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BIGDSE 2015 : 1st International Workshop on BIG Data Software Engineering | |||||||||||||
Link: https://sse.uni-due.de/bigdse15/ | |||||||||||||
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Call For Papers | |||||||||||||
Call for Papers
BIGDSE’15 1st International Workshop on BIG Data Software Engineering http://sse.uni-due.de/bigdse15/ Firenze, Italy – May 23, 2015 Collocated with ICSE 2015 Submit papers by *Jan. 23, 2015* (Full papers with 7 pages max; Position papers with 4 pages max) Software engineering as a research discipline has been challenged, since its inception, with collecting and analyzing empirical evidence – be it about people, processes or artifacts – to develop principles, models and theories. In recent years we have seen strong interest and efforts devoted to evidence-based approaches to theory building. We are now at a crossroads where we have available an unprecedented amount of data that is available in real-time and from a multitude of sources. Complementing this trend in data availability is the emergence of novel and improved analytics algorithms and tools (such as deep learning) that allows us to distil actionable insights for software adaptation, evolution and quality. For software engineering, similar to other disciplines in science and economics, the aforementioned developments may lead to radical new ways and unprecedented opportunities of attacking problems. Big Data software systems (aka. data-intensive software systems), represent an emerging class of software systems that challenges existing software engineering principles, methods and tools due to the sheer size and real-time processing of data. The impact that the aforementioned kinds of opportunities and challenges will have on software engineering are of relevance to BIGDSE’15. TOPICS (NON-EXCLUSIVE) BIGDSE’15 seeks contributions of different types, including theoretical foundations, practical techniques, empirical studies, experience, and lessons learned. Potential and relevant research directions that BIGDSE’15 plans to explore include, but are not limited to: Big Data for run-time monitoring and adaptation of software systems. Big Data taps into the wealth of online data available during the operation of software systems. Monitoring of services, things, cloud infrastructures, users, etc. will deliver an unprecedented range of information, which is available with low latency. Such real-time data offers novel opportunities for real-time planning and decision making and thus supports new directions for software adaptation. As an example, based on changes in user profiles Big Data techniques may deliver actionable insights on which concrete adaptation actions to perform to respond to those changes. Big Data for software quality assurance and diagnosis. Software analytics, i.e., the use of automated analysis of software artefacts, has been explored for some time. Now, with the significant increase of data volumes as well as analytics capabilities for large volumes of structured and unstructured data, software analytics faces new opportunities in the Big Data area. As an example, monitoring logs of complex systems may easily reach sizes of gigabytes and terabytes in small periods of time. Failure patterns and deviations thus may require Big Data analytics to handle such massive amounts of log data. As an example, deep learning techniques may be applied for performing root cause analysis of software failures. Software architectures and languages for Big Data. NoSQL and MapReduce are predominant when it comes to efficient storage, representation and query of Big Data. However, apart from large, long-standing batch jobs, many Big Data queries involve small, short and increasingly interactive jobs. To support such kinds of jobs may require new architectures and languages that, for instance, combine classical RDBMS techniques for storage and querying on top of NoSQL and MapReduce paradigms. In addition, as we get more big data stores, we also get more CPUs. So, analytics solutions that were computationally impossible 10 years ago are now becoming possible. Ultimately, this may lead to a new generation of software architectures and languages that optimize Big Data querying and retrieval. Quality and cost-benefit of Big Data software. Assuring the quality of Big Data software requires adopting and extending proven quality assurance techniques from software engineering. For example, testing Big Data software may require new ways of generating “test” data that is sufficient and representative. However, due to the size of data, exhaustive testing may quickly become infeasible thus requiring (formal) verification techniques to generate assurances for Big Data software. Further, not all data sources may be relevant for a big data analysis task. However, as these data sources often come attached with some cost (e.g., queries may need to be run across distributed data pools), the cost-benefit of Big Data software should be assessed a-priori and not only as an after-thought. We look forward to your submissions! PAPER SUBMISSION BIGDSE’15 invites authors to submit any of the two kinds of workshop papers: (1) Full papers with 7 pages maximum (2) Position papers with 4 pages maximum Workshop papers must follow the ICSE 2015 Format and Submission Guidelines. Paper submission will be handled through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bigdse15 Accepted papers will be published in the ICSE 2015 electronic conference proceedings and in the digital libraries of ACM and the IEEE Computer Society. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: Jan. 23, 2015 Notification of acceptance: Feb. 18, 2015 Camera-ready copies: Feb. 27, 2015 Workshop: May 23, 2015 ORGANZING COMMITTEE Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, IT Tim Menzies, North Carolina State Univ., US Andreas Metzger, Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, DE Thomas Zimmermann, Microsoft Research, US PROGRAM COMMITTEE Olga Baysal, U Montréal, CA Edward Curry, DERI, IE Massimiliano Di Penta, U Sannio, IT Jörg Dörr, Fraunhofer IESE, DE Fabiana Fournier, IBM, IL Daniela Grigori, U Paris Dauphine, FR Roger Kilian Kehr, SAP, DE Michele Lanza, U Lugano, CH Philipp Leitner, U Zurich, CH Grace Lewis, SEI, US Jordi Marco, UP Catalunya, ES Mehdi Mirakhorli, RIT, US Audris Mockus, U Tennessee, US Emerson Murphy-Hill, North Carolina State U, US Meiyappan Nagappan, RIT, US Tien Nguyen, Iowa State U, US Bernhard Schätz, TU Munich, DE |
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