Call for papers

Important dates

*These deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth Standard Time (AoE).

Day of the Conference: 

Registration deadline: TBA.  Please see further details at the RE'23 Registration website

Contributions should focus on describing current and ongoing research related to the i* framework with maximum 6 pages in the new CEUR-ART single column format, which can be viewed online at https://www.overleaf.com/read/bdytjtkzsqtk or downloaded from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip.  We welcome four types of papers: technical papers, empirical evaluation and experience reports, position papers, and tool papers.

Submissions should provide an overview of the research objectives and describe contributions, including any related tools and evaluation experience. Contributions should outline ongoing and future work and provide key references.

Tool papers should include references to download information, documentation, and system features. Authors of tool papers will be invited to present a demo in a tool fair during the workshop. We encourage those submitting a tool paper to create or update a page on the i* wiki. Contact istarwiki@dbis.rwth-aachen.de if you require a new user name and password for the wiki.

All submissions should be uploaded to easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=re23 

All submissions will be peer-reviewed and accepted works will be published in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings Series.

About the iStar Workshop

The iStar workshop series is dedicated to the discussion of concepts, methods, techniques, tools, and applications associated with i* (iStar) and related goal modelling frameworks and approaches (Tropos, GRL, among others). As in previous editions, the objective of the workshop is to provide a unique opportunity for researchers in the area to exchange ideas, compare notes, promote interactions, and forge new collaborations. Expected outcomes include the communication of early results and new ideas to fellow researchers for feedback, the identification of the current problems and promising future research directions and the fostering of awareness, collaboration and interoperability in the area of tool development.

The focus of the iStar workshop series is quite specific and provides an additional forum for the RE community to exchange the latest ideas and research on goal modeling. In line with the RE’23 conference theme “Redefining RE: Challenging RE Perceptions, Boundaries, and Topics”, this edition of the iStar workshop series also seeks to explore how iStar may be best applied to diverse contexts including, but not limited to, cyber-physical systems (CPS) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). For example, how can iStar dependencies better model complex contexts such as CPS? Can iStar aid in better explaining the rationale and output of AI systems? How can continuously evolving environments such as Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) benefit from goal-oriented iStar modeling?

While iStar modeling is premised on a conception of social actors that are intentional, autonomous, rational, and strategic, there are many applications in today's extensively digitalized world that engage with the human social environment in ever richer, increasingly human-like ways.  Many software and information systems today leverage human emotions and values, learn from human behavior, and even challenge human identity [https://youtu.be/Bzah1v99gQQ?t=1160]. The workshop encourages contributions that further advance social modeling for RE in the face of today's complex social realities, building upon or challenging state-of-the-art iStar (-family) of modeling. 

Topics of Interest

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The workshop is open to the public, the topics of interests include, but are not limited to:


CfP Summary

iStar2023-CFP.docx