MoDELS 2015 hosted the ACM Student Research Competition, which is sponsored by Microsoft Research, for the 3rd time. 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 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 problem and motivation, background and related work, approach and uniqueness, results, and contributions. Thirteen contributions were submitted and a panel of experts (see Section 4) reviewed the submissions and selected eleven students to participate in the second round of the competition, which was held in Ottawa. The abstracts that were selected and are included in this document encompass a wide variety of subjects in the software modeling paradigm. They are listed below.
Poster session It took place in Ottawa 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 significance) and the presentation of the research (poster, discussion).
Presentation session All students gave short presentation of their research in a special session at the MoDELS 2015 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.
The following winners were selected by the selection procedure previously summarized: 4
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, and to Tim Lethbridge that as MoDELS2015 general chair strongly supported the event. The following judges made an excellent job in the different phases of the selection procedure: