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International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ 2021)

REFSQ 2021: The 27th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality
https://refsq.org/
April 12-15, 2021
Essen, Germany

*Important Dates [all dates are AoE (UTC-12h)]*
* November 9, 2020: Research papers abstract submissions
* November 16, 2020: Research papers full submissions

*General Information*
Requirements Engineering (RE) is a critical factor in developing high-quality and successful software, systems and services. The REFSQ working conference series is an established international forum for discussing current and state-of-the-art RE practices, celebrating its 27th year.
REFSQ has a long tradition of being a highly structured and interactive event. Each session is organized to emphasize discussion among the presenters of papers, pre-assigned discussion leaders, and all the other participants. In addition to the research papers, REFSQ 2021 will include keynote speakers, an industry day, and four satellite tracks (see “Other Submission Possibilities” below). The special theme of REFSQ 2021 is “Ethics as a first-class citizen in Requirements Engineering” to emphasize the importance of human values, such as privacy and fairness, when designing software-intensive systems as well as the challenges that intelligent and autonomous systems pose due to the tight interplay with humans.

*Research Papers*
REFSQ 2021 seeks reports of novel ideas and techniques that enhance the quality of RE products and processes, reflections on current research and industrial RE practices, as well as new views on RE. We invite submissions on any aspect of RE. We encourage researchers and practitioners from the RE, software engineering, information systems, service science, embedded systems, and product management fields to present original work. RE methods, tools and processes are expected to support engineering diverse types of systems of different scale and complexity and are applied in diverse domains. As such, contributions from related areas such as systems engineering, economics, and management, providing insights to RE, are welcome.

*Submission Types*
We invite original submissions in four categories:
* Technical design papers (15 pages) describe the design of new artifacts, i.e., novel solutions for requirements-related problems or significant improvements to existing solutions.
* Scientific evaluation papers (15 pages) investigate existing real-world problems, evaluate existing real-world implemented artifacts, or validate newly designed artifacts by means such as case studies, experiments, simulation, surveys, systematic literature reviews, mapping studies, or action research.
* Vision papers (6 pages) state where research in the field should be heading.
* Research previews (6 pages) describe well-defined research ideas at an early stage of investigation which may not be fully developed.

*Formatting, Submission, Publication*
All submissions must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS/LNBIP conference proceedings template (for LaTeX and Word): https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines.
Contributions must be submitted on https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=refsq2021.
The REFSQ 2021 proceedings will be published in Springer’s LNCS series. The best papers will be invited to a special issue of the Requirements Engineering Journal.

*Other Submission Possibilities*
REFSQ 2021 welcomes also submissions for:
* Workshop Proposals
* Doctoral Symposium
* Posters and Tools
* [new] OpenRE track (tutorials and shared resources for RE education)
Please consult the REFSQ 2021 website for further details.

*COVID-19 Statement*
REFSQ 2021 is scheduled to be held physically in Essen on April 12-15, 2021. Authors from countries affected by travel restrictions will be given the opportunity to present their work virtually. We monitor closely the latest developments around the COVID-19 situation and we will decide early next year (January 2021) if we have to switch to a virtual conference. In any case, REFSQ 2021 will provide a variety of events, activities, presentations, and opportunities for valuable interactions and networking.

*Organization*
PC Co-Chairs
Fabiano Dalpiaz, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, [email protected]
Paola Spoletini, Kennesaw State University, United States, [email protected]

Publicity Co-Chairs
Blagovesta Kostova, EPFL, Switzerland, [email protected]
Oliver Karras, Leibniz University Hannover, [email protected]



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