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New training course: Managing Enterprise Experience Successfully here
Newsletter 02/2007 now available!
here!
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Knowledge Management Course
FC-MD Offers SW Knowledge Management Course
for Organizations. To read more
click here |
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FC-MD Intern
Receives Award
Ms.
Lyly Yonkwa, an intern at FC-MD,
received a 2,500 Euro award for her Diploma
Thesis entitled “Extension of a SIP User Agent
for Multiparty Conferencing” which she completed
just before she started at FC-MD to do her
Master Thesis.
The Karl-Völker-Preis was founded by the
Karl-Völker Foundation in order to reward
graduates with a prominent Diploma Thesis in the
domain of Information Technology/Electrical
Engineering. The goal of this foundation is to
encourage research and science at the
Fachhochschule Mannheim -
University
of Applied
Sciences .
The Preis
is awarded every year. Ms. Yonkwa received the Preis
on November 17, 2005 in
Mannheim,
Germany
and can view the award
by clicking here
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FC-MD Technology Receives
Award
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FC-MD’s technology for
Software Architecture Visualization and
Evaluation (SAVE) tool that was developed in
collaboration with FC-MD’s sister institute
IESE,
Kaiserslautern,
Germany
was awarded the Innovation prize in the state of
Rheinland-Pfalz in
Germany!
The tool is based on FC-MD’s process for
architectural evaluation and will, for example,
be applied to the Applied Physics Laboratory
(APL) next year as part of the NASA technology
infusion award that FC-MD won. A paper
describing the technology can be found by
clicking here. You can also
view the actual SAVE award by clicking here | | | |
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The following
paper:
Aysu Betin-Can, Tevfik Bultan,
Mikael Lindvall ,
Benjamin Lux, and Stefan Topp."Application
of Design for Verification with Concurrency
Controllers to Air
Traffic Control Software."
Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International
Conference on Automated Software Engineering
(ASE
2005), pages 14-23.
Long Beach ,
California ,
USA
,
November 7-11, 2005.
Received
two awards at the Automated Software Engineering
(ASE) conference in November
2005:
1)
ACM SIGSOFT distinguished paper
award
2)
ASE 2005 best paper
award
The paper is the result from
the collaboration between
FC-MD and
University of
California
,
Santa Barbara (UCSB) in which UCSB’s technology
was applied to FC-MD’s software test bed as part
of a series of experiments.The experiment, which was
based on three sets of seeded faults, led to a
characterization as well as improvements of the
technology.
Click on the award name below
to
view: | | ACM
SIGSOFT distinguished paper
award
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Dr.
Victor Basili's
Legacy to be Honored
at ICSE 2005 |
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On
May 16, 2005,
Dr. Victor Basili’s
contributions
to the field of
software engineering
will be honored
at the 27th International
Conference on
Software Engineering.
Dr. Basili’s
work guided this
field, beginning
with his contributions
during a crucial
period during
its emergence
in the late 1960s
and early 1970s.
Dr. Basili quickly
perceived and
responded to a
need to understand
software and its
developing processes,
techniques, methods,
and tools. His
early efforts
helped shape software
engineering into
an empirical science
that relies upon
a discipline of
observation, theory
formation, experimentation
and feedback.
Throughout his
career, Dr. Basili
continually applied
the scientific
method to the
software engineering
domain, developing
concepts such
as the Goal-Question-Metric
method, the Quality-Improvement
paradigm, and
the Experience
Factory approach.
Each of these
achievements has
brought a sense
of order to the
ad-hoc development
so prevalent in
the software engineering
field.
On
the occasion of
Dr. Basili’s
65th birthday,
a six-session
symposium will
summarize and
reflect upon his
collected work.
Dr. Basili’s
efforts have led
to the incremental
establishment
of the discipline
of software engineering.
In particular,
his contributions
in the following
areas of software
engineering research
will be considered:
• Formal
languages and
formal methods
• Measurement
• Software
Engineering Laboratory
• Learning
Organizations
and Experience
Factory
• Technical
developments and
empirical studies
• Experience
bases
Each
session will be
chaired by a leading
expert who has
worked with Dr.
Basili in the
past. For further
information, please
see the ICSE 2005
website from which
we borrowed liberally
for this article.
Click
here for article.
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Dr.
Victor Basili
Awarded Honorary
Ph.D. in Natural
Sciences |
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On
January 28th,
2005, Dr. Victor
Basili was awarded
an honorary doctorate
in Natural Sciences
by the Computer
Science Department
of the Technical
University of
Kaiserslautern.
This significant
award was the
first honorary
degree awarded
in the German
University’s
thirty-year history.
Following the
guidelines of
the Computer Science
Department, honorary
doctoral degrees
are only awarded
to those who have
made outstanding
contributions
in the field of
computer science.
Dr. Basili received
this distinguished
award in recognition
of his key role
in founding the
field of Empirical
Software Engineering
and in acknowledgment
of his life-long
contributions
in this area.
The
day’s ceremonies
included lectures
by Dr. Laszlo
Belady (CEO, Eutecus,
Inc., Austin,
TX) and Dr. Lionel
Briand (Carleton
Univesity, Ottawa,
Canada) honoring
Dr. Basili’s
work in the field
of Empirical Software
Engineering. Dr.
Dieter Rombach,
head of the Software
Engineering Research
Group at the Technical
University of
Kaiserslautern
and Fraunhofer
IESE, presented
the laudatio,
after which Dr.
Basili delivered
the event’s
keynote address,
“Perspectives
on Software Engineering.”
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Dr.
Basili awarded
"Laurea Honoris
Causa" |
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The University
of Sannio, Benevento
(BN), Italy, will
be assigning "Laurea
Honoris Causa"
in Informatic
Engineering to
Victor Robert
Basili for his
continual, outstanding
contributions
to Software Engineering.
Aniello Cimitile,
Software Engineering
Chair and Rector
of the University
of Sannio, proposed
the honorary assignment,
the Engineering
Faculties of the
same University
accepted that
proposal, which
was eventually
approved by the
Ministry for Education,
University and
Research of the
Italian Government.
The
celebration is
planned for 5
- 6 April 2004,
in Benevento,
Italy, starting
from around 10:00
AM. Gerardo
Canfora, head
of the Center
for Excellence
in Software Engineering,
and full professor
of Computer Science
at the University
of Sannio, will
be giving "Laudatio";
this is a kind
of lecture about
Vic's Vitae, presents
motivation for
the honorary assignment,
and precedes a
talk (given by
Vic). The Faculties
of Engineering
will be formally
assigning the
honorary laurea.
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Paper Authored by
FC-MD Scientists |
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Paper authored by FC-MD
scientists Mikael
Lindvall and Ioana
Rus
titled "Software
systems support
for knowledge
management"
has now been made
the Feature
of the Month for
February 2004
for the Knowledge
Management Community
within the Management First website and can be viewed
at the following
link
www.managementfirst.com/knowledge_management
The paper was initially
published in The
Journal of Knowledge
Management
www.emeraldinsight.com/jkm.htm For more information
contact the authors
at mikli@fc-md.umd.edu
or irus@fc-md.umd.edu |
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FC-MD
Scientists' DACS State-of-the-Art-Reports
available |
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Two
new DACS State-of-the-Art-Reports
by FC-MD Scientists are now
available. Click here to download "Agile Software
Development" by David
Cohen, Mikael
Lindvall
and Patricia Costa. Click
here to download "Embedded Software
Maintenance" by Mikael
Lindvall,
Seija
Komi-Sirvio,
Patricia Costa and Carolyn
Seaman. |
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FC-MD
Scientists were Guest Editors
for the Journal of Software
Maintenance and Evolution |
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FC-MD
Scientists Ioana Rus, Carolyn
Seaman and Mikael Lindvall
served as guest editors for
the Journal of Software Maintenance
and Evolution: Research and
Practice Volume 15, Issue1,
2003 special issue on Process
Diversity. |
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Results of
Third eWorkshop on Agile Methods |
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Fraunhofer Center -
Maryland hosted the Third
eWorkshop
on Agile Methods on
October 29, 2002. To see the pre-meeting feedback and
results click here. |
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Experiences
in Agile Methods |
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Fraunhofer Center is working to characterize
and help others characterize
Agile practices by (i) conducting a series of eWorkshops with experts and practitioners;
(ii) designing and conducting
experiments and; (iii) developing
a measurement framework to
help practitioners and experimentalists
collect metrics and better
understand these practices.
Please visit our eWorkshops
page to see the experiences
shared by experts and practioners
on the First and Second eWorkshops
on Agile Methods. Please come
back soon to see the results
of the third eWorkshop that took place on October
29, 2002. |
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Paper
by FC-MD Scientists is winner
of best paper award at ISESE
2002 |
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The
paper "Replicating Software Engineering Experiments: Addressing
the Tacit Knowledge Problem"
won the best paper award
at the First International
Symposium on Empirical Software
Engineering in Nara, Japan,
October 2002. |
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Results
of the Second eWorkshop on
Agile Methods |
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Fraunhofer Center -
Maryland hosted the Second eWorkshop on Agile Methods on April
8, 2002. To see the pre-meeting feedback and results,
click here. |
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FC-MD
Scientists featured in May/June
2002 IEEE Software Magazine |
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Dr.
Ioana
Rus and Dr. Mikael Lindvall, scientists at Fraunhofer
Center Maryland,
served as guest editors for
the May/June 2002 special
issue on Knowledge Management
in Software Engineering
of the prestigious IEEE Software
magazine (http://www.computer.org/software).
IEEE Software is the leading
authority on transferring
software theory and applying
it into practice and on bridging
the gap between research and
practice in software engineering.
Drs. Rus and Lindvall selected
the published articles among
an amazingly large and strong
set of articles submitted
for this special issue. Among
the authors of these articles
are other scientists and researchers
related to FC-MD: Dr. Victor
Basili
and Dr. Carolyn Seaman who
contributed with an article
on the “Experience Factory”
and Dr. Seija
Komi-Sirvio who authored an article on “need based”
knowledge acquisition and
delivery.
Drs. Rus
and Lindvall also published in this special issue an
insightful tutorial on Knowledge
Management in Software Engineering.
The tutorial fits extremely
well into this context as
it serves as the introduction
and lead to seven articles
on the state-of-the-practice
on knowledge management in
software engineering as performed
in well-known organizations.
The tutorial starts with the
observation that software
organizations’ main assets
are not plants, buildings,
or expensive machines. The
main asset of a software organization
consists of its intellectual
capital. The major problems
with intellectual capital
are that not only does expertise
have legs and walks home everyday,
but also inexperience walks
in the door. Whether they
admit it or not, many software
organizations face the challenge
of sustaining the needed level
of competence in order to
win contracts and fulfill
undertakings. Knowledge management
(KM) is an emerging discipline
that promises to capitalize
on organizations’ intellectual
capital. KM has drawn widespread
attention and has promising
features. The tutorial discusses
business problems and knowledge
needs common to many software
organizations. It introduces
key concepts of KM and applies
them to software engineering.
It discusses how existing
software engineering processes
and tools can be leveraged
and integrated into a KM strategy.
The tutorial also brings up
issues of implementing KM
including cultural aspects
of sharing knowledge.
The state of
the practice section of
the magazine reports on the
needs, implementations, issues,
results, success factors,
and lessons learned from a
variety of KM applications.
For example, Dr. Jay Liebowitz,
Knowledge Management Officer,
describes the current KM activities
at NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center.
For more
information on Knowledge Management:
Contact
Mikael
Lindvall or
Ioana Rus |
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Results
of the First eWorkshop on
Agile Methods |
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Fraunhofer
Center -
Maryland and University of
North Carolina hosted the First eWorkshop on Agile Methods on April 8, 2002.
To see the pre-meeting feedback
and results, click here. |
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CeBase
workshop co-located with Metrics
2002 |
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CeBASE
sponsored a workshop on Metrics
2002 Symposium in Ottawa on
"What We Know about Fighting
Defects," to generate
a list of heuristics on software
defect reduction that reflect
what practioners,
researchers, and consultants
feel to be the current state
of knowledge in this
area. A summary of the resulting
discussion is available here. |
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