INES – National Institute of Science and Technology for Software Engineering

INES wins the best paper in RecSys 2015 (Vienna)

The article “Context-Aware Event Recommendation in Event-Based Social Networks” was considered the bast paper of ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys) 2015. This paper is a result of the MSc research of Augusto Macedo under supervision of Leandro Balby Marinho (UFCG) and colaborations with Prof. Rodrygo Santos (UFMG). The research has been also applied in the context of the INES sub-project “Uma Infra-estrutura Integrada para Desenvolvimento de Aplicações Envolvendo Analytics e Big-Data”. Other two articles (one from the NetFlix company) were also suggested for the best paper. The RecSys conference is in its 9th edition and is the most important conference in Recomentation Systems.

INES at SBBD 2015

Ana Carolina Salgado and Bernadette Farias Lóscio will attend the XXX Brazilian Symposium on Databases (SBBD 2015). Bernadette will also present a short-course entitled “Publicação e Consumo de Dados na Web: Conceitos e Desafios“. SBBD is the official database event of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC). It is the largest venue in Latin America for presenting and discussing research results in the database domain. In its 30th edition, the symposium will be held in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, on October 13th-16th , 2015. Continuing the tradition of previous editions, the SBBD comprises a broad technical program, including: technical sessions, keynotes, tutorials, and short-courses. Additionally, the program shall include A Workshop of Theses and Dissertations in Databases (WTDBD), a Demo Session and a Poster session.

INES at FIE 2015: session chair and two papers

Ricardo Amorim will attend the Frontiers in Education 2015 (FIE 2015) to chair the session entitled “Student engagement II” and to the presentation of the following papers:

“SmartLAK: A Big Data Architecture for Supporting Learning Analytics Services”. Authors: Thomas Rabelo, Manuel Lama, Ricardo Amorim and Juan Carlos Vidal.

“Effectiveness of Practices with Sensors in Engaging in Meaningful Learning in Higher Education: Extending a Framework of Ubiquitous Learning”. Authors: Josilene Brito, Alex Sandro, Ricardo Amorim, Ivanildo Melo and Bruno Monteiro.

The conference will be held in El Paso, Texas, from October 21th to 24th, 2015.

INES at KDMILE 2015

The MsC student Allan Sales will attend the 3rd Symposium on Knowledge Discovery (KDMILE 2015), where the paper:  “Predicting Student Dropout: A Case Study in Brazilian Higher Education” will be presented.

Abstract

Students’ dropout is a major concern of Brazilian higher education institutions because it can result in waste of resources and hence decrease the graduation rates. Most of the dropouts occur in the initial semesters of a course, especially in the first one, where students are still uncertain about the career they want to follow. Thus, the early detection of students with high probability of dropping out, as well as understanding the underlying causes, are crucial for defining more effective actions towards preventing this problem. In this paper, we cast the dropout detection problem as a classification problem. We use a large sample of academic records of students across 130 courses from a public University in Brazil in order to select informative features for the employed classifiers. Considering only first semester students as targets, we conduct a thorough evaluation of several state-of-the-art classification models and show that good results can be achieved considering only a small, but informative, number of features.

INES at CBSoft 2015

The PhD student Alysson Filgueira Milanez will participate in The Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice (CBSoft) from Sep 21 to Sep 25 in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais.

ForAll/UFRN Acquires New Software License for Prezi

The ForAll/UFRN aquired a Prezi 1-yr license.

INES at FIE 2015

Eduardo Aranha will attend the Frontiers in Education 2015 (FIE 2015) to present the paper entitled: “Online Game-based Programming Learning for High School Students – a Case Study”. Authors: Thiago Reis and Eduardo Aranha. The conference will be held in El Paso, Texas, from October 21th to 24th, 2015.

INES at SBCARS 2015

Nélio Cacho will attend the Brazilian Symposium on Software Components, Architectures, and Reuse (SBCARS 2015), to present the paper entitled: “An Approach to Identify Exceptions Propagated by .NET Web Services”. Authors: Alex Medeiros and Nélio Cacho. The conference will be held in Belo Horizonte, Brazil from 21st September to 25th September 2015.

INES @ CBSoft 2015

Researcher at Cin/UFPE, Tarciana Dias da Silva, will attend the Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice (CBSOFT 2015), to present the paper entitled: “Verifying Transformations of Java programs using Alloy”. Authors: Tarciana Dias da Silva, Augusto Sampaio and Alexandre Mota. The conference will be held in Belo Horizonte, Brazil from 21st September to 25th September 2015.

INES @ CBSoft 2015

Researcher at Cin/UFPE, Hugo Araujo, will attend the Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice (CBSOFT 2015), to present the paper entitled: “Automatic generation of test cases and test purposes from natural language”. Authors: Sidney Nogueira, Hugo Araujo, Renata Araujo, Juliano Iyoda and Augusto Sampaio. The conference will be held in Belo Horizonte, Brazil from 21st September to 25th September 2015.