MREBA

Workshop on Conceptual Modeling in Requirements Engineering and Business Analysis

The MREBA workshop aims to provide a forum for discussing the interplay between Requirements Engineering topics and conceptual modeling, and in particular how requirements modeling can be effectively used as part of business analysis and systems engineering. We ask: What are the objectives and premises of requirements engineering and conceptual modelling respectively, and how can they complement each other? How can RE modeling be applied successfully in a business environment? What lessons are there to be learnt from industrial experiences and empirical studies? Are there applications domains or types of project settings where RE/BA modeling approaches are particularly suitable?

Topics

  • Modelling for Business Analysis and Business Intelligence
  • Elicitation, analysis and evaluation of requirements
  • Agile approaches to requirements engineering
  • Domain understanding and scenarios analysis
  • Management and reuse of requirements
  • Continuous Requirements Engineering
  • Automation of requirements transformation to software development artifacts
  • Capturing prioritization, customization and preferences
  • Modelling methodologies, processes, and methods
  • Stakeholder analysis and communication
  • Requirements as part of Enterprise Modelling and Enterprise Architecture
  • Goal/Intention-Oriented Requirements Engineering (GORE)
  • Modelling as part of collaborative RE/BA
  • RE/BA model scalability, complexity, and modularity
  • Industrial or systems requirements modeling
  • Model feedback and validation
  • RE/BA language interoperability, integration, transformation
  • Ontological perspectives on RE/BA models
  • Capturing laws, regulation, and compliance
  • Visual notation for RE/BA models
  • Analysis and reasoning, including decision support
  • Modelling security, privacy, risk, and safety for requirements
  • Industrial experiences, empirical studies and tools related to RE/BA modelling

Submission Guidelines

Since the proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series, authors must submit manuscripts using the LNCS style. See http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for style files and details. The page limit for submitted papers (as well as for final, camera-ready papers) is 10. Manuscripts not submitted in the LNCS style or exceeding the page limit will not be reviewed and automatically rejected.

Submission is done through EasyChair. Please select the Workshop track when submitting. EasyChair Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=er2019 – please pay attention to select the correct track.

Workshop Organizers

Jelena Zdravkovic is the vice-head of the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University. She has a PhD in Computer and Systems Sciences at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) from 2006, as well as the MBA in E-commerce. Jelena has published more than 80 refereed papers in international conferences and scientific journals on the topics of enterprise modeling, business/IT alignment and requirements engineering. She has participated in several national and international projects on the interoperability, service modeling, and lately – capability-driven IS engineering. In her department, Jelena is the head of the study program “Enterprise systems and Service Design”, and the main responsible for the subjects Requirements Engineering and System Integration. She is in the Editorial Board of Springer’s RE and BISE Journals, as well as a regular reviewer for several other international journals including Elsevier’s Journal of Systems and Software, and Information & Software Technology journal, as well as the IEEE Computing journal. She serves in the program committees of more than 10 international conferences and workshops. Jelena is the member of OMG/Business Architecture Guild, as well as of IFIP 8.1 working group.

Renata Guizzardi is currently a senior member of the Conceptual Modeling Research Group (NEMO) and a founding member of the Laboratory of Supporting Technologies for Collaborative Networks (LabTAR). Both research groups are part of the Federal University of Espírito Santo (Brazil), where she holds an associate professor position. She is also currently a Senior Research Scholar at the University of Bristol, UK. Renata received her a PhD in computer Science from the University of Twente in the Netherlands (2006) with a thesis on the topic of Agent-Oriented Knowledge Management. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Trento in 2013-2014, in Trento, Italy. Currently, she is an associate senior researcher at the University of Bristol, UK, and a visiting researcher at the Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK), in Trento, Italy. Her main research interests include ontologies, goal modeling, knowledge management, and business process modeling. She is the author of more than seventy peer-reviewed publications in conference proceedings, journals and book chapters. She has been involved in several research projects supported by Brazilian and international funding institutions as well as industrial projects related to business process modeling and ontologies. Moreover, Renata has been a member of the Organizing Committees of several other scientific events in different ways, such as PC co-chair of CIbSE 2012, Doctoral Symposium co-chair of RCIS 2015, tutorial co-chair and Program Board member of RCIS 2013, demo co-chair of CIbSE 2014, Student volunteer co-chair of RE 2013, and publicity co-chair of ER 2017 and CAISE 2013, 2014 and 2016. Since 2017, she acts as the vice-chair of the Steering Committee of the Ibero-american Conference on Software Engineering (CIbSE). She is also in the editorial board of the International Journal of Knowledge and Learning and has served as a reviewer for relevant scientific journals, such as the Elsevier Journal of Information & Software Technology and the IAOA Applied Ontology.

Vítor E. Silva Souza is an Assistant Professor at the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), in Brazil and a senior member of the Conceptual Modeling Research Group (NEMO). He is also currently the head of the Postgraduate Program in Computer Science at UFES. Vítor received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Trento in Italy (2012) with a thesis on the topic of Requirements Engineering for the development of adaptive systems, under the supervision of prof. John Mylopoulos. Currently, his main research interests include Ontologies in Software Engineering, Goal-Based Modeling, Requirements Engineering, the Semantic Web and Web Engineering. He is a co-author in more than fifty peer-reviewed publications in conference proceedings, journals and book chapters and has a Google Scholar h-index of 16. Vítor has been involved in several research projects supported by Brazilian and international funding institutions as well as industrial projects related to conceptual modeling and software engineering. He is currently coordinating two projects funded by Brazilian research agencies with a total budget of over BRL 700.000.