Professor Paul Swatman

University of South Australia Adelaide

Dr Lemai Nguyen

Deakin University Melbourne

Ms Jocelyn Armarego

Murdoch University Perth

Professor Paula Swatman

University of South Australia Adelaide

The workshop will consist of presentations of accepted papers as well as discussion panels.
An opportunity exists for the best five papers (as selected by the Programme Committee) to be published in a special issue of AJIS (Australian Journal of IS) during 2005.
Participation by active researchers and practitioners both in industry and academia and by research students is strongly recommended.

Topics of Interest (non-exclusive):

• Identifying best practice in RE
• Requirements elicitation, modelling and documentation
• Requirements engineering process
• Requirements engineering problems, methods and tools
• Requirements characteristics and representation
• Advances in formal methods and their application in requirements engineering
• Cognitive process, creativity and problem solving in requirements engineering
• Social, organisational, cultural and political issues impacting requirements engineering process and product
• Domain specific requirements engineering
• Requirements Engineering for component-based software development
• Multi-disciplinary requirements engineering
• Role of software architecture on requirements engineering
• Requirements engineering for contractors
• RE for new applications e.g. Web-Portals and Mobile Commerce
• Rationale management for requirements engineering
• Practitioner perspectives of RE

AWRE'2004 will consist of two types of papers within the context of effective RE, and an opportunity for discussion:

• Research papers: Authors should present research result in a clear way. They should indicate the research method used as well as the significance of the contribution to the field. Examples of research methods used are case study research, empirical research, experimental research and analytical research

• Experience papers: Authors should present a significant experience in a clear way. They should indicate the lessons learned from the experience. Examples of experience papers are a success or failure report about the transfer of known research results to evaluate or improve current practice. Papers which describe current practices and rationale could also be categorised as experience papers.

• Discussion panel: Interesting and significant topics for discussion are invited. Each panel may be made up of 3 or 4 panelists and run for about 1.5 hours. The panel proposal should contain a 200-word abstract outlining the topic, its significance, the structure and content of the panel and should be accompanied by the full names and affiliations of the panel chairperson and each panellist.