May 2025 - SEG-staff - INF Mailman

Fwd: RSE: First in Person Event - Save the Date
by Timo Kehrer 05 Jun '25

05 Jun '25

Dear all, Please find below an invitation to an event by the RSE (Research Software Engineering) division of our UniBE Data Science Lab. There are also activities on forming an RSE community across Switzerland, similar to the ones that have been already established in DE and UK. Unfortunately, I cannot join the event below, but I would like to see SEG somehow represented there ;-) Who has time and would be willing to go? (also fine to be there with 2 or 3 people) Best, Timo -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: RSE: First in Person Event - Save the Date Datum: Wed, 28 May 2025 10:03:34 +0200 Von: Kovtun, Viktor (DSL) <viktor.kovtun(a)unibe.ch> An: Kehrer, Timo Benjamin (INF) <timo.kehrer(a)unibe.ch> Hi Timo So this is the invitation to the event I mentioned. There will be two talks and the apero afterwards. There is also a calendar file in the attachment. Regarding my availability of June, from what I can see, it's probably only on 30th. But my calendar is much more free from 7th July onward. 3rd July is also a possibility. Please tell me which day works for you, and I can just save the date. Thank you, Viktor ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are happy to announce the first in person RSE meeting on *5 June 2025* at *15:30 - 17:00* at the University of Bern in *H4 115 *(main building at Hochschulstrasse 4). There will be two presentations: 1. *BORIS Portal - Present your Research* by /Sumanghalyah Suntharam/. BORIS Portal <https://boris-portal.unibe.ch/> links publications, research data, projects and researchers at the University of Bern together in an integrated system. As a research information system and institutional repository, it increases the visibility and transparency of scientific work. 2. *REDCap - Advantages and Limits* by /Muriel Helmers/ and /Flurina Jenal/. Are you planning to collect structured data at multiple locations? To conduct an online survey for your research project? Do you need a secure database or data entry in multiple languages? REDCap <https://project-redcap.org/> might be the right tool to check before writing your own programming code. We will give you an introduction and live session to REDCap, inform what services you can get for free at Uni Bern and what documentation is available to you. After the event, there will be an *apero*, where the participants can enjoy having a conversation in an informal atmosphere with a snack and a drink. Please register at the registration page <https://www.dsl.unibe.ch/lab/rse_community/first_in_person_meeting_registra…> and import the invitation (ICS file in the attachment) into your calendar. Looking forward to see you there. Regards, -- _____________________________ University of Bern Data Science Lab Interfaculty Core Facility Viktor Kovtun Scientific Employee (Research Software) Muesmattstrasse 27 3012 Bern Switzerland Telephone +41 31 684 58 27 viktor.kovtun(a)unibe.ch <mailto:viktor.kovtun@unibe.ch> http://www.dsl.unibe.ch/ <https://www.dsl.unibe.ch/>

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Compiler Construction Exam: Supervision on June 6
by Timo Kehrer 30 May '25

30 May '25

Dear all, I need one more person for assissting Jan-Andrea and me in the Compiler Construction Exam on June 6, 10:00 - 11:30 (room 001 in Engehalde E8). This can be anybody, only external PhD students are excluded from this call for support ;-) Best, Timo

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Software Engineering Seminar Spring 2025. Deadlines
by Timo Kehrer 23 May '25

23 May '25

Dear all, Since not all the students will present their work already on May 27 / June 3, we can have presentations even later. However, there are some deadlines we have to respect if the grading should count for Spring Semester 2025. In particular, the latest deadline I could negotiate with the JMCS coordinator is August 20. This is only for our Master's students, we can stretch until mid of September for the Bachelor students. Please just keep this in mind for the planning. Best, Timo

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Software Engineering Seminar Presentations
by Timo Kehrer 20 May '25

20 May '25

Dear all, below, please find the invitation we just sent to the seminar students for the presentations on May 27 and June 3. Needless to say that all SEG members are very much encouraged to join the talks and discussions. Please note that there are still a few free slots on June 3, if you have further seminar students who want to present The "master plan" is in our GitLab: https://gitlab.inf.unibe.ch/SEG/team/courses/seminar-software-engineering/s… Best, Timo ---- Liebe Studierende Am Dienstag, 27. Mai, finden zwischen 08:30 und 12:00 die ersten Abschlusspräsentationen der Seminararbeiten sowie einige Zwischenpräsentationen laufender Bachelor-/Masterarbeiten statt. Eine weitere Präsentationsrunde folgt am Dienstag, 3. Juni. Siehe aktuelles Programm in der Tabelle unten. Alle Präsentationen finden im Raum 111 (Engehalde 8) statt. Die Teilnahme bietet die Möglichkeit, interessante Projekte kennenzulernen, sich fachlich auszutauschen und Anregungen für eigene (zukünftigen) Arbeiten zu gewinnen. Wir freuen uns, wenn Sie die Sessions vor Ort besuchen und sich aktiv an den Diskussionen beteiligen. Freundliche Grüsse Timo Kehrer ---English version--- Dear students On Tuesday, May 27, between 08:30 and 12:00, the first final presentations of the seminar papers as well as some intermediate presentations of ongoing bachelor's/master's theses will take place. Another round of presentations will follow on Tuesday, June 3. See current program in the table below. All presentations will take place in room 111 (Engehalde 8). Participation offers the opportunity to get to know interesting projects, to exchange ideas and to gain suggestions for one's own (future) work. We warmly encourage you to attend the sessions in person and actively engage in the discussions. Best regards Timo Kehrer *Day* *Start* *Ende* *Presenter(s)* *Topic* 27. May 08:30 09:00 Martin Stojkovski Feasibility of Partial Merging 09:00 09:30 Yannik Stürmlin Detecting Third-Party Libraries in Android Applications at Runtime 09:30 10:00 Dario Kaufmann Detecting Third-Party Libraries in Android Applications at Runtime 10:00 10:30 Simon Egli CBOM Evaluation and Benchmarking for Cryptographic Inventories 10:30 11:00 Christine Groux, Michael Kaiser A Watchtower for Discovering the Nostr Ecosystem 11:00 11:30 Mohammad Eglil Understanding the Bitcoin Ecosystem: A Graph-Based Exploration of BIPs 11:30 12:00 Sinthuja Vijayananthan An Investigation of Location Privacy in Mobile Applications 12:00 12:30 Kian Sahafi A Reproducibility Study on Merge Conflict Resolution Recommendation 03. June 08:30 09:00 tbd 09:00 09:30 Jan Koch Mobile Multiplayer Quiz Game for Pediatric Medical 09:30 10:00 tbd 10:00 10:30 Sophie Maudonnet Detecting Third-Party Libraries in Android Applications at Runtime 10:30 11:00 tbd 11:00 11:30 tbd 11:30 12:00 Maurice Amon LLM-based Segmentation of Source Code

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Fwd: WG: UZH Department of Informatics - PhD Summer School 23 June - 27 June 2025
by Timo Kehrer 20 May '25

20 May '25

... colleagues from ZH are organizing a summer school, please see below. Topics sound interesting, though I do not know the speakers. If you want to join, let me know. Please note that you can also just book single days. Best, Timo -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: WG: UZH Department of Informatics - PhD Summer School 23 June - 27 June 2025 Datum: Tue, 20 May 2025 11:26:19 +0200 Von: Grunder, Priska (INF) <priska.grunder(a)unibe.ch> An: INF-DG-DOSI <dosi.inf(a)unibe.ch> Dear all Not sure who it concerns – see below announcement FYI Best regards, Priska *Von:*Karin Sigg <sigg(a)ifi.uzh.ch> *Gesendet:* Dienstag, 20. Mai 2025 10:56 *An:* Karin Sigg <sigg(a)ifi.uzh.ch> *Betreff:* UZH Department of Informatics - PhD Summer School 23 June - 27 June 2025 Sie erhalten nicht häufig E-Mails von sigg(a)ifi.uzh.ch. Erfahren Sie, warum dies wichtig ist <https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification> (Please forward to the targeted group of people) Dear All It's our pleasure to announce that we have organized a PhD Summer School from 23 June to 27 June 2025. The link for the titles, topics and speakers and the registration can be found at: https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/studies/phd/summer-schools/summerschool2025.html <https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/studies/phd/summer-schools/summerschool2025.html> The Summer School is open to doctoral and post-doctoral students in Informatics and related fields from the University of Zurich as well as from other universities. For interested parties, the registration is now also open on a first-come-first-serve basis. Ticket prizes per course day are CHF 100.- . Please make sure, you register for each workshop you are interested in separately. We are looking forward to welcome you at our IfI Summer School. Kind regards, Prof. Elaine Huang, Ph.D. Karin Sigg and Daniela Bärtschi *Program Overview - IfI Summer School 2025* */Monday, 23 June/* /Prof. Anamaria Crisan, PhD/ /Designing AI Agents for Collaborative Data Analysis/ */Tuesday, 24 June/* /Prof. Tülin Kaman, PhD/ /The Art of Scientific Computing/ */Wednesday, 25 June/* /Prof. Dr. Aisling O'Kane/ /The Real World Use and Non-Use of Care Technologies/ */Thursday, 26 June/* /Ronald Robertson, PhD/ /Understanding the Impact of Online Platforms/ */Friday, 27 June/* /Prof. Dr. Douglas Potter/ /GPU code Optimisation with CUDA/ https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/studies/phd/summer-schools/summerschool2025.html <https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/studies/phd/summer-schools/summerschool2025.html> https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en.html <https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en.html> Kind Regards Karin Sigg Study Coordination -------------------------------------------- University of Zurich Karin Sigg Department of Informatics Binzmühlestrasse 14 8050 Zürich +41 44 635 45 69 http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/ <http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/> sigg(a)ifi.uzh.ch Office 2.B.11 usual days at work: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday morning, Thursday morning https://facebook.com/uzh.ifi/ <https://facebook.com/uzh.ifi/> https://instagram.com/uzh_ifi/ <https://instagram.com/uzh_ifi/> https://linkedin.com/company/uzh-ifi/ <https://linkedin.com/company/uzh-ifi/> https://x.com/uzh_ifi <https://x.com/uzh_ifi>

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Fwd: XP conference volunteers needed
by Timo Kehrer 15 May '25

15 May '25

Dear all, this year, the 26th International Conference on Agile Software Development (XP 2025) will take place in Brugg, not far from here. The colleagues serving on the local organization team of FHNW are calling for volunteers, see below. If you are interested, just let me know. Of course, you can also approach Nitish directly, particularly in case of questions on the student volunteer duties. Best, Timo -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: XP conference volunteers needed Datum: Thu, 15 May 2025 12:10:09 +0000 Von: Nitish Patkar <nitish.patkar(a)fhnw.ch> An: Kehrer, Timo Benjamin (INF) <timo.kehrer(a)unibe.ch> Dear Timo It will be great if you could spread the message among your students. We are looking for volunteers for the XP 2025 conference. Here’s an email template we prepared: === Dear all, You may have already heard that the International Conference on Agile Software Development (XP2025) is taking place here on campus in Brugg-Windisch in June. It is one of the leading conferences in the field and offers access to the latest findings and results from research and practice in a very interesting program with exciting presentations, workshops, and keynote speakers. You can find more information here: https://conf.researchr.org/home/xp-2025 <https://conf.researchr.org/home/xp-2025> Like many conferences, these also rely on volunteers – and that's why we're looking for you. What does that mean exactly?: You'll receive a 4-day conference pass (including a conference T-shirt), get a taste of the international conference atmosphere, and meet interesting people. In return, you'll help out for at least one day. We need support with: Registration and information Catering at breakfast, during the breaks, and the post-conference aperitif Support with the sessions. It would be best if we could schedule you for a full day, but if necessary, we can split it up into two half days. Check out the program https://conf.researchr.org/program/xp-2025/program-xp-2025/ <https://conf.researchr.org/program/xp-2025/program-xp-2025/> and contact Sibylle (sibylle.peter(a)fhnw.ch) as soon as possible, preferably with information about which days/half days we can schedule you. We need 3-4 people per day, first come, first served. Of course, you are welcome to spread the word; students from other universities and universities of applied sciences or degree programs, as well as non-university helpers, are also very welcome. Thank you and best regards from the organizing committee === Best Nitish ------------------------------------------------------------ FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland School of Computer Science Institute for Interactive Technologies IIT Research associate Bahnhofstrasse 6 CH-5210 Windisch, Switzerland ------------------------------------------------------------ Email : nitish.patkar(a)fhnw.ch <mailto:nitish.patkar@fhnw.ch> Web [1]:https://nitishpatkar.com/ <https://nitishpatkar.com/> Web [2]: https://www.fhnw.ch/en/iit <https://www.fhnw.ch/en/about-fhnw/schools/school-of-engineering/institutes/…> Web [3]: http://scg.unibe.ch/staff/NitishPatkar <http://scg.unibe.ch/staff/NitishPatkar> ------------------------------------------------------------

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SEG & CGG Hiking Day
by van Dok, Yael Annika (INF) 06 May '25

06 May '25

Hello everyone, we are going hiking! Many of you are avid hikers, and so it would be nice to have a joint hiking day with members of SEG and CGG. If you are interested, please fill in the dates that work for you below until Thursday, 8th May, 12:00: https://terminplaner6.dfn.de/de/p/28677f88bf0e971caeec6773616cd119-1211233 Also, please specify in the comments in the link above which one best describes your preferred hiking route (you can choose multiple): - Advanced: Up for a challenge and a potentially demanding route. - Intermediate: A more relaxed, but still engaging route. - Beginner: More interested in a leisurely stroll. @Bommes, David (INF)<mailto:david.bommes@unibe.ch>: Could you please forward this email to your team? Also, once we have found a date, I would appreciate your help with finding a suitable hiking trail 🙂 Note: I only included workdays before exam season where no SEG and CGG lectures take place. That only leaves a few Mondays, on quite a short notice. So chances are that we won't find a suitable date. If we don't, we can look for a date in the lecture-free period. If there are questions or comments, shoot me an email or come by in my office. I'm looking forward to seeing you all in the mountains! Best Yael

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Fwd: SPLC2025 submission assignment
by Timo Kehrer 05 May '25

05 May '25

Dear all, If anybody is interested to do a review for SPLC 2025, these are the two papers I got (PDFs attached): (14) On the Effect of Feature Reduction on Energy Consumption: An Exploratory Study (17) Feedback analysis in software product line forked developments (14) might be interesting for all those woring on energy measurement / reduction, while (17) might be related to VariantSync. Either way, if you want to do a review, please let me know (deadline for reviews is May 22) Best, Timo -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: SPLC2025 submission assignment Datum: Thu, 1 May 2025 15:15:56 +0200 Von: SPLC2025 <splc2025(a)easychair.org> An: Timo Kehrer <timo.kehrer(a)inf.unibe.ch> [Sie erhalten nicht häufig E-Mails von splc2025(a)easychair.org. Weitere Informationen, warum dies wichtig ist, finden Sie unter https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification ] Dear Timo, Thank you again for agreeing to serve on the PC for SPLC 2025. We received 41 complete submissions, from which we desk-rejected 2 due to being out of scope, 2 were witdrawn by authors, one was moved to the industrial track as per authors request and 1 did not ended in a full submission. This led to 33 papers to review. Each PC member has been assigned no more than 3 papers. The assignment respects as much as possible the bidding of PC members. However, some of you may have received papers for which you didn’t bid, especially if you did not enter a high enough number of bids. Please find instructions on the review process below. Please check your assignment and let us know right away and no later than this week if you have an undeclared conflict with any of the papers assigned to you or any other problem that may have escaped our scrutiny. The deadline for reviews is: *** Thursday, May 22, 2025 (23:59, AoE) *** Please remember that our schedule is very tight and the discussion starts immediately afterward (May 22 to 29), so timely reviews are important. Please let us know now if you foresee problems. Please consider the following when writing your review: 1) When reviewing, take into account the submission guidelines at http://2025.splc.net/calls/call-for-research-papers/ Specifically, please explicitly address all five reviewing criteria (originality, importance, soundness, transparency, presentation quality) in your review. You may find that the scientific contribution of some papers is not sufficient for the Research track. Please consider in these cases whether the papers can be relevant for the Industry track. If relevant, we will transfer those papers to the Industry track chairs for a quick review/assessment. In the review form, we are also asked for your opinion on the best paper candidates. ** Also remember that we aim at accepting papers, so try to have constructive reviews ** 2) Please use the following structure for your reviews: First, give a brief (one-paragraph) summary of the paper. Second, list the main strong points and weak points of the paper as bulleted lists. Third, explain the overall assessment of the paper, explicitly addressing all five reviewing criteria (originality, importance, soundness, transparency, presentation quality). Finally, include more detailed comments and improvement opportunities as you see fit. 3) All submissions, reviews, and online discussions must be treated confidentially. You have been invited to serve on the PC because of your expertise in the field and it is expected that you take full responsibility for your reviews. You may seek confidential technical advice from non-conflicted colleagues with suitable expertise. In case graduate students assist in reviewing, please discuss and revise the reviews with them and always assign scores by yourself. 4) Provide professional and constructive reviews. Every paper has issues and it is often much easier to find reasons to reject submissions than to accept them. We ask you not to focus exclusively on the negative but also highlight the positive aspects. Of course, when reviewing, take into account the high-quality standards of SPLC, but be open to questions such as “What is interesting and novel about the work?” and “How does the paper advance the field?” 5) In case you detect issues of plagiarism, we would appreciate being notified about this by private email. Plagiarism is a serious infringement of scientific integrity but also a strong accusation that should not be communicated on review forms accessible to colleagues, unless double-checked. The papers assigned to you for review are listed below. Thanks again for contributing to the SPLC 2025 review process! Best regards, Sandra and José SPLC 2025 research track chairs ---------------------- Submission Guidelines The research track is open to submissions in two categories: - Full papers describing original results of conceptual, theoretical, empirical, or experimental research. The papers in this category must rely on theoretical or empirical evaluation. - Short papers describing emerging ideas or outstanding challenges along with possible approaches for resolving them. The page limit is 10 pages of content (+ 2 pages for references) for full papers and 5 pages of content (+ 2 pages for references) for short papers. Each submission will be carefully reviewed by at least three members of the research track program committee. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of the following criteria: - Originality (including an appropriate comparison to related work) - The importance of contribution (including potential applicability of the results to practice/industry) - Soundness (including appropriate evidence for the main claims, typically from a quantitative and/or qualitative evaluation) - Transparency (methodological steps are described in sufficient detail, artifacts are made available, or a justification is included as to why they are not made available) - Presentation quality --------------------------------------------- (14) On the Effect of Feature Reduction on Energy Consumption: An Exploratory Study (17) Feedback analysis in software product line forked developments

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Fwd: Promotion of Emilie Jäger Lecture 14 May in your classes and dinner
by Timo Kehrer 01 May '25

01 May '25

fyi -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: Promotion of Emilie Jäger Lecture 14 May in your classes and dinner Datum: Thu, 1 May 2025 19:20:05 +0200 Von: Schurr, Carolin (GIUB) <carolin.schurr(a)unibe.ch> An: Raissig, Michael Thomas (IPS) <michael.raissig(a)unibe.ch>, Seehausen, Ole (IEE) <ole.seehausen(a)unibe.ch>, Bank, Claudia (IEE) <claudia.bank(a)unibe.ch>, Luciani, Paola (DCBP) <paola.luciani(a)unibe.ch>, Kehrer, Timo Benjamin (INF) <timo.kehrer(a)unibe.ch>, Katayev, Dmitry (DCBP) <dmitry.katayev(a)unibe.ch>, Susanne Reffert <sreffert(a)itp.unibe.ch>, Meister, Peter (IZB) <peter.meister(a)unibe.ch>, Spuhler, Joana Tamara (STUDENTS) <joana.spuhler(a)students.unibe.ch>, Bard, Jan-Andrea (INF) <jan-andrea.bard(a)unibe.ch>, Tretter, Christiane (MATH) <christiane.tretter(a)unibe.ch>, Dibbern, Jens (IWI) <jens.dibbern(a)unibe.ch>, IL Mailing list <Giub_institutsleitung(a)lists.unibe.ch>, Büschges, Christian (HIST) <christian.bueschges(a)unibe.ch> Kopie (CC): Batschelet, Lukas (GIUB) <lukas.batschelet(a)unibe.ch> Dear colleagues, I would really appreciate if you can promote this year’s Emilie Jäger Lecture with Catherine D’Ignazio (MIT) on „Digital In/Justice and Data Feminism“ in your classes and motivate students to come to the lecture. The lecture takes place on Wednesday 14 May at 16.15 in the Aula (Hauptgebäude) and will be followed by an apero and book signing. The lecture is free and not inscription is required and students, researchers of all levels and the general public are all welcome! Please let Lukas Batschelet (in cc) know if you want some printed flyers and/or posters, we are happy to deliver them! There will be dinner at the Restaurant Veranda with Catherine D’Ignazio afterwards, if you are interested in joining the dinner, please also let Lukas know until 10 May. Find below all the promotion material including a slide that you can add to your lecture slides! Best wishes Carolin

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