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Call for Papers -
10th Australian Workshop on Requirements Engineering (AWRE'2005)

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From: Karl Cox <karlc@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Subject: (SEWORLD) CfP: Australian Workshop on Requirements Engineering
Date: Mon,  9 May 2005 12:45:54 -0600 (MDT)


Call for Papers

10th ANNIVERSARY
AUSTRALIAN WORKSHOP ON REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING

Melbourne, Australia, 22 - 23 November 2005
(Venue: The Novotel,  St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia)

Host Organisation: School of Information Systems, Deakin University

URL:  http://lamp.infosys.deakin.edu.au/05awre/

This year the Australian Workshop on Requirements Engineering (AWRE) is
celebrating its 10th Anniversary. AWRE has a tradition of research and
experience paper presentations, open discussions and expert panel
debates. The 10th Anniversary workshop will continue this trend.

In recognition of AWRE's achievements, this year we plan to have a
special issue of the best papers from the workshop in the Requirements
Engineering Journal.

We have secured the world renowned empirical software engineering
expert, Professor Martin Shepperd of Bournemouth University, UK, to
present a keynote address. We are in the process of attracting an
industry expert for a second keynote address.

Conference Themes

The 10th anniversary AWRE welcomes research and experience papers on
these specific themes:

•	Business / IT alignment and its impact on requirements engineering
•	Creativity in requirements engineering practice
•	Emerging theories and methods to address problems in requirements
engineering
•	Empirical studies of requirements engineering techniques
•	Industry case studies
•	Security issues and their implications for requirement engineering
and
•	Coming from left field: RE in different domains - combining RE
methods with methods from other fields

Authors are encouraged to address the above themes, however are welcome
to submit papers on any requirements engineering related topics, for
consideration by the Program Panel.

PhD Student Track

We would, in particular, welcome submissions from PhD students who are
approximately 1 year/18 months into their PhD and have yet to validate
their models and/or research questions/hypotheses. This will allow PhD
students to receive friendly, expert input concerning possible future
directions they might take in their PhD. For students and their
supervisors interested in this track, we recommend submission of a
position paper (6 sides length). All papers will be peer reviewed, as
for normal submissions, and accepted papers will be published in the
Proceedings.

We will not consider papers that contain comprehensive
results/validation of PhD work for the PhD track. Students wishing to
present such PhD results are encouraged to submit instead a full
research paper.

Submission

Submissions are invited in any of four formats:
•	Full research papers (10 sides)
•	Industry experience reports (6 sides)
•	Research position papers (6 sides)
•	PhD student track papers (6 sides)

All submissions should be in both Word and PDF form and should conform
to the IEEE format, as detailed at:

http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm

Note: For the initial submission there is no requirement to submit a
copyright release form.

All papers will be double-blind peer reviewed by at least two members
of the program committee. Explicit directions concerning the submission
process will be available on the workshop website at:

http://lamp.infosys.deakin.edu.au/05awre/

Important Dates

•	Deadline for all paper submissions: 15th July 2005
•	Notification to authors: 16th September 2005
•	Camera Ready copies due: 30th September 2005

Organising Committee

General Chair: 		Ross Smith, Deakin University
Program Chairs: 	Jacob Cybulski, Deakin University,
				Karl Cox, National ICT Australia Ltd
Organising Chair: 	Lemai Nguyen, Deakin University

Program Committee:
Jocelyn Armarego, Murdoch University
Aybuke Aurum, University of New South Wales
David Cropley, University of South Australia
Al Davis, University of Colorado
Roger Duke, University of Queensland
Danielle Fowler, University of Baltimore
Don Gause, Binghamton University
Vincenzo Gervasi, University of Pisa
Charles Haley, Open University
Jon Hall, Open University
Robin Laney, Open University
Soren Lauesen, IT University of Copenhagen
Neil Maiden, City University, London
Nancy Mead, Software Engineering Institute, CMU
Mahmood Niazi, NICTA
Scott Overmyer, University of South Dakota
Keith Phalp, Bournemouth University
Klaus Pohl, University of Essen
Lucia Rapanotti, Open University
Suzanne Robertson, Atlantic Systems Guild
Matti Rossi, Helsinki School of Economics
Camille Salinesi, University of Paris Sorbonne
Jing Sun, University of Auckland
Paul Swatman, University of South Australia
Theerasak Thanasankit, Mahidol University, Thailand

Further Information

To address any further questions please contact the Conference General
Chair:
Ross Smith
School of Information Systems
Deakin University
221 Burwood Highway, Burwood Victoria 3125
Australia
eMail: ross.smith@deakin.edu.au

or check the AWRE website:

http://lamp.infosys.deakin.edu.au/05awre/

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