Technical Program
General information:
  • Registration desk opens 17:00-18:30 on Sunday, 8:15-16:30 from Monday to Thursday, and 8:15-11:00 on Friday
  • The exhibitors space will be open from Wednesday to Thursday
 
      Wednesday, 10th September
      Thursday, 11th September
      Friday, 12th September
 
Wednesday, 10th September
9:00 - 10:30
Conference opening
Keynote 1: Architecture, Computers and Sustainability
  • Speaker: Helio Piñón (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
  • Chair: Pere Botella (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
11:00 - 12:30
Session 1 (Research Papers): Change Management
  • Chair: Jane Cleland-Huang (DePaul University, USA)

  • Supporting Requirements Change Management in Goal Oriented Analysis
    Daisuke Tanabe, Kohei Uno, Kinji Akemine, Takashi Yoshikawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan), Haruhiko Kaiya (Shinshu University, Japan), Motoshi Saeki (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

  • Proactively Managing the Evolution of Embedded System Requirements
    Karina Villela (University of Salvador, Brazil), Joerg Doerr, Anne Gross (Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Germany)

  • Rule-Based Maintenance of Post-Requirements Traceability Relations
    Patrick Mäder (Ilmenau Technical University, Germany), Orlena Gotel (Pace University, USA), Ilka Philippow (Ilmenau Technical University, Germany)
Session 2 (Research Papers): Social Systems
  • Chair: Jaelson Castro (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil)

  • Using Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering for Improving the Quality of ISO/IEC 15504 based Compliance Assessment Frameworks
    André Rifaut, Eric Dubois (Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg)

  • Legal Requirements, Compliance and Practice: An Industry Case Study in Accessibility
    Travis D. Breaux, Annie I. Antón (North Carolina State University, USA), Kent Boucher, Merlin Dorfman (Cisco Systems, Inc., USA)

  • Information Brokers in Requirement-Dependent Social Networks
    Sabrina Marczak, Daniela Damian, Ulrike Stege, Adrian Schröter (University of Victoria, Canada)
Session 3 (Practice Papers): Training & Lessons Learned
  • Chair: Barbara Paech (Institute for Computer Science, Heidelberg, Germany)

  • The Evaluation of a Requirements Engineering Training Program at Siemens
    Brian Berenbach, Taryn Rayment (Siemens Corporate Research, Inc., USA)

  • Games-Based Requirements Engineering Training: An Initial Experience Report
    Joy Beatty, Mike Alexander (Seilevel, Inc., USA)

  • Requirements Engineering in the Development of Large-Scale Systems
    Sascha Konrad, Michael Gall (Siemens Corporate Research, Inc., USA)
14:00 - 15:30
Session 4 (Research Papers): Concepts & Values
  • Chair: Oscar Pastor (Politécnica de Valencia, Spain)

  • Value-based Requirements Engineering (VBRE)
    Sarah Thew, Alistair Sutcliffe (University of Manchester, UK)

  • Value-Driven Service Matching
    Jaap Gordijn, Sybren De Kinderen (VUA Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Roel Wieringa (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

  • Revisiting the Core Ontology and Problem in Requirements Engineering
    Ivan Jureta (University of Namur, Belgium), John Mylopoulos (University of Toronto, Canada), Stéphane Faulkner (University of Namur, Belgium)

  • Info Cases: Integrating Use Cases and Domain Models
    Michel Fortuna, Cláudia Werner, Marcos Borges (Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil)
Session 5 (Panel): Transforming the RE Classroom Experience
  • Moderator: Didar Zowghi (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
  • Panelists: Jane Cleland-Huang, Don Gause, Olly Gotel, Zhi Jin, Pete Sawyer
Session 6 (Practice Papers): RE for Embedded Systems
  • Chair: Christof Ebert (Vector Consulting Services, Germany)

  • A Practical Approach to Requirements Reuse in Product Families of On-Board Systems
    Antonio Monzon (EADS-CASA, Spain)

  • Requirements Engineering for Control Systems Development in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
    Dominik Schmitz, Hans W. Nissen, Matthias Jarke, Thomas Rose (Fraunhofer FIT, Germany), Peter Drews, Frank J. Hesseler (RWTH Aachen University, Germany), Michael Reke (VEMAC GmbH & Co. KG, Germany)

  • Using Scenarios to Discover Requirements for Engine Control Systems
    Alistair Mavin, Mark Novak, Philip Wilkinson (Rolls-Royce PLC, UK), Neil Maiden, Perry Lynch (City University London, UK)
16:00 - 18:00
Poster and Research Tool Demos
Exhibitors Presentations
 
Thursday, 11th September
9:00 - 10:30
Best paper and best poster awards
Keynote 2: Problems, Solutions and Requirements
  • Speaker: Michael Jackson (The Open University)
  • Chair: Tetsuo Tamai (University of Tokyo, Japan)
11:00 - 12:30
Session 7 (Research Papers): Learning
  • Chair: Daniela Damian (University of Victoria, Canada)

  • Requirements Engineering Education in the 21st Century, an Experiential Learning Approach
    Gil Regev (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland), Donald C. Gause (State University of New York, USA), Alain Wegmann (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)

  • Gameplay to Introduce and Reinforce Requirements Engineering Practices
    Renel Smith, Orlena Gotel (Pace University, USA)

  • Marginal Notes on Amethodical Requirements Engineering: What Experts learned from Experience
    Susan Sim, Thomas Alspaugh, Ban Al-Ani (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Session 8 (Mini-tutorial): Service-Centric Systems and Requirements Engineering
  • Luciano Baresi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Neil Maiden (City University London, UK), Peter Sawyer (Lancaster University, UK)
Session 9 (Practice Papers): Elicitation Techniques
  • Chair: Alan Davis (University of Colorado, USA)

  • A Case Study: Requirements Elicitation Processes throughout a Project
    Takako Nakatani (University of Tsukuba, Japan), Shouzo Hori (Yaskawa Information Systems Corporation, Japan), Naoyasu Ubayashi, Keiichi Katamine, Masaaki Hashimoto (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)

  • A Case Study in Eliciting Scalability Requirements
    Leticia Duboc, Emmanuel Letier, David Rosenblum (University College London, UK), Tony Wicks (Fortent Ltd, UK)

  • Pattern Oriented Requirements towards ISVs
    Kousik Sankar R, Asha S Hejmadi (NXP Semiconductors India Pvt Ltd, India)
14:00 - 15:30
Session 10 (Research Papers): Priority
  • Chair: Alistair Sutcliffe (University of Manchester, UK)

  • “Fairness Analysis” in Requirements Assignments
    Anthony Finkelstein (University College London, UK), Mark Harman (King’s College London, UK), S. Afshin Mansouri (Brunel University, UK), Jian Ren (Chinasoft Int. Corp., P.R. China), Yuanyuan Zhang (King’s College London, UK)

  • Requirements Prioritization Based on Benefit and Cost Prediction: An Agenda for Future Research
    Andrea Herrmann (University of Heidelberg, Germany), Maya Daneva (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

  • Examining the Relationships between Performance Requirements and “Not a Problem” Defect Reports
    Chih-Wei Ho, Laurie Williams (North Carolina State University, USA), Brian Robinson (ABB Inc., USA)
Session 11 (Mini-tutorial): Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering: An Introduction
  • Awais Rashid (Lancaster University, UK), Yijun Yu (Open University)
Session 12 (Panel): Requirements Engineering - Industry Needs
  • Moderator: Ann Hickey (University of Colorado, USA)
  • Panelists: Alan Davis, Christof Ebert, Martin S. Feather, Suzanne Robertson, Frank Houdek, Sarah Gregory, Gert Bikker
16:00 - 18:00
Session 13 (Research Papers): Elicitation
  • Chair: David Callele (University of Saskatschewan, Canada)

  • Inventing Requirements from Software: An Empirical Investigation with Web Services
    Konstantinos Zachos, Neil Maiden (City University London, UK)

  • Extracting and Modeling Product Line Functional Requirements
    Nan Niu, Steve Easterbrook (University of Toronto, Canada)

  • Using Data Mining and Recommender Systems to Facilitate Large-Scale, Open, and Inclusive Requirements Elicitation Processes
    Carlos Castro-Herrera, Chuan Duan, Jane Cleland-Huang, Bamshad Mobasher (DePaul University, USA)

  • Selecting Security Patterns that Fulfill Security Requirements
    Michael Weiss (Carleton University, Canada), Haralambos Mouratidis (University of East London, UK)
Session 14 (Panel): How to Combine Requirements Engineering and Interactions Design
  • Moderator: Hermann Kaindl (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
  • Panelists: Larry Constantine, Oscar Pastor, Alistair Sutcliffe, Didar Zowghi
Session 15 (Practice Papers): Requirements through the Life Cycle
  • Chair: Frank Houdek (Daimler, Germany)

  • How Far Can Statistics Help? Evaluating Design Options Against Requirements
    Ian Alexander (Scenario Plus Ltd., UK)

  • Linking Requirements and Testing in Practice Eero J. Uusitalo, Marko Komssi, Marjo Kauppinen (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland), Alan M. Davis (The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA)

  • Guiding Technology Deployment Decisions using a Quantitative Requirements Analysis Technique Martin S. Feather, Kenneth A. Hicks, Ryan M. Mackey (California Institute of Technology, USA), Serdar Uckun (NASA Ames Research Center, USA)
 
Friday, 12th September
9:00 - 10:30
Session 16 (Research Papers): Formal Approach
  • Chair: Robyn Lutz (Iowa State University and Jet Propulsion Lab, USA)

  • A Formal Approach to Semantic Composition of Aspect-Oriented Requirements
    Nathan Weston, Ruzanna Chitchyan, Awais Rashid (Lancaster University, UK)

  • Requirements Capture with RCAT
    Margaret Smith, Klaus Havelund (California Institute of Technology, USA)

  • Dynamic Consistency Checking of Domain Requirements in Product Line Engineering
    Kim Lauenroth, Klaus Pohl (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Session 17 (Mini-tutorial): Design Science, Engineering Science and Requirements Engineering
  • Roel Wieringa (University of Twente, The Netherlands), Hans Heerkens (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Session 18 (Practice Papers): Collaboration & Elicitation
  • Chair: Daniel Berry (University of Waterloo, Canada)

  • Experience in e-Science Requirements Engineering
    Sarah Thew, Alistair Sutcliffe, Oscar de Bruijn, John McNaught, Rob Procter, Colin Venters (University of Manchester, UK), Iain Buchan (Northwest Institute for Bio-Health Informatics, UK)

  • Leveraging Collaborative Technologies in the IO Requirements Process
    Renato Recio (STG, IBM, USA), Claudia Salzberg (S&D, UBM, USA), Jeff Palm (STG, IBM, USA)

  • Use and Influence of Creative Ideas and Requirements for a Work-Integrated Learning System
    Sara Jones, Perry Lynch, Neil Maiden, Stefanie Lindstaedt (City University London, UK)
11:00 - 12:30
Keynote 3: Climate change: Challenges and Opportunities for Software Requirements Engineering
  • Speaker: Jean-Pascal van Ypersele (Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Vice-Chair of IPCC Working Group II)
  • Chair and Discussant: Steve Easterbrook (University of Toronto, Canada)
12:30 - 13:00
Closing session
Invitation to RE'09