REFSQ 2018 Doctoral Symposium Preface

This CEUR volume contains the research proposals accepted for presentation at the
Doctoral Symposium hosted by the 24rd International Working Conference on
Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ 2018). The REFSQ
2018 Doctoral Symposium was held the day before the conference, in Utrecht, The
Netherlands, on the March 19th, 2018.
The objective of the doctoral symposium is to provide junior researchers, PhD students,
with the opportunity to present their work to the REFSQ community and receive valuable
feedback from a panel of experts in Requirements Engineering (RE). The symposium also
aims at facilitating the exchange of ideas among young researchers.
Four papers were selected for presentation at REFSQ 2018 Doctoral Symposium. The
presentations were organised in two sessions. Three proposals shared the first session,
while the second session included the fourth student presentation and a keynote. In the
first presentation Davide Dell’Anna proposed a runtime requirements supervision
framework that continuously monitors the execution of socio-technical systems, evaluates
their behaviour against the overall goals, and decides which requirements should be
revised. Then, Fabian Kneer presented his PhD proposal about environment modelling for
complex, dynamic, and distributed systems. In the third presentation Serda Hauser
reported on a literature review and an empirical study – the first steps towards building a
shared requirements catalogue. Finally, Naomi Unkelos-Shpigel presented her research
progress towards developing a framework for systematically designing RE environments
embedding gamification techniques.
Following the goal of fostering discussion, each paper was assigned 30 minutes, half of
the time for presentation, and half of the time for discussion. Experienced members of the
RE community served as a panel of experts, and provided feedback to the PhD students
presenting their work.
The event closed with an excellent keynote talk 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 2018 organizers, who supported the event; the panel of experts, who provided the
reviews and recommendations to the PhD students; and the PhD students who submitted
their work and participated in the REFSQ 2018 Doctoral Symposium.


                                          Jolita Ralyté, University of Geneva, Switzerland
                                                       Pete Sawyer, Aston University, UK
                               Panel of Experts

Daniel M. Berry, University of Waterloo, Canada
Nelly Condori-Fernandez, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Barbara Peach, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Anna Perini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Trento, Italy
Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, The Netherlands