RE’24 workshops provide opportunities for small-group discussions on topics in requirements engineering research and practice. Workshops also provide opportunities for researchers to exchange and discuss scientific and engineering ideas at an early stage, before they have matured to warrant conference or journal publication.

Call for Workshop Proposals

We invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the 32nd IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE’24). RE is the premier forum for presenting and discussing requirements engineering research and practice. RE’24 workshops will allow participants to exchange new ideas in all areas related to requirements engineering research and practice. A variety of workshop formats can be considered, ranging from traditional paper presentations and discussions to highly interactive and participatory sessions without formal paper presentations. Proposers are encouraged to consider topics aligned with the research themes of RE’24. We particularly invite workshop proposals that cover controversial viewpoints, emerging technology drivers or transformative ideas that have the potential to change basic assumptions about requirements engineering. Discussions at workshops may lead to interesting follow-up research, empirical investigations or improvement to industry practice. An RE workshop can be a half-day, full-day or two-day event and will take place on the first two days of RE’24.

Submission of Proposals

Workshop proposals must not exceed four pages and must be submitted as one PDF using the IEEE conference template. Please find here more information on the templates.

Proposals should contain the following sections:

• Header: Workshop title and acronym, contact information for the workshop organizers (name, affiliation, email) and the main contact.

• Workshop Motivation and Objectives: This section should explain the motivation and objectives of the workshop and related topics. This section should clarify the relation between the workshop’s topic and the conference’s main theme and the anticipated outcomes of the workshop (e.g., open research problems to pursue, empirical studies, etc.). If your workshop is accepted, then this description will be used for early publicity for the workshop.

• Target Audience: What type of background should the workshop attendees have? Will there be a mix of industry and academic participants? What is the expected number of participants (minimum and maximum)? Is the workshop open to the public or by invitation only?

• Workshop Format: Will the workshop be a half-day,full-day or a two-day workshop? What will be the format for the workshop, e.g., paper presentations, keynotes, breakout sessions, panel-like discussions, a combination, etc.? What are the plans for facilitating discussions between participants?

• Paper solicitation and selection: How will submissions and participation be encouraged? How will papers be selected? How many people will be on the program committee? Please list the names of PC members if the committee has been tentatively invited.

• Proceedings: How many and what type of papers will be solicited (number of pages and type: extended abstracts, position and/or research papers, etc.)? What type of evaluation process will be used to decide on accepted papers? As in previous years, we are planning to publish the workshop proceedings in the IEEE Digital Library as a separate volume of the conference proceedings. If you wish to use a different publishing plan, then describe how you intend to disseminate the workshop proceedings.

• Workshop History: Has this workshop been offered before? If so, please provide a history of the venues, dates, approximate attendance numbers, and a link to the website (if still available).

• Required Services: What special services are needed? For example, standard services may include a student volunteer.

• Handling of Conflicts of Interests: A description of how submissions of the organizers to the workshop are handled.

• Organizers’ Bios: Please provide a brief 2-3-sentence biography for each of the workshop organizers that highlight their qualifications with respect to the workshop. Mention also the experience in organizing scientific events and workshops in particular. Proposals must be submitted via the EasyChair submission page.

Workshop Proposal Evaluation Criteria

All workshop proposals will be reviewed by three members of the Workshop Program Committee. Acceptance will be based on:

• Evaluation of the workshop’s potential to advance the state of requirements engineering research and/or practice.

• Relevance to requirements engineering and topics targeted for RE’24.

• Potential for attracting a sufficient number of participants.

• Organizers’ ability to lead a successful workshop.

Workshop Organizer Responsibilities:

If a workshop proposal is accepted, workshop organizers are responsible for the following: - Creating a website for workshop and a call for papers/contributions

• Publicizing the workshop

• Establishing a PC, ensuring a diverse membership

• Soliciting, collecting and evaluating paper submissions

• Ensuring a transparent and fair paper selection process, including proper handling of conflicts of interest

• Notifying authors of acceptance or rejection

• Creating the workshop program

• Responding to requests by the RE’24 Workshop Co-Chairs in due time.

For accepted workshops, the following conditions apply:

• All accepted workshops will have to comply with the key dates.

• All workshop participants, including organizers and keynote speakers or invited speakers, must register for the workshop.

• RE’24 reserves the right to cancel workshops that fail to attract a reasonable number of submissions, have no detailed workshop program, or have insufficient registrations after the early registration deadline.

Key Dates

• Workshop proposals due: November 10, 2023

• Notification of workshop submitters: December 08, 2023

• Workshop web pages up: December 22, 2023

• Workshop summary (for RE’24 website) sent to Workshop Co-chairs: December 22, 2023

• Workshop CfP ready: December 22, 2023

• Workshop paper abstracts due (optional): March 20, 2024

• Workshop papers due: March 27, 2024

• Workshop paper notification: April 29, 2024

• Workshop paper camera-ready: May 06, 2024

• Workshop preface / extended keynote abstract camera-ready: May 06, 2024

• Workshop dates: TBD

All deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (Standard Time). Workshops Co-chairs Zhi Jin (Peking University, Beijing, China) Michael Unterkalmsteiner (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden)

Please feel free to contact the workshop co-chairs via email: Zhi Jin: zhijin@pku.edu.cn Michael Unterkalmsteiner: mun@bth.se

RE’24 will host the following workshops:

Summary of the workshops

RE4Web3: Requirements Engineering for Web3 systems

will take place on 24th June (Monday)

A new era in the decentralized internet has begun with the emergence of Web3, fundamentally changing how businesses operate, collaborate, manage assets, and engage stakeholders. Web3 technologies, such as blockchain, decentralized applications, smart contracts, and tokenization, defined a new paradigm of decentralized software systems. Recent research on Requirements Engineering (RE) mainly focused on socio-technical aspects of centralized Web2 systems. The RE4Web3 Workshop is motivated by the need to bridge the gap between traditional RE and the unique challenges posed by Web3 technologies. The conventional methods employed in RE may not comprehensively account for Web3-powered systems’ ever-changing characteristics, resulting in potential drawbacks and overlooked prospects. The workshop aims to establish a connection between RE and Web3, fostering innovative approaches, collaborative insights, research strategies, and harmonious integration.

CrowdRE: The 8th International Workshop on Crowd-Based Requirements Engineering

will take place on 24th June (Monday)

Traditional requirements engineering (RE) techniques have difficulties scaling up to settings with thousands up to millions of users of a (software) product. Now that these users can easily interact among themselves and with the development company, they form a large and heterogeneous group that can be denoted as a ‘crowd’. Researchers have identified several issues with applying RE in the new crowd paradigm. Methods and tools are being investigated, but we see the need for more tailored and holistic approaches, focusing on Crowd-Based Requirements Engineering. The International Workshop on Crowd-Based Requirements Engineering (CrowdRE) aims to attract papers with novel and innovative ideas on involving the crowd and collecting, harmonizing, analyzing, and interpreting their user feedback. In this regard, CrowdRE intends to facilitate interactive discussions between scientists and representatives of industry in order to analyze the state of the art and to inspire each other in ways to move forward together.

MoDRE: 14th International Model-Driven Requirements Engineering Workshop

will take place on 25th June (Tuesday)

MoDRE seeks to explore areas of RE that have not yet been formalized sufficiently to be incorporated into an MDD (Model-Driven) environment as well as how RE models can benefit from emerging topics in the model-driven community, such as flexible, collaborative, and AI-enabled modeling. In accordance with this year’s RE conference theme, we aim to expand the frontiers of RE by emphasizing the exploration of novel RE areas through model-based techniques. We look forward to identifying new challenges for MoDRE, discussing on-going work and potential solutions, analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of MDD approaches for RE, fostering stimulating discussions on the topic, and providing opportunities to apply MDD approaches for RE. MoDRE aims to facilitate cross-fertilization of ideas between (i) people from the RE community that are trying to benefit from model-driven techniques, (ii) people from the model-driven area that aim to include RE stages in their model-driven processes; and, (iii) people from the general RE community, as well as other communities, with interest in these topics to identify new challenges for MoDRE, discuss on-going work and potential solutions, analyse different alternative solutions, and identify strengths and weaknesses of each alternative.

REWBAH: 5th International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Well-Being, Aging, and Health

will take place on 25th June (Tuesday)

The REWBAH workshop fosters discussion related to requirements engineering resulting from the need to build software systems that not only support healthcare, but also stimulate well-being, encourage patients and the population in general to live according to healthy lifestyle recommendations, and address the specific needs of an aging population. These systems can provide personalized and tailored behavioral change programs for decreasing health risk factors. The workshop will bring together practitioners and researchers from Software and Requirements Engineering, Medicine, Health Sciences, Psychology, and other relevant disciplines. The workshop goals as well as the workshop multidisciplinary audience are well aligned with the theme of Requirements Engineering (RE) conference 2024, namely “Exploring New Horizons: Expanding the Frontiers of Requirements Engineering”.

ESPRE: 11th International Workshop on Evolving Security and Privacy Requirements Engineering

will take place on 25th June (Tuesday)

When specifying a system, security and privacy need to be addressed as early as possible, yet stakeholders find doing so difficult in the face of conflicting priorities. When these concerns are addressed, we discover how intrinsically difficult specifying usable security and privacy can be towards meeting business and developmental needs, and the subsequent blurred distinction between requirements and security and privacy concepts. The Evolving Security and Privacy Requirements Engineering (ESPRE) Workshop provides a multi-disciplinary one-day hybrid workshop, bringing together practitioners and researchers from across the world interested in evolving security and privacy requirements engineering practice. The workshop will include an invited keynote talk, paper presentations and discussions, and a facilitated roadmap discussion session towards future Security and Privacy Requirements Engineering activities.

EnviRE: The 4th International Workshop on Environment-Driven Requirements Engineering

will take place on 24th June (Monday)

In the days of Al, loT, and human-cyber-physical systems, the environment, in which the software operates, becomes more diverse and evolves rapidly with stakeholders’ changing needs. We believe it is high time for our community to revisit and reflect on the impact and implications of the so-called “E= mc^2” theory in RE, whose basic tenet can be best summarized by the sentence “requirements are located in the environment". This workshop is aimed at bringing interested researchers and practitioners together, exchanging ideas and visions, and exploring a set of open problems in the coming years. The workshop will include an invited keynote, paper presentations and discussions. We plan to take advantage of the in-person gathering to organize a working session among all the participants to collaboratively discuss the problems and topics emerged in the keynote and paper presentations.

AIRE: 11th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Requirements Engineering

will take place on 25th June (Tuesday)

Requirements engineering (RE) poses a multitude of challenges which all impact the subsequent software development processes. The ever-increasing complexity and scale of software systems exacerbates these challenges and necessitates automatic support. Techniques from the vast landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) have shown significant success in providing this automatic support. In the past, AI techniques like natural language processing (NLP), information retrieval (IR), and machine learning (ML) have been demonstrated to meet many of the aforementioned challenges in RE. The advent of large language models (LLMs) constitutes another opportunity for leveraging AI techniques to aid the RE phase. The International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Requirements Engineering (AIRE) aims to foster research applying AI techniques to RE problems, but also applying RE techniques to the development of AI-based systems. To this end, AIRE invites researchers and practitioners alike to present, review, and discuss the state of the art synergy between AI and RE.

EmpiRE: 9th Workshop on Empirical Requirements Engineering

will take place on 24th June (Monday)

Requirements Engineering (RE) is a well-established discipline where a wide range of approaches, techniques, and tools have been proposed. Systematic attempts to evaluate and compare usefulness, effectiveness, and usability of such proposals resulted in a growing attention to methods for empirical assessment. Empirical Software Engineering (ESE) aims at applying the empirical research methodologies to the software engineering field. In other terms, it aims at studying and proposing qualitative and quantitative methods to collect and analyze evidence that helps evaluate software engineering approaches, techniques and tools. Design science, action research, case studies and experiments, hence, become indispensable and valuable ways to check proposals with respect to reality, thus allowing us to understand their actual value, cost, and benefits in particular contexts. The objective of the EmpiRE workshop series is to increase the cross-fertilization of ESE methods and RE by actively encouraging the exchange of ideas to understand why and how the empirical methods from ESE can help to assess and improve existing or new approaches in RE. Building on the success of seven workshop editions in the period of 2011-2023, the goal of the proposed 9th edition of EmpiRE is to shape the next phase of cross-fertilization of RE and ESE, specifically: (i) to open up the interdisciplinary debate on the steadily moving frontiers in empirical RE, and (ii) to extend the network of RE and ESE researchers designing and conducting empirical studies in RE, which in turn will lead to the cross-fertilization between RE and ESE.