Our EduSymp-paper went wild on the paper-rating list.
Therefore it will (additionally to the publishing of the conference proceedings) be published in a LNCS-book.
According to experienced sources, this might take up to 1 year till the printed version will be in our hands. Well, too bad.
Still, we're proud and happy that this worked out so well for us. As a matter of fact, we also had to do another review-procedure for the paper before we sent it out to the print-shop. This puts another 20 hours of work on top of the 300 hours for the initial creation ;-)
Well, I guess we're all not here just for the fun of it.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Structured Plans for SaleMX Project
The SaleMX Project is up on the track to glory and fame. Or at least something like that.
If you go to the SaleMX web page,
you'll find all the information for our project/work.
The project includes all of Tom's and my work and bundles our forces to achieve our research goals.
We are currently 5 people cooperating on this project. These are:
The UML-Decider including the User-GUI for the changes in the graph model are my responsibilty whereas tom has to focus on the left-hand side part of the model.
The dotted lines are the parts of the project we still need to realize. So there is still some work to do as you can see. Never the less, the end is in sight.
The project includes all of Tom's and my work and bundles our forces to achieve our research goals.
We are currently 5 people cooperating on this project. These are:
- Mathias
- Bugra
- Torben
- Tom
- me, myself and I
The UML-Decider including the User-GUI for the changes in the graph model are my responsibilty whereas tom has to focus on the left-hand side part of the model.
The dotted lines are the parts of the project we still need to realize. So there is still some work to do as you can see. Never the less, the end is in sight.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Boiling down related work
The first step for my internal presentation for my PhD-thesis-advisor is to concentrate the related work into edible chunks. Focus on the main facts, try to find questions for the already related work and base your idea on that. Make sure know how to address the questions not solved by the other papers and point out the (extreme) difficulties which you deal with.
Also precisely define your context and what you are going to leave out and what not. What is essential to your work, what has already been addressed and is not part of your work, but only a side-dish (just to stick with the food analogy).
Well ... one week of work ahead of me. Let's start asap.
Also precisely define your context and what you are going to leave out and what not. What is essential to your work, what has already been addressed and is not part of your work, but only a side-dish (just to stick with the food analogy).
Well ... one week of work ahead of me. Let's start asap.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Back from Vacation: Working on thesis proposal
Hi Folks,
just wanted to let you know I am back from vacation and ready to do some research.
My colleagues spent the last couple of days setting up the nice "Trac" project admin guide-tool which should support us during the development phase of our ideas.
I am writing on the thesis structure and the proposal which will include the four big paragraphs
just wanted to let you know I am back from vacation and ready to do some research.
My colleagues spent the last couple of days setting up the nice "Trac" project admin guide-tool which should support us during the development phase of our ideas.
I am writing on the thesis structure and the proposal which will include the four big paragraphs
- Introduction
- Hypothesis
- Research Plan
- Evaluation/Evaluative Aspects
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Planning Work Camera Ready Version for EduSymp2008
Today, I restructured my thesis and also added some fine ideas I brought home with me from the SEKE conference.
There is a little rework necessary for the EduSymp paper so we were rated 3 times "stronly accepted" and 2 times "weakly accepted". That's a pretty satisfying result.
Matter of fact, the reviewers were all craving for more information which we (most likely) won't be able to include into the paper due to page number restrictions. We cannot shorten the article more than 1 or 2 paragraphs without losing information and track of the thin red line. If we are allowed to purchase additional pages, we might add some extra information as (legitimately) requested by the reviewers.
There are after all 15 recommendations we would like to consider revising the paper and forming it into yet another version of our solution-paper. Some of the things pointed out are quite easy to explain/solve in the paper. Some others might not quite make it into the article. It's all about priorities.
There is a little rework necessary for the EduSymp paper so we were rated 3 times "stronly accepted" and 2 times "weakly accepted". That's a pretty satisfying result.
Matter of fact, the reviewers were all craving for more information which we (most likely) won't be able to include into the paper due to page number restrictions. We cannot shorten the article more than 1 or 2 paragraphs without losing information and track of the thin red line. If we are allowed to purchase additional pages, we might add some extra information as (legitimately) requested by the reviewers.
There are after all 15 recommendations we would like to consider revising the paper and forming it into yet another version of our solution-paper. Some of the things pointed out are quite easy to explain/solve in the paper. Some others might not quite make it into the article. It's all about priorities.
EduSymp on MODELS2008 paper accepted
We just got notice that our paper "Automatic Checklist Creation for the Assessment of UML Models" got accepted at the educator's symposium on MODELS2008 conference.
Well, this is good news for the start of a new day.
There is some work to be done till we can ship the camera ready version on August, 11th, but we should be able to finish this task by the end of the week.
I have to read through the inspectors notes to see what we could/can improve whilst polishing the article for the camera ready version.
Well, this is good news for the start of a new day.
There is some work to be done till we can ship the camera ready version on August, 11th, but we should be able to finish this task by the end of the week.
I have to read through the inspectors notes to see what we could/can improve whilst polishing the article for the camera ready version.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Work on PhD-Thesis structure
As I already explained yesterday, I am planning my work for the next couple of weeks. First of all, this will include improving/changing/adapting the structure of my thesis as well as incorporating the ideas and feedback I got attending SEKE 2008.
Also, I have to find additional hooks in the requirements engineering "society" where I can plug in with my solution. So far, we are still the only ones with this approach; at least as far as we can tell.
A question I was asked quite a few times during the conference was why I used thematic relations to work with text. Well, matter of fact this was mostly due to that the people working on this part of RE sit right across the hallway from my office. This makes Q&A easier and faster.
Also I think, covering the approach with a complete process from textual specifications to UML (and maybe even to code) is a lot more "life-like" then other variants. So far we have not run into bigger problems and will stick to this approach as long as possible (unless any of you readers does have a perfect argument and objects). If we should bump into bigger obstacles, we certainly would adapt our approach to a more feasible study.
Also, I have to find additional hooks in the requirements engineering "society" where I can plug in with my solution. So far, we are still the only ones with this approach; at least as far as we can tell.
A question I was asked quite a few times during the conference was why I used thematic relations to work with text. Well, matter of fact this was mostly due to that the people working on this part of RE sit right across the hallway from my office. This makes Q&A easier and faster.
Also I think, covering the approach with a complete process from textual specifications to UML (and maybe even to code) is a lot more "life-like" then other variants. So far we have not run into bigger problems and will stick to this approach as long as possible (unless any of you readers does have a perfect argument and objects). If we should bump into bigger obstacles, we certainly would adapt our approach to a more feasible study.
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