The 9th International Workshop on Crowd-Based Requirements Engineering (CrowdRE'25)

Submissions

Submission site: EasyChair

Submission deadline: Coming Soon 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 also include replication studies and 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 exploratory ideas, especially toward technology transfer into practice (2–3 pages).
• New this year: Mini-Tutorial proposals applying for an interactive session (1 page).

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 2025 workshop proceedings.

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

Workshop Topics

Below are suggested areas of interest for submissions. We invite novel ideas and comprehensive reports on Crowd-Based Requirements Engineering practices, methods, and tools. Each paper should address at least one of these topics:

• Crowd-based Requirements Engineering (CrowdRE) fundamentals and best practices
• Approaches to elicit, analyze, and prioritize user feedback at scale (e.g., big data, usage logs, mining techniques)
• Natural language processing, information retrieval, and machine learning (including supervised, unsupervised, and generative models) for CrowdRE
• Crowd-based monitoring and usage mining to inform software evolution and sustainability
• Process or method descriptions for implementing and performing CrowdRE in real settings
• Tools and platforms supporting automated CrowdRE, including data integrity, rollback, and privacy
• Case studies or empirical evaluations demonstrating CrowdRE in industry, community-driven projects, or cross-domain collaborations
• Human factors in large-scale RE: understanding, motivating, and engaging diverse user communities
• The evolving role of requirements engineers in crowd-centered environments
• Cross-disciplinary intersections (e.g., sociology, psychology, marketing) that enrich CrowdRE methodologies

Key Topics

CrowdRE’25 will primarily focus on two broad challenges—CrowdRE as a Key Driver of Digital Sustainability and Designing AI as Agents and Pipelines for CrowdRE Tasks. We encourage submissions that explore the following areas in particular:

• Leveraging crowd insights to enhance sustainability and maintainability in software-intensive systems
• Integrating ethical considerations, human values, and societal demands (e.g., responsible AI, privacy, inclusion) into large-scale RE
• Applying and extending AI/ML techniques, including large language models, to automate CrowdRE tasks and uncover deeper requirements insights
• Novel or revised theories, methods, and frameworks for CrowdRE that foster transdisciplinarity and industry applicability
• Case studies on digital sustainability initiatives or AI-driven improvements in industry-oriented, multidisciplinary collaborations
• Explorations of how CrowdRE intersects with emerging technologies, stakeholder diversity, and societal shifts