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Justice for Requirements Engineering (J4RE!) and the 3rd Playing with Meanings combined workshop (PwM3)

will take place at the 32nd International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ) 2026, between Mon 23 - Thu 26 March, 2026 in Poznań, Poland.

The goal of the J4RE!+PwM3 workshop is to explore the role of RE in ensuring just software development. The workshop will be a full-day affair, to unfold in three parts:

  1. The first morning engagement of J4RE! will constitute a traditional paper session, with presentation and discussion of relevant works addressing the topic of Justice in Requirements Engineering
  2. After the coffee break, a participatory J4RE! activity will follow on with a round-table discussion between presenters (and audience members) with the objective to outline a potential group authored article on the topic
  3. Following lunch we will present the 3rd Playing with Meanings (PwM3), wherein together we will introspect on the concept of justice through ontology-based group modelling games, exploring both established and experimental game and play activities for participatory sensemaking, and discussing their potential value as tools for participatory practices towards Justice for Requirements Engineering.

Call for Papers

Important Dates


January 15, 2026: Paper submission deadline
February 14, 2026: Author notification
February 21, 2026: Camera-ready paper submission deadline

The Call for Papers is available on Easychair

Workshop organised by Greta Adamo (gretaadamo.net) Max Willis (maxwillis.net)

We welcome submissions around the topics of Justice in Requirements Engineering, including but not limited to:
Procedural Justice: e.g. fairness, and ensuring democratic inclusion in decision-making for RE practices and outcomes
Distributional/Distributive Justice: e.g. working towards equitable access to information and opportunities provided by software systems
Recognition Justice: e.g. recognition of identities in RE processes, e.g. beneficiaries and oppressed, subaltern, and other species
Epistemic Justice: e.g. acknowledging and including a plurality of forms and sources of knowledge in RE practices and decision-making
Ontic Justice: e.g. fair representation and attention to inclusion and exclusion criteria in knowledge systems, such as conceptual models and ontologies
Restorative Justice: e.g. working to alleviate issues of injustice in software systems development and outcomes
Transformative Justice: RE that directly aims to address structural inequalities and transform an unjust status quo

Short papers: 5-9 pages including references
Full papers: 10-14 pages including references
Submissions must follow the one-column CEUR template available here) for formatting. An Overleaf template can be found here.
We kindly direct authors' attention to the CEUR Generative AI useage guidelines.

Program Committee (TBD)

Organizer contact email: Greta.Adamo[at]unibz[.]it

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