Subject: MeRE'07.de: 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Requirements Engineering ======================================================================== CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS --- Co-located Workshop with the Conference on Software Engineering (SE 2007) ======================================================================== Workshop Date: Tuesday, 27th of March 2007 Location: Hamburg, Germany Second International Workshop on Multimedia Requirements Engineering (MeRE'07.de) - Beyond Mere Descriptions Website: http://www.mere07.de/ Abstracts: 18th of December 2006 ======================================================================== Co-located Workshop (WH4) with the Conference on Software Engineering (SE 2007) Conference Homepage: http://www.se2007.de/ IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * 22 Dec 2006: Abstracts * 19 Jan 2007: Submissions * 16 Feb 2007: Notification of Authors * 23 Feb 2007: Camera-ready Papers * 09 Mar 2007: Participant Registrations THEMES ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Good requirements are an important precondition of successful software development. Novel ways to produce high-quality requirements that add value to the entire software development lifecycle are needed. Most requirements development and management efforts focus on the production of textual descriptions. This approach has several disadvantages. First, text constitutes a language barrier, particularly a challenge for global companies. Second, text is an abstract form of communication and its interpretation is always based on experience, preconceptions, and digestibility. Third, without proper tool support, requirements quickly become outdated, inconsistent, or overwhelmingly long. This workshop builds on ideas of the First International Workshop on Multimedia Requirements Engineering (MeRE'06): Instead of considering writing as the foremost subject of requirements engineering, we stress understanding and evolution. Multimedia, which includes the universal meta-medium of text, may bring requirements "to life." The general theme of the workshop is communication and modeling of requirements in media other than text. TOPICS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics of interest include experience papers, formal methods, emerging technologies, best practices, research proposals, evaluations and comparisons that focus on multimedia use in requirements development/analysis. Typical topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Media languages/techniques for requirements development/analysis * Semiological modeling * Metadata annotation and harvesting technologies * Case studies of multimedia requirements development/analysis * Multimedia techniques and tools to facilitate evolution of representations * Use of portable devices for realtime media capture and annotation GOALS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The workshop aims to provide a collaborative session in which ideas related to multimedia use for requirements engineering are shared, reviewed and debated. The controversy surrounding the practicality of emerging requirements engineering techniques will also be discussed. The workshop will be used to identify future work, issues, problems and priorities, and to propose recommendations around these dimensions for multimedia requirements research. TARGETED ATTENDEES ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * RE researchers working in the development of RE tools, techniques and methods * RE researchers and practitioners investigating the deployment of products of RE research in industry * RE practitioners with experiences in selection of RE tools, techniques and methods for specific projects * Multimedia experts who wish to explore scientific and professional use of multimedia technology * Backgrounds in pedagogy, semiology, or communication design a plus! WORKSHOP FORMAT ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MeRE'07.de will provide attendees with an opportunity to become familiar with a new topic and establish a good foundation for discussions about multimedia in requirements engineering. We intend to make the workshop discussion- and interaction-oriented. Paper presentations will be used to provoke discussion and participants will break out into small groups for more detailed discussion. These small groups will be organized around common themes or goals identified either from the papers, or by the participants during the workshop. At the end of the day, there will be a plenary session where the groups report back to the workshop as a whole on the results of their discussion and future work. Results may be used as a basis for continued publications. PAPER EVALUATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Position papers (3-5 pages) Short papers, stating the position of the author(s) on any of the topics within the scope of the workshop. For example, positions papers could describe experience with a particular research evaluation method, or could propose an area of RE that is ripe for benchmarking, or could propose a benchmark. Position papers will be evaluated based on their potential for generating discussion, and on the originality of the positions expressed. Full papers (8-10 pages) Full papers either describing experience of comparative evaluation, or report on the results of such evaluation. For example, a full paper might describe how a comparative evaluation of RE techniques was performed in practice, either by controlled experiments in the labs or in industrial settings; or it may present the results of the actual performance of RE tools, methods or processes, in lab-based experiments or in field trials. DURATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1/2 day ORGANIZERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Oliver Creighton Siemens AG Corporate Technology (CT) Software & Engineering 1 (SE 1) - Development Techniques Otto-Hahn-Ring 6 D-81730 München, Germany Bernd Bruegge Applied Software Engineering Technische Universität München Boltzmannstraße 3 D-85748 Garching, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Len Bass, Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute, USA * Olly Gotel, Pace University, USA * Paul Grünbacher, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria * Jane Cleland-Huang, DePaul University, USA * Heinrich Hußmann, Media Informatics Group, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany * Filippo Lanubile, Università degli Studi di Bari, Dipartimento di Informatica, Italy * Seok-Won Lee, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA * Martin Purvis, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand * Asarnusch Rashid, FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik Karlsruhe, Germany