9th International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Sustainable Systems (RE4SuSy)

Zurich, Switzerland, at RE'20, Tuesday Sept 1st, Contact


We are happy to announce that we are turning this year's workshop into a writers' workshop with short presentations of the work, and following working sessions that dedicatedly improve submitted papers with assigned discussants.

Please register as soon as possible (early bird by July 20th) according to the detailed instructions on https://re20.org/index.php/registration/

Install Discord to get ready :)

Program (10:30-18:30)
  • Session 1: 10:30-12:00
    • Welcome and intro: We will start with an introduction round to make sure we have all intentions on board and then dive into presentations and writing sessions.
    • Presentation by Christophe Ponsard and Berengere Nihoul: 'Some Fairness Patterns for Designing Sustainable Systems'
      (15min presentation, 15min Q&A)
    • Working session on how to improve the paper (Discussant: Birgit Penzenstadler)
  • Lunch (12:00-13:00)
  • Session 2 - 13:00-14:30
    • Presentation by Rui Carvalho and Alberto Silva: 'Discussion Towards a Library of Software Sustainability Requirements'
      (15min presentation, 15min Q&A)
    • Working session on how to improve the paper (Discussant: Colin Venters)
  • Break (14:30-15:00)
  • Session 3 - 15:00-16:30
    • Presentation Norbert Seyff et al. 'Transforming our World through Software - Are the UN Sustainable Development Goals enough?'
      (15min presentation, 15min Q&A)
    • Working session on how to improve the paper (Discussant: Ian Brooks)
  • Break (16:30-17:00)
  • Session 4 - 17:00-18:30
    • Working session on future applications of the Sustainability Awareness Framework
Motivation The RE4SuSy workshop series has established a strong and growing research community around the different aspects of sustainability and how to support them in requirements engineering. Since requirements define how and what a software will do, we maintain that requirements engineering is the key point in software engineering through which sustainability can be fostered. Thus, the RE4SuSy workshop series is concerned with research on techniques, tools, and processes for sustainability through requirements engineering. Last year the workshop explored several approaches for providing frameworks and tools to the community and to practitioners that support in raising awareness for sustainability and for getting started on thinking about the long-term impacts that software-intensive systems can create. This year we will look at how to best visualize such impacts and communicate to software developers in different application domains as well as how to improve sustainability education by stronger weaving it into software engineering courses. RE4SuSy is an interactive workshop: the contributors and prospective participants will engage well before the workshop date through on-line collaborative writing, discussion, and peer feedback. The workshop aims to foster community growth by supporting new collaborations, holding preliminary case studies, discussions, and birds-of-a-feather group work.

Objective This year we look at the conference theme of Requirements Engineering for a Digital World under three main aspects that are emphasized in the call for contributions:

  • How to best visualize such impacts and communicate to software developers;
  • How to best communicate sustainability in different application domains;
  • How to improve sustainability education by stronger weaving it into software engineering courses.

Organizers:

  • Birgit Penzenstadler (Chalmers University of Techology, Sweden)
  • Colin Venters (University of Huddersfield, UK)
  • Ruzanna Chitchyan (University of Bristol, UK)

Program Committee
Sedef Akinli Kocak, Ryerson University, Canada
Christoph Becker, University of Toronto, Canada
Coral Calero, Universidad Castilla La Mancha, Spain
Leticia Duboc, State Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Joao M. Fernandes, University of Minho, Portugal
Ana Moreira, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
Patricia Lago, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tahira Iqbal, fortiss Munich, Germany
Maria Spichkova, RMIT University, Australia

Past workshops: