REWBAH 2024
Fifth International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Well-Being, Aging, and Health
June 25, Reykjavik, Iceland, in person!
Overview
Health-related expenses often represent over 10% of a coun-try’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and this proportion is increasing according to the World Health Organization . Many systems and services that promote health fail to engage people in the long term, and yet requirements engineering research in this area is sparse. Nowadays, when the post COVID-19 pandemic, climate changes, and worldwide human conflicts have massive worldwide impact, influencing our health and well-being, in particular within the elderly population, WBAH is even more relevant than ever.
The REWBAH workshop fosters discussion related to requirements engineering resulting from the need to build software systems that not only support healthcare, but also foster well-being, encourage patients and the population in general to live according to healthy lifestyle recommendations, and ad-dress the specific needs of an aging population. These systems can provide personalized and tailored behavioral change pro-grams for decreasing health risk factors.
This theme is also in line with the objectives of the American Healthy People 2030 Framework on health promotion and disease prevention, with a vision for “A society in which all people can achieve their full potential for health and well-being across the lifespan”. Well-being is part of a more holistic definition of health that, according to the World Health Organization, is “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’’.
The workshop will bring together practitioners and researchers from Software and Requirements Engineering, Medicine, Health Sciences, Psychology, and other relevant disciplines. This workshop is open to the public. The workshop goals as well as the workshop multidisciplinary audience are well aligned with the theme of Requirements Engineering (RE) conference 2024, namely “Exploring New Horizons: Expanding the Frontiers of Requirements Engineering”.
Earlier Workshops
Are you curious about the earlier editions of the workshop? Please see:
The REWBAH 2023 web site and the IEEE proceedings
The REWBAH 2022 web site and the IEEE proceedings
The REWBAH 2022 web site and the IEEE proceedings
The REWBAH 2021 web site and the IEEE proceedings
The REWBAH 2020 web site and the IEEE proceedings
Fresh out of press! M. Levy et al. Sustaining human health: A requirements engineering perspective, a product of REWBAH 2021 that appeared in the Journal of Systems and Software, 2023, 111792, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2023.111792
See also this overview of REWBAH for practitioners, a product of REWBAH 2020 that appeared as: M. Levy et al., "Requirements Engineering for Well-Being, Aging, and Health: An Overview for Practitioners", IEEE Software, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 7-12, May-June 2021, https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2021.3058492
Goals
The goals of this workshop include, but are not limited to:
Developing approaches (incl. methods, taxonomies / ontologies, models, standard / reusable requirements / ad-hoc solutions) that support multiple perspectives of wellbeing, aging, and health;
Developing methods for defining and monitoring requirements of systems and services that promote well-being or health;
Considering systematically evidence-based factors of health risk reductions in systems and services;
Developing measures or metrics to evaluate the return on investment of models, methods, tools, or techniques that improve patients’ engagement with systems related to well-being or health;
Determining whether and how well-being, age, and values can be used as measurable quality properties for requirements;
Improving communication and aligning processes be-tween requirements engineering, patients, caregivers and clinicians, and software developers, in particular for aspects related to health and well-being;
Identifying open research and industry challenges, as well as validation objectives for proposed solutions; and
Exploring how technology can improve health-related challenges and how to mitigate the influence of technology on our well-being.
Submissions
REWBAH (pronounced roo-bah) is looking for papers in two general categories (in IEEE CS format):
Long - Research/Experience/Review papers (10 pages max., including references)
Short - Vision papers (4-6 pages, incuding references)
Important: papers submitted to the workshop must follow strictly the formatting instructions imposed by the publisher (LaTeX and Word templates are provided).
Submissions shall be done via EasyChair (rewbah2024). Each submission will be reviewed by three members of the REWBAH 2024 Program Committee. Preference will be given to submissions that emphasize informed, topic-relevant, and technically sound descriptions of important challenges and problems as opposed to just proposed solutions.
Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library as workshop proceedings. All authors of all accepted contributions will be asked to complete an electronic IEEE Copyright form and will receive further instructions for preparing their camera-ready versions from Conference Publishing Services (CPS). Acceptance of a paper implies that one of the authors registers for the workshop to present the submission; failure to do so by the early registration date will result in the paper being withdrawn from the workshop proceedings. IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the workshop (e.g., by not placing it into the IEEE Xplore Digital Library) if the paper is not presented at the workshop.
Important Dates
Abstract Submission: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 (optional, but let us know that you intend to submit!)
Paper Submission : Wednesday, March 27, 2024 EXTENSION : Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Paper Notification: Monday, April 29, 2024
Camera Ready Due: Monday, May 06, 2024
Workshop: June 25, in person, as part of the RE'24 conference
Topics of Interest
Identifying, prioritizing, and integrating relevant challenges that push the frontiers of requirements en-gineering for WBAH;
Elicitation of generic psycho-social and demographic concepts and their potential effects on clinical goals and actions;
Formal and informal modeling of WBAH related pol-icies and requirements;
Traceability and alignment between clinical guide-lines, well-being definitions, aging/health challenges and requirements;
Coordinating requirements change and the evolution of WBAH guidelines, policies, and regulations;
Considering WBAH in requirements acquisition, specification, analysis, and validation;
Integrating guidelines and requirements engineering processes for promoting WBAH;
Introducing existing products and services into new WBAH requirements;
Requirements for artificial intelligence components in WBAH systems and services;
Users’ perceptions, trust, barriers and sustainable us-age of WBAH-related system;
Meaningful, actionable, and trustworthy data man-agement for WBAH systems and services;
WBAH processes innovation and transformation;
Addressing fairness and social inclusion, cohesion, and solidarity in requirements for WBAH systems and services;
Requirements for global information systems that can help people, decision makers, and researchers during pandemics;
RE for ecological determinants of health.
Organization Committee
Lin Liu
Program Committee Chair
Tsinghua University (China)
Meira Levy
Organization Co-Chair
Shenkar College of Engineering and Design (Israel)
Lysanne Lessard
Organization Co-Chair
Telfer School of Management (Canada)
2024 Program Committee
Daniel Amyot, University of Ottawa, Canada
Hrvoje Belani, Ministry of Health, Croatia
Eduard C. Groen, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
Samuel Fricker, FHNW U., Switzerland
Sylwia Kopczyńska, Poznań U. of Technology, Poland
Sébastien Mosser, McMaster University, Canada
Elisa Yumi Nakagawa, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Elena Navarro, University of Castilla, Spain
Sofia Ouhbi, Uppsala University, Sweden
Ita Richardson, University of Limerick, Ireland
Preethu Rose, TCS Research, India
Maria Spichkova, RMIT University, Australia
Kuldar Taveter, University of Tartu, Estonia
Jens Weber, University of Victoria, Canada
Szymon Wilk, Poznań U. of Technology, Poland
Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Canada
Steering Committee
Daniel Amyot, University of Ottawa, Canada
Meira Levy, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Israel
Lin Liu, Tsinghua University, China
Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Canada