General talk about software patterns

[Linda Rising <risingl AT tds.net>]

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4th Int'l Workshop on Requirements Patterns (RePa'14)

Karlskrona, Sweden, August 26, 2014

held in conjunction with RE 2014



--- Call for Papers ---

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Submission deadline: June 2, 2014

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Dear colleagues,

We invite submissions to 4th International Workshop on Requirements 
Patterns (RePa'14), which will be held in Karlskrona, Sweden on August 
26th, 2014.

For more details, see: http://www.utdallas.edu/~supakkul/repa14/

Motivation

Getting requirements right is critical to the success of just about any 
software development project, and yet oftentimes challenging and in need 
of a large amount of knowledge and experience. "Patterns" have been used 
to capture knowledge of software development, concerning software 
architectures, designs, and more recently requirements engineering too. 
This workshop provides an open forum for researchers and practitioners 
to exchange ideas and experience, regarding pattern-based approaches to 
capturing, organizing, and reusing all aspects of requirements 
engineering-related knowledge, from both product and process perspectives.

Scope

In line with the Workshop’s objectives and previous editions, RePa’14 
continues to solicit requirements patterns and pattern languages that 
capture knowledge of requirements engineering processes and products, 
including but not limited to:

▪ Requirements modeling patterns

▪ Requirements engineering process/activities patterns

▪ Application/domain-specific requirements patterns

▪ Application/domain-independent requirements patterns

▪ Goal patterns

▪ Social aspect patterns

▪ Scenario patterns

▪ Workflow patterns

▪ Business patterns

▪ Problem patterns (e.g. anti-patterns, mis-use patterns, fault 
patterns, attack patterns)

▪ Functional requirements (FRs) patterns

▪ Non-functional requirements (NFRs) patterns

▪ Requirements to architecture/design mapping patterns

At the same time, RePa’14 also welcomes papers that can bring 
requirements patterns closer to real world application. For such papers, 
topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following:

▪ Pattern recommender/retrieval tools

▪ Pattern reuse tools & processes

▪ Standards for describing and sharing patterns:

▪ Standard description templates

▪ Standard interchange formats such as XML

▪ API Standards for Repository/Tool Services

▪ Open-access knowledge repositories for patterns

▪ Pattern organisation & management

▪ Industrial case studies

▪ Experience reports

▪ Learning from other fields

Accepted papers with at least an author presenting at the Workshop will 
be published in the IEEE Digital Library.

Submission

Each submission is required to meet the requirements listed below and 
will be reviewed by at least two Program Committee members. Accepted 
papers with at least an author presenting at the Workshop will be 
published in the IEEE Digital Library.

Formatting Requirements

▪ Written in English and formatted according to the IEEE formatting 
instructions (http://www.utdallas.edu/~supakkul/repa14/formatting.html)

▪ Page limits:

8 pages for long papers

4 pages for short papers

Submission Instructions
Submit your PDF version at RePa’14 EasyChair page 
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=repa2014).

Important Dates
Abstract Thu. 29 May 2014
Submission Mon. 2 June 2014
Notification Mon. 23 June 2014
Camera-ready Mon. 7 July 2014

Organizers

Co-Chairs
Sam Supakkul, Sabre Inc., USA
Julio Cesar Leite, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, 
Brazil
Liping Zhao, University of Manchester, UK
Lawrence Chung, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Associate Chair
Ye Wang Zhejiang Gongshang University, China