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This is the schedule for the SE division seminar in the academic year 2020 / 2021. Common types of seminars are trial talks (for upcoming conferences, defenses, etc.), presentations of ongoing research, lectures by academic guests, and other research talks.
| Date & Time | Presenter | Title | Talk Type | Talk Abstract | Location |
| 23.10.2020 (13:00) | Linda Erlenhov | An Empirical Study of Bots in Software Development: Characteristics and Challenges from a Practitioner’s Perspective | Trial Talk for FSE'20 | Preprint | Zoom https://chalmers.zoom.us/j/65970011975 (Password: 672991) |
| 06.11.2020 (13:00) | Vasilii Mosin | Complex Performance Analysis of Autoencoder-Based Approaches for Anomaly Detection in Driving Scenario Images | Trial Talk for SCSSS'20 | Deep learning algorithms are used in the automotive industry for solving different perception tasks, for example, object detection on images from an onboard camera. It is known that these algorithms can fail when used on data which significantly differs from the training data. In order to minimize the risks related to these failures, anomaly detection techniques can be applied. Widely used anomaly detection methods for images are based on autoencoders – specific types of artificial neural networks. We provide a complex performance analysis of autoencoder-based methods for anomaly detection in driving scenario images. | Zoom https://chalmers.zoom.us/j/65970011975 (Password: 672991) |
| 06.11.2020 (13:45 ish) | Razan Ghzouli | Behavior Trees in Action: A Study of Robotics Applications | Trial Talk for SLE20 | Preprint | Zoom https://chalmers.zoom.us/j/65970011975 (Password: 672991) |
| 20.11.2020 (13:00) | Peter Samoaa | Designing and Implementing an AI pipeline for Measuring the Brand Loyalty Through Social Media Text Mining | Trial Talk for SOFSEM21 | Enhancing customer relationships through social media is an area of high relevance for companies. To this aim, Social Business Intelligence (SBI) plays a crucial role by supporting companies in combining corporate data with user-generated content, usually available as textual clips on social media. Unfortunately, SBI research is often constrained by the lack of publicly-available, real-world data for experimental activities. In this paper, we describe our experience in extracting social data and processing them through an enrichment pipeline for brand analysis. As a first step, we collect texts from social media and we annotate them based on predefined metrics for brand analysis, using features such as sentiment and geolocation. Annotations rely on various learning and natural language processing approaches, including deep learning and geographical ontologies. Structured data obtained from the annotation process are then stored in a distributed data warehouse for further analysis. Preliminary results, obtained from the analysis of three well-known ICT brands, using data gathered from Twitter, news portals, and Amazon product reviews, show that different evaluation metrics can lead to different outcomes, indicating that no single metric is dominant for all brand analysis use cases. | Zoom https://chalmers.zoom.us/j/62854069357 (Password: 830937) |
| 20.11.2020 (13:45) | Meenu John (University of Malmö) | AI Deployment Architecture: Multi-Case Study for Key Factor Identification | Trial Talk for APSEC'20 | Machine learning and deep learning techniques are becoming increasingly popular and critical for companies as part of their systems. However, although the development and prototyping of ML/DL systems are common across companies, the transition from prototype to production-quality deployment models is challenging. One of the key challenges is how to determine the selection of an optimal architecture for AI deployment. Based on our previous research, and in order to offer support and guidance to practitioners, we developed a framework in which we present five architectural alternatives for AI deployment ranging from centralized to fully decentralized edge architectures. As part of our research, we validated the framework in software-intensive embedded system companies and identified key challenges that they face when deploying ML/DL models. In this paper, and to further advance our research on this topic, we identify the key factors that help practitioners determine what architecture to select for deployment of ML/DL models. For this, we conducted a follow-up study involving interviews and workshops in seven case companies in the embedded systems domain. Based on our findings, we identify three key factors and we develop a framework in which we outline how prioritization and trade-offs between these result in a certain architecture. With our frame work, we provide practitioners with guidance on how to select the optimal architecture for a certain AI deployment. The contribution of the paper is threefold. First, we identify key factors critical for AI system deployment. Second, we present a framework in which we outline how prioritization and trade-offs between these factors results in selection of a certain architecture. Third, we discuss additional factors that may or may not influence the selection of an optimal architecture. | Zoom (same slot as above) |
| 04.12.2020 (13:00) | Samuel Idowu | Machine Learning Asset Management Tools | Ongoing research | Machine learning (ML) techniques are becoming essential components of many software systems today, causing an increasing need to adapt traditional software engineering practices and tools to ML-based software development. This need is especially pronounced due to the challenges associated with the large-scale development and deployment of ML systems. Among the most commonly reported challenges during the development, production, and operation of ML-based systems are experiment management, dependency management, monitoring, and logging. In recent years, we have seen several efforts to address these issues with an increasing number of tools for tracking and managing ML experiments and their assets. To facilitate research and practice on engineering intelligent systems, it is essential to understand the nature of these tools. What kind of support do they provide? What asset types do they track? What operations are carried out on the tracked assets? What are their commonalities and variabilities? To improve the empirical understanding of the asset management capabilities in available tools, we present a feature-based survey of 17 ML asset management tools identified in a systematic search. We overview these tools' features for supporting various asset types and essential supported operations. We found that most of the reviewed tools depend on traditional version control systems, while only a few support an asset granularity level that differentiates between important ML assets, such as datasets and models. | Zoom https://chalmers.zoom.us/j/67030246934 (Password: 844107) |
| 18.12.2020 (13:00) | Free Slot | ||||
| 08.01.2021 (13:00) | Joel Scheuner | Serverless Application Benchmarking | Ongoing research | TBA | Zoom https://chalmers.zoom.us/j/65079030510 (Password: 853559) |
| 22.01.2021 (13:00) | Eric Knauss | Constructive Master’s Thesis Work in Industry: Guidelines for Applying Design Science Research | Faculty Talk | Software engineering researchers and practitioners rely on empirical evidence from the field. Thus, education of software engineers must include strong and applied education in empirical research methods. For most students, the master’s thesis is the last, but also most applied form of this education in their studies. Especially thesis work in collaboration with industry requires that concerns of stakeholders from academia and practice are carefully balanced. It is possible, yet difficult to do high-impact empirical work within the timeframe of a typical thesis. In particular, if this research aims to provide practical value to industry, academic quality can suffer. Even though constructive research methods such as Design Science Research (DSR) exist, thesis projects repeatably struggle to apply them. DSR enables balancing such concerns by providing room both for knowledge questions and design work. Yet, only limited experience exists in our field on how to make this research method work within the context of a master’s thesis. To enable running design science master’s theses in collaboration with industry, we complement existing method descriptions and guidelines with our own experience and pragmatic advice to students, examiners, and supervisors in academia and industry. This paper itself is based on DSR. Based on 12 design science theses over the last seven years, we collect common pitfalls and good practice from analysing the theses, the student-supervisor interaction, the supervisor-industry interaction, the examiner feedback, and, where available, reviewer comments on publications that are based on such theses. We provide concrete advise for framing research questions, structuring a report, as well as for planning and conducting empirical work with practitioners. | Zoom https://chalmers.zoom.us/j/69933630160 |
| 05.02.2021 (13:00) | David Issa Mattos | Bayesian Bradley-Terry models: from primates to machine learning | Ongoing Research | This presentation has a little something for everyone: it has SE, ML, Bayesian statistics, survey, R, math, gorillas using technology and football. We will start discussing paired-comparison data with food preferences in gorillas using touchscreen displays. From there we will move to an introduction of the Bradley-Terry model and why you should care about it in SE. We discuss two SE applications: surveys and benchmark experiments. For benchmark experiments we discuss how to rank automated labeling techniques with the Bradley-Terry model with random effects. Finally, we conclude this presentation showing an application of the Davidson model with data from the Brazilian national football league. Of course everything is Bayesian and done in R with the bpcs package (that we created). We make all code available in a R notebook. | Zoom https://chalmers.zoom.us/j/66699779945 (Password: 412378) |
| 19.02.2021 (13:00) | Free Slot | ||||
| 05.03.2021 (13:00) | Aiswarya Raj Munappy | Modelling Data Pipelines | Ongoing Research | Data pipelines play an important role throughout the data management process. It automates the steps ranging from data generation to data reception thereby reducing the human intervention. A failure or fault in a single step of a data pipeline has cascading effects that might result in hours of manual intervention and clean-up. Data pipeline failure due to faults at different stages of data pipelines is a common challenge that eventually leads to significant performance degradation of data-intensive systems. To ensure early detection of these faults and to increase the quality of the data products, continuous monitoring and fault detection mechanism should be included in the data pipeline. In this study we explore the need for incorporating automated fault detection mechanisms and mitigation strategies at different stages of the data pipeline. Further, we identify faults at different stages of the data pipeline and possible mitigation strategies that can be adopted for reducing the impact of data pipeline faults thereby improving the quality of data products. The idea of incorporating fault detection and mitigation strategies is validated by realizing a small part of the data pipeline using action research in the analytics team at a large software-intensive organization within the telecommunication domain. | Zoom https://chalmers.zoom.us/j/4604877890 |
| 19.03.2021 (13:00) | Peter Samoaa | An Exploratory Study of the Impact of Parameterization on JMH Measurement Results in Open-Source Projects | Trial Talk for ICPE 21 | https://xleitix.github.io/icet/preprints/icpe21.pdf | Zoom https://chalmers.zoom.us/j/67468132279 |
| 02.04.2021 (13:00) | No seminar (Easter) | ||||
| 16.04.2021 (13:00) | Chi Zhang | Pedestrian trajectory prediction with Social-interaction weighted network | Trial Talk for SHAPE-IT project meeting (and IEEE-IVS conference) | In this paper, we present the Social Interaction-Weighted Spatio-Temporal Convolutional Neural Network (Social-IWSTCNN), which includes both the spatial and the temporal features. We propose a novel design, namely the Social Interaction Extractor, to learn the spatial and social interaction features of pedestrians. We use the recently released large-scale Waymo Open Dataset in urban traffic scenarios to analyze the performance of our proposed algorithm in comparison to the state-of-the-art models. The results show that our algorithm outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms such as Social-LSTM, Social-GAN, and Social-STGCNN on both Average Displacement Error (ADE) and Final Displacement Error (FDE). | Zoom (Link https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/62602987368?pwd=Z290MUFXK1g0N0V1bEhGUmJ2MWFjQT09 ) passcode: 660880 |
| 30.04.2021 (13:00) | No seminar (half-day) | ||||
| 14.05.2021 (13:00) | Afonso Fontes | The Integration of Machine Learning into Automated TestGeneration: A Systematic Literature Review | Ongoing work | Automated test generation---the use of tools to create either partial or, even, complete test cases---is a popular topic in testing research. Many approaches to automated test generation exist, including ones based on metaheuristic search, (dynamic) symbolic execution, randomized algorithms, and models of system behaviour. Achievements in automated test generation have been named among the most significant advances in recent years, yet advances are still needed before such tools become a ubiquitous part of a developer's workflow. This work aims to survey current automated contributions that make use of Machine Learning (ML) approaches to empower test generation techniques. | Zoom https://chalmers.zoom.us/j/68388862412 |
| 14.05.2021 (13:45) | Ricardo Caldas | Body Sensor Network: A Self-Adaptive System Exemplar in the Healthcare Domain | Trial Talk for SEAMS'21 (Artefacts Track) | Recent worldwide events shed light on the need of human-centered systems engineering in the healthcare domain. These systems must be prepared to evolve quickly but safely, according to unpredicted environments and ever-changing pathogens that spread ruthlessly. Such scenarios suffocate hospitals’ infrastructure and disable healthcare systems that are not prepared to deal with unpredicted environments without costly re-engineering. In the face of these challenges, we offer the SA-BSN – Self-Adaptive Body Sensor Network – prototype to explore the rather dynamic patient’s health status monitoring. The exemplar is focused on self-adaptation and comes with scenarios that hinder an interplay between system reliability and battery consumption that is available after each execution. Also, we provide: (i) a noise injection mechanism, (ii) file-based patient profiles’ configuration, (iii) six healthcare sensor simulations, and (iv) an extensible/reusable controller implementation for self-adaptation. The artifact is implemented in ROS (Robot Operating System), which embraces principles such as ease of use and relies on an active open source community support. | Zoom https://chalmers.zoom.us/j/68388862412 |
| 28.05.2021 (13:00) | Hamdy Michael Ayas | Decision-making in migrating towards microservices | On-going research | Microservices migrations are challenging and expensive projects with many decisions that need to be made in a multitude of dimensions. Existing research tends to focus on technical issues and decisions (e.g., how to split services). Equally important organizational or business issues and their relations with technical aspects often remain out of scope or on a high level of abstraction. In this research we aim at bringing in a more detailed level those issues. Hence, we holistically chart the decision-making that happens on all dimensions of a migration project towards microservices. We investigate 16 migration cases, by conducting a grounded theory interview study with 19 participants that recently migrated. Our study approaches the topic with a strong focus on the human aspect of a migration, through stakeholders, their concerns and the decisions they need to make during the migration. We identify 3 decision-making processes consisting of 22 decision-points and their alternative options. The decision-points are related to creating stakeholder engagement and assessing feasibility, technical implementation, and organizational restructuring. Our study provides an initial theory of decision making in migrations to microservices, and outfits practitioners with a roadmap of which decisions they should be prepared to make and at which point in the migration. | Zoom https://chalmers.zoom.us/j/61491098842 |
| 11.06.2021 (13:00) | Weixing Zhang | Blended modeling technology for EAST-ADL | Ongoing Work | The latest modeling technology is that most modeling tools only support a single modeling language, such as only supporting graphical modeling or text modeling (or very few of modeling tools partially support multi-mode work). However, some modeling work is easier to operate in graphical editing environment (for example associating models), while others are not. EAST-ADL is a architecture description language which is the most commonly used modeling language in the automotive industry, however it can only be supported by tree-based editor and graphical editor, which has been bothering the industry practitioners for a long time. This research is devoted to designing a textual language for EAST-ADL and then realizing blended modeling environment for it, which is the starting point of my research on blended modeling technology. | Zoom https://chalmers.zoom.us/j/65659138752 |
Registered students in 20 / 21:
- Hamdy Michael Ayas
- Afonso H. Fontes
- Katja Tuma
- Chi Zhang
- Joel Scheuner
- Linda Erlenhov
- Hazem Samoaa
- Samuel Idowu
- Ricardo Diniz Caldas
- Mukelabai Mukelabai
- Razan Ghzouli
- Weixing Zhang
- Aiswarya Raj Munappy
- Meenu John (University of Malmö)