The 14th International Model-Driven Requirements Engineering (MoDRE) workshop continues to provide a forum to discuss the challenges of Model-Driven Development (MDD) for Requirements Engineering (RE). Building on the interest of MDD for design and implementation, RE may benefit from MDD techniques when properly balancing flexibility for capturing varied user needs with formal rigidity required for model transformations as well as high-level abstraction with information richness. MoDRE seeks to explore areas of RE that have not yet been formalized sufficiently to be incorporated into an MDD environment as well as how RE models can benefit from emerging topics in the model-driven community, such as flexible, collaborative, and AI-enabled modeling. In accordance with this year’s RE conference theme, we aim to expand the frontiers of RE by emphasizing the exploration of novel RE areas through model-based techniques. We look forward to identifying new challenges for MoDRE, discussing on-going work and potential solutions, analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of MDD approaches for RE, fostering stimulating discussions on the topic, and providing opportunities to apply MDD approaches for RE. MoDRE aims to facilitate cross-fertilization of ideas between (i) people from the RE community that are trying to benefit from model-driven techniques, (ii) people from the model-driven area that aim to include RE stages in their model-driven processes; and, (iii) people from the general RE community, as well as other communities, with interest in these topics to identify new challenges for MoDRE, discuss on-going work and potential solutions, analyse different alternative solutions, and identify strengths and weaknesses of each alternative.

The workshop is co-located with the 32nd IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2024) in Reykjavik, Iceland, in June 2024.

Submission Guidelines

Participants are invited to submit four kinds of papers:

1. Research papers with a length of eight (8) to ten (10) pages, reporting on findings for problems related to model-driven requirements engineering that are novel and improve on or analyze existing solutions.
2. Short papers with a length of four (4) to five (5) pages, reporting on work in progress of interest to the model-driven requirements engineering community.
3. Position papers with a length of four (4) to five (5) pages, reporting on ideas and visions for the future of model-driven requirements engineering.
4. Industry papers, with a length of four (4) to ten (10) pages, describing experiences related to the adoption of model-driven requirements engineering practices in the industry or highlighting future challenges.

Papers have to present original content. Previously published papers or papers accepted or under review for other publications are ineligible for submission to MoDRE 2024. Papers must be in pdf format, written in English, formatted according to the IEEE formatting instructions, and submitted via EasyChair. While RE 2024 follows a double-blind reviewing process, MoDRE 2024 does not.

List of Topics

In line with the research theme of this year’s RE conference, the workshop topics include efforts to expand the frontiers of RE through model-based techniques. However, submissions are also welcome in all workshop topics such as:

• Modeling languages and metamodels for requirements engineering approaches
• Modeling languages and metamodels for supporting separation of concerns in requirements models
• Modeling languages and metamodels for non-functional requirements
• Modeling languages and metamodels for requirements engineering for specific domains, such as cyber-physical systems and IoT, Big Data, AI applications, and Industry 4.0
• Through life model-driven assurance of the non-functional requirements of cyber-physical systems
• AI-driven generation of models for the assurance of the non-functional requirements of cyber-physical systems
• Model-driven regulatory compliance of cyber-physical systems
• Model-driven representation, detection, and mitigation of assurance deficits in assurance case models
• Synchronicity and consistency of different requirements models and views
• Requirements models for machine learning and deep learning solutions
• Requirements models at runtime
• Requirements models for human values, ethics, fairness, and equality
• Requirements models for sustainability and GreenIT
• Automatic analysis and simulation of requirements models
• Traceability and correctness of model transformations involving requirements models
• AI approaches for model transformations involving requirements models
• Flexible and collaborative modeling in requirements engineering
• Empirical studies on model-driven requirements engineering
• Automatic generation of tools for RE using MDD
• Research methods from other disciplines, such as sociology, for eliciting requirements models
• Requirements engineering approaches for low-code/no-code software development

Moreover, industry papers covering topics such as the following are highly welcome:

• Industry problems and practices
• Success stories about adopting model-driven requirements engineering in industry
• Industrial empirical studies

Committees

Program Committee

• Omar Alam, Trent University, Canada
• Mounifah Alenazi, University of Hafr AlBatin, Saudi Arabia
• Daniel Amyot, University of Ottawa, Canada
• Inmaculada Ayala, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
• Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Jean-Michel Bruel, Université de Toulouse, France
• Lola Burgueño, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
• Ruzanna Chitchyan, University of Bristol, UK
• José María Conejero, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain
• Kleinner Farias, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos), Brazil
• Robson Fidalgo, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
• Sepideh Ghanavati, University of Maine, USA
• Alicia M. Grubb, Smith College, USA
• Esther Guerra, Universidad Autónoma of Madrid, Spain
• Emílio Insfran, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
• Juan de Lara, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
• Julio Leite, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil
• Nicholas Matragkas, University of York, UK
• Sébastian Mosser, McMaster University, Canada
• John Mylopoulos, University of Ottawa, Canada
• Elena Navarro, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
• Óscar Pastor, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
• Mariana Maia Peixoto, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
• Alfonso Pierantonio, Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy
• Rijul Saini, Bombardier Aviation, Canada
• Javier Troya, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
• Jose Luis de la Vara, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
• Manuel Wimmer, Johannes Kepler Universität, Austria
• Tao Yue, Beihang University, China

Organizing committee

• Ana Moreira Associate Professor, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
• Gunter Mussbacher, Associate Professor, McGill University, Canada
• João Araújo Associate Professor, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
• Pablo Sánchez, Assistant Professor, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
• Alvine B. Belle (General Chair), Assistant Professor, Lassonde School of Engineering at York University, Canada

Invited Speakers

• TBA

Publication

Accepted papers will become part of the workshop proceedings and will be submitted for inclusion into the IEEE Digital Library. Workshop presentations will be posted on the MoDRE website. Acceptance of a paper implies that one of the authors registers for the workshop to present the submission; failure to do so by the early registration deadline will result in the paper being withdrawn from the workshop proceedings. IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the workshop (e.g., by not placing it into the IEEE Digital Library) if the paper is not presented at the workshop.

Contact

For further information, please contact the workshop organizers at modre-info at cs.mcgill.ca.