Master's and Doctoral Track (WER-MDT)

Important Dates

  • Abstract submission deadline: March 31st, 2025
  • Paper submission: April 7th, 2025
  • Notification: May 16th, 2025
  • Camera-ready: May 31st, 2025

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest are listed below. List is not exhaustive.:

  • Requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, management, traceability, prioritization, validation, verification, and negotiation
  • Requirements engineering education and training
  • Requirements engineering for specific software development paradigms, e.g., agent-driven, aspect-driven, model-driven, or service-driven
  • Requirements engineering for specific fields, e.g., safety-critical, web-based or mobile application systems
  • Requirements engineering in agile methodologies
  • Requirements specification languages, methods, processes and tools
  • Models in Requirements Engineering
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Requirements Engineering and Artificial Intelligence

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be submitted through the Easychair submission system in PDF format only, following LNCS format.

Submissions must be written in Portuguese, Spanish, or English. Papers should not exceed 7 pages of content for Master's work, and 10 pages of content for Doctoral work.

Although this is not compulsory, we recommend that the research is at an intermediate stage so that experts' suggestions could be included in the MSc and PhD work. Works will receive feedback from the Program Committee including questions and suggestions about their content. Authors should use these comments to prepare the paper's final version.

During the event, the works selected must be presented by students. On this occasion, they will receive opinions and constructive criticism from a Guest Panel composed of researchers in the field of Requirements Engineering, as well as from the audience.

Any paper that exceeds the page limit, lies beyond the scope of the conference, or does not follow the formatting guidelines will be desk-rejected.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee.

All accepted papers will be published with Open Access through the WERpapers repository.

Submission

Organization

  • Master's and Doctoral Track Chairs

    • Carla Silva — Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil
    • Isabel Sofia Brito — Instituto Politécnico de Beja (IPBeja), Portugal

  • Program Committee

    • Dan Berry — University of Waterloo, Canada
    • Edna Dias Canedo — Universidade de Brasília, Brazil
    • Fabiano Dalpiaz — Utrecht University, Netherlands
    • Graciela Hadad — Universidad Nacional del Oeste, Argentina
    • Ivonei Silva — Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná, Brazil
    • João Araújo — Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
    • Johnny Marques — Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, Brazil
    • Juan Pablo Carvallo — Universidad del Azuay, Ecuador
    • Marisa Daniela Panizzi — Universidad Nacional de Hurlingham, Argentina
    • Oliver Karras — TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Deutschland
    • Paulo Sérgio Santos — Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais, Brazil
    • Renato Bulcão-Neto — Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil
    • Sabrina Marczak — Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil