CrowdRE 2026

The 10th International Workshop on Crowd-Based Requirements Engineering (CrowdRE'26)



August 17 or 18, 2026
In conjunction with RE 2026

Submissions

Submission site: EasyChair

Submission deadline: 25 May, 2026 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: Presentation proposals for a ten-minute talk (1 page). These presentations will be scheduled in the 10-year celebratory session and should provide a perspective on the past and/or future of CrowdRE. The proposal should provide a motivation for what makes this perspective unique, describe the planned structure of the presentation, and provide a brief biography of the author(s) including their previous interactions with CrowdRE.

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 2026 workshop proceedings.

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

Important Dates
  • Paper Submission: 25 May 2026
  • Notification: 22 June 2026
  • Camera Ready: 2 July 2026
  • Workshop: 17 or 18 August 2026

All deadlines at 23:59:59 AoE.

Workshop Topics

We welcome original papers and presentation proposals that focus on traditional and cutting-edge CrowdRE topics. Each paper should address at least one of these topics:

  • The meaningful role of CrowdRE in the context of an evolving RE for software systems growing increasingly more complex
  • Applications of (generative) artificial intelligence (AI / GenAI), machine learning, and natural language processing for CrowdRE
  • The impact of societal demands on RE and software qualities, such as responsible, trustworthy & explainable AI, sustainability, human values, ethics, needs & goals, and diversity & inclusion
  • New or revised theories, approaches, and methods for CrowdRE that foster trans- and interdisciplinarity and industry applicability
  • Case studies with lessons learned from practical, industry-oriented, multidisciplinary and cross-domain collaborations that involve CrowdRE
  • New or revised methods for CrowdRE inspired, learned, or adapted from other disciplines

Key Topics

CrowdRE'26 celebrates its tenth anniversary with two main themes:

(1) One decade of CrowdRE: The journey so far and the way forward from here

First introduced in 2015, CrowdRE has become an indispensable part of the RE landscape. It has sensitized and shaped the understanding of the field for user feedback, the crowd as a stakeholder, and the automation of requirements elicitation and validation. At the same time, it is interesting to question what it has not been able to achieve, but which it might still do. We encourage submissions exploring:

  • Reflections on CrowdRE's achievements and open challenges over the past decade
  • The reliability of sources of publicly available online user feedback
  • The appropriate size of a crowd in a given context
  • Suitable ways for preventing or combating inequality, bias, and underrepresented subgroups in crowds
  • Understanding CrowdRE's place in RE and its relation to Data-driven RE and adjacent fields like market research

(2) CrowdRE TwentyThirty: The open road to improved quality

The work on CrowdRE in the past decade provides a solid basis for the next leaps. We encourage submissions that look ahead to what CrowdRE will contribute in the 2030s:

  • Practical guidelines on how to implement CrowdRE in practical settings
  • Addressing emergent and cross-cutting qualities such as software sustainability, explainability, data privacy, and ethicality
  • Strengthening prediction accuracy through neurosymbolic artificial intelligence, feature models, and ontologies
  • New approaches within CrowdRE, such as "open source requirements"
  • The role of CrowdRE in promoting social sustainability and well-being