REFSQ 2023
Mon 17 - Thu 20 April 2023 Barcelona, Spain

REFSQ 2023 will host its renowned Doctoral Symposium (DS) for PhD students whose research relates to the field of Requirements Engineering (RE). The goals of the DS are:

● to provide PhD students with an opportunity to learn about the field and to get a feeling of what their colleagues are working on;

● to provide PhD students with a supportive and safe environment where to present their plans and results;

● to provide all participant students with feedback from a panel of senior researchers in RE;

● to facilitate interaction between students and with established researchers in RE.

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Mon 17 Apr

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10:30 - 11:00
Coffee BreakCatering at Garden
10:30
30m
Coffee break
Break
Catering

11:00 - 12:30
Doctoral SymposiumDoctoral Symposium at Montblanc
11:00
45m
Talk
Relating User Feedback and Existing Requirements
Doctoral Symposium
11:45
45m
Talk
Improving the Completeness of Acceptance Criteria
Doctoral Symposium
Astrid Rohmann Heidelberg University
12:30 - 14:00
12:30
90m
Lunch
Lunch
Catering

15:30 - 16:00
Coffee BreakCatering at Garden
15:30
30m
Coffee break
Break
Catering

16:00 - 17:30
Doctoral SymposiumDoctoral Symposium at Montblanc

Ask-me-anything session with the panelists and DS chairs

Call for Papers

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Following the time-honoured tradition of REFSQ, the DS will revolve around structured presentations and discussions, with ample time devoted to interactions with the floor. Well-known researchers will attend the event and provide in-depth feedback to the participating students.

Doctoral Symposium Co-Chairs

Fabiano Dalpiaz – Utrecht University, the Netherlands (f.dalpiaz@uu.nl)
Ana Moreira – NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal (amm@fct.unl.pt)

Submission Instructions

We welcome submissions from PhDs students who have started their PhD but have not submitted their thesis yet. To apply to the REFSQ 2023 Doctoral Symposium, you will need to submit an application consisting of:

  • A Doctoral Symposium Paper (max 6 pages + 1 for references, CEUR format, see below) that consists of an abstract and of the following sections:
  1. The problem you are addressing: what is unsatisfactory in the current state of the world, and why is this problem relevant (why would anyone care if the problem was solved)?. Include a definition of the problem statement.
  2. Related work: why are the existing approaches sub-optimal?
  3. The research method you are applying or you plan to apply: what are the research questions, which method are you following to get to the solution, and how do you plan to evaluate the solution?
  4. Your proposed solution: what have you achieved so far with your research, what is its contribution to the existing literature, and what is the novelty?
  5. An overview of the research plan: what are the next steps toward the completion of your PhD, and what are the challenges ahead?
  • A Declaration from the Supervisor that confirms that they agree with the submission and that the student will be allowed to attend the event, should the DS paper be accepted.

The DS paper should be formatted using the CEUR-ART style, 1 column (http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip). Both DS paper and supervisor’s declaration should be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=refsq2023, choose the DS paper option) by February 10th, 2023. Please upload the two files to their respective field.

Submissions will be evaluated based on the quality of the DS paper, and of the interest of the research described therein. Accepted submissions will be published in CEUR-WS proceedings.