Call for papers
Important dates
Abstract submission deadline*: Fri 2 June 2023 New! Wed, 14 June 2023
Paper Submission deadline*: Fri 9 June 2023 New! Wed, 14 June 2023
Notification to the authors*: Fri, 14 July 2023
Camera Ready*: Fri, 4 August 2023
*These deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth Standard Time (AoE).
Day of the Conference:
Celebratory Track: Sunday 3rd of September 2023
Research Track: Monday 4th of September 2023
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:
The role of goal modeling in uncertainty analysis
Adaptive requirements-driven systems
Agent-oriented systems development
Business intelligence and data analytics
Business modeling
Business process analysis and design, reengineering
Business, service, and software ecosystems
Enterprise, systems, and organizational architecture
Evaluation, verification and validation
Experience reports and case studies
Evolution, adaptation, and system dynamics
Formalizing or extending iStar 2.0
i* modeling techniques and metamodels: i* modeling concepts, variations and extensions
Knowledge management
Law and regulatory compliance
Mobile and cloud requirements engineering
Model analysis and contextual reasoning
Networking or integration with other modeling languages or techniques
Novel applications of i*
Ontological foundations
Requirements engineering
Scalability and uncertainty in modeling
Security requirements engineering, privacy, and trust
Socio-technical systems
Software engineering processes and organizations
Strategy modeling and business model innovation
Tools, visualization, and interaction
Variability and personalization
Requirement analysis for AI systems
CfP Summary
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