International Requirements Engineering Conference

International Requirements Engineering Conference
Abbreviation	RE
Discipline	software engineering
Publication details
Publisher	IEEE
History	1993–
Frequency	annual

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
2023	31st RE	Hanover	Germany
2022	30th RE	Melbourne	Australia	Entirely virtual event
2021	29th RE	Notre Dame, South Bend	USA	Entirely virtual event
2020	28th RE	Zurich	Switzerland	Hybrid event
2019	27th RE	Jeju Island	South Korea
2018	26th RE	Banff	Canada
2017	25th RE	Lisbon	Portugal
2016	24th RE	Beijing	China
2015	23rd RE	Ottawa	Canada
2014	22nd RE	Karlskrona	Sweden
2013	21st RE	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil
2012	20th RE	Chicago, Illinois	USA
2011	19th RE	Trento	Italy
2010	18th RE	Sydney	Australia
2009	17th RE Archived 2014-09-03 at the Wayback Machine	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
2023	Dennis Pagano and Walid Maalej	User Feedback in the AppStore: An Empirical Study
2022	David Ameller, Claudia Ayala, Jordi Cabot, and Xavier Franch	How do software architects consider non-functional requirements: An exploratory study
2021	Elizabeth Bjarnason, Krzysztof Wnuk, and Björn Regnell	Requirements are slipping through the gaps — A case study on causes & effects of communication gaps in large-scale software development
2020	Luciano Baresi, Liliana Pasquale, and Paola Spoletini	Fuzzy Goals for Requirements-Driven Adaptation
2019	Jon Whittle, Pete Sawyer, Nelly Bencomo, Betty H.C. Cheng, and Jean-Michel Bruel	RELAX: Incorporating Uncertainty into the Specification of Self-Adaptive Systems	Research
2019	Alistair Mavin, Philip Wilkinson, Adrian Harwood, and Mark Novak	Easy Approach to Requirements Syntax (EARS)	Industry
2018	Nan Niu and Steve Easterbrook	Extracting and Modeling Product Line Functional Requirements
2017	Martin Glinz	On Non-Functional Requirements
2016	Pierre-Yves Schobbens, Patrick Heymans, Jean-Christophe Trigaux, and Yves Bontemps	Feature Diagrams: A Survey and A Formal Semantics
2015	Paolo Giorgini, Fabio Massacci, John Mylopoulos, and Nicola Zannone	Modeling Security Requirements Through Ownership, Permission, and Delegation
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
2013	Jane Huffman Hayes, Alex Dekhtyar, and James Osborne	Improving Requirements Tracing via Information Retrievald
2012	Matthias Weber and Joachim Weisbrod	Requirements Engineering in Automotive Development --- Experience and Challenges
2011	Axel van Lamsweerde	Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering: A Guided Tour (Mini-Tutorial)
2010	Carl A. Gunter, Elsa L. Gunter, Michael Jackson, and Pamela Zave	A Reference Model for Requirements and Specifications
2009	Colin Potts	ScenIC: A Strategy for Inquiry-Driven Requirements Determination
2008	Neil A.M. Maiden and Cornelius Ncube	Acquiring COTS Software Selection Requirements
2007	Eric Yu	Towards Modelling and Reasoning Support for Early-Phase Requirements Engineering
2006	Annie Antón	Goal-Based Requirements Analysis	Research
2006	Barry Boehm and Hoh In	Identifying Quality-Requirement Conflicts	Experience
2005	Steve Fickas and Martin Feather	Requirements Monitoring in Dynamic Environments
2004	Orlena C.Z. Gotel and Anthony C.W. Finkelstein	An Analysis of the Requirements Traceability Problem
2003	Robyn Lutz	Analyzing Software Requirements Errors in Safety-Critical, Embedded Systems