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From: alsalqan@cerc.wvu.edu (Yahya Alsalqan)
Subject: ICRE96 CFP: Requirement Engineering
Organization: Concurrent Engineering Research Center
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 02:31:07 GMT

			SECOND IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
				REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING

		An IEEE Software Technology Transfer Conference
		April 15-18, 1996, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society - Technical Council on Software Engineering
In Cooperation with Fujitsu and MCI

		C  A  L  L    F  O  R    P  A  P  E  R  S

ICRE '96 is the second in a biennial series of conferences aimed at 
bringing together practitioners and researchers to discuss software 
requirements engineering related problems and results.  Further, as 
a technology transfer conference, it is designed to provide 
(1) practitioners with an evaluation of promising requirements research 
and practice, and (2) researchers with an exposure to real-world 
requirements problems.


PAPERS:
Authors are invited to submit papers concerned with requirements 
theory and/or practice.

-	EXPERIENCE PAPERS reflect on the nature of, and solutions 
to real-world requirements problems.

-	RIPE FRUITS describe research results that authors believe are 
ready for immediate use in practice.
 
-	RESEARCH PAPERS describe outcomes of near-term research projects
addressing realistic requirements problems.

Authors are encouraged to focus on one of these three aspects 
as the primary theme of their contribution.  In all cases, practical and 
near-term applicability of the proposed ideas must be emphasized. Topics 
include, but are not limited to:

-	Requirements problems, techniques & tools
-	Requirements definition, analysis & validation
-	Defining the system-human interface requirements
-	Prototyping, animation & visualization of requirements
-	Business process relationship to system requirements
-	Non-linear & heterogeneous requirements descriptions
-	Supporting requirements elicitation & evolution
-	Requirements engineering as a group activity
-	Requirements engineering in legacy system migration
-	Role of  software architecture in requirements
-	Advances in formal methods & their practical use
-	Lessons from domain-specific requirements practices
-	Requirements-based system testing
-	Role of requirements standards

ASSISTANCE FOR EXPERIENCE PAPERS:
Special consideration will be given to promising experience papers.  
These papers should present evidence to validate, modify or 
disprove current views on the effectiveness of requirements 
technology in practice.  Practitioners who wish assistance in sharing 
their experiences may submit a 1-3 page, double-spaced, extended 
abstract to the program chair by June 2, 1995.  The abstract should 
summarize problems addressed, lessons learned, and recommendations proposed.
The program committee will provide feedback within six weeks of this 
submission to assist the author(s) in writing the full length paper.

PANELS:
Proposals that focus on requirements engineering controversies are 
encouraged, especially those that highlight the gulf between 
requirements research and practice.  Preference will be given to 
panels that consist of members who have a significant presence in 
the field and present a diversity of views on the topic chosen.  
Proposals should include the title, a brief description of issues to be 
debated, the names of prospective panel members, and a description of 
their roles.

SUBMISSION:
Full length papers are limited to 6000 words, typed double spaced.  
They should include a short (150 words) abstract, list of descriptive 
keywords, specification of submission type (experience/ripe fruits/research) 
and complete contact information for the lead author.  Authors 
should send six copies of their abstracts, papers and panel proposals, 
in English, to one of the program chairs:

	FROM AFRICA, ASIA, AUSTRALIA, & EUROPE:
		Jawed I. Siddiqi
		Sheffield Hallam University
		School of Computing & Management Sciences
		100 Napier Street
		Sheffield, S11 8HD, UK

	FROM NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA:
		M. Chandra Shekaran
		GTE Laboratories, Inc.
		40 Sylvan Road
		Waltham, MA 02154
		USA

THE BEST PAPERS IN THE CONFERENCE WILL BE CONSIDERED FOR PUBLICATION 
IN IEEE SOFTWARE

INTERNET HOTLINE:
Further information on ICRE '96 may be obtained by sending internet 
electronic mail to icre96info@gte.com.  This information may also be 
obtained through the WWW using the URL  http://info.gte.com/icre96/confInfo.

KEY DATES:
Experience paper extended abstracts due			June 2,  1995
Feedback to authors on experience paper abstracts 	July 14, 1995
Full ripe fruit and near-term research papers due	Aug. 18, 1995
Full experience papers, panel proposals due		Sep. 8,  1995
Authors notified of acceptance				Nov. 10, 1995
Camera-ready papers due					Dec. 29, 1995

STEERING  COMMITTEE
Carl Chang
Chyan-Goei Chung
Alan Davis
Merlin Dorfman
Pei Hsia
Chandra Shekaran
Jawed Siddiqi

CONFERENCE  CHAIR
Carl Chang
(ckchang@eecs.uic.edu)

PROGRAM  CHAIRS
Chandra Shekaran & Jawed Siddiqi
(shekaran@gte.com) (J.I.Siddiqi@shu.ac.uk)

PROGRAM  COMMITTEE
Mack Alford, USA
Steven Andriole, Drexel University, USA	
John Brackett, Boston University, USA	
Laurette Bradley, GTE Labs, USA	
Jen Yen Chen, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
Betty Cheng, Michigan State University, USA	
Alan Davis, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA 	
John Dobson, University of Newcastle, UK 
Merlin Dorfman, Lockheed Missiles and Space Co., USA
Janet Drake, University of Northern Iowa, USA
Anthony Finkelstein, Imperial College, UK
Joseph Goguen, Oxford Univerity, UK
Pei Hsia, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Matthias Jarke, Informatik V, RWTH Aachen, Germany
David Kung, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Lisa Levasseur, Motorola, USA
Luqi, Naval Postgraduate School, USA
John McDermid, University of York, UK
Clem McGowan, MITRE Corp, USA
Nancy Mead, Software Engineering Institute, USA
Tsuyoshi Nakajima, Mitsubishi, Japan
Kiyoh Nakamura, Fujitsu, Japan
Bashar Nuseibeh, Imperial College, UK
Mehmet Ozcan, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Colin Potts, Georgia Tech, USA
Karl Reed, La Trobe University, Australia
Howard Reubenstein, GTE Labs, USA
Carl Singer, Bellcore, USA
Yasufumi Toyoshima, Fujitsu, Japan
Jeffrey Tsai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Stephanie White, Northrop Aircraft, USA
Lloyd Williams, Software Engineering Research, USA
Greg Zelesnik, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

REGISTRATION  CHAIR
Yong Liu
liujohn@cig.mot.com

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR
Alan Davis
(adavis@vivaldi.uccs.edu)

PUBLICITY CHAIR
Yahya Al-salqan
(alsalqan@cerc.wvu.edu)

