International Requirements Engineering Conference

The International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), is one of the largest annual software engineering conferences. It has an 'A' rating from the Australian Ranking of ICT Conferences and an 'A1' rating from the Brazilian ministry of education.

The RE conference originally started as two alternating biennial conferences.

  • The first of these was the International Symposium on Requirements Engineering (RE), starting in 1993.
  • The second was the International Conference on Requirements Engineering (ICRE), starting in 1994. In 2002, these two conference series merged under the name Joint International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'02).

Also starting in 2002, the conference venue began rotating between three general locations: Europe, North America, and a non-European, non-North American location. Since 2003, the conference series has been known as the International Requirements Engineering Conference.

List of Conferences

Past and future RE conferences include:

Year

Conference

City

Country

Notes

2015

23rd RE

Ottawa

Canada

2014

22nd RE

Karlskrona

Sweden

2013

21st RE

Rio de Janiero

Brazil

2012

20th RE

Chicago, Illinois

USA

2011

19th RE

Trento

Italy

2010

18th RE

Sydney

Australia

2009

17th RE

Atlanta, Georgia

USA

2008

16th RE

Barcelona

Spain

2007

15th RE

Delhi

India

2006

14th RE

Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minnesota

USA

2005

13th RE

Paris

France

2004

12th RE

Kyoto

Japan

2003

11th RE

Monterey, California

USA

First Most Influential Paper Award

2002

10th RE

Essen

Germany

First Joint Conference

2001

5th RE

Toronto

Canada

2000

4th ICRE

Schaumburg, Illinois

USA

1999

4th RE

Limerick

Ireland

1998

3rd ICRE

Colorado Springs, Colorado

USA

First city to host the conference three times

1997

3rd RE

Annapolis, Maryland

USA

1996

2nd ICRE

Colorado Springs, Colorado

USA

First city to host the conference twice

1995

2nd RE

York

UK

1994

1st ICRE

Colorado Springs, Colorado

USA

1993

1st RE

San Diego, California

USA

Most Influential Paper Award

Beginning with the 11th RE in 2003, an award was given for the paper deemed to be the most influential paper published from the conference held 10 years earlier. The judging for this award is done by the program committee for the current conference. If more than one award is given, the papers receiving the awards are categorized.

Year

Authors

Title

Category

2003

Robyn Lutz

Analyzing Software Requirements Errors in Safety-Critical, Embedded Systems

2004

Orlena C.Z. Gotel and Anthony C.W. Finkelstein

An Analysis of the Requirements Traceability Problem

2005

Steve Fickas and Martin Feather

Requirements Monitoring in Dynamic Environments

2006

Annie Antón

Goal-Based Requirements Analysis

Research

2006

Barry Boehm and Hoh In

Identifying Quality-Requirement Conflicts

Experience

2007

Eric Yu

Towards Modelling and Reasoning Support for Early-Phase Requirements Engineering

2008

Neil A.M. Maiden and Cornelius Ncube

Acquiring COTS Software Selection Requirements

2009

Colin Potts

ScenIC: A Strategy for Inquiry-Driven Requirements Determination

2010

Carl A. Gunter, Elsa L. Gunter, Michael Jackson, and Pamela Zave

A Reference Model for Requirements and Specifications

2011

Axel van Lamsweerde

Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering: A Guided Tour (Mini-Tutorial)

2012

Matthias Weber and Joachim Weisbrod

Requirements Engineering in Automotive Development --- Experience and Challenges

2013

Jane Huffman Hayes, Alex Dekhtyar, and James Osborne

Improving Requirements Tracing via Information Retrievald

2014

Johan Natt och Dag, Vincenzo Gervasi, Sjaak Brinkkemper, and Björn Regnell

Speeding up Requirements Management in a Product Software Company: Linking Customer Wishes to Product Requirements through Linguistic Engineering