============================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS The Requirements Engineering Track http://sac2012.ecomp.poli.br/ at The 27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2012) Riva del Garda (Trento), Italy March 25-29, 2012 ------------ Overview ------------ For the past twenty-six years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world. The Fifth Edition of the Requirements Engineering Track (RE-Track'12) is part of the 27th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. SAC 2012 is hosted by The Microsoft Research - University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology (COSBI) Riva del Garda (Trento), Italy. Further details may be found at: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2012/. Requirement Engineering is defined as the branch of Software Engineering concerned with the real-world goals for, functions of, and constraints on software systems; it is also concerned with the relationship of these factors to precise specifications of software behaviour and to their evolution over time and across software families. Requirements engineering is increasingly recognized as a critically important activity in any systems engineering process. The arising of many complex software applications in many multidisciplinary domains, the speed with which they need to be developed, and the degree to which they are expected to change, all play a role in determining how the systems development process should be conducted. Independently of the nature of the software, the elicitation, analysis, negotiation, specification, validation and management of requirements are fundamental for the development of quality in complex software. Only by fully understanding stakeholders' needs, and documenting them in a concise, and unambiguous way, can consistently deliver quality products designed to meet the complexities of our advanced information society. However, there area number of inherent difficulties in the RE process. The existing methods for requirements specification are far from being completely satisfactory. Requirements must be measurable, testable, related to identified business and other field needs or opportunities, and defined to a level of detail sufficient for system design. The demand for better, faster, and more usable software systems will continue, and RE will therefore continue to evolve in order to deal with different development scenarios which must be considered. Besides that, many new areas are being investigated by requirements engineering community (such as: aspect-oriented or agents-oriented development, COTS-based systems, use of simulation techniques, autonomic system) to achieve better ways for leading with the involved complexity. The objective of this track is to explore different advances in requirement engineering in a general way, its relation with different areas, reducing the gap between software engineering solutions and the way one specific domain of knowledge was seen up to given point. ------------ TOPICS ------------ These are the main areas of concern in Requirements Engineering: * Requirements Engineering for Scientific Areas * Requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation * Requirements specification languages, methods, processes, and tools * Requirements management, traceability, viewpoints * Modelling of requirements, goals, and domains * Non-functional requirements * Requirements engineering and software architecture * Aspect-oriented requirements engineering * Agent-oriented requirements engineering * Requirements for COTS-based systems * Case studies and experiences based on requirements engineering * Social, cultural, and cognitive factors in requirements engineering * Requirements engineering: education and Training * Requirements and Simulation * Requirements and Autonomic Systems * Requirements Reuse ------------ PAPER SUBMISSION ------------ Authors are invited to submit original papers in all areas of Requirement Engineering. The program committee will blindly review submissions to that track. The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review. The paper should not exceed 6 pages in ACM format. Please note that the maximum page length for the conference is 6 pages (without extra-fee), 8 is the maximum (with extra-fee). Submissions should be printable on a standard printer on common paper formats, such as US letter and A4. Papers should not be submitted to more than one ACM-SAC track. Paper submissions should be done electronically through the website at www.softconf.com/c/sac2012/. Further information may be found at: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2012/. ------------ IMPORTANT DATES ------------ All deadlines will be strictly enforced. Paper submission deadline: August 31, 2011 Notification of acceptance: October 12, 2011 Camara-ready version: November 2, 2011 ------------ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ------------ Carina Frota Alves, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Christine Choppy, Université Paris XIII , France Daniel M. Berry, University of Waterloo, Canada Didar Zowghi, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Canada Emmanuel Letier, University College of London, UK Eber Assis Schmitz, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil Gilles Perrouin, University of Namur, Belgiu Graciela Hadad, Universidad Nacional de La Matanza, Argentina Guilherme Horta Travassos, COPPE/UFRJ, Brazil Gunter Mussbacher, U Carleton University, Canada Guttorm Sindre, IDI/NTNU, Norway Gustavo Rossi, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina Hernán Astudillo, U. Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile Hugo Estrada Esquivel, Centro Nac. de Investig. y Desarrollo Tecnológico, Mexico Isidro Ramos, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Jaelson Castro, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Jane Cleland-Huang, DePaul University, USA João Araújo, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Jon Hall, The Open University, UK John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada Joost Noppen, University of East Anglia, UK Juan Hernández, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain Julio Leite, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do R. Janeiro, Brazil Kamel Rouibah, Kuwait University, Kuwait Klaus Pohl, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Lawrence Chung, University of Texas, Dallas Maria Lencastre, Pernambuco State University, Brazil Maritta Heisel, Duisburg-Essen University, Germany Mehmet Aksit, Univ. Twente Drienerlolaan Enschede, The Netherlands Michael Jackson, The Open University, UK Oscar Diest, Facultad de Informática - UPM, Spain Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Paolo Giorgini University of Trento, Italy Richard P. Gabriel, IBM Research, USA Richard Banach, University of Manchester, UK Rosana Braga, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil Ruzanna Chitchyan, Lancaster University, UK Uirá Kulesza, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Yijun Yu, Open University, UK ------------ CONTACT ------------ For further information please contact the track organizer: Maria Lencastre Requirement Engineering Track Chair -------------------------------- Programa de Engenharia de Computação Escola Politécnica de Pernambuco Universidade de Pernambuco Recife - PE - BRAZIL Phone: + 55 81 21193842 Fax: + 55 81 21193881 E-mail: mlpm@ecomp.poli.br ------------ RE TRACK WEB-SITE ------------ Updated information on the Requirement Engineering track may be found at: http://sac2012.ecomp.poli.br