CrowdRE 2020: 4th International Workshop on Crowd-Based Requirements Engineering University of Zurich Zurich, Switzerland, September 1, 2020 |
Conference website | https://crowdre.github.io/ws-2020/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=crowdre2020 |
Submission deadline | May 29, 2020 |
The rise of mobile, social and cloud apps required requirements engineering (RE) to adapt itself. The traditional methods of RE are very inefficient in situations involving thousands to millions of current and potential users of a (software) product. The crowd is an interesting source for RE because it produces user feedback in texts and usage data. Being able to respond quickly, effectively and iteratively to the requirements, problems, wishes and needs identified in user feedback can increase a product’s success. Crowd-Based RE (CrowdRE) seeks to provide RE with suitable means for this crowd paradigm.
The Fourth Workshop on Crowd-Based Requirements Engineering (CrowdRE’20) builds on the successes of its previous editions, which unified the visions into a coherent RE approach (CrowdRE’15), established a roadmap and shared resources (CrowdRE’17), strengthened relationships to artificial intelligence techniques (CrowdRE as special focal topic of AIRE’18), and redefined its scope (CrowdRE’19).
Important Dates
- 29 May 2020: Paper Submission (Extended!)
- 22 June 2020: Paper Notification
- 13 July 2020: Camera Ready Due
- 1 September 2020: WorkshopAll deadlines at 23:59:59 AoE.
Paper Submission and Selection Process
We welcome original submissions from research and practice through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=crowdre2020.The papers should be in one of the following categories:
- Technical solution papers providing research results with an early validation, which may include tool showcases (4–6 pages + 1 page for references).
- Experience reports providing insights on existing RE practice and potential for application in settings that involve a crowd (4–6 pages + 1 page for references).
- Problem statements explaining industry problems in settings with a large group of stakeholders (2–3 pages).
- Vision statements explaining explorative ideas, especially towards technology transfer into practice (2–3 pages).
See the workshop website for additional requirements for submissions. Each submission will be reviewed by three reviewers. All accepted papers will be published in the joint RE 2020 workshop proceedings.
Workshop Details
Key Questions & Themes of Interest
CrowdRE will mainly focus on the following key questions:
- What are the achievements and contributions of CrowdRE approaches thus far? How do they contribute to improving RE?
- What are the risks of going beyond the borders of the ‘brown field’ domain of RE?
- How can CrowdRE be applied in industry settings? In which parts of the software development lifecycle can CrowdRE play a vital role? Which parts are less suited, and why?
- What are the central application domains for a CrowdRE approach? What are typical Use Cases in which CrowdRE is applied?
- How can a holistic solution be provided for a practical application of CrowdRE?
- How can data from such a large group of stakeholders be obtained and interpreted? How can ambiguity and subjectivity be mitigated?
- How can the reliability of individual crowd members and of the data in general be determined?
- In what way can crowd members be motivated to contribute the user feedback we require of them?
- Assuming that the stakeholders form a crowd, how are requirements best elicited, documented, validated, negotiated and managed? How are data from the crowd best obtained and interpreted?
- In what way could techniques from Big Data analytics be leveraged to analyze heterogeneous and large datasets as a new source for new/changed requirements?
- Where do the opportunities to collaborate lie? To what extent can the various fields of work be integrated, and where will approaches remain different?
Workshop Topics
The following themes of interest for paper submission include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Crowd-based Requirements Engineering (CrowdRE)
- Analysis of user feedback for RE using Big Data
- Natural language processing, Information Retrieval, (supervised and unsupervised) Machine
- Learning, ontologies
- Crowd-based monitoring and usage mining approaches
- Case studies and Use Cases involving CrowdRE
- The contribution of CrowdRE to prioritization, software adaptation, testing and other software engineering aspects
- The intersection of RE and domains such as sociology, psychology, human factors, and anthropology
- Approaches to motivate, steer, and boost creativity in the crowd and understand, diversify and engage a crowd for RE
- Automated RE and the role of the requirements engineer
- Automated RE and data (safeguarding rollback, privacy, traceability and data integrity; measuring validity, reliability, source quality; processing of rejected data)
- Platforms and tools supporting CrowdRE
Past Editions of the Workshop
- CrowdRE 2019 at RE’19: crowdre.github.io/ws-2019
- CrowdRE as special focal topic of AIRE’18: aire18.aset.tu-berlin.de
- CrowdRE 2017 at RE’17: crowdre.github.io/ws-2017
- CrowdRE 2015 at RE’15: sse.uni-due.de/crowdre15
Committees
CrowdRE’20 Program Committee
- Nirav Ajmeri, North Carolina State University (USA)
- Raian Ali, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (Qatar)
- Sjaak Brinkkemper, Utrecht University (the Netherlands)
- Fabiano Dalpiaz, Utrecht University (the Netherlands)
- Joerg Doerr, Fraunhofer IESE (Germany)
- Davide Fucci, Blekinge Institute of Technology (Sweden)
- Emitzá Guzmán, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (the Netherlands)
- Rachel Harrison, Oxford Brookes University (UK)
- Mahmood Hosseini, JP Morgan (UK)
- Zhi Jin, Peking University (China)
- Marjo Kauppinen, Aalto University (Finland)
- Fitsum M. Kifetew, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy)
- Eric Knauss, University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
- Meira Levy, Shenkar College of Engineering, Design, and Art (Israel)
- Tong Li, Bejing University (China)
- Soo Ling Lim, University College London (UK)
- Walid Maalej, University of Hamburg (Germany)
- Pradeep Murukannaiah, Delft University of Technology (Netherlands)
- Marc Oriol, Universitat Politècnica Catalunya (Spain)
- Anna Perini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy)
- Kurt Schneider, Leibniz Universität Hannover (Germany)
- Norbert Seyff, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
- Zahra Shakeri, Calgary University (Canada)
- Chong Wang, Wuhan University (China)
Organizing committee
- Muneera Bano, Deakin University (Australia) – Co-Organizer
- Eduard C. Groen, Fraunhofer IESE (Germany) – Co-Organizer
- Irit Hadar, University of Haifa (Israel) – Co-Organizer
- Anas Mahmoud, Louisiana State University (USA) – Co-Organizer
- Miroslav Tushev, Louisiana State University (USA) – Website & Social Media Chair
Contact
All questions about the workshop should be emailed to the organizers. You can find their email addresses at crowdre.github.io/ws-2020/committees.html