The 17th International

i* Workshop

Workshop Proceedings:
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3936

October 28, 2024
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Co-located with ER 2024

iStar'24

The iStar workshop series is dedicated to the discussion of concepts, methods, techniques, tools, and applications associated with i* (iStar) and related goal modeling frameworks and approaches such as Tropos, GRL and others. The iStar’23 workshop is the latest of seventeen (17) successful editions beginning in Trento in 2002, and followed by London (2005), Recife (2008), Hammamet (2010), Trento (2011), Valencia (2013), Thessaloniki (2014), Ottawa (2015), Beijing (2016), Essen (2017), Tallinn (2018), Salvador (2019), Zürich (2020), St. John’s (2021), Hyderabad (2022) and Hannover (2023).

As in these 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.

Please see the complete CfP for more details.

Important Dates

Paper Submission: August 23rd, 2024, August 30th, 2024 (extended)
Author Notification: September 18th, 2024
Camera Ready / Registration: September 27th, 2024
Workshop date: October 28th, 2024

Submission

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, templates of which can be downloaded from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. An Overleaf page for LaTeX users is available here.

All submissions should be uploaded to easychair - please select "iStar’24 Workshop Papers" when prompted.

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

Keynote

Ontology-Based Requirements Engineering; The Case of Ethicality Requirements

Renata Guizzardi & Giancarlo Guizzardi

Abstract. Ethical behavior is an integral part of people’s everyday life whether they are aware of this or not. When a teacher grades exams of dozens of students aiming at consistency and transparency, she is making ethical decisions. The same happens when doctors use ethical criteria to choose which patients should be prioritized in the face of limited resources, or when people are treated fairly in job interviews despite their color and gender. With the speedy development of intelligent technology, systems are more and more pervasive, and machines are also expected to make ethical decisions and act ethically. However, to ensure that, system developers, and in particular, requirements engineers must be aware of ethical principles. Moreover, such principles must guide development, thus being explicitly embedded in system engineering methods. In this talk, we argue that ontologies may play a crucial role in supporting awareness, besides being essential in the development of engineering practices leading ethical and trustworthy systems. In particular, we describe our own current efforts in the development of ontology-based requirements engineering and what that entails. We will talk about promising directions and results of this research and discuss what else is to be expected as next steps.

Renata Guizzardi

Renata Guizzardi is an Assistant Professor at the Industrial Engineering and Business Information Systems Department of the University of Twente, in the Netherlands. Moreover, she is a founding member of the Ontology & Conceptual Modeling Research Group (NEMO) and of the Laboratory of Supporting Technologies for Collaborative Networks (LabTAR), at UFES, Brazil, where she was based from 2009-2016. For around 30 years, she has been busy with research work on Computer-Assisted Education, Requirements Engineering, Conceptual Modeling and Ontologies, focusing on the interplay of these research areas to improve the development of information systems and organizational practices.

Giancarlo Guizzardi

Giancarlo Guizzardi is a Full Professor of Software Science and Evolution as well as Chair and Department Head of Semantics, Cybersecurity & Services (SCS) at the University of Twente, The Netherlands. He is also an Affiliated/Guest Professor at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV) at Stockholm University, in Sweden. He has been active for nearly three decades in the areas of Formal and Applied Ontology, Conceptual Modeling, Enterprise Computing and Information Systems Engineering, working with a multidisciplinary approach in Computer Science that aggregates results from Philosophy, Cognitive Science, Logics and Linguistics. He is the main contributor to the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO) and to the OntoUML modeling language. Over the years, he has delivered keynote speeches in several key international conferences in these fields (e.g., ER, CAiSE, BPM, IEEE ICSC). He is currently an associate editor of a number of journals including Applied Ontology and Data & Knowledge Engineering, a co-editor of the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing series, and a member of several international journal editorial boards. He is also a member of the Steering Committees of ER, CAiSE, EDOC, and IEEE CBI, and of the Advisory Board of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA). Finally, he is an ER fellow.

Panel

Opportunities and Challenges for GORE in the era of Learning-based AI

The 17th International

i* Workshop

iStar'24

Important Dates

Submission

Keynote

Ontology-Based Requirements Engineering; The Case of Ethicality Requirements

Renata Guizzardi & Giancarlo Guizzardi

Renata Guizzardi

Giancarlo Guizzardi

Panel

Travis Breaux

Giancarlo Guizzardi

Eric Yu