2014

Jan-16-2014. Eduardo Campos defended his MSc. Dissertation entitled "Recommending Crowd Knowledge to Aid Software Development" (in portuguese: Recomendação de conhecimento da multidão para auxílio ao desenvolvimento de software). Special thanks for prof. Fernando Figueira Filho - DIMAP-UFRN and prof. Stéphane Julia - UFU who composed the examination board.

Dec-18-2014. Approved project at FAPEMIG - Universal Demand Call: Software Analytics - automated support for software comprehension and maintenance based on data analysis.

Nov-20-2014. VIII WTDCC (UFU Workshop of Computer Science Theses and Dissertations) took place from Nov, 17 until Nov, 20. Current Software Engineering theses and dissertations were evaluated with a commitee that included FACOM-UFU professors and Prof. Marco Aurélio Gerosa from IME-USP, which also was our keynote speaker, whose talk was entitled Mining Socio-technical Information from Software Repositories.

Nov-18-2014. Approved international cooperation project at the STIC-Amsud program (CAPES, Conecyt, CNRS/INRIA): Mining software repositories to instantiate software frameworks and react to API changes. Congratulations to the team, including David Röthlisberger (UDP-Chile), Damien Cassou (Univ. Lille/ INRIA), Javier Pereira (UDP-Chile), Martin Monperrus (Univ. Lille/ INRIA)! 

Nov-05-2014. Senior Internship at UC Davis approved at CAPES. Prof. Maia will be a Visiting Research Associate at the outstanding research group of prof. Prem Devanbu. The planned visit is from March, 2015 until February, 2016.

Oct-03-2014. Awards!!! 2nd Best Tool Award at CBSoft'2014 goes to Nuggets Miner from Eduardo Campos, Lucas Souza and Marcelo, and 3rd Best Tool Award at CBSoft'2014 goes to ModularityCheck from {Luciana, Daniel, Marco Túlio}@aserg and Marcelo@lascam. See the 16 accepted tools in the conference program.

Aug-20-2014. Accepted abstracts at ICSE 2017 PhD and Young Researchers Warm Up Symposium: Raquel Lafetá and Liliane Vale. See accepted abstracts in the event page.

Jul-25-2014. Two papers accepted at CBSoft'2014: Tool Session: 1) Nuggets Miner: Assisting Developers by Harnessing the StackOverflow Crowd Knowledge and the
GitHub Traceability and 2) ModularityCheck: A Tool for Assessing Modularity using Co-Change Clusters.

Jul-23-2014. Lucas Souza has defended his MSc Dissertation entitled: CROWD COOKBOOKS: USING CROWD KNOWLEDGE FROM Q&A SITES FOR API DOCUMENTATION.

Jun-14-2014. LASCAM has new graduate students: Allysson Silva (PhD), Klérisson Paixão (PhD), Victor Sobreira (PhD), Adriano Mendonça (MSc), Carlos Dantas (MSc) e Edinilson Vida (MSc). Welcome!!!

Jun-20-2014. Accepted paper at SBES2014. Lucas dissertation on the extraction of cookbooks for APIs from the StackOverflow.

Jun-01-2014. Distinguished paper at ICPC2014. Invited to resubmission of an extended version to Journal of Software: Evolution and Process - Wiley.

May-27-2014. Distinguished paper at ICEIS 2014.  "A Systematic Review on Performance Evaluation of Aspect-Oriented Programming Techniques used to Implement Crosscutting Concerns"  has been selected to be included in the LNBIP published by Springer. This book will include the updated and extended versions of only a short list of selected papers from ICEIS 2014.

May-21-2014. LASCAM Website online experimentally.

Apr-25-2014. Best paper awarded at Modularity'2014 ». Invited to resubmission of an extended version to Transactions of Aspect-Oriented Software Development.

Mar-23-2014. Accepted paper at ICPC2014 ».

Jan-25-2014. Prof. David Röthlisberger from UDP-Chile visited LASCAM.