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

Requirements Engineering (RE) is a process that can highly affect the quality of software, systems, and services. The REFSQ working conference series is well established as one of the leading international forums for discussing RE and its many relations to quality. The special theme of REFSQ’23 is Human Values in RE which fosters discussion around the role of human values in the interplay between developers, users and systems. Examples questions under this theme include how human values are incorporated into development, how values are measured or validated, etc.

REFSQ’23 includes a track to present posters and demonstrate tools covering any aspect of RE. This track gives researchers the chance to present their most recent work and obtain early feedback on ongoing research.

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09:00 - 09:15
Conference openingResearch Papers at Sitges
10:15 - 10:30
Posters & tools pitchesPosters and Tools at Sitges
Chair(s): Sallam Abualhaija University of Luxembourg, Oliver Karras TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology

In this session, the authors of accepted posters and tools will pitch their work. Stay tuned!

10:15
15m
Digitalisation of Agriculture: Development and Evaluation of a Model-based Requirements Engineering Process
Posters and Tools
Chiara Mannari , Giorgio Spagnolo ISTI-CNR, FMT Lab, Manlio Bacco , Alessio Malizia Brunel University
10:15
15m
TransFeatEx: a NLP pipeline for feature extraction
Posters and Tools
Agustí Gállego Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Quim Motger Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Xavier Franch Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Jordi Marco Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
File Attached
10:15
15m
Automated Traceability between Requirements and Model-Based Design
Posters and Tools
Maria Bonner Siemens AG, Marc Zeller Siemens AG
10:15
15m
Taxonomic Trace Links Recommender: Context Aware Hierarchical Classification
Posters and Tools
10:15
15m
REIT-Builder: Customizable Training for Requirements Elicitation Interviews
Posters and Tools
Roger Ian Konlog , Paola Spoletini Kennesaw State University
10:30 - 11:00
Posters & tools exhibitionPosters and Tools at Garden
Chair(s): Sallam Abualhaija University of Luxembourg, Oliver Karras TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology

We plan to have an organized 10 minutes tour, walking with the audience to learn more about each poster and tool. The remaining time in the session will be left for free explorations.

10:30
30m
TransFeatEx: a NLP pipeline for feature extraction
Posters and Tools
Agustí Gállego Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Quim Motger Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Xavier Franch Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Jordi Marco Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
File Attached
10:30
30m
REIT-Builder: Customizable Training for Requirements Elicitation Interviews
Posters and Tools
Roger Ian Konlog , Paola Spoletini Kennesaw State University
10:30
30m
Taxonomic Trace Links Recommender: Context Aware Hierarchical Classification
Posters and Tools
10:30
30m
Digitalisation of Agriculture: Development and Evaluation of a Model-based Requirements Engineering Process
Posters and Tools
Chiara Mannari , Giorgio Spagnolo ISTI-CNR, FMT Lab, Manlio Bacco , Alessio Malizia Brunel University
10:30
30m
Automated Traceability between Requirements and Model-Based Design
Posters and Tools
Maria Bonner Siemens AG, Marc Zeller Siemens AG
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee BreakCatering at Garden
10:30
30m
Coffee break
Break
Catering

12:30 - 14:00
12:30
90m
Lunch
Lunch
Catering

12:30 - 14:00
Posters & tools exhibitionPosters and Tools at Garden
Chair(s): Sallam Abualhaija University of Luxembourg, Oliver Karras TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology
12:30
90m
REIT-Builder: Customizable Training for Requirements Elicitation Interviews
Posters and Tools
Roger Ian Konlog , Paola Spoletini Kennesaw State University
12:30
90m
TransFeatEx: a NLP pipeline for feature extraction
Posters and Tools
Agustí Gállego Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Quim Motger Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Xavier Franch Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Jordi Marco Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
File Attached
12:30
90m
Automated Traceability between Requirements and Model-Based Design
Posters and Tools
Maria Bonner Siemens AG, Marc Zeller Siemens AG
12:30
90m
Taxonomic Trace Links Recommender: Context Aware Hierarchical Classification
Posters and Tools
12:30
90m
Digitalisation of Agriculture: Development and Evaluation of a Model-based Requirements Engineering Process
Posters and Tools
Chiara Mannari , Giorgio Spagnolo ISTI-CNR, FMT Lab, Manlio Bacco , Alessio Malizia Brunel University
15:30 - 16:00
Posters & tools exhibitionPosters and Tools at Garden
Chair(s): Sallam Abualhaija University of Luxembourg, Oliver Karras TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology
15:30
30m
Automated Traceability between Requirements and Model-Based Design
Posters and Tools
Maria Bonner Siemens AG, Marc Zeller Siemens AG
15:30
30m
Digitalisation of Agriculture: Development and Evaluation of a Model-based Requirements Engineering Process
Posters and Tools
Chiara Mannari , Giorgio Spagnolo ISTI-CNR, FMT Lab, Manlio Bacco , Alessio Malizia Brunel University
15:30
30m
Taxonomic Trace Links Recommender: Context Aware Hierarchical Classification
Posters and Tools
15:30
30m
TransFeatEx: a NLP pipeline for feature extraction
Posters and Tools
Agustí Gállego Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Quim Motger Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Xavier Franch Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Jordi Marco Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
File Attached
15:30
30m
REIT-Builder: Customizable Training for Requirements Elicitation Interviews
Posters and Tools
Roger Ian Konlog , Paola Spoletini Kennesaw State University
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee breakCatering at Garden
15:30
30m
Coffee break
Break
Catering

Call for Posters and Tools

Posters may cover any topic within the scope of the REFSQ conference, presenting work in progress towards a scientific result.

Posters and Tools Co-Chairs

Posters

Posters should present (progress towards) a scientific result covering any topic within the scope of the REFSQ conference. In addition, submissions should adhere to the following criteria:

  • Posters should not be advertisements for commercial products

  • The methodology used for producing the results should be clarified and contrasted with the state-of-the-art

  • Posters do not have to describe finished work, but they should present some preliminary or anticipated results

  • We encourage submissions on RE-related topics that are not often covered in research papers

Submissions proposing a poster should describe the research work in the form of a short paper (see Submission below). Do not submit a draft poster with your proposal.

Poster Presentation

There will be a brief pitching of the posters, followed by a display. On the industry day, the posters will also be featured alongside industry posters. Well-crafted posters will be self-explanatory, but authors of posters are encouraged to be available to describe and discuss their work during coffee breaks. The poster dimensions are A0 in portrait orientation, with the poster content mounted on a rectangular poster board that the organizers will provide.

Tools

Tool demonstrations provide researchers as well as practitioners with the opportunity to show how they support and enable the use of requirements solutions in practice. Submissions proposing a tool demonstration should:

  • Present a tool under development (or has been developed) as part of research or industry;

  • Clarify the relationship of the tool to requirements engineering;

  • Motivate the need for the tool;

  • Describe the goals, requirements, intended users and context of use of the tool;

  • Describe the novel contribution of the tool;

  • Describe the novelty of the paper over any earlier publications on the tool;

  • Clearly explain the architecture and inner workings of the tool (at least 2 pages);

  • Detail the workflow or interaction of a user with the tool (at least 0.5 page);

  • Present briefly either the results of an evaluation or the design for a planned evaluation;

  • [Optional] Include a link in the abstract to a video presenting the tool’s demonstration scenario (4–8 minutes, using voice-over or captions where appropriate);

  • [Optional] Discuss any experiences and lessons learned when using the tool in practice.

Tool Demonstrations

Tools will be presented simultaneously with the posters at desks using your own laptop and screens. We recommend and support showing a poster at the conference, in addition to the tool.

Best Poster Award & Best Tool Award

In REFSQ’23, we follow the voting idea from the last editions:

The conference attendees will be asked to vote both for the best poster and the best tool. The authors of the best poster and best tool will earn a reserved time slot in the main track to present their work (get more visibility ;).

The Program Committee will be able to nominate posters and tools to be considered for the best awards. These nominations will contribute to the final votes.

Submission

For the submission, the general REFSQ submission guidelines apply, with the exception of the format. Both tools and posters can submit short papers of at least 5 pages, and up to 7 pages including references, and should be formatted using the CEUR-ART style, 1 column (http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip).

At least one of the authors must be registered at the conference and present the poster or tool, in order to have the work published in the proceedings. Poster and tool papers will be published in the CEUR joint proceedings of the REFSQ’23 co-located events.

Contributions should be submitted using EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=refsq2023 Make sure to select the Posters and Tools option.