Call for Papers

The workshop's topics of interest include all the concerns at the crossing of Requirements Engineering (RE) and WEB3. In particular, but not limited to, the following one: 

Topics

• Decentralized Systems: The foundational principles of decentralized systems and their implications on RE.

• Blockchain and Smart Contracts: The role of RE in developing and deploying blockchain systems and self-executing smart contracts.

• User Experience in Decentralized Applications (DApps): Adapting RE methodologies to ensure optimal user experience in DApps.

• Immutable Systems: The challenges of defining requirements for systems where post-deployment changes are immutable or highly restricted.

• Security in Web3: The unique security challenges in decentralized systems and the role of RE in ensuring robust security protocols.

• Data Privacy and Ownership: The challenges of data privacy in decentralized systems and the role of RE in ensuring user data rights and ownership.

• Interoperability in Web3: The role of RE in ensuring seamless interoperability between cross-chain and cross-platform interactions.

• Web3 Governance Models: How RE can aid in defining governance models for decentralized communities and platforms.

• Economic Models in Web3: The economic implications of decentralized systems, including token economics and the role of RE in defining economic models.

• Scalability Challenges: The scalability concerns of Web3 technologies and the role of RE in addressing these concerns.

Methods

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

• 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.