CALL FOR PAPERS

4th International Workshop on Conceptual Modeling in Requirements and Business Analysis (MREBA'17)

Formerly “Requirements, Intentions, and Goals in Conceptual Modeling” (RIGiM)

in Conjunction with the 36th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER'17)

Valencia, Spain

November 6-9, 2017

https://sites.google.com/view/mrebaworkshop17/home

Requirements Engineering (RE) and Business Analysis (BA) are nowadays common practices within organizations, often applied in tandem. In this context, the use of Conceptual Modeling methods and languages are an essential practice, since both fields require conceptual models for analysis, reasoning, and documentation.

The MREBA workshop aims to provide a forum for discussing the interplay between Requirements Engineering and Business Analysis topics and Conceptual Modeling. In particular, the workshop focuses on how requirements modeling can be effectively used as part of Business Analysis and Systems Engineering.

Important questions for MREBA are: What are the fundamental objectives and premises of RE/BA and conceptual modeling respectively, and how can they complement each other? What conceptual modeling techniques can be utilized in RE/BA? How can RE/BA modeling be applied successfully in a business environment? What lessons are there to be learned from industrial experiences? What empirical data can support cost-benefit analyses when adopting RE/BA methods? Are there applications, domains or types of project settings for which RE/BA approaches are particularly suitable or not? What degree of formalization and automation or interactivity is feasible and appropriate for which types of participants during RE/BA modeling?

Topics of Interest

Submissions should address the relation between Requirements Engineering and/or Business Analysis and conceptual modeling on the selected topic. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Modeling for Business Analysis and Business Intelligence
• Elicitation, analysis and evaluation of requirements
• Agile approaches to requirements engineering
• Domain understanding and scenarios analysis
• Management and reuse of requirements
• Automation of requirements transformation to software development artifacts
• Capturing prioritization, customization and preferences
• Modeling methodologies, processes, and methods
• Stakeholder analysis and communication
• Requirements as part of Enterprise Modeling and Enterprise Architecture
• Goal/Intention-Oriented Requirements Engineering (GORE)
• Modeling as part of collaborative RE/BA
• RE/BA model scalability, complexity, and modularity
• Industrial or systems requirements modeling
• Model feedback and validation
• RE/BA language interoperability, integration, transformation
• Ontological perspectives on RE/BA models
• Capturing laws, regulation, and compliance
• Visual notation for RE/BA models
• Analysis and reasoning, including decision support
• Modeling security, privacy, risk, and safety
• Industrial experiences, empirical studies and tools related to RE/BA modeling

Format and Duration

We aim for a highly interactive forum. The intended workshop duration is three sessions (1.5 hours each), including at least one session of paper presentations and discussions. We intend to include a keynote and, depending on the number of accepted papers, a panel or interactive session.

Types of Papers

We invite submissions of high quality papers describing original and unpublished results regarding any of the workshop’s topics of interest.

We solicit three types of papers: full papers (10 pages max) including technical papers and experience reports, position or vision papers (6 pages max) and industrial problem statements (6 pages max) in Springer LNCS format.

Instructions to authors, including paper templates are available at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines.

Submission Instructions

Papers must be written in English, follow the LNCS format, and submitted as PDF files using EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mreba17 .

Papers must not have been previously published or submitted elsewhere.

The accepted papers will be published within the ER Workshop proceedings, in the Springer LNCS Series. At least one of the authors for each accepted paper must be registered and attend the conference for paper presentation.

Important dates

Paper submission (EXTENDED DEADLINE): midnight CET, July 9th, 2017

Notification: July 26^th, 2017

Camera-Ready: August 7^th, 2017

Organization

PROGRAM Committee

Okhaide Akhigbe, University of Ottawa, Canada

Claudia Cappelli, NP2TEC/Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Fabiano Dalpiaz, Utrecht University, Netherlands

Marcela Ruiz, Utrecht University, Netherlands

Aditya Ghose, University of Wollongong, Australia

Paul Johannesson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Sotirios Liaskos, York University, Canada

Lin Liu, Tsinghua University, China

Lidia Lopez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

Pericles Loucopoulos, University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Joshua Nwokeji, United Kingdom

Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway

Anna Perini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy

Jolita Ralyté, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Kevin Ryan, University of Limerick, Ireland

Junko Shirogane, Tokyo Woman's Christian University, Japan

Samira Si-Said Cherfi, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France

Vitor Souza, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil

Sam Supakkul, Sabre Travel Network, USA

Lucineia Thom, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil