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4.-6.10.2016, St. Malo (France)

19th MODELS Conference

At the 19th Intl. Conference MODELS, HArald will present the SoSyM paper, and sit on the panel on Usability and UX of modeling tools.

3.10.2016, St. Malo (France)

HuFaMo Workshop @ MODELS

The 2nd Intl. Ws. Human Factors in Modeling (HuFaMo), co-located to MODELS. Michel Chaudron, Vlad Acretoaie, Miguel Goulao, Vasco Amaral and Harald host the event. Our esteemed keynote speaker is Bran Selic.

18.-23.9.2016, Heidelberg (Germany)

Heidelberg Laureate Forum

The Heidelberg Laureate Forum is a venue where Laureates of Abel, Fields, Nevanlinnaa, and Turing prices get to meet young researchers. To my great grief, I had to turn down the invitation. But have alook at their fabulous web site or the corresponding site of the Nobel laureates!

15.-16.09.2016, Manchester (UK)

RSE Conference

The first ever conference of Research Software Engineers (RSE) conference takes place in Manchester, UK. Harald is presenting a paper entitled "Taming your clients, or: Defining and managing requirements in an academic research context." which will also be available through the DTU library page.

15.-16.9.2016, Linz (Austria)

ACM Europe Council Meeting

The ACM Europe Council meets in Linz to further to increase the level and visibility of ACM activities across Europe.

13.-15.09.2016, Ciudad Real (Spain)

ESEM Conference

The 10th International Symposium on Empirical Assessment in Software Engineering (ESEM) takes place in Ciudad Real this year. Harald is presenting a paper entitled "On the Impact of Layout Quality to Understanding UML Diagrams: Size Matters" which will also be available through the DTU library page.

28.9.-15.10.2016

MODELS/SAM Conferences in St. Malo

The 42th System Analysis and Modeling Conference (SAM) and the 18th Intl. Conf. Model Driven Languages and Systems (MODELS) are co-located in St. Malo this year. Harald speaks about "On the Impact of Layout Quality to Understanding UML Diagrams: Size Matters" at SAM and hosts the HuFaMo workshop.

3.10.2016, St. Malo

HuFaMo Workshop @ MODELS

The 2nd Intl. Ws. Human Factors in Modeling (HuFaMo), co-located to MODELS. Michel Chaudron, Vlad Acretoaie, Miguel Goulao, Vasco Amaral and Harald host the event. Our esteemed keynote speaker is Bran Selic.

13.-15.09.2016, Ciudad Real

ESEM Conference

The 10th International Symposium on Empirical Assessment in Software Engineering (ESEM) takes place in Ciudad Real this year. Harald is presenting a paper entitled "On the Impact of Layout Quality to Understanding UML Diagrams: Size Matters" which will also be available through the DTU library page.

2.9.2016

Exit Harald

Today, I handed in my resignation at DTU. I will move on to BTH in Sweden shortly. Any projects started at DTU will be completed by me; all promises made will be satisfied in full.

26-27.8.2016

ACM CECL Meeting in Prague

The Committee of European Chapter Leaders (CECL) meets in Prague to celebrate volunteers from all over the continent, and promote . See hashtag #ACMECW3 on twitter, or the workshop website!

18.8.2016

HuFaMo keynote by Bran Selic

Bran Selic will be our keynote speaker at HuFaMo! He'll ask "What’s Wrong with 'Users'?"

15.8.2016

Timing Feature Interaction Paper accepted

Alex' and Harald's paper on timing feature interaction detection has been accepted at MODEVVA (co-located with MODELS)!

15.-19.8.2016, Lyngby

5th ERMSEI Summer School

A new record participation for the 5th installment of the annual PhD Summer School on Empirical Research Methods in SE and Informatics. Follow us on facebook or Twitter!

4.8.2016

Harald on panel discussion

MODELS will host a panel discussion on the usability of MBSD and its tools-and what impact this has on the adoption of MBSD (or rather lack thereof).

2.8.2016

VMTL-Paper at MODELS

Our recent VMTL-paper in J.SoSyM has been acknowledged as one of the best this yead, and was thus selected for presentation at MODELS!

18.7.2016

Student projects completed

In the past weeks, Ahmadreza, Ari, Ragnar, and Jesper have completed their MSc projects, and passed their final exams. Congratulations to you all!

14.7.2016

"Sofa" Talk at DTU

"Modeling as an integral part of Software Development: When, where, and why it works - or not", presented at the SE Section's "Sofa" talk series. Come see it in 303b.130, at 10:00 on Thursday, July 14th!

12.7.2016

VMTL-Paper published

VMTL: a language for end-user model transformation now published by J.SoSyM.

8.7.2016

Visit to FU Bolzano

Harald visits and gives a talk on recent results in modeling and models for software engineering.

19.5.2016

Visit to BTH Karlskrona

Harald visits and gives a talk on the big picture of conceptual models in software engineering.

12/13.5.2016

Visit by M.Chaudron, G.Taentzer

On the occasion of Vlad's PhD, Michel Chaudron from Chalmers Institute of Technology in Gothenburg and Gabriele Taentzer from Marburg University visit the group.

12.5.2016

PhD Defence of Vlad Acretoaie

Today, Vlad successfully defended his PhD thesis Model Manipulation for End-User Modelers. Congratulations, Dr. Acretoaie, well done!

4.5.2016

Paper at ESEM accepted

The new diagram-size-paper is accepted for publication at the ESEM conference!

1-4.5.2015, Dagstuhl

Dissertation Price Workshop

Every year, the Informatics societies in German-speaking countries award the price for the best Computer Science doctoral dissertation. Every Faculty in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland is entitled to nominate one candidate, and they present their thesis at the IBFI.

30.4.2016

Student projects completed

Today, Andreas has handed in his REDO project report. Congratulations!

28.4.2016

Visit to htw Saar

Harald tgives two talks about full-stack JavaScript software architectures as exemplified by REDO, and formal inspections and their merits.

23.4.2016

Paper at SoSyM accepted

At long last, the follow-up to Harald's 2014 MODELS paper was accepted for publication in J.SoSyM. A preprint will be available soon at DTU ORBIT.

15.-19.8.2016, Lyngby

Intl. PhD School ERMSEI

We are very pleased to announce the 5th International PhD Summer School on Empirical Research Methods in SE and Informatics. To find out more, go to the web page, look at the Facebook group, or check the tweets from the class of 2015!

7.-9.3.2016

ACM Europe Council Meeting in Lisbon

The ACM Europe Council meets in Lisbon to further to increase the level and visibility of ACM activities across Europe.

13.-15.2.2016

Visit to Augsburg University

This week, Harald visits again the Elite Software Engineering Graduate Program in Augsburg. In the CS Colloquium, he will be giving a talk about the empirical paradigm of software engineering research.

23-25.2.2016

SE Conference

Attending the 2016 SE conference in Vienna - come and attend my talk on Wednesday afternoon!

22.2.2016

HLF Review 2015

The 2015 review of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum has just been published. A fantastic event: a must-be for every budding young researcher.

15.2.2016

RED released to Open Source

We're proud to announce that RED is finally released as Open Source software: its BitBucket repository is now publicly available.

8.2.2016

RED Web relaunched

After weeks of intense work we are today relaunching the RED web page.

28.1.2016

New Group Picture

So difficult to get everyone together at one time - the new group picture, once more, has only half the group on it.

12.-15.1.2016

Visit to Augsburg University

This week, Harald visits again the Elite Software Engineering Graduate Program in Augsburg. He will be giving a talk in the CS Colloquium, specifically about recent progress in making the RED tool Open Source.

11.1.2016

German Chapter ACM

Today, Harald reports to the board of the German Chapter and the members annual plenary meeting of the ACM on his work in the dissertation price committee and the ACM Europe council.

05.01.2016

Happy New Year

I hope you had an enjoyable and relaxing Christmas holiday. I wish you and your family a happy, successful and healthy New Year!