On tuesday, april 2nd we welcome a guest at our university -- prof. Daniel M German an expert in open source systems. Professor German will explain how state-of-the-art software engineering techniques (i.e. mining software repositories) can be used to help open source communities with issues like copyright violations; license infringements and cataloguing license uses. As open source licensing is becoming an essential part of Software Engineering we hereby invite you to this lecture; details are provided below.

Feel free to forward this invitation to anyone you think may be interested. And apologies for cross-posting.

Prof. Serge Demeyer
WHEN
• Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013; 14:00 - 16:00
WHERE
• University of Antwerp - Campus Middelheim
• Room G.017

TITLE
On the provenance of Free and Open Source Software and the legal implications of its reuse

ABSTRACT
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) has become an important source of
components to reuse, in both commercial and non commercial software.
While these components are free (i.e. gratis) they are made available
with a license that indicates the conditions under which it can be
used. As a consequence, the license of a component might restrict how
it can be reused. In this talk I'll describe our recent work regarding
reuse of FOSS components:

- The problem of provenance discovery in FOSS. Components are
frequently distributed in binary form, making it difficult to trace
back their origin. In other cases code snippets are copied from one
product to another. I'll describe Joa, a system that is capable of
finding the provenance of Java classes in both binary and source
code form.

- The problem of license compliance and auditing: how to determine if
a software system is satisfying all the legal constraints imposed by
the components it reuses. I'll describe Ninka, a system for license
identification, and a model that puts together Joa and Ninka to do
license compliance of Java applications

BIO
Daniel German is professor of Computer Science at the University of
Victoria. He completed his PhD at the University of Waterloo in
2000. His work spans the areas of software evolution, open source,
intellectual property and computational photography. In 2011 he received
a coveted NSERC Discovery Grant for his work in Intellectual Property
and in 2010 he received a Faculty of Engineering Teaching Excellence
Award at the University of Victoria.

A panel of judges at the 16th Copper Mountain Conference (2013) has accredited
Siegfried Cools, PhD student at TWNA Research Group (UA department of Mathematics and Computer Science) with one of the annual Student Paper Awards for the original and innovative research reported in the paper An efficient Multigrid calculation of the Far field map for Helmholtz problems (arxiv:1211:4451). In cooperation with Wim Vanroose and Bram Reps, a new highly efficient Multigrid-based technique was developed for the calculation of the Far field scattering map, which represents the amplitude of scattered waves at large distances from the object of interest in every outgoing direction. The efficient computation of Far field mappings is of vital importance for the numerical solution of high-dimensional inverse scattering problems which are common in many current-day industrial (radar and sonar), biomedical (tomography) and quantum-physical (molecular and atomic reactions) applications.
Siegfried Cools will expound on the performed research during a special afternoon session at the
16th Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid Methods (Colorado, USA) chaired by Van Emden Henson on Wednesday 20 March 2013 (see

De nieuwe Erasmus-overeenkomsten werden recent ondertekend. De lijst met mogelijke universiteiten kan je vinden op deze website

http://www.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.DIS&n=73093

Verdere informatie kan je inwinnen bij Bart Goethals (informatica) of Lieven Le Bruyn (wiskunde).

TITLE

Software Visualization: Principles, Practice, Myths, Perils, Promises, Evaluation, and all the rest

ABSTRACT

The title says it all: In this talk I will introduce the principles that govern software visualization, and show through a series of examples how they can be applied in practice. Furthermore I will reflect on how such research can be evaluated.
 

WHEN

Monday, February 11th, 2013; 14:00 - 16:00

WHERE

University of Antwerp - Campus Middelheim
Room G017

BIO

Michele Lanza is associate professor of the faculty of informatics, which he co-founded in 2004. His doctoral dissertation, completed in 2003 at the University of Bern, received the prestigious European Ernst Denert award for best thesis in software engineering of 2003. Prof. Lanza received the Credit Suisse Award for best teaching in 2007 and 2009.
At the University of Lugano Prof. Lanza leads the REVEAL research group, working in the areas of software visualization, evolution, and reverse engineering. He authored more than peer-reviewed 100 technical papers and the book "Object-Oriented Metrics in Practice".
Prof. Lanza is involved in a number of scientific communities, and has served on more than 80 program committees. He is president of CHOOSE (the Swiss Object-Oriented Software Engineering society). He was program co-chair of ICSM (the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance) in 2010, of MSR (the Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories) in 2007 and 2008, of VISSOFT (the IEEE Workshop on Visualizing Software) in 2009, of IWPSE (the International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution) in 2007. He is steering committee member of ICSM, MSR, VISSOFT, Softvis, and IWPSE. He was keynote speaker at MSR 2010 and CBSOFT 2011.

REGISTRATION

Attending the talk is free of charge, but if you are planning to attend please send an e-mail to Quinten Soetens (quinten.soetens@ua.ac.be) so that we have an idea of the amount of participants. Feel free to forward this invitation to anyone you think may be interested.