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ACM Student Research Competition at
MoDELS 2017
Davide Di Ruscio1 , Joel Greenyer2
1
DISIM, University of l’Aquila, Italy
2
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Abstract—MoDELS 2017 hosted the ACM Student Research winners receive an award plaque and two-year complimentary
Competition sponsored by Microsoft Research. The Student ACM membership with a subscription to ACMs Digital Li-
Research Competition (SRC) is a forum for undergraduate and brary. Winners at MoDELS 2017 were recognized during a
graduate students to showcase their research, exchange ideas, and
improve their communication skills while competing for prizes. conference wide event.
The contest has two categories, one for undergraduate research
and the other for graduate research. For works accepted to the
MoDELS 2017 Student Research Competition, a travel grant of II. S ELECTION PROCEDURE
up to US $500 were awarded to help cover travel expenses to the
conference. Moreover, all winners receive an award plaque and The winners selection encompassed three steps as summa-
two-year complimentary ACM membership with a subscription rized in the following.
to ACMs Digital Library. Winners at MoDELS 2017 were
recognized during a conference wide event. a) Abstract submission: To participate to the competi-
tion, students submitted a research abstract related to the main
I. I NTRODUCTION themes of the conference and describing the research problem
The ACM/IEEE 20th International Conference on Model and motivation, background and related work, approach and
Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MoDELS) 2017, uniqueness, results, and contributions. Three contributions
held on September 17-22, 2017 in Austin (Texas), hosted the were submitted and a panel of experts (see Section IV)
ACM Student Research Competition sponsored by Microsoft reviewed the submissions and selected two students to par-
Research. The Student Research Competition (SRC) is a forum ticipate in the second round of the competition, which was
for undergraduate and graduate students to showcase their held in Austin (Texas). The abstracts that were selected and
research, exchange ideas, and improve their communication included in this document are listed below.
skills while competing for prizes. The Student Research Com- Graduate students category
petition has the following goals: – MaRTS: A Model-Based Regression Test Selection Ap-
• to give undergraduate and graduate students the opportu- proach
nity to share their research ideas and results in a special Mohammed Al-Refai, Colorado State University (USA)
forum that provides visibility for their work; – Advanced Techniques and Tools for Secure Collaborative
• to give students the opportunity to meet with and inter- Modeling
act with conference attendees to share ideas, gain new Csaba Debreceni, Budapest University of Technologies
insights, and understand possible practical applications; and Economics (Hungary)
• to give students an opportunity to sharpen their commu-
b) Poster session: It took place in Austin (Texas) and
nication skills, including visual, organizational, oral, and
students had the opportunity to present their research to confer-
aural modalities;
ence attendees and leading experts in the software engineering
• to provide detailed feedback to students about their re-
fields, including the SRC committee. Judges reviewed the
search and presentation, from a panel of distinguished
posters and spoke to participants about their research. The
judges from industry and academia to recognize and
judges evaluated the research (quality, novelty, and signifi-
reward outstanding student research.
cance) and the presentation of the research (poster, discussion)
The contest has two categories, one for undergraduate and selected students to advance to the next round of the
research and the other for graduate research1 . For works competition.
accepted to the MoDELS 2017 Student Research Competition,
c) Presentation session: Students continued by giving
a travel grant of up to US $500 were awarded to help cover
a short presentation of their research in a special session
travel expenses to the conference. The top three winners in
at the MoDELS 2017 conference. After each presentation, a
each category (undergraduate and graduate) receive prizes of
short question and answer session occurred. Evaluations were
US $500, US $300, and US $200, respectively. Moreover, all
based on the presenter’s knowledge of his/her research area,
1 For more information about the ACM SRC please refer to http://src.acm. contribution of the research, and the quality of the oral and
org/ visual presentation.
III. W INNERS committee (special thanks go to Don Batory, the MODELS
By means of the selection procedure previously summarized 2017 General Chair), and the following judges that made an
the students were ranked as follows: excellent job in the different phases of the selection procedure:
Graduate students category Arnaud Blouin2 (INSA Rennes, France), Michel Chaudron4
(Chalmers & Gothenborg University, Sweden), Antonio Cic-
1) Advanced Techniques and Tools for Secure Collabora-
chetti (Mälardalen University, Sweden), Sebastian Götz (TU
tive Modeling
Dresden, Germany), Sahar Kokaly (McMaster University,
Csaba Debreceni, Budapest University of Technologies
Canada), Dimitrios Kolovos (University of York, UK), Tanja
and Economics (Hungary)
Mayerhofer (Vienna University of Technology, Austria), Al-
2) MaRTS: A Model-Based Regression Test Selection Ap-
fonso Pierantonio (University of L’Aquila, Italy), Rick Salay4
proach
(University of Toronto, Canada), Matthew Stephan (Miami
Mohammed Al-Refai, Colorado State University (USA)
University, USA), Eugene Syriani4 (University of Montreal,
IV. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Canada), Matthias Tichy (University of Ulm, Germany), Anto-
We would like to thank everyone who made this spe- nio Vallecillo4 (University of Málaga, Spain), Manuel Wimmer
cial event possible. We are obliged to the students that (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
contributed to have a successful event, to the organizing 2 Contributed to the selection of the abstracts only.