Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 17:48:58 GMT To: re-world@doc.ic.ac.uk From: acwf@doc.ic.ac.uk (Anthony Finkelstein) X-Sender: acwf@gummo.doc.ic.ac.uk Subject: REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING NEWSLETTER (1) Cc: acwf@doc.ic.ac.uk ****************REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING NEWSLETTER******************** No. 1. Contents 1. A note from the moderator (Anthony Finkelstein) 2. RE Student Group (Annie Anton) 3. IWSSD 7 Call-For-Papers (Axel van Lamsweerde) 4. RE Survey - Part I (Carl Singer) Contributions to: re-list@doc.ic.ac.uk Subscription or Removal to: re-request@doc.ic.ac.uk ************************************************************************* A note from the moderator: This newsletter replaces the re-list which resulted in so much junk mail. All messages to re-list@doc.ic.ac.uk now go to me alone. I will take these messages and send them out to the list in the form of occasional newsletters like this. Subscribing or removing yourself from the list can still be done by sending mail to re-request@doc.ic.ac.uk. The scope of the newsletter is as follows: formal representation schemes and requirements modelling; descriptions of the requirements engineering process; tools and environments to support requirements engineering; requirements engineering methods; requirements analysis and validation; requirements elicitation, acquisition and formalisation; establishing traceability to requirements; reuse and adaptation of requirements; domain modelling and analysis; user-interaction requirements; requirements engineering for, and as, group and cooperative work. Attention will be paid to requirements engineering for distributed, safety-critical, composite, real-time and embedded systems. The newsletter provides a means of distributing relevant technical information, publication announcements, conference announcements, job adverts, and information on funding initiatives. If you have questions about particular items - send them to the originators. If you wish to initiate a generalised debate or ask questions - send them to me and I will place them in the newsletter. The current size of the mailing list for this newsletter is 370 so it reaches a large audience. I hope it will be a valuable resource for the community. Anthony Finkelstein acwf@doc.ic.ac.uk ***************************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION New Requirements Engineering Student Mailing List College of Computing Georgia Institute of Technology The Requirements Engineering student mailing list is now up and running! The role of the group is to serve as a forum for the exchange of references and technical information, providing an audience for papers and thesis drafts, support and access to advice, etc. This mailing list is maintained at the Georgia Tech College of Computing by Annie Anton (anton@cc.gatech.edu). To subscribe or unsubsribe, please send the following (appropriate) commands in the body of an email message to "majordomo@cc.gatech.edu". To subscribe: subscribe re-students To unsubscribe: unsubscribe re-students ________________________________________________________________________________ _ /| Annie I. Anton \'o.O' ACK! Georgia Tech College of Computing =(___)= Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0280 USA U PTHFT! email: anton@cc.gatech.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***************************************************************************** !!! STILL 6 WEEKS LEFT TO WRITE DOWN YOUR BEST IDEAS !!! ***************************** Call for Papers - IWSSD-7 ***************************** SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SOFTWARE SPECIFICATION AND DESIGN 6-7 December 1993, Los Angeles area, California, USA Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, with cooperation from ACM Sigsoft (pending) IWSSD-7 PURPOSE IWSSD-7 ------- The 7th International Workshop on Software Specification and Design will be held right before ACM SIGSOFT'93. The purpose of the workshop is to explore major trends and key issues in the specification and design of software systems. This workshop, like its predecessors, seeks to provide a forum in which proponents of and experimenters with different theories, methods and techniques can interact in an informal yet focused setting. The workshop will consist of parallel working groups and plenary sessions to report on progress made within each group. Attendance is limited and is by invitation on the basis of a submitted paper. The submissions will enable the Program Committee to assess the authors' interest in and potential contributions to the workshop. The submissions will be refereed and a select group will be included in the workshop proceedings. Technical papers will be evaluated against originality, significance, soundness and clarity. Experience papers will be evaluated against significance of the lessons and insight gained from experiencing advanced methods and techniques. Position statements will be evaluated against their reasoned presentation of a point of view pertinent to workshop themes. Submissions should have been neither published nor submitted for publication elsewhere. The best papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of a major Software Engineering journal. IWSSD-7 THEMES IWSSD-7 ------ - Requirements Engineering: acquisition and elicitation, formal and conceptual modeling, domain analysis, reuse, verification, prototyping, etc. - Real-time Systems: capturing and formalizing temporal constraints, logics of time, specification and design strategies, etc. - Concurrency and Distribution: semantics of concurrency, specification and analysis of concurrent and/or reactive systems, parallelization, decomposition and distribution techniques and strategies, etc. - Formal Reasoning: formal expression, verification and derivation of specification products and processes, of design products and processes. - Design Methods and Software Architectures: models of software architecture, design processes and strategies, derivation of designs from requirements, transformation of specifications and designs, etc. IWSSD-7 INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS IWSSD-7 ----------------------- To ensure a coherent and productive workshop, attendance is limited to 80 participants. Since the workshop seeks to bring together a well- balanced combination of people with diverse interests and experiences relating to software specification and design, papers and position statements are solicited from formalists, methodologists, developers and practitioners in both academia and industry. For additional information please contact the Program Chairs. Submissions (5 copies) should be sent to M. FEATHER by 10 March 1993. They may take two forms: Technical or Experience paper (max. 5000 words) or Position statement (max. 2000 words). All submissions should identify the theme(s) that they address, and be accompanied by a cover sheet identifying the form of submission (Technical/Experience /Position) and the author(s)' full contact details including e-mail, phone and fax. IMPORTANT DATES Papers Due: March 10, 1993 Notification of Acceptance and invitation: June 10, 1993 Camera-Ready Paper Due: September 15, 1993 IWSSD-7 IWSSD-7 GENERAL CHAIR Jack Wileden Computer Science Department University of Massachusetts Amherst MA 01003 USA jack@cs.umass.edu PROGRAM CHAIRS Martin S. Feather Axel van Lamsweerde Information Sciences Institute Unite d'Informatique 4676 Admiralty Way University of Louvain Marina del Rey CA 90292 Place Sainte Barbe 2 USA B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Tel: +1 310 822 1511 BELGIUM Email: feather@isi.edu Email: avl@info.ucl.ac.be PROGRAM COMMITTEE R.G. Babb (USA) D. Garlan (USA) C. Potts (USA) D. Barstow (France) M.C. Gaudel (France) G.C. Roman (USA) D. Berry (Israel & USA) C. Ghezzi (Italy) W. Schaefer (Germany) M. Broy (Germany) S. Greenspan (USA) M. Shaw (USA) U. Buy (USA) C. Heitmeyer (USA) J.T. Udding S. Fickas (USA) R. Kurki-Suonio (Finland) (The Netherlands) J.P. Finance (France) N. Leveson (USA) A.L. Wolf (USA) A. Finkelstein (U.K.) M. Moriconi (USA) J.C. Woodcock (U.K.) K. Futatsugi (Japan) D. Perry (USA) A. Yonezawa (Japan) **************************************************************************** From: Carl Singer - singer@cc.bellcore.com Requirements Engineering ======================== Issues / Concerns Preliminary Survey ------------------------------------ This is part 1 of a 2 part survey - this "open-ended" part is designed to gather information, that is issues and concerns as identified by you. Part 2 which will (hopefully) follow will build a questionnaire based on the part 1 responses to rank these items and "see what the numbers tell us." This should lead to the formation of autonomous focus groups (or "birds of a feather" groups) who can work together as they see fit in these areas. This survey will be anonymous - only summary statistical information will be released - and this information will be made available to all. Please reply to me on this survey. Thanks for your interest and cooperation Carl Singer To reply - simply email me back a list with numbered responses - no need to use any special format. e.g. 1 developer 2 3 BS Physics 3 MS Systems Engineering --------------------------------------------------------- 1. My primary job function is: __________________________ Examples: requirements engineer, developer, faculty, student 2. My secondary job function (if any) is: _______________ 3. My formal training is in the fields of: (no more than 3please) __________ __________ __________ Examples: Physics, Systems Engineering, Mathematics 4. The Requirements Engineering Areas of MOST IMPORTANCE are: (Please limit yourself to 5) 5. The Requirements Engineering Areas of MOST AGGRAVATION are: (Please limit yourself to 5) 6. The Requirements Engineering Areas that NEED RESEARCH are: (Please limit yourself to 5) 7. The Requirements Engineering Areas that NEED METHODOLOGIES & METHODS are: (Please limit yourself to 5) 8. The Requirements Engineering Areas that NEED TOOLS are: (Please limit yourself to 5) Please reply promptly - no later than March 1st. Carl Singer singer@cc.bellcore.com ***************************************************************************** ______________________________________________________________________________ Anthony Finkelstein | Email: acwf@doc.ic.ac.uk Imperial College, | Phone: +44 71 589-5111 x7535 Department of Computing, | Fax: +44 71 581 8024 180 Queens Gate, | London SW7 2BZ, UK | _____________________________________________________________________________