THIRD IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING THEME : Putting Requirements Engineering to Practice An IEEE Software Technology Transfer Conference April 6-10, 1998 Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Advance Program for ICRE '98 by Dates

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• Monday 6 April
  • Monday 6 April, 8:30-12:00
    Marina Jirotka
    Video-Supported Ethnography for Requirements Capture

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  • Monday 6 April, 13:30-17:00
    Larry Constantine
    Joint Essential Modeling: Collaborative User Requirements Modeling for Usability

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  • Monday 6 April, 18:00-19:00
    Reception
    

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• Tuesday 7 April
  • Welcome
    Tuesday 7 April, 8:30-9:00
  • K1: Requirements Engineering for Y2000 Projects: Why is it Harder than it Seems? (Keynote: Plenary Session)
    Tuesday 7 April, 9:00-10:30
    Edward Yourdon

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  • Coffee Break
    Tuesday 7 April, 10:30-11:00

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  • Parallel Sessions P1 & P2
    Tuesday 7 April, 11:00-12:30

    P1: Safety, Survivability, and Fault Tolerance (Papers: in Parallel Sessions) Tuesday 7 April, 11:00-12:30 Paul Grabow, Chair Baylor University, USA Francis L. Schneider, Steve M. Easterbrook, John R. Callahan, Gerard J. Holzmann NASA/WVU Software Research Lab, USA Validating Requirements for Fault Tolerant Systems using Model Checking A best paper Richard C. Linger, Nancy R. Mead, Howard F. Lipson Software Engineering Institute, USA Requirements Definition for Survivable Network Systems Robyn R. Lutz Iowa State University and Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Guy G. Helmer, Michelle M. Moseman Iowa State University, USA David E. Statezni, Stephen R. Tockey Rockwell Avionics and Communications, USA Safety Analysis of Requirements for a Product Family

    P2: Traceability and Change Management (Papers: in Parallel Sessions) Tuesday 7 April, 11:00-12:30 Klaus Pohl, Chair RWTH Aachen, Germany Theodore Hammer NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA Lenore Huffman SATC/Unisys, USA Automating Requirements Management - Beware HOW you use tools Xiping Song, Bill Hasling, Gaurav Mangla, Bill Sherman Siemens Corporate Research, Inc., USA Lessons Learned from Building a Web-Based Requirements Tracking System Alessandra Russo, Bashar Nuseibeh, Jeff Kramer Imperial College, UK Restructuring Requirements Specifications for Managing Inconsistency and Change: A Case Study A best paper

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  • Lunch
    Tuesday 7 April, 12:30-14:00

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  • N1: A Case for Priority (Mini-Tutorial: Plenary Session)
    Tuesday 7 April, 14:00-15:30
    Ivy Hooks, Chair
    Compliance Automation, Inc., USA

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  • Coffee Break
    Tuesday 7 April, 15:30-16:00

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  • Parallel Sessions P3 & P4
    Tuesday 7 April, 16:00-18:00

    P3: Elicitation (Papers: in Parallel Sessions) Tuesday 7 April, 16:00-18:00 Richard Tolcher, Chair Oxford University, UK Nicola Millard, Paula Lynch, Karina Tracey BT Laboratories, UK Child's Play: Using Techniques Developed to Elicit Requirements from Children with Adults Ian Sommerville, Pete Sawyer, Stephen Viller Lancaster University, UK Viewpoints for Requirements Elicitation: A Practical Approach William Robinson, Suzanne Pawlowski Georgia State University, USA Surfacing Root Requirements from Inquiry Cycle Requirements Documents Christian Kop, Heinrich Mayr University of Klagenfurt, Austria Conceptual Predesign - Bridging the Gap between Requirements and Conceptual Design

    P4: Modeling and Requirements (Papers: in Parallel Sessions) Tuesday 7 April, 16:00-17:30 Robyn Lutz, Chair Iowa State University & NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratories, USA Martin Loomes, Sara Jones University of Hertfordshire, UK Requirements Engineering: A Perspective Through Theory-Building Lars Johansson, Magnus Haglind KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Martin Rantzer Ericsson Radio Systems AB, Sweden Experiences Integrating Requirements Engineering and Business Analysis R. Craig Smith Motorola, Inc., USA Using a Quality Model Framework to Strengthen the Requirements Bridge

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• Wednesday 8 April
  • Announcments
    Wednesday 8 April, 8:50-9:00
  • N2: Delivering Requirements Engineering (Mini-Tutorial: Plenary Session)
    Wednesday 8 April, 9:00-10:30
    Sol Greenspan, Chair
    GTE, USA
    • Philip Morris, Marcelo Masera, Marc Wilikens
      Joint Research Centre, Italy
      Requirements Engineering and Industrial Uptake
    • Priscilla Fowler
      Software Engineering Institute, USA
      Malcom (Mac) Patrick
      Software Engineering Institute and Process Advantage Technology, USA
      Anita Carleton, Barbara Merrin
      Software Engineering Institute, USA
      Transition Packages: An Experiment in Expediting the Introduction of Requirements Management

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  • Coffee Break
    Wednesday 8 April, 10:30-11:00

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  • Parallel Sessions P5 & P6
    Wednesday 8 April, 11:00-12:30

    P5: Scenarios (Papers: in Parallel Sessions) Wednesday 8 April, 11:00-12:30 Steve Easterbrook, Chair NASA/West Virginia University, USA Neil Maiden, Shailey Minocha City University, UK Keith Manning Cairo Information Systems, UK Michele Ryan City University, UK CREWS-SAVRE: Systematic Scenario Generation and Use Hermann Kaindl, Stefan Kramer Siemens AG, Austria Robert Kacsich Austria A Case Study of Decomposing Functional Requirements Using Scenarios Alistaire Sutcliffe, Michele Ryan City University, UK Experience with SCRAM, a Scenario Requirements Analysis Method

    P6: Research in Progress (Papers: in Parallel Sessions) Wednesday 8 April, 11:00-12:30 Martin Feather, Chair NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratories, USA Xavier Franch Universitat Politècnica de Catalnya, Spain Systematic Formulation of Non-Functional Characteristics of Software Marilyn T. Gaska Lockheed Martin Federal Systems-Owego, USA Donald C. Gause State University of New York at Binghamton, USA An Approach for Cross-Discipline Requirements Engineering Process Patterns Renaud Lecoeuche Université de Rouen, France Christopher Mellish, David Robertson University of Edinburgh, UK A Framework for Requirements Engineering through Mixed-Initiative Dialogue - Representation issues

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  • Lunch
    Wednesday 8 April, 12:30-14:00

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  • N3: Specifying Requirements for Survivable Systems (Panel: Plenary Session)
    Wednesday 8 April, 14:00-15:30
    Richard Linger, Chair
    Visiting Scientist, SEI, USA

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  • Coffee Break
    Wednesday 8 April, 15:30-16:00

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  • Free time to visit Tools Fair/Vendors' Exhibits (which have been there all day
    Wednesday 8 April, 15:30-19:00
    Contact: David Hottman (DHottman@compuserve.com)

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• Thursday 9 April
  • K2: Experiencing Requirements (Keynote: Plenary Session)
    Thursday 9 April, 8:30-10:30
    Gerald M. Weinberg

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  • Coffee Break
    Thursday 9 April, 10:30-11:00

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  • Parallel Sessions P7 & P8
    Thursday 9 April, 11:00-12:30

    P7: Scenarios and Intentions (Papers: in Parallel Sessions) Thursday 9 April, 11:00-12:30 Didar Zowghi, Chair Macquarie University, Australia Nancy Leveson University of Washington (visiting MIT), USA Intent Specifications: An Approach to Building Human-Centered Specifications A best paper Karin Breitman, Julio Leite Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil A Framework for Scenario Evolution Klaus Weidenhaupt, Klaus Pohl, Matthias Jarke, Peter Haumer RWTH Aachen, Germany Scenario Usage in System Development: A Report on Current Practice A best paper and in IEEE Software March, 1998

    P8: Requirements and Software Reuse (Papers: in Parallel Sessions) Thursday 9 April, 11:00-12:30 Don Gause, Chair State University of New York at Binghamton, USA Patrik Forsgren Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Arnis Daugulis Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden and Latvian State Power Board, Latvia Requirements Engineering in Control Center Procurement Projects Wing Lam, Sara Jones, Carol Britton University of Hertfordshire, UK Technology Transfer for Reuse: A Management Model and Process Improvement Framework Neil Maiden, Cornelius Ncube City University, UK Acquiring Requirements for Commercial Off-The-Shelf Package Selection A best paper and in IEEE Software March, 1998

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  • Lunch
    Thursday 9 April, 12:30-13:30

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  • N4: The Role of the Facilitator in Requirements Engineering (Panel: Plenary Session)
    Thursday 9 April, 13:30-15:00
    Linda Macaulay, Chair
    University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), UK

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  • N5: Report from the Pre-Conference Workshop (Panel: Plenary Session)
    Thursday 9 April, 15:00-16:30
    Brian Lawrence, Chair
    Coyote Valley Consulting, USA

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  • Farewell
    Thursday 9 April, 16:30-17:00

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• Friday 10 April
  • Friday 10 April, 8:30-12:00
    Don Gause
    Seeing Customer Requirements, Defining Quality Before Design, Assuring Quality During Design, Improving Quality after Design

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  • Friday 10 April, 13:30-17:00
    Roel Wieringa
    Advanced Structured and Object-Oriented Requirements Specification Methods

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