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.

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Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Participants are invited to submit four kinds of papers:

1. Research papers with a length of eight (8) to ten (10) pages, reporting on findings for problems related to model-driven requirements engineering that are novel and improve on or analyze existing solutions.
2. Short papers with a length of four (4) to five (5) pages, reporting on work in progress of interest to the model-driven requirements engineering community.
3. Position papers with a length of four (4) to five (5) pages, reporting on ideas and visions for the future of model-driven requirements engineering.
4. Industry Papers, with a length of four (4) to ten (10) pages, describing experiences related to the adoption of model-driven requirements engineering practices in the industry or highlighting future challenges.

Papers have to present original content. Previously published papers or papers accepted or under review for other publications are ineligible for submission to MoDRE 2026. Papers must be in pdf format, written in English, formatted according to the following IEEE formatting instructions, and submitted via EasyChair. While RE 2026 follows a double-blind reviewing process, MoDRE 2026 does not.

List of Topics

In line with the research theme of this year’s RE conference, the workshop focuses on the impact of LLMs on requirements engineering models. However, submissions are also welcome in all workshop topics such as:

• Modeling languages and metamodels for requirements engineering approaches
• Modeling languages and metamodels for supporting separation of concerns in requirements models
• Modeling languages and metamodels for non-functional requirements
• Modeling languages and metamodels for requirements engineering for specific domains, such as cyber-physical systems and IoT, Big Data, AI applications, and Industry 4.0
• Model-driven regulatory compliance of cyber-physical systems
• Synchronicity and consistency of different requirements models and views
• Requirements models for machine learning and deep learning solutions
• Requirements models at runtime
• Requirements models for agile practices and DevOps
• Requirements models for human values, ethics, fairness, equality, sustainability, and GreenIT
• Automatic analysis and simulation of requirements models
• Traceability and correctness of model transformations involving requirements models
• AI approaches for model transformations involving requirements models
• Flexible and collaborative modeling in requirements engineering
• Requirements engineering approaches for low-code/no-code software development
• Empirical studies on model-driven requirements engineering
• Automatic generation of tools for RE using MDD
• Research methods from other disciplines, such as sociology, for eliciting requirements models

Moreover, industry papers covering topics such as the following are highly welcome:

• Industry problems and practices
• Success stories about adopting model-driven requirements engineering in industry
• Industrial empirical studies

Committees

• See here

Invited Speakers

• To be announced

Publication

Accepted papers will become part of the workshop proceedings and will be submitted for inclusion into the IEEE Digital Library. Workshop presentations will be posted on the MoDRE website. Acceptance of a paper implies that one of the authors registers for the workshop to present the submission; failure to do so by the early registration deadline will result in the paper being withdrawn from the workshop proceedings. IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the workshop (e.g., by not placing it into the IEEE Digital Library) if the paper is not presented at the workshop.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to modre-info (at) cs.mcgill.ca