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International Workshop on
Automotive Requirements Engineering
AuRE 2004
http://www.nise.org/AuRE/

September 11 (Sat.), 2004
Nanzan University Nagoya(Takaoka) Satellite Campus, Nagoya, Japan
In association with RE '04 (12th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference)
Sponsors Nanzan University
Information Procesing Society of Japan, and IEEE Compputer Society


Update:
Shigeyuki Kawana of Toyota, an expert in automotive software engineering, will give the first keynote
and
Frank Houdek of DaimlerChrysler, an expert in automotive requirements engineering, will give the second keynote.
The workshop includes a guided tour and banquet at the Toyota Automotive Museum.

Call-for-Participations and Advanced Program is Now Avalable

Venue; Direction to Nagoya(Takaoka) Satellite Campus of Nanzan University

Motivation and Object

Over the last years, software has become one major force in automotive business. Model premium cars embody often more than 50 electronic control units with several hundreds of thousands line of software running on them. More then 80 percent of automotive innovations are driven by electronics, and amongst them, 90 percent are implemented by means of software. A large portion of this software is not implemented by the OEMs themselves but by external suppliers. Without a proper Requirements Engineering, mature software and system development is hardly possible. But not only the high system complexity and OEM-supplier relationships force rigid Requirements Engineering. Sometime we see also need to properly consider distributed development activities, where, for example, software systems are implemented by geographically-distributed subcontractors and/or with COTS components supplied by different vendors globally distributed. In these setting, requirements management becomes even more challenging.
The workshop "Automotive Requirements Engineering (AuRE)" aims to bring together practitioners and researchers to discuss problems in this area as well as potential or even implemented solutions.

Topics


Relevant topics but are not limited to
Needs and challenges of Automotive RE(Requirements Engineering)
Experience, case studies and lessons learned in Automotive RE
Processes and methodology for automotive RE
Exploitation of graphical/visual and/or formal representation in automotive RE
Implementation of new requirements engineering methods in Automotive RE
Object-Orientation and Aspect-Orientation techniques in Automotive RE
RE for product-line Automotive software/systems development
Tool support selection, customization and environment for Automotive RE

Proceedings


The accepted papers will be published in the workshop Proceedings.

Submission Information


Please send your paper in either PDF or MS Word to info_aure04@nise.org.
All paper submissions should be in the IEEE CS Press Proceedings format (see http://computer.org/cspress/) and not exceed 10 pages in length.
For all queries, please contact also info_aure04@nise.org.

Important Dates

Paper Submissions: 15th July 2004
Notifications to Authors: 30th July 2004
Camera-Ready Papers Submissions: 16th August 2004

Workshop Organizer

Workshop Co-Chair

Mikio Aoyama (Nanzan University, Japan)
Frank Houdek (DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany)
Takashi Shigematu (Toyota Motor, Japan)

Workshop Program Committee Members

Kiyoshi Agusa (Nagoya University, Japan)
Manfred Broy (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
Carlo Ghezzi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Hiroshi Kamiyama (Nissan Motor, Japan)
Takuya Katayama (JAIST, Japan)
Shigeyuki Kawana (Toyota Motor, Japan)
Ingolf Kruger (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Hiroyuki Murayama (Denso, Japan)
Klaus Pohl (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Matthias Weber (DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany)
Alexander Pretschner (ETH, Switzerland)
Masahiko Watanabe (CATS, Japan)
Others (to be announced)

Local Arrangement Chair:

Masami Noro (Nanzan University, Japan)

Aout Nagoya

Nagoya is the third largest city in Japan and the heart of quality Japanese kraftsmanship of design and manufacturing, called Monozukuri. Especially, the city is a center of Japanese automotive industry including Toyota and its group companies, Honda, Mitsubishi and Suzuki. You can experience at the Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology(Japanese), or the Toyota Automotive Museum.
Manufacturing industry in Nagoya originated from pottery: Seto is one of the most popular pottery and Noritake and ceramic industry are also located here.
Nagoya faces beautiful pacific coast in the south and rich forests in the north.
Nagoya has its unique taste of culture, famous Nagoya castle, Nagoya cuisine, and traditional crafts.
Around Nagoya, World Exposition (EXPO 2005) is held in 2005.


Links on Nagoya

Japanese Kraftsmanship

Nagoya Convention and Visitors Bureau

Karakuri: Traditional Japanese Robotics Dates back to around 12th Century.


Further Information

For further information, please consult the AuRE 2004 page or send e-mail to info_aure@nise.org