Submissions
Submission site: EasyChair
Submission deadline: June 15, 2015
Topics
The following themes of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Crowd-Based RE
- RE with Big Data
- Integration of RE and approaches borrowed from other disciplines
- Application scenarios of Crowd-Based RE
- The intersection of sociology and RE
- Automated RE and the role of the requirements engineer
- Automated RE and data (rollback, traceability, data integrity, source quality, rejected data processing)
- Platforms and tools supporting Crowd-Based RE
Key Questions
- How can RE be made suitable for settings in which stakeholders can be considered a crowd?
- What are the risks of going beyond the borders of the "brown field" domain of RE, and how can they be mitigated?
- How can data be obtained and interpreted from such a large group of stakeholders?
- Can Big Data analytics be leveraged to analyze heterogeneous data sets as sources for new/changed requirements?
- What are common denominators and gaps in existing Crowd-Based RE approaches?
- Where do collaboration opportunities lie, and how can different views be reconciled?
- What are central application domains for Crowd-Based RE, and how can holistic solutions be applied in practice?
Submission Categories
Original submissions (up to 6 pages) from research and practice are welcome in the following categories:
- Competition papers describing a solution idea to the problem scenario
- Technical solution papers describing original research results
- Problem statements explaining industry problems in settings with a large group of stakeholders
- Vision statements explaining strongly exploratory ideas
- Experience reports with insights from RE practice and potential CrowdRE application
Papers must describe original work not previously published or submitted elsewhere.
Submissions must be written in English and formatted according to the
IEEE formatting instructions.
Problem Scenario for Competition Papers
The scenario features the German medium-sized software company MyERP that develops ERP software.
Traditionally, MyERP addressed the national market with on-premise solutions. An American startup has begun
to challenge the market with a less expensive and more flexible SaaS solution in the cloud. To respond,
MyERP has decided to offer its ERP product as SaaS and address the entire European market.
Competition papers should discuss questions such as:
- How would you deal with this issue from an RE perspective?
- How would you perform elicitation, documentation, validation, and management in such a setting?
- Who is the crowd and how would you characterize it?
- How would you involve the crowd, and why?
- What are the expected benefits and challenges?