The 5th International Workshop on Crowd-Based Requirements Engineering (CrowdRE'21)

Submissions

Submission site: EasyChair

Submission deadline: 24 June 2021 1 July 2021 (extended) AoE time, strict!

We welcome original submissions from research and practice in the following categories:

• Technical solution papers providing research results with an early validation, which may include tool showcases (4–6 pages + 1 page for references).
• Experience reports providing insights on existing RE practice and potential for application in settings that involve a crowd (4–6 pages + 1 page for references).
• Problem statements explaining industry problems in settings with a large group of stakeholders (2–3 pages).
• Vision statements explaining explorative ideas, especially towards technology transfer into practice (2–3 pages).
• Conference-first extended abstracts of recent conference contributions that fit CrowdRE’s themes (1 page). Only CrowdRE-related papers published in conferences other than the RE conference and its collocated events are eligible.

Submissions must describe original works that have not been previously published (except for conference-first extended abstracts), are not currently submitted elsewhere, and address at least one of the workshop topics listed below.

Submissions must be written in English and formatted according to the IEEE formatting instructions. All accepted papers will be published in the joint RE 2021 workshop proceedings.

At least one author of every accepted manuscript is expected to attend the entire workshop and present their research.

Workshop Topics

The following themes of interest for paper submission include, but are not limited to, the following topics. However, each paper should address at least one of these topics:

• Crowd-based Requirements Engineering (CrowdRE)
• Analysis of user feedback for RE using Big Data and mining
• Natural language processing, Information Retrieval, (supervised and unsupervised) Machine Learning, ontologies
• Crowd-based monitoring and usage mining approaches
• Case studies and Use Cases involving CrowdRE
• Process descriptions of implementing or performing CrowdRE
• Method descriptions that can be applied in CrowdRE
• The role of the requirements engineer in CrowdRE
• Contributions of CrowdRE to RE and to software engineering
• The intersection of RE and domains such as sociology, psychology, human factors, and anthropology
• Approaches to motivate, steer, and boost creativity in the crowd and understand, diversify and engage a crowd for RE
• Automated RE and data (safeguarding rollback, privacy, traceability and data integrity; measuring validity, reliability, source quality; processing of rejected data)
• Platforms and tools supporting CrowdRE

Key Questions and Themes of Interests

Submitted papers should ideally provide contributions relevant to answering one or more of the following key questions that CrowdRE will mainly focus on:

• What are suitable CrowdRE approaches and technologies used during a “lockdown”?
• What are the effects of social distancing and reduced personal contacts on individual stakeholders and their contribution to RE, and on the crowd as a whole (social resilience)?
• How does CrowdRE contribute to understanding and containing the pandemic, and assuring the quality of relevant apps?
• How can CrowdRE be implemented in a development setting, and what are lessons learned from doing so?
• How can the results of CrowdRE results (e.g., from text or usage mining) be translated into suitable artifacts for use in RE & SE such as models and text-based templates (e.g., User Stories)?