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CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
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1st International Workshop on Gaps between Requirements Research and Industrial Practices <br>
GRRIP’13<br>
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 16, 2013<br>
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<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/grripworkshop/">https://sites.google.com/site/grripworkshop/</a><br>
twitter: #re2013 #grrip<br>
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Refereed papers will be published as a part of the workshop proceedings in the IEEE Digital Library. <br>
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IMPORTANT DATES<br>
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Paper submission: 10th April 2013 <br>
Author notification: 30th April 2013 <br>
Camera ready: 15th May 2013 <br>
Workshop: 16th July 2013 <br>
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CALL for PAPERS<br>
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Lack of applicability and adoption of RE research into industrial practice has been a topic of discussion <br>
and, in fact, a topic of research in itself, for the last decade. The reasons for gaps between research and <br>
industrial practice are multifold. On the one hand, there is a prevalent perception that researchers select <br>
topics that are transformative in nature and address the future, while industry practitioners need to focus <br>
on solving more immediate practical problems. On the other hand, the industrial practitioners are <br>
skeptical about the typical examples used in academic research, such as library management and ATM,<br>
since they do not sufficiently represent the complexities of real-life project settings. Experiments executed <br>
within an academic setting are well constructed, but highly resource-constrained. Moreover, the use of <br>
students as test subjects raises questions about the validity of the results for industrial settings. Industries <br>
are reluctant to share data due to confidentiality agreements they must respect. <br>
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How do we get past these fundamental issues? We believe that we are at a stage where both communities <br>
need to explore ways to leverage each other’s strengths. We need a virtuous cycle of taking preliminary <br>
research results to field as well as identifying interesting practical problems that can only be detected by <br>
working on field, investigating the problems to identify unanswered research questions, conducting a<br>
more informed research and taking the mature results to field again. This can happen only if researchers <br>
and practitioners brainstorm prevalent issues with respect to the gaps in research and practice and <br>
collaborate to solve challenging problems.<br>
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The topics of the workshop include, but are not restricted to:<br>
- Experiences in adopting RE research <br>
- Issues that limit conducting RE research that can be easily adopted in practice <br>
- Issues that limit adopting RE research output in practice <br>
- Key problems in RE practice that have no effective research solutions <br>
- Empirical studies on advantages and drawbacks of particular research outcomes <br>
- State of the practice empirical studies <br>
- Common research-practice agenda<br>
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During GRRIP’13, we wish to highlight some of the challenges of balancing the short-term needs of <br>
addressing problems in industrial practice with the longer-term needs of advancing the state-of-the-art in <br>
requirements engineering. Towards this purpose, we want to bring together all the important stakeholders <br>
of RE to brainstorm prevalent issues with respect to the gaps in research and practice. <br>
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We aim to: <br>
- Establish a stronger cooperation between requirements engineering and practitioners toreduce barriers <br>
- Identify open issues, research questions, novel approaches, and future directions in the area of RE research <br>
- Systematize formation of collaborative communities for a stronger and active partnership between the academia and industry <br>
- Explore avenues to make RE research more applicable and more responsive to practitioner’s needs and RE practice more open to adopt research outcome<br>
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FORMAT and GUIDELINES<br>
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Papers must not exceed 4 pages for a short paper or 8 pages for a full paper. Submission will be possible <br>
from the workshop homepage via EasyChair. For accepted papers, at least one author should register for<br>
the workshop at RE’13 conference and participate in the workshop. To be considered for a review, submissions must be in the IEEE CS Press Proceedings format. <br>
<a href="http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm">http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm</a><br>
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ORGANIZATION<br>
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Organizers:<br>
Smita Ghaisas, TRDDC, Tata Consultancy Services, India, <a href="mailto:smita.ghaisas@tcs.com">smita.ghaisas@tcs.com</a><br>
Walid Maalej, University of Hamburg, Germany, <a href="mailto:maalej@informatik.uni-hamburg.de">maalej@informatik.uni-hamburg.de</a><br>
Klaas Sikkel, University of Twente, the Netherlands, <a href="mailto:k.sikkel@utwente.nl">k.sikkel@utwente.nl</a><br>
R. Venkatesh , TRDDC, Tata Consultancy Services, India, <a href="mailto:r.venky@tcs.com">r.venky@tcs.com</a><br>
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Program Committee:<br>
- Kanad Kishore Biswas, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India <br>
- Karin Breitman, EMC Corporation, Brasil <br>
- Jane Cleland-Huang, DePaul University, USA <br>
- Oliver Creighton, Siemens, Germany <br>
- Alexander Felfernig, Graz University of Technology, Germany <br>
- Xavier Franch, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain <br>
- Rosalva Gallardo-Valencia, Intel, USA <br>
- Smita Ghaisas, Tata Consultancy Services, India (co-chair) <br>
- Anne Hoffmann, Siemens, Germany <br>
- James Hulgan, Seilevel, USA <br>
- Maya Daneva, University of Twente, The Netherlands <br>
- Pete Jones, Phonak, Swizerland <br>
- Eric Knauss, University of Victoria, Canada <br>
- Walid Maalej, University of Hamburg, Germany (co-chair) <br>
- Srinivas Padmabhuni, Infosys, India <br>
- Barbara Paech, University of Heidelberg, Germany <br>
- Isabelle Perseil, Inserm, france <br>
- Venkatesh Ramanathan, Tata Consultancy Services, India (co-chair) <br>
- Juárez Reyes, University of Baja California, Mexico <br>
- Prahladavaradan Sampath, MathWorks, India <br>
- Pete Sawyer, Lancaster University, UK <br>
- Klaas Sikkel, University of Twente, The Netherlands (co-chair) <br>
- Anil Thurimella, Harman, Germany <br>
- Didar Zowghi, University of Technology, Australia <br>
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