The goal of the J4RE!+PwM3 workshop is to explore the role of Requirements Engineering (RE) in ensuring just software development. This workshop will unfold in three parts: (i) J4RE!+PwM3 will facilitate the presentation and discussion of relevant works addressing the topic of Justice in Requirements Engineering. (ii) Second, a participatory session will follow up with a brainstorming and first outline of a group authored article on the topic, and (iii) third, a Playing with Meanings (PwM) session will wrap up the workshop, 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.

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

Submission Guidelines

Papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.

Submission types:

• Short papers: 5-9 pages including references
• Full papers: 10-14 pages including references

Submissions must follow the one-column CEUR template (https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html) for formatting. An Overleaf template can be found at: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/wqyfdgftmcfw

We kindly direct authors' attention to the CEUR Generative AI: https://ceur-ws.org/GenAI/Policy.html

List of Topics

• Justice in Requirements Engineering
• Participatory processes and Requirements Engineering
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Requirements Engineering practices
• Requirements Engineering and responsible design
• Ontic justice in Requirements Engineering
• Game & Play in Requirements Engineering

Committees

Program Committee (TBD)

Organizing committee

• Max Willis, Valencian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Universitat Politècnica de València (ES), max@maxwillis.net
• Greta Adamo, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (IT), Greta.Adamo@unibz.it

Venue

Justice for Requirements Engineering! + Playing with Meanings (J4RE!+PwM3) workshop will be hosted at the 32nd International Working Conference on Requirement Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ 2026) in Poznan, Poland

Contact

info@humanfactorsinsemantics.net