Newsletter December 2012
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Director’s Message
Directors Message
As the year draws to a close, I’d like to thank each and every one of your for your contributions to Lero in 2012, and to wish you and yours the very best for the holiday season and a productive, happy, successful and peaceful 2013..
ISA Awards Not lost in Translation Wireless Days 2012
Professor Mike Hinchey
FSE 2012
Director
Quality Software in Indianapolis FESTA in Trento New Industry Partner for NUI Galway
Lero Shortlisted for ISA Software Industry Awards 2012
Vivas and Graduation Best Paper Award for Mel and Iman at ESEM 2012 Thesis in 3 Goodbye to Lero
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ero was shortlisted for an ISA Software Industry Award. This year saw an unprecedented number of entries, entries of an extremely high calibre, as commented on by the entire judging panel
Welcome to Lero Publications
Workshops and Conferences Wireless Days 2012
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ublin Wireless Week was a set of wireless networking focused events that took place in the Burlington Hotel, Dublin, Ireland from the 19th to 23rd of November 2012. This event attracted a large number of international wireless networking experts and researchers from both industry and academia. In all over 200 people attended the event. The events were: • IFIP/IEEE Wireless Days Conference 2012 • Vehicular Traffic Management for Smarter Cities Workshop • WiNemo COST Action Meeting The most significant of these was the IFIP and IEEE co-sponsored Wireless Days 2012. This conference is a major international conference brings together researchers, technologists and visionaries from academia, research centres and industry, engineers and students to exchange, discuss, and share their experiences, ideas and research results about theoretical and practical aspects of wireless networking. This year’s conference attracted a large number of paper submissions and attendees. The acceptance rate was 35%. General Chairs and Co-ordinators of Dublin Wireless Week: John Fitzpatrick, University College Dublin, Ireland Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée and ENSIIE, France Hamid Nafaa University College Dublin, Ireland John Murphy University College Dublin, Ireland Liam Murphy University College Dublin, Ireland
Not Lost In Translation!
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oyotaro Suzumura (IBM Research Japan & Tokyo Institute of Technology) visited Lero@ UCD on October 22nd-26th. Along with some very interesting meetings and discussions, Toyotaro presented a talk entitled “Highly Scalable System Software in Large-Scale Distributed Systems”. The talk was webcasted live using Lero Vidyo system. Toyotaro focused on three major contributions of his work: Tsubame 2.0, one the biggest supercomputers in the world; X10, a parallel programming language; and XAXIS, a parallel agent simulation platform. This talk was of great interest to researchers at Lero@UCD, and it is hoped that this visit represents the start of some fruitful future collaborations with Toyotaro. We’d like to thank Lero for supporting his visit
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Workshops and Conferences
New Industry Partner for NUI Galway
FESTA in Trento
(L to R) Emmet Donnelly, Chief Technology Officer, SourceDogg, Dr Kieran Conboy, Dr Lorraine Morgan, Tristan Collery (on the right), Systems Analyst with SourceDogg.
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r Ita Richardson travelled to FBK, Trento, Italy to a meeting of EU FESTA (Female Empowerment in Science & Technology Academia). Ita is an investigator on the UL team which has received funding through the Science & Society call. The project started in March 2012 and will last 5 five years
FSE2012
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iliana Pasquale presented a tool demo on “SecuriTAS: a Tool for Engineering Adaptive Security” at FSE 2012 - the ACM 20th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, held in Cary, North Carolina, USA, 11-16 November 2012. The demonstration was accompanied by a short paper describing the demo, by Liliana Pasquale, Claudio Menghi, Mazeiar Salehie, Luca Cavallaro, Inah Omoronyia and Bashar Nuseibeh
Quality Software in Indianapolis
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n Tuesday 30th October, Paul Clarke of DCU presented at the International Conference on Software Quality in Indianapolis, USA (http://www.asq-icsq.org/). Paul’s presentation, which was based on aspects of his PhD thesis for which Dr. Rory O’Connor was supervisor, addressed the topic of software process adaptation/evolution in software companies - and how adaptation might be related with business success. The conference attendees were drawn from both academic and industrial settings, and positive feedback was received on the content and utility of the concepts presented. Paul has a soft copy of some of the presentations - if you see anything that may be of interest to you then please contact Paul directly at pclarke@ computing.dcu.ie
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ero, NUI Galway are pleased to announce cloud computing firm, SourceDogg, as an official industry partner on the ALPS and OPS projects. SourceDogg was established in 2009 and is based in Kent, Guildford, Galway and Dublin. The company provide tools that enable users to find and evaluate new suppliers, cope with tender responses and implement best practice procurement processes. SourceDogg has won numerous software, business and procurement awards for their innovative product, and exports to public and private sector clients across 5 countries
Goodbye to Lero
Sonke Schmidt who had been visiting Lero @ UL has returned home to Germany. This month Dr Nour Ali left Lero @ UL to take up a position as Senior Lecturer in the University of Brighton. Nour had been with Lero for over four years and she will be missed. We wish them every success in the future.
Hello to Lero
Vanessa Ayala
Doctoral Researcher @ UCD
Imane-Hiroya Brahmi
Doctoral Researcher@ UCD
Feng Chen
Doctoral Researcher @UL
Josiane Kroll
Doctoral Researcher @ UL
Guojun Qin
Doctoral Researcher @ TCD
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Lero News
Vivas and Graduations Lero@ DCU congratulates Dr Paul Clarke on his graduation day. While Lero@UL marks the successful outcome of Sadhana Deshpande’s Viva.
Awards & Competitions ESEM 2012 Best Paper Award
Mel Ó Cinnéide and Iman Hemati Moghadam, both from Lero@ UCD, were winners of the best paper award at ESEM 2012. Following on from their success at CSMR’2012 they won a further award at the 6th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement for their paper entitled “Experimental Assessment of Software Metrics Using Automated Refactoring”, co-authored with Laurence Tratt (King’s College London), Mark Harman (University College London) and Steve Counsell (Brunel University)
THESIS in 3
Well done to Anne Meade and Michael Dever for representing Lero at the Thesis in 3 competition held in Smock Alley on Thursday October 25th. 18 PhD researchers from 9 SFI funded CSETs presented their research in the Thesis in 3 format, 3 slides in 3 minutes. Principal Investigators from the 9 CSETs presented an overview of the CSETs. Thanks to Brian Fitzgerald for presenting an overview of Lero in the Thesis in 3 format. Deirdre Cogan from CLARITY won first prize.
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Publications Conference Papers Ahmad, A. and Pahl, C. (2012) ‘PatEvol: Pattern-driven Reuse in Architecture-based Evolution for Service Software’, in 5th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computing & Statistics (ERCIM 2012) Oviedo, Spain.
Song, H., Gallagher, M. and Clarke, S. (2012) ‘Rapid GUI Development on Legacy Systems: An Runtime Model-Based Solution’, in 7th International Workshop on Models@ run.time (MRT2012), Innsbruck, Austria. ACM.
Basri, S. and O’Connor, R. (2012) ‘Software Development Team Dynamics in SPI: A VSE Context’, in 19th AsiaPacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2012), Hong Kong.
Vassev, E. and Hinchey, M. (2012) ‘Efficient Space Exploration through Laziness’, in Proceedings of the International Conference on ContextAware Systems and Applications (ICCASA 2012), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST).
Brahmi, I. H., Djahel, S. and GhamriDoudane, Y. (2012) ‘A Hidden Markov Model based Scheme for Efficient and Fast Dissemination of Safety Messages in VANETs’, in IEEE Globecom 2012, Anaheim, California, USA. Galvan, E., Harris, C., Dusparic, I., Clarke, S. and Cahill, V. (2012) ‘Reduced Electricity Costs in a Dynamic Environment’, in 3rd IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications, Tainan, Taiwan. IEEE. Morgan, L., Conboy, K. and Hayes, J. (2012) ‘Applying Lean Principles to the Crowdsourcing Process’, in World Conference on Mass Customization, Personalization and Co-Creation: Bridging Mass Customization and Open Innovation, San Francisco. Pasquale, L., Menghi, C., Salehie, M., Cavallaro, L., Omoronyia, I. and Nuseibeh, B. (2012) ‘SecurTAS A Tool for Engineering Adaptive Security’, in 20th International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering FSE 2012, Cary, North Carolina. Purcell, M., Vasudevan, A. and Gregg, D. (2012) ‘Real time sensor signal capture from a harsh environment’, in IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT), Dublin, Ireland. Ryan, S. and O’Connor, R. (2012) ‘Social Interaction, Team Tacit Knowledge and Transactive Memory: Empirical support for the Agile approach’, in Researching Agile development of Information SystEms (RAISE 2012) Conference, London, UK.
Ventresque, A., Bragard, Q., Liu, E., Nowak, D., Murphy, L., Theodoropoulos, G. and Liu, Q. (2012) ‘SParTSim: A Space Partitioning Guided by Road Network for Distributed Traffic Simulations’, in IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT), Dublin. Wu, Y., Huang, G., Song, H. and Zhan, Y. (2012) ‘Model Driven Configuration of Fault Tolerance Solutions for Component-Based Software System’, in International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS2012), Innsbruck, Austria. Springer,pp 514530.
Journal Articles Clarke, P. and O’Connor, R. (2012) ‘The influence of SPI on business success in software SMEs: An empirical study’, Journal of Systems and Software, 85(10), pp 2356-2367. Pleuss, A., Botterweck, G., Dhungana, D., Polzer, A. and Kowalewski, S. (2012) ‘Model-driven support for product line evolution on feature level’, Journal of Systems and Software, 85(10), pp 2261–2274.
Books Wang, X., Ali, N., Ramos, I. and Vidgen, R. (2012) Agile and Lean Service-Oriented Development: Foundations, Theory, and Practice, IGI Global ISBN13: 9781466625037.
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