The first edition of the IEEE-INCOSE Systems Engineering Workshop is coming, and we would like to start organising the next edition. Please answer both questions hereunder.

Rank the following options according to preference, where number 1 is the best and 4 the worst.

WORKSHOP WITH AN ADVANCED RESEARCH TRACK:

Papers present significant contributions to academic research in systems design. Submissions should be anonymous, previously unpublished, original results that are not simultaneously submitted elsewhere. The Research Track will use a double-blind review process with two reviewers based on IEEE and Systems Engineering journal review criteria. Papers should be formatted according to the style guidelines of Manuscript Templates for IEEE Conference Proceedings and should not exceed 8 pages, including figures and references. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Authors of papers with high potential to meet the Systems Engineering (SE) journal standards will be invited to submit an expanded version with at least 30% of new material, and we will contact the same reviewers, if possible.

WORKSHOP WITH AN EARLY RESEARCH & INDUSTRY TRACK:

Papers present early research studies that still need to be completed or practical research-driven applications in the industry. This track encourages the active participation of emerging researchers and professionals in presenting their work under development and involving them in the systems engineering community. Although the research is still under development, the papers submitted to this track must detail all elements of methods, including the validation strategy. As an early or practical research-driven application in the industry, the research method is not fully mature and validated. Still, the papers must detail what and how the authors plan to collect and analyse and why they do it that way. Submissions should be anonymous, previously unpublished, original results that are not simultaneously submitted elsewhere. It will use a double-blind review process with two reviewers based on IEEE review criteria. Papers should be formatted according to the style guidelines of Manuscript Templates for IEEE Conference Proceedings and should not exceed 4 pages, including figures and references. Accepted and presented research track papers will be published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

WORKSHOP WITH AN ADVANCED RESEARCH TRACK AND AN EARLY RESEARCH TRACK:

Two types of papers and review criteria. The authors will decide on which track they want to submit their work.

OPEN RESEARCH FORUM (similar to the 2025 edition):

Papers present early research studies that still need to be completed or practical research-driven applications in the industry, or work on the verge of being published. The main goal is to get feedback from the community to improve the overall quality before submitting it to a renowned international peer-reviewed conference or journal. Participants can also promote work that has already been published by presenting it to the community whose members couldn’t attend the conference or access the journal where the work was originally presented. The open research forum would only use a topic-based screening process without a formal peer review process. Therefore, papers would not be published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, and there would be no invitation to publish an expanded version of papers with high potential in the Systems Engineering journal.