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EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Call for Papers - 1st Workshop on Life with Wearables in Smart Rooms (LIFEWEAR2018)

by Karsten Wendt

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPER --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st Workshop on Life with Wearables in Smart Rooms (LIFEWEAR2018) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Website: http://st.inf.tu-dresden.de/LIFEWEAR-2018 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In conjunction with the Smart System Integration Conference 2018 in Dresden, April 11, 2018 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- With the advent of standard sensor-actuator platforms for wearable devices, such smart watches (e.g., Apple Watch), smartglasses (e.g., Microsoft Hololens), smart clothing (e.g., data gloves), exoskeletons, and many more, people carry multiple devices simultaneously. This trend imposes completely new challenges to software engineers w.r.t. adaptivity, distribution, interaction, system integration, data handling, resiliency, security, software architectures and software evolution. In our understanding, future wearable systems will be highly dynamic w.r.t. a) the involved hardware components, as the user can change the components freely and independently b) the context, as it can be decided to change or switch the use case or the technological environment, and c) the software, as also the applications evolve quickly and the underlying software systems for the wearables require technologies for continuous adaptions and updates. Software engineering helps to design and develop complex systems by automating the development process concentrating on different levels of abstraction. Model-driven techniques must be established to improve the quality (e.g., re-usability, reliability, maintainability) of the developed wearable systems. Because hardware and software interact tightly, new skills and processes are required when designing and implementing solutions based on wearable devices. In addition, the integration of wearable devices with other smart devices installed in the environment (e.g., sensors in a room) requires that the system architecture is highly dynamic. Therefore, there is a need for a new paradigm of software and system development for wearables in smart rooms, based on sensor nets, fog, and edge computing. This trend suggests establishing a new joint community of researchers from sensor nets and software engineering. The LIFEWEAR workshop aims to bring together researchers and practioneers from the communities interested in wearables, to present current approaches w.r.t. software engineering of wearable devices, gather requirements for future wearable systems and develop a roadmap for software enginnering for wearables. This includes the following research areas ■ Model-driven software development for wearable systems ■ Innovative interaction approaches of humans with wearables ■ Interactions of wearables with machines (e.g., robots) ■ End-user application development ■ Embedding of wearables into a fog or edge of a smart room ■ Sensor data analytics and data aggregation ■ Technical approaches to ensure data security and privacy ■ Total cost of ownership of wearable systems --------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------- EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE - January 28th, 2018 Submission Deadline - January 28th, 2018 Notification - February 11th, 2018 Camera Ready - March 11th, 2018 Workshop - April 12th, 2018 ---------------------- SUBMISSION INFORMATION ---------------------- Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format via EasyChair ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lifewear2018). Submitted papers must conform to the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Submissions to the workshop are possible in two categories: ■ Regular Papers schould describe original work on a problem or solution w.r.t the described topics of interest on up to fifteen pages. ■ Interested workshop participants will have to submit a position paper (two to four pages) containing a description of the area of research, specifc work on the workshop topic, and the innovative character of the research. The accepted papers will be digitally published in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings. ---------- ORGANIZERS ---------- Karsten Wendt, Technische Universität Dresden Uwe Aßmann, Technische Universität Dresden Maria Piechnick, Technische Universität Dresden For more Information please visit http://st.inf.tu-dresden.de/LIFEWEAR-2018/

6 years, 4 months

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CFP: 1st International Workshop on Software Health (SoHeal 2018)

by Eleni CONSTANTINOU

SoHeal 2018 The 1st International Workshop on Software Health @ ICSE 2018 https://soheal.github.io/ https://twitter.com/iw_soheal May 27, 2018 Gothenburg, Sweden INTRODUCTION Factors impacting software health can vary depending on the viewpoint of the involved stakeholders: process factors, technical factors concerning the source code and related software artefacts, social factors concerning the communities of software contributors and users, and business factors concerning commercial aspects of the software product. Because of this variety, there is no clear definition of what constitutes software health, since it encompasses many different development and evolution attributes, including success, longevity, growth, resilience, survival, diversity, sustainability, etc. As can be witnessed by recent initiatives such as the Linux Foundation’s CHAOSS project on community health analytics, the research community and the industry have realized the need for a socio-technical perspective concerning software health. Such a perspective is challenging, due to the volatile storage of information regarding social relations, conflicts and interactions. There is a need to find better methods, techniques and tools to monitor software health, as well as to predict and take corrective measures when health implications arise. Finally, a project's health should also consider the health of the ecosystem in which the project participates to obtain a holistic view of software health. Thus, a better understanding is needed of how the health metrics, indicators and their operationalization can be aggregated from project-level to ecosystem level. CALL FOR PAPERS SoHeal aims to enable and promote collaboration between academia and industry, unifying the views on software health of researchers and practitioners. The workshop's goals are to: (1) raise awareness of practitioners' problems with software health; (2) familiarize practitioners with the progress made by academia; and (3) connect the two communities to further advance the body of knowledge and state of the practice on software health. TOPICS of INTEREST (non-exclusive) - social, technical and business aspects of software health - software health at the individual, team or community level - software health at the software project or ecosystem level - open source vs. industrial experiences with software health - software health definition and modelling - software health measurement and assessment - qualitative or quantitative studies about software health - prediction or recommendation models to predict health issues or improve health - software health tools and dashboards (e.g. for analytics and visualization) TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS We invite two types of contributions: full position papers of 6 to 8 pages (including figures, tables and references), or extended abstracts of 1 to 2 pages reporting on practitioner's or industrial experience. Submissions must follow the ACM formatting instructions and should be submitted using the EasyChair link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=soheal2018 IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: January 29, 2018 Paper submission: February 5, 2018 Notification: March 5, 2018 Camera Ready: March 15, 2018 Workshop: Sunday, May 27, 2018 COMMITTEES Organizing Committee - Bram Adams, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada <bram.adams(a)polymtl.ca> - Eleni Constantinou, University of Mons, Belgium <eleni.constantinou(a)umons.ac.be> - Tom Mens, University of Mons, Belgium <tom.mens(a)umons.ac.be> - Gregorio Robles, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain <grex(a)gsyc.urjc.es> Program Committee - Christian Bird, Microsoft Research, USA - Kelly Blincoe, University of Auckland, New Zealand - Jan Bosch, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden - Marcelo Cataldo, Uber Advanced Technologies Group - Daniel German, University of Victoria, Canada - Matt Germonprez, University of Nebraska Omaha, USA - Sean Goggins, University of Missouri, USA - Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona, Bitergia, Spain - Slinger Jansen, University of Utrecht, Netherlands - Raula Gaikovina Kula, Osaka University, Japan - Josianne Marsan, Laval University, Canada - Wolfgang Mauerer, Siemens/OTH Regensburg, Germany - Alexander Serebrenik, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands - Leif Singer, Automattic, Canada - Margaret-Anne Storey, University of Victoria, Canada - Damian A. Tamburri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Bogdan Vasilescu, Carnegie Mellon University, USA - Robert Visteur, University of Mons, Belgium - Stefano Zacchiroli, University of Paris-Diderot, France

6 years, 4 months

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Post-Doc position in migration of legacy software though data mining

by Kim Mens

Job offer : 1 Post-Doc position within the "Intelligent Modernisation Assistance for Legacy Software (INTiMALS)" project at Université catholique de Louvain (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), in collaboration with Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB, Brussels, Belgium) and Raincode Labs (Brussels, Belgium) Start date: January 1, 2018 Duration: 3 years https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/icteam/ingi/news/ucl-open-post-… The INTiMALS project is a collaboration between an industrial partner specialised in modernising legacy software systems (Raincode Labs, https://www.raincodelabs.com) and two universities (the Université catholique de Louvain, UCL and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, VUB). It aims to investigate, apply and integrate data mining techniques in a prototype of an intelligent software modernisation assistant tool for Raincode’s developers. Researchers at UCL and VUB will contribute their expertise in software development technology, language engineering and source code analysis. UCL will contribute its expertise in the development and use of data mining algorithms. The project aims to develop novel pattern mining algorithms that can be applied on repositories of legacy software, and to deploy these algorithms in an intelligent modernisation assistant. The assistant continuously mines for previously unknown patterns in the current state and structure of the system’s source code (programming idioms, coding conventions, library usage protocols) and in changes made to this code (systematic edits, repetitive changes), and provides recommendations based on these patterns. The aim is to represent the data in the form of a graph; as a result, the use and development of pattern and graph mining techniques will be a core component of the project. Ideally, we are looking for a candidate with following qualifications: - You have expertise in the development of data mining algorithms. - You have an interest in the development and use of pattern or graph mining algorithms. - You have an interest in analysing source code and version repositories. - You have an interest in working in collaboration with industry. - You have some publications in conferences or journals in either data mining, software engineering or both. - You are in possession of a PhD in computer science. - You have good academic writing and presentation skills. - You have good knowledge of the English language. - (being able to understand some French is handy but NOT an explicit requirement) - You have the ability to work both individually and as part of a team. The post-doc position is a full-time equivalent position and the salary is based on official salary scales for post-docs in Belgium, taking into account the number of years of prior experience you have as a post-doc. The project is for three years. How to apply? Applications should be made in a PDF file and should contain the following: 1) A short cover letter that describes the candidate's qualifications and motivations for applying to this specific position and for this particular project. 2) A curriculum vitae that includes a list of publications. 3) Two sample publications, preferably related to the topic of the position. 4) A transcript of grades prior to the PhD and a copy of the PhD certificate. 5) If possible a recommendation letter of a known referent. 6) Any other information that may convince us to select you. Applications should be made by sending us a mail with “INTiMALS application : <your name>” in the subject field. This mail should be sent to BOTH of the following email addresses: Kim Mens, kim.mens(a)uclouvain.be<mailto:kim.mens@uclouvain.be> Siegfried Nijssen, siegfried.nijssen(a)uclouvain.be<mailto:siegfried.nijssen@uclouvain.be> For more information, don’t hesitate to send us a mail. P.S. Candidates not retained for this position may want to apply to an equivalent position at the partner university. (But will undergo an independent evaluation process there.)

6 years, 5 months

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Open faculty position in Big Data Analytics at UMONS

by Tom MENS

Hello all, Here is an announcement for a new opening for a full-time tenure track position in our department in the field of big data analytics. We are looking for excellent candidates in this research field. Best regards, Tom Mens. ==== Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Big Data Analytics at the Computer Science Department of the University of Mons The University of Mons announces the opening of a full-time tenure-track faculty position at the assistant professor level. This position has a start date of September 1, 2018. In a first stage, the person will be appointed for a period of three years, which can be extended with two extra years. The definitive appointment will be decided during or at the end of this period. The appointed person will take the lead of a new research group in the Department of Informatics in the Faculty of Sciences. Qualified candidates must have a doctorate in disciplines related to computer science or computer engineering, and should have an outstanding research record in the field of Big Data Analytics. The selected person will develop research and teaching activities in this domain, will collaborate with existing research groups of the Department of Informatics, and will be active in fundraising for industrial and governmental projects. The teaching duties include the following: • teaching activities in big data analytics (30 hours of lectures + 15 hours of practical work) at the Bachelor level in Computer Science; • teaching activities in big data analytics (30 hours of lectures + 30 hours of practical work) at the Master level in Computer Science; • teaching activities in seminars in Computer Science (30 hours of seminars) at the Bachelor and Master levels in Computer Science. Some of these teaching activities are also part of the curriculum in Mathematics, both at the Bachelor and Master level, and can be taken by students in other disciplines. Additional teaching duties will be assigned so that the appointed person will eventually have the same teaching load as other faculty members in the Department of Informatics. The appointed person will also be active in teaching activities at the campus of the University of Mons in the city of Charleroi, in the evening Master program in Computer Science. The appointed person should be capable to teach in the French and the English language. An appointed person who is not francophone, should be capable of teaching in the French language within a period of at most two years, starting at September 1, 2018. Candidate letters, written in the French language, with a summary of titles, should be sent, by registered letter with request for acknowledgement of receipt, to: Monsieur le Recteur de l’Université de Mons, Place du Parc, 20, B-7000-Mons, Belgique within 30 days of the official publication of this position in the “Moniteur belge”. (See IMPORTANT NOTE below.) Candidate applications should include the following documents: a motivation letter, curriculum vitae, a list of publications (which should be electronically accessible), a plan for research in Big Data Analytics (maximum five pages), a statement outlining the candidate’s view on teaching (maximum five pages), transcripts of diplomas, a copy of the five most important publications, the names and addresses of three international experts that can serve as references. All additional information can be obtained from Prof. Christian Michaux, Dean of the Faculty of Sciences (doyen.fs(a)umons.ac.be), and from Prof. Véronique Bruyère, Head of the Department of Informatics (veronique.bruyere(a)umons.ac.be). IMPORTANT NOTE: According to the Belgian law, the preceding announcement will be published, in French, in the “Moniteur Belge” (i.e., the Belgian Official Gazette) around mid-January 2018. Applications should be made within a period of 30 days following this official publication. The Department of Informatics will announce the exact date of the official publication in the Moniteur Belge at the following web page: http://informatique.umons.ac.be/job_offers

6 years, 5 months

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Three-years Research Fellow/Assistant Professor position at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.

by Romain Robbes

Three-years Research Fellow position (RTD) at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. An RTD is the equivalent of an Assistant Professor position (fixed term, renewable) in the Italian system. The position includes the possibility to apply for funding, and a light teaching load (60 hours/year). Teaching is held in English. A Ph.D. is required. Areas of interest: Mining Software Repositories, Software Maintenance and Evolution, and Empirical Software Engineering. Deadline for applications: 21.12.2017 Salary is competitive and starts at 42,000 Euro gross per year, to which can be added bonuses based on academic performance, additional teaching, and linguistic competencies for a maximum of 66,000 Euro gross per year. A tax benefit may be provided to researchers coming from abroad. Additional personal fund for traveling (2000 Euro per year) is also offered on top of the salary, and annual university calls for research funding dedicated to RTDs can also support the researcher for travelling and research collaborations. Surroundings: Bolzano is the capital of Alto Adige/Südtirol, an autonomous and bilingual (German-Italian) region of northern Italy, bordering Austria and Switzerland. Bolzano regularly tops the rankings of quality of life among Italian cities. The university of Bolzano is situated in the very lively city center of Bolzano: the main train station is 6 min walking distance from the university. The city is surrounded by the Dolomites mountains, reachable in 30 min by train, bus, or by car. Official call: https://www.unibz.it/en/home/position-calls/positions-for-academic-staff/33… For further information, contact Prof. Romain Robbes: rrobbes(a)unibz.it

6 years, 5 months

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Call for PhD candidates in the Software Composition Group, U Bern

by Oscar Nierstrasz

Hi Folks, I am looking for several PhD students to work on Agile Software Analysis: http://scg.unibe.ch/news/2017-08-14 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

6 years, 9 months

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PhD positions in Bergen (deadline Aug 10th, 2017)

by Anya Helene Bagge

Hi, We have open PhD positions at the University of Bergen, Norway. The positions are open for any topic covered by the Department's research groups, including such things as software engineering, software (co-)evolution, IDEs and development tools, software languages, program transformation and programming theory. For the official announcement and application link, please see: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/139767/research-fellow-phd-c… Highlights: * Fully funded, 4 years incl 25% teaching * Pension rights, healthcare, 5 week vacation and other welfare rights * Starting salary is around USD 4600/month. Feel free to forward to students or other interested parties. If you're interested in doing a PhD with us on software engineering, languages or related topics, I'm happy to answer questions (anya(a)ii.uib.no) – for other information, please see the announcement. Applications can only be made through the online submission system. -anya

6 years, 9 months

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Announcing next year's SATToSE 2018

by Kim Mens

To all SATToSE-minded people, Next year’s Seminar on Advanced Techniques & Tools for Software Evolution is scheduled to take place in Athens, Greece from July 4 until July 6, 2018. It will be organised by Tushar Sharma and Diomidis Spinellis. Michel Chaudron will be our hackathon chair and Alexandre Bergel will be our PC chair. Block this date in your agendas, and make sure to think about a nice contribution to submit. More information will follow. Stay tuned. Happy summer greetings, Kim Mens, your SATToSE SC chair.

6 years, 9 months

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Part-time (50%) faculty position in computer science - Software Languages Lab in Brussels

by Kim Mens

(This moderated message was accepted for inclusion on the SATToSE mailing list given its potential relevance for the SATToSE community, since software evolution is clearly a relevant part of software engineering in general and this position thus may interest some of the SATTOSE attendees.) From: coen.de.roover(a)vub.be Subject: Part-time (50%) faculty position in computer science - Software Languages Lab in Brussels Reason: Post by non-member to a members-only list Received: Wed Jun 14 13:41:58 2017 The computer science department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel is offering a part-time position as professor to reinforce its software languages and software engineering branch. The position is published under the heading: WE/2017/001 - Senior Academic Staff - 50% – Science and Bio-Engineering Sciences - Computer Sciences – Software Language Engineering on the university's job offers website located at http://vub.talentfinder.be. The planned starting date for this position is October 1st, 2017. Contract duration is 2 academic years. The deadline for applying is July 24th, 2017. Applications should reach us through the website. The person to contact for further information is: Viviane Jonckers Software Languages Lab email: vejoncke(a)vub.ac.be phone: +32 2 629 29 67 ** Function ** - Research The selected candidate has to reinforce the research of the Software Languages Lab (SOFT - http://soft.vub.ac.be) which focusses on ‘software language engineering’. The lab is active in programming language research and software engineering research. We are specifically looking for a candidate who can link these two domains, e.g. by designing new language features or language extensions with a specific focus on modern software engineering problems or by studying the software engineering aspects that emerge from new “nearly mainstream” languages such as Scala, Clojure, Julia, etc. The candidate’s research methodology can be formalism-based, artefact-driven, or experimental. Candidates whose academic track record shows the ability to combine several methodologies are explicitly welcome. - Teaching The teaching assignment may include both general courses on bachelor or master level and more specialized courses on MA level. The exact course list will be negotiated with the candidate and will depend on his/her expertise and language skills. - Other The selected candidate will by preference endorse the tradition of the Software Language Lab to focus on interpreted languages with dynamic typing, reflection, modern concurrency models, built-in distribution, etc. The selected candidate will be included into the management structure of the Software Languages Lab and is expected to actively contribute to the operational aspects and to the further development of the lab. This implies the guidance of PhD and master students, but also starting new projects and applying for funding. ** Profile ** - Ph.D. in Science or Engineering in the domain of Computer Science. - The candidate can present a strong research portfolio that covers the expertise asked in the job description. - The candidate has experience with guiding PhD and/or master students. He/she has a proven track record or demonstrable potential for launching new research and for seeking the funds to support it. - The candidate is expected to endorse the educational vision of the university (full text available on the university website). - Every first appointment is dependent upon the successful delivery of a teaching session. - Members of academic faculty with teaching duties are required to prove their command of the teaching language. E.g.: for teaching in English the candidate provides evidence of proficiency in English at C1 level by submitting a language certificate (or a waiver). - Female candidates are particularly encouraged to apply. ** Additional Information ** - The candidate selected for the 50% faculty position must be available at the university for a period corresponding to two and a half days per week. A regular presence is required to allow for sufficient integration with the research activities of the lab. - The opportunity exists to combine the 50% faculty position with a 50% researcher position on running projects such that the candidate has a full-time position in the Software Languages Lab. Alternatively, the 50% faculty position can be combined with a position at another research lab, as long as a sufficient availability of the candidate for the Software Languages Lab is guaranteed.

6 years, 11 months

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PhD Scholarship in the Software Engineering

by Mircea Filip Lungu

Call for PhD Candidates in the Software Engineering at the University of Groningen Within the context of the University PhD Scholarships Programme, applications are invited for an opening in the Software Engineering and Architecture Research Group at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. In the Scholarship Programme, selected prospective PhD students are invited to write their own PhD research proposal in collaboration with an expert PhD supervisor from the University of Groningen with whom they want to work. As a PhD scholarship student you have the opportunity to let your curiosity drive your research at the boundaries of knowledge. More details about the programme are available online. [1] The Software Engineering and Architecture Research Group carries research in software engineering with a focus on architecture, evolution analysis, and intelligent tools for software development. We are interested in particular in candidates who have a strong background and interest in one of the following research directions: - software analysis - software visualization - program understanding - software ecosystem evolution - accelerating knowledge acquisition - run-time monitoring of software systems The University of Groningen, one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands, is home to a vibrant international student body. The university constantly ranks in the top 100 universities in the world. The city of Groningen has an active cultural scene and the university sports center offers a wide range of athletic activities. To apply, please send an email, including a short statement of research interest and CV with at least two references to Dr. Mircea Lungu m.f.lungu(a)rug.nl by June 30, 2017. [1] http://www.rug.nl/education/phd-programmes/phd-scholarship-programme/ --- Dipl. Ing. Mircea F. Lungu, PhD Assistant Professor Computer Science Johann Bernoulli Institute University of Groningen

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