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2014 IEEE 22nd International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), August 25-29, 2014, Karlskrona, Sweden

RE 2014 – Proceedings

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Frontmatter

Title Page
Message from the Chairs
Committees
Sponsors

Keynotes

Startups and Requirements (Keynote)
Anthony I. Wasserman
(Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Now More Than Ever: Privacy and Security Are Required (Keynote)
Annie I. Antón
(Georgia Tech, USA)

Research Track

Empirical Studies in Elicitation
Wed, Aug 27, 10:30 - 12:00, Multiroom (Chair: Daniel Amyot)

How Practitioners Approach Gameplay Requirements? An Exploration into the Context of Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games
Maya Daneva
(University of Twente, Netherlands)
Therapist-Centered Requirements: A Multi-method Approach of Requirement Gathering to Support Rehabilitation Gaming
Cynthia Putnam and Jinghui Cheng
(DePaul University, USA)
Towards a Situation Awareness Design to Improve Visually Impaired Orientation in Unfamiliar Buildings: Requirements Elicitation Study
Abdulrhman Alkhanifer and Stephanie Ludi
(Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)

Formal Modeling and Analysis
Wed, Aug 27, 10:30 - 12:00, J1610 (Chair: Mats Heimdahl)

Supporting Early Decision-Making in the Presence of Uncertainty
Jennifer Horkoff, Rick Salay, Marsha Chechik, and Alessio Di Sandro
(University of Trento, Italy; University of Toronto, Canada)
Integrating Exception Handling in Goal Models
Antoine Cailliau and Axel van Lamsweerde
(Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Protos: Foundations for Engineering Innovative Sociotechnical Systems
Amit K. Chopra, Fabiano Dalpiaz, F. Başak Aydemir, Paolo Giorgini, John Mylopoulos, and Munindar P. Singh
(Lancaster University, UK; Utrecht University, Netherlands; University of Trento, Italy; North Carolina State University, USA)

Legal and Regulatory Requirements
Wed, Aug 27, 13:30 - 15:00, Multiroom (Chair: Seok-Won Lee)

Automated Detection and Resolution of Legal Cross References: Approach and a Study of Luxembourg's Legislation
Morayo Adedjouma, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, and Lionel C. Briand
(University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Goal-Oriented Compliance with Multiple Regulations
Sepideh Ghanavati, André Rifaut, Eric Dubois, and Daniel Amyot
(CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg; University of Ottawa, Canada)
Identifying and Classifying Ambiguity for Regulatory Requirements
Aaron K. Massey, Richard L. Rutledge, Annie I. Antón, and Peter P. Swire
(Georgia Tech, USA)

Handling Change and Evolution
Wed, Aug 27, 13:30 - 15:00, J1610 (Chair: Nelly Bencomo)

An Approach for Decision Support on the Uncertainty in Feature Model Evolution
Le Minh Sang Tran and Fabio Massacci
(University of Trento, Italy)
Maintaining Requirements for Long-Living Software Systems by Incorporating Security Knowledge
Stefan Gärtner, Thomas Ruhroth, Jens Bürger, Kurt Schneider, and Jan Jürjens
(Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany; TU Dortmund, Germany)
Rationalism with a Dose of Empiricism: Case-Based Reasoning for Requirements-Driven Self-Adaptation
Wenyi Qian, Xin Peng, Bihuan Chen, John Mylopoulos, Huanhuan Wang, and Wenyun Zhao
(Fudan University, China; University of Trento, Italy)

Traceability
Wed, Aug 27, 15:30 - 17:00, Multiroom (Chair: Emmanuel Letier)

TiQi: Towards Natural Language Trace Queries
Piotr Pruski, Sugandha Lohar, Rundale Aquanette, Greg Ott, Sorawit Amornborvornwong, Alexander Rasin, and Jane Cleland-Huang
(DePaul University, USA)
Traceability-Enabled Refactoring for Managing Just-In-Time Requirements
Nan Niu, Tanmay Bhowmik, Hui Liu, and Zhendong Niu
(University of Cincinnati, USA; Mississippi State University, USA; Beijing Institute of Technology, China)
Supporting Traceability through Affinity Mining
Vincenzo Gervasi and Didar Zowghi
(University of Pisa, Italy; University of Technology Sydney, Australia)

Discovering Requirements
Thu, Aug 28, 10:30 - 12:00, Multiroom (Chair: Vincenzo Gervasi)

How Do Users Like This Feature? A Fine Grained Sentiment Analysis of App Reviews
Emitza Guzman and Walid Maalej
(TU München, Germany; University of Hamburg, Germany)
Scaling Requirements Extraction to the Crowd: Experiments with Privacy Policies
Travis D. Breaux and Florian Schaub
(Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Discovering Affect-Laden Requirements to Achieve System Acceptance
Alistair Sutcliffe, Paul Rayson, Christopher N. Bull, and Pete Sawyer
(Lancaster University, UK)

Security and Privacy Requirements
Thu, Aug 28, 10:30 - 12:00, J1610 (Chair: Nancy Mead)

Hidden in Plain Sight: Automatically Identifying Security Requirements from Natural Language Artifacts
Maria Riaz, Jason King, John Slankas, and Laurie Williams
(North Carolina State University, USA)
Info
Managing Security Requirements Patterns using Feature Diagram Hierarchies
Rocky Slavin, Jean-Michel Lehker, Jianwei Niu, and Travis D. Breaux
(University of Texas at San Antonio, USA; Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Engineering Topology Aware Adaptive Security: Preventing Requirements Violations at Runtime
Christos Tsigkanos, Liliana Pasquale, Claudio Menghi, Carlo Ghezzi, and Bashar Nuseibeh
(Politecnico di Milano, Italy; Lero, Ireland; Open University, UK)

Communicating Requirements
Thu, Aug 28, 13:30 - 15:00, J1610 (Chair: John Mylopoulos)

Openness and Requirements: Opportunities and Tradeoffs in Software Ecosystems
Eric Knauss, Daniela Damian, Alessia Knauss, and Arber Borici
(Chalmers, Sweden; University of Gothenburg, Sweden; University of Victoria, Canada)
RISDM: A Requirements Inspection Systems Design Methodology: Perspective-Based Design of the Pragmatic Quality Model and Question Set to SRS
Shinobu Saito, Mutsuki Takeuchi, Setsuo Yamada, and Mikio Aoyama
(NTT DATA, Japan; NTT, Japan; Nanzan University, Japan)
Tackling the Requirements Jigsaw Puzzle
Maria Pinto-Albuquerque and Awais Rashid
(Lisbon University Institute, Portugal; Lancaster University, UK)

Automated Support for Eliciting Requirements
Thu, Aug 28, 15:30 - 17:00, Multiroom (Chair: Zhi Jin)

Automated Support for Combinational Creativity in Requirements Engineering
Tanmay Bhowmik, Nan Niu, Anas Mahmoud, and Juha Savolainen
(Mississippi State University, USA; University of Cincinnati, USA; Danfoss, Denmark)
Automated Extraction and Visualization of Quality Concerns from Requirements Specifications
Mona Rahimi, Mehdi Mirakhorli, and Jane Cleland-Huang
(DePaul University, USA)

Requirements Management Concerns
Fri, Aug 29, 10:30 - 12:00, J1610 (Chair: Didar Zowghi)

Language Extended Lexicon Points: Estimating the Size of an Application using Its Language
Leandro Antonelli, Gustavo Rossi, Julio Cesar Sampaio do Prado Leite, and Alejandro Oliveros
(Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina; PUC-Rio, Brazil; Universidad Argentina de la Empresa, Argentina)
The Role of Legal Expertise in Interpretation of Legal Requirements and Definitions
David G. Gordon and Travis D. Breaux
(Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Evaluating the Business Value of Information Technology: Case Study on Game Management System
Harri Töhönen, Marjo Kauppinen, and Tomi Männistö
(Aalto University, Finland; University of Helsinki, Finland)

Quality Goals
Fri, Aug 29, 13:30 - 14:30, J1610 (Chair: Neil Ernst)

Non-functional Requirements as Qualities, with a Spice of Ontology
Feng-Lin Li, Jennifer Horkoff, John Mylopoulos, Alexander Borgida, Renata S. S. Guizzardi, Giancarlo Guizzardi, and Lin Liu
(University of Trento, Italy; Rutgers University, USA; Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil; Tsinghua University, China)
Quality Requirements Elicitation Based on Inquiry of Quality-Impact Relationships
Farnaz Fotrousi, Samuel A. Fricker, and Markus Fiedler
(Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Tool Demonstrations and Posters
Thu, Aug 28, 15:30 - 17:00, J1360 (Chair: Jennifer Horkoff; Richard Berntsson Svensson)

Nòmos 3: Reasoning about Regulatory Compliance of Requirements
Silvia Ingolfo, Alberto Siena, and John Mylopoulos
(University of Trento, Italy)
GUITAR: An Ontology-based Automated Requirements Analysis Tool
Tuong Huan Nguyen, John Grundy, and Mohamed Almorsy
(Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
Video
Simulation-Based Requirements Discovery for Smart Driver Assistive Technologies
Andreas Gregoriades, Maria Pampaka, and Alistair Sutcliffe
(European University Cyprus, Cyprus; University of Manchester, UK)
Video
EAM: Ecosystemability Assessment Method
Eric Knauss and Imed Hammouda
(Chalmers, Sweden; University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Combined Goal and Feature Model Reasoning with the User Requirements Notation and jUCMNav
Yanji Liu, Yukun Su, Xinshang Yin, and Gunter Mussbacher
(McGill University, Canada)
Video
Decisively: Application of Quantitative Analysis and Decision Science in Agile Requirements Engineering
Sanjaya Kumar Saxena and Rachna Chakraborty
(GrayPE Systems, India)
Video
VARED: Verification and Analysis of Requirements and Early Designs
Julia Badger, David Throop, and Charles Claunch
(NASA, USA; Boeing, USA)
Structured Multi-view Modeling by Tabular Notation
Xiuna Zhu, Dongyue Mou, and Daniel Ratiu
(TU München, Germany; fortiss, Germany)
Video
Efficient Visual Notations for Efficient Stakeholder Communication
Ralf Laue, Frank Hogrebe, Boris Böttcher, and Markus Nüttgens
(University of Applied Sciences Zwickau, Germany; Hessische Hochschule für Polizei und Verwaltung Wiesbaden, Germany; University of Hamburg, Germany)
Symbolic Verification of Requirements in VRS System
Oleksandr Letychevskyi and Thomas Weigert
(Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, Ukraine; Uniquesoft LLC, USA)
Video
Business Application Modeler: A Process Model Validation and Verification Tool
Sören Witt, Sven Feja, Andreas Speck, and Christian Hadler
(Kiel University, Germany)
Video

Industry Track

Lightweight RE Methods
Wed, Aug 27, 10:30 - 12:00, J1620 (Chair: David Callele)

Handling Design-Level Requirements across Distributed Teams: Developing a New Feature for 12 Danish Mobile Banking Apps
Lars Bruun, Mikkel Bovbjerg Hansen, Jørgen Bøndergaard Iversen, Jens Bæk Jørgensen, and Bjarne Knudsen
(Bankdata, Denmark; Mjølner Informatics, Denmark)
Experience of Pragmatically Combining RE Methods for Performance Requirements in Industry
Rebekka Wohlrab, Thijmen de Gooijer, Anne Koziolek, and Steffen Becker
(ABB Research, Sweden; KIT, Germany; University of Paderborn, Germany)
Lightweight Requirements Engineering Assessments in Software Projects
Daniel Rapp, Anne Hess, Norbert Seyff, Peter Spörri, Emmerich Fuchs, and Martin Glinz
(Zühlke Management Consultants, Switzerland; Fraunhofer IESE, Germany; University of Zurich, Switzerland)

Stakeholder Collaboration
Wed, Aug 27, 13:30 - 15:00, J1620 (Chair: Sami Jantunen)

Capturing and Sharing Domain Knowledge with Business Rules: Lessons Learned from a Global Software Vendor
Walid Maalej and Smita Ghaisas
(University of Hamburg, Germany; Tata Consultancy Services, India)
Building a National E-Service using Sentire: Experience Report on the Use of Sentire: A Volere-Based Requirements Framework Driven by Calibrated Personas and Simulated User Feedback
Chris Porter, Emmanuel Letier, and M. Angela Sasse
(University College London, UK)
Video
Competition and Collaboration in Requirements Engineering: A Case Study of an Emerging Software Ecosystem
George Valença, Carina Alves, Virgínia Heimann, Slinger Jansen, and Sjaak Brinkkemper
(Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Brazil; Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil; Utrecht University, Netherlands)
The Effect of Variability Modeling on Requirements Satisfaction for the Configuration and Implementation of Off-The-Shelf Software Packages
Amanda Rubython and Neil Maiden
(City&Guilds Kineo, UK; City University London, UK)

RE in Practice: Experiences from the Field I
Wed, Aug 27, 15:30 - 17:00, J1620 (Chair: Smita Ghaisas)

Modelling Sustainability in a Procurement System: An Experience Report
Camilla Bomfim, Wesley Nunes, Leticia Duboc, and Marcelo Schots
(State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
A Case Study using a Protocol to Derive Safety Functional Requirements from Fault Tree Analysis
Luiz Eduardo Galvão Martins and Tiago de Oliveira
(Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil)
The DODT Tool Applied to Sub-Sea Software
Tor Stålhane and Tormod Wien
(Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway; ABB Research, Norway)

RE in Practice: Experiences from the Field II
Fri, Aug 29, 10:30 - 12:00, J1620 (Chair: Michael Panis)

Towards Feature-Oriented Requirements Validation for Automotive Systems
Jiale Zhou, Yue Lu, Kristina Lundqvist, Henrik Lönn, Daniel Karlsson, and Bo Liwång
(Mälardalen University, Sweden; Volvo, Sweden; Swedish Radiation Safety Authority, Sweden)
Product Knowledge Configurator for Requirements Gap Analysis and Customizations
Preethu Rose Anish and Smita Ghaisas
(Tata Consultancy Services, India)
Reassessing the Pattern-Based Approach for Formalizing Requirements in the Automotive Domain
Predrag Filipovikj, Mattias Nyberg, and Guillermo Rodriguez-Navas
(Mälardalen University, Sweden; Scania, Sweden)

Doctoral Symposium
Mon, Aug 25, 09:00 - 17:00, J1640-J1650 (Chair: Mats Heimdahl; Camille Salinesi)

From Architecture to Requirements: Relating Requirements and Architecture for Better Requirements Engineering
Feng Chen
(University of Limerick, Ireland; Lero, Ireland)
Quantification of Social Sustainability in Software
Maryam Al Hinai
(University of Leicester, UK)
Improving Collaborative and Post-WIMP Systems through Requirements Specification
Miguel A. Teruel
(University of Castile–La Mancha, Spain)
Video Info
Stakeholders' Social Interaction in Requirements Engineering of Open Source Software
Tanmay Bhowmik
(Mississippi State University, USA)
Aligning Services and Requirements with User Feedback
Muneera Bano
(University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Requirements Development and Management of Embedded Real-Time Systems
Jiale Zhou
(Mälardalen University, Sweden)
Context-Sensitive Information Security Risk Identification and Evaluation Techniques
Dan Ionita
(University of Twente, Netherlands)
Business Processes and Regulations Compliance Management Technology
Ilze Buksa
(Riga Technical University, Latvia)
Creative Strategic Scenarios for Preparation to Requirements Evolution
Marília Guterres Ferreira
(PUC-Rio, Brazil)

Panel

Ready-Set-Transfer! Technology Transfer in the Requirements Engineering Domain (Panel)
Jane Huffman Hayes and Didar Zowghi
(University of Kentucky, USA; University of Technology Sydney, Australia)

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