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2013 21st IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE),
July 15–19, 2013,
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Doctoral Symposium
RE 2013 Doctoral Symposium
Ana Moreira and
Paul Grünbacher
(Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal; JKU Linz, Austria)
The Doctoral Symposium brings together PhD students working in requirements engineering to facilitate the interaction among students and RE researchers. Students present their research and receive constructive feedback from a panel of senior researchers. The doctoral symposium is run in a highly interactive and workshop-like format.
@InProceedings{RE13p380,
author = {Ana Moreira and Paul Grünbacher},
title = {RE 2013 Doctoral Symposium},
booktitle = {Proc.\ RE},
publisher = {IEEE},
pages = {380--380},
doi = {},
year = {2013},
}
The Regulatory World and the Machine: Harmonizing Legal Requirements and the Systems They Affect
David G. Gordon
(CMU, USA)
The past decade has seen a substantial increase in the issuance of privacy and security regulations governing personal information. Ensuring system and organizational compliance is both more important and more difficult than ever before, as the penalties have become more severe, and regulations more complex and nuanced. This also presents substantial difficulties for multi-national companies, as different states, countries, or regions do not adhere to a uniform standard, resulting in a mixed set of regulations for the systems they govern. In this work, I describe a framework to address this issue, referred to as requirements water marking, wherein requirements from different jurisdictions that govern the same system may be evaluated and reduced to a single standard of care, establishing a “high water mark” for regulatory compliance and reducing requirements complexity. The framework, which draws on work in requirements specification languages and requirements comparison, allows engineers and legal experts to systematically simplify compliance and determine both high and low standards of care, while maintaining traceability back to the original legal text. In addition, I investigate the proposed value of legal requirements models, demonstrating the relationship between proposed value of these models to organizational decision-making and the validity of the model.
@InProceedings{RE13p381,
author = {David G. Gordon},
title = {The Regulatory World and the Machine: Harmonizing Legal Requirements and the Systems They Affect},
booktitle = {Proc.\ RE},
publisher = {IEEE},
pages = {381--384},
doi = {},
year = {2013},
}
Evidence Management for Evolutionary Safety Assurance and Certification
Sunil Nair
(Simula Research Laboratory, Norway)
Safety assurance and certification are amongst the most expensive and time-consuming activities in the development of safety-critical systems. Deeming a system to be safe involves gathering convincing evidence to argue the safe operation of the system, usually according to the requirements of some safety standard. To handle large collections of safety evidence effectively, practitioners need knowledge of how to classify different types of evidence, how to structure the evidence to show fulfillment of standards' requirements, and how to assess the evidence. However, the notion of evidence is vague and safety standards ́ requirements can be ambiguous and difficult to understand. Major problems also arise when a system evolves, as the body of safety evidence has to be adequately maintained in order to ensure system safety and allow its demonstration. In this context, this PhD aims to propose a framework for safety evidence management in evolutionary scenarios. The thesis work will concentrate on devising a model-based and customizable infrastructure for storage, manipulation, reuse, and analysis of evolving safety evidence. The infrastructure will be developed and evaluated in the scope of OPENCOSS,a large-scale European research project.
@InProceedings{RE13p385,
author = {Sunil Nair},
title = {Evidence Management for Evolutionary Safety Assurance and Certification},
booktitle = {Proc.\ RE},
publisher = {IEEE},
pages = {385--388},
doi = {},
year = {2013},
}
Visual Analytics for Software Requirements Engineering
Sandeep Reddivari
(Mississippi State University, USA)
The research on visual analytics for requirements engineering has noticeably advanced in the past few years. For many software projects, requirements management needs an effective and efficient path from data to decision. Visual analytics (VA) creates such a path that enables the user to extract insights by interacting with the relevant information. While various requirements visualization techniques exist, only few have produced end-to-end values to practitioners. In this research proposal, we advance the literature on visual requirements analytics by characterizing its key components and relationships. Such a characterization allows us to not only assess existing approaches, but also develop tool enhancements in a principled manner. We describe our ongoing work on VA and outline future research plans.
@InProceedings{RE13p389,
author = {Sandeep Reddivari},
title = {Visual Analytics for Software Requirements Engineering},
booktitle = {Proc.\ RE},
publisher = {IEEE},
pages = {389--392},
doi = {},
year = {2013},
}
Requirements Negotiation Model: A Social Oriented Approach for Software Ecosystems Evolution
George Valença
(UFPE, Brasil)
Software Ecosystems is becoming a relevant research topic by analysing the software industry as networked organisations based on a common interest in a central software technology. In this context, appropriately handling Requirements Engineering is a success factor for Software Platform Management. Nevertheless, recent research in this subject does not integrate the ecosystem’s social dimension to a business view during requirements negotiations. The state-of-the-art is generally concerned with challenges of achieving and agreed requirements understanding. Thereby, this PhD proposes a Requirements Negotiation Model to address the negotiation process through a more holistic perspective. It aims to present an insightful reasoning on how requirements negotiation collaborates to ecosystem’s health and success, defining negotiation strategies along Software Ecosystem evolution considering the Software Platform Management.
@InProceedings{RE13p393,
author = {George Valença},
title = {Requirements Negotiation Model: A Social Oriented Approach for Software Ecosystems Evolution},
booktitle = {Proc.\ RE},
publisher = {IEEE},
pages = {393--396},
doi = {},
year = {2013},
}
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