Software Engineering Reading Group, Fall 2009

Why Software Engineering Reading Group?
Through a reading group, we hope to collect our efforts in
    - keeping up-to-date with recent papers in software engineering conferences and journals
    - understanding each other's research interests
    - finding opportunities for potential collaboration

Where and When? 
WHEN: the second and fourth Fridays of each month, 11AM - 12PM  
WHERE: ACES 5.116

Mailing List
Please subscribe the mailing list, se-seminar@utlists.utexas.edu. 
https://utlists.utexas.edu/sympa/subscribe/se-seminar

Organizer for Fall 09 semester.
Miryung Kim: Please send any questions or comments to her.

Schedule

Sep 11: Organizational Meeting

Sep 25: Knowledge Sharing and Yahoo Answers: Everyone Knows Something, Adamic et al. WWW 2008
Leader: Fatemeh and Dave

Oct 9: Automatic Finding Patches Using Genetic Programming, Weimer et al. ICSE 2009
Leader: Alex and Nikita

Oct 23: Incremental State-Space Exploration for Programs with Dynamically Allocated Data, Lauterburg et al. ICSE 2008 
Leader: Guowei

Nov 6: Wishbone: Profile-based Partitioning for Sensornet Applications, Newton et al. NSDI 2009
Leader: Vasanth

Nov 20: Cross-project Defect Prediction, Zimmermann et al. FSE 2009
Leader: Danhua and Dan Luu

Discussssion Format

There is no specific format for discussion, but here is some possibility: A volunteer leader will brief about 10-15 minutes on what is the topic of the paper, what are its main results, why the system or idea is an improvement upon the previous works (if any), why does the result matter, what are assumptions and limitations of the paper, what are additional research directions that could build upon, improve, or otherwise augment the paper under discussion. Bring your clarification questions, discussion questions and insights to the meeting, and we can discuss them together.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. Who are the participants?
Software engineering faculty is interested in participating in this reading group and we hope many of you can attend. If you are graduate students in Software Engineering track or if you are part of UT Austin ECE or CS program and interested in knowing more about software engineering research, please join us!

Q. Is there a specific focus for this reading group?
For this semester, we do not have a specific topic or focus for the reading group. The goal for this semester is to organize collective efforts for keeping up-to-date with recent papers from software engineering journals and conferences and. We hope to have specific topics for the reading group in the future and we welcome your suggestions!  For example, one possible focus is to read ACM SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award or ICSE's Most Influential Paper Award. 

Q. Can I suggest a paper for the seminar? 
Yes! Please suggest papers that you would like to read and discuss. We have several TBD slots and that is because we are soliciting your input and suggestions. We encourage you to suggest a paper that could potentially interest many of us (not just a single research group). 

Past Seminars
SERG in Spring 2009 

  
Potential Topics