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African Conference on Software Engineering
(ACSE) 2020
Engineer Bainomugisha Michel Chaudron Regina Hebig
Makerere University, Uganda Eindhoven University of Technology Chalmers University of Technology |
Email: baino@cis.mak.ac.ug The Netherlands University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Email: m.r.v.chaudron@tue.nl Email: hebig@chalmers.se
M ESSAGE FROM THE C HAIRS Keynote Address
The keynote was given by Dr. Ernest Mwebaze from Google
Welcome to the 2020 edition of the African Conference on AI, Accra, Ghana and Sunbird AI on the topic “Software
Software Engineering (ACSE) that is held virtually due to the Engineering in a Machine learning world: perspectives from
COVID-19 travel restrictions and social distancing measures. industry”.
The ACSE 2020 is the third edition of what previously was Abstract: Industry is mainly driven by profit. Software
known as Symposium on Software Engineering in Africa in industry is developed with a focus on an individual and
(SEiA). The ACSE is a forum for researchers, innovators, their specific wants. To make money software has to be
and leading professionals to discuss the state and future of developed with appropriate UIs and functionality that allows
software engineering in Africa. The ACSE was organized with an individual to do something they would ordinarily not do
the purpose of increasing participation of researchers from if they had no access to the software. The motivations for
Africa in the international Software Engineering community. industry thus tend to be different from those in academia.
The event provides a platform for exchanging ideas on the Machine learning enables even greater power in the hands
role of software engineering in socio-economic development of the individual, and presents new paradigms in how the
of the continent, the future directions of software engineering software is developed and evaluated, aspects of how a software
research and education in Africa, creating networks with the project is planned and executed, how the project is launched
global software engineering community, and sharing exciting and maintained in production and specific issues around bias,
results with the global community. fairness and transparency. In this talk I will touch on each
of these issues with a perspective from a large non-profit
The ACSE 2020 covers topics in software engineering re-
organisation and a large multinational for profit organisation.
search in general, and especially welcomes research addressing Bio: Ernest Mwebaze obtained his doctorate in machine
social-economic challenges in the areas of importance for learning from the University of Groningen. He has over 10
the African continent including financial services, agriculture, years experience in academia where he was part of the faculty
sustainable cities, healthcare, education, transportation, envi- at the School of Computing and Informatics Technology of
ronment and, climate change, smart grids, conflict and crisis Makerere University in Uganda. At Makerere University he
management, process improvement, software engineering ed- co-led the Makerere Artificial Intelligence research lab and
ucation and, training in Africa, building research networks, headed several research projects. He has worked with the UN
software innovations and startups, growing the IT-industry, at the Pulse Lab Kampala and with Google AI, in Accra,
setting up IT-outsourcing, data science, Internet of Things and Ghana. His current portfolio includes being a research director
cloud computing in Africa, open source software and software at Sunbird AI, an NGO focused on productization of AI for
ecosystems in Africa, and national policies for growing the IT social good.
industry
We received fourteen (26) submissions. Each submission Organizing Committee
went through a thorough review process that involved at We like to thank the local organizing committee for their
least 3 reviewers. We accepted eleven (11), 10 full papers help an support.
and 1 short paper, resulting in a 42% acceptance rate of • Waweru Mwangi, Local Chair, Jomo Kenyatta University
the submissions received. The conference will include pre- of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya
sentations of accepted papers, keynote speakers and specific • Rimiru Richard, Local Co-Chair, Jomo Kenyatta Univer-
discussions on topics around growing Software Engineering sity of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya
research and education on the African continent. We are • Lawrence Nderu, Local Co-Chair, Jomo Kenyatta Uni-
grateful to everyone who submitted to the ACSE 2020, the versity of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya
Program Committee members, the organisers and participants. • Mwirigi Kiula, Local Co-Chair, Jomo Kenyatta Univer-
We look forward to a successful series of ACSE events. sity of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya
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• Dennis Mugambi, Web Chair, Jomo Kenyatta University
of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya
• Stephen Kimani, Local Co-Chair, Jomo Kenyatta Univer-
sity of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya
• Micheal Tuape, Fundraising and Publicity Chair, Univer-
sity of Botswana
Program Committee
Furthermore, this conference would not have been possible
without the members of the program committee.
• Loek Cleophas, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands; and
Stellenbosch University, South Africa
• Yirsaw Ayalew, University of Botswana, Botswana
• Ibrahim Adeyanju, Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Nigeria
• Rafael Capilla, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid,
Spain
• Eric Umuhoza, Carnegie Mellon University Africa,
Rwanda
• Salome Maro, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
• Regina Hebig, Chalmers | University of Gothenburg,
Sweden
• Rashidah Kasauli Namisanvu, Makerere University,
Uganda
• Leonard Peter Binamungu, College of ICT, University of
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
• Michel Chaudron, Chalmers and University of Gothen-
burg, Sweden
• Engineer Bainomugisha, Makerere University, Uganda
We also like to that the sub-reviewers.
• Sangeeth Kochanthara, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Sponsors
Last but not least we want to thank the sponsors of this
conference, namely:
• Makerere University, Kampala
• Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
• University of Gothenburg, Sweden
• Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology,
Kenya
• The Bright project of the Swedish International Develop-
ment Cooperation Agency, Sida
• The Embassy of Sweden in Kampala
Engineer Bainomugisha, Michel Chaudron, Regina Hebig
September 14, 2020
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