Introduction to WeRE 2010

- Session 1 -- 9:00-10:30

Keynote talk: Web engineering as a design science (slides)
Keynote Speaker: Roel Wieringa, University of Twente (The Netherlands)

Abstract: The Web is a publicly accessible infrastructure for communication and coordination of human, organizational and artificial actors. Web engineering is the activity of creating value-adding networks over the web, creating a product or service valuable for some class of actors. In this talk we concentrate on the engineering of networks of economic actors, such as various forms of virtual organizations or networked outsourcing relationships. In particular, we look at requirements engineering (RE) for these networks. Engineering such web-enabled cooperations calls for new methods of requirements engineering, that are cross-organizational, and take into account possibly conflicting business goals, a fair distribution of costs and benefits across the network, and a rational management of the risks of allowing partner companies access to one's information assets. This poses new challenges for RE researchers, who want to deliver tools and techniques for requirements engineering in case like this. In this talk we discuss how to manage the challenges of this new kind of RE research using a design science approach. I provide a general framework for design science and discuss three example RE research projects in the area of web engineering, each time exhibiting their methodological structure and discussing their methodological challenges.

Morning tea 10:30am to 11:00am

- Session 2 -- 11:00-12:30

Towards Automated Alignment of Web Services to Requirements (slides)
Bertrand Verlaine, Yves Dubois, Ivan J. Jureta, Stéphane Faulkner

A Requirements Framework for Novice Web Developers (slides)
Sheridan Jeary, Keith Phalp, Lai Xu, Paul de Vrieze

Exploring the Tension between User's and Main Stakeholder's Goals: The Role of Client Scenarios (slides)
Davide Bolchini

Lunch 12:30pm to 1:30 pm

- Session 3 -- 1:30-3:00

Capturing and Validating Personalization Requirements in Web Applications (slides)
Esteban Robles Luna, Irene Garrigos, Gustavo Rossi

From Goal Models to Three-layer Web-based Systems: an Exploratory Study (slides)
Sotirios Liaskos, Marina Daoud Jungblut, John Mylopoulos

From Conventional SME Networks to CoINs - Requirements Centered Transition Model and Case Study
Nadine Blinn, Nick Gehrke, Martina Peris, Markus Nüttgens, Torben Wolf

Afternoon tea 3:00pm to 3:30pm

- Session 4 -- 3:30-5:00

Discussion