William B. Langdon, Westley Weimer, Justyna Petke, Erik Fredericks, Seongmin Lee, Emily Winter, Michail Basios, Myra B. Cohen, Aymeric Blot, Markus Wagner, Bobby R. Bruce, Shin Yoo, Simos Gerasimou, Oliver Krauss, Yu Huang, Michael Gerten
{"title":"Genetic Improvement @ ICSE 2023","authors":"William B. Langdon, Westley Weimer, Justyna Petke, Erik Fredericks, Seongmin Lee, Emily Winter, Michail Basios, Myra B. Cohen, Aymeric Blot, Markus Wagner, Bobby R. Bruce, Shin Yoo, Simos Gerasimou, Oliver Krauss, Yu Huang, Michael Gerten","doi":"10.1145/3617946.3617956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3617946.3617956","url":null,"abstract":"Following the formal presentations, which included keynotes by Prof. Myra B. Cohen of Iowa State University and Dr. Sebastian Baltes of SAP as well as six papers (which are recorded in the pro- ceedings) there was a wide ranging discussion at the twelfth inter- national Genetic Improvement workshop, GI-2023 @ ICSE held on Saturday 20th May 2023 in Melbourne and online via Zoom. Topics included GI to improve testing, and remove unpleasant surprises in cloud computing costs, incorporating novelty search, large language models (LLM ANN) and GI benchmarks.","PeriodicalId":432885,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135805166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Coralie Esnoul, Mary Sánchez-Gordón, Eunkyoung Jee, Ricardo Colomo-Palacios, Sabarathinam Chockalingam, John Eidar Simensen, Doo-Hwan Bae
{"title":"Report on the 4th International Workshop on Engineering and Cybersecurity of Critical Systems (EnCyCriS - 2023)","authors":"Coralie Esnoul, Mary Sánchez-Gordón, Eunkyoung Jee, Ricardo Colomo-Palacios, Sabarathinam Chockalingam, John Eidar Simensen, Doo-Hwan Bae","doi":"10.1145/3617946.3617954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3617946.3617954","url":null,"abstract":"Critical Infrastructures (CIs) are vital for modern societies, encompassing diverse sectors such as healthcare, banking, emergency services, energy, water distribution, oil and gas, and transportation. Over time, these CIs have become increasingly reliant on technology to ensure their seamless operations. The reliable and secure operation of these CIs holds paramount importance for a nation's economy and the well-being of society. This paper presents the findings and discussions from the 4th International Workshop on Engineering and Cybersecurity of Critical Systems (EnCyCriS - 2023). The main purpose of this EnCyCriS workshop is to collect contributions from practitioners and researchers working on challenges and solutions for engineering and cybersecurity of critical systems in the Fourth Revolution (4IR). The 2023 edition has accepted and presented six papers. In addition, there was a keynote talk from a Senior Research Scientist in safety and security of digital technologies within safety critical industries in addition to an open discussion about the \"Future of IT and OT\". This workshop was colocated with the 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE - 2023), which took place on 20th May 2023.","PeriodicalId":432885,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135919565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Software Engineering Education for the Next Generation:SEENG 2023 Workshop Report","authors":"Stephan Krusche, Jonathan Bell, Bastian Tenbergen","doi":"10.1145/3617946.3617959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3617946.3617959","url":null,"abstract":"The 5th International Workshop on Software Engineering Education for the Next Generation was held on May 16, 2023 in Melbourne, Australia. The workshop was part of the 45th International Conference on Software Engineering. It specifically supported the general theme of \"Educating the Next Generation of Software Engineers\". Building on its predecessors, the workshop used a highly interactive format, structured around eight short paper presentations to generate discussion topics, an activity to select the most interesting topics, and structured breakout sessions. This enabled the participants to discuss the most interesting topics in detail. Participants presented the results of the breakout sessions using mind maps.","PeriodicalId":432885,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135919567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neurodiversity: What Can the Software Industry Gain from It?","authors":"Ahmed El-Deeb","doi":"10.1145/3617946.3617950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3617946.3617950","url":null,"abstract":"Did you know that Steve Jobs was diagnosed with Dyslexia, a learning disorder that involves difficulty reading, writing and spelling. For a young schooler this could have set the end of anything remarkable for young Steve, but to humanity's amazement, he grew to become one of the most successful and innovative persons in history. Not only Steve, but Elon Musk as well revealed that he has Asperger syndrome, a form of Autism spectrum. What does this tell the rest of us? It tells us that there is a potential place for Neurodiversity; not as charity but as success factor. Neurodiversity is a term first coined by the Austrian sociologist Judy Singer that refers to the fact that human brains have neurological variations in how it functions and perceive the world. Instances include, but not limited to ADHD, Autism, or Dyslexia. However, the workforce has recently started to see neurodiversity not as a pathological case, but rather as difference in mental abilities. Neurodivergent people are not sick or incapable; they just posses different mental abilities; and workforce can gain from them. This paper illustrates key characteristics that the software industry can benefit from by employing more neurodivergent engineers.","PeriodicalId":432885,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135919576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Interview with Gail Murphy - 2023 SIGSOFT Awardee","authors":"Jacopo Soldani","doi":"10.1145/3617946.3617952","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3617946.3617952","url":null,"abstract":"Gail Murphy received the 2023 SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award for pioneering contributions to recommenders for software engineering and program comprehension that have impacted both theory and practice. She received a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Washington in 1996 (USA), and she is now a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Vice-President of Research & Innovation at the University of British Columbia (Canada). Her research interests are in improving the productivity of software developers and knowledge workers by giving them tools to identify, manage and coordinate the information that really matters for their work.","PeriodicalId":432885,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes","volume":"129 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135919564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Risks to the Public","authors":"Peter G. Neumann","doi":"10.1145/3617946.3617947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3617946.3617947","url":null,"abstract":"Where to begin? Things seem to be getting wildly out of control. I make a comment in the arti cial intelligence subsection here, relating to risks of autonomous robotic airplane pilots (Pibot, Wingman). That comment is also applicable to self-driving vehicles, hospital AI, and other life-critical or mission-critical automated and semi-automated systems: We desperately need evidence-based assurance rather than over-hyped assertions that we should simply trust the developers and operating managers. Oth- erwise, the integrity and credibility of our rampantly increasing overdependence on untrustworthy technol- ogy may cause a collapse of trust in our technology. Undoubtedly, avoiding such a systemic failure may require radical changes in how computer science and system engineering should be taught and practiced, along with corresponding oversight, and serious penalties for failures. I once again invoke the Einstein Principle that Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. It is just one of many important principles that are needed to make our system development into a solid discipline. However, beware of simplistic legislation, charlatans, frauds, and other recurring risks.","PeriodicalId":432885,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135919566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Antonio Bucchiarone, Kendra M. L. Cooper, Dayi Lin, Adam Smith, Vanissa Wanick
{"title":"Fostering Collaboration and Advancing Research in Software Engineering and Game Development for Serious Contexts","authors":"Antonio Bucchiarone, Kendra M. L. Cooper, Dayi Lin, Adam Smith, Vanissa Wanick","doi":"10.1145/3617946.3617955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3617946.3617955","url":null,"abstract":"The potential benefits of using the engaging and interactive nature of games to achieve specific objectives have been recognized by researchers and professionals from numerous domains. Serious games have been developed to impart knowledge, skills, and awareness in areas such as education, healthcare and the environment, while gamification has been applied to enhance the engagement, motivation, and participation of users in non-game activities such as sustainability and learning. As a result, the fields of game engineering, software engineering, and user experience are increasingly converging to create innovative solutions that blend the strengths of games with real-world applications.","PeriodicalId":432885,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135919562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Report of the Fourth International Workshop on Quantum Software Engineering (Q-SE 2023)","authors":"Paolo Arcaini, Andriy Miranskyy","doi":"10.1145/3617946.3617958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3617946.3617958","url":null,"abstract":"The Fourth International Workshop on Quantum Software Engineering (Q-SE 2023), co-located with the 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2023), was held on May 14, 2023 in a hybrid manner in Melbourne, Australia, and online. This report presents the workshop structure, the keynote speech, and the themes of the presented papers.","PeriodicalId":432885,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135919570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Academic Freedom and International Students, Part 4: The China Initiative","authors":"Robert Schaefer","doi":"10.1145/3599975.3599978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3599975.3599978","url":null,"abstract":"Computer science and engineering students and teachers alike, are just trying to get by, live their lives, but there are hinderances, things that interfere. Some hindrances are beyond our control for example, illness and power outages. Yet others, make no sense, such as U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) \"deemed export\" regulations. Academic research is intended to be shared and released into the public to advance human progress. Research, at one time, had legal cover for restrictions on sharing, through Executive Order NSDD-189, which placed an exemption on restrictions over fundamental research.","PeriodicalId":432885,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes","volume":"41 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128482691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Malvina Latifaj, Federico Ciccozzi, Muhammad Waseem Anwar, K. Aslam, I. Malavolta
{"title":"Report on the Blended Modeling for Software Architectures Tutorial at ICSA 2023","authors":"Malvina Latifaj, Federico Ciccozzi, Muhammad Waseem Anwar, K. Aslam, I. Malavolta","doi":"10.1145/3599975.3599983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3599975.3599983","url":null,"abstract":"In this note, we report on a half-day tutorial designed to introduce software architecture practitioners and researchers to the concepts and open-source implementations of blended modeling for software architectures. The tutorial covered blended modeling motivation and principles, generation of editors, generation of the synchronization infrastructure, and collaborative modeling techniques. Through presentations, examples, and demonstrations, participants explored the practical implementation of blended modeling environments that can be tailored to their specific needs. The note provides a detailed account of the tutorial sessions, including the main implications of a focus group discussion held in the final session of the tutorial. In the follow-up to the tutorial, we conducted a survey to assess participants' perceptions of blended modeling's usefulness within their contexts. Post-tutorial actions and survey results are discussed as well, providing valuable insight into the benefits and potential challenges associated with the adoption of blended modeling.","PeriodicalId":432885,"journal":{"name":"ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122128153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}