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June 2007 InfoVis Symposium Dublin

Lero Support

UCD Complex & Adaptive Systems Laboratory
Information Visualisation 
Mini-Symposium June 15th 2007

IRCSET

This Information Visualisation symposium saw people from industry and academia from around Ireland come together for a mini-symposium on Information Visualisation. Aaron Quigley chaired the event with support from Lero and with support from IRCSET for our keynote who was attending our VGV GREP expert panel the next day. 

One of our external academic participants said, “I was impressed by the range and quality of the Info Vis PhD/Masters projects here. The projects were pushing the science, and they were clearly well-grounded in industrial reality. I think you have an excellent research environment, and it was a pleasure to be here.“

Another of our partner academics said, “I just wanted to write a quick thank you for the Information Visualisation Day you organised last June. I found it very useful and it was a great opportunity to meet with people doing like-minded things.“

One of our external industry participants said, “The symposium was a very interesting event with many innovative presentations. Such events are also a great opportunity for industry and research to meet and discuss areas of mutual interest. I’d certainly like you to keep both myself and the wider team here in Dublin informed of any future events which may be of interest to us. “

10.00 – 10.05 Welcome – Aaron Quigley
10.05 – 11.00 Keynote – Peter Eades, NICTA Australia Algorithmics for Network Visualization
11.00 – 11.20 Coffee
11.20 – 11.40 Brendan Sheehan – Visualizing Error and Uncertainty
11.40 – 12.00 Aimal Tariq Rextin – Dynamic Upward Planarity Testing of Single Source Digraphs
12.00 – 12.20 Luke O’Malley – Treemaps for Feature Models in Software Evolution
12.20 – 12.40 Martin Harrigan – Minimum-Crossing Embeddings of Trees in k Levels
12.40 – 13.20 Lunch
13.20 – 13.40 Mike Bennett – Colour and Visualisation
13.40 – 14.00 Daren Nestor – Visualisation of Software Product Lines
14.00 – 14.20 Benoit Gaudin, Comparative Visual Analytics
14.20 – 14.40 Ross Shannon – Visualizing Gossiping Algorithms
14.40 Close of Symposium
15.00 – 15.30 Tour of UCD visualisation facilities and tabletop tissue micro array visualisation

June 2007 China Research Trip

Gaming and Graphics Workshop Beijing

From May 27th until June 4th I took part in an IRCSET funded GREP research visit with my colleague Marie Redmond from Trinity College Dublin to China. IRCSET funded our exploratory grant which supported this trip for the development of a Graduate Programme in Visualisation, Graphics and Vision.

We visited two Universities, Tsinghua in Beijing and Fudan in Shanghai along with Microsoft Research and IBM Research. In addition we attend the two day Asia-Pacific Regional Workshop on Gaming & Graphics in Beijing. This event allowed us to meet a wide range of academics from China, Japan, Korea and Australia. This two-day workshop included Microsoft Research Asia updates along with research and teaching presentations university faculty members. In addition these was one poster session and several moderated and informal group discussions. Our visit to Fudan was hosted by colleagues from UCD and UCD collaborators in the Software School. My school in UCD teaches a joint undergraduate degree program with the Software School in Fudan. This visit helped us focus on their Visualisation, Graphics and Vision research and 4th level plans.
MSRA Group Photo - G&G 07

The overall aim of this visit was document best practice in graduate research education in Chinese Universities and to understand how stronger links with industry and research labs can be developed.

June 2007 SRG students attend Software Engineering Research Summer School

Lipari

As part of the project SPL1 – Visualisation of Software Project Lines, UCD@Lero the Irish Software Engineering Research centre is providing support for Luke O’Malley one of my MSc students to the attend a summer school on software engineering which will take place from July 9th to July 21st on the island of Lipari, Italy. The school is chaired by Prof. Alfredo Ferro form the University of Catania and Prof. Egon Boerger from the University of Pisa. The courses offered will cover a wide range of software engineering topics, including

  • Domain Engineering, Prof. Dines Bjoerner, Technical University of Denmark, DK.
  • Feature Modularity in Software Product Lines, Prof Don Batory, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX.
  • Requirements Engineering, Prof. Florin Spanachi, SAP Research Karlsruhe.
  • Evolvable Software Products, Prof. Peter Sestoft, Department of Natural Sciences, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, DK.
  • Web Services, Prof. Boualem Benatallah, The University of New South Wales, Australia.
  • High-Level Modeling Patterns, Prof. Egon Boerger, University of Pisa, Italy.
  • Principles and challenges of software architecture evolution, Prof. Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
  • Distributed Systems Security, Prof. Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg-Harburg (TUHH),Germany

Luke hopes to gain a better understanding of software engineering and in particular learn more on the topic of software product lines which is directly related to his research. In addition he hopes to engage and discuss with other students at the school about their particular research topics. – Luke O’Malley

Main Sponsors

Universita di Catania
Facolta SMFN UNICT
Universita di Pisa
Lombardia Informatica
L'Informatica
Springer
LNCS
indam

Nov 2007 Best Paper Award

We won the Best Paper award for “Visualisation Techniques to Support Derivation Tasks in Software Product Line Development” authored by Nestor D., O’Malley L., Healy P., Quigley A., Thiel S., at the IBM CAS Software and Systems Engineering Symposium 2007.

The IBM Centre for Advanced Studies Dublin Symposium 2007 Wednesday on October 24th 2007 was organised in association with CASCON 2007, the 17th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (http://witanweb.ca/cascon2007/), and in cooperation with Lero, the Irish Software Engineering Research Center ( http://www.lero.ie).

The IBM CAS Software and Systems Engineering Symposium 2007 featured a keynote presentation from Professor Stefan Decker, DERI, research papers, a research panel on Sustainablility and Technology – Good partners? as a shared session (video conference) with CASCON 2007 in Canada, a research poster session and a capstone talk from Dr Steven Collins of Trinity College Dublin. The technical papers program featured original, internationally peer- reviewed research papers in the area of Software and Systems Engineering.

June 2006 Imaging, Visualisation & Graphics laboratory launch

IVG Lab Launch
We held the launch of the Imaging, Visualisation & Graphics laboratory in the School of Computer Science and Informatics with the support of Computer Services UCD. This launch was attended by UCD President, Vice President for Research, Vice President for Innovation, researchers from IBM and Intel along with academics from Conway Institute, Archaeology and Mechanical Engineering.