How should we assess progress in Requirements Engineering research?

As a young, multi-disciplinary field, we still lack any broad consensus on appropriate research methodology and evaluation criteria. And yet we need to do comparative evaluation of our research efforts, if we wish to develop and mature as a scientific discipline. Such comparisons are also a crucial component of technology transfer.

CERE'07 will examine the research methods we currently use in RE, investigate how we can improve our ability to evaluate and compare our research results, and seek to identify how we can assess the impact of comparative evaluation on the maturation of RE.