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2015 IEEE 23rd International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), August 24-28, 2015, Ottawa, ON, Canada

RE 2015 – Proceedings

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Panel Papers

Ready-Set-Transfer! Technology Transfer in the Requirements Engineering Domain
Jane Cleland-Huang, Mona Rahimi, and Mehdi Mirakhorli
(DePaul University, USA; Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
Research projects tend to evolve through multiple phases of incubation and experimentation, before maturing to levels of full industry adoption. Practice has shown that successful research solutions often take over 20 years to achieve full technology transfer. However, many projects never leave the incubation phase either because the new technique fails to perform well, or because researchers lack the knowledge, skills, or time to transition the idea to practice. A healthy research community could be expected to produce a steady stream of innovative solutions that positively impact industrial practice. To achieve these goals, we need ongoing, rigorous, and mutually beneficial conversations between academics and practitioners. Such exchanges are a desirable part of the research process, and will help the requirements engineering community to integrate technology transfer plans into the ongoing research plans. In this interactive panel, teams of researchers, representing different requirements engineering research areas, will present their research solutions to a panel of seasoned industrial practitioners. The practitioners provide insightful feedback that can help with the transition to practice. While Ready-Set-Transfer is presented as an interactive game-show, it has the serious goal of fostering collaboration and conversations between practitioners and researchers in the requirements engineering community.

Technology Transfer – Requirements Engineering Research to Industrial Practice: An Open (Ended) Debate
Carlos Henrique C. Duarte and Tony Gorschek
(Brazilian Development Bank, Brazil; Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Technology and knowledge have been recognized as main sources of competitive advantage of corporations, industries and nations, particularly in the software domain. They have led to the creation of local ecosystems devoted to development and transfer activities, which ensure not only personal and institutional motivation/recognition, but also social and economic gains. An open (ended) debate panel is proposed in order to develop greater awareness and seek deeper understanding of such activities from Requirements Engineering research to industrial practice. The panel involves researchers and practitioners with the perspective of eliciting: (i) experiences in knowledge and technology development and transfer; (ii) awareness and effectiveness of models and patterns; and (iii) factors for having successful collaboration between academic/research institutions and industry. The organizers also plan to run a survey during and after the conference, summarizing their conclusions in specific postconference reports.

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