Workshop Motivation and Objectives
The 16th International Model-Driven Requirements Engineering (MoDRE) workshop continues to provide a forum to discuss the challenges and opportunities of applying Model-Driven Development (MDD) to Requirements Engineering (RE). RE can leverage MDD techniques by balancing flexibility in capturing user needs with the formal rigor required for model transformation. MoDRE aims to explore areas of RE that have not yet been sufficiently formalized for integration into MDD environments, as well as to investigate how RE models can benefit from emerging topics in the model-driven community, including flexible, collaborative, and AI-enabled modeling. In accordance with this year’s RE conference theme, we would like to focus on the impact of large language models (LLMs) and generative AI on model-based requirements engineering techniques. We look forward to identifying new challenges for MoDRE, discussing ongoing work and potential solutions, analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of MDD approaches for RE, fostering stimulating discussions on the topic, and providing opportunities to apply MDD approaches for RE.
The workshop is co-located with the 34th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2026) in Montreal, Canada, in August 2026. Accepted papers will become part of the workshop proceedings and will be submitted for inclusion into the IEEE Digital Library.
Overview of Workshop Format
The format of the workshop reflects the goals of the workshop: constructive feedback for accepted workshop papers, collaboration, and community building. The workshop will be highly interactive with a few paper presentations, a keynote presentation currently planned for the pre-lunch session, and plenary brainstorming and general discussion sessions. The discussion topics are chosen based on the specific interests of the participants. The short presentations and the results of the brainstorming and discussion sessions are posted on the workshop website after the workshop.
A group dinner in the evening of the workshop day offers further opportunities of community building and discussions.