Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Alpha Version of new paper is ready

The alpha version of the new paper is finished as scheduled.
The submission date is not till next Thursday, but we are already as far as we could go.
A last check on the weekend should suffice.

Yeah, we got it. Honestly, this feels great - it's been a stressful 10 weeks.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

SEKE 2009 is Camera Ready, 2nd paper almost done

I just finished the SEKE 2009 camera ready version. In case none of my pals find any typos or incorrect sentences, this should be the final version before the submission on May, 1st.

The other paper describing RESI in all its detail and workmanship is also almost done. We finished our internal alpha-version at the weekend and already progressing to the beta-version which should be ready on Saturday or Sunday.
This one will simmer till Wednesday the following week and will then be submitted after a final proof-reading. Let's hope the best the reviewers like our paper as much as we do.

So long, that's it for today. I am out.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Accepted for SEKE 2009

Our first paper submission (due march, 25th) was accepted at the SEKE 2009 conference in Boston.
Congratulations to all of us. It was tough work - and it seems to pay off any time.
We got an overall scoring of 7.8/10 which is pretty good for a first shot.
The reviewers remarked things we were already aware about and also suggested that we should keep focusing on getting the software to run.
Well, this is what we (already) did and therefore are about to finish the next paper concerning the other topics which we could not address so far.

Today we're going to have our internal paper-workshop which should give us a nice alpha-version of the next paper which is then due on May, 1st.
From our own opinion, this paper is even better than the last one and we are confident that our submission might yield fruit soon.

Have a sunny day, y'all.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Paper 2 in pre-alpha state

Discussed the paper content with Torben today (he writes his master thesis).
We did some polishing on the existing chapters and divided the work for the following chapters.
So far, I would dare to say the paper is 60% done. Give it another week and we should have a nice alpha version up next Sunday.
After that we need to pass the Walter F. Tichy (head of our research chair) quality-gate and probably run another revision of the paper (this would be the beta version).
After that, we let it simmer for another 5 days and do a last check and changes. This leads to the gamma version which we will then submit to the conference.

So far we're good on the schedule ... let's stay focused so we can keep the timeline.

Happy Easter to everybody and cya next week.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Paper 1 submitted, Paper 2 in progress

Hi all,

the first paper of this quarters plan is submitted to the conference. Let's see if our work satisfies the reviewers. We truly hope so.
It is the conceptual basis of the tool we're working on at the moment. Parts of the implementation are already done.

Today, we prepared the rough sketch of the next paper which will describe in detail how RESI (Requirements Engineering Specification Improver) works. This one will be submitted to the ICSC at the end of the month.

Next thing I need to do is update the AutoModel homepage and my profile.
That's it for today.

Btw - where's the sun? I was promised sunshine and love from last nights forecast ... none of it here today. Damn.