend RE’22. But the Panel will consist of renowned senior people in the field who have experience supervising research.


Cost of Participation

Students who have been accepted to the Doctoral Symposium must register at regular student rates and must attend the Doctoral Symposium in person.