Eigth International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Requirements Engineering (AIRE’21)

Welcome to the Eigth International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Requirements Engineering (AIRE’21). The purpose of this workshop is to explore synergies between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Requirements Engineering (RE). AIRE aims to strengthen the links in the community, including those between industry and academia. As such, we welcome submissions in the intersection between RE and AI. An important goal is to inspire a new and broad community for interdisciplinary discussions concerning novel research directions for Requirements Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. The edition of the workshop in 2021 received 18 submissions, which were independently reviewed by at least three program committee members. In the end, 12 long papers were accepted. All the conflicts of interest were treated seriously and independently. The high quality of submissions are a sign of a healthy research community and the selected papers will lead to a stimulating program, which also includes technical presentations and the Panel. We hope that you enjoy the AIRE’21 workshop and its proceedings. We consider that in the days when AI is gaining prominence in our daily lives, the RE community cannot neglect the benefit that AI techniques can deliver to the practice of requirements engineering. We look forward to seeing you all at this workshop and the future editions. We are very grateful to the Program Committee members and authors of the submissions for their hard work and dedication in putting together this program. We would like to thank you all for your participation in AIRE’21. We hope that you find this workshop fruitful and inspiring!Nelly, Rachel, and Daniel