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{{Publication
 |  Title=IJIS Special Issue on Goal-Driven Requirements Engineering
 |  Type = Special issue
 |  Field = Software engineering
 |  Series=IJIS
 |  Homepage=http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/36062/home
 |  Submission deadline=October 25, 2008
 |  Notification=April 15, 2009
 |  Camera ready=June 15, 2009
}}

==Introduction==

Practical experiences show that requirements are always incomplete and
inconsistent because software systems are complex that developers can
hardly fully capture during the system development. User requirements
are often expressed in general and qualitative terms which are
imprecise in nature and usually conflicting with each
other. Therefore, how to elicit, specify and satisfy requirements,
including functional and nonfunctional requirements, is always a major
concern in engineering software.

In recent years, goal-driven approaches have attracted an increasing
attention in the area of requirements engineering, as goal information
is valuable in identifying, organizing and justifying software
requirements. The tenet of goal-driven approaches is to provide the
motivation and rationale to justify software requirements, especially
on why systems are constructed. Benefits of focusing on the notion of
goals in the requirements engineering process include: (1) helping
acquire requirements by elaborating what requirements are required to
support the goals; (2) making easy the justification of the presence
of requirements in a progressive manner by starting from system-level
and organizational objectives from which such lower level descriptions
can be progressively derived; and (3) providing the information for
detecting and resolving conflicts that arise from multiple viewpoints
among stakeholders.

The main objective of this special issue is to report recent
high-quality research on the field of goal-driven requirements
engineering (GDRE) from both software engineering and computational
intelligence perspectives.

==Scope==
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

* goal-driven requirements elicitation and modeling
* goals, scenarios, and business process modeling
* goals in software architecture and design patterns
* goals and aspects
* requirements traceability and management for GDRE
* change management, versioning and view management for GDRE
* software measurement for GDRE
* verification and validation for GDRE
* visualization and tool support for GDRE
* software engineering process and organization for GDRE
* industrial experiences and empirical studies
* other novel approaches and lifecycle models


==Important Dates==
* October 25, 2008	Submission Deadline
* April 15, 2009	Reviews Completed
* June 15, 2009	Final Manuscripts Due
* TBD (2009)	Publication Date


==Submissions==

Only original papers written in English, which have not been submitted  
elsewhere, will be considered for publication. All papers submitted  
will be subject to a thorough peer review process.

Authors should aim at papers of 20-25 pages in the final format and  
submit their papers electronically, in portable document format (pdf),  
by sending an email with subject "IJIS submission" and the file of the  
paper as an attachment, to the guest editor:

Prof. [[has guest editor::Jonathan Lee]]
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
National Central University
yjlee@selab.csie.ncu.edu.tw

Please include the following information in plain text in the body of  
the email:
* paper title
* authors' names and affiliations
* contacting information of the corresponding author
* abstract of the paper
Camera ready due	June 15, 2009 +
Has guest editor	Jonathan Lee +
Homepage	http://http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/36062/home +
Notification	April 15, 2009 +
Publication in series	IJIS +
Submission deadline	October 25, 2008 +
Title	IJIS Special Issue on Goal-Driven Requirements Engineering +