More than 70% of the IT projects in the UK fail every year and over 80% of them fail in the requirements analysis phase. Poor project management, bad organizational politics, false business priorities, lack of commitment and other issues can also cause a project to fail. Patterns of software systems failures and their study have resulted in the development of numerous models, methodologies and frameworks, yet project and system failures persist. Requirements understanding, analysis and specification have emerged as critical areas in software and systems engineering.
The topics of interest include but not limited to
- Formal Methods and Notations for representing requirements
- Requirements analysis theories, concepts, methods and techniques, and their practical applications
- Business process and workflow modeling, analysis, integration and management
- Requirements quality and adherence to standards
- Requirements Quantification
- Methodologies for information systems design and implementation
- Applications, case studies, and management issues
- Model and meta-model transformations
- Computational independent models
- Platform independent models
- Formalized business process, methodologies
- Integration within development frameworks
- Approaches, frameworks, methodologies and standards for requirements analysis
- Methodologies for information systems design and implementation
- Evaluation and selection of tools
- Organisational semiotics
