Hi all,

Most welcome to a research seminar next Friday, June 5th. We have the pleasure to welcome Cecilia Ovesdotter from Rochester Institute of Technology.

Date: June 5th
Time: 13.15 – ca. 14.30
Place: Aktersalongen

Title: Linguistic sensing for human-centered computing

Speaker: Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm, Ph.D., Rochester Institute of Technology

Abstract:
Computational linguistics provides approaches for making sense of applied problems using natural language data, for example in the clinical domain. Linguistic data are unobtrusive, inexpensive, pervasive, natural, and generally convenient to capture, in contrast to many other sensor modalities that may require excessive wearable equipments or smart clothing. This talk will discuss the unconventional notion of natural language data as a rich and meaningful sensor for human-centered computing. From the perspective of computational linguistics, it will present cases of recent and ongoing research that exemplify opportunities, challenges, and considerations involved with linguistic sensing.

Bio:
Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is Assistant Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Her research interests focus on linguistic sensing and mining with text, speech, and multimodal data for health-related applications. At RIT, she teaches computational linguistics and language science. She also co-directs the Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing Lab.

Welcome to join Software Center Skåne Day
Software Center is happy to invite you to the third Software Center Skåne Day. This time we meet at Ericsson in Lund for a great event that brings together a community of software professionals and researchers from a variety of companies and universities.

Date: June 2nd 2015
Time: 13.30 – 17.00
Location: Ericsson, Mobilvägen 1, Lund.

The purpose of the event is to further strengthen the connection between the companies in the region, to introduce new companies with potential interest in the Software Center to our on-going research, to report on our research findings, and to learn more about how the participating companies experience the Software Center collaboration. The event will consist of a number of interesting presentations, and speakers from both academia and industry. The intention is to learn more about some of the on-going research projects, as well as to learn more about Software Center member companies and their experiences.

About Software Center
Software Center is operated in partnership between Chalmers University of Technology, the University of Gothenburg, Malmö University, and the seven companies Ericsson, Volvo Cars, Volvo, Saab Group, Axis Communications, Jeppesen, and Grundfos. The research within Software Center is driven by the needs from the industry and is largely funded and steered by the participating companies. Software Centers unique collaboration model, in which companies and academia are creating research results together, gives know-how on an individual level and business advantages on a company level.

Curious to learn more? Please join us for a great afternoon in Lund.

Please register for Software Center Skåne Day on our webpage.

Preliminary agenda
13.30 – 14.00: Coffee and mingle
14.00 – 14.10: Welcome and opening (Helena H. Olsson, Malmö University)
14.10 – 14.25: What is the Software Center? (Jan Bosch, Director of the Software Center)
14.25 – 14.45: Ericsson, Lund (Björn Ekelund, Ericsson)
14.45 – 15.45: Software Center project presentations
15.45 – 16.00: Coffee break
16.00 – 16.30: External speaker (keynote)
16.30 – 17.00: Some of the Software Centers strategic company partners present their collaboration with Software Center
17.00 – 17.10: Closing of the event

We are looking forward to see you there.

Best regards,
Software Center
www.software-center.se

Please register for Software Center Skåne Day on our webpage.

Hi,

Most welcome to the next research seminar Friday, March 20th.

The seminar is held in Aktersalongen and we start at 13.15 (an finish at around 14.30).

The speaker is Fredrik Ohlin who will present work that will soon be published in the area of personal informatics (see abstract below).

Title: Intelligent Computing in Personal Informatics: State-of-practice and Future Directions

Abstract: This talk will give a preview of two in press papers on personal informatics — the academic area concerned with information technology for tracking and understanding one’s personal data. One paper is a state-of-practice review of current personal informatics systems (fitness trackers, logging apps, etc.). The other paper, ‘Intelligent Computing in Personal Informatics: Key Design Considerations’, is due to be presented at the ACM Intelligent User Interfaces conference a week later, and will be the main focus. Its abstract is included here:

An expanding range of apps supported by wearable and mobile devices are being used by people engaged in personal informatics in order to track and explore data about themselves and their everyday activities. While the aspect of data collection is easier than ever before through these technologies, more advanced forms of support from personal informatics systems are not presently available. This lack of next generation personal informatics systems presents research with an important role to fill, and this paper presents a two-step contribution to this effect. The first step is to present a new model of human cooperation with intelligent computing, which collates key issues from the literature. The second step is to apply this model to personal informatics, identifying twelve key considerations for integrating intelligent computing in the design of future personal informatics systems. These design considerations are also applied to an example system, which illustrates their use in eliciting new design directions.

Most welcome!

Regards,
Helena

Hi,

Most welcome to the next research seminar Friday, March 20th.

The seminar is held in Aktersalongen and we start at 13.15 (an finish at around 14.30).

The speaker is Fredrik Ohlin who will present work that will soon be published in the area of personal informatics (see abstract below).

Title: Intelligent Computing in Personal Informatics: State-of-practice and Future Directions

Abstract: This talk will give a preview of two in press papers on personal informatics — the academic area concerned with information technology for tracking and understanding one’s personal data. One paper is a state-of-practice review of current personal informatics systems (fitness trackers, logging apps, etc.). The other paper, ‘Intelligent Computing in Personal Informatics: Key Design Considerations’, is due to be presented at the ACM Intelligent User Interfaces conference a week later, and will be the main focus. Its abstract is included here:

An expanding range of apps supported by wearable and mobile devices are being used by people engaged in personal informatics in order to track and explore data about themselves and their everyday activities. While the aspect of data collection is easier than ever before through these technologies, more advanced forms of support from personal informatics systems are not presently available. This lack of next generation personal informatics systems presents research with an important role to fill, and this paper presents a two-step contribution to this effect. The first step is to present a new model of human cooperation with intelligent computing, which collates key issues from the literature. The second step is to apply this model to personal informatics, identifying twelve key considerations for integrating intelligent computing in the design of future personal informatics systems. These design considerations are also applied to an example system, which illustrates their use in eliciting new design directions.

Most welcome!

Regards,
Helena

Hi all,

Most welcome to a research seminar February 20th. I am very happy to present our guest – Dr. Christian Berger, assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His talk will report about findings from a joint project between Malmö University, Chalmers and University of Gothenburg that is run in the context of the Software Center. The project is driven by Ulrik Eklund from Malmö University and Christian Berger from University of Gothenburg.

We start at 13.15 in Aktersalongen and finish around 14.30.

Title:
“Expectations and Challenges from Scaling Agile in Mechatronics-Driven Companies”

Abstract:
Agile software development is increasingly adopted by companies evolving and maintaining software products to support better planning and tracking the realization of user stories and features. While convincing success stories help to further spread the adoption of Agile, mechatronics-driven companies need guidance to implement Agile for non-software teams. We report about a comparative case study conducted between three companies from the Nordic region, where we systematically investigated expectations and challenges from scaling Agile in organizations dealing with mechatronics development by conducting on-site workshops and surveys. Our findings show that all companies have already successfully implemented Agile in their software teams but challenges still remain especially when companies plan to scale Agile beyond the team level.

Bio:
Dr. Christian Berger is assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He received his Ph.D. from RWTH Aachen University, Germany in 2010 for his work on challenges for the software engineering for self-driving vehicles together with academic and industrial partners like University of California, Berkeley in California and Volkswagen Group. His expertise is on simulation engineering and model-based software engineering. He coordinated the interdisciplinary project for the development of the autonomously driving vehicle “Caroline”, which participated in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge Final in the United States. Currently, he is coordinating a research initiative on self-driving vehicles at Chalmers and University of Gothenburg in Sweden. He is also coordinating the theme on “Continuous Delivery” in the Software Center.

Most welcome.

Regards,
Helena

PS This event is in the DV calendar (dv.ts@mah.se) and if you can’t see the event you have not included the DV-calendar correctly, please see instruction at link. DS

Hi all,

Most welcome to a research seminar February 20th. I am very happy to present our guest – Dr. Christian Berger, assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His talk will report about findings from a joint project between Malmö University, Chalmers and University of Gothenburg that is run in the context of the Software Center. The project is driven by Ulrik Eklund from Malmö University and Christian Berger from University of Gothenburg.

We start at 13.15 in Aktersalongen and finish around 14.30.

Title:
“Expectations and Challenges from Scaling Agile in Mechatronics-Driven Companies”

Abstract:
Agile software development is increasingly adopted by companies evolving and maintaining software products to support better planning and tracking the realization of user stories and features. While convincing success stories help to further spread the adoption of Agile, mechatronics-driven companies need guidance to implement Agile for non-software teams. We report about a comparative case study conducted between three companies from the Nordic region, where we systematically investigated expectations and challenges from scaling Agile in organizations dealing with mechatronics development by conducting on-site workshops and surveys. Our findings show that all companies have already successfully implemented Agile in their software teams but challenges still remain especially when companies plan to scale Agile beyond the team level.

Bio:
Dr. Christian Berger is assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He received his Ph.D. from RWTH Aachen University, Germany in 2010 for his work on challenges for the software engineering for self-driving vehicles together with academic and industrial partners like University of California, Berkeley in California and Volkswagen Group. His expertise is on simulation engineering and model-based software engineering. He coordinated the interdisciplinary project for the development of the autonomously driving vehicle “Caroline”, which participated in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge Final in the United States. Currently, he is coordinating a research initiative on self-driving vehicles at Chalmers and University of Gothenburg in Sweden. He is also coordinating the theme on “Continuous Delivery” in the Software Center.

Most welcome.

Regards,
Helena

Dear all,

On behalf of the Software Center, we would like to invite you to the 2nd ‘Software Center Skåne Day’ – a follow-up to the 1st, and successful, event in May earlier this year to which we attracted a large number of researchers and practitioners.

Where: Malmö University, Building Nereus (floor 4), Neptuniplan 7, Malmö
When: December 4th, 13.00 – 17.00.
Why: The Software Center is a research collaboration in which companies and universities work together to accelerate the adoption of novel approaches to software engineering, and to address the core challenges that software companies in Sweden and the rest of the Nordics currently face. These challenges include e.g. the competitive positioning in fast moving markets, the growing importance of software, the rapid rate of evolution of best practices in software engineering, and the difficulties companies experience in adopting these techniques.

The ‘Software Center Skåne Day’ will bring together a community of software professionals and researchers, and you will enjoy meeting like-minded individuals, learning new skills from practitioners from a variety of companies, and being intellectually challenged. The purpose of the event is to further strengthen the connection between the companies in the region, to introduce new companies with potential interest in the Software Center to our on-going research, to report on our research findings, and to learn more about how the participating companies experience the Software Center collaboration.

We are very much looking forward to have you join us for this event. For more information about the Software Center please visit http://www.software-center.se

The event will consist of a number of interesting presentations, and we have speakers from both academia and industry. The intention is to learn more about some of the on-going research projects, as well as to learn more about our member companies and their experiences. We are especially happy to welcome speakers from SONY that is a new member in the Software Center.

Agenda:
13:00 – 13:30: Welcome and introduction
– Helena H. Olsson, Software Center, Malmö University
– Hans Lindquist. Deputy vice-chansellor, Malmö University
– Catarina Couqand, Dean, School of Technology, Malmö University
13:30 – 13:55: Software Center Phase II (Prof. Jan Bosch, Director of the Software Center, Chalmers)
13:55 – 14:15: SONY: New company member (Srdan Boscovic)
14:15 – 14:30: Continuous Integration (Eric Knauss, University of Gothenburg)
14:30 – 14:45: E2E Variability Management (Ulrik Eklund, Malmö University)
14:45 – 15:00: Organisational Performance Metrics (Kent Niesel, Volvo Cars)
15:00 – 15:30: Coffee break
15:30 – 15:45: Ecosystemability Assessment Method (Imed Hammouda and Eric Knauss, University of Gothenburg)
15:45 – 16:00: Fast Customer Feedback In Large-Scale SE (Helena H. Olsson, Malmö University)
16:00 – 17:00: Company presentations
– Kent Niesel (Volvo Cars)
– Fredrik Hugosson (Axis Communications)
– Niels Jørgen Strøm (Grundfos)

17:00: Closing

Please note that no registration is necessary. Just show up and enjoy the event!

Please book the afternoon of December 4th for an exciting event to which we invite all current Software Center members, all current Software Center researchers, the Computer Science department at Malmö University, the Computer Science and Engineering department at Chalmers/Gothenburg University, and a number of external companies and researchers that we would like to introduce to the Software Center.

Most welcome!

Regards,
Helena

Dear all,

Most welcome to a research seminar at which Catarina Couqand will introduce us to her research area.

We will be in Aktersalongen and we start at 13.15 as usual. Please note that the seminar is on Thursday, November 27.

See the abstract below:

Av olika skäl blev det inte av förra året att berätta om min forskning och forskningsområde, men nu skall det bli av. Jag kommer att göra en översiktlig presentation av mitt forskningsområde snarare än detaljer från min egen forskning. Det jag kommer att prata om kallas typteori, området gränsar till teoretisk filosofi, matematik och datavetenskap. Jag kommer att beskriva teorin, det programspråk som bygger på teorin och dess koppling till formalisering av matematiska bevis och korrekthet av program. Lite demo hoppas jag också hinna med. Det behövs elementär kunskap om logik och programmering för att hänga med. Föredraget blir på engelska om inta alla förstår svenska i publiken.

In this talk I will give an overview of dependent type theory and it’s applications to computer assisted proofs and program correctness. If I have time I will shortly mention recent work on redefining the foundation of mathematics with the aim to make it more suitable for computer aided proofs by combining homotopy theory with type theory. A basic knowledge of logic and programming is needed to follow the talk.

Regards,
Helena

Dear all,

On behalf of the Software Center, we would like to invite you to the 2nd ‘Software Center Skåne Day’ – a follow-up to the 1st, and successful, event in May earlier this year to which we attracted a large number of researchers and practitioners.

Where: Malmö University, Building Nereus (floor 4), Neptuniplan 7, Malmö
When: December 4th, 13.00 – 17.00.
Why: The Software Center is a research collaboration in which companies and universities work together to accelerate the adoption of novel approaches to software engineering, and to address the core challenges that software companies in Sweden and the rest of the Nordics currently face. These challenges include e.g. the competitive positioning in fast moving markets, the growing importance of software, the rapid rate of evolution of best practices in software engineering, and the difficulties companies experience in adopting these techniques.

The ‘Software Center Skåne Day’ will bring together a community of software professionals and researchers, and you will enjoy meeting like-minded individuals, learning new skills from practitioners from a variety of companies, and being intellectually challenged. The purpose of the event is to further strengthen the connection between the companies in the region, to introduce new companies with potential interest in the Software Center to our on-going research, to report on our research findings, and to learn more about how the participating companies experience the Software Center collaboration.

We are very much looking forward to have you join us for this event. For more information about the Software Center please visit http://www.software-center.se

The event will consist of a number of interesting presentations, and we have speakers from both academia and industry. The intention is to learn more about some of the on-going research projects, as well as to learn more about our member companies and their experiences. We are especially happy to welcome speakers from SONY that is a new member in the Software Center, and from Ericsson in Lund that is a new company site in the Software Center collaboration.

Preliminary agenda:
13:00 – 13:30: Welcome and introduction (Helena H. Olsson)
13:30 – 13:50: Software Center Phase II (Prof. Jan Bosch, Director of the Software Center)
13:50 – 14:10: SONY: New company member (Srdan Boscovic)
14:10 – 14:30: Ericsson, Lund: New company site (Björn Ekelund)
14:30 – 14:45: Project presentation I
14:45 – 15:00: Project presentation II
15:00 – 15:30: Coffee break
15:30 – 15:45: Project presentation III
15:45 – 16:00: Project presentation IV
16:00 – 17:00: Company presentations (e.g. Grundfos, Axis Communications)
Closing and socialising.

Please note that no registration is necessary. Just show up and enjoy the event!

Please book the afternoon of December 4th for an exciting event to which we invite all current Software Center members, all current Software Center researchers, the Computer Science department at Malmö University, the Computer Science and Engineering department at Chalmers/Gothenburg University, and a number of external companies and researchers that we would like to introduce to the Software Center.

Most welcome!

/Helena H. Olsson

Dear all,

Most welcome to the research seminar October 17th. At the seminar, Romina Spalazzese will present her research and we will get the opportunity to learn more about one of our newly recruited colleagues. Please find Romina’s abstract and bio below.

The seminar is held in Aktersalongen and we start at 13.15 as usual. Most welcome!

/Helena

Title
Automated approaches to enable interoperability and build self-adaptive systems

Abstract
Nowadays, our living environment is pervaded by a wide variety of heterogeneous digital systems that are connected to the Internet. The number and kind of connected systems have been always increasing and this growth trend will continue in the future. In this context, systems meet and know each other dynamically, when they want to start to interoperate to achieve some goal.
Key challenges, thus, are (i) to enable systems to interoperate seamlessly and (ii) to guarantee some properties, despite context changes. Given the huge heterogeneity and dynamism characterizing the described environment, automated solutions appear to be the only way to face such challenges timely and with the needed level of flexibility.

In this talk I will present our previous and current research work and some future research directions.
I will describe a solution for the automated synthesis of self-adaptive connectors.
The connectors (i) enable the interaction among already developed systems and (ii) are (self-)adaptive with respect to runtime performance requirement changes.
Moreover, I will talk about our ongoing work on an approach to automatically build context-aware (self-)adaptive systems. Our approach automatically elicits relevant context-variability, with respect to the system and the requirement under analysis, and properly extends the system to make it self-adaptive to context changes.

Bio
Romina Spalazzese is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science within the Faculty of Technology and Society of Malmö University.
Her research interests are in Software Engineering and include Software Architectures, Connectors, Interoperability, Self-Adaptive Systems and Formal Methods. In particular, her overall work is focussed on automatically enabling software interoperability and on building self-adaptive software systems automatically.
Romina received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of L’Aquila, Italy.
She collaborated/s with a large number of different researchers both from Academia and Industry and she actively worked in several national, international, and European projects.
Romina served the scientific community as reviewer for international journals and conferences.
She also served a National Funding Program in 2014 as (i) expert evaluator – both as project proposals reviewer and as panel member, (ii) panel chair, and (iii) chairperson of the overall evaluation committee.

Dear all,

Most welcome to the research seminar October 17th. At the seminar, Romina Spalazzese will present her research and we will get the opportunity to learn more about one of our newly recruited colleagues. Please find Romina’s abstract and bio below.

The seminar is held in Aktersalongen and we start at 13.15 as usual. Most welcome!

/Helena

Title
Automated approaches to enable interoperability and build self-adaptive systems

Abstract
Nowadays, our living environment is pervaded by a wide variety of heterogeneous digital systems that are connected to the Internet. The number and kind of connected systems have been always increasing and this growth trend will continue in the future. In this context, systems meet and know each other dynamically, when they want to start to interoperate to achieve some goal.
Key challenges, thus, are (i) to enable systems to interoperate seamlessly and (ii) to guarantee some properties, despite context changes. Given the huge heterogeneity and dynamism characterizing the described environment, automated solutions appear to be the only way to face such challenges timely and with the needed level of flexibility.

In this talk I will present our previous and current research work and some future research directions.
I will describe a solution for the automated synthesis of self-adaptive connectors.
The connectors (i) enable the interaction among already developed systems and (ii) are (self-)adaptive with respect to runtime performance requirement changes.
Moreover, I will talk about our ongoing work on an approach to automatically build context-aware (self-)adaptive systems. Our approach automatically elicits relevant context-variability, with respect to the system and the requirement under analysis, and properly extends the system to make it self-adaptive to context changes.

Bio
Romina Spalazzese is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science within the Faculty of Technology and Society of Malmö University.
Her research interests are in Software Engineering and include Software Architectures, Connectors, Interoperability, Self-Adaptive Systems and Formal Methods. In particular, her overall work is focussed on automatically enabling software interoperability and on building self-adaptive software systems automatically.
Romina received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of L’Aquila, Italy.
She collaborated/s with a large number of different researchers both from Academia and Industry and she actively worked in several national, international, and European projects.
Romina served the scientific community as reviewer for international journals and conferences.
She also served a National Funding Program in 2014 as (i) expert evaluator – both as project proposals reviewer and as panel member, (ii) panel chair, and (iii) chairperson of the overall evaluation committee.

Dear all,

Please mark December 4th in your calendars for the second Software Center Skåne Day.

In May this year, we had the first Software Center Skåne Day and it was a very appreciated event with researchers presenting their findings from the last research sprint, as well as companies presenting the way in which they collaborate with the Software Center and the impact the results have in their organisations.

Since then, SONY has joined the center as a new member and we have also had Ericsson in Lund join as a new company site (Ericsson is already a member but this is the first sprint in which we collaborate actively with the Lund site).

At the December event, we will have people from SONY and Ericsson presenting as new company sites, and we will have selected research projects report on their findings.

Information about time, place and a detailed agenda will be posted to you – but please mark the day and plan for attending a great event!

Best regards,
Helena

Dear Member of the Software Center,

It is my pleasure to draw your attention to the following upcoming event.
Please share this call in your network and consider joining us. This
workshop is part of the SEEC workshop series
(http://seecgot.wordpress.com) and also available online at
http://seecgot.wordpress.com/2014/06/26/call-for-participation-workshop-on
-software-ecosystems/

SEEC Workshop: Software Ecosystems; Call for Participation on 2014-08-25

Two of the internationally leading researchers in software ecosystems and
socio-technical coordination agreed to give talks in this SEEC workshop:
Daniela Damian, University of Victoria, Canada and Jan Bosch, Software
Center and Chalmers, Sweden make this a truly international event. Safe
the day and register early, as we have only a limited number of seats!

Date: 2014-08-25; 10:00 ­ 15:00 (tentative)

Location: Lindholmen Science Park, Demo Studio

Software ecosystems are commonly defined as

³A set of businesses functioning as a unit and interacting with a shared
market for software and services, together with relationships among them.
These relationships are frequently underpinned by a common technological
platform and operate through the exchange of information, resources, and
artifacts.²

Today¹s complex software systems, which are often developed
collaboratively by more than one organization, frequently imply the
presence of a software ecosystem. In this workshop we want to explore
consequences this recent development has on software engineering practice.

Workshop setup

In this SEEC workshop, we will have a strong focus on excellent talks to
better understand the current state-of-the-art. We are especially proud
to announce two world class speakers in the area of software ecosystems
and socio-technical coordination: Daniela Damian(Canada) and Jan Bosch
(Sweden).

The plan is to complement these two keynotes with 2-3 additional talks
and a extended wrap-up session with an open discussion to understand the
implications of software ecosystems on software intense system
development.

Registration

Participation is free. We advertise this event widely and have a limited
number of places. Please register
here:http://seecgot.wordpress.com/2014/06/26/call-for-participation-worksh
op-on-software-ecosystems/

We will select participants strictly on a first-come-first-serve basis.

Best regards,
Helena

Dear all,

Most welcome to the reporting workshop at which all Software Center projects report on the findings from this sprint (January – June).

The workshop will be held May 22nd at Lindholmen in Gothenburg, in building Svea, room Gamma (http://maps.chalmers.se/#153cf396-b248-402f-9ab2-eb4d1b92c7ed)

Program

10:00-10:30 Coffee and snack
10:30-10:45 Opening
10:45-12:30 Short presentations by each active project (8 minutes/project)
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:15 Breakout sessions for each theme (Continuous Integration, Continuous Architecture, Organizational Performance Metrics, Customer Data and Ecosystem driven development)
15:15-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-16:40 Presentation by each company concerning their relation to Software Center (impact, organisational setup, etc.)
16:40-17:00 Reflection and closing
17:00 After work @ Radison SAS

Most welcome!

/Helena

Hi all,

On Friday, May 16th, Viggo Kann from KTH will visit and give a pedagogical seminar between 13.00 – 15.00 (se previous information that has been posted about this seminar).

Due to many people expressing an interest in this seminar, we won’t arrange with a research seminar that afternoon. Instead, we hope that you will take the opportunity and attend the pedagogical seminar with Viggo Kann.

Regards,
Helena

Dear all,

Most welcome to the Software Center Day, May 9th in Lund.

Date: Friday, May 9th
Place: Axis Communications, Emdalavägen 14, Lund (room Kebnekaise)
Time: 13.00 – 16.00 (followed by socialising and mingle)

Program:

13.00 – 13.15: Opening and welcome: Prof. Jan Bosch (Chalmers), Catarina Couqand (Malmö University), Axis Communications
13.15 – 13.45: Software Center introduction: Prof. Jan Bosch
13.45 – 14.00 Presentation of Malmö University and the ‘Internet of Things and People’ research center
Prof. Paul Davidsson (Malmö University)
14.00 – 15.15 Software Center selected results – industrial impact
– Organisational Performance Metrics: Dr. Miroslaw Staron (Gothenburg University)
– End-to–end Variability: Dr. Ulrik Eklund (Malmö University)
Coffee break (15 minutes)
– Data Collection And Feature Experimentation: Dr. Helena H. Olsson (Malmö University)
– Continuous Integration and Software Architecture in Large-Scale Agile SE: Prof. Jan Bosch (Chalmers)
15.15 – 16.00 Software Center company presentations – industrial experiences

16.00 – ?? Social mingle @ Ideon Gateway

On behalf of everyone involved in the Software Center, I would like to welcome you all on Friday, May 9th!

Best regards,
Helena

Dear all,

On behalf of the Software Center, and as one of the theme leaders and responsible for the Skåne region of the Software Center, I am very happy to invite you to a ‘Software Center Day’ in Malmö, May 9th, 13.00 – 16.00.

The purpose of this event is to strengthen the connection between the companies in the region, and to introduce new companies with potential interest in the Software Center to our on-going research themes and projects.

Please book the afternoon of May 9th for an exciting event to which we invite all current Software Center members, all current Software Center researchers, the Computer Science department at Malmö University, the Computer Science and Engineering department at Chalmers/Gothenburg University, and a number of companies and researchers that we would like to introduce to the Software Center.

For more information about the Software Center please visit http://www.software-center.se

The event will include an opening with an introduction of the Software Center as well as other on-going research initiatives at Malmö University, we will get the opportunity to listen to existing Software Center companies and their experiences from this collaboration, and there will be a presentation of some of the results from the on-going research projects. Also, there will be time for discussions as well as socialising since we see this as a great opportunity to share experiences and get to know new people.

A detailed agenda, as well as directions to the location for the event, will be sent to you shortly.

The goal of the Software Center is to establish clusters of companies and universities that work together to accelerate the adoption of novel approaches to software engineering. In this, we are looking to expand our collaboration to involve new companies and new universities. This event will bring together a community of software professionals and researchers, and we look forward to having you part of this day.

Most welcome!

Best regards,
Helena

Välkomna till SPIN-SYD’s öppna möte!

Tisdag 8 April har nätverket SPIN-SYD öppet möte på Malmö Högskola med tema:

“Sharpening Your Imagineering Skills”

Arduino, Raspberry PI, Open Source and other vehicles to marry imagination with engineering – imagineering!

Sveriges Ingenjörers medlemmar är också välkommna!

Mer info och anmälan:spin-syd.org/201404

/Annabella Loconsole
genom Erik Lundh

Most welcome to a faculty research seminar Monday, March 24 at 15.15 – 15.45 in Aktersalongen

Title: “Microstructural Simulations of Short Fretting Cracks”

Speaker: Claudio Nigro

Abstract:
In order to assess the lifetime of compressor discs in pane engines, several mechanical and chemical problems have been identified. In particular, the fretting-fatigue contact problem has been subject of many studies, but remains partly misunderstood.

The background to the fretting-fatigue cracks, targeted to a broad audience, is given. Results from a model using a specific methodology to study fretting contact cracks based on the finite elements method are presented and discussed.

/Helena

Dear all,

Most welcome to the research seminar tomorrow Friday, March 21.

We meet in Aktersalongen at 13.15 – ca 14.30.

I am very happy to welcome Prof. Kurt Schneider, Head of FB Software Engineering at Leibniz Universität Hannover. This spring, Prof. Schneider is a visiting researcher at Blekinge Tekniska Högskola (BTH) and it is my pleasure to have him visiting Malmö högskola. For more information about Kurt Schneider, please visit: http://www.se.uni-hannover.de/pages/en:mitarbeiter_kurt_schneider

Title and abstract can be found below:

Requirements, Feedback, and Communication in IT Ecosystems
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The term IT ecosystem has been used in different meanings by different researchers. At Leibniz Universität Hannover and at two partner universities in Germany, it stands for a system of IT subsystems, components, and humans interacting. The characteristics of the IT ecosystems are not only defined by the features of its components, but also by their combination and interactions. Like a new animal in a natural ecosystem, a new element can disturb an existing equilibrium. When subsystems are developed independently, and when they act semi-autonomously, emergent behaviour can occur. Users will have to deal with such phenomena.

For a supplier of IT systems, requirements engineering is never easy. However, in an IT ecosystem it becomes even more difficult. Traditional approaches like interviews and use cases scratch only the surface of user requirements and expectations. Intended users can hardly foresee future interactions, events, and whether they will like them. For that purpose, we followed two approaches to solicit useful requirements from IT ecosystems: (1) Explicit and spontaneous feedback is facilitated; and (2) unexptected behaviour of human users is observed as an implicit expression of an unidentified change request. In this talk, selected applications of those approaches are described. In the outlook, new potentials for empowering human users are sketched, and potential for future work is outlined.

Best regards,
Helena