RE4WEB3 2024

International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Web3 systems 

co-located with the 32st IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference

Reykjavik, Iceland, June 24, 2024

A new era in the decentralized internet has begun with the emergence of Web3, fundamentally changing how businesses operate, collaborate, manage assets, and engage stakeholders [1,2]. Web3 technologies, such as blockchain, decentralized applications, smart contracts, DAO, DeFi and tokenization, defined a new paradigm of decentralized software systems [3,4]. Organizations can leverage these systems with enhanced transparency, security, and user empowerment and benefit from Web3 evolution in several ways. Some of these benefits include reduced operating costs, enhanced trust, and new business models enabled by Web3 technologies [5,6]. 

Recent research on Requirements Engineering (RE) mainly focused on socio-technical aspects of centralized Web2 systems [7,8,9]. The RE4Web3 Workshop is motivated by the need to bridge the gap between traditional RE and the unique challenges posed by Web3 technologies. The conventional methods employed in RE may not comprehensively account for Web3-powered systems' ever-changing characteristics, resulting in potential drawbacks and overlooked prospects. The workshop aims to establish a connection between RE and Web3, fostering innovative approaches, collaborative insights, research strategies, and harmonious integration.

The targeted outcomes of this workshop include the identification of open research problems and the possible solutions to these problems, regarding:

• Applying empirical research to RE methods, processes, and tools in the WEB3 domain.

• Evaluation and comparison of RE methods, processes and tools in context.

• Emerging research methods.

• New and unexpected forms of collaboration with industrial partners in empirical research projects.

• Evaluation of transferability of empirical results to practice.

RE4WEB3 2024 is aligned with the central theme of the RE'24 conference, namely Exploring New Horizons: Expanding the Frontiers of Requirements Engineering. The targeted outcomes of this workshop include therefore the identification of open research problems of interdisciplinary nature and the possible solutions to these problems, regarding:

• Innovative RE4Web3 Approaches: Novel RE methodologies tailored for Web3. To comprehend and formulate requirements engineering (RE) approaches specifically developed to address the distinctive complexities and advantages of Web3 technologies.

• Collaborative Insights: Facilitate discussions between Web3 pioneers and RE experts from both academia and industry. The goal of these discussions is to analyze how RE can be the linchpin in ensuring organizations' successful deployment and adoption of Web3 technologies.

• Research and Strategy: To establish a roadmap for producing a comprehensive report that outlines the challenges, potential solutions, and future research directions concerning RE in the Web3 domain.

• Synergizing Web3 and RE: To encourage a harmonious integration of Web3 technologies and RE practices to enable organizations' seamless transition into the decentralized digital landscape. The goal is to provide organizations with knowledge and tools for transformation into a decentralized digital environment and allow them to leverage the capabilities offered by Web3 technologies.

Bibliography:

1. Murray, A., Kim, D., & Combs, J. (2023). The promise of a decentralized internet: What is Web3 and how can firms prepare?. Business Horizons, 66(2), 191-202.

2. Aviv, I. (2021, October). The distributed ledger technology as development platform for distributed information systems. In International Conference on Intelligent Vision and Computing (pp. 344-355). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

3. Reddy, P. T. S., & Rao, S. V. A. (2023). Web3: Unleashing the Power of Decentralization and Blockchain Technology to Transform the Digital Landscape. Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education (TURCOMAT), 14(2), 1036-1043.

4. Aviv, I., Barger, A., Kofman, A., & Weisfeld, R. (2023). Reference Architecture for Blockchain-Native Distributed Information System. IEEE Access, 11, 4838-4851.

5. Ray, P. P. (2023). Web3: A comprehensive review on background, technologies, applications, zero-trust architectures, challenges and future directions. Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems.

6. Gafni, R., Aviv, I., & Haim, D. (2023). Multi-Party Secured Collaboration Architecture from Cloud to Edge. Journal of Computer Information Systems, 1-12.

7. Levy, M., Hadar, I., & Aviv, I. (2019). A requirements engineering methodology for knowledge management solutions: integrating technical and social aspects. Requirements Engineering, 24, 503-521.

8. Bambazek, P., Groher, I., & Seyff, N. (2023). Requirements engineering for sustainable software systems: a systematic mapping study. Requirements Engineering, 1-25.

9. Levy, M., Hadar, I., & Aviv, I. (2021). Agile-based education for teaching an agile requirement engineering methodology for knowledge management. Sustainability, 13(5), 2853.