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ACM Student Research Competition at MoDELS 2013
Davide Di Ruscio1 and Ethan Jackson2
1
Department of Information Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics
University of L’Aquila (Italy)
davide.diruscio@univaq.it
2
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
ejackson@microsoft.com
1 Introduction
For the first time MoDELS 2013 hosted the ACM Student Research Competition spon-
sored by Microsoft Research. The Student Research Competition (SRC) is a forum for
undergraduate and graduate students to showcase their research, exchange ideas, and
improve their communication skills while competing for prizes. The Student Research
Competition has the following goals:
– to give undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to share their research
ideas and results in a special forum that provides visibility for their work;
– to give students the opportunity to meet with and interact with conference attendees
to share ideas, gain new insights, and understand possible practical applications;
– to give students an opportunity to sharpen their communication skills, including
visual, organizational, oral, and aural modalities;
– to provide detailed feedback to students about their research and presentation, from
a panel of distinguished judges from industry and academia to recognize and reward
outstanding student research.
The contest has two categories, one for undergraduate research and the other for
graduate research3 . For works accepted to the MoDELS 2013 Student Research Com-
petition, a travel grant of up to US $500 were awarded to help cover travel expenses to
the conference. The top three winners at MoDELS 2013 in each category (undergrad-
uate and graduate) received prizes of US $500, US $300, and US $200, respectively.
Moreover, all winners received an award plaque and two-year complimentary ACM
membership with a subscription to ACMs Digital Library. Winners were recognized
during the closing plenary session of the MoDELS 2013 conference.
2 Selection procedure
The winners selection encompassed three steps as summarized in the following.
3
For more information about the ACM SRC please refer to http://src.acm.org/
Abstract submission To participate in the competition, students submitted a research
abstract related to the main themes of the conference and describing the research prob-
lem and motivation, background and related work, approach and uniqueness, results,
and contributions. Eleven contributions were submitted and a panel of experts (see Sec-
tion 4) reviewed the submissions and selected seven students to participate in the second
round of the competition, which was held in Miami. The abstracts that were selected
and included in this document are listed below.
Graduate students category
– Domain Specific Analysis of Statemachine Models of Reactive Systems, Karolina
Zurowska, Queen’s University, Canada
– Using fUML as Semantics Specification Language in Model Driven Engineering,
Tanja Mayerhofer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
– Semantic Specifications for Domain-Specific Modeling Languages, Gabor Simko,
Vanderbilt University, United States
– Iterative Evaluation of Domain-Specific Languages, Ankica Barisic, Universidade
Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
– Concern Driven Software Development, Omar Alam, McGill University, Canada
– A Framework to Specifying and Analyzing Temporal Properties in UML Class
MOdels, Mustafa Al Lail, Colorado State University, USA
Undergraduate students category
– Complexity- and Performance Analysis of Different Controller Implementations on
a Soft PLC, Robert Feldmann, Technion, Israel
Poster session It took place in Miami and students had the opportunity to present their
research to conference attendees and leading experts in the software engineering fields,
including the SRC committee. Judges reviewed the posters and spoke to participants
about their research. The judges evaluated the research (quality, novelty, and signifi-
cance) and the presentation of the research (poster, discussion) and selected students to
advance to the next round of the competition.
Presentation session Selected students continued by giving a short presentation of their
research in a special session at the MoDELS 2013 conference. After each presentation,
a short question and answer session occurred. Evaluations were based on the presenter’s
knowledge of his/her research area, contribution of the research, and the quality of the
oral and visual presentation.
3 Winners
By means of the selection procedure previously summarized the following winners were
selected:
Graduate students category
1. Domain Specific Analysis of Statemachine Models of Reactive Systems, Karolina
Zurowska, Queen’s University, Canada
2. Semantic Specifications for Domain-Specific Modeling Languages, Gabor Simko,
Vanderbilt University, United States
3. Using fUML as Semantics Specification Language in Model Driven Engineering,
Tanja Mayerhofer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Undergraduate students category
1. Complexity- and Performance Analysis of Different Controller Implementations on
a Soft PLC, Robert Feldmann, Technion, Israel
4 Acknowledgement
We would like to thank everyone who has made this special event possible. We are
obliged to the students that contributed to have a successful event, to Jeff Gray and
Antonio Vallecillo that as MoDELS2013 general chairs strongly wanted ad supported
the event, and the following judges that made an excellent job in the different phases of
the selection procedure: Marco Brambilla4 (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Jordi Cabot2
(INRIA/cole des Mines de Nantes, France), Antonio Cicchetti (Mälardalen University,
IDT, Sweden), Juergen Dingel (Queen’s University, Canada), Gregor Engels (Univer-
sity of Paderborn, Germany), Richard Paige (University of York, UK), Alfonso Pieran-
tonio (University of L’Aquila, Italy), Eugene Syriani (University of Alabama, USA),
Janos Sztipanovits2 (Vanderbilt University, USA), Manuel Wimmer (Vienna Univer-
sity of Technology, Austria), and Vadim Zaytsev (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
(CWI, NL)
4
Contributed to the selection of the abstracts only.