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<body> <p> </p> <div align="center"><center><table border="1" CELLPADDING="10" width="596"> <tr> <td width="76"><p align="center"><img src="logo2kb.gif" width="74" height="75" alt="logo2kb.gif (2154 bytes)"></td> <td width="368"><p align="center"><font face="Arial Rounded MT Bold"><b><font size="4">FOURTH  IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON <br> REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING<br> (ICRE2000) </font><font size="2"><br> An <i>IEEE Software</i> Technology Transfer Conference <br> June 19-23, 2000 <br> Schaumburg, Illinois USA </font></b></font></p> <p align="center"><b><font size="2"><br> </font></b><small><font face="Arial Rounded MT Bold"><small><small><small><a name="Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering">Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering</a></small></small></small></font></small></td> <td width="80"><p align="center"><img src="IEEECS.gif" width="72" height="72" alt="IEEECS.gif (4191 bytes)"></td> </tr> </table> </center></div><h1 align="center"><font face="Arial Rounded MT Bold"><small><a name="CALL FOR PARTICIPATION">CALL FOR PARTICIPATION</a></small> </font></h1> <p><small><font face="MS Sans Serif">ICRE2000 is the fourth in a biennial series of conferences aimed at bringing together practitioners and researchers to discuss software requirements-engineering-related problems and results.  As a technology transfer conference, ICRE2000 is designed to provide (1) practitioners with an evaluation of promising requirements research and practice, and (2) researchers with an exposure to real-world requirements problems. </font></small></p> <div align="center"><center><table border="1" CELLPADDING="10" width="600" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="381" height="1167"><small><font face="MS Sans Serif"><b>PAPERS:</b> <br> Authors are invited to submit papers addressing theory and/or practice. An </font></small><dl> <dt><small><font face="MS Sans Serif"><em>experience paper </em></font></small></dt> <dd><small><font face="MS Sans Serif">evaluates the effectiveness of a requirements engineering technology, which may have begun as a research effort, in a real-world, industrial setting on non-trivial requirements engineering problems, and a </font></small></dd> <dt><small><font face="MS Sans Serif"><em>research paper </em></font></small></dt> <dd><small><font face="MS Sans Serif">describes an innovative requirement engineering technology aimed at cracking previously unsolved problems in requirements engineering and demonstrates, perhaps by application to an exemplar, the usefulness of the technology in solving these problems. </font></small></dd> </dl> <p><small><font face="MS Sans Serif">Authors are encouraged to focus on one of these two aspects as the primary theme of their contributions. In all cases, practical and near-term applicability of the proposed ideas must be emphasized. <em>Each paper is evaluated according to the standards of its category.</em> </font></small></p> <p><small><font face="MS Sans Serif">Topics include, but are not limited to: </font></small></p> <table> <tr> <td><ul> <li><small><font face="MS Sans Serif">Requirements problems, techniques & tools </font></small></li> <li><small><font face="MS Sans Serif">Defining the system-human interface requirements </font></small></li> <li><small><font face="MS Sans Serif">Business process relationship to system requirements </font></small></li> <li><small><font face="MS Sans Serif">Supporting requirements elicitation & evolution </font></small></li> <li><small><font face="MS Sans Serif">Requirements engineering in legacy system migration </font></small></li> <li><small><font face="MS Sans Serif">Advances in formal methods & their practical use </font></small></li> <li><small><font face="MS Sans Serif">Requirements-based system testing </font></small></li> </ul> </td> <td><ul> <li><small><font face="MS Sans Serif">Requirements definition, analysis & validation </font></small></li> <li><small><font face="MS Sans Serif">Prototyping, animation & visualization of requirements </font></small></li> <li><small><font face="MS Sans Serif">Integrating heterogeneous requirements descriptions </font></small></li> <li><small><font face="MS Sans Serif">Role of scenarios in requirements engineering</font></small></li> <li><small><font face="MS Sans Serif">Role of software architecture in requirements </font></small></li> <li><small><font face="MS Sans Serif">Lessons from domain-specific requirements practices </font></small></li> <li><small><font face="MS Sans Serif">Role of requirements standards </font></small></li> </ul> </td> </tr> </table> <p><small><font face="MS Sans Serif"><b>PANELS:</b> <br> Proposals that focus on requirements engineering controversies are encouraged, especially those that highlight the gulf between requirements research and practice. Preference will be given to panels that present a diversity of views on the topic chosen. Proposals should include the panel's title, a brief description of issues to be debated, the names of prospective panel members, and a description of their roles. </font></small></p> <p><small><font face="MS Sans Serif"><strong>TUTORIALS:</strong><br> Please send in plain ASCII format (please no Word, WordPerfect, or PS documents)<br> to <u><strong>dberry@cs.technion.il</strong></u> by <u><strong>1 October 1999</strong></u> a proposal for your tutorial.<br> It should consist of at least the following information:</font></small><dl> <dd><small><font face="MS Sans Serif"><small>Title<br> Instructors' names and affiliations<br> Abstract (to be used for conference program should the tutorial be accepted)<br> Intended attendee, in particular industrial or academic or both<br> Assumed background of attendee<br> What the attendee will learn<br> Outline of topics covered<br> Wh</small>en and where was this course given last, if it is not new</font></small></dd> </dl> <p><small><font face="MS Sans Serif"><b>SUBMISSION:</b> <br> Full length papers are limited to 6000 words, typeset with enough room for comments by reviewers. They should include a short (150-word) abstract, a list of descriptive keywords, specification of the paper's category (experience / research), and complete contact information for the lead author. Authors should send <u><strong>six hard copies</strong></u> of their <u><strong>papers and panel proposals</strong></u>, in English, <u><strong>1 September 1999</strong></u>  to the  Program Co-Chair: </font></small><dl> <div align="center"><center><table border="1" width="339"> <tr> <td width="333" align="center"><p align="left"><small><font face="MS Sans Serif"><strong>Prof. Betty Cheng<br> Department of Computer Science  & Engineering<br> Michigan State University<br> 3115 Engineering Building<br> East Lansing, MI 48824 USA</strong></font></small></p> <p align="left"><small><font face="MS Sans Serif"><strong>Phone: 517-353-3148; Fax: 517-432-1061</strong></font></small></td> </tr> </table> </center></div> </dl> <p><small><font face="MS Sans Serif"><a name="INTERNET HOTLINE:"><b>INTERNET HOTLINE:</b></a> <br> Further information on ICRE 2000 may be obtained by sending Internet electronic mail to <a href="mailto:icre2000@cse.msu.edu"><kbd>icre2000@cse.msu.edu</kbd></a>, or through the WWW using the URL <a href="http://www.cse.msu.edu/ICRE2000"><kbd>http://www.cse.msu.edu/ICRE2000</kbd></a>.</font></small></p> <hr> <p align="center"><font face="MS Sans Serif" size="1"><em>The best papers in the conference will be considered for publication in IEEE Software. </em></font></td> </tr> </table> </center></div><div align="center"><center><table border="1" CELLPADDING="10" width="544" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="516" colspan="2" height="19"><p align="center"><small><font face="MS Sans Serif"><small><a name="CONFERENCE COMMITTEES"><strong>CONFERENCE COMMITTEES</strong></a></small></font></small></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="272" height="500" valign="top"><p align="center"><small><font face="MS Sans Serif"><small><b>CONFERENCE CHAIR</b> <br> <a href="http://www.cse.msu.edu/~hsia">Pei Hsia</a>, University of Texas at Arlington<br> <a href="mailto:hsia@cse.uta.edu">(hsia@cse.uta.edu)</a> </small></font></small></p> <p align="center"><small><font face="MS Sans Serif"><small><b>PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:</b> <br> <a href="http://www.cse.msu.edu/~chengb">Betty H.C. Cheng</a>, Michigan State Univ<br> <a href="mailto:chengb@cse.msu.edu">(chengb@cse.msu.edu)</a> </small></font></small></p> <p align="center"><small><font face="MS Sans Serif"><small>David Weiss, Bell Laboratories <br> <a href="mailto:weiss@Bell-Labs.com">(weiss@Bell-Labs.com)</a> </small></font></small></p> <p align="center"><small><font face="MS Sans Serif"><small><b>TUTORIALS  CHAIR</b> <br> Daniel Berry, Univ of Waterloo<br> <a href="mailto:dberry@cs.technion.il">(dberry@cs.technion.il)</a> </small></font></small></p> <p align="center"><small><font face="MS Sans Serif"><small><strong>PUBLICITY CHAIR <br> </strong><a href="http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/anton">Annie Anton</a>, North Carolina State Univ<br> <a href="mailto:anton@adm.csc.ncsu.edu">(anton@adm.csc.ncsu.edu)</a></small></font></small></p> <p align="center"><small><font face="MS Sans Serif"><small><b>LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR</b> <br> Carl Chang, University of Illinois-Chicago <br> <a href="mailto:rick.ckchang@eecs.uic.edu">(ckchang@eecs.uic.edu)</a> </small></font></small></p> <p align="center"><small><font face="MS Sans Serif"><small><b>STEERING COMMITTEE</b> </small></font></small></p> <div align="center"><center><table> <tr> <td><small><font face="MS Sans Serif"><small><a href="http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~dberry">D. Berry</a> <br> <a href="http://www.icse.eecs.uic.edu">C. Chang</a>, Chair <br> <a href="http://www.cse.msu.edu/~chengb">B. Cheng</a>  <br> <a href="http://mozart.uccs.edu/adavis/adavis.html">A. Davis</a> <br> <a href="http://www.lmsc.lockheed.com/aiaa/sf/council/dorfman_m.html">M. Dorfman</a> </small></font></small></td> <td valign="top"><font face="MS Sans Serif"><small><small>P. Hsia </small></small><br> <small><small>B. Lawrence <br> N. Mead  <br> J. Siddiqi<br> D. Weiss </small></small></font></td> </tr> </table> </center></div></td> <td width="272" height="500" valign="top"><p align="center"><small><font face="MS Sans Serif"><small><b>PROGRAM COMMITTEE</b> </small></font></small></p> <div align="center"><center><table width="287"> <tr> <td width="84" valign="top" height="100%"><font face="Arial"><small><small>Annie I. Antón</small></small><br> <small><small>Jo Atlee </small></small><br> <small><small>John Boddie<br> Karin Breitman<br> </small></small></font><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="1">Eric Byrne<br> </font><font face="Arial"><small><small>Jack Callahan  </small></small><br> <small><small>John Dobson <br> Janet Drake  <br> Steve Easterbrook</small></small><br> <small><small>Martin Feather  <br> Marilyn Gaska <br> Don Gause <br> Paul Grabow  </small></small><br> <small><small>Sol Greenspan</small></small><br> <small><small>Constance Heitmeyer</small></small><br> <small><small>Lalita Jagadeesan<br> Robert Johnson</small></small><br> <small><small>Nader Kameli <br> John Mylopoulos<br> Bashar Nuseibeh  <br> Klaus Pohl <br> Linda Rosenberg <br> Kurt Stirewalt</small></small><br> <small><small>Axel van Lamwsweerde</small><br> <small>Frank Weil</small></small><br> <small><small>Alan Yaung<br> Greg Zelesnik</small></small><br> <small><small>Didar Zowghi </small></small></font></td> <td width="104" valign="top" height="100%"><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="1"><em>North Carolina State University<br> Univ. of Waterloo, Canada<br> DMR/Amdahl<br> PUC-Rio<br> Merrill Lynch<br> NASA-WVU SW Research Lab<br> U. of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK <br> University of Northern Iowa<br> Institute for Software Research<br> Jet Propulsion Laboratory<br> Lockheed Martin Fed Systems<br> SUNY-Binghamton <br> Baylor University  <br> GTE Laboratories<br> Naval Research Lab<br> Bell Laboratories<br> Coyote Valley Software<br> Guidant Corporation <br> University of Toronto, Canada <br> Imperial College,  UK  <br> RWTH Aachen, Germany<br> NASA GSFC <br> Michigan State University<br> Univ. of Louvain, Belgium<br> Motorola Labs<br> IBM Corporation<br> Evolutionary Systems, Inc.<br> JRCASE, Macquarie University</em>, Australia</font></td> </tr> </table> </center></div></td> </tr> </table> </center></div><p align="center"><small><font face="MS Sans Serif"><a name="KEY DATES"><b>KEY DATES </b></a></font></small></p> <div align="center"><center><table border="1"> <tr> <td><table> <tr> <td><table width="524"> <tr> <td width="253"><ul> <li><small><font color="#FF0000" face="MS Sans Serif">Papers and Panel proposals due: </font></small></li> <li><small><font color="#FF0000" face="MS Sans Serif">Tutorial Proposals Due</font></small></li> <li><small><font color="#FF0000" face="MS Sans Serif">Author notification: </font></small></li> <li><small><font color="#FF0000" face="MS Sans Serif">Camera-ready papers due: </font></small></li> </ul> </td> <td width="263"><ul> <p><font color="#FF0000" face="MS Sans Serif"><small>September 1, 1999 <br> October 1, 1999<br> November 30, 1999 <br> January 30, 1999</small></font></p> </ul> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </center></div> </body>