SiREN is a non-profit network of
academic scholars in Sweden with a deep interest in
Requirements Engineering (RE) research and
practice.
Our annual meetings focus on work by PhD
students in Sweden with a thesis project in any way connected
to requirements of software-based systems.
We also invite research-oriented software engineering
practitioners from Swedish industry with a deep
interest in RE.
Organisation
Contact the steering committee chair bjorn.regnell@cs.lth.se if you
are interested in becoming a Node Representative or Industry Ambassador
of SiREN. If you are a PhD student in Software Engineering with an
interest in Requirements Engineering and wants to participate at SiREN
Signal meetings then contact a Node Representative near you, see list of
NR below.
Chairs and Node Representatives (NR) are voting members of the
Steering Committee (SC).
Founders (F) and Industry Ambassadors (IA) are invited as non-voting
participants at SC meetings.
The SC decides who is SC Chair (SCC) and Signals Program Chairs
(SPC).
The SC decides about who is invited and assigned as NR and IA.
The mandate period length is decided upon appointment, normally at
least 2 years. Appointees can be reelected.
The SC decides about when and where the Signals (a.k.a. annual
network meetings) take place.
SC, F, NR, and IA nominate other participants to Signals and SPC
decides how many and whom to invite.
The SC decides about inclusion and exclusion of nodes.
In the event of a tie, the SCC has the casting vote.
The SC decides about these governance rules.
Signals
We have since 2003 held annual network meetings aka Signals, where we
exchange ideas and discuss any interesting topics related to
requirements of software-based systems, including research, teaching and
practice of RE. Signals are typically lunch to lunch at a university
somewhere in Sweden. Everyone travel on their own budget and we aim at a
minimal admin overhead.
2014, Karlskrona, Aug 25-29, Co-located with RE’14
2013, Malmö, May 30-31, 10 YEARS ANNIVERSARY
2012, Göteborg, May 3-4
2011, Jönköping, May 12-13
2010, Ronneby, April 26-27
2009, Lund April 27-28
2008, Umeå, March 27-28, 5 YEARS ANNIVERSARY
2007, Göteborg, March 15-16
2006, Ronneby, May 23-24
2005, Skövde, April 14-15
2004, Linköping, October 20-21
2004, Stockholm, April 15-15
2003, Lund, October 22-23
2003, Lund, June 12-13
Forums
If you are doing software engineering research with a requirements
engineering angle you are recommended to publish at these core
forums:
REJ:
Requirements Engineering, journal: (Springer-Nature), a
high-impact journal with good reputation. Several SiREN members are in
the REJ
Editorial Board.
RE:
Requirements Engineering, international conference: (IEEE/ACM),
a top-tier conference with focus on excellence.
REFSQ: Requirements
Engineering Foundation for Software Engineering, international
working conference (Springer LNCS), invites on-going work and novel
research, you hear it first at REFSQ!
