The AI So-Go-Chi Center (Advanced Institute of So-Go-Chi Informatics) is pleased to announce that the following paper, co-authored by Associate Professor Teeradaj Racharak, has been accepted to the Research Paper Track of the 34th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2026). The conference will be held in Montreal, Canada, from August 17 to 21, 2026. RE is the premier international conference in the field of requirements engineering and is ranked CORE A, reflecting its high academic reputation and impact.

Accepted Paper

Haowei Cheng, Milhan Kim, Foutse Khomh, Teeradaj Racharak, Nobukazu Yoshioka, Naoyasu Ubayashi, Hironori Washizaki,
QUARE: Quality-Aware Requirements Engineering through Multi-Agent Dialectic Negotiation,
34th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2026), Research Paper Track, pp. 1–11, Montreal, Canada, August 17–21, 2026.
(Preprint: arXiv:2603.11890)

This paper presents QUARE, a novel framework that leverages multi-agent dialectic negotiation to support quality-aware requirements engineering. Modern software systems must satisfy multiple quality attributes, such as performance, security, maintainability, and usability, which often conflict with one another. QUARE addresses this challenge by employing multiple AI agents that represent different quality concerns and engage in structured negotiation to analyze trade-offs and identify balanced solutions.

By combining advances in generative AI, requirements engineering, and multi-agent systems, the proposed framework provides systematic support for decision-making during requirements analysis. The study demonstrates how AI-driven negotiation can help stakeholders reason about competing quality requirements and improve the consistency and transparency of requirements engineering processes.

Congratulations to the authors on this achievement!