The Fourth International Workshop on Comparative Evaluation in Requirements Engineering
Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
September 11, 2006

Held in conjunction with the
14^th IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering (RE'06).

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Monday, September 11, 2006

9.00–9.15	Welcome and introduction
9.15–10.30	Paper Session 1: Evaluation criteria Paper #1: Using Expertise as a Framework for Evaluating Requirements Technology by Ban Al-Ani and Susan Sim [slides] Paper #2: Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering Method by Huzam Al-Subaie and Tom Maibaum [slides] Discussant reply Open discussion
10.30–11.00	Coffee
11.00–12.30	Paper Session 2: Frameworks for evaluating RE for product families Paper #3: Criteria for Comparing Requirements Variability Modeling Notations for Product Lines by Olfa Djebbi and Camille Salinesi [slides] Paper #4: Comparative semantics of Feature Diagrams: FFD vs. vDFD by Jean-Christophe Trigaux, Patrick Heymans, Pierre-Yves Schobbens and Andreas Classen [slides] Discussant reply Open discussion
12.30–2.00	Lunch
2.00–3.15	Paper Session 3: Formative evaluation for RE techniques Paper #5: Using a Hybrid Method for Formalizing Informal Stakeholder Requirements Inputs by Hasan Kitapci and Barry Boehm [slides] Paper #6: On a Mixed-Methods Evaluation of a Social-Agent Scenario Visualization by Thomas Alspaugh, Eric Baumer and Bill Tomlinson [slides] Discussant reply Open discussion
3.15–3.30	Organisation of break-out groups
3.30–4.00	Coffee
4.00–5.00	Break-out group meetings
5.00–5.30	Group reports and wrap-up Conclusion

Discussant assignments (see Workshop format):

Paper #	To be discussed by authors of paper #s
1	2 & 3
2	1 & 4
3	4 & 5
4	3 & 6
5	6 & 1
6	5 & 2

A copy of a template slide for use by discussants is available in ppt and pdf format.