Iberoamerican workshop on requirements engineering and software environments, ideas 2008 [special issue introduction]

This special issue contains a selection of the best papers presented at the XI Iberoamerican Workshop on Requirements Engineering and Software Environments (IDEAS'08), that was held in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, on 11-15 February 2008. The papers included here provide some good examples of the research being currently conducted in Iberoamerica, Spain and Portugal in the context of Software Enginerering and Requirements Engineering.