I am a PhD Student at the Technical University of Aachen (RWTH) supervised by Matthias Jarke. On June 7th and 8th I participated in the Doctoral Symposium at the RE'99 Conference organised by Klaus Pohl and Michael Gödicke.

I presented the state of my thesis entitled "Requirements Engineering with Interrelated Conceptual Models and Real World Scenes". In this talk I reported on research aiming to improve requirements engineering by bridging the gap between concrete examples of system usage (real world scenes) at the instance level, and conceptual models at the type level through support for creation, management and applications of fine-granular traceability interrelations between scenes and models.

The RE experts provided me with excellent feedback on the scope and contents of the thesis. I appreciated the fact that the time for discussion was as long as the talk itself.

I also got a lot out of the discussions related to the other theses presented, learned a lot about how to present the essence of a thesis in a brief talk, and had very fruitful discussions in-between talks. Thus, the two days were very inspirativ for my further work. I wish I would have attended such an event much earlier.

Peter Haumer
haumer@informatik.rwth-aachen.de
RWTH Aachen