Call for Papers

The topics of interest of the workshop include all the concerns at the crossing of Requirements Engineering (RE) and Empirical Software Engineering (ESE), as well as other empirical sciences.  The workshop topics, hence, include all those concerns related to the application of empirical research methods in RE. In particular, but not limited to, the following one: 

• Design science and action research as methods for doing research with practitioners and for practitioners; 

• Emerging research methods, e.g. leveraging data-centric intelligent systems; 

• Surveys on state-of-the-art RE practices in industry; 

• Systematic reviews and mapping studies on RE phenomena; 

• Qualitative studies: case studies, focus groups, grounded theory, interview-based studies; different types of approaches to evaluate validity of results of RE research; 

• Experimental designs for empirical studies; 

• Frameworks and infrastructures for carrying out empirical studies; 

• Lessons learned from empirical research in industry-university collaboration settings; 

• Frameworks for comparative evaluations; 

• Identification of strengths and weaknesses of empirical and comparative evaluation approaches. 

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Application domains: While we welcome empirical research papers in all domains, the EmpiRE 2023 would like to pay a special attention on the research challenges in RE for Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine and Deep Learning, Recommender Systems, and Natural Language Processing.