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Join Us for the 8th Edition of the RE Cares Event!
What is “RE Cares” and how is it organized?
Since 2018, RE Cares is an established “Software Engineering for Social Good” event collocated with the RE Conference. It is organized as a dynamic and highly interactive event focused on collaborative software development to particularly address the needs of non-profit organizations local to the RE Conference venue.
Over three days, participants act as a team of Requirements Engineers and Software Designers, engaging directly with non-profit stakeholders (our “customers”) to collaboratively gather requirements and create a design specification during our all-day “design-a-thon.” After the conference, a smaller team refines and completes the results developed during this event.
What is the Objective of RE Cares@ RE2025?
This year, we are partnering with the Valencia branch of Caritas, an international charity organization. From September 1st to 4th, participants will work with Caritas representatives to gather and refine software requirements, developing initial solution concepts to enhance Caritas’ interaction and service delivery, specifically addressing the needs of the homeless people in Valencia. The schedule includes:
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Monday, September 1st: “Kick-off” meeting with stakeholders to introduce and discuss the context, motivations, and current state (“as-is scenario”) from the customers’ viewpoint, followed by interactive requirements elicitation and creativity sessions among all participants.
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Wednesday, September 3rd: Summary, review, and refinement of elicited requirements, Q&A with stakeholders, and preparation for the “design-a-thon.”
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Thursday, September 4th: All-day “design-a-thon,” featuring collaborative co-creation and co-design sessions focusing on interaction concepts, database structures, and UI/UX wireframes for the envisioned solution.
Please check the RE program for detailed information about time slots and rooms)
Also don’t miss our talk about “RE Cares: Past, Present, and Future” on Thursday, September 4th (14:45 - 15:30).
All RE participants are welcome to join RE Cares. We particularly encourage students to join us. Check the RE Cares Website as we start to post early requirements and domain descriptions: LINK
Organisers:
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Alex Dekhtyar, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (co-Chair)
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Anne Hess, Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt (co-Chair)
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Jane Hayes, University of Kentucky
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Jennifer Horkoff, Chalmers
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Gunter Mussbacher, McGill University
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Xavier Garcia, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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Elda Paja, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Sarah Gregory, Crary Labs LLC, United States
Dates
Tracks
Plenary
Mon 1 SepDisplayed time zone: Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris change
Mon 1 Sep
Displayed time zone: Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris change
09:00 - 09:30 | |||
09:00 30mRegistration | Registration Catering | ||
09:30 - 10:30 | |||
09:30 60mOther | Kick-off meeting with stakeholders RE Cares | ||
11:00 - 12:30 | |||
11:00 90mOther | Kick-off meeting with stakeholders RE Cares | ||
12:30 - 14:00 | |||
12:30 90mLunch | Lunch Catering | ||
14:00 - 15:30 | |||
14:00 90mOther | Kick-off meeting with stakeholders RE Cares | ||
15:30 - 16:00 | |||
15:30 30mCoffee break | Coffee break Catering | ||
16:00 - 17:30 | |||
16:00 90mOther | Kick-off meeting with stakeholders RE Cares | ||
Wed 3 SepDisplayed time zone: Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris change
Wed 3 Sep
Displayed time zone: Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris change
10:30 - 11:00 | |||
10:30 30mCoffee break | Coffee break Catering | ||
11:00 - 12:30 | Mining Requirements RepositoriesResearch Papers / Industrial Innovation Track at Room 1.1 Chair(s): Quim Motger Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya | ||
11:00 30mPaper | Navigating through Work Items in Issue Tracking Systems via Natural Language Queries Industrial Innovation Track Delina Ly VX Company, Utrecht University , Sruthi Radhakrishnan itemis AG, Fatma Başak Aydemir Utrecht University, Fabiano Dalpiaz Utrecht University Pre-print | ||
11:30 30mPaper | LSRM: A Hybrid LLM-SBERT Approach for Mapping User Requirements to Product Functionalities in Complex Products Research Papers Bin Liang Renmin University of China, Zhiwei Zhang The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Kam-Fai Wong The Chinese University of Hong Kong | ||
12:00 30mPaper | Demystifying Feature Requests: Leveraging LLMs to Refine Feature Requests in Open-Source Software Research Papers Pragyan K C University of Texas at San Antonio, Rambod Ghandiparsi University of Texas at San Antonio, Thomas Herron University of Texas at San Antonio, John Heaps University of Texas at San Antonio, Mitra Bokaei Hosseini University of Texas at San Antonio | ||
11:00 - 12:30 | |||
11:00 90mOther | Requirements Review and Validation with Stakeholders and Preparation for the Design-a-thon RE Cares | ||
11:00 - 12:30 | Explainability and Ethics IResearch Papers at Salon de Actos Chair(s): Meira Levy Shenkar College of Engineering, Design, Art | ||
11:00 30mPaper | Where Do Users Draw the Line? Ethical Concerns about Software Research Papers Daan Kieft Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Laura Duits Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Emitzá Guzmán Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | ||
11:30 30mPaper | Model Cards Revisited: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice for Ethical AI Requirements Research Papers Tim Puhlfürß University of Hamburg, Walid Maalej University of Hamburg, Julia Butzke University of Hamburg | ||
12:00 30mPaper | Identifying Explanation Needs: Towards a Catalog of User-based Indicators Research Papers Hannah Deters Leibniz University Hannover, Jakob Droste Leibniz Universität Hannover, Martin Obaidi Leibniz Universität Hannover, Laura Reinhardt Leibniz University Hannover, Kurt Schneider Leibniz Universität Hannover, Software Engineering Group Pre-print | ||
11:00 - 12:30 | Requirements SpecificationResearch Papers / Industrial Innovation Track at Salon de Grados Chair(s): Giovanna Broccia ISTI-CNR, FMT Lab | ||
11:00 30mPaper | Augmenting, Not Replacing: The Role of LLMs in Human-Centric Formal RE Research Papers Sonora Halili Smith College, Paola Spoletini Kennesaw State University, Alicia M. Grubb Smith College | ||
11:30 30mPaper | Exploring the Use of LLMs for Requirements Specification in an IT Consulting Company Industrial Innovation Track Liliana Pasquale University College Dublin & Lero, Azzurra Ragone University of Bari, Emanuele Piemontese University of Bari "A. Moro", Armin Amiri Darban Polytechnic University of Bari Pre-print | ||
12:00 30mPaper | Adopting Use Case Descriptions for Requirements Specification: an Industrial Case Study Research Papers Pre-print | ||
12:30 - 14:00 | |||
12:30 90mLunch | Lunch Catering | ||
14:00 - 15:30 | |||
14:00 90mOther | Requirements Review and Validation with Stakeholders and Preparation for the Design-a-thon RE Cares | ||
14:00 - 15:30 | LLMs for Requirements Elicitation and ExtractionResearch Papers at Salon de Actos Chair(s): Marc Oriol Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya | ||
14:00 30mPaper | LLMREI: Automating Requirements Elicitation Interviews with LLMs Research Papers Alexander Korn University of Duisburg-Essen, Smuel Gorsch University of Cologne, Andreas Vogelsang paluno – The Ruhr Institute for Software Technology, University of Duisburg-Essen Pre-print | ||
14:30 30mPaper | Requirements Elicitation Follow-up Question Generation Research Papers Anmol Singhal Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, Yuchen Shen Carnegie Mellon University, Travis Breaux Carnegie Mellon University Pre-print | ||
15:00 30mPaper | Legal Requirements Translation from Law Research Papers Anmol Singhal Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, Travis Breaux Carnegie Mellon University Pre-print | ||
14:00 - 15:30 | Agile and Model-driven REResearch Papers / Industrial Innovation Track at Salon de Grados Chair(s): Mehrdad Sabetzadeh University of Ottawa | ||
14:00 30mPaper | The Impact of Requirements Artifacts on Efficiency in Agile Development: A Case Study Research Papers Pre-print | ||
14:30 30mPaper | ContCRIA: NLP and MDE-based Contextual Change Request Impact Analysis Industrial Innovation Track Asha Rajbhoj TCS Research, Ajim Pathan TCS Research, Padmalata Nistala , Vinay Kulkarni Tata Consultancy Services Research | ||
15:00 30mPaper | LLM-Assisted Requirements Engineering in Agile MDD: Industry Insights and Validation Industrial Innovation Track Tjerk Spijkman , Fabiano Dalpiaz Utrecht University, Sietse Overbeek Utrecht University, Steffen Beudeker fizor., Bente Molenkamp Utrecht University Pre-print | ||
15:30 - 16:00 | |||
15:30 30mCoffee break | Coffee break Catering | ||
16:00 - 17:30 | |||
16:00 90mOther | Requirements Review and Validation with Stakeholders and Preparation for the Design-a-thon RE Cares | ||
16:00 - 17:40 | Explainability and Ethics IIJournal-First / Research Papers / RE@Next! Papers at Salon de Actos Chair(s): Chetan Arora Monash University | ||
16:00 30mPaper | How to Elicit Explainability Requirements? A Comparison of Interviews, Focus Groups, and Surveys Research Papers Martin Obaidi Leibniz Universität Hannover, Jakob Droste Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannah Deters Leibniz University Hannover, Marc Herrmann Leibniz University Hannover, Jil Klünder University of Applied Sciences | FHDW Hannover, Kurt Schneider Leibniz Universität Hannover, Software Engineering Group, Raymond Ochsner Leibniz Universität Hannover Pre-print | ||
16:30 30mPaper | Design Thinking In Requirements Engineering: Understanding The Role Of Internal And External Empathy Research Papers Ezequiel Kahan Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Marcela Fabiana Genero Bocco University of Castilla-La Mancha, Beatriz Bernárdez University of Seville, Alejandro Oliveros Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero | ||
17:00 20mPaper | Explainability Across the Spectrum: Modeling Stakeholder Goals Based on AI Complexity Levels RE@Next! Papers Antoni Mestre Gascón Universitat Politècnica de València, Manoli Albert Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Miriam Gil Universidad de Valencia, Vicente Pelechano Universitat Politècnica de València | ||
17:20 20mPaper | ExplanaSC: A Framework for Determining Information Requirements for Explainable Blockchain Smart Contracts Journal-First | ||
Thu 4 SepDisplayed time zone: Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris change
Thu 4 Sep
Displayed time zone: Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris change
10:30 - 11:00 | |||
10:30 30mCoffee break | Coffee break Catering | ||
11:00 - 12:30 | Requirements Specification & ModelingResearch Papers / RE@Next! Papers / Journal-First at Room 1.1 Chair(s): Fatma Başak Aydemir Utrecht University | ||
11:00 30mPaper | Generative Goal Modeling Research Papers Pre-print | ||
11:30 20mPaper | Automatic Multi-level Feature Tree Construction for Domain-Specific Reusable Artifacts Management RE@Next! Papers Dongming Jin Peking University, China, Zhi Jin Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, NIANYU LI ZGC Lab, China, Kai Yang , Linyu Li , Suijing Guan | ||
11:50 20mPaper | Towards the Automatic Restructuring of Software Requirements Specifications to Conform to Standards Using Large Language Models RE@Next! Papers | ||
12:10 20mPaper | RM4ML: Requirements Model for Machine Learning-enabled Software Systems. Journal-First Yilong Yang Beihang University, Bingjie Zeng , Juntao Gao Northeast Petroleum University, Jian Tu China University of Petroleum-Beijing | ||
11:00 - 12:30 | |||
11:00 90mOther | Design-a-thon RE Cares | ||
11:00 - 12:30 | Education and Research PracticeJournal-First / Research Papers / RE@Next! Papers at Salon de Grados Chair(s): Paola Spoletini Kennesaw State University | ||
11:00 30mPaper | Students’ Perception of LLM Use in Requirements Engineering Education: An Empirical Study Across Two Universities Research Papers Sharon Clarissa Guardado Medina University of Oulu, Risha Parveen , Zheying Zhang Tampere University, Maruf Rayhan Tampere University, Nirnaya Tripathi University of Oulu | ||
11:30 20mPaper | Leveraging LLMs for Requirements Engineering Education: How to Approach? RE@Next! Papers Saurabh Tiwari Dhirubhai Ambani University, formerly DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, Santosh Singh Rathore ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior | ||
11:50 20mPaper | Rethinking RE Topic Mapping: Toward an Extensible Framework for Curriculum–Industry Comparison RE@Next! Papers Anthea Moravánszky University of Szeged, Hungary; University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons, Switzerland, Ingo Barkow | ||
12:10 20mPaper | Communicating Study Design Trade-offs in Software Engineering Journal-First Martin P. Robillard McGill University, Deeksha M. Arya McGill University, Neil Ernst University of Victoria, Jin L.C. Guo McGill University, Maxime Lamothe Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, Canada, Mathieu Nassif McGill University, Nicole Novielli University of Bari, Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology, Igor Steinmacher NAU RESHAPE LAB, Klaas-Jan Stol Lero; University College Cork; SINTEF Digital Link to publication DOI | ||
12:30 - 14:00 | |||
12:30 90mLunch | Lunch Catering | ||
14:00 - 15:30 | |||
14:00 45mOther | Most Influential Paper Award Research Papers | ||
14:45 45mOther | RE Cares: Past, Present, and Future RE Cares | ||
14:00 - 15:30 | LLMs for VerificationJournal-First / RE@Next! Papers / Research Papers at Salon de Grados Chair(s): Muhammad Abbas Khan RISE Research Institutes of Sweden | ||
14:00 30mPaper | LLM-based Satisfiability Checking of String Requirements by Consistent Data and Checker Generation Research Papers Boqi Chen McGill University, Aren Babikian University of Toronto, Daniel Varro Linköping University / McGill University, Gunter Mussbacher McGill University, Shuzhao Feng McGill University | ||
14:30 20mPaper | Supporting Software Formal Verification with Large Language Models: An Experimental Study RE@Next! Papers Weiqi Wang University of Manchester, Marie Farrell The University of Manchester, Lucas Cordeiro University of Oxford, Liping Zhao University of Manchester Pre-print | ||
14:50 20mPaper | Automatic Instantiation of Assurance Cases from Patterns Using Large Language Models Journal-First Oluwafemi Odu York University, Alvine Boaye Belle York University, Song Wang York University, Segla Kpodjedo Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Timothy Lethbridge University of Ottawa, Hadi Hemmati York University | ||
15:10 20mPaper | Combining Established and Emerging Techniques to Detect Inconsistencies in Requirements RE@Next! Papers Alessandro Fantechi University of Florence, Stefania Gnesi Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "Alessandro Faedo" , Laura Semini Università di Pisa - Dipartimento di Informatica | ||
16:00 - 17:30 | PersonasResearch Papers / RE@Next! Papers / Journal-First at Salon de Grados Chair(s): Jennifer Horkoff Chalmers and the University of Gothenburg | ||
16:00 30mPaper | The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny: Investigating Diversity Aspects of LLM-Generated Personas for Requirements Engineering Research Papers Christopher Lazik Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Ines Nunes , Lars Grunske Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Thomas Kosch Utrecht University, Aaron Ziglowski Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Charlotte Kauter Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Alina Pryma Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Christopher Katins Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Pre-print | ||
16:30 20mPaper | Who uses personas in requirements engineering: The practitioners’ perspective Journal-First Yi Wang School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Chetan Arora Monash University, Xiao Liu School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Thuong Hoang School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Vasudha Malhotra Deakin University, Ben Cheng School of Information Technology, Deakin University, John Grundy Monash University Link to publication Pre-print | ||
16:50 20mPaper | Continuous Data-Driven Personas Generation: An LLM-based Knowledge Graph Approach RE@Next! Papers Ryota Sugiyama Waseda University, Hironori Washizaki Waseda University, Naoyasu Ubayashi Waseda University, Ryoko Tanahashi Waseda University, Mai Hirabayashi Waseda University, Satoshi Okuda , Ken Toriumi | ||
17:10 20mPaper | Envisioning a Requirements Elicitation Method for Neurodivergent-Inclusive Software RE@Next! Papers Inês Rocha NOVA LINCS & DI -- Nova School of Science and Technology, Ana Moreira NOVA University of Lisbon and NOVA LINCS, João Araújo NOVA LINCS, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Grischa Liebel Reykjavik University | ||
Fri 5 SepDisplayed time zone: Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris change
Fri 5 Sep
Displayed time zone: Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris change
11:00 - 12:30 | Agents in RERE@Next! Papers / Research Papers at Salon de Actos Chair(s): Farnaz Fotrousi Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg | ||
11:00 30mPaper | From Requirements to Code: Understanding Developer Practices in LLM-Assisted Software Engineering Research Papers Jonathan Ullrich Fraunhofer IESE, Matthias Koch Fraunhofer IESE, Andreas Vogelsang paluno – The Ruhr Institute for Software Technology, University of Duisburg-Essen Pre-print | ||
11:30 20mPaper | Intelligent Agents for Requirements Engineering: Use, Feasibility and Evaluation RE@Next! Papers Jacek Dąbrowski Lero - the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, Wanling Cai Lero@Trinity College Dublin, Amel Bennaceur The Open University, UK, Bashar Nuseibeh The Open University, UK, Faeq Alrimawi Lero - the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software Pre-print | ||
11:50 20mPaper | ReqInOne: A Large Language Model-Based Agent for Software Requirements Specification Generation RE@Next! Papers | ||
12:10 20mPaper | Multi-Agent Debate Strategies to Enhance Requirements Engineering with Large Language Models RE@Next! Papers Marc Oriol Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Quim Motger Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Jordi Marco Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Xavier Franch Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Pre-print | ||
14:00 - 15:20 | Safety-critical SystemsIndustrial Innovation Track / Research Papers at Salon de Actos Chair(s): Stefania Gnesi Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "Alessandro Faedo" | ||
14:00 30mPaper | Taxonomy-Guided Reasoning for Requirements Classification: A Study in Aerospace Industry Industrial Innovation Track Yixing Luo Beijing Institute of Control Engineering, Yang Liu Beijing Institute of Control Engineering, Xiaofeng Li Beijing Institute of Control Engineering, Xiaogang Dong Beijing Institute of Control Engineering, Bin Gu Beijing Institute of Control Engineering, Zhi Jin Peking University, Mengfei Yang China Academy of Space Technology | ||
14:30 30mPaper | Specifying Operational Design Domain in Autonomous Driving for Comprehensive Data Evaluation Research Papers Hamed Barzamini , Ramesh S , Arun Adiththan General Motors, Prakash Peranandam General Motors, Mona Rahimi Northern Illinois University | ||
15:00 20mPaper | Requirements Dependency Driven Test Case Generation: An Automotive Industry Practice Industrial Innovation Track Tong Xu , Zheng Zhou , Xiaohong Chen , Zhiyi Xue , Yi Zhao State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Min Zhang East China Normal University, Zhi Jin Peking University | ||