Preliminary Conference Program


We have an exciting schedule of talks, tutorials, panels, and workshops to attend this year. To view a detailed schedule, scroll down the page or click on one of the links below.

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Monday, September 24th


Monday, September 24th
  08:30-10:00     W1 (MoDRE)     W2 (REET)     W3 (RePa)     T4 (writing)     Doctoral Symposium  
  10:00-10:30  
Morning coffee break
  10:30-12:00     W1 (MoDRE)     W2 (REET)     W3 (RePa)     T4 (writing)     Doctoral Symposium  
  12:00-13:30  
Lunch break
  13:30-15:00     W1 (MoDRE)     W2 (REET)     W3 (RePa)     T4 (writing)     Doctoral Symposium  
  15:00-15:30  
Afternoon coffee break
  15:30-17:00     W1 (MoDRE)     W2 (REET)     W3 (RePa)     T4 (writing)     Doctoral Symposium  
Workshops:
Tutorials:
Other:
  • Doctoral Symposium
    Chair: Kurt Schneider and Steve Fickas
    Panel members: John Mylopoulos, Daniel M. Berry, Yijun Yu

    8:30 - 17:00

    Business Requirements Analysis and Development for Legacy System Replacement Projects in Government, Assia Alezandrova
    A Pattern-Based Approach for Analysing Requirements in Socio-Technical Systems Engineering, Axel Hoffman
    User Involvement to Support Software Evolution in IT Ecosystems, Aessia Knauss
    Model-based Prioritization in Business-Process-Driven Software Development, Norman Riegel
    StakeCloud - Stakeholder Requirements Communication and Resource Identification in the Cloud, Irina Todoran


Tuesday, September 25th


Tuesday, September 25th
  08:30-10:00     W4 (RELAW)     W5 (TwinPeaks)     W6 (RESS)     W7 (EmpiRE)     T7 (models/DSL)     T8 (EARS+)     T9 (strategies)  
  10:00-10:30  
Morning coffee break
  10:30-12:00     W4 (RELAW)     W5 (TwinPeaks)     W6 (RESS)     W7 (EmpiRE)     T7 (models/DSL)     T8 (EARS+)     T9 (strategies)  
  12:00-13:30  
Lunch break
  13:30-15:00     W4 (RELAW)     W5 (TwinPeaks)     W6 (RESS)     W7 (EmpiRE)     T10 (management)     T11 (security)     T12 (reuse)  
  15:00-15:30  
Afternoon coffee break
  15:30-17:00     W4 (RELAW)     W5 (TwinPeaks)     W6 (RESS)     W7 (EmpiRE)     T10 (management)     T11 (security)     T12 (reuse)  
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Tutorials:

Wednesday, September 26th


Wednesday, September 26th
  8:30 - 10:00  
Plenary session
 10:00 - 10:30  
Morning coffee break
 10:30 - 12:00    Research papers 1    Research session 2    Industry papers 1  
 12:00 - 13:30  
Lunch break
 13:30 - 15:00    Research papers 3     Hands-on: Creativity     Discussion Session  
 15:00 - 15:30  
Afternoon tea break
 15:30 - 17:00    Research papers 4     Hands-on: Creativity    Industry papers 2  
  • 08:30 - 10:00 Plenary Session
    Room 621

    08:30 Conference Welcome:
    Mats Heimdahl (University of Minnesota, USA)
    Pete Sawyer (Lancaster University, UK)
    Jane Cleland-Huang (DePaul University, USA)
    Jane Huffman-Hayes (University of Kentucky, USA)
    Tony Gorschek (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)

    08:45 Keynote Address: Mobile and Agile: Why can't they get along?
    Steve Fickas (University of Oregon)
    Session chair: Pete Sawyer

  • 10:30 - 12:00 Research papers 1: Handling Uncertainty
    Room 404
    Session chair: Joanne Atlee

    Managing Requirements Uncertainty with Partial Models, Rick Salay, Marsha Chechik, Jennifer Horkoff
    Automatic Detection of Uncertainty in Natural Language Requirements, Hui Yang, Anne De Roeck, Vincenzo Gervasi, Alistair Willis, Bashar Nuseibeh
    Resolving Uncertainty in Automotive Feature Interactions, Silky Arora, Prahladavaradan Sampath, S. Ramesh

  • 10:30 - 12:00 Research papers 2: RE Process
    Room 400
    Session chair: Nazim Madhavji

    Process Improvement for Traceability: A Study of Human Fallibility, Wei-Keat Kong, Jane Huffman Hayes, Alex Dekhtyar, Olga Dekhtyar
    How do Software Architects Consider Non-Functional Requirements: An Exploratory Study, David Ameller, Claudia Ayala, Jordi Cabot, Xavier Franch
    Evaluating the Software Product Management Maturity Matrix, Willem Bekkers, Sjaak Brinkkemper, Lucas van den Bemd, Frederik Mijnhardt, Christoph Wagner, Inge van de Weerd

  • 10:30 - 12:00 Industry papers 1: Product management concerns
    Room 406
    Session chair: Sven Krause

    What Do Practitioners Mean When They Talk about Product Management? Andrey Maglyas, Uolevi Nikula, Kari Smolander
    Towards Outcome-Based Regulatory Compliance in Aviation Security, Rasha Tawhid, Mohammad Alhaj, Gunter Mussbacher, Edna Braun, Nick Cartwright, Azalia Shamsaei, Daniel Amyot, Saeed Ahmadi Behnam, Greg Richards

  • 13:30 - 15:00 Research papers 3: Requirements Management and Tracing 1
    Room 404
    Session chair: Daniela Damian

    Identifying Outdated Requirements Based on Source Code Changes, Eya Ben Charrada, Anne Koziolek, Martin Glinz
    The Quest for Ubiquity: A Roadmap for Software and Systems Traceability Research, O. Gotel, J. Cleland-Huang, J. Huffman Hayes, A. Zisman, A. Egyed, P. Grunbacher, G. Antoniol
    Enhancing Candidate Link Generation for Requirements Tracing: The Cluster Hypothesis Revisited, Nan Niu, Anas Mahmoud

  • 13:30 - 15:00 Hands-on with Experts: Running Creative Workshops. Discovering Requirements for the Requirements Conference (part 1)
    Room 400 and lounges
    Martin Mahaux, Alistair Mavin, Patrick Heymans, Neil Maiden, David Callele

  • 13:30 - 15:00 Dart-Throwing Session: Did we get it (right)?
    Room 406
    Session chairs: Jane Hayes, Tony Gorschek

  • 15:30 - 17:00 Research papers 4: Legal and Regulatory Requirements
    Room 404
    Session chair: Neil Maiden

    Reconciling Multi-Jurisdictional Legal Requirements: A Case Study in Requirements Water Marking, David G. Gordon, Travis D. Breaux
    Managing Changing Compliance Requirements by Predicting Regulatory Evolution, Jeremy C. Maxwell, Annie I. Anton, and Peter Swire

  • 15:30 - 17:00 Hands-on with Experts: Running Creative Workshops. Discovering Requirements for the Requirements Conference (part 2)
    Room 400 and lounges
    Martin Mahaux, Alistair Mavin, Patrick Heymans, Neil Maiden, David Callele

  • 15:30 - 17:00 Industry papers 2: Aspect-oriented RE
    Room 406
    Session chair: Krzysztof Wnuk

    Requirements Composition Table Explained, Yuri Chernak
    Categorizing Requirements for a Contract-Based, System Integration Project, Xiping Song, Beatrice Hwong


Thursday, September 27th


Thursday, September 27th
  8:30 - 10:00  
Plenary session
 10:00 - 10:30  
Morning coffee break
 10:30 - 12:00    Research papers 5    Research papers 6    Industry papers 3  
 12:00 - 13:30  
Lunch break
 13:30 - 15:00    Research papers 7    Ready-set-transfer!    Security mini tutorial  
 15:00 - 15:30  
Afternoon tea break
 15:30 - 17:00    Posters    Ready-set-transfer     Requirements Management Tools  
  • 08:30 - 10:00 Plenary Session
    Room 621
    Session chair: Klaus Pohl

    Keynote Address: Is the industry just getting rid of requirements?
    Chris Rupp (SOPHIST)

  • 10:30 - 12:00 Research papers 5: RE@runtime
    Room 404
    Session chair: Robin Lutz

    Requirements-driven Adaptive Security: Protecting Variable Assets at Runtime, Mazeiar Salehie, Liliana Pasquale, Inah Omoronyia, Raian Ali, Bashar Nuseibeh
    Stateful Requirements Monitoring for Self-Repairing Socio-Technical Systems, Lingxiao Fu, Xin Peng, Yijun Yu, John Mylopoulos, Wenyun Zhao
    Privacy Arguments: Analysing Selective Disclosure Requirements for Mobile Applications, Thein Than Tun, Arosha K. Bandara, Blaine A. Price, Yijun Yu, Charles Haley, Inah Omoronyia, Bashar Nuseibeh

  • 10:30 - 12:00 Research papers 6: Feature Models
    Room 400
    Session chair: Camille Salinesi

    Mining Binary Constraints in the Construction of Feature Models, Li Yi, Wei Zhang, Haiyan Zhao, Zhi Jin, Hong Mei
    A Feature-Oriented Requirements Modelling Language, Pourya Shaker, Joanne M. Atlee, Shige Wang
    Efficient Consistency Checking of Scenario-based Product Line Specifications, Joel Greenyer, Amir Molzam Sharifloo, Maxime Cordy, Patrick Heymans

  • 10:30 - 12:00 Industry papers 3: Natural language requirements vs. specification languages
    Room 406
    Session chair: Chris Rupp

    The use of a requirements modeling language for industrial applications, Brian Berenbach, Florian Schneider, Helmut Naughton
    Defects in Natural Language Requirement Specifications at Mercedes-Benz: An Investigation using a Combination of Legacy Data and Expert Opinion, Daniel Ott

  • 13:30 - 15:00 Research papers 7: Requirements Communication
    Room 404
    Session chair: Martin Glinz

    What you need is what you get! The Vision of View-based Requirements Specifications, Anne Gross, Joerg Doerr
    The Impact of Domain Knowledge on the Effectiveness of Requirements Idea Generation during Requirements Elicitation, Ali Niknafs, Daniel M. Berry
    Using Collective Intelligence to Detect Pragmatic Ambiguities, Alessio Ferrari, Stefania Gnesi

  • 13:30 - 15:00 Panel: Read-set-transfer! part one
    Room 400
    Organizers: Jane Cleland-Huang and Daniela Damian

    Academic competitors:
    ReDSeeDS tool for Model Driven Software Development, Tomasz Straszak and Michal Smialek
    Securitas: A Framework for Engineering Adaptive Security, Liliana Pasquale and Mazeiar Salehie
    Viissuelizer - Discover Patterns of Requirements Clarification, Eric Knauss
    Designing with AGREE and LUTE: Supporting compositional verification and system exploration for system architectures, Mike Whalen

    Industry panelists:
    Peter Jones, Phonak AG
    Alistair Mavin, Rolls-Royce
    Erik Simmons, Intel Corp

  • 13:30 - 15:00 Mini tutorial: Security Requirements Engineering
    Room 406
    Session chair: Tony Gorschek

    Fabiano Dalpiaz

  • 15:30 - 17:00 Posters and Demos
    Room 404 and lounges

    ArchiTech: Tool Support for NFR-Guided Architectural Decision-Making, David Ameller, Oriol Collell, Xavier Franch [Video]
    CoFM: An Environment for Collaborative Feature Modeling, Li Yi, Haiyan Zhao, Wei Zhang, Zhi Jin [Video]
    Concern-Driven Development with jUCMNav, Daniel Amyot, Stéphane Leblanc, Jason Kealey, Jörg Kienzle
    Facilitating Transition from Requirements to Code with the ReDSeeDS Tool, Michal Śmialek, Tomasz Straszak [Video]
    Flexible, Lightweight Requirements Modeling with FlexiSketch, Dustin Wüest, Norbert Seyff, Martin Glinz [Video]
    MbFM: A Matrix-Based Tool for Modeling and Configuring Feature Models, Long Li, Haiyan Zhao, Wei Zhang [Video]
    ReCVisu: A Tool for Clustering-Based Visual Exploration of Requirements, Sandeep Reddivari, Zhangji Chen, Nan Niu
    Run-Time Model Evaluation for Requirements Model-Driven Self-Adaptation, Kristopher Welsh, Nelly Bencomo [Video]
    STS-Tool: Socio-technical Security Requirements through Social Commitments, Elda Paja, Fabiano Dalpiaz, Mauro Poggianella, Pierluigi Roberti, Paolo Giorgini [Video]
    The RE-Tools: A Multi-notational Requirements Modeling Toolkit, Sam Supakkul, Lawrence Chung
    Tool Support for Combined Rule-Based and Goal-Based Reasoning in Context-Aware Systems, Mira Vrbaski, Dorina Petriu, Daniel Amyot

  • 15:30 - 17:00 Panel: Read-set-transfer! part two
    Room 400

    Panelists:
    Peter Jones, Phonak AG
    Alistair Mavin, Rolls-Royce
    Erik Simmons, Intel Corp
    Tony Gorschek, Blekinge University, Sweden
    Sjaak Brinkkemper, Utrecht University, Netherlands

  • 15:30 - 17:00 Mini tutorial: How to Select a Requirements Management Tool: Selection Criteria and Evaluation
    Room 406
    Session chair: Tony Gorschek

    Orlena Gotel and Remo Ferrari

  • 18:00 - 21:00 Conference Banquet
    Union League Club of Chicago
    65 West Jackson Boulevard Chicago, IL 60604

    Please note that there is a dress code for the club that excludes jeans and T-Shirts. Please dress accordingly.

    18:00 - 19:00: Hors D'Oeuvres with cash bar in the Crystal Room on the 5th floor.
    19:00 - 21:00: A three-course dinner will be served in the 6th floor main dining room.


Friday, September 28th


Friday, September 28th
  8:30 - 10:00    Posters    Research papers 8    Industry papers 4  
 10:00 - 10:30  
Morning coffee break
 10:30 - 12:00    Research papers 9    RE certification    Meet the expert  
 12:00 - 13:30  
Lunch break
 13:30 - 15:00  
Plenary session
  • 08:30 - 10:00 Posters and Demos (contd.)
    Room 404 and lounges

  • 08:30 - 10:00 Research papers 8: Goal Modelling
    Room 400
    Session chair: Daniel M. Berry

    A Probabilistic Framework for Goal-Oriented Risk Analysis, Antoine Cailliau, Axel van Lamsweerde
    Requirements Analysis for a Product Family of DNA Nanodevices, Robyn R. Lutz, Jack H. Lutz, James I. Lathrop, Titus H. Klinge, Divita Mathur, D. M. Stull, Taylor G. Bergquist, and Eric R. Henderson
    On Eliciting Contribution Measures in Goal Models, Sotirios Liaskos, Rina Jalman, Jorge Aranda

  • 08:30 - 10:00 Industry papers 4: Prioritization
    Room 406
    Session chair: Joerg Doerr

    Log-Based Approach for Performance Requirements Elicitation and Prioritization, Odorico Machado Mendizabal, Martin Spier, Rodrigo Saad
    Selecting an Appropriate Framework for Value Based Requirements Prioritization A Case Study, Nupul Kukreja, Sheetal Swaroop Payyavula, Barry Boehm, Srinivas Padmanabhuni
    Requirements Reuse at Danfoss, Dagny Hauksdottir, Arne Vermehren, Juha Savolainen

  • 10:30 - 12:00 Research papers 9: Requirements Management and Tracing 2
    Room 404
    Session chair: Daniel Amyot

    Breaking the Big-Bang Practice of Traceability: Pushing Timely Trace Recommendations to Project Stakeholders, Jane Cleland-Huang, Patrick Mader, Mehdi Mirakhorli, Sorawit Amornborvornwong
    Characterization of Functional Software Requirements Space: The Law of Requirements Taxonomic Growth, Arbi Ghazarian
    Detecting and Classifying Patterns of Requirements Clarifications, Eric Knauss, Daniela Damian, German Poo-Caamano, and Jane Cleland-Huang

  • 10:30 - 12:00 Certification of Requirements Engineers: A Sound Idea or Just another Meaningless Title?
    Room 400

    Panelists: Nancy R. Mead, Daniel M Berry, Gary Gack, Neil Maiden, Didar Zowghi

  • 10:30 - 12:00 Meet the expert: Quantifying the Value of Business Requirements
    Room 406
    Session chair: Jane Hayes

    Keith Ellis

  • 13:30 - 15:00 Plenary Session
    Room 621
    Session chair: Mats Heimdahl and Daniel M. Berry

    Keynote Address: Requirements engineering and safety
    Nancy Leveson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

    14:45 Looking ahead to RE'13 and close of RE'12