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General Assembly and Workshop on "How to Restart CHOOSE" on the 29th of April, 2022

by Jiri Lundak

Dear Members, We have the following agenda for our General Assembly and Workshop on the 29th of April, 2022: 17:00 - 17:30 General Assembly * Report on Activities * Financial Situation * * New/Retiring Members of the Board * Election of President, Vice-President and Treasurer 17:30 - 18:00 Presentation FSIE (https://fsie.ch/) Mission and Possible Collaboration with CHOOSE Members * Simon Moser, President of FSIE shows us how we can collaborate 18:00 Break 10' 18:10 - 19:30 Workshop on "How to Restart CHOOSE" * Help us to restart CHOOSE and make it a worthwile group to be part of * We want to explore and fix the direction, we want to to persue with future activities Here the Zoom-Link and Info for the Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84424039354?pwd=UDA3TjFZL1kwWlorMUIrMUZybEJWZz09 Meeting ID: 844 2403 9354 Passcode: 909838 We will use the following Miro-Board for the Event: https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO7q5usc=/?share_link_id=457652631430 (Note: The Miro board is still being prepared and might be in flux until the day before the meeting) How can you prepare for the meeting: * Think about stepping up in one of the roles as President, Vice-President or Treasurer, as people having these roles will be stepping down. * Propose new members that might bring new life/drive to CHOOSE. * Make up your mind about a future direction of CHOOSE. What should it be? What needs could it fill? We will discuss this in the meeting. Looking forward to seeing you at the meeting. Kind regards Jiri Lundak President CHOOSE

2 years

Announcement of General Assembly via Zoom on Wednesday 12.05.2021

by Jiri Lundak

Dear CHOOSE Members, On Wednesday May, 12th 2021 at 17:00 we will hold our annual General Assembly for the past year 2020. The General Assembly normally was part of the CHOOSE Forum, that usually took place in autumn. But because of the COVID pandemic last years' Forum was not organized. So we want to catch up with things. The agenda for the Zoom call will be the following: 1. President’s report 2. Treasurer’s report 3. Candidates for Elections in Autumn 2021 4. CHOOSE Forum 2021 going virtual? 5. Varia If your are interested, you are invited to attend the General Assembly via Zoom. The duration will be one hour. Here is the corresponding Zoom-Link: Topic: CHOOSE General Assembly 2020 and CHOOSE Forum 2021 Time: May 12, 2021 05:00 PM Zurich https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83130625781?pwd=Z3FuTk9LRlptb2hUZWRzbjJld2hxdz09 Meeting ID: 831 3062 5781 Passcode: 167800 Best regards Jiri Lundak President CHOOSE

2 years, 11 months

USI Hackathon 2019 - announcement

by Michele Lanza

Dear CHOOSE Members, Please note the following announcement for a Hackathon taking place in Lugano in 2 weeks. CHOOSE members do not pay any registration fee. On behalf of the CHOOSE executive board, ML *** ************************************************ *** USI Hackathon 2019 >>> Making data alive *** ************************************************ Lugano, Aula Magna USI, November 15-17, 2019 *** In a Nutshell The USI Hackathon is an open competition for students and professionals, in developing prototypes and analyzing data. It represents a first experiment in Lugano of an open data approach to share city-related data, with a total prize cachet of 10,000 CHF and the opportunity to have a real impact in future city decisions. Find out more details and register here: https://hackathon.usi.ch/ *** Topic Digitalization makes data modeling & processing a key activity. More and more data is available to citizens and organizations, facilitating their decision making process based on real data instead of feelings or perceptions. Compared to a traditional hackathon, the USI Hackathon 2019 called “Making Data Alive" has a more dynamic approach focusing on the area of "data analysis", a relevant topic both for beginners and experts in the field of information technology. *** Organizers The USI Hackathon 2019 is organised by CodeLounge (https://codelounge.si.usi.ch), the R & D Centre of the Software Institute (SI; https://si.usi.ch) of the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI; https://ww.usi.ch), with the participation of experts of different areas of research and development in the field of information technology. The event is designed in collaboration with the Lugano Living Lab of the City of Lugano (https://luganolivinglab.ch) and with Ated4Kids (https://www.ated.ch/progetto_ated4kids.php), having thus educational, societal, and territorial impact. *** Structure of the event The USI Hackathon is structured into two tracks: 1. Coding Track: Teams work for 2 days on the creation and development of prototypes and/or applications leveraging the data provided; 2. Data Analysis Track: Teams compete in the production of the most insightful analysis of the data provided. *** Participants of the Hackathon The event is aimed at students, professionals, and families. Participants will be provided, for a mere 20 CHF participation fee, 2 days of hosting and food and the chance to win prizes for a grand total of 10'000 CHF. The main theme of the event “data analysis” makes the participation open and attractive not only to software developers and IT professionals but also to analysts and data scientists. For families is intended the age group 10–15 for the initiative “mini-hackathon” promoted by Ated4Kids. For this initiative there will be a special competition dedicated to children with its dedicated jury and an award ceremony at the end of the event. *** Evaluation of the outcomes At the end of the two-day "marathon", a jury composed of companies (including sponsors and data providers), organizations, and experts from various fields will evaluate and award the best teams which have: 1. Made the most interesting prototype/application; 2. Proposed the most relevant data analysis; 3. Created the most original "junior project" (age group 10-15). *** Sources of data Lugano Living Lab, an initiative promoted by the City of Lugano and USI, aims at offering a real life lab experience in an urban context by making available data related to the territory for the production of meaningful digital services/products for citizens and tourists. The City of Lugano and partner organizations provide to the participants of the hackathon anonymised (when applicable) relevant data, such as: - Demographics of the residents of the City of Lugano, provided by the statistics department of the City of Lugano. - Bike sharing flows through the City of Lugano. - Transaction data from the city of Lugano shops. - Public transport data from TPL - Data from electric car recharging stations - Usage of boat transportation on the Lugano lake from Società di Navigazione del Lago di Lugano - Other sources are being evaluated (Swisscom data, hotel occupancy information, historical meteo data) *** Contact For any inquiry please check https://hackathon.usi.ch and or contact us at hackathon2019(a)usi.ch CodeLounge @ Software Institute Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)

4 years, 5 months

CHOOSE talk: DevSecOps — Security Challenges and Solutions in the World of DevOps

by Oscar Nierstrasz

DevSecOps — Security Challenges and Solutions in the World of DevOps Date: May 02, 2018 5:15 pm - 6:00 pm Location: Uni Engehalde, E8-002 Abstract Time to market is becoming more and more critical as companies need to deliver business value faster and better. In order to meet this requirement, agility and automation are being introduced in the software development lifecycle and operations — commonly known as DevOps. This comes at a price: not only organizational challenges are huge, but also architectural and process changes have a great impact on the overall enterprise IT. And what about security? How can we address security aspects when dealing with increasing automation in the SDL and highly distributed architectures? The answer might be DevSecOps. In this talk, we explain what DevSecOps is and focus on various security challenges in an agile software development and operations context. Finally we show different approaches to tackle these challenges. Speaker 1: Christian Sanabria Christian Sanabria works as Principal Architect at ipt. Starting in development and design of JEE Applications, continuing to solution and integration architectures in complex enterprise systems, he now has almost 20 years of experience in all aspects of software engineering and architecture. At ipt Christian is mostly working in Integration, API Security and Management as well as Continuous Delivery and DevOps. Additionally, he is responsible for the Red Hat Partner Management at ipt. Speaker 2: Jacek Jonczy Jacek Jonczy is Principal Consultant at innovation process technology AG. He has many years experience in the area of enterprise security and design of security architectures. He has been building integration and api management platforms, and he is experienced in architecting and building identity and access management solutions. Jacek’s sweet spots are cyber security and IAM. His interests extend also to security aspects in the areas cloud, containers, DevOps, and IoT. Registration The talk will be followed by an apéritif sponsored by CHOOSE. Please register for this event if you plan to attend. https://goo.gl/forms/g9qE6fl2k6765lul1 Link to this event: https://choose.swissinformatics.org/events/devsecops-security-challenges-an…

6 years

CHOOSE Forum 2017 on Software & Data Engineering

by Bavota Gabriele

CHOOSE Forum 2017 on “Software & Data Engineering” We are pleased to invite you to the CHOOSE Forum 2017 to be held on November 17, 2017 in Zurich. The full-day event will feature five high-profile speakers: - Prof. Mark Harman, Engineering manager at Facebook, UK - Dr. Thomas Zimmermann, Senior Researcher at Microsoft, USA - Dr. Vadim Zaytsev, Chief Science Officer of Raincode, Netherlands - Prof. Ahmed E. Hassan, Canada Research Chair in Software Analytics, and NSERC/BlackBerry Software Engineering Chair at the School of Computing at Queen's University, Canada - Prof. Alessandra Gorla, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain More details together with the registration form can be found on the official webpage: http://choose.s-i.ch/events/forum2017/ The CHOOSE Forum 2017 is organized jointly by the Software Institute (https://si.usi.ch) and the SEAL Research Group (http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/seal.html), on behalf of CHOOSE (http://www.choose.s-i.ch)

6 years, 6 months

2017 LASER summer school - call for participation

by Harald Gall

This CfP forwarded on behalf of Bertrand Meyer: The 2017 LASER summer school (https://www.laser-foundation.org/ <https://www.laser-foundation.org/>) will be devoted to Software for Robotics. It takes place from 9 to 17 September in the exceptional setting of the Hotel del Golfo in Procchio, Elba Island, Italy. Robotics is progressing at an amazing pace, bringing improvements to almost areas of human activity. Today’s robotics systems rely ever more fundamentally on complex software, raising difficult issues. The LASER 2017 summer school both covers the current state of robotics software technology and open problems. The lecturers are top international experts with both theoretical contributions and major practical achievements in developing robotics systems. The LASER school is intended for professionals from the industry (engineers and managers) as well as university researchers, including PhD students. Participants learn about the most important software technology advances from the pioneers in the field. The school’s focus is applied, although theory is welcome to establish solid foundations. The format of the school favors extensive interaction between participants and speakers. We have lined up an impressive roster of speakers from the leading edge of both industry and academia: • Rodolphe Gélin, Aldebaran Robotics • Ashish Kapoor, Microsoft Research • Davide Brugali, University of Bergamo, on Managing software variability in robotic control systems • Nenad Medvidovic, University of Southern California, on Software Architectures of Robotics Systems • Bertrand Meyer, Politecnico di Milano & Innopolis University, on Concurrent Object-Oriented Robotics Software • Issa Nesnas, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, on Experiences from robotic software development for research and planetary flight robots • Hiroshi (“Gitchang”) Okuno, Waseda University & Kyoto University, on Open-Sourced Robot Audition Software HARK: Capabilities and Applications The school takes place at the magnificent Hotel del Golfo (http://www.hoteldelgolfo.it/ <http://www.hoteldelgolfo.it/>) in the Gulf of Procchio, Elba. Along with an intensive scientific program, participants will have time to enjoy the countless natural and cultural riches of this wonderful, history-laden jewel of the Mediterranean. The deadline for benefitting from early registration fees is April 30th. For more information about the school, the speakers and registration see the LASER site at https://www.laser-foundation.org/ <https://www.laser-foundation.org/>.

6 years, 11 months

REMINDER -- CHOOSE Talk Tuesday Nov 15 -- Dissecting State-of-the-Art Android Malware Using Static and Dynamic Analysis

by Oscar Nierstrasz

Dear Colleagues, Please register if you would like to attend this CHOOSE talk (and apero) tomorrow. Kind regards, Oscar Nierstrasz --- Prof. Dr. O. Nierstrasz -- oscar(a)inf.unibe.ch Software Composition Group -- http://scg.unibe.ch University of Bern -- Tel +41 31 631 4618 > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Oscar Nierstrasz <oscar(a)inf.unibe.ch> > Subject: [INF-all] CHOOSE Talk Tuesday Nov 15 -- Dissecting State-of-the-Art Android Malware Using Static and Dynamic Analysis > Date: 8 November 2016 at 16:02:01 GMT+1 > To: <inf-staff(a)list.inf.unibe.ch> > > > You are cordially invited to the following CHOOSE talk: > > Dissecting State-of-the-Art Android Malware Using Static and Dynamic Analysis > > Speaker: Steven Arzt > > Please register here: https://goo.gl/forms/lYnMhC5u0QPeoFpu2 > > When: Tuesday Nov 15 @ 17h00-18h00 > > The talk will be followed by a light aperitif. > > Where: University of Bern, Engehaldenstrasse 8, 3012 Bern, Room 001 > > Abstract: > > Android malware is getting more and more sophisticated. So-called "sleeper" applications only trigger their malicious behavior after a certain time has passed or event has happened, effectively evading many dynamic analysis techniques. Other techniques include integrity checks as well as detectors for emulators, rooted devices, and hooks. If any such sign is detected, the malware refrains from its actual malicious behavior. For countering static analyses, these apps apply code encryption, packers, and code obfuscators. Together, these features render most automated analyses ineffective, leaving a manual analysis as the only viable option — a very difficult and time-consuming undertaking. > > To alleviate the problem, we propose CodeInspect, a new integrated reverse-engineering environment extending the Eclipse IDE and targeting sophisticated state-of-the-art malware apps for Android. CodeInspect not only features an interactive debugger that can work on the bytecode level, but also various static and dynamic analyses that support the human analyst. One can display data flows inside the app, check which permissions are used where in the code, what strings are computed or decrypted at runtime, which code is dynamically loaded and more. Reverse engineers can even add new Java source classes or projects into the application, which can then be called from the original app’s code. This is especially useful when implementing decryption methods which can be directly tested in place. > > > Bio: > > Steven Arzt's core research topics are static and dynamic analysis of Java programs as well as applications on the Android mobile platform. > > He is one of the current maintainers of the Soot open-source program analysis framework. Soot is an ideal basis for developing static analyses for Android and Java application as well as for instrumenting these apps for runtime monitoring. Furthermore, he is the maintainer of the FlowDroid static data flow tracker which is used in various research projects around the world. > > This event is free for all SI-CHOOSE members. Non members are encouraged to join: > > http://www.s-i.ch/en/members/ > > > > Kind regards, > Oscar Nierstrasz > --- > Prof. Dr. O. Nierstrasz -- oscar(a)inf.unibe.ch > Software Composition Group -- http://scg.unibe.ch > University of Bern -- Tel +41 31 631 4618 > > > > -- > CHOOSE News is a *moderated* mailing list for > announcing non-commercial events related to > Object Technology in Switzerland. > To learn more about CHOOSE, see: http://www.choose.s-i.ch/ > > _______________________________________________ > inf-staff mailing list > inf-staff(a)list.inf.unibe.ch > https://www.list.inf.unibe.ch/listinfo/inf-staff

7 years, 5 months

CHOOSE Talk Tuesday Nov 15 -- Dissecting State-of-the-Art Android Malware Using Static and Dynamic Analysis

by Oscar Nierstrasz

You are cordially invited to the following CHOOSE talk: Dissecting State-of-the-Art Android Malware Using Static and Dynamic Analysis Speaker: Steven Arzt Please register here: https://goo.gl/forms/lYnMhC5u0QPeoFpu2 When: Tuesday Nov 15 @ 17h00-18h00 The talk will be followed by a light aperitif. Where: University of Bern, Engehaldenstrasse 8, 3012 Bern, Room 001 Abstract: Android malware is getting more and more sophisticated. So-called "sleeper" applications only trigger their malicious behavior after a certain time has passed or event has happened, effectively evading many dynamic analysis techniques. Other techniques include integrity checks as well as detectors for emulators, rooted devices, and hooks. If any such sign is detected, the malware refrains from its actual malicious behavior. For countering static analyses, these apps apply code encryption, packers, and code obfuscators. Together, these features render most automated analyses ineffective, leaving a manual analysis as the only viable option — a very difficult and time-consuming undertaking. To alleviate the problem, we propose CodeInspect, a new integrated reverse-engineering environment extending the Eclipse IDE and targeting sophisticated state-of-the-art malware apps for Android. CodeInspect not only features an interactive debugger that can work on the bytecode level, but also various static and dynamic analyses that support the human analyst. One can display data flows inside the app, check which permissions are used where in the code, what strings are computed or decrypted at runtime, which code is dynamically loaded and more. Reverse engineers can even add new Java source classes or projects into the application, which can then be called from the original app’s code. This is especially useful when implementing decryption methods which can be directly tested in place. Bio: Steven Arzt's core research topics are static and dynamic analysis of Java programs as well as applications on the Android mobile platform. He is one of the current maintainers of the Soot open-source program analysis framework. Soot is an ideal basis for developing static analyses for Android and Java application as well as for instrumenting these apps for runtime monitoring. Furthermore, he is the maintainer of the FlowDroid static data flow tracker which is used in various research projects around the world. This event is free for all SI-CHOOSE members. Non members are encouraged to join: http://www.s-i.ch/en/members/ Kind regards, Oscar Nierstrasz --- Prof. Dr. O. Nierstrasz -- oscar(a)inf.unibe.ch Software Composition Group -- http://scg.unibe.ch University of Bern -- Tel +41 31 631 4618

7 years, 5 months

CHOOSE Talk Tuesday Nov 1 -- Continuous Architecting of Stream-Based Systems

by CHOOSE-SI

You are cordially invited to the following CHOOSE talk: Continuous Architecting of Stream-Based Systems Speaker: Pooyan Jamshidi Please register here: https://goo.gl/Hx8O5x When: Tuesday Nov 1 @ 17h00-18h00 The talk will be followed by a light aperitif. Where: University of Bern, Engehaldenstrasse 8, 3012 Bern, Room 001 Abstract: Big data architectures have been gaining momentum in recent years. For instance, Twitter uses stream processing frameworks like Storm to analyse billions of tweets per minute and learn the trending topics. However, architectures that process big data involve many different components interconnected via semantically different connectors making it a difficult task for software architects to refactor the initial designs. As an aid to designers and developers, we developed OSTIA (On-the-fly Static Topology Inference Analysis) that allows: (a) visualizing big data architectures for the purpose of design-time refactoring while maintaining constraints that would only be evaluated at later stages such as deployment and run-time; (b) detecting the occurrence of common anti-patterns across big data architectures; (c) exploiting software verification techniques on the elicited architectural models. In the lecture, OSTIA will be shown on three industrial-scale case studies. Bio: Pooyan Jamshidi is a postdoctoral research associate in software engineering in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London, since March 2015. Prior to this, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Dublin City University (DCU), and a research assistant with IC4 and Lero. He obtained a PhD in Computing from DCU in 2014 under the supervision of Dr Claus Pahl. He received the BS and MS degrees in computer science and systems engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology, in 2003 and 2006, respectively. His general research interests are in the field of Software Engineering and his focus lies in the areas of self-adaptive software, machine learning, fuzzy control and big data. This event is free for all SI-CHOOSE members. Non members are encouraged to join: http://www.s-i.ch/en/members/ --- CHOOSE-SI -- Swiss Group for Original and Outside-the-box Software Engineering Swiss Informatics Society -- choose.si.ch(a)gmail.com -- http://www.choose.s-i.ch

7 years, 6 months

CHOOSE Forum on Microservices - September 9 - Zurich

by Tudor Girba

Dear members of CHOOSE, We are pleased to invite you to the CHOOSE Forum to be held on September 9, 2016 in Zurich: http://choose.s-i.ch/events/forum2016 (Department of Informatics, University of Zurich - Binzmühlestrasse 14, 8050 Zürich) The full day event will feature four talks and an apero for open space discussions. The speaker lineup feature: - Neal Ford - Software Architect, ThoughtWorks - Stefan Tilkov - Principal Consultant, innoQ - Dr. Philipp Leitner - University of Zurich - Kevlin Henney - Independent Consultant This year, the event will again include several short improv interventions led by Stefan Stahl from Future Now. Furthermore, the day features the CHOOSE General Assembly, including reports from the President and the Treasurer. More details together with the registration form can be found on the official webpage: http://choose.s-i.ch/events/forum2016 (the Early Bird registration date is August 29) We hope to see many of you at the Forum! Kind regards, The CHOOSE Board

7 years, 8 months

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