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 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.
Anders
Ekman, Stockholm, CEO at Celeris Consulting
Peter
Sjöberg, Västerås, Senior Systems Engineer at Hitachi Energy
Governance
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 about when and where the Signals (a.k.a. annual
network meetings) take place.
The SC decides who is SC Chair (SCC) and Signals Program Chairs
(SPC).
The SCC and SPC decide 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.
SC, F, NR, and IA nominates participants to Signals and SPC decides
how many and whom to invite.
Signals
We have since 2003 held annual network meetings aka Signals, were 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.
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.
RE:
Requirements Engineering, international conference: (IEEE/ACM),
a top-tier conference with a low acceptance rate.
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!
