Call for Papers -- RETR 2005

                    1st International Workshop on
                 Reverse Engineering To Requirements 
                             Pittsburgh, USA
                          November 7, 2005 
                      (collocated with WCRE 2005)

                    http://www.cs.toronto.edu/km/retr

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Reverse engineering aims at *extracting many kinds of information from existing
software, such as requirements specifications, design documents, and system
artifacts*, and *using this information in system renovation and program
understanding* [WCRE].

Existing *reverse engineering* methods focus on recovering architecture and
design of software products that are often represented in standard formats such
as UML, GXL or ADL. However, few methods *recover requirements* such as goals
of the various stakeholders, non-functional requirements, early aspects,
variability trade-offs and dynamic/emergent behavior of autonomic systems.

Therefore a forum is needed to discuss the issues related to recovering
requirements. It can enable the reverse engineered software systems to
continuously adapt to the evolving functional requirements, and to be
re-engineered to meet the non-functional requirements.

The goal of this full day WCRE'05 workshop is to bring together researchers and
practitioners interested in developing methods and techniques for Reverse
Engineering to Requirements (RETR). The objective of the workshop is to sketch
the state-of-the-art of the RETR practice and to identify current trends and
fields of interest, possible paths of collaboration and points of future
research directions.

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IMPORTANT DATES
Papers submission: 		  October 7, 2005 (extended)
Notification of authors:          October 17, 2005
Camera ready versions:            October 25, 2005
Presentation submission:          October 31, 2005 (new)
Workshop Date: 			  November 7, 2005

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POSITION PAPERS:  

Participants of RETR 2005 are asked to submit papers relating to the scope of
the workshop. Papers must be original and previously unpublished. The
organizing committee will oversee the reviewing process. Selection will be
based on originality, ability to stimulate discussion, and presentation
quality. Authors of accepted papers are expected to participate in the
workshop. Papers must be in WCRE 2005 submission format (i.e. IEEE Proceedings
style in accepted Postscript or PDF form), in *AT MOST* 6 pages. You can submit
your paper to <mailto:retr@cs.toronto.edu>. All accepted position papers will
be available electronically without page limitation before the workshop.

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ORGANIZERS

Yijun Yu
Yiqiao Wang
Sotirios Liaskos
Alexei Lapouchnian
John Mylopoulos 		University of Toronto

Ying Zou 			Queen's University

Marin Litoiu 			IBM Canada, Ltd.

Julio C.S.P. Leite 		PUC-Rio, Brazil