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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering - Foundation for Software Quality, REFSQ 2017, held in Essen, Germany, in February/March 2017.
The 16 full papers and 10 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: use case models; ecosystems and innovation; human factors in requirements engineering; goal-orientation in requirements engineering; communication and collaboration; process and tool integration; visualization and representation of requirements; agile requirements engineering; natural language processing, information retrieval and machine learning traceability; quality of natural language requirements; research methodology in requirements engineering.

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Use case models.- Ecosystems and innovation.- Human factors in requirements engineering.- Goal-orientation in requirements engineering.- Communication and collaboration.-Process and tool integration.- Visualization and representation of requirements.- Agile requirements engineering.- Natural language processing, information retrieval and machine learning.- Traceability.- Quality of natural language requirements.-Research methodology in requirements engineering.

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