WER'13 is the sixteen edition of the Workshop on Requirements Engineering. The workshop started as a meeting of the Ibero-American requirements engineering community, but over the years has attracted attention of researchers from other parts of the world as well. WER’13 will be carried out at the ORT university in Montevideo, within the CIbSE’13 conference.

TOPICS
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Requirements elicitation, analysis, and documentation
- Requirements validation, and visualization
- Requirements specification languages, methods, processes, and tools
- Requirements management, traceability, prioritization, and negotiation
- Non-functional requirements
- Requirements engineering and software architecture
- Aspect-oriented requirements engineering
- Service-oriented requirements engineering
- Requirements for Web-based systems and mobile applications
- Requirements engineering for self-adaptive systems
- Requirements for the agent-oriented paradigm
- Requirements for product lines
- Social, cultural, and cognitive factors in requirements engineering
- Aligning requirements to business goals and processes
- Requirements engineering education and training

SUBMISSIONS
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Authors are invited to submit Papers (max. 14 pages)as per the LNCS style, and submitted via the EasyChair system.
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wer2013

Acceptance will be based on originality, contribution to the area, quality of the paper, and ability to generate discussion.

All the accepted papers will be published by the organization in a book with ISBN number. Additionally, papers will be indexed by DBLP and ELSEVIER, and made available in WER series repository. The best paper will receive an award. We are working to publish the best papers in an international journal special issue.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Alejandro Oliveros, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.
Alicia Martínez Rebollar, CENIDET, Mexico.
Amador Durán Toro, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain.
Anthony Finkelstein, University College London, United Kingdom.
Antonio De Padua Albuquerque Oliveira, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Carme Quer, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain.
Claudia P. Ayala, Technical University of Catalunya, Spain.
Daniel Berry, University of Waterloo, Canada.
Dolors Costal, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain.
Fernanda Alencar, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil.
Gladys Kaplan, Universidad Nacional de La Matanza, Argentina.
Gemma Grau, Accenture, Spain
Graciela Hadad, Universidad Nacional de La Matanza, Argentina.
Hugo Estrada, CENIDET, Mexico.
Isabel Brito, Instituto Politécnico de Beja, Portugal.
Jaelson Castro, UFPE - Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil.
Jose Luis de la Vara, Simula, Norway
João Araújo, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.
Juan Sanchez, Valencia University of Technology, Spain.
Juan Pablo Carvallo, Universidad del Azuay, Ecuador.
Julio C. S. Do Prado Leite, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Luiz E. Galvão Martins, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil.
Luiz Marcio Cysneiros, York University, Canada.
Lyrene Fernandes Da Silva, Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.
Mabel Bertolami, Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco, Argentina.
Maria Lencastre, Universidade de Pernambuco, Brazil
Marcela Ridao, INTIA UNICEN, Argentina
Maya Daneva, University of Twente, The Netherlands.
Oscar Dieste, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain.
Thomas Alspaugh, Georgetown University, USA.
Vera Werneck, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

GENERAL CONFERENCE CHAIR
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Gastón Mousqués, Universidad ORT, Uruguay

GENERAL CHAIRS
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Oscar Pastor López, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Guilherme Travassos, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

TRACK CO-CHAIRS
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Leandro Antonelli, LIFIA, Facultad de Informática, UNLP, Argentina
Nelly Condori-Fernandez, University of Twente, The Netherlands


ORGANIZATION CHAIR
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Santiago Matalonga, Universidad ORT, Uruguay

PROCEEDINGS CHAIR
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Cecilia Apa, Universidad de la República, Uruguay

PUBLICITY CHAIR
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Silvana Moreno, Universidad de la República, Uruguay

WEBMASTER
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Liliana Pino, Universidad ORT, Uruguay