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==Preface: REFSQ 2023 Doctoral Symposium==
https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3378/DS-preface.pdf
Preface: REFSQ 2023 Doctoral Symposium
Fabiano Dalpiaz1 , Ana Moreira2
1
Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
2
Computer Science Department, NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal
1. About the REFSQ 2023 Doctoral Symposium
REFSQ 2023 hosts its renowned Doctoral Symposium (DS) for PhD students whose research
relates to the field of Requirements Engineering (RE). The aimed goals for the DS are:
• to provide PhD students with an opportunity to learn about the field and to get a feeling
of what their colleagues are working on;
• to provide PhD students with a supportive and safe environment where to present their
plans and results;
• to provide participating students with feedback from a panel of senior researchers in RE;
• to facilitate interaction between students and established researchers in RE.
2. Submissions and Reviewing
We received seven submissions; each was peer-reviewed by two members of an international
panel of experts. The reviewing process focused mostly on relevance and on suitability for the
doctoral symposium: not too early, not too late in the PhD trajectory. The review process led to
six accepted contributions.
3. Program
A slot of 45 minutes was allocated to each student: 15 minutes for presentation followed by
30 minutes of an in-depth discussion with two members of the panel. The day closed with
an “ask-us-anything" panel session, in which the students could ask the panel members and
Doctoral Symposium chairs for tips and advice about a PhD. Thus, the day was organized into 4
sessions. A summary of each paper, listed according to the order of presentation during the
event, is offered next.
In: A. Ferrari, B. Penzenstadler, I. Hadar, S. Oyedeji, S. Abualhaija, A. Vogelsang, G. Deshpande, A. Rachmann, J. Gulden,
A. Wohlgemuth, A. Hess, S. Fricker, R. Guizzardi, J. Horkoff, A. Perini, A. Susi, O. Karras, A. Moreira, F. Dalpiaz, P.
Spoletini, D. Amyot. Joint Proceedings of REFSQ-2023 Workshops, Doctoral Symposium, Posters & Tools Track, and
Journal Early Feedback Track. Co-located with REFSQ 2023. Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain, April 17, 2023.
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Session 1: RE for ML/AI-based systems
• Exploring Challenges and Solutions for Non-Functional Requirements for Machine Learning
Systems, authored by Khan Mohammad Habibullah, aims at exploring quality requirements
for ML systems and creating a framework for defining and managing such requirements
in ML system development.
• Evaluation of Quality Requirements for Explanations in AI-based Healthcare Systems, au-
thored by Zubaria Inayat, aims at proposing a quality assessment approach to evaluate the
quality of explanation for AI healthcare systems context, hence addressing explainable
AI (XAI).
Session 2: User requirements
• Relating User Feedback and Existing Requirements, authored by Michael Anders, aims at
structuring and automatically classifying users’ feedback expressed in natural language
(from fora, social media platforms, or app stores) to then use NLP techniques to link the
comments with requirements.
• Improving the Completeness of Acceptance Criteria, by Astrid Rohmann, follows a design
science approach to develop a framework for improving the completeness of acceptance
criteria for user stories through the automated recommendation of acceptance criteria.
Session 3: Beyond written requirements
• Conversational Requirements Engineering: Pinpointing Requirements-Relevant Information
in Conversations, authored by Tjerk Spijkman, discusses the challenges and prototype solu-
tions developed for transcribing and analyzing conversational data between practitioners
captured during the initial activities of requirements engineering.
• Ensuring Software Quality through Videos in Requirements Engineering, authored by Jianwei
Shi, aims at reducing the gap between stakeholders and engineers, by using vision and
test videos to facilitate requirements elicitation and understanding, and requirements
testing.
Session 4: Ask-us-anything session In this session, the students could make questions
about conducting a PhD, job perspectives after a PhD, and other PhD-related matters to some
of the panel members and to the DS chairs.
Acknowledgments
For this particular Doctoral Symposium edition, we would like to thank the authors for their
submissions and enthusiastic presentations and discussions during the event. Furthermore, we
would like to express our gratitude to our panel of experts for their timely and quality reviews,
as well as their work in guiding students during the event, namely Jean-Michel Bruel, Maya
Daneva, Martin Glinz, Paul Grünbacher, Jennifer Horkoff, Daniel Mendez, and Barbara Paech.
Last but not least, we would like to show our appreciation to the REFSQ 2023 organizing team
for their support during the whole organization process of the event.