Call for Papers

Practitioners and researchers from government, industry and academia are invited to submit short papers for review by our program committee. At least one author of accepted papers will be expected to register and present the paper at the workshop. Please review the planned topics, submission guidelines and important dates in preparation for your submission.

To address this year's theme, RELAW will encourage submissions concerning (1) requirements engineering and law in general, with research and industry papers; and (2) problems related to Big Data systems, addressed exclusively from a regulatory compliance standpoint, and with regard to Big Data requirements.

Planned Topics

We are interested in papers from any requirements-intensive domain or industry, however, authors should submit papers that address one or more of the following topics of interest:

General topics:

• Identifying, prioritizing, and integrating relevant laws
• Formal and informal modeling of laws, policies, and requirements
• Traceability and alignment between laws, policies, and requirements
• Coordinating requirements change and the evolution of law
• Introducing existing products and services into new jurisdictions
• Requirements verification: monitoring, documenting, and auditing evidence of compliance
• Risk and acceptable degrees of compliance assurance and system certification

Big Data topics:

• Legal requirements for data isolation, persistence, provenance control
• Multi-legislation issues of geographically distributed data
• Compliance management of social network Big Data requirements
• Data ownership, access, accountability, theft

Submission Guidelines

Authors may submit papers in three general categories:

• Research/Experience papers (10 pages max.)
• Problem identification papers (10 pages max.)
• Industrial/Government problem statements (4-6 pages)
• Short Papers in each category (4 pages)

Submissions will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee for relevance to the workshop topics of interest. Preference will be given to submissions that emphasize informed, legally and technically sound descriptions of important challenges and problems as opposed to proposed solutions. Accepted submissions will be archived in a workshop proceeding in IEEE Xplore.

Papers must be formatted according to the IEEE Conference Publishing Services formatting instructions (see the Latex document template) and submitted electronically in Adobe PDF format to the EasyChair service:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=relaw2014