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2023-10-19T14:09:53Z
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2023-10-18T22:00:00Z
Open Position
<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakmin/35945822/2023-10-16-open-phd-position-733x414-8dca3145c5f1cd731f2c73216c109f693afa00ec.png" />The MAST group is looking to hire a research associate looking to pursue a PhD in our Hamburg-based internationally-recognized, highly diverse group.<p>Photo: Unsplash, https://unsplash.com/license; cropped</p>
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2018-12-10T23:00:00Z
SEmotion at ICSE2019
<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakmin/18374788/2018-12-11-the-semotion-workshop-will-take-place-for-the-fourth-time-at-icse-2019-733x414-efef01814b3357be8966d4ba21dcb9e6a9d4a6e5.png" /><p>The SEmotion workshop focuses on topics at the intersection of affective computing and software engineering.</p>
<p>Affective states such as personality traits, attitudes, moods, and emotions play a crucial role for developers performance as well as for the success of their product. For example, several software engineering tasks include acceptance and negotiation activities in which emotions play a crucial role—e.g., discussion about issues found on GitHub, or request for help on StackOverflow.</p>
<p>SEmotion is now at its fourth edition and has created an international community for researchers and practitioners in the area to present and discuss their work in progress regarding empirical studies, theoretical models, and tools to support affective computing in software engineering.</p>
<p>As for the previous three editions, SEmotion will be co-located with ICSE, a premier conference for software engineering research, in Montreal, Canada. This edition will be co organized by Davide Fucci from MAST, together with Bonita Sharif from the University of Nebraska in USA, and Giuseppe DeStefanis from Brunel Univesity in UK.</p>
<p>The SEmotion workshop series started in 2016 when ICSE took place in Austin, Texas and was co-organized by prof. Walid Maalej. Since then, researchers from MAST have contributed to the workshop programme and presented their work to this community.</p>
<p>For more information, check the workshop website.</p><p>Photo: © 2017 Artwork Designed by Loogart.com</p>
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2018-10-14T22:00:00Z
MAST @ Tag Des Wissens
<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakmin/17160175/tag-des-wissens-733x414-1d768a7548ce544a94e1228950ed2fe03b95aeeb.png" />Daniel Martens, Marlo Häring, and Christoph Stanik represented MAST, Forum 4.0, OpenDataStudio, and OpenReq at the Tag des Wissens—a public event at which researchers present and discuss their work with interested citizens. Under the theme “Technik und Digitale Welten” (Technology and Digital Worlds), the event took place on September 22nd at the Hamburg University of Technology TUHH. With about 4,500 visitors, the Tag des Wissens generated a lot of interest and a campus full of curious and knowledge seeking citizens. MAST held one presentation and data analytics and one interactive workshop for kids.<p>Photo: https://www.tagdeswissens.de/</p>
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2018-07-10T22:00:00Z
RE18 Success
<img width="293" height="165" style="float:left" src="https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakmin/18372751/2018-09-07-re18-success-733x414-e2a38833087f8e03c77f272099c69e39e650bb41.png" /><p>From the 20-24th of August over 300 researchers met at the beautiful Banff Centre (Alberta, Canada) to present and discuss their latest findings at the 26th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'18).</p>
<p>The week was filled with an interesting program. Tutorials, workshops, a doctoral symposium, and an industry day (a sign that the community is making an impact) took place before the three-day main conference.</p>
<p>The main conference (click here for the full program) displayed bleeding-edge research in requirements engineering. Three compelling keynotes—delivered from two world-renowned researchers and a representative of the self-driving car industry—accompanied the sessions. Junior and experienced researchers presented studies, from theoretical to data-driven, in several domains following this year's theme "Crossing Boundaries and Increasing Impact." Prof. Walid Maalej was part of the organization and, according to many old-time attendants, RE'18 was one of the most successful in the series. </p>
<p>RE'18 featured also the first edition of AffectRE (co-organized by Davide Fucci), a workshop dedicated to bringing together researchers interested in studying emotions, moods, and affective states to support better requirements engineering practices and tools. The workshop had a good attendance (between 15 and 20 people) and included two invited talks, four research papers, as well as a discussion session to plan the next steps in this emergent community.</p>
<p>For details about what went on during both events, you can follow the #RE18 and #AffectRE18 hashtags on Twitter. Pictures of the event are available here.</p>
<p>The conference (and possibly the AffectRE workshop) will be back next year in Jeju Island (South Korea) for RE'19! </p>
<p>Photo: Creator</p>
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2018-06-18T22:00:00Z
MAST @ ICSE 2018
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<p>Our research group was represented at this year’s ICSE, the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering. The conference took place from May 27 until June 03 in Gothenburg, Sweden.</p>
<p>Dr. Davide Fucci published his work "Sensing Developers’ Emotions: The Design of a Replicated Experiment" at the 3rd International Workshop on Emotion Awareness in Software Engineering (SEmotion), co-authored with Daniela Girardi, Filippo Lanubile, and Nicole Novielli from University of Bari. </p>
<p>Further, Dr. Davide Fucci presented a poster <span>on </span>“The Effect of Noise on Requirements Comprehension”<span>, with Simone Romano, Giuseppe Scanniello, Natalia Juristo, and Burak Turhan.</span></p>
<p>Daniel Martens and Walid Maalej presented their work "ReviewChain: Untampered Product Reviews on the Blockchain" at the 1st International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Engineering for Blockchain (WETSEB).</p>
<p>Yen Dieu Pham presented her work "A First Implementation of a Design Thinking Workshop During a Mobile App Development Course Project" at the 2nd International Workshop on Software Engineering Education for Millennials (SEEM), co-authored with Davide Fucci, and Walid Maalej.</p>
<p>More information about the conference and the schedule of the presentations can be found at the ICSE website.</p>
<p>[gallery link="file" ids="8148,8153,8149,8147"]</p><p>Photo: ICSE IEEE Webmaster</p>
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2018-06-05T22:00:00Z
Hamburg RE Symposium
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<p>Those that follow us already for a while know about our strong connection and contributions to the field of Requirements Engineering. With the received grant and responsibility in one of our current projects, OpenReq, and our chairholder Prof. Dr. Walid Maalej being the PC-Co Chair of the 26th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, we wanted to contribute to the RE community even more by running an RE symposium.</p>
<p>We are happy to report that the 1st Hamburg Requirements Engineering Symposium was a great success! Seven speakers from around the world discussed a wide range of topics with about ~40-50 participants, 10 from industry, 15 researchers, and the rest students.</p>
<p>On a sunny day, we welcomed all participants on our campus with snacks and drinks to be prepared for the presentations and discussions. The symposium began with introductions from Prof. Dr. Walid Maalej and Prof. Dr. Frank Steinicke. Between the two of them, we learned of the importance behind RE practices and research, and the history and prominence of the University of Hamburg. </p>
<p>Following the introductions, there were then presentations from top researchers in Requirements Engineering. Here is a photo recap of the presentations:</p>
<p>Günther Ruhe -- Asymmetric release planning</p>
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<p>Kelly Blincoe -- Modern software development: the stress and social pressure<br></p>
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<p>Liliana Pasquale -- Topology Aware Adaptive Security<br></p>
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<p>Martin Glinz -- How much RE do we need?<br></p>
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<p>Daniel Amyot -- Evidence-Driven Evolution of Regulatory Requirements with Goal Models and Watson Analytics<br></p>
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<p>Anna Perini -- The SUPERSEDE project<br></p>
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<p>Lloyd Montgomery -- Conducting Research Industry Partnerships using Design Science: a Case Study with IBM<br></p>
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<p>In an effort to encourage networking, an outdoor snack-and-chat venue was provided. This venue was met with plenty of good conversation, absorbed Hamburg sun, and in-depth discussions regarding the presentations that occurred.</p>
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<p>The RE Symposium was concluded by going downtown to experience some Hamburg cuisine, and continue the discussions and networking.</p>
<p>Overall the RE Symposium was a success and an event that will likely be repeated in the future. Thank you to all who participated, and a special thanks to the sponsors of the event:</p>
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</p><p>Photo: MAST @ UHH, CC BY-SA 3.0 ; cropped</p>
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2018-04-29T22:00:00Z
MAST Team won national Hochschulwettbewerb
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<p>The MAST team is proud to announce that its contribution “OpenDataStudio” is one of the awarded projects of the national competition “Hochschulwettbewerb” 2018 with the theme “Future Working World” in which universities from all over Germany competed with each other.</p>
<p>With “OpenDataStudio” Yen Dieu Pham, Christoph Stanik and Prof. Dr. Walid Maalej are inviting researchers, citizens, and public authorities to critically discuss and learn about risks, challenges and chances of open data especially provided by cities.<br> Open data is accessible for everyone, but many do not know the chances and consequences. Therefore, it is important to create an understanding of how such data is generated. This understanding is an essential part of the OpenDataStudio as well as learning how data can be used to improve, e.g., the quality and flow of the everyday life.</p>
<p>With the reward of 10,000 Euro “OpenDataStudio” will develop a concept to explain OpenData to non-technical people as well as to create ideas and prototypes with the participants based on OpenData. The participants will learn how to deal with OpenData and how to generate it. At the end of the project, the teams will present their experiences, ideas and the prototypes at a public event. Supporters and interested people are welcome to join us, starting from now on.</p>
<p>Contact:<br> Yen Dieu Pham<br> Universität Hamburg<br> Fachbereich Informatik<br> +49 40 42883-2306<br> pham@informatik.uni-hamburg.de</p>
<p>Prof. Dr. Walid Maalej<br> Universität Hamburg<br> Fachbereich Informatik<br> +49 40 428 83-2073<br> maalej@informatik.uni-hamburg.de</p><p>Photo: MAST @ UHH, CC BY-SA 3.0 ; cropped</p>
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2017-11-02T23:00:00Z
SCAN Knowledge Base is Online
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<p>We are glad to release the knowledge and community site on "Journalism, Users and Technology" as one of the deliverables of our SCAN-4J project. On this site we collect texts, practices, projects, tools, events, and people that are concerned with online journalism, particularly (automatic) analysis of user comments to journalistic articles. If you are missing something or have any comment, please contact us.</p>
<p>SCAN-4J stands for systematic Content Analysis of User Comments for Journalists. This project initiated our - in the meantime very intensive and productive - collaboration with the Hans-Bedrow-Institute for Media Research.</p>
<p>The release of the knowledge and community site corresponds to the end of the SCAN-4J, which was partly funded by Google. However, the timing shows our strong commitment in continuing the fruitful collaboration with the Bedrow-Institute on this current important and inherently multi-disciplinary topic. We consider it as a start than as an end. Expect more to come soon...</p><p>Photo: Unsplash, https://unsplash.com/license cropped</p>
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2017-11-02T23:00:00Z
Forum 4.0 New Project
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<p>We are happy to announce that our project proposal Forum 4.0 just got positively evaluated and received a 625,000 Euro funding from the informatics platform ahoi.digital. With ahoi.digital, the Department of Computer Science of the University of Hamburg, the HAW, the Technical University of Hamburg (TUHH) and the HafenCity University are intensifying their cooperation in education, research, and technology transfer. An expert commission selected Forum 4.0 among the four accepted project application (15 in total).</p>
<p>Forum 4.0 starts on the 1st January 2018 and focuses on the systematic content analysis, aggregation, and visualization of user comments. This project builds on previous work with social scientists and strives for an informatics centered and interdisciplinary research partnership.</p>
<p>This project involves five research teams of three different institutions:</p>
<p>Universität Hamburg</p>
Applied Software Technology (Prof. Maalej)
Language Technology Group (Prof. Biemann)
<p>HAW Informatik</p>
Technik und Informatik (Prof. Zukunft)
Fakultät Design, Medien und Information (Prof. Stöcker) (associated)
<p>Hans-Bredow-Institut</p>
Journalism Research (PD Dr. Loosen) (associated)
<p>Summary of the project:</p>
<p>Online user comments, such as journalistic content or product features are associated with low quality, Hate speech or even excessive demands for moderation. Forum 4.0 will develop new methods based on text analysis, machine learning (with Human in the Loop) and Empirical Software Engineering to better exploit the constructive and deliberative potential of user comments. The aim is to systematically analyze, aggregate and visualize the content and quality of comments at runtime in order to enable constructive participation. The project builds on our previous work with social scientists and aims for an informatics-centered, interdisciplinary research network that combines the focal points "Information Governance Technologies" and "Data Science" of ahoi.digital. We foresee immense transfer potential for the media location of Hamburg.</p>
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2017-08-13T22:00:00Z
M-Lab App presented at Press Conference of State
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<p>Hamburg's State Minister of Science, Research and Equality Katharina Fegebank presented together with Prof. Maalej and Daniel Martens from our research department the new science app “Metropole des Wissens” at the State Press conference. The app is dedicated to all citizens interested in science. The aim of the app is to stronger connect science within the city state of Hamburg and the interested public.</p>
<p>The app is a success story for knowledge and technology transfer at the University of Hamburg. The initial version of the app was developed with the lighthouse-teaching project M-Lab. Within this course students develop innovative mobile apps by using the latest technology. At the beginning of the three-month course practice partners from industry, public sector, and civil institutions present the students their problem statements. The ministry for science, research and equality took part in the M-Lab course in 2015. A team of four students (Minka Halilovic, Javad Malaquti, Paul Mazgajski, and Daniel Martens) developed the initial version of the app, which aggregates content, such as news and events, of the scientific institutions within Hamburg. At the end of the project the students presented the app to the first and second major of the city of Hamburg within the town hall.</p>
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<p>The app and its concept received great enthusiasm. It was further developed and tested, and is from now on available for free within the Apple AppStore. Katharina Fegebank, Hamburg's State Minister of Science, Research and Equality: „With this app... citizen can dive in digitally with one click from anywhere in the Hamburg's science“</p>
<p>Prof. Maalej concludes: "the students designed the app for the future and other institutions can easily integrate their content into the app -- even Germany- wide" .</p>
<p>Follow the link to download the app within the Apple AppStore.</p>
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<p>Press coverage:</p>
Hamburg1: "Neue App für Hamburger Wissenschaft"
Abendblatt: "Kostenlose App zu Themen aus der Wissenschaft"
Welt.de: "Wissenschaft per App erleben"
Hamburg.de: "Neue App für aktuelle Infos aus der Hamburger Wissenschaft"
<p>Photo: MAST @ UHH, CC BY-SA 3.0</p>
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2017-07-12T22:00:00Z
MAST at RE17
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<p>At this years' 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, MAST is represented with three papers and a full-day tutorial.</p>
<p>We are going to present the following papers:</p>
Mining User Rationale from Software Reviews<br>Zijad Kurtanović and Walid Maalej
SAFE: A Simple Approach for Feature Extraction from App Descriptions and App Reviews<br>Timo Johann, Christoph Stanik, Alireza M.Alizadeh B. and Walid Maalej
Automatically Classifying Functional and Non-Functional Requirements Using Supervised Machine Learning<br>Zijad Kurtanović and Walid Maalej
<p>Further, in collaboration with Maleknaz Nayebi and Guenther Ruhe from the University of Calgary, we are going to run the following full-day tutorial:</p>
From Mining to Planning – Next Generation of Release Decision Making for Software Products
<p>We are looking forward to a great conference and hope to meet you there.</p>
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