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                                                Preface


This CEUR volume contains the research proposals accepted for presentation at the Doctoral Symposium
(DocSymp) hosted by the 22nd International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering:
Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ 2016). The REFSQ 2016 DocSymp was held the day before the
conference, in Gothenburg, Sweden on the 14th of March, 2016.

The objective of the doctoral symposium is to provide junior researchers with the opportunity to present
their work to the REFSQ community and receive valuable feedback from a panel of experts in
Requirements Engineering. Experienced members of the Requirements Engineering community served in
this panel of experts, and provided feedback to students presenting their work. The symposium also aims
at facilitating the exchange of ideas among young researchers.

This year, eight research proposals were selected for presentation at REFSQ 2016 DocSymp. Each paper
was subjected to reviews by two different experts. The proposals were arranged into four sessions.
Session 1 contained the first keynote and one proposal, covering the topic of healthcare monitoring.
Session 2 contained three proposals covering topics in natural language queries, quality requirements, and
service-based evolution. Session 3 had three proposals focusing on aspects of requirements traceability,
and Session 4, shared with the final keynote, contained a proposal on open innovation.

Following the goal of fostering discussion, each paper was assigned 30 minutes, half of the time for
presentation, half of the time for discussion. The event opened and closed with two excellent keynote
talks. The first was given by Prof. Sjaak Brinkkemper, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, entitled “On
whose Shoulders we stand: Theory Building versus Theory Testing in Requirements Engineering”. The
second was given by Prof. Dan Berry, University of Waterloo, Canada, entitled “How to Finish that Damn
PhD”.

We would like to thank all the people involved in the organization of the event: the REFSQ 2016
organizers, who supported the event; the panel of experts (see next page for the listing), who provided the
reviews and participated in the event; and the PhD students who submitted their work for consideration to
the symposium, particularly those who presented and participated in the REFSQ 2016 DocSymp.



                                              Xavier Franch - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

                                                           Jennifer Horkoff - City University London, UK
                                       Panel of Experts

Sjaak Brinkkemper, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Erik Kamsties, Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany
Marjo Kauppinen, Aalto University, Finland
Anna Perini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy

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