Foreword to MO2RE 2024

Requirements engineering (RE) is a critical sub-field of soft- ware engineering (SE) that deals with identifying, specifying, modeling, analyzing, and validating the needs of stakeholders and constraints of a system [1]. RE covers human-related aspects, as stakeholders need to be involved in eliciting and validating the requirements, as well as more technical aspects, as requirements can be systematically collected (e.g., from app reviews) using data mining techniques and analyzed with natural language processing (NLP) approaches, e.g., to identify quality issues or trace links [2]. Despite the broad spectrum of activities that RE covers, researchers from outside RE often have a misconception that RE is limited to writing and analyzing requirements specifications. Consequently, many researchers in the SE community working on RE-relevant problems (e.g., human-centric SE) are often unaware that such problems belong to the RE research strands. Broadly speaking, RE is under-represented and under-appreciated in the SE community.