5th International Workshop on Conceptual Modeling in Requirements and Business Analysis (MREBA 2018) Co-Located with ER 2018 Xi'an, China

--Dates--
Submission of workshop papers: June 22, 2018
Workshop author notification: July 20, 2018
Camera-ready version of workshop papers: July 31, 2018
Workshop author registration: Aug. 7, 2018
Workshop will take place on October 22-25, 2018

http://mreba2018.blogs.dsv.su.se/
http://www.nwpu-bioinformatics.com/ER2018/workshop.php

--Overview--
The MREBA workshop aims to provide a forum for discussing the interplay between Requirements Engineering and Business Analysis topics and Conceptual Modeling. In particular, the workshop focuses on how requirements modeling can be effectively used as part of Business Analysis and Systems Engineering.

The MREBA workshop aims to provide a forum for discussing the interplay between Requirements Engineering and Business Analysis topics and Conceptual Modeling. In particular, the workshop focuses on how requirements modeling can be effectively used as part of Business Analysis and Systems Engineering. We ask: What are the fundamental objectives and premises of RE/BA and conceptual modeling respectively, and how can they complement each other? What conceptual modeling techniques can be utilized in RE/BA? How can RE/BA modeling be applied successfully in a business environment? What lessons are there to be learned from industrial experiences? What empirical data can support cost-benefit analyses when adopting RE/BA methods? Are there applications, domains or types of project settings for which RE/BA approaches are particularly suitable or not? What degree of formalization and automation or interactivity is feasible and appropriate for which types of participants during RE/BA mo!
deling?

--Topics--
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Modeling for Business Analysis and Business Intelligence
- Elicitation, analysis and evaluation of requirements
- Domain understanding and scenarios analysis
- Management and reuse of requirements
- Capturing prioritization, customization and preferences
- Modeling methodologies, processes, and methods
- Stakeholder analysis and communication
- Requirements as part of Enterprise Modeling and Enterprise Architecture
- Goal/Intention-Oriented Requirements Engineering (GORE)
- Data-centric Requirements Engineering
- Modeling 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
- Modeling security, privacy, risk, and safety
- Industrial experiences, empirical studies and tools related to RE/BA modeling

--Submission Instructions--
We invite submissions of high quality papers describing original and unpublished results regarding any of the workshop’s topics of interest. We solicit three types of papers: full papers (10 pages max) including technical papers and experience reports, position or vision papers (6 pages max) and industrial problem statements (6 pages max) in LNCS format. Papers must be written in English and submitted as PDF files using EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=er2018 and then select MREBA Workshop

All papers must not have been previously published or submitted elsewhere.

The accepted papers will be published within the ER Workshop proceedings, in the Springer LNCS Series. At least one of the authors for each accepted paper must be registered and attend the conference for paper presentation.

--Workshop Organizers--
Jennifer Horkoff, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Renata Guizzardi, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil
Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, Sweden

--(Preliminary) Program Committee--
Okhaide Akhigbe, University of Ottawa, Canada Claudia Cappelli, NP2TEC/Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Lawrence Chang, University of Texas Fabiano Dalpiaz, Utrecht University, Netherlands Marcela Ruiz, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Aditya Ghose, University of Wollongong, Australia Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University, Sweden Tong Li, Beijing University of Technology, China Sotirios Liaskos, York University, Canada Grischa Liebel, Chalmers, Sweden Lin Liu, Tsinghua University, China Lidia Lopez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Pericles Loucopoulos, University of Manchester, United Kingdom Joshua Nwokeji, Gannon University, USA Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway Jolita Ralyté, University of Geneva, Switzerland Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa Junko Shirogane, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan Motoshi Saeki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Samira Si-Said Cherfi, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France Vitor Souza, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil Angelo Susi, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Sam Supakkul, Sabre Travel Network, USA Eric-Oluf Svee, Stockholm University, Stockholm Lucineia Thom, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil