# International Requirements Engineering Conference

The International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), is one of the largest annual software engineering conferences. It has an 'A' rating from the Australian Ranking of ICT Conferences and an 'A1' rating from the Brazilian ministry of education.
The RE conference originally started as two alternating biennial conferences.
* The first of these was the International Symposium on Requirements Engineering (RE), starting in 1993.
* The second was the International Conference on Requirements Engineering (ICRE), starting in 1994. In 2002, these two conference series merged under the name Joint International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'02).
Also starting in 2002, the conference venue began rotating between three general locations: Europe, North America, and a non-European, non-North American location. Since 2003, the conference series has been known as the International Requirements Engineering Conference.

## List of Conferences

RE conferences include:
| Year | Conference | City | Country | Notes |
| 1993 | 1st RE | San Diego, California | USA | |
| 1994 | 1st ICRE | Colorado Springs, Colorado | USA | |
| 1995 | 2nd RE | York | UK | |
| 1996 | 2nd ICRE | Colorado Springs, Colorado | USA | First city to host the conference twice |
| 1997 | 3rd RE | Annapolis, Maryland | USA | |
| 1998 | 3rd ICRE | Colorado Springs, Colorado | USA | First city to host the conference three times |
| 1999 | 4th RE | Limerick | Ireland | |
| 2000 | 4th ICRE | Schaumburg, Illinois | USA | |
| 2001 | 5th RE | Toronto | Canada | |
| 2002 | 10th RE | Essen | Germany | First Joint Conference |
| 2003 | 11th RE | Monterey, California | USA | First Most Influential Paper Award |
| 2004 | 12th RE | Kyoto | Japan | |
| 2005 | 13th RE | Paris | France | |
| 2006 | 14th RE | Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minnesota | USA | |
| 2007 | 15th RE | Delhi | India | |
| 2008 | 16th RE | Barcelona | Spain | |
| 2009 | 17th RE Archived 2014-09-03 at the Wayback Machine | Atlanta, Georgia | USA | |
| 2010 | 18th RE | Sydney | Australia | |
| 2011 | 19th RE | Trento | Italy | |
| 2012 | 20th RE | Chicago, Illinois | USA | |
| 2013 | 21st RE | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | |
| 2014 | 22nd RE | Karlskrona | Sweden | |
| 2015 | 23rd RE | Ottawa | Canada | |
| 2016 | 24th RE | Beijing | China | |
| 2017 | 25th RE | Lisbon | Portugal | |
| 2018 | 26th RE | Banff | Canada | |
| 2019 | 27th RE | Jeju Island | South Korea | |
| 2020 | 28th RE | Zurich | Switzerland | Hybrid event |
| 2021 | 29th RE | Notre Dame, South Bend | USA | Entirely virtual event |
| 2022 | 30th RE | Melbourne | Australia | Entirely virtual event |
| 2023 | 31st RE | Hanover | Germany | |

## Most Influential Paper Award

Beginning with the 11th RE in 2003, an award was given for the paper deemed to be the most influential paper published from the conference held 10 years earlier. The judging for this award is done by the program committee for the current conference. If more than one award is given, the papers receiving the awards are categorized.
| Year | Authors | Title | Category |
| 2003 | Robyn Lutz | Analyzing Software Requirements Errors in Safety-Critical, Embedded Systems | |
| 2004 | Orlena C.Z. Gotel and Anthony C.W. Finkelstein | An Analysis of the Requirements Traceability Problem | |
| 2005 | Steve Fickas and Martin Feather | Requirements Monitoring in Dynamic Environments | |
| 2006 | Barry Boehm and Hoh In | Identifying Quality-Requirement Conflicts | Experience |
| 2006 | Annie Antón | Goal-Based Requirements Analysis | Research |
| 2007 | Eric Yu | Towards Modelling and Reasoning Support for Early-Phase Requirements Engineering | |
| 2008 | Neil A.M. Maiden and Cornelius Ncube | Acquiring COTS Software Selection Requirements | |
| 2009 | Colin Potts | ScenIC: A Strategy for Inquiry-Driven Requirements Determination | |
| 2010 | Carl A. Gunter, Elsa L. Gunter, Michael Jackson, and Pamela Zave | A Reference Model for Requirements and Specifications | |
| 2011 | Axel van Lamsweerde | Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering: A Guided Tour (Mini-Tutorial) | |
| 2012 | Matthias Weber and Joachim Weisbrod | Requirements Engineering in Automotive Development --- Experience and Challenges | |
| 2013 | Jane Huffman Hayes, Alex Dekhtyar, and James Osborne | Improving Requirements Tracing via Information Retrievald | |
| 2014 | Johan Natt och Dag, Vincenzo Gervasi, Sjaak Brinkkemper, and Björn Regnell | Speeding up Requirements Management in a Product Software Company: Linking Customer Wishes to Product Requirements through Linguistic Engineering | |
| 2015 | Paolo Giorgini, Fabio Massacci, John Mylopoulos, and Nicola Zannone | Modeling Security Requirements Through Ownership, Permission, and Delegation | |
| 2016 | Pierre-Yves Schobbens, Patrick Heymans, Jean-Christophe Trigaux, and Yves Bontemps | Feature Diagrams: A Survey and A Formal Semantics | |
| 2017 | Martin Glinz | On Non-Functional Requirements | |
| 2018 | Nan Niu and Steve Easterbrook | Extracting and Modeling Product Line Functional Requirements | |
| 2019 | Alistair Mavin, Philip Wilkinson, Adrian Harwood, and Mark Novak | Easy Approach to Requirements Syntax (EARS) | Industry |
| 2019 | Jon Whittle, Pete Sawyer, Nelly Bencomo, Betty H.C. Cheng, and Jean-Michel Bruel | RELAX: Incorporating Uncertainty into the Specification of Self-Adaptive Systems | Research |
| 2020 | Luciano Baresi, Liliana Pasquale, and Paola Spoletini | Fuzzy Goals for Requirements-Driven Adaptation | |
| 2021 | Elizabeth Bjarnason, Krzysztof Wnuk, and Björn Regnell | Requirements are slipping through the gaps — A case study on causes & effects of communication gaps in large-scale software development | |
| 2022 | David Ameller, Claudia Ayala, Jordi Cabot, and Xavier Franch | How do software architects consider non-functional requirements: An exploratory study | |
| 2023 | Dennis Pagano and Walid Maalej | User Feedback in the AppStore: An Empirical Study | |