[fg-arc] CFP: Int. Workshop on Gaps between RE Research and Industrial Practices GRRIP’13

[Walid Maalej]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

1st International Workshop on Gaps between Requirements Research and Industrial Practices
GRRIP’13

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 16, 2013

https://sites.google.com/site/grripworkshop/
twitter: #re2013 #grrip

Refereed papers will be published as a part of the workshop proceedings in the IEEE Digital Library.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission: 10th April 2013
Author notification: 30th April 2013
Camera ready: 15th May 2013
Workshop: 16th July 2013

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CALL for PAPERS
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Lack of applicability and adoption of RE research into industrial practice has been a topic of discussion
and, in fact, a topic of research in itself, for the last decade. The reasons for gaps between research and
industrial practice are multifold. On the one hand, there is a prevalent perception that researchers select
topics that are transformative in nature and address the future, while industry practitioners need to focus
on solving more immediate practical problems. On the other hand, the industrial practitioners are
skeptical about the typical examples used in academic research, such as library management and ATM,
since they do not sufficiently represent the complexities of real-life project settings. Experiments executed
within an academic setting are well constructed, but highly resource-constrained. Moreover, the use of
students as test subjects raises questions about the validity of the results for industrial settings. Industries
are reluctant to share data due to confidentiality agreements they must respect.

How do we get past these fundamental issues? We believe that we are at a stage where both communities
need to explore ways to leverage each other’s strengths. We need a virtuous cycle of taking preliminary
research results to field as well as identifying interesting practical problems that can only be detected by
working on field, investigating the problems to identify unanswered research questions, conducting a
more informed research and taking the mature results to field again. This can happen only if researchers
and practitioners brainstorm prevalent issues with respect to the gaps in research and practice and
collaborate to solve challenging problems.

The topics of the workshop include, but are not restricted to:
- Experiences in adopting RE research
- Issues that limit conducting RE research that can be easily adopted in practice
- Issues that limit adopting RE research output in practice
- Key problems in RE practice that have no effective research solutions
- Empirical studies on advantages and drawbacks of particular research outcomes
- State of the practice empirical studies
- Common research-practice agenda

During GRRIP’13, we wish to highlight some of the challenges of balancing the short-term needs of
addressing problems in industrial practice with the longer-term needs of advancing the state-of-the-art in
requirements engineering. Towards this purpose, we want to bring together all the important stakeholders
of RE to brainstorm prevalent issues with respect to the gaps in research and practice.

We aim to:
- Establish a stronger cooperation between requirements engineering and practitioners toreduce barriers
- Identify open issues, research questions, novel approaches, and future directions in the area of RE research
- Systematize formation of collaborative communities for a stronger and active partnership between the academia and industry
- Explore avenues to make RE research  more applicable and more responsive to practitioner’s needs and RE practice more open to adopt research outcome

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FORMAT and GUIDELINES
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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
from the workshop homepage via EasyChair. For accepted papers, at least one author should register for
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.
http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm

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ORGANIZATION
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Organizers:
Smita Ghaisas, TRDDC, Tata Consultancy Services, India, smita.ghaisas at tcs.com<mailto:smita.ghaisas at tcs.com>
Walid Maalej, University of Hamburg, Germany, maalej at informatik.uni-hamburg.de<mailto:maalej at informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Klaas Sikkel, University of Twente, the Netherlands,  k.sikkel at utwente.nl<mailto:k.sikkel at utwente.nl>
R. Venkatesh , TRDDC, Tata Consultancy Services, India, r.venky at tcs.com<mailto:r.venky at tcs.com>

Program Committee:
- Kanad Kishore Biswas, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
- Karin Breitman, EMC Corporation, Brasil
- Jane Cleland-Huang, DePaul University, USA
- Oliver Creighton, Siemens, Germany
- Alexander Felfernig, Graz University of Technology, Germany
- Xavier Franch, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
- Rosalva Gallardo-Valencia, Intel, USA
- Smita Ghaisas, Tata Consultancy Services, India (co-chair)
- Anne Hoffmann, Siemens, Germany
- James Hulgan, Seilevel, USA
- Maya Daneva, University of Twente, The Netherlands
- Pete Jones, Phonak, Swizerland
- Eric Knauss, University of Victoria, Canada
- Walid Maalej, University of Hamburg, Germany (co-chair)
- Srinivas Padmabhuni, Infosys, India
- Barbara Paech, University of Heidelberg, Germany
- Isabelle Perseil, Inserm, france
- Venkatesh Ramanathan, Tata Consultancy Services, India (co-chair)
- Juárez Reyes, University of Baja California, Mexico
- Prahladavaradan Sampath, MathWorks, India
- Pete Sawyer, Lancaster University, UK
- Klaas Sikkel, University of Twente, The Netherlands (co-chair)
- Anil Thurimella, Harman, Germany
- Didar Zowghi, University of Technology, Australia


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