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- SIGSOFT FY Annual Report July 2012-June 2013 Submitted by: Will Tracz, Chair
- AWARDS THAT WERE GIVEN OUT
- ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award
- ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award
- Distinguished Members
- SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award
- Retrospective Impact Paper Awards
- SIGBED/SIGSOFT Frank Anger Memorial Award
- SIGNIFICANT PAPERS ON NEW AREAS THAT WERE PUBLISHED IN PROCEEDINGS
- SIGNIFICANT PROGRAMS THAT PROVIDED A SPRINGBOARD FOR FURTHER TECHNICAL EFFORTS
- INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS WHICH PROVIDE SERVICE TO SOME PART OF THE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY
- BRIEF SUMMARY OF KEY ISSUES FACING THE SIGSOFT MEMBERSHIP
- SIGSPATIAL FY Annual Report July 2012-June 2013 Submitted by: Walid G. Aref, Chair 1. SIGSPATIAL CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
- 2. SIGSPATIAL PUBLICATION INITIATIVES
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We instrumented a PhD colloquium, modeled on the colloquium held as part of the annual Winter Simulation Conference. SIGSIM-PADS had 14 student participants. We created new travel awards for students to attract them to simulation conferences such as WSC 12 in Berlin, Germany, and SIGSIM-PADS 13 in Montreal, Canada. SIGSIM increased participation through a partnership with the Society for Modeling & Simulation International (SCSI). PADS 2013 was co-sponsored by SCSI. The requirements were: 1) SCS would receive a signed letter to indicate a “technical” cosponsorship without financial or legal liability from SCS, 2) SCS members would be entitled to the reduced conference registration rate, similar to the rate for the members of SIGSIM, and 3) SCS would receive an end-of-conference report. This connection of an ACM SIG to SCSI was a way to broaden our reach across societies, and by doing so, to increase our collective visibility.
Develop new custom videos on modeling and simulation for the web site. Ten offers are to be made to established modeling and simulation professionals, and $1,000 to each individual toward development costs, or as honoraria. Develop a strategy and plan for using social networking in SIGSIM. Presently, the methods used are ad hoc and not uniformly applied. An associate editor is being identified for this function. Continue to offer the SIGSIM-PADS conference on an annual basis. Maintain the quality of the submissions, strengthen the conference, and grow the size. Investigate publishing video journal submissions. This might be done in concert with the ACM Transactions on Modeling and Simulation (ACM TOMACS), or separately. The idea is to publish a fairly short paper with a well-done video used to illustrate modeling and simulation research. Investigate student chapters, possibly by coordinating with SCSI. This is currently being discussed with the ideas being explored in meetings that started July 2013. SIGSOFT FY Annual Report July 2012-June 2013 Submitted by: Will Tracz, Chair ACM’s Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT) had another excellent year, both technically and financially in 2012-13. This report provides a summary of key SIGSOFT activities over the past year. AWARDS THAT WERE GIVEN OUT SIGSOFT has a large awards program that recognizes the many achievements of the software engineering community. Our prestigious service, research and education awards were presented again this year at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2013 in San Francisco, CA. The recipients are as follows:
At ICSE 2013 we also recognized new ACM Senior Members, ACM Distinguished Members and ACM Fellows for 2012 from the SIGSOFT community.
The SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award recognizes a paper published in a SIGSOFT conference at least 10 years earlier that has had exceptional impact on research or practice. The 2012 SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award committee, led by Peri Tarr, selected the paper: “Dynamically Discovering Likely Program Invariants to Support Program Evolution” by Michael Ernst, Jake Cockrell, Bill Griswold, and David Notkin, published in the proceedings of ICSE'99. This is the final year for the SIGSOFT Retrospective Impact Paper Awards that recognize papers from the first 23 years of SIGSOFT's history of conference sponsorship. Lee Osterweil chaired the selection committee, which selected the following five papers:
Many of our sponsored meetings this year also presented ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards to the authors of a select number of their accepted papers. This year we launched a new SIGSOFT Award, the ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, for outstanding PhD dissertations in the field of software engineering. The effort in creating the award was led by Tao Xie, who with Adam Porter co-chaired the award selection committee. The first award was presented at FSE 2012 in November to Mark Gabel of the University of Texas at Dallas for his research on automating the process of writing and maintaining high-quality computer software. Gabel’s research reverse-engineered the specifications from software programs to ease the process of finding software bugs and verifying correctness through automation. Gabel completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis, advised by Professor Zhendong Su. Finally, this year the SIGBED/SIGSOFT Frank Anger Memorial Award was awarded by SIGBED to Indranil Saha of UCLA for contributions to research focused on bridging the gap between control and computer science. The award supports travel and attendance by a student member of SIGSOFT to a conference. Saha chose to attend ICSE 2013 where he was recognized at the awards ceremony and he was introduced to SIGSOFT leaders at a special breakfast. SIGNIFICANT PAPERS ON NEW AREAS THAT WERE PUBLISHED IN PROCEEDINGS The problems and topics addressed in the papers presented at SIGSOFT meetings remain varied and timely. Software engineering researchers are increasing their application of techniques borrowed from other areas of computer science, particularly statistical analysis, data mining and machine learning techniques. One particularly innovative area involved industry studies from our 2012 Foundations in Software Engineering (FSE) Conference: These papers received distinguished paper awards:
SIGNIFICANT PROGRAMS THAT PROVIDED A SPRINGBOARD FOR FURTHER TECHNICAL EFFORTS SIGSOFT has two software engineering education programs – one targeted toward students and the seconded focused on educators. Students receive discounted membership rates and registration fees at all SIGSOFT-sponsored conferences and workshops. In addition, our two flagship conferences: the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), which is co-sponsored with IEEE Technical Council on Software Engineering, and the ACM Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) offer a Doctoral Symposium where students are mentored by experienced Software Engineering professors. Also, SIGSOFT provides travel support to SIGSOFT sponsored or co-sponsored conferences or workshops for graduate and undergraduate students who are SIGSOFT members through the Conference Aid Program for Students (CAPS) - http://www.sigsoft.org/CAPS/. Attendance at conferences and workshops to present papers and to interact with researchers and practitioners in software engineering is an important component of students' education and professional development. Moreover, students’ presence at conferences and workshops enriches and broadens conference and workshop activities. Conferences and workshops are also a good way to introduce students to the services of SIGSOFT. In FY 2012 over $57K of grants were given to over 70 students. SIGSOFT and the National Science Foundation (NSF) held the 3rd Software Engineering Educators Symposium (SEES) at FSE-2012. It consisted of two half-day tutorials covering approaches for teaching programming and software engineering to undergraduates. Some of the approaches were experimental while others have shown some success in recruitment and retention of women and minority students. Symposium participants were provided access to instructional materials, received practical tips on how to successfully apply the approaches, and learned about tools that support hands-on instruction and active learning. In addition, funding was available to help defray costs to attend SEES and FSE. Funding for travel awards was provided by a grant from the National Science Foundation and by ACM SIGSOFT. The purpose of the grant was to increase participation in computing by building relationships with computer science faculty at schools with populations of students that are members of underrepresented groups. We therefore encouraged applications from faculty who teach at institutions whose student population is majority African American, Hispanic, Native American and women. INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS WHICH PROVIDE SERVICE TO SOME PART OF THE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY Through the efforts of our History Liaison, Tao Xie, SIGSOFT continues to provide valuable resources to the community documenting the history of our field and the people involved in that history. We also continued our outreach to the community through our increasing presence in social media outlets, and we have an entry in Wikipedia as well. This year 3 undergraduate students developed a software tool to generate the wiki page from a database using 2 directories (a knowledge and a community directory) to facilitate re-use of data. In addition, this year we established a LinkedIn group as well as promoted the use of Twitter at all conferences. This year, for the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Dissertation Award, we introduced an Award Nomination Submission web site to streamline the submission process and facilitate evaluation. The use of the website proved very beneficial and it will be expanded to handle all 2013 SIGSOFT award submissions. BRIEF SUMMARY OF KEY ISSUES FACING THE SIGSOFT MEMBERSHIP As in previous years, conference finance remains the key challenge for SIGSOFT, particularly for the volunteers who organize its sponsored meetings, and ultimately for its membership who pay the registration fees for those meetings. Operating and venue costs for conferences continue to soar, and meeting organizers are finding ever more creative ways to keep costs and registration fees down while still providing a rich and rewarding experience for attendees, with the high quality programs, benefits, amenities and activities they have come to expect. Finally, our newsletter (Software Engineering Notes) continues to be the launch pad for first time authors seeking to get early research results published. Since a majority of these authors require additional guidance on presentation and grammar, the challenge of providing helpful reviews in a timely manner (as with any publication) is significant. SIGSPATIAL FY Annual Report July 2012-June 2013 Submitted by: Walid G. Aref, Chair 1. SIGSPATIAL CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS SIGSPATIAL's mission is to address issues related to the acquisition, management, and processing of spatially-related information with a focus on algorithmic, geometric, visual, and systems considerations. The scope includes, but is not limited to, geographic information systems (GIS). These issues have become increasingly important in terms of public awareness with the growing interest and use of online mapping systems such as Microsoft Virtual Earth and Google Maps and GoogleEarth as well as the integration of GPS into applications and devices such as, but not limited to, the iPhone and Android. Presently, SIGSPATIAL is fulfilling this mission by sponsoring high quality research conferences and workshops. As indicated by its mission, SIGSPATIAL's domain is much more than just geographic information systems and with this in mind it tries to differentiate its conferences and workshop from others by focusing on the computer science aspects of the field rather than on the available commercial products. In addition, a major concern and focus of the SIGSPATIAL leadership is keeping its flagship conference, the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS), affordable so that it can continue to be of good value to its attendees and be competitive price-wise with related conferences which are priced at considerably lower levels than most ACM SIG conferences. SIGSPATIAL has been able to achieve this goal by being very active in soliciting sponsor contributions as well as being vigilant at minimizing SIGSPATIAL's financial exposure in terms of contractual obligations when planning the conference by building reserves that can be used in years when the financial climate is not so healthy. 2012 was the fifth year of SIGSPATIAL and its main activity was its flagship conference (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS) that was held in Redondo Beach, California, (November 6-9 2012). ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2012 was the twentieth event of an annual series of symposia and workshops with the mission to bring together researchers, developers, users, and practitioners carrying out research and development in novel systems based on geo-spatial data and knowledge. The conference fosters interdisciplinary discussions and research in all aspects of spatial systems including but not limited to Geographic Information Systems and Science (GIS) and provides a forum for original research contributions covering all conceptual, design, and implementation aspects of GIS and ranging from applications, user interface considerations, and visualization to storage management, indexing, and algorithmic issues. This was the fifth time that the conference was held under the auspices of the new ACM Special Interest Group on Spatial Information (SIGSPATIAL). The conference program attracted a record number of 330 attendees (including around 123 student attendees), which is close to 100% increase in the number of attendees when SIGSPATIAL started. For the first time, the conference attracted attendees from all continents including Africa, which had no presence in the conference in previous years. The technical program lasted for two and half days, and based on the feedback of the participants, we can conclude that the conference was very successful in terms of new ideas presented and level of interaction provided. The call for papers led to 234 paper submissions over four tracks: research, industry, PhD showcases, and demos. The research paper track attracted 206 research paper submissions, of which 35 were accepted as full papers, 44 were accepted as poster papers, and two were accepted as demo papers. The industry track attracted 12 submissions, of which four were accepted as a full paper and two as poster papers. The Ph.D. Showcase track received five submissions, of which three were accepted, while the demonstrations track received 11 submissions, of which seven were accepted. The submissions were reviewed by a program committee of 126 members. Each paper was reviewed by at least three reviewers, and in most cases four. These numbers indicate the continued health, interest, and growth of the research field of spatial information systems, and the need to bring its researchers, students, and industrial practitioners together. The conference program featured two outstanding invited speakers: 1. Brian McClendon, Google, Vice President of Geo-Products, for a talk titled "The Path from Paper to Product: How Spatial Research Reaches Users" 2. Samuel Madden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), for a talk titled "Going Big on Spatial Data". The conference was run in a single track with one of the highlights being a fast forward poster session in the first afternoon where each poster author was given 2 minutes to present the highlights of their work to the audience. This was followed by a poster and Demo reception in the evening where the conference participants had an opportunity to interact with the poster authors. Poster paper authors were encouraged to do a good job by having two awards: one for best fast forward presentation and one for the actual poster. Demo paper authors were awarded a best demo award for a running prototype that the authors demonstrated. The poster and demo components of the conference proved to be very popular with both the conference audience and the poster and demo authors. The conference also included a business meeting for SIGSPATIAL which was open to all SIGSPATIAL members as well as to all conference attendees. The meeting included a discussion of budgetary issues, plans for next year's conference, a discussion of some initiatives such as ensuring that the ACM Digital Library has copies of all past issues of the conference proceedings, and soliciting feedback from members. The conference was preceded by a workshop day with the following ten workshops: 1. SIGSPATIAL 2012: The First ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Analytics for Big Geospatial Data General Chairs: Varun Chandola, Ranga Raju Vatsavai, Chetan Gupta 2. GEOCROWD 2012: The First ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Crowdsourced and Volunteered Geographic Information General Chairs: Mike Goodchild, Dieter Pfoser, Dan Sui 3. IWGS 2012: The Third ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoStreaming General Chairs: Mohamed Ali, Farnoush Banaei‐Kashani, Erik Hoel 4. IWCTS 2012: The Fifth ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science General Chairs: Stephan Winter, Matthias Mueller‐Hannemann 5. MobiGIS 2012: The First ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Mobile Geographic Information Systems General Chairs: Shashi Shekhar, Chi‐Yin Chow 6. HealthGIS 2012: The First ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on the Use of GIS in Public Health General Chairs: Peter Bak, Daniel W. Goldberg, James L. Horey, Yaron Kanza 7. QUeST 2012: The Third ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Querying and Mining Uncertain Spatio‐Temporal Data General Chairs: Matthias Renz, Peer Kroger 8. LBSN 2012: The Fifth ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location‐Based Social Networks General Chair: Mohamed Mokbel 9. ISA 2012: The Fourth ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Indoor Spatial Awareness General Chairs: Christophe Claramunt, Ki‐Joune Li 10.SWE2012 2012: The First ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Sensor Web Enablement 2012 General Chairs: Yong Liu, Steve Liang, Yan Xu
whose participation and generosity demonstrated what can be accomplished by a successful partnership between academia and industry. Some of the sponsors held a recruiting table for potential students during one day of the conference. The SIGSPATIAL leadership is currently planning for the 2013 ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS Conference that will be held in Orlando Florida on November 5-8, 2013 with as many as 12 workshops on November 5. It has already secured a commitment from Microsoft NVIDIA to be a sponsor for the spatial data competition that the SIGSPATIAL conference is initiating this year. Oracle is a new co-sponsor for the 2013 conference. SIGSPATIAL has also applied for support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the amount of $30K and plans to use these funds to offer 25-30 student travel grants. Of these funds, we plan to allocate $20K for the general student participation in the conference and $10K for the students that participate in the spatial data competition that is to be initiated this year. SIGSPATIAL also participated in the 2012 International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo (ICCVE '12) that was held in Beijing China in December 12-16, 2012 on an in-cooperation basis. SIGSPATIAL has also participated in an in-cooperation basis in the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp '12) that was held in Pittsburgh, PA in September 5-8, 2012, and has been approved to continue this in-cooperation status in the 2013 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp '13) that will be held in Zurich, in September 8-12, 2013. 2. SIGSPATIAL PUBLICATION INITIATIVES The ACM Publications Board has approved SIGSPATIAL's request to start the ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems (ACM TSAS) with Hanan Samet as the Editor-in-Chief. The Editorial Board has been formed from top researchers in the field from worldwide. The first Call for Papers is expected to be out by November 2013 just before the conference starts. 3. AWARDS In 2012, SIGSPATIAL continued to offer a best paper award, but chose not to make any best student paper awards as virtually all papers had some student authors. The ad hoc 2012 ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS Best Paper Award Committee consisting of the program committee chairs and several additional members that participated selected the following paper for the best paper award: HLDB: Location-Based Services in Databases Ittai Abraham (Microsoft Research SVC, USA), Daniel Delling (Microsoft Research SVC, USA), Amos Fiat (School of CS, Tel Aviv Univ., Israel), Andrew Goldberg (Microsoft Research SVC, USA), Renato Werneck (Microsoft Research SVC, USA). Distinguished Service Award The SIGSPATIAL Distinguished Service Award recognizes individuals whom the Executive Committee felt made significant contributions to the success of the SIG. This year, there were no nominations for a Distinguished Service Award and hence none was offered this year. Awards were also made at the conference by ad hoc committees for the best demo presentation, the best poster paper presentation, and the best fast forward poster paper presentation. Best Demo Paper Presentation: Advanced Space-Time Predictive Analysis With STAR-BME Hwa-Lung Yu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan), Shang-Jen Ku (National Taiwan University, Taiwan), Alexander Kolovos (SpaceTimeWorks LLC, USA). Best Demo Presentation Runner-up: Handling user-defined private contexts for location privacy in LBS Maria Luisa Damiani (University of Milan, Italy), Marco Galbiati (University of Milan, Italy).
Crowdsourcing computing resources for shortest-path computation Alexandros Efentakis (Research Center "ATHENA", Greece), Dimitris Theodorakis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece), Dieter Pfoser (Research Center "ATHENA", Greece). Best Poster Presentation Runner-up: When a City Tells a Story: Urban Topic Analysis Felix Kling (National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland), Alexei Pozdnoukhov (National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland). Best Fast Forward Poster Paper Presentation: Algorithms for Range-Skyline Queries Saladi Rahul (University of Minnesota, USA), Ravi Janardan (University of Minnesota, USA).
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