INES – National Institute of Science and Technology for Software Engineering

Prof. Klaus Schmid is going to visit UFBA

Prof. Dr. Klaus Schmid from University of Hildesheim is going to visit UFBA for a period of three months. Dr. Klaus will perform a sabbatical at the university working with professor Eduardo Almeida, his students and the members of the Software Engineering Lab.

This activity is part of 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.

INES at 2nd ERI-PE and 3rd WESS in Petrolina, PE

INES supports the 2nd ERI-PE (Regional School of Informatics Pernambuco) and promotes the 3rd WESS (Sertão Software Engineering WorkShop) which will be held in December, 04-06, 2012, in the city of Petrolina, PE.

The 2nd ERI-PE, given the National Education Plan and LDB, seeks to promote technological and scientific updating, disseminating research activities and encourage vanguard research among students, teachers and professionals in Information Technology.

The 3rd WESS  aims to enable students and professionals in the region a deepening of knowledge, the convergence of interests and research on software engineering, as well as offering technological solutions to regional development.

INES at II International Symposium on OER

The paper “Open Educational Resources Ontology” has been accepted for presentation at II International Symposium on OER: Issues for globalization and localization, to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The work-in-progress is related to the INES project, MDAOnto System – a solution for the development of educational applications supported by model and ontologies.

The paper will be presented in November, 26-30, 2012, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, RJ.

http://educacaoaberta.org/rea/eventos/workshop

Open Educational Resources Ontology

Authors:
Ricardo Amorim – Colegiado de Ciência da Computação, Faculdade de Ciências Aplicadas e Sociais de Petrolina, PE e Universidade do Estado da Bahia, BA.

Thomas Rabelo – Colegiado de Ciência da Computação, Faculdade de Ciências Aplicadas e Sociais de Petrolina, PE.

Dinani Amorim – Colegiado de Ciência da Computação, Faculdade de Ciências Aplicadas e Sociais de Petrolina, PE e Universidade do Estado da Bahia, BA.

This paper proposes an ontology based on the specifications of DocBook and LOM metadata, used as consensual knowledge for the semantic description of educational content in order to facilitate editing, remix and share of Open Educational Resources.

INES Researchers will attend Dagstuhl Seminars

INES researcher Wilkerson Andrade will attend the Dagstuhl Seminar on Symbolic Methods in Testing, from 6 to 11 of January, 2013. The seminar will be held at LZI Schloss Dagstuhl in Germany.

Also, INES researchers Márcio Ribeiro and Leopoldo Teixeira members of the “Software Productivity Group – SPG”, will attend to the Dagstuhl Schloss Seminar 2013: Analysis, Test and Verification in The Presence of Variability, in Dagstuhl, Germany, taking place from February, 24th to March, 1st.

The invitation-only Dagstuhl seminars bring together the world’s leading researchers, practitioners, and young talents to discuss their ideas.

INES has two papers at the 14th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS2012)

INES researcher has two papers accepted for presentation at the 14th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS2012) that will take place in Bali, Indonesia, from 3 to 5 December 2012. The papers are related to Contextual Information and Information Quality in Data Integration Processes.

The conference has 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, Big Data, among others. Tutorials and important invited speakers in the area will be major moments in the evenements. Besides, it 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:

Using Information Quality for the Identification of Relevant Web Data Sources: A Proposal,
Loscio, B., Souza, D., Batista, M.C., Salgado, A.C.

Towards an Information Quality Approach to Enhance Query Routing Processes, Freire, C., Souza, B., Batista, M.C., Souza, D., Salgado, A.C.

The researcher in the opportunity will visit the Versailles University where she spent a year in 2008. The main objective of the visit is to discuss new collaborations.

INES wins CBSoft2012 best tool, again (3rd time in 3 CBSoft editions)

SYMBOLRT: A Tool for Symbolic Model-Based Test Case Generation for Real-Time Systems won the best tool award at the CBSoft 2012 (Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice) tools section . The authors are Wilkerson Andrade (UFCG), Diego Almeida (UFCG), Jeanderson Cândido (UFCG), and Patricia Machado (UFCG).

At the 1st CBSoft (2012) INES researchers won the best tool prize with TaRGeT. In the 2nd edition all awarded best tools were from INES researchers.

The Tool Session is a forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss commercial and noncommercial computational tools designed to support software development activities. The Tool Session focus on three main areas: software engineering (including software component, architecture, and reuse); programming languages; and formal methods.

INES has two best papers at SBCARS 2012

Two papers from INES researchers were awarded best papers at SBCARS VI – Brazilian Symposium on Components, Architecture and Software Reuse. The first place was the paper “Making Software Product Line Evolution Safer”, authored by Felype Ferreira (CIn-UFPE), Paulo Borba (CIn-UFPE), Gustavo Soares (UFCG) and Rohit Gheyi (UFCG). The second bast paper was  “Comparing Two Black-box Testing Strategies for Software Product Lines”, authored by Paola Accioly (CIn-UFPE), Paulo Borba (CIn – UFPE), and Rodrigo Bonifacio (UNB).

The VI SBCARS – Brazilian Symposium on Components, Architecture and Software Reuse is a Brazilian SBC symposium that brings together researchers, students and professionals with a wide range of interests in software engineering component-based software architectures, and software reuse.