INES - National Institute of Science and Technology for Software Engineering

INES at two internacional conferences on Information Integration on the Web

vaninha — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:57:50 +0000

INES researcher has two papers accepted for presentation in conferences about Information Integration.

The first one entitled ”A Context-based Schema Integration Process Applied to Healthcare Data Sources” will be presented in the 3rd International Workshop on Ambient Data Integration (ADI 2010) that will happen along with the OnTheMove Conferences in Crete, Greece, in October 25-28.

The second one, entitled ”PSemRef: Personalized Query Reformulation based on User Preferences”, will be at the 12th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS2010) in Paris, France, in November, 8-10.

Both conferences and associated workshops have a very interesting program and it will be an opportunity to see the state of the art from different domains as Information Integration, Ontologies, Semantic Web, Cloud Computing, among others. Tutorials and important invited speakers in the area will be major moments in the evenements. Besides, being at both conferences will be an excellent opportunity to meet people, make new contacts and even stablish new collaborations.

- Prof. Ana Carolina Salgado, UFPE, is a researcher of the project “Models, Processes and Tools for the Development of Context-Sensitive Systems”.

Papers technical information:

BELIAN, R. and SALGADO, A.C. “A Context-based Schema Integration Process Applied to Healthcare Data Sources”. In: Proc. of the 3rd International Workshop on Ambient Data Integration (ADI 2010). Crete, Greece.

NEVES, T. A., SOUZA, D. and SALGADO, A.C. ”PSemRef: Personalized Query Reformulation based on User Preferences”. In: Proc. of the 12th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services. Paris, France.

INES will be at Ágiles 2010

teresa — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:52:31 +0000

The INES project will be present in 3nd Latin-American Conference on Agile Development Methodologies, Ágiles 2010, to be held in Lima Peru, through the regular paper “Scrum Adoption in a Academic Distributed Environment”, authored by Eric Cavalcanti, Teresa Maciel and Jones de Albuquerque.

This paper approach distributed scrum challenges based on an experience of a collaborating work run by about 60 post-graduating students working in a partial distributed environment. The project was focused on the development of the first Brazilian freeware and open source tool for Scrum teams (http://www.firescrum.com), and was based on a Scrum of Scrums strategy. This paper presents challenges and lessons learned in this context. Since the launch of its beta version in July of 2009, FireScrum, the first Brazilian tool for Scrum teams [CAVALCANTI, 2009], count with more than 7.000 downloads and 34.000 visits.

INES at International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT)

eduardo — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:35:04 +0000

INES researchers members from the project An Investigation of Methods, Processes, Tools, and Metrics for the Development of Software Product Lines (SPL)” — in portuguese, Uma Investigação de Processos, Ferramentas e Métricas para o Desenvolvimento de Linhas de Produto de Software has an accepted paper at International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT) published by Springer.

Publication details: Liana B. Lisboa, Vinicius Garcia, Eduardo Almeida, Silvio Meira, ToolDAy - A Tool for Domain Analysis, International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT).

INES hires a new master degree student

gledson — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:15:55 +0000

The Project “Distributed Development based on Software Product Lines” is hiring a new Master degree student to attend the activity of defining an indexing technique for software artifacts descriptions based on semi-structured data.

INES at OOPSLA\SPLASH\Onward 2010

phmb — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:20:54 +0000

INES researchers André Santos, Fernando Castor, Márcio Ribeiro, Paulo Borba, Sérgio Soares and Christina Chavez will attend SPLASH’2010 (ACM Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity)

Márcio Ribeiro and Paulo Borba have a paper entitled “Emergent Feature Modularization“, which has been accepted for publication in the Onward! 2010 proceedings, co-allocated with SPLASH. This paper is a result of the project “Tool Support for Software Product Lines Development and Evolution”.

Fernando Castor had a poster accepted at SPLASH’2010. Publication’ details are:

FARIAS, Rafael ; SOARES-NETO, Francisco ; CASTOR, Fernando . Hamster - Making Grid Middleware Fault-Tolerant. In: ACM Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH’2010), 2010, Reno. SPLASH’2010 Companion. New York : ACM Press, 2010.

Abstract: Organizations which use grid computing have to deal with events such as a machine turned off or a failed component. Some of these events can completely break a grid, wasting important resources. This paper presents Hamster, a monitoring and recovery mechanism for grid middleware. Its main goal is to maximize the use of available resources, recovering faulty middleware components and avoiding resource idleness or, worse, a complete grid stop. Hamster comprises a number of services that complement existing application-level checkpointing mechanisms. It has been integrated into the OurGrid middleware platform.

INES at SMC 2010

sergio — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:46:49 +0000

Prof. Adriano Oliveira will attend the IEEE Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC 2010) to present the following work:

Ricardo Araújo, Adriano Oliveira, Sérgio Soares. Overcoming the Random Walk Dilemma Using a Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolutionary Method. 2010 IEEE Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC 2010), Istanbul. IEEE, 2010.

INES at SBMF 2010

tiago — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:40:47 +0000

The paper “Synchronizing Model and Program Refactoring” has been accepted for publication, and will be presented at the Brazilian Symposium of Formal Methods. The event will be held in Natal, in early November. The authors, Tiago Massoni, Rohit Gheyi and Paulo Borba, are part of several projects within INES. The published work is within the context of the “Making Program Evolution Safer” Project.

INES will be at ISSRE 2010

phmb — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:27:23 +0000

The INES project will be present in 21st IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) through the regular paper “Calibrating Probabilistic GUI Testing Models Based on Experiments and Survival Analysis”, authored by Cristiano Bertolini, Alexandre Mota e Eduardo Aranha.

This work was developed inside the project Tests Generation, Selection, Prioritization and Processing Product Line — in Portuguese, Linhas de Produtos de Geração, Seleção, Priorização e Processamento de Testes.

Presence of the INES at ISoLA 2010

alexandre — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:40:31 +0000

Professor Alexandre Cabral Mota, member of the Tests Generation, Selection, Prioritization and Processing Product Line project will present an invited paper at the 4th International Symposium On Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation. This conference will happen on October 18 to 20 at Creete - Greece. More information about the event is available at: http://isola-conference.org/isola2010/.

UFPB Researchers at WDDS 2010

gledson — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:27:06 +0000

UFPB researchers that are members from the INES project named as “Distributed Development based on Software Product Lines” has two papers accepted at 4th Brazilian Workshop on Distributed Software Development (WDDS).

Publications’ details:

* SANTOS, V. S. ; PEREIRA, T. A. B. ; RIBEIRO, B. L. ; ELIAS, G. . Um Framework de Recomendação para Alocação de Equipes de Desenvolvimento em Projetos Distribuídos de Linhas de Produto de Software. In: IV Workshop de Desenvolvimento Distribuído de Software, 2010, Salvador.

Abstract: Software Product Line (SPL) and Distributed Software Development (DSD) approaches have been adopted by many companies to improve software quality, finding more qualified manpower, and reduce development costs and time. However, in such a scenario, teams allocation is not a trivial task, because it has to take into account properties of the software project, the teams and the context in which they are immersed. Thus, the framework proposed in this paper aims to provide recommendations on how to allocate teams to software components in distributed SPL projects by considering technical and non-technical aspects.

* RIBEIRO, B. L. ; ELIAS, G. . Alocando Equipes Distribuídas com base em Aspectos Não-Técnicos. In: IV Workshop de Desenvolvimento Distribuído de Software, 2010, Salvador.

Abstract: Taking into account the benefits of distributed software development, many organizations allocate implementation tasks among globally distributed teams. However, their cultural, temporal and geographical differences reduce the communication effectiveness, directly affecting the project’s progress and success. In order to mitigate such communication issues, based on non-technical features of global distributed development teams and dependences among software modules, this article describes an approach for recommending the allocation of development teams to implementation tasks of software modules.