Submission Instructions
EmpiRE 2023 will accept four types of submissions: (i) industry reports, (ii) position papers, (iii) research design papers, and (iv) full technical papers.
Industry reports (max 4 pages). These are papers on problem statements or challenges encountered in real-life organizations or examples of successes/failures of empirical RE research in practice.
Position papers (max 4 pages). These are short papers that can be either (a) a paper on the position of the author/s on any of the topics within the scope of the workshop, or (b) an empirical research design that will be improved as a result of feedback from workshop participants, or (c) visionary papers proposing new ideas about the contribution of the empirical methods in RE. For instance, a position paper can propose new criteria to empirically assess RE methods and techniques, or it can introduce new areas for relevant empirical studies.
Student Papers (max 4 pages). Short papers written only by PhD students presenting the experimentation they performed/plan to perform during their research work.
Full technical papers (max 8 pages). Full papers that describe empirical experiences in RE and reporting the results of such experiences. For example, a full paper might describe how a RE approach has been evaluated in a real context or in a laboratory scenario, or how two RE approaches have been compared in practice.
All the papers should be related to the topics of interest indicated in the Call for Papers.
The EmpiRE 2023 organizers are currently exploring the opportunity of promoting an open special issue on Empirical Requirements Engineering (further details about the Journal and the special issue will be posted soon).
Instructions
All submissions must be in English. All papers submitted to the workshop will be peer-reviewed by three members of the Program Committee. Acceptance will be primarily based on originality, contribution to the area, amenability to generate discussion, quality of the paper and of the research, and research completeness. Research design papers will be reviewed, but more "helpfully" than "critically". Only original papers not currently under consideration for publication on journals or other conferences will be considered.
All the accepted papers will be published in the IEEE digital library with the support of the RE 2023 conference. Thus, all the papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format and by following the IEEE formatting instructions (further details at the RE conference page: RE 2023 formatting instructions).