INES – National Institute of Science and Technology for Software Engineering

INES at ESEM 2011

INES researchers had a paper accepted at the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2011)

Publications details are:

Emanoel Barreiros, Adauto Almeida Filho, Juliana Saraiva, Sérgio Soares. A Systematic Mapping Study on Software Engineering Testbeds. ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2011). Banff, September 22-23, 2011.

INES at CTDQS/SBQS

INES researchers will be present at the X Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality – SBQS’2011, with the papers “RiPLE-TE: A Software Product Lines Testing Process” authored by Ivan do Carmo Machado, Eduardo Santana de Almeida and Silvio Romero de Lemos Meira and “RiSE Reference Model for Software Reuse Adoption in Brazilian Companies ” by Vinicius Garcia, Eduardo Santana de Almeida and Silvio Romero de Lemos Meira . The papers were  accepted in the Software Quality Thesis and Dissertations Competition (CTDQS).

This work were developed inside the project An Investigation of Methods, Processes, Tools, and Metrics for the evelopment of Software Product Lines (SPL) — in portuguese, Uma Investigação de Processos, Ferramentas e Métricas para o Desenvolvimento de Linhas de Produto de Software.

INES member at ASE PC meeting

Marcelo d’Amorim, professor at CIn-UFPE, will attend the program committee (PC) meeting  of the 26th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2011) at Mountain View, CA, United States in the period of July 11-13, 2011.  A workshop on Software Engineering Automation will take place the day before the meeting.  Marcelo will give a talk on the use of Delta Execution (a non-standard mode of executing programs) to improve efficiency of Mutation Testing.  This work is in collaboration with Thiago Vieira, a master student at UFPE.

Infrastructure for Software Practices Lab at UFCG

The project “Definition of a Testbed for Software Development” will use installation services to complete the Software Practices Laboratory new installations at UFCG.

Prof. Gledson Elias is going to visit Prof. Leila Silva at UFPE in May

Prof. Gledson Elias from Federal University of Paraiba (UFPB) is going to visit Prof. Leila Silva from Federal University of Sergipe (UFS) at Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) on 20th June. During this visit, they are going to discuss new results and possible publications of current collaborations on the adoption of clustering algorithms as a technique for reducing the storage requirements when indexing large repositories of software components.

Infrastructure of Software Practices Laboratory

The project Tests Generation, Selection, Prioritization and Processing Product Line is acquiring infrastructure material as well as installation services for the new installations of the Software Practices Laboratory at DSC-UFCG.

INES Context Group has a paper in the UMedia’2011, Sao Paulo/Brasil

The paper entitled “Towards an Ubiquitous and Context Sensitive Public Transportation System” was accepted on the 4th International Conference on Ubi-Media Computing (U-Media 2011). This paper is a result of the work being done by the researchers of the project “Models, Processes and Tools for the Development of Context-Sensitive Systems” that resulted in the project accepted in the Grand Challenges for Computer Science call (2010) see list here.

The paper presents UbiBus, a proposal for a ubiquitous, context-sensitive public transportation system that aims to specify and implement technological solutions (e.g. models, algorithms and tools) to ease the access to information about public transportations. It considers the mobility of people and vehicles and the occurrence of dynamic factors that could affect the transportation and provide passengers with advanced information about the available public transportation in a city.

Publication data are: Vieira, V., Caldas, L.R., Salgado, A.C. Towards an Ubiquitous and Context Sensitive Public Transportation System. In: 4th International Conference on Ubi-Media Computing. Sao Paulo, Brasil, 03 e 04 de julho de 2011.

Context group researchers will have a workshop at Recife

Members of the Project “Models, Processes and Tools for Developing Context Sensitive Systems”  and “An Intelligent, Ubiquitous and Context Sensitive Public Transportation System” will have a meeting day workshop at UFPE-Recife to discuss developed and ongoing activities within the scope of the INES projects.

The agenda includes a half day presentations and a half day discussions and proposals integration.

Date: 06/06/2011.

Place: Centro de Informática, UFPE, Recife.

Prof. Vaninha Vieira (UFBA), Prof. Elisa Huzita (UEM) and Prof. Ana Paula Chaves (UTFPR) will attend the workshop, representing their institutions.

Office supplies acquisition

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 is acquiring consumer goods (office supplies) to support its research activities.

Prof. John McGregor is going to visit UFBA

Professor Dr. John McGregor (Clemson University, U.S.) is going to visit the Software Engineering Lab at UFBA during June-July, 2011. During this period, John  will have meetings with professors and students from the university, give talks and discuss collaboration projects.