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** Call for Papers RIGiM'12**
4th International Workshop on Requirements, Intentions and Goals in
Conceptual Modeling (RIGiM'12)
in Conjunction with the 31st International Conference on Conceptual
Modeling (ER'12)
Florence, Italy
15-18th October, 2012
Paper submission deadline: April 23th, 2012
Web site: https://sites.google.com/site/rigim12/
** Organizers **
* Colette Rolland - Universite Paris 1 Pantheon - Sorbonne, France.
* Jaelson Castro - Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil.
* Camille Salinesi - Universite Paris 1 Pantheon - Sorbonne, France.
* Eric Yu - University of Toronto, Canada.
* Jennifer Horkoff - University of Toronto, Canada.
** Scope and Topics ***
The use of intentional concepts, the notion of "goal" in particular,
has been prominent in recent approaches to requirements engineering.
Goal-oriented frameworks and methods for requirements engineering
(GORE) have been keynote topics at requirements engineering
conferences, and at major software engineering conferences. What are
the conceptual modelling foundations in these approaches?
Traditionally information system engineering has made the assumption
that an information system captures some excerpt of world history
and hence has concentrated on modeling information about the
Universe of Discourse. This is done through conceptual modeling that
aims at abstracting the specification of the required information
system, i.e., the conceptual schema, from an analysis of the
relevant aspects of the Universe of Discourse about which the user
community needs information. This specification concentrates on what
the system should do, that is, on its functionality, serving as a
prescription for system construction.
Whereas conceptual modelling allowed system developers to understand
the semantic of information and led to a large number of
semantically powerful conceptual models, experience demonstrates
that it often fails in supporting the delivery of systems that were
accepted by the community of users. Indeed, a number of studies have
shown that many systems fail due to an inadequate understanding of
the requirements they seek to address. Furthermore, the amount of
effort needed to fix these systems has been found to be very high.
To correct this situation, it is necessary to view information
systems as fulfilling some purpose in an organisation. Understanding
purpose, goals, and intentions is a necessary condition for the
design of successful systems. Conceptual modelling therefore needs
to go beyond functionality requirements that specify the 'what', to
encompass the deeper contextual understanding of the 'whys'. The
'why' questions are answered in terms of organisational objectives
and the desires and motivations of stakeholders and participants.
Modelling the 'whys' helps focus requirements elicitation,
validation, and specification. Goal-oriented approaches in
requirements engineering have emerged to meet this expectation.
The Workshop aims to provide a forum for discussing the interplay
between requirements engineering and conceptual modeling, and in
particular, to investigate how goal- and intention-driven approaches
help in conceptualising purposeful systems. What are the fundamental
objectives and premises of requirements engineering and conceptual
modelling respectively, and how can they complement each other? What
are the demands on conceptual modelling from the standpoint of
requirements engineering? What conceptual modelling techniques can
be further taken advantage of in requirements engineering? What are
the upcoming modelling challenges and issues in GORE? What are the
unresolved open questions? What lessons are there to be learnt from
industrial experiences? What empirical data are there to support the
cost-benefit analysis when adopting GORE methods? Are there
applications domains or types of project settings for which goals
and intentional approaches are particularly suitable or not
suitable? What degree of formalization and automation or
interactivity are feasible and appropriate for what types of
participants during requirements engineering? e.g., business domain
stakeholders, requirements modelers, ontology engineers, etc.
**Topics**
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* modeling and semantics in GORE frameworks
* analysis and reasoning with intentions and goals
* ontological and epistemological foundations
* cognitive, behavioral, and sociological perspectives
* goals, scenarios, and business process modeling
* goals and viewpoints, management of conflicts and inconsistencies
* goals in requirements and design patterns
* goals in reuse
* goals and traceability
* goals and aspects
* change management, versioning and view management for GORE
* visualization and tool support for GORE
* software engineering process and organization for GORE
* GORE and agile methods
* GORE in distributed software development
* GORE for COTS system development and selection
* GORE for product families and high-variability software
* GORE for adaptive systems and agile enterprise
* comparison and evaluation of GORE approaches
* industrial experiences and empirical studies
* GORE for services design and engineering
* GORE and business modeling and strategy reasoning
* goal-oriented conceptual modeling for security, privacy, and trust
* goal-oriented modeling for user experience and interaction design
* goal-oriented modeling of system architecture
* interaction and integration with other conceptual modeling
paradigms, e.g., object-oriented and agent-oriented models
* goal-oriented modeling for specific application domains - e.g.,
healthcare, e-government, mobile commerce, ambient intelligence,
social media and networks
** Format and Duration **
We aim for a highly interactive forum. Discussants and discussion
facilitators will be formally appointed for each paper and session,
respectively, to ensure an atmosphere of productive interaction.
The working language is English. The workshop duration is three
sessions (1.5 hours each)
Workshop proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the
LNCS series. Thus, authors must submit manuscripts using the
Springer-Verlag LNCS style for Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
See http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
for style files and details.
** Types of papers **
We solicit three types of papers: full papers (10 pages max),
position papers (6 pages max) and industrial problem statements (6
pages max) in LNCS format.
** Paper Submission **
Submission via easychair site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rigim12
** Important Dates **
Paper submission: April 23th, 2012
Author notification: May 28th, 2012
Camera-ready: June 11, 2012
** Program Committee (to be confirmed) **
Daniel Amyot, University of Ottawa, Canada
Annie Anton, University of Carolina, USA
Mikio Aoyoma, Nanzan University, Japan
Ian Alexander, Scenario Plus, United Kingdom
Aybuke Arum, University of New South Wales, Australia
Daniel Berry, University of Waterloo, Canada
Sjaak Brinkkemper, Utrecht University , Netherland
Luiz Cysneiros, York University , Canada
Eric Dubois, Centre de Recherche Public Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
Vincenzo Gervasi, University of Pisa , Italy
Aditya K. Ghose, University of Wollongong , Australia
Paolo Giogini, University of Trento, Italy
Renata Guizzardi, Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo (UFES),
Brazil
Patrick Heymans, University of Namur, Belgium
Zhi Jin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Haruhiko Kaiya, Shinshu University, JAPAN.
Aneesh Krishna, University of Wollongong, Australia
Regine Laleau, University Paris XII, France
Axel van Lamsweerde, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Julio Leite, Pontificia Universidade Catolica, Brazil
Emmanuel Letier, University College of London
Lin Liu, Tsinghua University, China
Peri Loucopoulos, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada
Bashar Nuseibeh, Open University, UK
Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen , Norway
Anna Perini, FBK - Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Yves Pigneur, HEC, Lausanne, Suisse
Klaus Pohl, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Jolita Ralyte, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Motoshi Saeki, Tokyo Institute Of Technology, Japan
Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel
Sam Supakkul, Keane, An NTT DATA Company, USA
Angelo Susi, FBK - Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Yair Wand, University of British Columbia,Canada
Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, Netherlands
Carson Woo, University of British Columbia, Canada