Curriculum Vitae - Multiple Choices - Concordia University

INTERNAL MEMORANDUM
TO: Dr. Paula Wood-Adams
Chair, Graduate Curriculum Committee
School of Graduate Studies
FROM: Dr. C. Mulligan
Associate Dean, Graduate Programs and Research
Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
CC: Ms. Erika MacFadden
Office Assistant
School of Graduate Studies
DATE: September 16, 2010
RE: Graduate Curriculum Proposal for the 2011-12 Academic Year
Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
The Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering has made the changes
and modifications suggested by the Graduate Curriculum Committee at its meeting on
April 12, 2010 to the new Ph.D. program in Software Engineering. These changes have
been incorporated into the current version of the proposal. Details of the proposal are
described in the Department letter and report. There are no resource implications with
this proposal as the advanced courses, faculty and facilities are available to support
research or training in the area of SE.
The new Ph.D. program in Software Engineering complements the existing Ph.D.
program in Computer Science and is an extension of the existing Software Engineering
programs (Bachelor and Masters). More than a third of the computer science doctoral
students are conducting research in the area of Software Engineering supervised by
Software Engineering professors. The proposed program will remedy the situation by
granting a degree that more accurately reflects the student area of research or training.
It will further strengthen ENCS graduate program offerings and will enhance the
visibility of the Faculty and the University in the academic or industrial research
community. The proposed Ph.D. program in Software Engineering will be the first
program to be offered in English in Quebec and one of a few in North America. It is
anticipated the proposed program will prove popular and hence will attract high caliber
students from Quebec, the rest of Canada and around the world.
Kindly review this curriculum submission from ENCS, listed under Provotrack Dossier
COMP-51, for recommendation of its implementation for the 2011-12 academic year,
as well as for its entry in the 2011-2012 Graduate Calendar.
Thank you for your consideration of this proposal.
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INTERNAL MEMORANDUM
TO: Dr. Robin A.L. Drew
Chair of the Faculty Council
Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
FROM: Dr. Catherine Mulligan
Associate Dean, Graduate Programs and Research
Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
DATE: November 25, 2009
RE: Graduate Curriculum Proposal for the 2010-11 Academic Year
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
At its meeting on November 24, 2009, the Engineering and Computer Science Graduate
Studies Committee (ECSGSC) reviewed and approved the introduction of a Ph.D. program
in Software Engineering from the Department of Computer Science and Software
Engineering (CSE), following a series of meetings and discussions.
The new Ph.D. program complements the existing Ph.D. program in Computer Science
and would be an extension of the existing Software Engineering programs (Bachelor and
Masters). More than a third of the doctoral students in Computer Science are conducting
research in the area of Software Engineering and are supervised by Software Engineering
professors. The proposed program will remedy this situation by granting a degree that
more accurately reflects the student area of research or training. The proposed Ph.D.
program will be the first program to be offered in English in Quebec and one of a few in
North America. It will further strengthen ENCS graduate program offerings and will
enhance the visibility of the Faculty and the University. It is expected the proposed
program would become popular and therefore would attract high caliber graduate
students from Quebec, the rest of Canada and around the world.
Kindly review this curriculum submission from CSE, listed under Provotrack Dossier
COMP-51, for recommendation of the implementation of the curriculum item for the
2010-11 academic year, as well as for its entry in the 2011-12 Graduate Calendar.
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Computer Science and Software Engineering
1. Cover memos to the Council of the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
and to the ECSGSC.
2. The Ph.D. program proposal, pages 1-51.
3. Program Change Proposals as Presented in Provotrack Dossier # COMP-51:
a. Introduction of Doctor of Philosophy in Software Engineering, pages D1-D3.
b. Introduction of SOEN 8901 Doctoral Research and Thesis in topic area C11,
page D4.
4. Course Change Proposal as Presented in Provotrack Dossier # COMP -51:
a. Introduction of SOEN 8901 Doctoral Research and Thesis (70 credits), page
D5.
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INTERNAL MEMORANDUM
TO: Engineering and Computer Science Graduate Studies Curriculum
Committee
FROM: Dr. N. Shiri, GPD – Dept. of Computer Science and Software
Engineering
DATE: March 1, 2010
SUBJECT:
Introduction of Ph.D. in Software Engineering
The Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSE) has agreed to
the changes and modifications proposed by the Graduate Curriculum Committee at
its meeting of February 8, 2010 to the Ph.D. program in Software Engineering.
The Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSE) approved the
introduction of a PhD program in Software Engineering at the Department Council
meeting on September 18, 2009. This program complements the existing PhD in
Computer Science that has been offered since 1984.
Software Engineering is an emerging and evolving discipline. The term ―Software
Engineering was first used at a software conference in 1968, but another 20 years
elapsed before it was in general use. Its use underlines the fact that software is
playing an ever-increasing role in the lives of all of us. More importantly, software
defects can have serious consequences. It is both necessary and appropriate that the
development of safety-critical software should be under the control of members of a
recognized profession with a long tradition — engineering.
CSE introduced an undergraduate program in Software Engineering in 1998. This
program was the first in Quebec and one of the first in Canada. The program received
accreditation from CEAB in 2002, when the first cohort graduated, and have been
accredited since then. CSE hired several new faculty members to teach the Software
Engineering courses. These faculty members have now received tenure and are active
in research. CSE introduced masters programs in Software Engineering in 2005,
providing both a thesis option and a course option.
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More than a third of the doctoral students currently registered in CSE are doing
research in Software Engineering, although they are registered for a Computer
Science degree. One of the reasons for introducing the Ph.D. in Software Engineering
is to give these students the degree that they expect and deserve. Another reason is to
attract new students to the department to study Software Engineering at the doctoral
level.
CSE already has the resources necessary to operate a new Ph.D. program
successfully. We anticipate that the program will prove popular and will attract good
students. Once again, Concordia can take the lead in Quebec.
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Proposal
Ph.D. in Software Engineering
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Concordia University
September 2010
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Executive Summary
The Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering offers two streams of study
for students and appropriate degrees in each stream: (a) the Computer Science stream that
was started at Loyola in 1968 and at Sir George Williams in 1970; and (b) the Software
Engineering stream that was started at Concordia in 1998. In the Computer Science stream,
the department offers a bachelor’s degree (Bachelor of Computer Science), a thesis-based
master’s degree (Master of Computer Science), a course-based master’s degree (Master of
Applied Computer Science), and a doctoral degree (Ph.D.). In the Software Engineering
stream the department offers a bachelor’s degree (Bachelor of Engineering) and the recently
approved master’s degrees: Master of Engineering (course based), and Master of Applied
Science (thesis based). In addition, a diploma program in Computer Science is offered by the
department to provide retraining for students from related disciplines and preparing them
for the job market or for further studies.
TheDepartmentproposestheintroductionofaPh.D.programinSoftwareEngineering. This
document describes the rationale and the proposed implementation of the new program.
The reasons for introducing this program include:
1. Professionals with graduate degrees in Software Engineering are in high demand by
the industry.
2. The Department already offers an undergraduate Software Engineering program and
two Master’s programs in Software Engineering (thesis and course based option). The
proposed offering of a Ph.D. in Software Engineering would be a natural extension of
our existing Software Engineering programs.
3. The Department currently offers a Ph.D. in Computer Science. Somewhat more than
one-third of our Ph.D. students enrolled in this program choose a Software Engineering
topic for their research and thesis. Since there is no separate Ph.D. in Software Engineering
these students receive their Ph.D.s in Computer Science. A doctoral degree
in Software Engineering would provide a more appropriate reflection of their research
potential.
Graduates of the proposed program will be prepared for faculty positions in Software Engineering,
for research positions in industrial laboratories, and for leadership positions in
development in both computer industry and application shops.
• As faculty, they will be distinguished by their genuine understanding of software design
and development issues, which can be expected to shape their selection of research
problems and evaluation of research results.
• As industrial developers, they will understand not only academic research issues but
also engineering constraints that arise from public policy, economic, regulatory, and
market issues.
• As senior software system developers, they will have a distinctive perspective that
addresses specific problems in the context of the principles and results of the field.
In addition to the professional and research skills that will allow them to advance the field,
graduates of the program will be fully informed about practical issues of software design
and development from requirements acquisition through maintenance. They will be prepared
to enter research or advanced development positions in application areas, distributed
networks, embedded/critical systems, and other specialties as well as conventional software
system development. Since graduates will have made a significant contribution to Software
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Engineering research, they will be in a very strong position to provide reasoned answers to
a wide variety of industrial and business questions.
The proposed introduction date for the new programs is September 2011.
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Contents
Executive Summary ii
Introduction 1
1. Identification 4
1.1. Title and Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.2. Areas of Specialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.3. Administrative Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. Objectives 4
2.1. Theoretical Foundations and General Academic Objectives . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.2. Specific Knowledge, Expertise, and Acquired Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3. Rationale 8
3.1. Socioeconomic, Systemic, and Institutional Relevance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.1.1. Socio-economic Relevance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.1.2. Systemic Relevance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.1.3. Institutional Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4. Description and Requirements 16
4.1. Admission Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4.2. Residence Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.3. Program Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.4. Degree Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.4.1. Core and Elective Courses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.4.2. Comprehensive Examination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.4.3. Thesis Proposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.4.4. Other Academic Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4.5. Proposed Course Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4.6. Links between research strengths and program requirements . . . . . . . . . . 21
5. Resource Implications of the Program 22
5.1. Human Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
5.1.1. Accreditation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
5.1.2. Current Faculty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
5.1.3. Workloads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
5.1.4. New Faculty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
5.1.5. Technical Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
5.1.6. Additional Support Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
5.1.7. Teaching Assistants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
5.2. Physical Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
5.2.1. Library Facilities and Holdings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
5.2.2. Computing Facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
5.2.3. Teaching Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
5.2.4. Research Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
5.2.5. Computing Laboratories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
5.2.6. Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
5.2.7. Administrative Office Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
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5.3. Funding for Graduate Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
5.3.1. Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
5.3.2. Amounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
5.4. Revenues and Expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
5.5. Implementation Timetable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Appendices 31
A. Related Programs 31
A.1. Canada (Ph.D. in Software Engineering) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
A.2. U.S.A. (Ph.D. in Software Engineering) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
A.3. U.S.A. (Related Ph.D. Programs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
B. Enrollment Survey 31
C. Library Facilities 38
C.1. Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
C.2. Online Journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
C.3. Books and Monographs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
C.4. Perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
List of Tables
1. Projected Enrollment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2. Research Areas of Software Engineering Faculty Members . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3. Collaboration with other Departments and Universities . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4. Computer Laboratories and Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
5. Research Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
6. Annual Revenue per Student for Computer Science and Engineering . . . . . 28
7. Projected Revenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
8. Projected Expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
9. Combined Revenues and Expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
10. Local library holdings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
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Introduction
Scientific disciplines begin life in laboratories and subsequently move to industrial plants.
What starts as a “science” divides, continuing as a science while creating a new branch of
“engineering”. The history of the department reflects this trend. From 1970 until 1998,
our department was called the Department of Computer Science and offered courses in
Computer Science with just one course, for undergraduates in their final year of study, called
“Software Engineering”. In 1998, the Department introduced a new degree, the Bachelor of
Engineering (Software Engineering) and, in 2002, changed its name to the Department of
Computer Science and Software Engineering. With both students and faculty involved in
Software Engineering, research in this area naturally followed. Masters degrees in Software
Engineering, introduced in 2007, enabled graduate students whose research was in Software
Engineering to obtain an appropriate degree. The Department is now in a similar situation
with respect to doctoral students: faculty members supervise doctoral research in Software
Engineering, but their students receive a Ph.D. in Computer Science. The proposed degree
addresses this imbalance.
Software Engineering does not replace Computer Science, just as Electrical Engineering does
not replace Physics. The Department has faculty members whose main interest is in Computer
Science, others whose main interest is Software Engineering, and an expanding group
whocontributetobothareas. Asinotherdisciplines, computerscientistsfocusonfundamental
and theoretical concepts more than on applications, whereas software engineers focus on
techniques for building complex software in such a way that the resulting systems are robust,
secure, and accessible to their intended users. Since Software Engineering is an emerging
field, there are still many areas of overlap. For example, graphics research is still considered
as “Computer Science” even though the development of large-scale graphics software of the
kind required for games and movies requires a significant amount of “Software Engineering”.
Consequently, much of the research carried out by faculty members and students in the Department
cannot be neatly categorized as belonging to one discipline or the other. Doctoral
level research, however, is highly specialized: a Ph.D. thesis contributes specifically either to
Computer Science or to Software Engineering. Currently, students whose research makes a
significant contribution to Software Engineering are nevertheless rewarded with a Ph.D. in
Computer Science. The proposed program will correct this anomaly.
Although Software Engineering was first identified as a separate field of study more than
40 years ago (it is conventional to cite the NATO Software Engineering Conference of 1968
as the birth of the discipline, although many Software Engineering practices were already
in place by then), it is only in the last 20 years that computing has “grown up” and become
a significant component of everyday life for both industries and individuals. Facebook
and Twitter get most of the publicity, but they are just the tip of an iceberg of carefullyengineered
software that we use whenever we travel by car, ship, or plane; carry out an
on-line financial transaction; undergo medical diagnosis or treatment; work in an intelligent
building; or perform any of the hundreds of other computer-based tasks. Software failures
in these applications have potentially serious consequences, and this is why the skill,
understanding, integrity, and ethics of professional software engineers are crucial.
The Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, situated within the Faculty
of Engineering and Computer Science must look both outwards and inwards when planning
itsfuturedirections. Outwards, totheindustrialandresearchcommunitiesthatitserves,and
inwards, to the other departments with which it shares interests and students. The proposed
Ph.D. (Software Engineering) degree constitutes a clear statement by the Department of
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ComputerScienceandSoftwareEngineeringthatitwillprovidethefullspectrumofacademic
training for software engineers, while leaving related disciplines, such as Quality Engineering
and Information Systems Engineering, offered by other departments within the Faculty.
The IEEE Computer Society has published a description of the discipline of Software Engineering,
officially entitled The Software Engineering Body of Knowledge but usually
referred to as the “SWEBOK”. The following list of topics, based on the SWEBOK, shows
that areas that the Department considers to be fundamental to Software Engineering.
• Software requirements
• Software design
• Software construction
• Software testing
• Software maintenance
• Software configuration management
• Software engineering management
• Software engineering process
• Software engineering tools and methods
• Software quality
In addition to these areas, there are several areas that used to be considered as Computer
Science but now have industrial applications that require Software Engineering techniques.
Faculty members in the Department have strength in these areas, which include:
• Intelligent Systems
• Natural Language Processing
• Data and Knowledge Mining
• Large Scale Databases
• Distributed Systems
• Pattern and Character Recognition
• Discrete Computational Systems
The Proposal The Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering has all of
the required resources to offer a Ph.D. program in Software Engineering, including: course
materials; faculty to teach the courses; computing laboratories; teaching assistants; and
lab instructors. The number of faculty members actively engaged in Software Engineering
research (described below) is sufficient to ensure that all students in the proposed program
will be able to find a supervisor with matching interests.
The emerging discipline of Software Engineering covers all aspects of software development.
It focuses on techniques that are scalable—that is, techniques that are effective for the
development of complex software by large teams of programmers. As with other engineering
disciplines, studentsofSoftwareEngineeringaretaughtnotonlytheory(theso-called“hard”
skills) but also team work, planning, management, cooperation, and documentation (the
“soft” skills).
Computer Science remains an important discipline because it forms the theoretical foundation
for Software Engineering. There will continue to be opportunities for graduates of
Computer Science programs in industry and universities. But the proportion of employers
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who are looking for the particular skills and knowledge of a software engineer is increasing
and will continue to increase.
As evidence of the emerging importance of Software Engineering as a recognized engineering
discipline, the Canadian Council of Professional Engineers (CCPE) published an announcement
“Accreditation of Software Engineering Programs is Good News” in September 2001.
This announcement began:
When the Canadian Council of Professional Engineers (CCPE) granted accreditation
to three new Software Engineering programs being offered in Canada this past
June, our profession passed an important milestone on the road to incorporating new
disciplines of engineering into our regulatory system.
The twelve provincial engineering boards followed the lead of the CCPE (or, in some cases,
preceded it) by announcing their own criteria for Software Engineering. Similar trends have
occurred in the USA, UK, and other countries in which Engineering is a regulated profession.
A traditional Ph.D. thesis in Computer Science makes a new contribution to the field that
often has both theoretical and practical components. For example, a thesis might describe
the development of an existing algorithm and provide an implementation of the improved
algorithm. Today’s students are interested in research related to software development,
software quality, requirements gathering, specification, design, validation and verification,
distributedand web-basedprogramming, human-computerinteraction, and othertopics that
are closer to Software Engineering than Computer Science. Introducing a Ph.D. program in
Software Engineering is therefore a natural step for the Department, meeting a need that
already exists.
Historical Background The first Computer Science department in Québec was created in
1968 at Loyola College. In 1970, an independent Computer Science department was created
at Sir George Williams University as an independent academic unit, not part of any faculty.
In 1974, when Sir George Williams and Loyola College merged to form Concordia University,
the Loyola College and the Sir George Williams Computer Science departments were merged
to form the current Department. At first, the department reported directly to the Senate
of the new university but later it was incorporated into the Faculty of Engineering. At the
same time, the Faculty was renamed as the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science.
At first, the Department of Computer Science offered only Bachelor’s degrees. The master’s
program in Computer Science was introduced in 1975 and the Ph.D. in 1984.
In 1998, the Department became the first department in Québec, and one of the first in
Canada, to introduce a four-year undergraduate Software Engineering degree. The program
received accreditation for three years from the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board
when its first cohort graduated in 2002. Accreditation was renewed in 2005 and again in
2008. In2004, theDepartmentofComputerSciencewasrenamed, becomingtheDepartment
of Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSE).
The Department has grown rapidly during the last few years, and now has 38 full-time
faculty members (15 professors, 18 associate professors, and 3 assistant professors). There
are also 3 Professors Emeriti and two teachers with Extended Term Appointments (ETA).
The Department has 7 full-time support staff.
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1. Identification
1.1. Title and Level
Program Title: Ph.D. in Software Engineering
Degree Title: Ph.D. (Software Engineering)
Level: Doctoral
1.2. Areas of Specialization
Software engineering; development and management of large-scale software systems; formal
approaches to software development; software measurement, validation, and verification;
software lifecycle.
1.3. Administrative Location
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
Concordia University
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West
Montréal, Québec
Canada H3G 1M8
2. Objectives
The proposed Ph.D. in Software Engineering will provide a sound education in the theory
and applications of Software Engineering oriented towards industrial software applications.
Theprogramisopentoqualifiedcandidatesengagedinfull-timestudyandalsotocandidates
employed in industry or commerce who wish to study on a part-time basis.
2.1. Theoretical Foundations and General Academic Objectives
The term “Software Engineering” was used occasionally in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
It was introduced formally by the 1968 NATO Software Engineering Conference and has
achieved widespread use since then.
The term “Software Engineering” is commonly used with a variety of distinct meanings:
• As the usual contemporary term for the broad range of activities that was formerly
called programming and systems analysis;
• As the broad term for all aspects of the practice of computer programming, as opposed
to the theory of computer programming, which is called Computer Science;
• As the term embodying the advocacy of a specific approach to computer programming,
one that urges that it be treated as an engineering profession rather than an art or a
craft, and advocates the codification of recommended practices in the form of Software
Engineering methodologies.
• The Glossary of Software Engineering Terminology (IEEE Standard 610.12–1990)
defines Software Engineering as follows:
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(1) The application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable ap- proach to the
development, operation, and maintenance of software; that is, the application
of engineering to software.
(2) The study of approaches as in (1).
In a paper entitled Public Understanding of Software Engineering, published by IEEE
Software in 1996, Anthony Finkelstein of City University, London, wrote:
Though we have a well developed subject, emerging professional standards and institutions
and growing debate and discussion on educational issues, virtually no attention
has been paid to the public understanding of software engineering. I believe this
is an important omission which should be rectified. Below I provide some grounds
for this assertion.
Funding for research and education in software engineering is to a large extent dependent
on the public purse. Though the level of science and technology funding is
conditioned by larger social and political considerations the share devoted to software
engineering as against other disciplines is dependent on the public understanding of
software engineering, the general perception of the value of our work and the societal
importance of the research we conduct. This has broad implications as software
engineering provides a justification for basic research in computer science and mathematics.
In all these respects the understanding of software engineering in the broader
science and technology community is particularly pertinent.
Attracting able students to our discipline depends on the general level of understanding
among appropriately educated young people and, critically, among their
peers, parents and teachers. Remuneration and indeed employment opportunities for
software engineers in business and in public employ depends on the perception of
the value of the skills and capacities of software engineers, and hence on a general
understanding of software engineering, in business and commerce.
The foundation of Software Engineering is shared with the foundations of many different
fields in many different ways:
• Mathematics: Programs have many mathematical properties. For example the correctness
and complexity of many algorithms are mathematical concepts that can be
rigorously proven. Programs are finite, so in principle, developers could know many
things about a program in a rigorous mathematical way. The use of mathematics
within Software Engineering is often called formal methods. However, computability
theory shows that not everything useful about a program can be proven. Mathematics
works best for small pieces of code and is not easily scaled up. Nevertheless, Edsger
Dijkstra, one of the acknowledged founders of the discipline of Computer Science, has
argued that Software Engineering is a branch of mathematics.
• Science: Programs have many scientific properties that can be measured. For example,
the performance and scalability of programs under various workloads can be measured.
The effectiveness of caches, bigger processors, faster networks, newer databases are
scientific issues. Mathematical equations can sometimes be deduced from the measurements.
Scientific approaches work best for system-wide analysis, but often are
meaningless when comparing different small fragments of code.
• Engineering: Software Engineering is considered by many to be an engineering disciplinebecausetherearepragmaticapproachesandexpectedcharacteristicsofengineers.
Proper analysis, documentation, and commented code are signs of an engineer.
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• Manufacturing: Programs are built in as a sequence of steps and processes. By properly
defining and carrying out those steps, much like a manufacturing assembly line,
advocates hope to improve the productivity of developers and maintain the quality
of final programs. This approach inspires many different processes and methodologies
similar to manufacturing
• Project Management: Commercial (and many non-commercial) software projects require
planning, organizing, and managing of resources to ensure the successful completion
of specific project goals and objectives. There are budgets and schedules to set,
people to hire and lead, and resources (office space, computers) to acquire. All of this
fits more appropriately within the purview of management.
There exists a historical connection between Computer Science and Software Engineering:
both are concerned with computer programming and problem solving. Computer Science
emphasizes the theoretical, eternal truths while Software Engineering emphasizes practical,
everydayusefulness. SomearguethatComputerScienceistoSoftwareEngineeringasphysics
and chemistry are to traditional engineering.
The following list shows how the courses offered within the proposed program relate to the
discipline of Software Engineering. The classification of topics is based on the SWEBOK.
These courses are already offered by the Department.
Software Requirements
• SOEN 6011 Software Engineering Development ProcessesintroducesSoftwareEngineering
concepts, including software process models and associated activities involving
requirements analysis, specification, design, implementation, and validation.
• SOEN 6481 System Requirements Specification introduces formal models and representations
for specifying system requirements, as well as formal techniques and tools
for requirement specification support.
• SOEN 6771 User Interface Development Tools and Techniques covers the development
of rapid prototype GUIs and interfaces to support requirements acquisition
Software construction
• SOEN 6011 Software Engineering Development Processes covers Software Engineering
concepts including software process models and associated activities involving
requirements analysis, specification, design, implementation, and validation.
• SOEN 6441 Advanced Programming Practices covers various aspects of writing and
managing code, its complexity, documentation and configuration.
• SOEN 6761 Multimedia Computing covers the state-of-the-art technology for multimedia
computing, including current media types, images, video, audio, graphics and
3D models in terms of algorithms and data structures for their representation, presentation
and retrieval.
Software Testing
• SOEN 7481 Software Verification and Testing covers verification, testing and quality
assurance, by focusing on formal verification technique, prove of correctness and
conformity of system behavior to Systems Requirement Specification (SRS), as well as
the nature and limitations of testing.
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Software Maintenance
• SOEN 6431 Software Comprehension and Maintenance covers both technical and
managerial views of software comprehension and software maintenance issues.
Software Configuration Management
• SOEN 6431 Software Comprehension and Maintenance covers both technical and
managerial views of software comprehension and software maintenance issues
• SOEN 6441 Advanced Programming Practices covers various aspects of writing and
managing code, its complexity, documentation and configuration.
Software Engineering Management
• SOEN 6011 Software Engineering Development Processes addresses issues related
to software documentation as well as collaborative work and project management
• SOEN 6841 Management issues in software development and maintenance, cover
fundamental concepts of management, demonstrating how it can relate to Software
Engineering and how the two can be mutually supportive throughout software development
and maintenance.
• SOEN 6951 Software Engineering Case Study provides a case study of a software
project. Whenever possible, the project should be conducted in an industrial environment
with the cooperation of the student’s employer.
• SOEN 7731 Empirical Studies in Software Engineering covers the roles of empirical
studiesinsoftwaresystems, includingcost-effectivenessanalysisinsoftwaresystemsusability
and user acceptance tests, as well as the design and administration of empirical
studies.
Software Engineering Process
• SOEN 6011 Software Engineering Development Processes addresses issues related
to software documentation as well as collaborative work and project management.
• SOEN 6431 Software Comprehension and Maintenance covers both technical and
managerial views of software comprehension and software maintenance issues Software
Engineering tools and methods
• SOEN 7731 Empirical Studies in Software Engineering covers the roles of empirical
studiesinsoftwaresystems, includingcost-effectivenessanalysisinsoftwaresystemsusability
and user acceptance tests, as well as the design and administration of empirical
studies.
Software Quality
• SOEN 6611 Software Measurement: Theory and Practice covers aspects of measurement
in Software Engineering including representational theory of measurement,
validation on software measures and the use of category theory for deriving objectoriented
measures.
• SOEN 7481 Software Verification and Testing covers verification, testing and quality
assurance, by focusing on formal verification technique, prove of correctness and
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conformity of system behavior to Systems Requirement Specification (SRS), as well as
the nature and limitations of testing.
2.2. Specific Knowledge, Expertise, and Acquired Skills
Graduates of the proposed program will be prepared for faculty positions in Software Engineering,
for research positions in industrial laboratories, and for leadership positions in
development in both computer industry and application areas. The program will provide
them with ageneralbackgroundbased on course work as well as knowledge in depth acquired
by a research collaboration with their supervisor and advisory committee. Faculty members
within the department are conducting research in key areas of Software Engineering, including:
collaborative work; comprehension and maintenance; data mining; design, user
interface design; formal techniques for software development and verification; graphics and
visualization; parallelanddistributedcomputing; natural-languageprocessing; programming
languages; and web services. For details, see below (Section 3.1.3).
Graduates will have several career paths open to them:
• As faculty, they will be distinguished by their genuine understanding of software design
and development issues, which can be expected to shape their selection of research
problems and evaluation of research results.
• As industrial developers, they will understand not only academic research issues but
also engineering constraints that arise from public policy, economic, regulatory, and
market issues.
• As senior software system developers, they will have a distinctive perspective that
addresses specific problems in the context of the principles and results of the field.
In addition to talent and research skills that will allow them to advance the field, graduates
will have about a good understanding of practical issues of software design and development
from requirements acquisition through maintenance. They will be prepared to
enter research or advanced development positions in application areas, distributed networks,
embedded/critical systems, and other specialties as well as conventional software system
development.
3. Rationale
3.1. Socioeconomic, Systemic, and Institutional Relevance
3.1.1. Socio-economic Relevance
Projected Enrollment Based on an analysis of the 2008-2009 graduate registration, and
the anticipation of the increased popularity once we have a Ph.D. in Software Engineering
program, we forecast an annual admission of twelve students into the Ph.D. in Software
Engineering program. This forecast is based on the assumption that each faculty member
performing research in the Software Engineering area will take on one new Ph.D. student
each year. On the basis of previous experience within the Department, we assume that one
student will drop out during the first year and another will drop out during the second year.
After three years, five of the original students will graduate, leaving five students in their
fourth year. The first row of Table 1 illustrates this: in 2014, five of the students who entered
the program in 2011 are still studying. The second row provides the same information for
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students who enter the program in 2012. The final row shows the total number of students
expected to be in the program for each year. The total starts and twelve and increases,
eventually flattening out with about 40 students enrolled.
Table 1: Projected Enrollment
Calendar Year 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Year of admission
2011 12 11 10 5 3 2
2012 0 12 11 10 5 3
2013 0 0 12 11 10 5
2014 0 0 0 12 11 10
2015 0 0 0 0 12 11
2016 0 0 0 0 0 12
Totals 12 23 33 38 41 43
Sustainability Although undergraduate enrollment in the IT related area dropped significantly
after the financial crisis that terminated the “dot com” boom, enrollment in the
Computer Science undergraduate programs at Concordia is still higher than the enrollment
in the mid-1990’s. The drop in enrollment in our undergraduate Software Engineering program
was much less pronounced than the drop in our Computer Science programs. Similarly,
enrollment in the Masters in Software Engineering program has grown steadily since
its introduction, providing additional evidence for the attractiveness of Software Engineering
degrees.
It is obvious that the undergraduate enrollment is tied to the students’ perception of the job
market trends. The demand for Computer Science and Software Engineering dropped during
the period 2000-4, largely because of the bursting of the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s,
but is now increasing again. According to Investor’s Business Daily (5 January 2006):
There are now more people employed in Information Technology (IT) jobs than
ever before, according to figures released by the Information Communications and
Technology Council of Canada (ICTC). And the field is still growing—the ICTC has
predicted a demand for 89,000 new IT professionals in Canada alone by 2011. In
fact, Money Magazine picked Software Engineering as its number one best job in
America in 2006, based on salary, predicted growth rate, flexibility in hours and
working environment and opportunities for creativity.
According to the Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2008-09 Edition, published by the US
Bureau of Labor Statistics:
Computer software engineers are one of the occupations projected to grow the fastest
and add the most new jobs over the 2006-16 decade. Excellent job prospects are
expected for applicants with at least bachelor’s degree in computer engineering or
Computer Science and with practical work experience. Computer software engineers
must continually strive to acquire new skills in conjunction with the rapid changes
that occur in computer technology.
The ACM Report Job Migration Task Force (2006) reported:
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One might wonder whether IT is still a good career choice for students and workers
in countries that offshore software and IT services work. Despite all the publicity
in the United States about jobs being lost to India and China, the size of the IT
employment market in the United States today is higher than it was at the height of
the dot-com boom.
The Dean and administrators of the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science strongly
support the new initiative. They understand the importance of Software Engineering to
the Québec and North America society and view the introduction of the Ph.D. program in
Software Engineering as a natural next step after the introduction of the two Master’s in
Software Engineering programs in 2007.
Evolution of Training Requirements Although the introduction of Bachelors and Masters
programs at Québec universities, including Concordia University, has contributed to the
quality and quantity of software development, these programs alone are insufficient to meet
the demand. Extensive research is required to discover new ways of constructing software
that has the efficiency, robustness, and quality needed for contemporary applications. Only
a new generation of graduates from Ph.D. programs in Software Engineering can meet these
requirements.
Prospects for Graduates The ACM Report Job Migration Task Force (2006) states:
Educational systems that help prepare students to be creative and innovative will
create advantages for those students and their countries. As the lower tiers of software
and IT work become more commoditized, creativity and innovation will become
even more important, particularly in countries that experience the loss of support and
programming work. The creation of new products and new businesses will continue
to lead to the greatest commercial and scientific successes, and even more, will serve
as the differentiator between organizations and between countries. Historically, some
educational systems are seen as fostering creativity in students more successfully than
others.
The report also states that
One crucial differentiator in fostering a creative mentality in students is the research
component of the educational system and the participation of students at all educational
levels in research activities. Another differentiator is the degree of rote learning
versus more open problem solving. Countries that currently have an advanced research
enterprise in their university systems may increasingly see this as their greatest
competitive advantage in educating Computer Science and IT students for the higher
tiers of the IT workforce. Countries that do not include a research component in
their university systems will need to consider whether strategically the investment
in developing this component and culture is needed to attain their goals for the IT
economies in their countries.
The landscape of industrial needs of trained software professionals in North America in
general, and in Québec in particular, has changed. Although outsourcing of programming
jobs has not achieved all of the economies anticipated, it has created a change of the demand
profile of professionals. There will be increasing demand for software engineers with richer
knowledge and experience in software requirements, design and management. We have
already succeeded in attracting more graduate students in research projects and courses
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which are related to Software Engineering and we anticipate the proposed program will
continue to attract talented students.
According to Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, (HRSDC) Software Engineers
and Designers (category 2173) perform the following tasks:
Software engineers and designers research, design, evaluate, integrate and maintain
software applications, technical environments, operating systems, embedded software,
information warehouses and telecommunications software. They are employed
in information technology consulting firms, information technology research and development
firms, and information technology units throughout the private and public
sectors, or they may be self-employed.
In Looking-Ahead: A 10-Year Outlook for the Canadian Labour Market (2006-2015),
HRSDC identified Software Engineering as an area showing “signs of shortage” (i.e., not
enough trained professionals):
Two occupations that were hit hard by the information technology bust in the early
2000s seem to have recovered and are now included in the under-pressure group
namely, computer engineers and software engineers. In 2005, employment reached
a new peak in both occupations while their unemployment rates returned to their
lowest levels.
Impact on Work Force Software Engineering has been increasingly recognized as a useful
and profitable Engineering discipline. Locally, nationally, and internationally, there is a
strong and increasing demand for graduates with Software Engineering skills. The strength
of the job market is demonstrated by the fact that a significant proportion of students in
the Department’s master’s programs are enrolled in the Software Engineering thesis option
and therefore performing research in this area. More than one-third of the Department’s
doctoral students are also performing research in Software Engineering. A Ph.D. program in
Software Engineering would further strengthening Concordia’s graduate program offerings
and attracting more graduate students to the university. For students, graduate training
in Software Engineering will provide them with a strong, competitive base in an expanding
Software Engineering research area and provide them with ample opportunities in a growing
industrial and academic job market. Concordia thus will serve both an area of the high-tech
economy that is expanding and students who wish to acquire qualifications to work in that
economy.
Importance of the Sector Software plays an increasingly important role in our daily lives.
Formanyyears, Québechasbeenintheforefrontofnewdevelopment. Montréalinparticular
is home to many companies whose primary activity is software development or for whom
software is a critical component of their products. Telecommunications, graphics, computer
games, and simulation all requires advanced and up-to-date software, and all of these areas
are strongly represented in local industries.
Software systems are constantly under attack by viruses, trojans, and worms. On average, a
systemisattackedwithinafewminutesofbeingconnectedtotheinternet. Qualityandsecurity
are absolutely essential for success in competitive markets. Software development is no
longer merely a matter of putting together some code. Sophisticated engineering methodologies
are needed to ensure that quality and safety goals are established and achieved. Software
must be developed with the guidance of qualified, professional software engineers.
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Similar Programs MostuniversitiesofferundergraduateprogramsinSoftwareEngineering.
A few also offer masters programs. Currently, there are only a small number of doctoral
programs in Software Engineering. See also Appendix A.
Program Title The title, “Ph.D. in Software Engineering”, precisely represents the main
objective of the proposed program, which is to provide advanced training for future researchers
in academia and industry. Graduates will be equipped to conduct research in all
areas of Software Engineering but will be strongest in the area in which they have performed
their doctoral studies.
3.1.2. Systemic Relevance
In Reallocations Exercise: 2000-2002, NSERC states the importance of supporting Software
Engineering research. The Report concludes:
Sustained and growing support for Software Engineering research is the only way
in which the practical principles of Software Engineering will emerge, and the only
way in which the practice of Software Engineering will stabilize within the industrial
community. ThekeytosmoothandsustainabledevelopmentofSoftwareEngineering
knowledge is the development of a strong Software Engineering research community.
Failure to fund this proposal will greatly damage Canada’s ability to innovate and be
internationally competitive in software research and products.
More recently, in Highlights for the 2009 Strategic Project Grants Competition, NSERC
stated:
Increased earmarked funding will be available for proposals addressing the subpriorities
identified by the Science, Technology and Innovation Council (STIC) within
the previously identified priorities of environmental science and technologies. In its
2009 Strategic Project Grants Target Area Descriptions in the area Advanced Communications
and Management of Information in the subcategory (f) Software and
Computing Systems.
The goal of this topic is to investigate leading-edge infrastructure, methods and
tools, which will lead to a substantial improvement of Software Engineering practices,
with respect to quality, evolvability, understandability and overall cost-effectiveness
of reliable, long-lived software systems. Of particular interest is the potential for
innovative software advances in relation to hardware or middleware and resultant
system-level improvements.
By introducing a Ph.D. program in Software Engineering, Concordia will be contributing
to the development of a Software Engineering research community in Canada. Some of the
graduates of the program will move directly into industry, where their research experience
will help them to make greater contributions to innovation than those with Bachelor’s or
Master’s degrees. Others will continue in an academic career, making Software Engineering
research in Canada more sustainable.
3.1.3. Institutional Context
The proposed Ph.D. in Software Engineering will be the first such program to be offered
in English in Québec. The program will attract not only native English speakers but also
international students who prefer to study in English. Concordia University already has
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a strong reputation in many parts of the world and is the university of choice for many
students who come to Canada for higher education. The proposed program will both benefit
from and enhance that reputation.
Concordia is situated in a rich academic milieu. Montréal has not only another well-known
English institution—McGill—but also three French institutions that teach Software Engineering
at various levels: Polytechnique Montréal (associated with Université de Montréal);
Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM); and École de technologie supérieure (ETS).
Concordia’s Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering has been offering
an undergraduate degree in Software Engineering since 1998 and two Master’s of Software
Engineering degrees since 2007. The formal title of the undergraduate degree is Bachelor of
Engineering (Software Engineering) or B.Eng. (S.E.). This program has received accreditation
from CEAB since 2002.
The formal titles for the two graduate degrees offered are Master of/Magisteriate in Applied
Science (Software Engineering), a course based Masters and Master of/Magisteriate in
Engineering (Software Engineering) a thesis based Master’s degree.
When the B.Eng. (S.E.) was introduced, the Department had only a few faculty members
whose primary interest was Software Engineering. To make the program viable, the Department
hired several faculty members specialized in Software Engineering. Naturally, these
professors were involved in Software Engineering research. The B.Eng. (S.E.) has now been
in operation for more than ten years, and the Department has achieved a critical mass of
research projects and personnel in areas related to Software Engineering.
Another effect of the undergraduate Software Engineering program has been that the newlyhired
Software Engineering professors introduced graduate courses in their areas of interest.
Consequently, the Department has been offering graduate courses in Software Engineering
for several years to students in the M.Comp.Sc. program and, since last year, specifically
to students in the new M.Eng.(S.E) programs. Most of the courses already offered for
the M.Eng.(S.E) programs would also be applicable towards our new Ph.D. in Software
Engineering program.
Software Engineering and Computer Science are closely related disciplines. While some
courses are clearly in one area or the other, there are a number of courses that contain
aspects of both areas. As a result, the graduate programs in Software Engineering and
Computer Science will mutually benefit from each other.
The Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering has grown in the last 25
years in several areas such as Algorithms and Complexity, Programming Languages, Parallel
and Distributed systems, Bioinformatics, Natural Language Processing, Pattern Recognition
and Document Processing, and Databases. With the introduction of the undergraduate
program in Software Engineering, research areas within Software Engineering have been
strengthened and consolidated. It is essential for each doctoral candidate to develop a
rapport and mutual interests with a member of the faculty. In fact, it is expected that
doctoral students develop their own research agenda or become intensely involved with a
faculty member’s research. The latter may include assisting a professor in planning and
conducting research as well as analyzing the results. A critical component of a doctoral
candidate’s development is the dissemination of scientific information. Doctoral candidates
are routinely expected to write scholarly papers for submission to scientific journals and
conference proceedings, either by themselves or in collaboration with their supervisors or
other professors and students. Doctoral candidates should also be prepared to present these
research results at various national and international conferences.
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In order to support the research in the above domains related to Software Engineering, our
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering has established several Research
Laboratories for graduate research in the Engineering and Fine Arts Building. In addition
to the existing laboratories, the Department is currently preparing a proposal for a Centre
for Innovation and Best Practices in Software Engineering. These laboratories are listed
in Section 5.2.4.
Table 2 shows the faculty members who are active in Software Engineering research and
their principal research areas. The second column of this table shows the members’s most
recent NSERC grant.
Faculty Member
Table 2: Research Areas of Software Engineering Faculty Members
Grant
($000/yr)
Software Engineering Research Areas
Butler 24 Software design and development, bioinformatics.
Chalin 23 Software design and development, formal methods in
Software Engineering.
Constantinides 15 Software comprehension, software maintenance, programming
languages.
Grogono 18 Software design and development, programming languages,
graphics and visualization.
Mudur 26 Parallelanddistributedsystems, graphics, visualization.
Ormandjieva 19 Formal methods in Software Engineering, parallel and
distributed computing.
Paquet 15 Software design and development, formal methods in
Software Engineering, parallel and distributed systems,
intentional programming.
Radhakrishnan 28 Parallel and distributed systems, user interface design
and usability testing.
Rilling 25 Software evolution, software traceability, collaborative
Software Engineering, semantic modeling, ambient Software
Engineering, program comprehension.
Witte 15 Natural language processing, semantic desktops, knowledge
management and ontology, application of semantic
technologies to Software Engineering.
Yan 15 Formal models for web services; algorithms for Web service
monitoring, diagnosis and reconfiguration. Monotonicity
analysis in model abstraction and data mining.
Collaborations with other Departments and Universities Faculty members collaborate
with their colleagues in other departments of the Faculty and in other universities. Collaboration
may involve only the co-supervision of graduate students, but more commonly implies
a sustained program of research. Table 3 shows examples of ongoing collaborations.
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Table 3: Collaboration with other Departments and Universities. Abbreviations: ECE =
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University; CIISE = Concordia
Institute for Information Systems Engineering.
CSE Professor Collaborators Institution or Department
Chalin Khendek ECE
Robby and Hatcliff Kansas State University
Constantinides Hamou-Lhadj ECE
Antoniol and Guéhéneuc École Polytechnique de Montréal
Roussos Birkbeck, London
Grogono Kharma ECE
Simmonds McGill
Ormandjieva Bentahar CIISE
Abran École de Technologie Supérieure, Montréal)
Daneva (Twente University
Paquet Debbabi CIISE
Rilling Coady University of Victoria, BC
Dssouli CIISE
Hamou-Lhadj ECE
Current Standing of the Department and the Discipline The Department started its
undergraduate Software Engineering program in 1998 by building the discipline core body
knowledge of Software Engineering on the fundamentals of Computer Science. Since its
inception, the program has attracted a strong population of applicants from Québec and
has sustained a steady stream of between fifty and sixty students each year. One of the
first programs in Canada, the program received CEAB accreditation in 2002. In 2007 the
Department introduced two new Master’s programs in Software Engineering.
Since 2000, the Department has hired a number of new faculty members, to strengthen both
the Computer Science and Software Engineering programs. The influx of new members has
substantially altered the strengths and emphases of the Department. The expertise recruited
covers the ten key areas described in the SWEBOK. All new members are active researchers
and all hold NSERC discovery grants. In teaching, they have developed both undergraduate
and graduate Software Engineering courses that are related to their individual Software
Engineering research. The latter include courses in software maintenance, software design,
software requirements, software verification and testing, software construction and software
usability.
Naturally, the new faculty members supervise doctoral students carrying out research in
various areas of Software Engineering. In Fall 2009, somewhat more than one-third of the
Ph.D. students supervised by members of the Department of Computer Science and Software
Engineering are working in Software Engineering, although they are registered in the Ph.D.
(Computer Science) program. There are also a number of students registered with the
Department but supervised by members of the Concordia Institute for Information Systems
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Engineering (CIISE), which does not yet have a Ph.D. program.
Given the above developments, the Department is in a natural position to take its next step
in offering this Ph.D. program in Software Engineering. Our current research and teaching
profile should provide us with a solid foundation to offer an excellent program.
4. Description and Requirements
4.1. Admission Requirements
The general requirements for admission to a doctoral program are described in the Graduate
Calendar (2009–10):
To be considered for admission on a full-time basis, applicants normally must hold a
masters degree or equivalent with high standing in engineering or computer science,
or in a cognate discipline. Holders of bachelors degree will, in general, be considered
for admission to a masters program only. After completion of a minimum of two
terms of full-time study, they may, upon application, be considered by the Faculty
Graduate Studies Committee for admission to a PhD program.
To be considered for admission on a part-time basis, applicants must hold a masters
degree with high standing in engineering, computer science or a cognate discipline.
Applicants should understand that admission is contingent not only upon a superior
academic record, but also on the availability of a research supervisor, of relevant
programs of study and research, as well as adequate laboratory and library facilities.
Where applicable, an ability to write programs in a standard computer language will
be assumed. Students lacking this skill will be required to register for appropriate
courses.
These generic requirements will be interpreted for the proposed Ph.D. in Software Engineering
as follows. Since Software Engineering is an emerging discipline, we anticipate that some
students applying for the program will not have a graduate degree in Software Engineering.
These students may be required to take additional courses, as explained below.
In general, the Ph.D. program in Software Engineering requires four courses and a comprehensive
examination.
We identify five different kinds of students who might like to enter the Ph.D. program in
Software Engineering. The admission requirements for each kind of student are as stated
below:
1. Students with M.Eng. in Software Engineering: direct admission if the student has a
high GPA and has the potential to complete a doctoral degree.
2. Students with B.Eng. in Software Engineering: direct admission if the student has a
high GPA and has the potential to complete a doctoral degree.
3. Students with M.Comp.Sci. (thesis-based master’s degree in Computer Science): students
are required to take two additional courses.
4. Students with M.App.Sc. (course-based master’s degree in Computer Science): students
are required to take two or more additional courses.
5. Students with M.Eng. degree in other engineering fields: students are required to take
two or more additional courses.
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In all cases, the Graduate Admission Committee may require admitted students to take
additional courses. The purpose of the additional courses is to ensure that admitted students
obtain a background in Software Engineering that is at least equivalent to a master’s degree.
4.2. Residence Requirements
For candidates admitted with a master’s degree, the minimum period of residence is two
years of full-time study or the equivalent in part-time study. Part-time students may be
required by the Faculty Graduate Studies Committee, upon the recommendation of the
supervisory committee, to carry out a portion of their research on a full-time basis. Where
a candidate has been admitted with a bachelor’s degree, the minimum period of residence is
36 months of full-time study after completion of the bachelor’s degree.
4.3. Program Procedures
In order for a student to be admitted to the proposed program, a full-time faculty member
must have agreed to act as supervisor and, if necessary, provide funding for the student.
Courses taken by doctoral students are graded according to the normal regulations.
All students registered in a Faculty graduate degree program are assessed at the end of each
academic year. This assessment is based on:
1. coursesforwhichagradepointvaluehasbeenassignedsubsequenttotheiradmissionto
their program, or in the case of reinstated students, subsequent to their reinstatement,
and
2. other degree requirements, for which no grade point value is assigned, such as doctoral
seminars, comprehensive examinations, doctoral research proposals and theses which
are graded on a pass/fail or equivalent basis.
Standings of students are determined as follows:
1. Good Standing. No failures on record, a maximum of one grade below B and a
weighted cumulative grade point average of at least 3.00 based on a minimum of 8
credits.
2. Failed Standing. Failure to meet the criteria for good standing.
3. Reinstatement. Subject to regulation four below, failed students may apply to the
Graduate Program Director of the appropriate Department for reinstatement. Where
the recommendation is to reinstate, this will be forwarded to the Dean of Graduate
Studies for approval. Any special conditions will be specified at the time of reinstatement.
4. Withdrawal. Failed students who were previously assessed as failed must withdraw
from the Faculty degree program.
4.4. Degree Requirements
4.4.1. Core and Elective Courses
A fully-qualified candidate entering the doctoral program with a master’s degree is required
to complete a minimum of 90 credits. A candidate admitted beyond the bachelor’s level is
required to complete a minimum of 106 credits. Candidates admitted with a master’s degree
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in a cognate discipline, or if they need additional knowledge in an area pertinent to their
research, will, in general, be required to complete more than the minimum number of credits.
Students may not credit any undergraduate equivalent course towards the requirements of a
90-credit or 106-credit Ph.D. program without the permission of their supervisor and of the
Graduate Program Director.
Students admitted on the basis of a master’s degree will normally be required to complete
a minimum of 12 credits of course work, equivalent to three typical graduate courses. A
student admitted on the basis of a bachelor’s degree will normally be required to complete
a minimum of 28 credits of course work, normally equivalent to seven graduate courses. All
students must complete ENCS 8011 Doctoral Seminar (2 credits).
Each student’s program must be approved by a supervisory committee consisting of three
members of faculty, including the student’s research supervisor. This supervisory committee
will also arrange for the student’s comprehensive examination, the presentation of the
doctoral research proposal, and thesis evaluation.
Section 4.5 gives descriptions of all of the courses that will be available to students in the
proposed program.
4.4.2. Comprehensive Examination
Students must take a comprehensive examination, ENCS 8501, which may be both written
and oral. Normally the comprehensive examination is taken when course work has been
completed and within 12 (24) months after the first registration as a fulltime (part-time)
student in a Ph.D. program. Students will be assessed on the basis of written and oral examinations
of fundamentals related to their field of research. The comprehensive examination
will normally be administered by a committee (the Comprehensive Examination Committee)
consisting of the supervisory committee, at least one member external to the candidate’s
program and other members appointed at the discretion of the supervisory committee. Students
who fail this examination are permitted to take it a second time in the following term.
Students failing a second time are withdrawn from the program. Students should consult
the program regarding specific examination procedures and requirements.
4.4.3. Thesis Proposal
Upon successful completion of the comprehensive examination, students must pass the doctoral
research proposal ENCS 8511 (6 credits), within 18 (36) months after the first registration
as a full-time (part-time) student in a Ph.D. program, before they are admitted to
candidacy for the Ph.D. degree. Students will be assessed on the basis of written and oral
presentations that must include: (i) a critical review of previous work relevant to the subject
ofthethesis, and(ii)adetailedresearchplanofactionandexpectedmilestones. Studentsare
required to defend their doctoral research proposal before a committee that will normally be
comprised of the same members as the Comprehensive Examination Committee. Students
must demonstrate the viability of their project and their capacity to undertake doctoral
thesis research. The proposal may be accepted, returned for modifications, or rejected. The
rejection of a proposal will result in the student’s withdrawal from the program. A student
whose proposal is accepted will be admitted to candidacy for the Ph.D.
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4.4.4. Other Academic Regulations
• Students may be granted transfer credit for courses taken in approved graduate studies
prior to their entry into their program. A course submitted for transfer credit must be
appropriate to the student’s program of study at Concordia University. An application
for such credit will be considered only at the time of admission.
• Students are required to plan and carry out a suitable research, development, or design
project, which leads to an advance in knowledge. The student must submit a thesis
baseduponthisworkanddefenditinanoralexamination. Forpurposesofregistration,
thisworkwillbedesignatedENGR8911orCOMP8901: DoctoralResearchandThesis
(70 credits). Theses will be examined by a committee consisting of the student’s
supervisory committee, an external examiner, and other examiners as approved by the
Faculty Graduate Studies Committee and the Dean of Graduate Studies.
• All work for a doctoral degree must be completed within 18 terms (6 years) of full-time
study or 24 terms (8 years) of part-time study from the time of original registration in
the program.
4.5. Proposed Course Descriptions
SOEN 6011 Software Engineering Development Processes (4 credits)
Introduction to Software Engineering concepts. Software process models and associated
activities, including requirements analysis, specification, design, implementation, and validation.
Software documentation. Inspections and reviews. Collaborative work and project
management.
SOEN 6431 Software Comprehension and Maintenance (4 credits)
The course addresses both technical and managerial views of software comprehension and
software maintenance issues. Topics covered in this course include: cognitive models, softwarevisualization,
CASEtools, reverseengineering, staticanddynamicsourcecodeanalysis.
Introductiontocurrentresearchtopicsinsoftwaremaintenanceandprogramcomprehension.
SOEN 6441 Advanced Programming Practices (4 credits)
Problemsofwritingandmanagingcode. Managingcomplexity: programmingprocess. Pragmatic
Programming. Coding conventions, software documentation. Software configuration
management. Advanced debugging techniques: program tracing, dynamic inspection and
tools. Testing: coding techniques for testing software. Multithreading concurrency and
distributed programming. Multi-language programming.
SOEN 6481 Systems Requirements Specification (4 credits)
The objectives of the requirement specification process: determining and defining system
requirements. Techniques for the identification of requirements. Formal models and representations
for specifying system requirements. Formal techniques and tools for requirement
specification support. Assessment of a specification for attributes such as correctness, consistency
and completeness. Case studies involving large industrial projects in avionics, space
mission, and atomic energy control systems will be taken up for an in-depth discussion of
safety-critical issues, their specifications, and validation.
SOEN 6611 Software Measurement: Theory and Practice (4 credits)
Role of Measurement in Software Engineering. Software measurement principles. Representational
theory of measurement. Validation on Software Measures. Use of Category Theory
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for deriving object-oriented measures. Reliability Models and measurement. Cost and Effort
Estimation Models. Measurement Program: Goal-Question-Metric Approach. NFR
Framework. Software Measurement Research.
SOEN 6761 Multimedia Computing (4 credits)
Thiscoursecoversthestate-of-the-arttechnologyformultimediacomputing. Thecoursetopics
will cover current media types, images, video, audio, graphics and 3D models in terms of
algorithms and data structures for their capture, representation, creation, storage, archival,
transmission, assembling, presentation and retrieval. This course will cover fundamental
ideas in multimedia technology applicable to Computer Science and Software Engineering.
SOEN 6771 User Interface Development Tools and Techniques (4 credits)
Tools and software for user interface (UI). Event-driven programming. UI frameworks and
patterns. OVID Methodology from IBM. Architectures: Seeheim, MVC, PAC, ARCH and
AMF. Windowing systems. User interface management systems (UIMS). Toolkits: callback
functions, event handlers, widgets hierarchy, widgets as objects, instantiation of widgets,
containers and geometry managers. GUI Builders. Techniques for generating UI. Compound
document technologies: OpenDoc, ActiveX, and Java Beans. UI tools for Internet-based
applications and PDA (Personal Digital Assistants). End-user programming, customization,
and scripting. Course project.
SOEN 6951 Software Engineering Case Study (4 credits)
Students will complete a case study of a software project. Whenever possible, the project
should be conducted in an industrial environment with the cooperation of the student’s
employer.
SOEN 7481 Software Verification and Testing (4 credits)
Role of verification, testing and quality assurance. Formal verification techniques. Proving
correctnessandconformityofsystembehaviourtoSystemsRequirementSpecification(SRS).
Nature and limitations of testing. Nature of hardware and software faults. Formal models of
testing. Test environments. Test case generation. Test result analysis. Test standards and
documentation. The course includes a project that will develop techniques and strategies
for applying formal verification and testing techniques to a problem of industrial size and
interest. Prerequisite: SOEN 6481.
SOEN 7731 Empirical Studies in Software Engineering (4 credits)
Roles of empirical studies in software systems. Kinds of problems discovered in experimentation.
Cost-effectiveness analysis in software systems. Analytical versus controlled
experiments, usability and user acceptance tests. Effectiveness, efficiency, usability and user
performance tests. Design and administration of empirical studies. Usability test benchmarks.
Subject selection and hiring. Test monitoring and debriefing guidelines. Major
Empirical research methods. Questionnaires. Interviews. Surveys. Code and Cognitive
Walkthroughs. Ethnographic Field Observation. Analysis and presentation of empirical
data for decision-making. Methodological approaches to quantifying software developers
and software behaviors. Accuracy of experimentation. Prerequisite: SOEN 6751, SOEN
6011.
These two courses are taken be all students in doctoral programs:
ENCS 8511 Doctoral Research Proposal (6 credits)
The goal of the doctoral research proposal is to focus the student’s PhD research. The
proposal must include an extensive critical review of previous work on the subject of the
thesis, and a detailed research plan of action and expected milestones. Students are required
todefendtheirdoctoralresearchproposalbeforeacommitteethatwillnormallybecomprised
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of the same members as the comprehensive examination committee.
ENCS 8501 Comprehensive Examination. See Section 4.4.2.
4.6. Links between research strengths and program requirements
Students will have opportunities to do their doctoral thesis work in a number of areas. These
areas are listed next, together with the names of faculty members working in them.
• Software Design and Development: Novel software development processes, software
design methodologies, software comprehension and testing, aspect oriented programming,
quality control.
Butler, Chalin, Constantinides, Grogono, Paquet, Rilling, Witte, Yan.
• Formal Methods in Software Engineering: Representing semantics, formal methods
in requirements specifications and verifications.
Chalin, Paquet, Ormandjieva.
• Programming Languages: Aspect-oriented programming, intensional programming,
object-oriented languages, concurrent languages.
Constantinides, Grogono, Paquet.
• Parallel and Distributed Systems: Highperformancesystems, mobilecomputing, fault
tolerant and robust distributed systems, agent technology and multi agent communication
and coordination, efficient multicast communication in distributed systems.
Mudur, Ormandjieva, Paquet, Radhakrishnan.
• User Interface Design and Usability Testing: Intelligent user interfaces, multi-user
interfaces, mobile applications, usability testing and evaluation. Radhakrishnan.
• Graphics and Visualization: Novel techniques, algorithms and applications of three dimensional
graphics, visualization and its applications to Software Engineering, virtual
reality, and immersive environments.
Grogono, Mudur, Rilling.
• Software Maintenance: Program comprehension, software evolution, software traceability.
Constantinides, Rilling, Witte.
• Semantic Computing: Knowledge management and ontology.
Rilling, Witte.
• Service Computing: Service oriented architectures, web services.
Yan.
Each of the courses offered in the proposed program is associated with one or more faculty
members who are conducting research in the areas covered by the course. Consequently,
students will communicate directly with researchers in a variety of fields within Software
Engineering. Most of the courses listed below have been offered previously. This list demonstrates
the ability of the Department to offer the courses needed for students in the proposed
program with current faculty.
• SOEN 6011 Software Engineering Development Processes: Butler, Paquet, Grogono,
Chalin, Constantinides, Rilling.
• SOEN 6431 Software Comprehension and Maintenance: Rilling, Constantinides.
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• SOEN 6441 Advanced Programming Practices: Butler, Grogono, Chalin, Paquet.
• SOEN 6481 System Requirements Specification: Ormandjieva, Chalin, Paquet.
• SOEN 6611 Software Measurements: Theory and Practice: Ormandjieva.
• SOEN 6761 Multimedia Computing: Mudur, Grogono, Radhakrishnan.
• SOEN 6771 User Interface Development Tools and Techniques: Radhakrishnan.
• SOEN 6841 Management Issues in Software Development and Maintenance: Constantinides.
• SOEN 6471 Advanced Software Architectures: Chalin.
• SOEN 691 Service Computing: Foundations, Designs, and Implementations: Yan.
• SOEN 7481 Software Verification and Testing: Chalin, Ormandjieva.
• SOEN 7731 Empirical Studies in Software Engineering: Butler, Chalin, Grogono,
Paquet, Constantinides, Rilling, Ormandjieva, Mudur, Radhakrishnan.
For several courses, only one name is given. This is the name of the faculty member who
has been most closely associated with the course. In all cases, another faculty member could
teach that course if it became necessary to do so, because of sabbatical leave for instance.
5. Resource Implications of the Program
The Software Engineering Ph.D. program will be introduced gradually, admitting a few students
at first and then more as the program matures. Consequently, the initial resource
requirements will be minimal, and can be accommodated by the Department without expanding
budgets or facilities. If the program meets our expectations, enrollment will grow
during the next few years, leading to a need for expanded resources. A successful program,
however, implies increased revenue that can be used to fund new resources. Although there
are no plans for hiring in the immediate future, program growth may lead to a need for new
professors during the next few years.
5.1. Human Resources
5.1.1. Accreditation
Doctoral programs are not accredited. The undergraduate Software Engineering program is
accredited by both the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) and the Canadian
Information Processing Society (CIPS).
5.1.2. Current Faculty
The Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering already has a number of
faculty members active in Software Engineering. Some of these professors were hired for the
undergraduate Software Engineering program introduced in 1998 and others were already
members of the Department. The following list shows the faculty members who are expected
to be teaching courses in the proposed program.
Professor Gregory Butler obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Sydney in 1980. Dr.
Butler’s fields of interest include software engineering and bioinformatics. He teaches undergraduate
courses in Software Engineering and graduate courses in bioinformatics.
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Associate Professor Patrice Chalin obtained his Ph.D. from Concordia University in 1995.
Dr. Chalin’s fields of interest include formal software verification, requirements specification,
and model-driven design. He teaches undergraduate courses in software engineering and
graduate courses in programming language semantics.
Associate Professor Constantinos Constantinides obtained his Ph.D. from the Illinois Institute
of Technology in 2000. His fields of interest include aspect-oriented programming
and software maintenance. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in software engineering
and programming languages.
Professor Peter Grogono obtained his Ph.D. from Concordia University in 1985. Dr Grogono’s
fields of interest include software development, programming languages, visualization,
and artificial life. He coordinates software engineering student projects and teaches undergraduate
and graduate courses in advanced programming techniques and graphics.
Professor Sudhir Mudur obtained his Ph.D. from Bombay Institute in 1976. Dr. Mudur’s
fields of interest include graphics, visualization, and multimedia. He teaches undergraduate
courses in graphics and graduate courses in multimedia and advanced graphics.
Associate Professor Olga Ormandjieva obtained her Ph.D. from Concordia University in
2002. Dr. Ormanjieva’s fields of interest include formal methods, requirements engineering,
andsoftwaremetrics. Sheteachesundergraduatecoursesinthesoftwareengineeringprogram
and graduate courses in formal methods.
Associate Professor Joey Paquet obtained his Ph.D. from Université Laval in 1999. Dr.
Paquet’s fields of interest include programming languages and compiler design. He teaches
undergraduatecoursesinthesoftwareengineeringprogramandgraduatecoursesinadvanced
programming techniques.
Professor Thiruvengadam Radhakrishnan obtained his Ph.D. from India Institute of Technology
in 1971. Dr. Radhakrishnan’s fields of interest include human-computer interaction,
user-centered design, and multi-agent systems. He teaches undergraduate courses in computer
engineering and graduate courses in human-computer interaction and user-interface
design.
Associate Professor Juergen Rilling obtained his Ph.D. from Illinois Institute of Technology
in1998. Hehasamulti-yearindustrialcontractwiththeDRDCValcartierDr. Rilling’sfields
of interest include software evolution, software traceability, ambient Software Engineering,
collaborative Software Engineering, source code analysis and program comprehension. He
teaches undergraduate courses in Software Engineering and software evolution, as well as
graduate courses in software maintenance and software design methodologies.
Assistant Professor René Witte worked at Universität Karlsruhe (TH) in Germany within
Prof. Dr. Peter C. Lockemann’s research group at the Institute for Program Structures and
Data Organization (IPD). He also has more than five years of professional work experience
in the IT and software industry. He received his Diploma in Informatics (Computer Science)
in 1996 and his Dr.-Ing. (Doctor of Engineering) in 2002, both from the Faculty of Informatics
at Universitt Karlsruhe. He teaches undergraduate courses in software design and
architecture, and also advanced programming techniques.
Assistant Professor Yuhong Yan worked as an Associate Researcher Officer in the Institute
for Information Technology (IIT) in the National Research Council (NRC) and as an Adjunct
Professor in the Faculty of Computer Science in the University of New Brunswick. She
currently holds a Canarie grant for $175,000. Her research areas include web services, service
oriented architecture, enterprise integration, business process modeling, and distributed
systems. She is one of the organizers of the pertinent international conferences in service
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computing and Web services (e.g., SCC and ICWS), and is an author of over 40 papers in
leading journals and conferences.
5.1.3. Workloads
The standard workload for a full-time faculty member is six courses (18 credits) per year.
A faculty member who is active in research, demonstrated by research grants, graduate
students, publications, and so on, normally receives two course remissions and teaches four
courses (12 credits) per year. Further remissions may be given for outstanding research (e.g.,
holders of Canadian and Concordia Research Chairs or large grants) and for administrative
duties (e.g., prorgam directors). Consequently, the average workload in practice is between
three and four courses per year.
5.1.4. New Faculty
The Department does not plan to hire new faculty for the proposed program, because current
faculty are sufficient. However, some faculty members have retired, or will be retiring
soon, and it is likely that their replacements will be selected with contributions to Software
Engineering programs in mind.
5.1.5. Technical Staff
Technical support is provided by the Academic Information Technology Services (AITS) of
the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science. The 37 full time employees in AITS
provide full support of all the teaching laboratories, and the infrastructure support of the
research laboratories in the Faculty. In addition, the Department has one laboratory coordinator
and one technician. We believe there is enough technical staff to support this proposed
new program.
5.1.6. Additional Support Staff
There are seven office support staff in the Department. There is one secretary for thesisbasedgraduateprogramsandanothersecretaryforcourse-basedgraduateprograms.
Current
staffing is adequate to handle the projected enrollment in the proposed program.
5.1.7. Teaching Assistants
There are no teaching assistants for graduate level courses. One of the relabeled (from
COMP to SOEN) course has a 2-hours per week laboratory component, and a laboratory
instructor will be provided. Assignment markers will be provided for all courses with an
enrolment of more than 25 students.
5.2. Physical Resources
In 2005, the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science was relocated in the new EV
building at Ste-Catherine and Guy. This building has adequate office space, laboratory
space, and other facilities for the proposed program.
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5.2.1. Library Facilities and Holdings
The Department has been very satisfied with the resources provided by Concordia’s libraries
books, journals, access to electronic databases, and other media. Appendix C provides a
detailed analysis of the libraries. Inevitably, however, introducing a new discipline at the
doctoral level will impose additional requirements for library acquisitions. The additional
cost that will be incurred by the proposed program has been estimated using the Library
Funding Formula and is included in the estimated expenses of the program (see Section 5.4).
5.2.2. Computing Facilities
Computing facilities are provided by the University and by the Faculty. Teaching resources
are administered at the university level by Instructional & Information Technology Services
(IITS), which maintains eleven Computer Laboratories, six at the SGW campus and five at
the Loyola campus. Graduate students in the proposed program will have access to Research
laboratories that are equipped with computers and any other equipment required for their
research.
5.2.3. Teaching Space
The majority of the classrooms to be used for the proposed Software Engineering graduate
program have been renovated within the last few years, and include up-to-date teaching
resources such as digital projectors and computers with internet-access. These classrooms
are available for students in the proposed program.
The Department uses the laboratories listed in Table 4 for teaching undergraduate and
graduate courses in Computer Science and Software Engineering. The total capacity of
these laboratories is 340 seats. Most of the laboratories are equipped with up-to-date PCs
running both Windows and Linux operating systems.
5.2.4. Research Space
The Department has several Research Groups, each with its own laboratory space. Table 5
lists these research groups.
In addition, the Department is in the process of establishing a Centre for Innovation and
Best Practices in Software Engineering.
5.2.5. Computing Laboratories
AlllaboratoriesforSoftwareEngineeringareequippedwithcomputers. InthenewEngineering
and Computer Science facilities, to which the Department moved in Summer 2005, every
student in a research-oriented graduate program is assigned a seat in a laboratory equipped
with computers. The laboratories vary in size, but they all provide relatively small, comfortable
working environments, with between 6 and 20 seats. Altogether, there are seats for
more than 360 graduate students.
In addition to general laboratories for all graduate students, there are seven laboratories
devoted to specific fields of research:
1. Ambient Software Evolution Research Group Laboratory.
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Table 4: Computer Laboratories and Software
Room Capacity Operating Systems Projector
Windows Linux
H–811 20 � �
H–815 18 � �
H–817 22 � � �
H–825 16 � �
H–833 16 �
H–835 16 �
H–837 16 � �
H–841 16 � �
H–843 20 � �
H–847 20 � � �
H–862 16 � �
H–905 40 � � �
H–911 16 �
H–929 50 � �
H–933 18 Miscellaneous hardware
H–968 20 � �
2. Usability and Empirical Studies Laboratory.
3. Distributed Computing Laboratory.
4. Parallel Computing and Networks Laboratory.
5. Graphics and 3D Laboratory.
6. Semantic Computing Laboratory.
7. Web Services Laboratory.
5.2.6. Equipment
Software Engineering does not need laboratories with specialized equipment of the kind
associated with other engineering disciplines.
The Department and the Faculty are well-equipped with computers (PCs, workstations, and
servers) and ancillary equipment such as digitizers, printers, and scanners.
5.2.7. Administrative Office Space
Existing office space is adequate for the proposed program.
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Table 5: Research Groups. An asterisk (*) indicates relevance to Software Engineering; a
dagger (†) indicates that the main focus is Software Engineering.
† 3DGraphics
* Bioinformatics
Computational Linguistic at Concordia
Concordia Computational Combinatorial Optimization
* Database Research Group
† Dependable Software Research Group
† HumanCentered Software Engineering
* Computational Mathematics and Visualization
† Networks
† Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems
† Software Engineering
5.3. Funding for Graduate Students
5.3.1. Sources
Graduate students obtain funding from research grants, the Graduate Student Support Program
(GSSP) offered by ENCS, teaching assistantships, scholarships, bursaries, loans, and
industry.
Under the GSSP, ENCS pays each Ph.D. student $10,000 for each of the first three years
of doctoral studies provided that funding is available. A further $7,500 in matching funds
is also required. For international students, who pay higher fees, ENCS pays $12,500, with
$10,000 required in matching funds.
Matching funds typically come from the student’s supervisor’s research grant, but the student’s
own scholarships and awards also count as matching funds.
5.3.2. Amounts
Faculty members provide some financial support for their graduate students from their research
grants. The Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science supplements this support.
Financial support for graduate students is currently adequate and there is no need to provide
any additional financial support for students entering the proposed program.
5.4. Revenues and Expenses
Revenues The revenue forecast is based on the enrolment forecast given in Section 2.4.
Students in a 90-credit research-based doctoral program funded at the rate of one weighted
FTE for the first three years.
Table 6 shows the revenue earned by Computer Science and Software Engineering students.
We assume that six Computer Science students will transfer from Computer Science to
Software Engineering when the proposed program is introduced. (This is a conservative
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estimatebecause, asmentionedintheprevioussection, about17Ph.D.studentsarecurrently
working in areas related to Software Engineering.) For each student who transfers, the
university will receive an additional $33,391.91−$23,018.33 = $10,379 per year.
We have also assumed that, from the third year of the program onwards, 5 students graduate
each year, earning a bonus of $7,000 each. Table 7 shows expected revenue for the first five
years of the program. The enrollment numbers are derived from Table 1. Note, however,
that funding is received only for the first three years of study; the numbers in the second
column are therefore lower than the totals given in the last row of Table 1.
Table 6: Annual Revenue per Student for Computer Science and Engineering
Item Description Computer Science Software Engineering
(1) Enseignement Envelope 3,434.96 3,434.96
(2) Weight Factor 6.40 9.42
(3) Weighted program FTE = (1) × (2) 21,983.74 32,357.32
(4) Tuition Fees 1,616.55 1,616.55
(5) Academic sector component 64% 64%
(6) Net tuition = (4) × (5) 1,034.59 1,034.59
(7) Revenue = (3) + (6) 23,018.33 33,391.91
Table 7: Projected Revenue
Year SE Rev/stud Revenue CS Rev/stud Revenue Bonus Total Revenue
1 12 33,391 400,703 6 10,379 62,274 462,977
2 23 33,391 768,014 6 10,379 62,274 830,288
3 33 33,391 1,101,933 0 0 0 35,000 1,136,933
4 33 33,391 1,101,933 0 0 0 35,000 1,136,933
5 33 33,391 1,101,933 0 0 0 35,000 1,136,933
Expenses Expense items are summarized below. Calculations of the expected amounts
follow the list.
• New faculty: we do not anticipate hiring any new faculty members until the program
has been offered for several years. The faculty currently in the Department provide
sufficient expertise to offer the program.
• Full-time/part-time teaching ratio: the ratio will be affected slightly. Additional students
will increase the demand for graduate courses. We anticipate adding about
one graduate course per year to the courses offered. This implies that one additional
undergraduate course will be taught by a part-time instructor.
• New laboratories: there is sufficient space in the department’s laboratories to accommodate
the new students.
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• Amortization of computer equipment: costs will increase slightly as new students use
the equipment.
• Renovation: no renovations will be required for the first few years of the program.
• Programdirector: theGraduateProgramDirectorwillberesponsibleforbothdoctoral
programs.
• Secretarial support: the Graduate Secretary will handle secretarial requirements for
the new program.
• Study space for students: there is sufficient space in the department’s study areas to
accommodate the number of students anticipated for the next five years.
• University-based funding: GSSP funds provided by the Faculty will be extended for
the new program.
• Marketing and Advertising: a description of the new program will be incorporated into
the Department’s and Faculty’s information pamphlets.
We assume that a full-time faculty member costs the University $135,000, including salary,
benefits, and overhead. Further, we assume that full-time faculty members devotes 10% of
their time to supervising Ph.D. students. The cost of the 12 faculty members involved in the
proposed program is therefore 12×0.10×$135,000 = $162,000. The estimate for the cost
of support staff is one tenth of the cost of full-time faculty members, or $162,000 × 0.1 =
$16,200.
For computing facilities, we assume that the equivalent of a 10-seater computer laboratory
will be required to support this program, at a cost of $3,000 per seat. We further assume
that the computing facilities have to be renewed once every three years, implying that the
annual cost is $3000×10/3 = $10,000.
The cost of providing library services for the proposed program is computed according to
the Library Funding Formula. It is 9.42×10,000×7% = $6,954.
Table 8 shows the estimated annual expense of the program, not including GSSP funding
from the Faculty. The cost of offering a part-time course, including the instructors salary,
TAs, and overheads, is estimated as $10,000.
Table 9 shows the combined revenues, expenses, and expected net income from the program.
This table includes the cost of GSPP to the Faculty and makes the most pessimistic assumption
(in terms of revenue) that every student entering the program receives the full amount
of $10,000 from the Faculty.
Table 8: Projected Expenses
Item Expense
Full-time faculty: 162,000
Part-time teaching: 10,000
Support staff: 16,200
Operating expenses: 20,000
Computer facilities: 10,000
Library facilities: 6,954
Total: $224,794
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Table 9: Combined Revenues and Expenses
Year Revenue GSSP Other Expenses Net Income
1 462,977 18×10,000 224,794 58,183
2 830,288 29×10,000 224,794 315,494
3 1,136,933 33×10,000 224,794 582,139
4 1,136,933 33×10,000 224,794 582,139
5 1,136,933 33×10,000 224,794 582,139
5.5. Implementation Timetable
The proposed date for introduction of the program is September 2011.
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Appendices
A. Related Programs
ConcordiawouldbethefirsttheuniversityinQuébectoofferaPh.D.inSoftwareEngineering
degree. There exist currently only a very limited number of universities which are offering a
Ph.D. in Software Engineering in North America.
A.1. Canada (Ph.D. in Software Engineering)
• McMaster University
http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/cas/0template1.php?1000
A.2. U.S.A. (Ph.D. in Software Engineering)
• Carnegie Mellon
http://www.isri.cmu.edu/education/se-phd/index.html
• George Mason University
http://www.cs.gmu.edu/programs/phd/it/swe/
• University of Texas at Dallas
http://cs.utdallas.edu/graduate/csgrad-degrees.html#doc
• North Dakota State University
http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/phdse.htm
• International Technical University (California)
http://itu.edu/?page_id=150/
A.3. U.S.A. (Related Ph.D. Programs)
• Auburn University (Ph.D. in Computer Science and Software Engineering)
http://eng.auburn.edu/programs/csse/programs/grad/index.html
• University of Alabama at Birmingham (Ph.D. in Software Composition and Modeling)
http://www.cis.uab.edu/node/111
• Florida Institute of Technology (Ph.D. in Computer Science and Software Engineering)
http://cs.fit.edu/Academics/#tab-3
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B. Enrollment Survey
LimeSurvey Version 1.72 (5737)
Student Survey Results
No of records in this query: 130 (completed)
Field summary for 1:
Your enrolment status at Concordia.
Answer Count Percentage
No answer 0 0
Currently enrolled (a) 99 76.15%
Graduated (b) 31 23.85%
Field summary for 2:
Degree of Study.
Answer Count Percentage
No answer 0 0
Bachelor (a) 24 18.46%
Master of Computer Science (b) 4 3.08%
Master of Applied Computer Science (c) 6 4.62%
Master of Applied Science (d) 20 15.38%
Master of Engineering (e) 59 45.38%
Ph.D. (f) 17 13.08%
Field summary for 3:
Program of Study.
Answer Count Percentage
No answer 0 0
Computer Science (a) 24 18.46%
Software Engineering (b) 58 44.62%
Information Systems Security (c) 30 23.08%
Quality Systems Engineering (d) 18 13.85%
Field summary for 4:
Would you be interested in applying to the Ph.D. Program in Software Engineering if it
became available at Concordia?
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B. Enrollment Survey
Answer Count Percentage
No answer 0 0
Very interested (a) 48 36.92%
Interested (b) 19 14.62%
Somewhat interested (c) 38 29.23%
Not interested (d) 20 15.38%
Don't know (e) 5 3.85%
Field summary for 5:
What year would you start?
Answer Count Percentage
No answer 0 0
2010 (a) 30 23.08%
2011 (b) 35 26.92%
2012 (c) 18 13.85%
2013 (d) 19 14.62%
Later (e) 28 21.54%
Field summary for 6:
Would you prefer to enroll on a full-time or part-time basis?
Answer Count Percentage
No answer 0 0
Full-time (a) 63 48.46%
Part-time (b) 67 51.54%
Field summary for 7:
What area(s) of specialization interest you? Please specify.
Answer Count Percentage
Answer Browse 74 56.92%
No answer 56 43.08%
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B. Enrollment Survey
Field summary for 8:
Would your employment prospects be enhanced if you obtained a Ph.D. in Software
Engineering?
Answer Count Percentage
No answer 0 0
Yes (a) 65 50.00%
No (b) 15 11.54%
Don't know (c) 50 38.46%
Field summary for 9:
If the two Ph.D. programs are available in Computer Science and in Software Engineering,
which of the following order better indicates your preference?
Answer Count Percentage
No answer 0 0
i) Computer Science; ii) Software
Engineering (a)
i) Software Engineering; ii)Computer
Science (b)
30 23.08%
86 66.15%
Doesn't matter (c) 14 10.77%
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B. Enrollment Survey
Comments to the open-ended questions #7 Survey
Respondent # What area(s) of specialization interest you? Please specify.
3 Reverse engineering
4 AI
6 Distributed Programming , Multi-core systems
8 Software quality assurance, systems quality engineering.
10 Security Real-time
11 Software Quality Software Processes in Agile Development Environment User Interfaces
in Web2.0 environment
15 Voice/Video over IP Image processing Software project Estimation Software
Requirement McMaster university has all of them in Software Engineering PHD.
16 software engineering and Human computer interaction
17 Software Architecture Development
18 Software engineering practices
19 Information Security
22 Information Systems
26 Web application security
27 SOA, WEB , UI , Security
28 Computer Graphics Human-machine interaction Multimedia applications Computer
games
31 Security or Quality
33 Modeling, Verification
36 Team building specially formalizing team structure based on project complexity..
41 Applying semantics (NLP + OWL) on Software Engineering Artifacts written in Natural
Language.
44 Distributed systems
45 SW Architecture Management
47 Datawarehousing, Database, ETL, Data Mining
49 Software Security
50 Information security
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B. Enrollment Survey
51 Distributed computing, reliability, fault tolerance, scalability, managing large software
development projects.
53 Security, Networking, and Forensic Tools
57 software design
60 Databases, UML and formal methods
63 software architecture and reverse engineering
67 Gaming
68 formal specification reverse engineering
69 Model Driven Architecture Domain Specific Languages Source code analysis and
visualization Distributed Development Environments and Collaboration
70 Software design Distributed systems software measurement
71 distributed computing, software as a service, concurrency practices, software
architecture and design
72 System software embedded systems Information system security
73 Software Architecture Software Design
74 - Software Development Processes - Software Design related areas
75 Quality for critical application embedded systems
77 Project Management Large System Architecture
78 program and graphical in soft field
79 Artificial Intelligence Natural language Processing
80 software quality assurance
83 MDE, SOA
85 Information Security
91 Telecom, Protocol design and Software design.
92 Database Security
93 Quality Assurance in Software Engineering Systems Architecture and Design Patterns
Service Oriented Architectures Unix based systems administration (including scripting)
Semantic Webservices Testing and validation
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B. Enrollment Survey
94 Bioinformatics
95 Quality Assurance
97 Tools to help software development productivity.
101 Programming
102 Model driven architecture Software maintenance reverse engineering
103 quality
104 Software Architectures, UI, Design , Modeling
106 Quality, web design.
109 System Security
110 SIMULATION
111 Information Security
112 sap
113 Semantic Web Web Ontologies (OWL) System Security Intelligent Systems
114 software security metric software security development life cycle security patterns
116 innovation
118 database
information retrieval software solution architecture
119 Information systems security
121 Web applications
122 Software Architecture & Maintenance
123 1- Data mining. 2- Software maintenance. 3- Software revolution. 4- Bug Tracking &
auto bug fixing. 5- Design patterns. 6- Distributed computing system. 7- Parallel
computing.
124 Artificial intelligence.
126 Formal Methods and Language Definition
128 Software Development (Java)
130 Web Services, Software Recovery Architecture
132 Software engineering
133 Source code analysis. Semantic web. Artificial intelligence. CASE tools.
135 Software Design and Methodologies
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C. Library Facilities
Concordia University Libraries hold the materials necessary to support the proposed Ph.D.
program in Software Engineering. Based on the course descriptions and background information
provided, library resources can sustain the teaching and research objectives of these
programs. Maintaining a comprehensive selection of recently published materials in Software
Engineering is already a major focus of library collection development in support of
existing Computer Science programs. Additionally, the licensing of web-accessible databases
and online journal collections in which Concordia Libraries have invested heavily in the past
few years has improved the research component of library collections to a great extent. This
is particularly apparent in regard to the journals and conference proceedings of the Association
for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE), and the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), whose content is now fully available
online. This contrasts with the situation that existed up until three years ago when
holdings of the publications from these major research organizations were incomplete and
accessible in printed form only. Moreover, these and other important sources of research
literature are made available through the Concordia Libraries website on a 24/7 basis to all
authorized students and faculty both on-campus and off-campus.
C.1. Databases
Concordia Libraries provides access to the core databases needed to locate and access the
researchliteratureinthefieldofSoftwareEngineering. Twoofthemostimportantdatabases,
ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore, are full-text, meaning they deliver the complete
content of journal and conference proceedings in PDF format as well as the bibliographic
references.
The ACM Digital Library offers a 40 year online archive of journals, conferences, and publications
by the ACM’s Special Interest Groups. The content is searchable by author, title,
keyword or other elements. Search results include full citations, abstracts, and full-text. Of
particular interest are the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology,
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, ACM Transactions on Mathematical
Software as well as several conference proceedings such as the Aspect-Oriented Software
Development, Formal Methods in Software Practice, International Conference on Software
Engineering, and the International Symposium on Software Testing and Design.
IEEE Xplore includes all publications of the IEEE and the IEE from 1988 onwards, including
those available from the IEEE Computer Society. With its user-friendly interface
and enormous coverage running to over 700,000 individual articles, this full-text database
features many of the top-cited publications in Computer Science. Of particular interest are
the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Software, Electronics Systems and
Software. Among over 300 conference publications are the Automated Software Engineering
Conference, Computer Software and Applications Conference, Multimedia Software Engineering
Conference, and Software Engineering Education and Training Conference. IEEE
Standards dealing with Software Engineering and software quality are also included.
Several other databases provide relevant and up-to-date content. Computing Reviews has
insightful reviews of books and journal articles in all areas of Computer Science. MathSciNet
is a bibliographic database for searching the world’s mathematical literature. INSPEC is an
authoritative bibliographical database for Computer Science that indexes North American
titles as well as those published by European and Asian organizations. Compendex is the
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online version of the Engineering Index that covers all areas of engineering, facilitating
research in cross-disciplinary fields. CISTI Source, maintained by the Canadian Institute of
ScientificandTechnicalInformation,isanothercross-disciplinarytoolforidentifyingresearch
publications. Web of Science, from ISI, not only indexes over 5,000 science and technology
journals, it also can be used for citation analysis. ProQuest Digital Dissertations, is a
database used to search and identify Masters and Doctoral theses published since 1861.
Several multidisciplinary databases should prove useful to students and faculty in Software
Engineering program. Academic Search Premier is the largest of these with indexing and
full-text content for over 3,000 peer-reviewed journals including the International Journal of
Software Engineering and knowledge engineering and Scientific programming and the trade
publications Dr. Dobb’s Journal and Software magazine. The ProQuest Business Databases
cover trade and industry publications. Depending on the research focus, there are other
databases that can be used to access newspapers, government information, statistical data,
industry and marketing reports, and company profiles.
C.2. Online Journals
Closely linked to the databases, online journals or e-journals, have largely replaced subscriptions
to printed journals in many fields. Although there has been some movement towards
the free-of-charge, open access model for journals, exemplified in projects like the Computing
Research Repository (CoRR), most scholarly journals are not directly accessible on the
Internet and remain quite costly. Over the past few years, Concordia Libraries has joined together
with other university libraries to obtain collective pricing for online journal packages.
Through CREPUQ and the Canadian Research Knowledge Network, which sponsored the
Canadian National Site Licensing Project, access has been secured to journal packages from
major publishers. One of the major benefits of this approach is that Concordia Libraries can
now offer access to many journals that it could not previously afford and has thereby closed
the gap with more generously endowed institutions like McGill and École polytechnique de
Montréal.
Elsevier ScienceDirect is the largest online journal collection with some 1700 titles. Among
those titles are Journal of systems and software, International journal of human-computer
studies, and Information and software technology. Another important collection is Springer-
Link from Springer-Verlag that contains the Automated Software Engineering, Software
and systems modeling, and Programming and computer software. Several other e-journal
collections, including SIAM Journals Online, Wiley InterScience, Blackwell-Synergy, and
Cambridge Journals Online provide considerable depth to the coverage of research literature
needed to support the proposed program. It should be noted that the Concordia Libraries
have recently introduced advanced linking technology that facilitates access to online journals
by offering researchers a link to the full-text of articles when they are searching a
bibliographic database like Compendex.
C.3. Books and Monographs
To illustrate the relative strength of Concordia Libraries’ monograph collection in the area of
Software Engineering, a comparative analysis was made with the libraries of École Polytechnique/Université
de Montréal, McGill University, UQAM/ École de technologie supérieure,
and Université de Sherbrooke using relevant Library of Congress classification numbers.
Graduate Software Engineering courses are offered in all these institutions. Table 10 shows
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the number of titles currently held by each library in the particular classification. Note that
none of the universities listed in this table has a Ph.D. program in Software Engineering.
Overall, the book collection in Computer Science and Software Engineering is very strong
with approximately 10,000 titles covering all areas of the discipline. Faculty recommendations
for book purchases are welcomed and generally processed without delay. The Reference
Collection, containing updated encyclopedias, dictionaries, and handbooks is well
maintained. Collections in the science and engineering disciplines, as well as those in areas
such as management, decision sciences, and mathematics enhance the resources available for
cross-disciplinary research.
C.4. Perspectives
The proposed program in Software Engineering can rely on the Concordia Libraries to provide
access to a wide range of professional and research publications in the field. Since
an extensive collection of databases, online journals, and monographs is currently available
to support the program, there should be no significant barriers to accessing appropriate
research literature in a timely manner. Any materials that are not immediately available
in the Concordia Libraries can often be borrowed from nearby institutions. Students and
faculty are eligible to obtain a CREPUQ card that allows them to use these other libraries.
The Interlibrary Loan service can be used to borrow books or request copies of articles not
available locally.
Table 10: Number of books in relevant areas available in local libraries. Column headings:
LCC = Library of Congress Classification; Con = Concordia; Pol = École Polytechnique
de Montréal; McG = McGill; ETS = École de technologie supérieure de
l’université du Québec; She = Université de Sherbrooke .
LCC Subject Con Pol McG ETS She
QA 76.758 Software Engineering 160 143 175 153 114
QA 76.76 D47 Software development 228 148 251 166 116
QA 76.76 Q35 Software quality 30 33 40 104 23
QA 76.9 A73 Computer architecture 121 202 108 141 57
QA 76.9 H85 Human-computer interaction 105 148 135 130 56
QA 76.9 M35 Computer mathematics 55 46 53 74 36
QA 76.9 O35 Object-oriented methods 60 32 51 81 33
QA 76.9 S88 System design 138 104 121 118 51
QA 76.9 U83 User interface 55 78 81 96 30
TK 7885 Computer engineering 171 181 106 78 66
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PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: COMP-51 VERSION: 9
PROGRAM CHANGE: new Ph.D. program in software engineering
Proposed [ ] Undergraduate or [X] Graduate Curriculum changes
Faculty/School: Engineering and CompSci
Department: Computer Science and Software Engineering
Program: Computer Science and Software Engineering
Degree: Ph.D.
Calendar Section/Graduate Page Number:264
Type of Change:
[ ] Editorial
[X] New Program
[ ] Requirements [ ] Regulations [ ] Program Deletion
Present Text (from 2010/2011) calendar Proposed Text
Programs
The Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering offers
the degrees of Doctor of/Doctorate in Philosophy, Master of/
Magisteriate in Computer Science, Master of/Magisteriate in Applied
Computer Science, Master of/Magisteriate in Applied Science
(Software Engineering), Master of/Magisteriate in Engineering
(Software Engineering), and a graduate Diploma in Computer Science.
Programs
Calendar for academic year: 2011/2012
Implementation Month/year: September 2011
The Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering offers
the degrees of Doctor of/Doctorate in Philosophy in Computer
Science, Doctor of/Doctorate in Philosophy in Software
Engineering, Master of/Magisteriate in Computer Science, Master of/
Magisteriate in Applied Computer Science, Master of/Magisteriate in
Applied Science (Software Engineering), Master of/Magisteriate in
Engineering (Software Engineering), and a graduate Diploma in
Computer Science.
Rationale: The Department of Computer Science introduced a Ph.D. program in Computer Science in 1984. Since then, the Department has introduced an undergraduate program in
Software Engineering (1998), changed its name to Computer Science and Software Engineering (2002), and introduced two masters programs in Software Engineering (2008).
Almost half of the students currently enrolled in the Ph.D. (Comp. Sc.) program are doing research in areas related to software engineering. Of 38 full-time faculty members, 11 are
working primarily in areas of software engineering.
The scale of research in Software Engineering currently performed by both faculty and students provides a strong motivation for a Ph.D. program in Software Engineering. Other
motivations include: industrial demand for highly-qualified personnel who can fill research-oriented positions; the need for a new generation of university teachers trained in the
rapidly-growing field of Software Engineering; and the desire to attract and retain students with a masters degree in Software Engineering.
Resource Implications: There are no resource implications for the first two years of the program because enrollment is expected to be small and current resources are sufficient.
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PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: COMP-51 VERSION: 9
PROGRAM CHANGE: Major Areas in Ph.D. SOEN programme
Proposed [ ] Undergraduate or [X] Graduate Curriculum changes
Faculty/School: Engineering and CompSci
Department: Computer Science and Software Engineering
Program: Computer Science and Software Engineering
Degree: Ph.D.
Calendar Section/Graduate Page Number:265
Type of Change:
[X] Editorial
[ ] New Program
[ ] Requirements [ ] Regulations [ ] Program Deletion
Present Text (from 2010/2011) calendar Proposed Text
Doctor of/Doctorate in Philosophy (Computer Science)
Major areas for doctoral work are: Mobile Computing and Wireless
Networks; Distributed Systems; Computer Networks and Protocols;
Parallel Algorithms and Architectures; Ad Hoc Networks; Numerical
Analysis and Scientific Computing; Semantics of Programming languages;
Databases; Knowledge-Based Systems; Semantics Web; Symbolic and
Algebraic Computation; Combinatorial Algorithms; Mathematical
Programming; Artificial Intelligence; Natural Language Processing;
Pattern Recognition; Image Processing; Graphics and Visualization
Techniques; Multimedia Computing; Bioinformatics; Software
Architecture; Requirement Engineering; Software Measurement; User
Interface; Software Comprehension and Maintenance; Dependable
Software.
The requirements for the degree of Doctor of/Doctorate in Philosophy
are described in the general section on the Faculty of Engineering and
Computer Science.
Rationale: These changes are required for the proposed Doctor of Philosophy in Software Engineering.
Calendar for academic year: 2011/2012
Implementation Month/year: September 2011
Doctor of/Doctorate in Philosophy (Computer Science)
Major areas for doctoral work are: Mobile Computing and
Wireless Networks; Distributed Systems; Computer Networks and
Protocols; Parallel Algorithms and Architectures; Ad Hoc
Networks; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing;
Semantics of Programming Languages; Databases; Knowledge-Based
Systems; Semantic Web; Symbolic and Algebraic Computation;
Combinatorial Algorithms; Mathematical Programming; Artificial
Intelligence; Natural Language Processing; Pattern Recognition;
Image Processing.
Doctor of/Doctorate in Philosophy (Software Engineering)
Major areas for doctoral work are: Mobile Computing and
Wireless Networks; Distributed Systems; Computer Networks and
Protocols; Graphics and Visualization Techniques; Multimedia
Computing; Bioinformatics; Software Architecture; Requirements
Engineering; Software Measurement; User Interface; Software
Comprehension and Maintenance; Dependable Software.
The requirements for the degree of Doctor of/Doctorate in
Philosophy are described in the general section on the Faculty
of Engineering and Computer Science.
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Resource Implications: There are no resource implications for the first two years of the program because enrollment is expected to be small and current resources are sufficient.
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PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: COMP-51 VERSION: 9
PROGRAM CHANGE: Topic Area C11
Proposed [ ] Undergraduate or [X] Graduate Curriculum changes
Faculty/School: Engineering and CompSci
Department: Computer Science and Software Engineering
Program: Ph.D. in Software Engineering
Degree: Ph.D. in Software Engineering
Calendar Section/Graduate Page Number:269
Type of Change:
[ ] Editorial
[X] New Program
[X] Requirements [ ] Regulations [ ] Program Deletion
Present Text (from 2010/2011) calendar Proposed Text
C11 - DOCTORAL SEMINAR, RESEARCH, AND THESIS
COMP 8011 Doctoral Seminar in Computer Science (**)
(**) Available only to students admitted prior to September 1997.
ENCS 8011 PhD Seminar (2 credits)
ENCS 8511 Doctoral Research Proposal (6 credits)
COMP 8901 Doctoral Research and Thesis (70 credits)
ENCS 8501 Comprehensive Examination
Doctoral students must begin work on ENCS 8501 within 12 (24)
months after the first registration as a full-time (part-time)
student in a PhD program. This course is graded on a pass/fail
basis and has no credit value. For purposes of registration, this
work will be designated as ENCS 8501.
Rationale: These changes are required for the proposed Doctor of Philosophy in Software Engineering.
Calendar for academic year: 2011/2012
Implementation Month/year: September 2011
C11 - DOCTORAL SEMINAR, RESEARCH, AND THESIS
COMP 8011 Doctoral Seminar in Computer Science (**)
(**) Available only to students admitted prior to September 1997.
ENCS 8011 PhD Seminar (2 credits)
ENCS 8511 Doctoral Research Proposal (6 credits)
COMP 8901 Doctoral Research and Thesis (70 credits)
SOEN 8901 Doctoral Research and Thesis (70 credits)
ENCS 8501 Comprehensive Examination
Doctoral students must begin work on ENCS 8501 within 12 (24)
months after the first registration as a full-time (part-time)
student in a PhD program. This course is graded on a pass/fail
basis and has no credit value. For purposes of registration, this
work will be designated as ENCS 8501.
Resource Implications: There are no resource implications for the first two years of the program because enrollment is expected to be small and current resources are sufficient.
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PROGRAM AND COURSES CHANGE FORMS FOR DOCUMENT: COMP-51 VERSION: 9
COURSE CHANGE: SOEN 8901 New Course Number:
Proposed [ ] Undergraduate or [X] Graduate Curriculum changes
Faculty/School: Engineering and CompSci
Department: Computer Science and Software Engineering
Program: Software Engineering
Degree: Ph.D.
Calendar Section/Graduate Page Number:275
Type of Change:
[ ] Course Number
[ ] Course Description
[ ] Course Deletion
[ ] Course Title
[ ] Editorial
[ ] Other - Specify:
Present Text (from 20xx/20xx) calendar Proposed Text
[ ] Credit Value
[X] New Course
Rationale: These changes are required for the proposed Doctor of Philosophy in Software Engineering
Calendar for academic year: 2011/2012
Implementation Month/year: September 2011
[ ] Prerequisite
SOEN 8901 Doctoral Research and Thesis (70 credits)
Resource Implications: There are no resource implications for the first two years of the program because enrollment is expected to be small and current resources are sufficient.
Other Programs within which course is listed:
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Personal Data
Name Gregory Butler.
Birth March 19, 1953, Sydney, Australia.
Curriculum Vitae of Gregory Butler
Citizenship Australian. Permanent resident of Canada since November 1991.
Status Married, no children.
Home Address
1700 Rene Levesque Blvd West, Apt 301
Montréal, Quebec
Canada H3H 2V1
Ph: (514) 935 1556
Work Address
Department of Computer Science, Concordia University
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd, West
Montréal, Quebec
Canada H3G 1M8
Ph: (514) 848 2424 x3031
Fax: (514) 848 2830
Email: gregb@cs.concordia.ca
URL: http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~gregb
Languages English, German, some French.
Education
Ph.D. Pure Mathematics, University of Sydney, 1980
B.Sc.(First Class Honours) Pure Mathematics, University of Sydney, 1976
Employment
1992- Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Professor (1999-present)
Associate Professor (1992–99) — tenure in 1995
Limited-Term Associate Professor (January–May 1992)
1981–90 Computer Science, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Senior Lecturer (1987–90)
Lecturer (1981–87) — tenure in 1983
1980/81 Postdoctoral Fellow
Computer Science, Concordia University
1979/80 Postdoctoral Fellow
jointly in Department of Mathematics, McGill University and
Department of Computer Science, Concordia University
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Visiting Positions
1999 Visiting Scientist, European Media Lab, Heidelberg, Germany
1999 Visitor, Multimedia Database Systems Group, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
1998 Visiting Professor, Insitut für Algorithmen und Kognitive Systeme, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany
1991 Visiting Scientist, Computer Science, Concordia University
1990 Visiting Professor, Lehrstuhl II für Mathematik (Informatik), Universität Bayreuth, Germany
1985 Visiting Scholar, Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, USA
Consulting
August 2000: HiCom Data Systems, Montreal. Guidance on extensibility in software architectures.
June–August 1999: European Media Lab, Heidelberg. Consulting on database technology for simulation
of biochemical pathways.
June–August 1997, February–May 1998: Revenue Canada. Technical audit of R&D claim for objectoriented
technology.
February 1995: Famic-Talis, Inc, Montreal. Consulting on object-oriented design and design patterns.
Grants — Canadian
2009–2013 Genome canada - Genozymes - Integrated Bioinformatics (Butler) $3,200,000
2009–2014 NSERC Discovery Grant (Butler) $24,000
2008–2011 Cellulosic Biofuel Network - Bioinformatcs (Butler) $1,105,868
2006–2009 NSERC Strategic Grant (Tsang, Butler) $561,514
2004–2009 NSERC Discovery Grant (Butler) $29,700 p.a.
2003–2005 Genome Quebec Bioinformatics Project (Elela+11) $600,000
2003–2006 Genome Quebec Bioinformatics Project (Haarslev+9) $590,000
2003–2005 Genome Quebec Bioinformatics Project (Nadon+10) $470,000
2003–2006 Genome Quebec Bioinformatics Project (Philippe+40) $470,000
2002–2005 Genome Canada Large project Grant (Tsang+11) $6,900,000
2001–2004 NSERC Genomics Project Grant (Storms+2) $570,000
2000–2004 NSERC Operating Grant (Butler) $28,298 p.a.
1999-2003 CFI Institutional Innovation Fund (Tsang+5) $1,246,080
1999-2003 MEQ Instutional Innovation Fund (Tsang+5) $1,246,080
1999 FCAR Centre Grant (Darmon et al) $50,000
1997–99 FRDP Major Interdisciplinary (Tsang+5) $45,000 p.a.
1996–2000 NSERC Operating Grant (Butler) $24,500 p.a.
1996–99 FCAR Centre Grant (Murty et al) $80,000 p.a.
1996–98 SEAGRAM Innovative Research (Grogono, Butler) $15,000 p.a.
1995 NSERC Equipment Grant (Lam, Butler) $60,000
1994–97 FCAR Team Grant (Lam et al) $45,600 p.a.
1994 NSERC Equipment Grant (Cummins et al) $30,926
1993–96 FCAR Centre Grant (Kisilevsky et al) $70,000 p.a.
1993–96 NSERC Infrastructure Grant (Lam et al) $17,000 p.a.
1993–96 NSERC Operating Grant $22,000 p.a.
1992 NSERC Equipment Grant $17,350
1992–95 FRDP Start-up Operating Grant $13,000 p.a.
1992 FRDP Equipment Grant $ 5,000
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Publications
Patents
Provisional Patent (2007) Novel xylanase enzyme XYL001 and XYL002 and uses thereof. Tsang, A.,
Powlowski, J., Butler, G., Storms, R., Mohrmann, L., Mutsaers, J. European Patent Office Patent No.
06126761.3-2401
Provisional Patent (2005) Novel cellulase and uses thereof Adrian Tsang, Greg Butler, Justin Powlowski,
Reg Storms. 15656-28USPR
Provisional Patent (2005) Novel triglyceride lipase and uses thereof. Adrian Tsang, Robert Bourbonnais,
Greg Butler, Reg Storms, Luc Varin. 15656-27USPR
Declaration of Invention (2006), TargetFinder, Xiang Jia Min, Gregory Butler, Reginald Storms, and Adrian
Tsang.
Declaration of Invention (2005), Conversion of fatty biomass into biodiesel using Aspergillus niger recombinant
lipases, Adrian Tsang, Reg Storms, Greg Butler, Robert Bourbonnais, Luc Varin.
Declaration of Invention (2004), Secreted proteins from fourteen fungal species, Adrian Tsang, Reg Storms,
Greg Butler, Justin Powlowski.
Declaration of Invention (2003), High-throughput identification and production of fungal enzymes with potential
for industrial applications, Adrian Tsang, Reg Storms, Greg Butler.
Publications in Reverse Chronological Order
Stephen Barrett, Daniel Sinnig, Patrice Chalin, Greg Butler, Merging of Use Case Models: Semantic Foundations,
TASE 2009, 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering,
July 29 - 31, 2009, Tianjin, China.
Xiang Jia Min, Gregory Butler, Reginald Storms, and Adrian Tsang, Comparative Assessment of DNA
Assemblers for Assembling Expressed Sequence Tags, 4th Ohio Collaborative Conference on Bioinformatics,
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio June 15-17, 2009.
Bahman Zamani, Sahar Kayhani, Greg Butler, A Pattern Language Verifier for Web-Based Enterprise
Applications. Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5301,
553–567, 2008.
Bahman Zamani and Gregory Butler, Smell Detection in UML Designs which Utilize Pattern Languages, to
appear Iranian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) 2008.
Adrian Tsang, Gregory Butler, Justin Powlowski, Ellen Panisko, Scott Baker, Analytical and computational
approaches to define the Aspergillus niger secretome, Fungal Genet Biol. 2009 Mar;46 Suppl 1:S153-S160.
Bahman Zamani, Greg Butler and Sahar Kayhani, Tool Support for Pattern Selection and Use, Electr. Notes
Theor. Comput. Sci. 233: 127-142 (2009)
Stephen Barrett, Patrice Chalin, Greg Butler, Model Merging Falls Short of Software Engineering Needs,
2nd Workshop on Model-Driven Software Evolution (MoDSE 2008), 12th European Conference on Software
Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR 2008), Athens, Greece, April 1, 2008.
Michel Nathan and Greg Butler, A Refined Multisite Fungal Protein Localizer, Artificial Intelligence and
Applications (AIA 2008), Innsbruck, Austria, February 11–13, 2008.
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Greg Butler, Wendy Ding, John Longo, Jack Min, Nick O’Toole, Sindhu Pillai, Ronghua Shu, Jian Sun, Yan
Yang, Qing Xie, Regis-Olivier Benech, Aleks Spurmanis, Peter Ulycznyj, Justin Powlowski, Reg Storms,
Adrian Tsang, Data management for fungal genomics: An experience report, in Biological Database
Modeling, Jake Y. Chen and Amandeep S. Sidhu (editors), Artech House, 2008. ISBN 978-1-59693-258-6
Christopher J. O. Baker, Robert H. Warren, Volker Haarslev, Greg Butler, The Ecology of Ontologies in the
Public Domain, The Monist (An International Quarterly Journal of General Philosophical Inquiry), Vol. 90,
Issue 4, October 2007: Biomedical Ontologies
Bahman Zamani and Greg Butler, Critiquing the Application of Pattern Languages on UML Models, Proceedings
of 2nd Workshop on Quality in Modeling, Ludwik Kuzniarz, Jean Louis Sourrouille, Miroslaw
Staron (editors). Nashville, TN, USA, October 2, 2007. pp. 18-35. ISBN-978-91-7295-984-2
Greg Butler, Volker Haarslev, Chris Baker, Sabine Bergler, Leila Kosseim, Doina Precup, Justin Powlowski,
Nematollah Shiri, Adrian Tsang, FungalWeb: A semantic web for exploring knowledge-based bioinformatics,
NETTAB 2007 Workshop on A Semantic Web for Bioinformatics: Goals, Tools, Systems, Applications, Pisa,
Italy, June 12-15, 2007.
Christopher J. O. Baker, Arash Shaban-Nejad, Rene Witte, Volker Haarslev, Greg Butler. Empowering the
Enzyme Biotechnologist with Ontologies, poster, The 10th International Congress on Biotechnology in the
Pulp and Paper Industry, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, June 10-15, 2007.
Greg Butler, Farzad Kohantorabi, Michel Nathan, Ju Wang, Yue Wang, The FungalWeb data warehouse for
fungal genomics, ISSY26 (International Specialised Symposium on Yeasts) Sorrento, Italy, June 3–7, 2007.
Michel Nathan and Greg Butler, An Experiment on Using Temporal Ontologies to Reason about Localization
and Transport of Fungal Proteins, Health Care and Life Sciences Data Integration for the Semantic Web,
Workshop on Health Care and Life Sciences Data Integration for the Semantic Web, 16th International
World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007), Banff, Canada, May 8, 2007.
Nick O’Toole, Jack Min, Greg Butler, Reg Storms, Adrian Tsang, Sequence-based analysis of fungal secretomes.
Applied Mycology and Biotechnology 6, (2006) 277–296.
Alireza Shaneh and Greg Butler, Bayesian Learning for Feed-Forward Neural Network with Application to
Proteomic Data: The Glycosylation Sites Detection of the Epidermal Growth Factor-Like Proteins Associated
with Cancer as a Case Study, L. Lamontagne and M. Marchand (Eds.): Canadian AI 2006, Lecture Notes
in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 4013, 2006, pp. 110–121.
Christopher J.O Baker, Arash Shaban-Nejad, Xiao Su, Volker Haarslev, Greg Butler. Semantic web infrastructure
for fungal enzyme biotechnologists. Journal of Web Semantics, 4, 3 (2006) 168–180.
Christopher J.O Baker, Xiao Su, Volker Haarslev, Greg Butler. Ontoligent Interactive Query Tool, Canadian
Semantic Web Working Symposium 2006, 6 June 2006, Quebec, Canada.
Farzad Kohantorabi, Greg Butler. A distributed agent system upon web technologies to provide biological
data, Canadian Semantic Web Working Symposium 2006, 6 June 2006, Quebec, Canada.
Lugang Xu and Greg Butler, Cascaded refactoring for framework development and evolution, Australian
Software Engineering Conference, IEEE Computer Society, 2006, 319-330
Greg Butler, Guang Wang, Yue Wang, Liqian Zou, Query Optimization for a Graph Database with Visual
Queries, Database Systems for Advanced Applications 2006, Springer, 2006, pp. 602-616.
Adrian Tsang, Natalia Semova, Kathleen Daignault, Nicholas O’Toole, Regis-Olivier Benech, Gregory Butler,
Reginald Storms, Justin Powlowski. Genome-wide approach to identify and characterize fungal extracellular
enzymes. International Food Congress 2006: Nutrigenomics and Health - From Vision to Food, Copenhagen,
March 15-16, 2006. Scandinavian Journal of Food & Nutrition, Volume 50, Issue S9501 March 2006 , pages
3 – 53.
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Clement W.H. Lam, Greg Butler, K.L. Ma, K. Loeschner, Constructing Covering Codes via Automorphisms,
Bayreuther Mathematischen Schriften 74 (2005) 221–232.
Arash Shaban-Nejad, Christopher Baker, Volker Haarslev, Greg Butler. The FungalWeb Ontology: Semantic
Web Challenges in Bioinformatics and Genomics. International Semantic Web Conference 2005: 1063-1066.
Xiang Jia Min, Gregory Butler, Reginald Storms, and Adrian Tsang, OrfPredictor: predicting protein-coding
regions in EST-derived sequences, Nucl. Acids Res. 2005 33: W677-W680.
Xiang Jia Min, Gregory Butler, Reginald Storms, and Adrian Tsang, TargetIdentifier: a webserver for
identifying full-length cDNAs from EST sequences, Nucl. Acids Res. 2005 33: W669-W672.
Natalia Semova, Reginald Storms, Tricia John, Pascale Gaudet, Peter Ulycznyj, Xiang Jia Min, Jian Sun,
Greg Butler and Adrian Tsang, Generation, annotation, and analysis of an extensive Aspergillus niger EST
collection, BMC Microbiology 2006, 6:7
Greg Butler, Guang Wang, Yue Wang, Liqian Zou, A graph database with visual queries for genomics,
Proceedings of Third Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference, Imperial College Press, 2005, pp. 31–40.
Ibrahim Haddad and Greg Butler, Experimental Studies of Scalability in Clustered Web Systems, 18th International
Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2004), IEEE Computer Society 2004,
page 185, ISBN 0-7695-2132-0
Jian Xu, Wei Yu, Kexing Rui, Greg Butler, Use Case Refactoring: A Tool and a Case Study, Proceedings
of the 11th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, IEEE Computer Society, 2004, pp. 484–491.
Wei Yu, Jun Li, Greg Butler, Refactoring use case models on episodes, Proceedings of the 19th International
Conference on Automated Software Engineering, IEEE Computer Society, 2004, pp. 328–331.
Jingxue Zhou, Bin Nie, Greg Butler, An efficient B+-tree implementation in C++ using the STL style,
6th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2004), Volume 1: Databases and
Information Systems Integration, 2004, pages 163–168.
Vivien Liang, Greg Butler, WISH query composer, 6th International Conference on Enterprise Information
Systems (ICEIS 2004), Volume 1: Databases and Information Systems Integration, 2004, pages 566–569.
Shengbing Ren, Greg Butler, Kexing Rui, Jian Xu, Wei Yu, Ren Hong Luo, A Prototype Tool for Use
Case Refactoring, 6th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2004), Volume 3:
Information Systems Analysis and Specification, 2004, pages 173–178.
Yun Mai, Jinmiao Li, Greg Butler, Difficult issues in designing Adaptive Object Model systems, 6th International
Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2004), Volume 3: Information Systems Analysis
and Specification, 2004, pages 295–302.
Jinmiao Li, Yun Mai, Greg Butler, Implementing exception handling policies for workflow management
systems, Proceedings of Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, (Chang Mai, Thailand, 10–
12 December 2003), IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 2003, pp. 564–573.
Ju Wang, Jinmiao Li, Greg Butler, Implementing the PostgreSQL query optimizer within the OPT++ framework,
Proceedings of Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, (Chang Mai, Thailand, 10–12
December 2003), IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 2003, pp. 262–272.
Greg Butler, Yueqin Chen, Yimin Liu, Yan Meng, Guidelines for data modeling in bioinformatics, Proceedings
7th Joint Conference on Information Sciences (JCIS 2003), Atlantic Symposium on Computational
Biology and Genome Informatics, 2003, (Carey NC, September 26-30, 2003), Ken Chen, Shu-Heng Chen,
Heng-Do Cheng, David K.Y. Chiu, Sanjay Das, Richard Duro, Zhen Jiang, Nik Kasabov, Etienne Kerre,
Hong Va Leong, Qing Li, Mi Lu, Manual Grana Romay, Dan Ventura, Paul P. Wang, Jie Wu (editors),
Association for Intelligent Machinery, Durham, NC, 2003, pp. 907–910.
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Shengbing Ren, Kexing Rui, Greg Butler, Refactoring scenario specifications: A Message Sequence Chart
approach, Object-Oriented Information Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2817, Springer-
Verlag, Berlin, 2003, pp. 294–298.
Kexing Rui, Shengbing Ren, Greg Butler, Refactoring Use Case Models: A Case Study, 5th International
Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2003), Volume 3: Information Systems Analysis and
Specification, 2003, pp. 239–244.
Greg Butler, Xin Shen, Lugang Xu, Issues in architectural modeling and evolution in the Know-It-All case
study, Workshop on Model-Based Development: Features, Components and Architectures, at 10th IEEE
Symposium and Workshops on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems, Huntsville, Alabama, April 7-11,
2003, pp. 321–330.
Kexing Rui and Greg Butler, Refactoring Use Case Models: The Metamodel, Twenty-Fifth Australasian
Computer Science Conference (ACSC2003), Adelaide, Australia. Conferences in Research and Practice in
Information Technology, Vol. 16. Michael Oudshoorn, Ed. February 4–7, 2003, pp. 301–308.
Greg Butler, Architectural refactoring in framework evolution: A case study, Generative Programming
and Component Engineering, Don Batory, Charles Consel, Walid Taha (eds), Lecture Notes in Computer
Science 2487, Springer, New York, 2002, pp 128–139.
Greg Butler, Ling Chen, Xuede Chen, Ashraf Gaffar, Jinmiao Li, Lugang Xu, The Know-It-All Project: A
Case Study in Framework Development and Evolution, Domain Oriented Systems Development: Perspectives
and Practices, Kiyoshi Itoh, Satoshi Kumagai, T. Hirota (eds), Taylor and Francis Publishers,
UK, 2002, pp. 101–117.
Greg Butler, Workshop on Generative Techniques for Product Lines, ACM Software Engineering Notes,
Volume 26, Number 6 (November 2001) 74–75. Workshop summary for ICSE’2001 workshop.
Greg Butler, Andrea Gantchev, Peter Grogono, Object-Oriented Design of the Subsumption Architecture,
Software — Practice and Experience, 31 (2001) 911–923.
Greg Butler, Lugang Xu, Cascaded Refactoring for Framework Evolution, Proceedings of 2001 Symposium
on Software Reusability, (May 10-11, 2001, Toronto), ACM Press, 2001, pp. 51–57.
Greg Butler, Stan Jarzabek (editors), Generative and Component-Based Software Engineering,
(Proceedings of a conference at Erfurt, October 9-12, 2000), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2177,
Springer, 2001.
Greg Butler, Ling Chen, Xuede Chen, Lugang Xu, Diagrammatic Queries and Graph Databases (Extended
Abstract), Workshop on Managing and Integrating Biochemical Data, European Media Lab, September
25–26, 2000.
Greg Butler, Erich Bornberg-Bauer, Gosta Grahne, Franz Kurfess, Clement Lam, Joey Paquet, Isabel Rojas,
Rajjan Shinghal, Lixin Tao, Adrian Tsang. The BioIT Projects: Internet, Database and Software Technology
Applied to Bioinformatics, SSGRR’2000, International conference on advances in infrastructure for electronic
business, science and education on the internet, July 31 – August 5, 2000, Scuola Superiore G. Reiss Romoli
SpA, Coppoto, Italy. URL http://www.ssgrr.it/en/ssgrr2000/proceedings.htm ISBN 88-85280-52-8
Shawn Delaney, Greg Butler, Clement Lam, Larry Thiel, Three Improvements to the BLASTP Search of
Genome Databases, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical
Database Management, (Berlin, July 26-28, 2000), Oliver Günther and Hans-J. Lenz (eds), IEEE
Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, 2000, pp. 14–24.
G. Butler, R.K. Keller, H. Mili, A framework for framework documentation, ACM Computing Surveys 32,1
(March 2000) electronic symposium.
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Greg Butler, Andrea Gantchev, Peter Grogono, Reusable strategies for software agents via the subsumption
architecture, Proceedings of Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, (Takamatsu, Japan,
7–10 December, 1999), IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 1999, pp. 326–333.
G. Butler, Database technology for pathways, In Workshop on Computation of Biochemical Pathways and
Genetic Networks, E. Bornberg-Bauer, A. de Beuckelaer, U. Kummer, U. Rost (eds), Logos Verlag, Berlin,
1999, ISBN 3-89722-093-8, pp. 89-95.
M.M. Abdalla, F. Khendek, G. Butler, New results on deriving SDL specifications from MSCs, Proceedings
of the SDL Forum ’99, R. Dssouli, G.v. Bochmann and Y. Lahav (eds.), Elsevier Science B. V., 1999,
pp. 51–66.
G. Butler, T. Kharma, I.A. Tjandra, Towards OM — An object-oriented implementation of Mantra. Database
Systems 99, (Proceedings of the 10th Australasian Database Conference, ADC’99, Auckland, NZ, 18-21
January 1999), John Roddick (editor), Australian Computer Science Communications vol. 21, no. 2, pp.
89–100, Springer-Verlag, Singapore, 1999.
S. Li and G. Butler, Reengineering a B-tree implementation using design patterns, Computer Science
99, (Proceedings of the 22nd Australasian Computer Science Conference, ACSC ’99, Auckland, NZ, 18-21
January 1999), Jenny Edwards (editor), Australian Computer Science Communications vol. 21, no. 1, pp.
384–395, Springer-Verlag, Singapore, 1999.
G. Butler, Developing Frameworks by Aligning Requirements, Design, and Code, Proceedings of 9th
Workshop on Software Reuse (WISR-9), Austin, Texas, January 1999, 5 pages.
G. Butler, P. Grogono and F. Khendek, A reuse case perspective on documenting frameworks, Proceedings of
Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (December 2-4, 1998, Taiwan), IEEE Computer Society Press,
Los Alamitos, CA, 1998, pp. 94–101.
Y. Peng, F. Khendek, P. Grogono, G. Butler, Feature interactions detection technique based on feature
assumptions, Feature Interactions in Telecommunications and Software Systems, K. Kimbler and
L.G. Bouma (eds), IOS Press, Amsterdam, 1998, pp. 291–298.
F. Khendek, G. Robert, G. Butler, P. Grogono, Implementability of Message Sequence Charts, in International
Workshop of SDL Forum Society on SDL and MSCs, 1998, pages 71–80.
G. Butler, Documenting-in good design, August 1997, 3 pages. Position paper for OOPSLA’97 Workshop
#12: Object-Oriented Design Quality.
G. Butler, Clarifying use cases, August 1997, 3 pages. Position paper for OOPSLA’97 Workshop #24:
Requirements Engineering: Use Cases and More.
G. Butler and P. Dénommée, Documenting frameworks, in Building Application Frameworks: Object-
Oriented Foundations of Framework Design, M. Fayad, D. Schmidt, R. Johnson (eds), John Wiley
and Sons, New York, September 1999, pp.495–504.
G. Butler, P.D. Grogono and F. Khendek, A Z specification of use cases: A preliminary report, Proceedings
of Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference and International Computer Science Conference (December
2-5, 1997, Hong Kong), IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 1997, pages 505-506.
G. Butler, Quality and reuse in industrial software engineering, Proceedings of Asia-Pacific Software Engineering
Conference and International Computer Science Conference (December 2-5, 1997, Hong Kong),
IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 1997, pages 3–12.
G. Butler and P. Dénommée, Documenting frameworks, Proceedings of 8th Workshop on Software
Reuse (WISR-8), Columbus, Ohio, March 1997, 5 pages.
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G. Butler, Software architecture for computer algebra: A case study, Design and Implementation of
Symbolic Computation Systems, J. Calmet and C. Limongelli (eds), Lecture Notes in Computer Science
1128, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1996, pages 277–286.
G. Butler, P. Grogono, R. Shinghal, I.A. Tjandra, Document recognition, semantics, and symbolic reasoning
in reverse engineering of software, Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Mathematical Computing,
J. Calmet, J.A. Campbell and J. Pfalzgraf (eds), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1138, Springer-Verlag,
Berlin, 1996, pages 38–48.
G. Butler, P. Dénommée and I.A. Tjandra, Documenting frameworks, October 1995, 5 pages. Position paper
for OOPSLA’95 workshop #27: Framework-Centered Software Development.
G. Butler, P. Grogono, R. Shinghal, I.A. Tjandra, Analyzing the logical structure of data flow diagrams in
software documents, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Document Analysis
and Understanding, Montreal, August 14–16, 1995, IEEE Press, pp. 575–578.
G. Butler, P. Grogono, R. Shinghal, I.A. Tjandra, Retrieving information from data flow diagrams, Proceedings
of Second Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, L. Wills, P. Newcomb, E. Chikofsky
(eds), IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 1995, pages 22–29.
I.A. Tjandra and G. Butler, Formal representation of reusable software modules, Proceedings of Second
Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, L. Wills, P. Newcomb, E. Chikofsky (eds), IEEE
Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 1995, pages 198–205.
G. Butler, Intelligent mathematical databases, Database Systems for Advanced Applications ’95, (Proceedings
of the Fourth International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, Singapore,
April 10–13, 1995), T.W. Ling and Y. Masunaga (eds), World Scientific Press, Singapore, 1995, pp.326–332.
G. Butler, Easy verification of behavioural subtyping in common cases, Information Processing Letters 55
(1995) 57–58.
F. Ng, G. Butler and J. Kay, An intelligent tutoring system for the Dijkstra-Gries methodology, IEEE
Transactions on Software Engineering 21, 5 (May 1995) 415–428.
G. Butler and S. S. Iyer, An experimental knowledge base of simple groups, Australian Journal of Intelligent
Information Processing Systems 2, 1 (1995) 11–23.
G. Butler and C.W.H. Lam, The preliminary design of an object-oriented framework for combinatorial enumeration,
Object-Oriented Technology for Database and Software Systems, V.S. Alagar and R.
Missaoui (eds), World Scientific Publishing, 1995, pp. 134–144.
G. Butler, Datalog and TwoGroups and C++, Integrating Symbolic Mathematical Computation and
Artificial Intelligence, Jacques Calmet and John A. Campbell (eds), Lecture Notes in Computer Science
958, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1995, pp. 80–92.
G. Butler, Design deltas in reusable object-oriented design, Proceedings of 7th Workshop on Software
Reuse (WISR-7), St Charles, Illinois, August 26–30, 1995, 6 pages.
G. Butler, Computing the conjugacy classes of elements of a finite group, Groups’93 Galway/St Andrews.
C.M. Campbell, T.C. Hurley, E.F. Robertson, S.J. Tobin, J.J. Ward (eds), CUP, Cambridge, 1995, 80–112.
G. Butler, S.S. Iyer, and E.A. O’Brien, A database of groups of prime-power order, Software — Practice and
Experience 24, 10 (October 1994) 911–951.
G. Butler, An inductive schema for computing conjugacy classes in permutation groups, Math. Comp. 62,
205 (January 1994) 363–383.
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F. Ng and G. Butler, Specialized theorem-proving in an intelligent tutoring system for the Dijkstra-Gries
programming methodology, Proceedings ICCI’93, O. Abou-Rabia, C.K. Chang, W.W. Koczkodaj (editors),
IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 1993, pp. 294–298.
G. Butler, The progress towards an intelligent assistant — a discussion paper, Artificial Intelligence and
Symbolic Mathematical Computing, J. Calmet and J.A. Campbell (eds), Lecture Notes in Computer
Science 737, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1993, pp. 107–115.
G. Butler, The transitive groups of degree fourteen and fifteen, J. Symb. Comp. 16, 5 (November 1993)
413–422.
G. Butler, Reusable reliable software components for computer algebra, Proceedings of 6th Workshop
on Software Reuse (WISR-6), Owego, November 2–4, 1993, 5 pages.
G. Butler, S.S. Iyer, E.A. O’Brien, TwoGroups: a database for group-theory, Notices of the AMS 40, 7 (
September 1993) 839–841.
P. Grogono, G. Butler, M. Okada, Programming Methodology: Course Notes for COMP 245, Dept
of Computer Science, Concordia University, July 31, 1993, (iv)+170 pages.
G. Butler and C.W.H. Lam, Proof obligations in a framework for combinatorial enumeration, July 9, 1993,
4 pages. Position paper for OOPSLA’93 workshop #5 : Specification of Behavioral Semantics in OO
Information Modeling.
G. Butler and J.J. Cannon, On Holt’s algorithm, J. Symb. Comp. 15, 2 (February 1993) 229–233.
G. Butler, S.S. Iyer, E.A. O’Brien, A User Guide to TwoGroups, January 4, 1993, 8 pages.
G. Butler, Experimental comparison of algorithms for Sylow subgroups, ISSAC 92, Paul S. Wang (ed.),
ACM Press, New York, 1992, pp.251–262.
G. Butler, An analysis of Atkinson’s algorithm, SIGSAM Bulletin 26, 2 (April 1992) 1–9.
G. Butler and S.S. Iyer, Towards a deductive database for small simple groups, SIGSAM Bulletin 25, 4
(October 1991) 7–17.
G. Butler and J.J. Cannon, Computing Sylow subgroups of permutation groups using homomorphic images
of centralizers, J. Symb. Comp. 12 (1991) 443–457.
G. Butler, Fundamental Algorithms for Permutation Groups, Lecture Notes in Computer Science
559, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1991, (xii)+238 pages. (research monograph)
G. Butler, Implementing some algorithms of Kantor, AAECC-9, H.F. Mattson, T. Mora, T.R.N. Rao (eds),
Springer LNCS 539, 1991, pp. 82–93.
G. Butler, S.S. Iyer, and S.H. Ley, A deductive database for the groups of order dividing 128, ISSAC 91,
S.M. Watt (ed.), ACM Press, New York, 1991, pp. 210–218.
G. Butler and J.J. Cannon, The design of Cayley — a language for modern algebra, in Design and Implementation
of Symbolic Computation Systems, A. Miola (ed.), Springer LNCS 429, 1990, pp.
10–19.
G. Butler and S.S. Iyer, Deductive mathematical databases — a case study, Statistical and Scientific
Database Management, Z. Michalewicz (ed.), Springer LNCS 420, 1990, pp. 50–64.
G. Butler and J.J. Cannon, Cayley, version 4: the user language, in Symbolic and Algebraic Computation,
P. Gianni (ed.), Springer LNCS 358, 1989, pp. 456–466.
G. Butler and J.J. Cannon, Computing in permutation and matrix groups III : Sylow subgroups, J. Symb.
Comp. 8, 3 (1989) 241–252.
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G. Butler, A proof of Holt’s algorithm, J. Symb. Comp. 5 (1988) 275–283.
G. Butler, Permutation groups and p-groups, in Computers in Algebra, M.C. Tangora (ed.), Marcel
Dekker, New York, 1988, pp. 1–16.
G. Butler and M.J. Kendall, The suitability for master/slave concurrency of Concurrent Euclid, Ada, and
Modula, Software — Practice and Experience 17, 2 (1987) 117–134.
G. Butler, The coercion problem in Cayley, Cayley Bulletin 3 (October 1987) 104–105.
G. Butler, Divide-and-conquer in computational group theory, SYMSAC ’86, B.W. Char (ed.), ACM, New
York, 1986, 59–64.
G. Butler, Data structures and algorithms for cyclically extended Schreier vectors, Congressus Numerantium
52 (May 1986) 63–78.
G. Butler and C.W.H. Lam, A general backtrack algorithm for the isomorphism problem of combinatorial
objects, J. Symb. Comp. 1, 4 (1985) 363–381.
G. Butler, Effective computation with group homomorphisms, J. Symb. Comp. 1, 2 (1985) 143–157.
G. Butler, An improvement to the centralizer algorithm for permutation groups, SIGSAM Bulletin 19, 2
(May 1985) 14–18.
G. Butler, On computing double coset representatives in permutation groups, Computational Group Theory,
M.D. Atkinson (ed.), Academic Press, London, 1984, 283–290.
G. Butler and J. McKay, The transitive groups of degree up to eleven, Comm. of Algebra 11, 8 (1983)
863–911.
G. Butler, Computing normalizers in permutation groups, J. Algorithms 4 (1983) 163–175.
G. Butler, Computing in permutation and matrix groups II : backtrack algorithm, Math. Comp. 39, 160
(1982) 671–680.
G. Butler and J.J. Cannon, Computing in permutation and matrix groups I : normal closure, commutator
subgroup, series, Math. Comp. 39, 160 (1982) 663–670.
G. Butler, The maximal subgroups of the Chevalley group G2(4), Groups - St Andrews 1981, C.M.
Campbell and E.F. Robertson (eds), CUP, Cambridge, 1982, 186–200.
G. Butler, Double cosets and searching small groups, SYMSAC ’81, P. Wang (ed.), ACM, New York, 1981,
182–187.
G. Butler, The maximal subgroups of the sporadic simple group of Held, J. Algebra 69, 1 (1981) 67–81.
G. Butler, Computational approaches to certain problems in the theory of finite groups, Bulletin of the
Australian Math. Soc. 22, 3 (1980) 467–468. (abstract of thesis)
G. Butler, The maximal subgroups of the Chevalley group G2(4), Abstracts AMS 1, 4 ( 1980) 369. (abstract)
G. Butler, Computational Approaches to Certain Problems in the Theory of Finite Groups,
Ph.D. Thesis, University of Sydney, 1979, 306 pages, 2 microfiche supplements.
G. Butler, Maximal subgroups of the sporadic simple group of Held, Notices AMS 25, 7 (1978) A-695.
(abstract)
G. Butler, The Schreier algorithm for matrix groups, SYMSAC ’76, R.D. Jenks (ed.), ACM, New York,
1976, 167–170.
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EDUCATION
PATRICE CHALIN
home page www.encs.concordia.ca/~chalin
e-mail chalin@encs.concordia.ca
Ph.D. (Comp.Sc.) Concordia University 92-95
• award Dean of Engineering award to most deserving Ph.D. graduate of 1995-96.
• thesis title On the Language Design and Semantic Foundation of LCL, a Larch/C
Interface Specification Language.
• specialization industrial formal methods, specification and programming language design
and semantics—including Object-Oriented languages.
• cumulative GPA 4.12/4.3
M.Comp.Sc. Concordia University 88-89
• thesis title A Case Study of the Formal Development of an Object Manager.
• specialization software engineering, formal methods, programming languages.
• cumulative GPA 3.8/4.0
B.Comp.Sc. Concordia University 85-88
• award Computer Science Medal for highest GPA.
• mention graduated with great distinction.
• specialization programming languages, abstract algebra, algorithms, logic.
• cumulative GPA 4.09/4.3
WORK EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor Concordia University 4/02-present
• Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Software Engineering Program.
• research areas: Software Engineering, Software (Object-oriented) Design, Programming and
Specification Language Design & Semantics, Software Testing, Formal Methods.
• Award: 2004-2005 ECSA Professor of the Year.
Software Developer/Quality Nortel Networks 1/96-3/02
• software architect, feature design, development, maintenance and customer support for, e.g.,
- Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) network element (NE) base control software,
- Network management software, particularly fault interface to BWA NE’s.
- OAM&P (mainly fault surveillance) software of BWA NE’s (through SNMP),
- call processing software for NAV, a Nortel speech enabled NE.
• project planning and management, as well as team leader roles.
• Quality Management: internal auditor, external audit “shadow”; BWA Software Process
Prime; Speech Applications: QMS simplification task force, Quality Plan author.
• automated test tool development; year 2000 test prime for NAV.
• six awards including two Gold a one Silver for delivery within or ahead of original schedule.
• C++ and ObjecTime under Unix, VxWorks, and pSOS.
Lecturer (Comp.Sc.) Concordia University 9/89 - 5/92
• taught software engineering (89-92) and programming methodology (90-92).
• authored significant reorganization in the software engineering course.
Software Developer Bell-Northern Research 5/89 - 8/89
• specification and implementation of graphical front-end to an expert system.
• C under XENIX.
Software Developer Concordia University 5/88 - 9/88
• design and implementation of an interpreter for a LISP-like language.
• C under Sun Unix and Macintosh OS.
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Programmer Matrox Electronic Systems 5/87 - 11/87
• design and maintenance of hardware test programs for LVC-2001 a/v workstation.
• C under VAX VMS.
Programmer Concordia University 5/86 - 8/86
• implementation of an interpreter, including a garbage collector, for a LISP-like language.
• MC68000 assembler under Amiga OS.
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
NSERC Discovery 2008-13
Ireland Canada University Foundation Scholarship 2005
NSERC Discovery 2002-08
Bourse, Fonds FCAR 94-95
Concordia Scholarship 94-95
NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship (PGS B) 92-94
Concordia Scholarship 93-94
NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship (PGS 3) 91-92
NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship (PGS 1R) 89
NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship (PGS 1) 88-89
J. W. McConnell Memorial Fellowship 88-89
Bourse, Fonds FCAR 88-89
I was invited to apply to the NSERC 1967 Scholarship 88
NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award 88
NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award 87
Henry F. Hall Scholarship 86-87
LANGUAGES SPOKEN AND WRITTEN: English, French.
COMPUTER SKILLS
programming languages Java, C++, C, Perl, others.
specification languages JML, Isablle/HOL, Coq, PVS, Z, Larch/C, VDM.
operating systems WinNT, Mac OS, Linux, Unix, vxWorks, pSOS.
tools Eclipse, Subversion, CVS, Trac, Emacs.
other HTML, JSP, JavaScript, XML, SQL.
PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)
Book chapters and journals
� P. R. James and P. Chalin, “Faster and More Complete Extended Static Checking for the Java
Modeling Language”, J. Automated Reasoning, 44(1-2):145-174, 2010.
� D. Sinnig, P. Chalin, and F. Khendek, “Integrated Development Methodology for Use Case and
Task Models”, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, (submitted), 2010.
� P. Chalin, P. R. James, and F. Rioux, “Reducing the Use of Nullable Types through Non-null by
Default and Monotonic Non-null”, IET Software Journal, 2(6):515-531, 2008.
� P. Chalin, “Are the Logical Foundations of Verifying Compiler Prototypes Matching User
Expectations?” Formal Aspects of Computing , 19(2):139-158, 2007.
� D. Sinnig, P. Chalin, and F. Khendek, “Towards a Common Semantic Foundation for Use Cases
and Task Models”, Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, 183:73-88, 2007.
� P. Chalin, “Are Practitioners Writing Contracts?” in Rigorous Development of Complex Fault-
Tolerant Systems, vol. 4157, LNCS, M. Butler, C. B. Jones, A. Romanovsky, and E.
Troubitsyna, Eds.: Springer, pp. 100-113, 2006.
� F. Rioux and P. Chalin, “Improving the Quality of Web-based Enterprise Applications with
Extended Static Checking: A Case Study”, Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science,
157(2):119-132, 2006.
� P. Chalin, “JML Support for Primitive Arbitrary Precision Numeric Types: Definition and
Semantics”, Journal of Object Technology, 3(6):57-79, 2004.
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Conferences (refereed)
� D. Sinnig, F. Khendek, and P. Chalin, “A Formal Approach to Generating Integrated Functional
and User Interface Test Cases”. Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Testing,
Verification, and Validation, Paris, April 2010.
� S. C. Barrett, G. Butler, and P. Chalin, “Techniques for Use Case Modeling in Fujaba”.
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computer Engineering and Technology
(ICCET), Chengdu, China, April 2010.
� P. Chalin, “Adjusted Verification Rules for Loops Are More Complete and Give Better
Diagnostics for Less”. Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Software
Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM), Hanoi, Vietnam, pp. 317-324. IEEE CS, 2009.
� S. Barrett, D. Sinnig, P. Chalin, and G. Butler, “Merging of Use Case Models: Semantic
Foundations”. Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of
Software Engineering (TASE), Tianjin, China, July 29-31, 2009.
� P. R. James and P. Chalin, “Extended Static Checking in JML4: Benefits of Multiple-Prover
Support”. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Software Verification and
Testing Track (SAC-SVT), Hawaii, March, 2009.
� D. Sinnig, P. Chalin, and F. Khendek, “LTS Semantics for Use Case Models”. Proceedings of the
ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Requirements Engineering Track (SAC-RE), Hawaii,
March, 2009.
� P. Chalin, D. Sinnig, and K. Torkzadeh, “Capturing Business Transaction Requirements in Use
Case Models”. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Requirements
Engineering Track, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, 2008.
� P. Chalin and F. Rioux, “JML Runtime Assertion Checking: Improved Error Reporting and
Efficiency using Strong Validity”. Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Formal
Methods (FM'08), Turku, Finland, 2008.
� P. Chalin, P. R. James, and G. Karabotsos, “Using Isabelle/HOL for Static Program Verification
in JML4”, in Proceedings of the Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics: Emerging Trends, O. A.
Mohamed, C. Muñoz, and S. Tahar, Eds. Montreal, Canada: Department of Electrical
Computer Engineering, Concordia University, 2008.
� P. Chalin, P. R. James, and G. Karabotsos, “JML4: Towards an Industrial Grade IVE for Java
and Next Generation Research Platform for JML”. Proceedings of the International Conference on
Verified Software: Theories, Tools, Experiments (VSTTE), Toronto, Canada, October 6-9, 2008.
� D. Sinnig, P. Chalin, and F. Khendek, “Consistency between Task Models and Use Cases”.
Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Design Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems
(DSV-IS), Salamanca, Spain, March 22-24, 2007.
� D. Sinnig, P. Chalin, and F. Khendek, “Common Semantics for Use Cases and Task Models”.
Proceedings of the Integrated Formal Methods (IFM) Conference, Oxford, UK, July 2-6, pp. 579-
598, 2007.
� P. Chalin and P. R. James, “Non-null References by Default in Java: Alleviating the Nullity
Annotation Burden”. Proceedings of the 21st European Conference on Object-Oriented
Programming (ECOOP), Berlin, Germany, July-August, vol. 4609 of LNCS, pp. 227-247.
Springer, 2007.
� P. Chalin, “A Sound Assertion Semantics for the Dependable Systems Evolution Verifying
Compiler”. Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE),
Minneapolis, MN, USA, pp. 23-33, 2007.
� P. Chalin, J. Kiniry, G. T. Leavens, and E. Poll, “Beyond Assertions: Advanced Specification
and Verification with JML and ESC/Java2”, in Fourth International Symposium on Formal
Methods for Components and Objects (FMCO'05), vol. 4111, LNCS, pp. 342-363, 2006.
� J. R. Kiniry, A. E. Morkan, F. Fairmichael, D. Cochran, P. Chalin, M. Oostdijk, and E. Hubbers,
“The KOA Remote Voting System: A Summary of Work To-Date”. Proceedings of the Symposium
on Trustworthy Global Computing (TGC), Lucca, Italy, November 7-9, pp. 244-262, 2006.
� J. R. Kiniry, P. Chalin, and C. Hurlin, “Integrating Static Checking and Interactive Verification:
Supporting Multiple Theories and Provers in Verification”. Proceedings of the IFIP Working
Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, Experiments (VSTTE), Zürich, Switzerland,
October 10-13, vol. 4171 of LNCS, 2005.
� P. Chalin, “Logical Foundations of Program Assertions: What do Practitioners Want?”
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods
(SEFM'05), Koblenz, Germany, September 5-9, pp. 383-393. IEEE Computer Society Press,
2005.
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� P. Chalin, “Improving JML: For a Safer and More Effective Language”, in 12th International
Symposium of Formal Methods Europe (FME 2003), vol. 2805, Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
K. Araki, S. Gnesi, and D. Mandrioli, Eds. Pisa, Italy: Springer, pp. 440-461, 2003.
OTHER SKILLS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Vice-president of Le Club d’Investissements Soleil (Sun Investment Club) 87-92
Proficiency Award in Chemistry and Physics 83
Honorary Mention for participation in LCHS Jazz Band 81
Scout Patrol Leader 78
LEISURE: cycling, cross country skiing.
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Curriculum Vitae
Constantinos Constantinides, Ph.D., P.Eng.
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
Concordia University
Email: cc@cse.concordia.ca
Contents
August 14, 2010
1 EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 2
2 ACADEMIC BACKGROUND 4
3 PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND 4
4 PUBLICATIONS 5
4.1 Journal papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.2 Books and book chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.3 Conference and workshop proceedings papers . . . . . . . . . 6
4.3.1 Non-refereed publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.3.2 Talks and seminars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.4 Summary table of publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5 FUNDING 13
6 AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS 14
7 TRAINING OF HIGHLY QUALIFIED PERSONNEL 15
7.1 Current students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
7.2 Graduated students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
7.2.1 Reading courses and independent studies . . . . . . . 16
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8 TEACHING 17
8.1 Courses taught . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
8.1.1 Courses at Concordia University (Montréal, Québec,
Canada) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
8.1.2 Reading courses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
8.2 Courses prior to coming to Concordia University . . . . . . . 19
8.2.1 Birkbeck, University of London (London, UK) . . . . 19
8.2.2 Loyola University Chicago (Chicago, Illinois, USA) . . 19
8.2.3 Roosevelt University (Chicago, Illinois, USA) . . . . . 19
8.2.4 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, Illinois, USA) 19
9 COMMITTEE PARTICIPATION 20
9.1 Departmental Committees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
9.2 Thesis examining committee participation . . . . . . . . . . . 20
9.3 Participation in other examining committees . . . . . . . . . 22
9.4 Course coordination and professor-in-charge . . . . . . . . . . 22
9.5 Conference program committees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
10 REVIEWING 24
10.1 Funding proposals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
10.2 Journal papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
10.3 Book chapters and articles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
10.4 Conference papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
11 ORGANIZATION OF EVENTS 25
12 OTHER 26
1 EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
June 2009 - present: Associate Professor of Computer Science (fulltime),
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering,
Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
September 2004 - May 2009: Assistant Professor of Computer Science
(full-time, tenure-track), Department of Computer Science
and Software Engineering, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec,
Canada.
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October 2001 - July 2004: Lecturer in Computer Science (full-time),
School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck, University
of London, United Kingdom.
Responsibilities held and services:
• Teaching postgraduate and undergraduate classes.
• Giving seminars.
• Admissions tutor: MSc Computing Science (part-time).
• Supervision of Ph.D., MRes, MSc and BSc projects.
• Personal tutoring.
• Member, School Research Committee.
• Research Publications Editor.
Fall 2000 - Summer 2001: Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer
Science (full-time), Department of Mathematical and Computer
Sciences, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Responsibilities held and services:
• Teaching graduate and undergraduate courses.
• Supervising research projects.
Fall 1999 - Summer 2000: Instructor of Computer Science (parttime),
Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Loyola
University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Spring 1999 - Spring 2000: Instructor of Computer Science (parttime),
School of Computer Science and Telecommunications, Roosevelt
University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Spring 1999: Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science and
Applied Mathematics, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois,
USA.
Fall 1997 - Fall 1998: Instructor of Computer Science (part-time),
Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Illinois
Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Fall 1996 - Summer 1997: Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer
Science and Applied Mathematics, Illinois Institute of Technology,
Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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1993 - 1994: Instructor of Computing (full-time), Board of Education,
Cyprus.
Responsibilities held and services:
• Curriculum development for Continuing Education program.
• Teaching courses (commercial software packages to adults; Introductory
programming with the Logo programming language to
elementary school children).
Spring 1993 – Summer 1993: Teacher of Computer Science (fulltime),
St. Nikolaos High School, Lemesos, Cyprus.
Responsibilities held and services:
• Teaching Informatics (Pliroforiki, Gr: Πληρoϕoρικη) as core and
elective to senior students.
2 ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
2001 - 2003: Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher and
Professional Education, Institute of Education, University of London,
London, United Kingdom.
1996 - 2000: Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Department of Computer
Science and Applied Mathematics, Illinois Institute of Technology,
Chicago, Illinois, USA. (Thesis title: An Aspect-Oriented Framework
for the Design of Concurrent Object-Oriented Systems, Advisor:
Dr. Tzilla Elrad, Research Professor).
1994 - 1995: Master of Science degree in Computer Science, (with
distinction), New York Institute of Technology, New York, NY, USA.
1991 - 1992: Postgraduate Certificate in Engineering, City University,
London, United Kingdom.
1988 - 1991: Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics (Subsidiary
subjects: Mathematics, Philosophy), University of Keele, Staffordshire,
United Kingdom.
3 PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
2009: P.Eng. License, Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO).
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4 PUBLICATIONS
NOTES
1. Asterisk (*) indicates student co-author(s).
2. Four papers which mostly characterize my work would be (Safari Sharifabadi
and Constantinides, 2008), (Ghanbari et al., 2008), (Eshkevari
Mousavi et al., 2008) and (Constantinides et al., 2002).
4.1 Journal papers
5. Elaheh Safari Sharifabadi* and Constantinos Constantinides, Dynamic
analysis of Ada programs for comprehension and quality measurement,
In Ada Letters, Volume 28, Issue 3, December 2008, pages 15-38, ACM
Press, New York, NY, USA, ISBN: 978-1-60558-274-0.
Also in Proceedings of the ACM Annual International Conference on
the Ada Programming Language (ACM SIGAda’08), October 26-30,
2008, Portland, Oregon, USA.
(Recipient of Outstanding Student Paper Award)
4. Venera Arnaoudova*, Laleh Mousavi Eshkevari*, Elaheh Safari Sharifabadi*
and Constantinos Constantinides, Overcoming comprehension
barriers in the AspectJ programming language, In Journal of Object
Technology, Vol. 7, No. 6, July - August 2008, pages 121-142, Chair of
Software Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich,
ISSN: 1660-1769.
3. Knut H. Pedersen* and Constantinos Constantinides. AspectAda:
Aspect-oriented programming for Ada95, In Ada Letters, Volume XXV,
Issue 4, December 2005, pages 79-92, ACM Press, New York, NY,
USA, ISSN: 1094-3641.
Also in Proceedings of the ACM Annual International Conference on
the Ada Programming Language (ACM SIGAda’05), November 13-17,
2005, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. (Cited by: 3 - Self: 1).
(Recipient of Outstanding Student Paper Award)
2. Constantinos A. Constantinides, Tzilla Elrad and Mohamed Fayad,
Extending the object model to provide explicit support for crosscutting
concerns, In Software Practice and Experience, Volume 32, Issue 7,
June 2002, pages 703-734, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, ISSN: 1097-024X.
(Cited by: 16 - Self: 5).
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1. Constantinos A. Constantinides, Atef Bader, Tzilla Elrad, Mohamed
Fayad, Paniti Netinant, Designing an aspect-oriented framework in
an object-oriented environment, In ACM Computing Surveys (Symposium
on Application Frameworks), Vol. 32, No. 1es, Article No.
41, March 2000, ACM Press, New York, NY, USA, ISSN: 0360-0300.
(Cited by: 78 - Self: 11).
4.2 Books and book chapters
3. Constantinos Constantinides and Venera Arnaoudova*, Prolonging the
aging of software systems, In M. Khosrow-Pour (editor), Encyclopedia
of Computer Science and Information Technology Management (Volume
VI), Hershey, PA: IGI Global, October 2008, pages: 3152 - 3160.
ISBN: 978-1-60566-026-4.
2. Zi Zeng* and Constantinos Constantinides, Comprehension and transformation
of object-oriented models, Vdm Verlag Dr. Muller Aktiengesellschaft
& Co. Kg, Germany, July, 2008. ISBN: 978-3-639-02549-1.
1. Constantinos Constantinides and George Roussos, Service Patterns for
Enterprise Information Systems, In Service-oriented software system
engineering: Challenges and practices, Zoran Stojanovic and Ajantha
Dahanayake (editors), IDEO Publishing, Hershey, PA, 2005, pages:
201 - 224, ISBN: 1591404274. (Cited by: 2).
4.3 Conference and workshop proceedings papers
42. Zohreh Sharafi*, Parisa Mirshams*, Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj, and
Constantinos Constantinides, Extending the UML metamodel to provide
support, for crosscutting concerns, In Proceedings of the 8th ACIS
International Conference on Software Engineering Research Management
and Applications (SERA’10), May 24-26, 2010, Montreal, Quebec,
Canada.
41. Hamoun Ghanbari*, Constantinos Constantinides and Venera Arnaoudova*,
A hybrid query engine for the structural analysis of Java and AspectJ
programs, In Proceedings of the 15th Working Conference on
Reverse Engineering (WCRE’08), October 15-18, 2008, Antwerp, Belgium,
pages: 133 - 137.
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40. Venera Arnaoudova* and Constantinos Constantinides, Adaptation of
refactoring strategies to multiple axes of modularity: Characteristics
and criteria, In Proceedings of the 6th ACIS International Conference
on Software Engineering Research Management and Applications
(SERA’08), August 20-22, 2008, Prague, Czech Republic, pages: 105
- 114.
39. Hamoun Ghanbari* and Constantinos Constantinides, An algebraic
query method for static program analysis and measurement, In Proceedings
of the 17th ISCA International Conference on Software Engineering
and Data Engineering (SEDE’08), June 30 - July 2, 2008, Los
Angeles, California, USA.
(Recipient of Best Paper Award for Software Engineering Track)
38. Laleh Mousavi Eshkevari*, Venera Arnaoudova* and Constantinos
Constantinides, Comprehension and dependency analysis of aspectoriented
programs through declarative reasoning, In Proceedings of
the 10th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative
Languages (PADL’08), January 7-8, 2008, San Francisco, California,
USA, pages: 35 - 52.
37. Amir Abdollahi Foumani* and Constantinos Constantinides, Detecting
aspectual behavior in UML interaction diagrams, In Proceedings of
the 2nd International Conference on Software and Data Technologies
(ICSOFT’07), July 22-24, 2007, Barcelona, Spain.
36. Paria Parsamanesh*, Amir Foumani*, Constantinos Constantinides,
Mining anomalies in object-oriented implementations through execution
traces, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Software
and Data Technologies (ICSOFT’06), 11-14 September 2006, Setubal,
Portugal, pages: 171 - 176.
35. Benjamin Mesing*, Constantinos Constantinides, and Wolfgang Lohmann,
Limes: An aspect-oriented constraint language, In Proceedings of the
2nd European Conference on Model Driven Architecture - Foundations
and Applications (ECMDA-FA’06), July 10-13, 2006, Bilbao, Spain.
34. M. Kassab*, O. Ormandjieva, C. Constantinides, Providing quality
measurement for aspect-oriented software development, In Proceedings
of the 12th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC),
pp. 769-775, December 15-17, 2005, Taipei, Taiwan, pages: 769 - 775.
(Cited by: 1).
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33. Jonathan Benn*, Constantinos Constantinides, Harkirat K. Padda*,
Knut H. Pedersen*, Frédéric Rioux*, Xiaowen Ye*, Reasoning on software
quality improvement with aspect-oriented refactoring: A case
study, In Proceedings of the 9th IASTED Conference on Software Engineering
and Applications (SEA’05), November 14-16, 2005, Phoenix,
AZ, USA. (Cited by: 3).
32. Amir Abdollahi Foumani* and Constantinos Constantinides, Reengineering
object-oriented artifacts by analyzing dependency graphs and
production rules, In Proceedings of the 9th IASTED Conference on
Software Engineering and Applications (SEA’05), Phoenix, AZ, USA,
November 14-16, 2005, pages: 335 - 343.
31. Olga Ormandjieva, Mohamad Kassab* and Constantinos Constantinides,
Measurement of cohesion and coupling in OO analysis model
based on crosscutting concerns, In Proceedings of the 15th International
Workshop on Software Measurement (IWSM’05), September
12-14, 2005, Montréal, Québec, Canada. (Cited by: 1 - Self: 1).
30. Amir Abdollahi Foumani* and Constantinos Constantinides, Aspectoriented
reverse engineering, In Proceedings of the 9th World Multiconference
on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI’05),
July 10-13, 2005, Orlando, Florida, USA. (Cited by: 1 - Self: 1).
29. Mohamad Kassab*, Constantinos Constantinides, Olga Ormandjieva,
Specifying and separating concerns from requirements to design: a
case study, In Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference
on Software Engineering (ACIT-SE’05), June 20-24, 2005, Novosibirsk,
Siberia, Russian Federation. (Cited by: 4 - Self: 3).
28. Constantinos Constantinides and Therapon Skotiniotis, The provision
of contracts to enforce system semantics throughout software development,
In Proceedings of the 8th IASTED International Conference on
Software Engineering and Applications (SEA 2004), November 9-11,
2004, Cambridge, MA, USA. (Cited by: 3 - Self: 2).
27. Constantinos Constantinides, Therapon Skotiniotis and Maximilian
Stoerzer, AOP considered harmful, In Proceedings of the European
Interactive Workshop on Aspects in Software (EIWAS), September,
23-24, 2004, Berlin, Germany. (Cited by: 6).
26. Marie-Helene Ng Cheong Vee, and Constantinos Constantinides, Teaching
object-oriented software development: An empirical study on a
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graduate program, In Proceedings of the 5th Annual Conference of
the Subject Centre for Information and Computer Sciences (LTSN-
ICS), August 31 - September 2, 2004, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
25. Soulla Louca, Constantinos Constantinides, and Adrian Ioannou, Quality
Assurance and Control Model for E-learning, In Proceedings of the
7th IASTED International Conference on Computers and Advanced
Technology in Education (CATE’04), August 16-18, 2004, Kauai, Hawaii,
USA. (Cited by: 1).
24. Constantinos Constantinides and Therapon Skotiniotis, Providing multidimensional
decomposition in object-oriented analysis and design, In
Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering
(SE’04), February 17-19, 2004, Innsbruck, Austria. (Cited
by: 6 - Self: 3).
23. Marie-Helene Ng Cheong Vee and Constantinos A. Constantinides,
Teaching software development in a conversion postgraduate programme
in the UK, In Proceedings of the ECOOP 2003 Workshop on Patterns
in Teaching Software Development, July 22, 2003, Darmstadt, Germany.
22. Constantinos Constantinides, A case study on making the transition
from functional to fine-grained decomposition, In Proceedings of the
ECOOP 2003 Workshop on Analysis of Aspect-Oriented Software (AAOS’03),
July 23, 2003, Darmstadt, Germany. (Cited by: 11 - Self: 0).
21. Youssef Hassoun and Constantinos A. Constantinides, The development
of generic definitions of hyperslice packages in Hyper/J, In Proceedings
of the ETAPS 2003 Workshop on Software Composition,
April 6, 2003, Warsaw, Poland, Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer
Science (Elsevier), U. Assmann, E. Pulvermueller, I. Borne, N.
Bouraqadi and P. Cointe (editors), Volume 82, No. 5 (2003), pages: 1
- 13. (Cited by: 4 - Self: 4).
20. Youssef Hassoun and Constantinos A. Constantinides, Considerations
on component visibility and code reusability in AspectJ, In Proceedings
of the 3rd Workshop on Aspect-Oriented Software Development,
March 4-5, 2003, Essen, Germany, University of Duisburg-Essen, Institute
of Computer Science and Business Information Systems Technical
Report, pages 33 - 38. (Cited by: 6 - Self: 4).
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19. Constantinos A. Constantinides, Therapon Skotiniotis, Reasoning about
a classification of crosscutting concerns in object-oriented systems, In
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Aspect-Oriented Software Development
of the SIG Object-Oriented Software Development, German
Informatics Society, February 21-22, 2002, Bonn, Germany, Rheinische
Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Technical Report IAI-TR-2002-
1, February 2002. (Cited by: 20 - Self: 1).
18. Constantinos A. Constantinides, Therapon Skotiniotis and Tzilla Elrad,
Providing dynamic adaptability in an aspect-oriented framework,
In Proceedings of the ECOOP 2001 Workshop on Advanced Separation
of Concerns, June 17-18, 2001, Budapest, Hungary. (Cited by: 76
- Self: 7).
17. Omar Aldawud, Atef Bader, Constantinos Constantinides and Tzilla
Elrad, Modeling intra-object aspectual behavior, In Proceedings of the
ICSE 2001 Workshop on Describing Software Architecture with UML,
May 15, 2001, Toronto, Canada. (Cited by: 7).
16. Constantinos A. Constantinides and Tzilla Elrad, Composing concerns
with a framework approach, In Proceedings of the International Workshop
on Distributed Dynamic Multiservice Architectures, In conjunction
with the 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing
Systems (ICDCS-21), April 16-19, 2001, Phoenix, Arizona, USA,
pages: 133 - 138. (Cited by: 12 - Self: 0).
15. P. Netinant, C. A. Constantinides and Tzilla Elrad, An aspect-oriented
approach to supporting the design of system software, In Proceedings
of the 16th ISCA International Conference on Computers and
Their Applications (CATA’01), March 28-30, 2001, Seattle, Washington,
USA.
14. Constantinos A. Constantinides and Tzilla Elrad, On the requirements
for concurrent software architectures to support advanced separation
of concerns, In Proceedings of the OOPSLA 2000 Workshop on Advanced
Separation of Concerns in Object-Oriented Systems, October
16, 2000, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. (Cited by: 12 - Self: 3).
13. P. Netinant, C. A. Constantinides and T. Elrad, Supporting the design
of system software using aspect-oriented frameworks, In Proceedings
of the OOPSLA 2000 Workshop on Patterns in Software Architec-
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ture: Performance and Availability, October 16, 2000, Minneapolis,
Minnesota, USA. (Cited by: 1 - Self: 1).
12. Constantinos A. Constantinides and Tzilla Elrad, Towards a twodimensional
separation of concerns. In OOPSLA 2000 Companion,
October 15-19, 2000, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, pages: 63 - 64.
(Cited by: 2).
11. Paniti Netinant, Constantinos A. Constantinides, Tzilla Elrad and
Mohamed Fayad, Aspect-oriented frameworks: The design of adaptable
operating systems, In OOPSLA 2000 Companion, October 15-19,
2000, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. pages: 61 - 62. (Cited by: 2).
10. Constantinos A. Constantinides, Atef Bader and Tzilla Elrad, A twodimensional
composition framework to support software adaptability
and reuse, In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software
Reuse (ICSR6), June 27-29, 2000, Vienna, Austria. In Frakes,
W. B. (editor), Software Reuse: Advances in Software Reusability,
Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, No, 1844, pages:
388 - 401. (Cited by: 1 - Self: 1).
9. A. Bader, C. A. Constantinides, T. Elrad, T. Fuller and P. Netinant,
Building reusable concurrent software systems, In Proceedings of the
International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Techniques and
Applications (PDPTA’00) special session on Distributed Objects in
Computational Science, June 26-29, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA,
pages: 845 - 851 (Vol. 2). (Cited by: 9 - Self: 7).
8. Paniti Netinant, Constantinos A. Constantinides, Atef Bader and Tzilla
Elrad, Supporting the design of adaptable operating systems using
aspect-oriented frameworks, In Proceedings of the International Conference
on Parallel and Distributed Techniques and Applications (PDPTA’00)
special session on Aspect-Oriented Programming, June 26-29, 2000,
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, pages: 271 - 277 (Vol. 1). (Cited by: 10 -
Self: 1).
7. Constantinos A. Constantinides and Tzilla Elrad, Revisiting separation
of concerns with an aspect-oriented framework, In Jacques Malenfant,
Sabine Moisan, Ana Moreina (editors), Object-Oriented Technology;
ECOOP 2000 Workshop Reader, Lecture Notes in Computer
Science 1964, Springer 2000, pages: 288 - 290. (Cited by: 1).
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6. Constantinos A. Constantinides, Atef Bader and Tzilla Elrad, Separation
of concerns in the design of concurrent software systems, In
Proceedings of the ECOOP 2000 Workshop on Aspects and Dimensions
of Concerns, June 11-12, 2000, Sophia Antipolis and Cannes,
France. (Cited by: 7 - Self: 7).
5. Paniti Netinant, Constantinos Constantinides, Tzilla Elrad and Mohamed
Fayad, Supporting aspectual decomposition in the design of
operating systems, In Proceedings of the ECOOP’00 Workshop on
Object-Orientation and Operating Systems, June 12-16, 2000, Sophia
Antipolis and Cannes, France, pages: 36 - 46. (Cited by: 20 - Self: 6).
4. Constantinos A. Constantinides, Atef Bader, Tzilla Elrad and Paniti
Netinant, Composition of concerns, In Proceedings of the OOPSLA’99
Workshop on Accomplishing Software Stability, November 1, 1999,
Denver, Colorado, USA. (Cited by: 1).
3. Constantinos A. Constantinides, Atef Bader and Tzilla Elrad, A framework
to address a two-dimensional composition of concerns, In Proceedings
of the OOPSLA’99 Workshop on Multidimensional Separation
of Concerns in Object-Oriented Systems, November 1, 1999, Denver,
Colorado, USA. (Cited by: 17 - Self: 8).
2. Constantinos A. Constantinides, Atef Bader and Tzilla Elrad, An
aspect-oriented design framework for concurrent systems, In Proceedings
of the ECOOP’99 Workshop on Aspect-Oriented Programming,
June 14, 1999, Lisbon, Portugal, pages: 2 - 14. (Cited by: 9 - Self: 3).
1. Constantinos A. Constantinides, Atef Bader and Tzilla Elrad, An
aspect-oriented design framework for concurrent systems, In Proceedings
of the ECOOP’99 Workshop on Component-Oriented Programming,
June 14, 1999, Lisbon, Portugal. (Cited by: 5).
4.3.1 Non-refereed publications
2. Makrides G., Gibbs P., Shekeris A., Savva A., Kafaridou M., Zographou
A., Kyriakides L., Kousoulides G., Loidl H., Schidinger El.,
Koet T., Kosters J., Weydema W., Canovas A., Colomer F., Constantinides
C., Campbell M., Zimmermann W., Bodenstein G., Socrates-
Comenius Project EDIPED. The development of a European digital
portfolio for the evaluation of educators, In Educar et al. 2000, No. 8,
pages: 45 - 48, April 2004, Region of Murcia, Spain.
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1. Youssef Hassoun and Constantinos A. Constantinides, Code reuse for
improving software productivity and quality in AOP, Birkbeck University
of London, Department of Computer Science and Information
Systems Technical Report BBKCS-03-06, October 2003.
4.3.2 Talks and seminars
• Invited talk: Canadian University Software Engineering Conference
(CUSEC 2010), Program comprehension in AspectJ, 23 January, 2010.
4.4 Summary table of publications
A summary table of my publications is shown in Table 1.
Type Since appointed at Concordia Lifetime
Refereed journal papers 3 5
Refereed books and book chapters 2 3
Refereed conference and workshop papers 16 42
Other (non-refereed) disseminated work 2
5 FUNDING
Table 1: Summary of publications.
Defense R&D Canada - Valcartier. Budget: $95,000. Duration: 2006 -
2008. Title: Software Component Substitution.
Position: Co-investigator (with Dr. Juergen Rilling, Concordia University).
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
Budget: $42,000. Duration: 2006 - 2009. Title: AspectAda: An aspectoriented
extension to the Ada language.
Position: Principal investigator.
Concordia University. Budget: $50,000. Duration: 2004 - 2006. Project:
Start-up Grant.
Position: Principal Investigator.
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European Union. Approved budget: e456,979. EU Grant amount: e227,054.
Duration: 2001 - 2005. Title: The Development of a European Digital
Portfolio for the Evaluation of Educators (106059-CP-1-2002-1-CY-
COMENIUS-C21).
Position: Partner (Nine partners from seven countries; I was the only
partner from the UK).
ISOC Socrates Projects Database URL:
http://www.isoc.siu.no/isocii.nsf/projectlist/106059
6 AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
Awards
2008: Recipient of Outstanding Student Paper Award. Elaheh
Safari Sharifabadi and Constantinos Constantinides, Dynamic analysis
of Ada programs for comprehension and quality measurement,
In Proceedings of the ACM Annual International Conference on the
Ada Programming Language (ACM SIGAda’08), October 26-30, 2008,
Portland, Oregon, USA.
2008: Best Paper Award for Software Engineering Track. Hamoun
Ghanbari and Constantinos Constantinides, An algebraic query method
for static program analysis and measurement, In Proceedings of the
17th ISCA International Conference on Software Engineering and Data
Engineering (SEDE’08), June 30 - July 2, 2008, Los Angeles, California,
USA.
2006: Faculty Member Award. Concordia University Engineering and
Computer Science Council on Student Life (2005-2006).
2005: Recipient of Outstanding Student Paper Award. Knut H.
Pedersen and Constantinos Constantinides. AspectAda: Aspect-oriented
programming for Ada95, In Proceedings of the ACM Annual International
Conference on the Ada Programming Language (ACM SIGAda’05),
November 13-17, 2005, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Recognitions
2010: Nominated for the ENCS Teaching Excellence Award.
2008: Nominated for the ENCS Teaching Excellence Award.
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7 TRAINING OF HIGHLY QUALIFIED PER-
SONNEL
7.1 Current students
1. Laleh Mousavi Eshkevari, Ph.D. student, Polytechnique Montréal, cosupervised
with Dr. G. Antoniol.
2. Venera Arnaoudova, Ph.D. student, Polytechnique Montréal, co-supervised
with Dr. G. Antoniol.
3. Mohammad-Saeed Bohlooli, Master student. (expected to graduate:
Spring 2010)
4. Michel Parisien, Master student. (expected to graduate: Spring 2010)
5. Zohreh Sharafi Tafreshi, Master student. (expected to graduate: Spring
2010)
6. Parisa Mirshams Shahshahani, Master student. (expected to graduate:
Spring 2010)
7.2 Graduated students
1. Elaheh Safari, Dynamic analysis of Ada programs for comprehension
and quality measurement, M.Comp.Sc., 2008.
2. Venera Arnaoudova, Defining substitutability criteria for object-oriented
components, M.Comp.Sc., 2008.
3. Hamoun Ghanbari, A hybrid query engine for the structural analysis
of Java and AspectJ programs, M.Comp.Sc., 2008.
4. Laleh Mousavi Eshkevari, Comprehension and change impact analysis
of aspect-oriented programs through declarative reasoning, M.Comp.Sc.,
2008. (co-supervision with Dr. Juergen Rilling, Concordia University)
5. Zeng Zi, Comprehension and model transformation of object-oriented
models, M.Comp.Sc., 2007.
6. Amir Abdollahi Foumani, A method for aspect mining using production
rules, dependency graphs and two-level grammars, M.Comp.Sc.,
2005.
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7. Emma Oliver, A loyalty card system for a retail pharmacy, MSc, Birkbeck
University of London, 2004.
8. Lalitha Raman, A toolkit for software development management, MSc,
Birkbeck University of London, 2004.
9. Ben Rose, The development of an enterprise time management system,
MSc, Birkbeck, University of London, 2004.
10. Inessa Stroguina-Davies, A web-based ticketing system for the London
Underground, MSc, Birkbeck, University of London, 2004.
11. Frank Amankwah, An application to manage multiple-choice exams,
BSc, Birkbeck, University of London, 2004.
12. Jon Poulton, A prototype application for stock trading on the internet,
MSc Birkbeck, University of London, 2003.
13. Stephanie Emmanouel, A questionnaire creation and evaluation tool
for employee surveys, MSc Birkbeck, University of London, 2002.
14. Myrto Karyda, Design and implementation of a client-server database
system for managing a nursing home, MSc, Birkbeck, University of
London, 2002.
15. Christos Melas, Time tracking system for maintenance and quality
control, MSc, Birkbeck, University of London, 2002.
16. Ezra Tibbelin, A web-based portfolio manager, MSc, Birkbeck, University
of London, 2002.
7.2.1 Reading courses and independent studies
1. Narges Nattaghi, Survey on the state of the art of maintenance of
concurrent systems, W2009.
2. Yi Zhong Ji, Comparison of three FCA tools for static and dynamic
analysis of object-oriented and aspect-oriented programs, Winter 2009
3. Jamila Akter, A survey of web services, Winter 2009.
4. Laleh Mousavi Eshkevari, Query technologies for static and dynamic
program analysis, S2008.
5. Constantin Britcov, Program analysis methods, S2008.
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6. Farzad Kohantorabi, Extensibility mechanisms in dynamic languages,
(co-supervised with Dr. G. Butler), W2008.
7. Venera Arnaoudova, Reverse engineering of object-oriented source code
into state machines, S2007; Report on maintenance of concurrent programs
and multicore systems, S2008.
8. Xiao Feng Qiu, Automating model transformation in UML, BS, 2006.
9. Dehua Zhang, Deploying contract definitions for the verification of
requirements, BS, 2006.
10. Benjamin Mesing 1 , Limes: An aspect-oriented constraint language,
2006.
11. Knut Pedersen, AspectAda: An aspect-oriented extension to the Ada
programming language, M.App.Comp.Sc., W2005.
12. Alex Antonov 2 , An analysis of the aspect-oriented approach in programming
using AspectJ, BS, Loyola University Chicago, 2001.
13. Christine Hughes 3 , Fundamental principles of aspect-oriented composition
and decomposition, BS, Loyola University Chicago, 2001.
14. Alex Antonov 4 , Extension of UML design language to accommodate
the aspect-oriented design paradigm, BS, Loyola University Chicago,
2000.
NOTES:
1 Benjamin Mesing was a visiting undergraduate student from the Univer-
sity of Rostock in Germany.
2,3,4 indicate an independent study (similar to a reading course at Concor-
dia).
8 TEACHING
8.1 Courses taught
8.1.1 Courses at Concordia University (Montréal, Québec, Canada)
COMP239: Mathematics for Computer Science II; Undergraduate core;
W2005.
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COMP348: Principles of Programming Languages; Undergraduate core;
F2005, W2007, F2009.
COMP352: Data Structures and Algorithms; Undergraduate core; W2005.
COMP354: Software Engineering I; Undergraduate core; W2006, F2006.
SOEN344: Software Architecture and Design II (formerly: Software Architectures);
Undergraduate core; W2008 (co-taught with Dr. P. Chalin),
W2010.
SOEN384: Management, Measurement and Quality Control (formerly:
Management and Quality Control in Software Development); Undergraduate
core; W2006, W2007, F2007, F2008, F2009.
SOEN390: Software Engineering Development Project; Undergraduate core;
W2010.
SOEN448: Management of Evolving Systems; Undergraduate elective; W2009.
SOEN6431: Software Comprehension and Maintenance; Graduate core;
F2004, F2005, F2006, W2009.
SOEN6441: Advanced Programming Practices; Graduate core; F2007.
8.1.2 Reading courses
ENGR411: Technical Report; Undergraduate; W2009.
COMP490: Computer Science project I; Undergraduate; W2006.
COMP492: Computer Science project II; Undergraduate; W2006.
COMP6411: Comparative Study of Programming Languages; Graduate;
W2005, S2008.
COMP/SOEN6951: Software Engineering Case Study; Graduate; W2005,
S2008, F2008, W2009.
SOEN6441: Advanced Programming Practices; Graduate; S2007.
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8.2 Courses prior to coming to Concordia University
8.2.1 Birkbeck, University of London (London, UK)
Information Systems Analysis and Design; Undergraduate core.
Software Engineering; Postgraduate core.
Analysis and Design of Large-Scale Information Systems; Postgraduate
core.
Object-Oriented Programming with Java; Postgraduate seminar.
Aspect-Oriented Programming; Postgraduate seminar.
Research Methods: Advanced Separation of Concerns in Software Engineering;
Postgraduate seminar (Ph.D. only).
8.2.2 Loyola University Chicago (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
CS125: Introductory Programming; Undergraduate core.
CS170: Structured Programming; Undergraduate core.
CS219: Introduction to UNIX; Undergraduate core.
CS272: Data Abstraction and OOP (also over distance learning); Undergraduate
core.
CS363: Analysis and Design of Algorithms; Undergraduate core.
CS330/CS474: Software Engineering; Undergraduate/Graduate core.
CS473: Object-Oriented Programming; Undergraduate/Graduate core.
8.2.3 Roosevelt University (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
CST100: PC Software Packages; Undergraduate core (for non-CS majors).
CST318: Introduction to UNIX; Undergraduate core (for concentration in
Network Applications).
8.2.4 Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
CS104: Introduction to Programming using FORTRAN; Undergraduate
core (for Environmental Engineering majors).
CS330: Discrete Structures; Undergraduate core.
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9 COMMITTEE PARTICIPATION
9.1 Departmental Committees
• Member, Computer Science Curriculum Committee (2006-07, 2007-08,
2008-09, 2009-1010)
• Member, Software Engineering Curriculum Committee (2006-07, 2007-
08, 2008-09, 2009-2010)
• Member, Software Engineering Curriculum Overhaul Committee (2007
- 2008)
• Member, CSE Department Hiring Committee (2006-07, 2007-08)
• Member, CSE Department Committee for the introduction of a PhD
program in SE (2009-2010).
9.2 Thesis examining committee participation
Examiner in PhD committees
• PhD committee member, Tamer Abdou (Supervisor: Dr. P. Grogono).
• PhD committee member, Stephen Barrett Model-driven development
and the state-based merging of software models, (Supervisors: Drs. G.
Butler and P. Chalin).
• PhD committee member, Rui Chen (Supervisors: Drs. B. Desai and
B. Fung)
• PhD committee member, Nima Farzoodi (Supervisor: Dr. P. Grogono)
• PhD committee member, Ishrar Hussain, Intersection of NLP and requirements
engineering, (Supervisors: Drs. L. Kosseim and O. Ormandjieva).
• PhD committee member, Farzad Kohantorabi (Supervisor: Dr. G.
Butler).
Examiner in Master committees
• Examiner, Bin Han, Design and implementation of multi-tier runtime
system for GIPSY, 7.04.2010.
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• Examiner, Rana Issa, Design patterns for Erasmus, 27.11.2009.
• Examiner, Kermanshahi Sahar Kayhani, Defining a DSML and a model
transformation process for architectural design of web-based enterprise
applications, 10.09.2009.
• Examiner, Amani Jamal, MCompSci, A UML framework for OLAP
conceptual modeling, 09.04.2009.
• Examiner, Mitra Mani, MCompSci, ELIDE: An interactive development
environment for the Erasmus language, 08.04.2009.
• Examiner, Shadi Moradi Seresht, MCompSci, A methodology for (semi-
) automatic assistance in elicitation and analysis of textual user requirements,
2.09.2008.
• Examiner, Xin Tong, Design and implementation of context calculus
in the Gipsy, 10.04.2008.
• Examiner, Chadid Laddad, MCompSci, CINDI QA: A template-based
bilingual question answering system, 07.04.2008.
• Examiner, Nurudeen Lameed, MCompSci Implementing concurrency
in a process-based language, 10.03.2008.
• Examiner, Keywan Hodaei-Esfahani, MCompSci, Collaborative framework
for knowledge acquisition and management in software engineering
organizations, 04.03.2008.
• Examiner, Nima Jafroodi, MCompSci, A Type System for the Erasmus
Language, 14.01.2008.
• Examiner, Alexander Deichman, MCompSci, P2P framework: a process
and a supporting tool for deriving a conceptual design from user
experiences, 20.09.2007.
• Examiner, Anand Thamildurai, MCompSci, Efficient and scalable indexing
techniques for software, 29.03.2007.
• Examiner, Pabhanin Leelahapant, MCompSci, Predictive regression
test selection technique by means of formal concept analysis, 17.03.2006.
• Examiner, Qing Li, MCompSci, A web-based wizard for supporting
usability testing processes and practices, 04.11.2005.
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• Examiner, Bing Chen, MCompSci, Applying aspect-oriented programming
to support tracing of functional features, 09.09.2005
• Examiner, Patrick Chui, MCompSci, Graph model of object-oriented
programming languages, 07.09.2005.
• Examiner, Zheng Aimin, MCompSci, Implementing film grammar with
3D graphics, 22.04.2005.
• Examiner, Elena Tudoroiu, MCompSci, Software process modeling:
investigations using the unified process, 07.04.2005.
9.3 Participation in other examining committees
• Evaluator, SOEN 490: Software Engineering Design Project; 2006-07,
2007-08.
• Evaluator, SOEN 390: Software Development Project; 2007-08.
• Thesis Chair, Ryhan Sayeed, MCompSci, High performance analytics
with the R3-cache, 06.04.2009.
• Thesis Chair, Abhishek Rohatgi, MCompSci, An approach towards
feature location based on impact analysis, 09.09.2008.
• Thesis Chair, Muhammad Faraz Anwar, MCompSci, An agilized roadmap
for user-centered requirements and prototype derivation, 05.04.2005.
• Thesis chair, Yo Song, MCompSci, Efficient mining and maintenance
of association rules in large databases, 31.03.2005.
9.4 Course coordination and professor-in-charge
2008-09 SOEN6441/1 (Advanced Programing Practices), SOEN384/4 (Management
and Quality Control in Software Development), SOEN448/4
(Management of Evolving Systems), SOEN6431/4 (Software Comprehension
and Maintenance).
2007-08 SOEN384 (Management and Quality Control in Software Development),
SOEN448 (Management of Evolving Systems).
2006-07 COMP354 (Software Engineering I), SOEN384 (Management and
Quality Control in Software Development), COMP6431 (Software Comprehension
and Maintenance).
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2005-06 COMP6431 (Software Comprehension and Maintenance).
2004-05 COMP6431 (Software Comprehension and Maintenance).
9.5 Conference program committees
• Member, Program Committee, 5th International Workshop on Program
Comprehension through Dynamic Analysis (PCODA 2010), Boston,
MA, USA.
• Member, Program Committee, 8th International Conference on Software
Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA
2010), Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
• Member, Program Committee, 4th International Workshop on Program
Comprehension through Dynamic Analysis (PCODA 2008), Antwerp,
Belgium.
• Member, Program Committee, Canadian Conference on Computer
Science and Software Engineering (C3S2E): 2008, 2009, 2010.
• Member, Program Committee, First Brazilian Workshop on Aspect-
Oriented Software Development (WASP’04) in conjunction with the
VIII Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES’04), October
18, 2004, Brasilia, Brazil.
• Member, Program Committee, 1st European Interactive Workshop
on Aspects in Software EIWAS’04, September, 23-24, 2004, Berlin,
Germany.
• Member, International Program Committee, The 2004 International
Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications
(PDPTA): 2003, 2004, 2005.
• Member, International Program Committee, The 2004 International
Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP):
2004, 2005.
• Member, Program Committee, 3rd International Conference on the
Principles and Practice of Programming in Java (PPPJ’04), June 16-
18, 2004, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
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• Member, Program Committee, Third International Workshop on Aspect-
Oriented Software Development of the SIG Object-Oriented Software
Development, German Informatics Association, March 4-5 2003, University
of Essen, Germany.
10 REVIEWING
10.1 Funding proposals
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC),
2006.
10.2 Journal papers
• Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Software (formerly
IEE Proceedings Software): 2007.
• International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology (IJWET):
2007, 2008.
• Software: Practice & Experience: 2007.
• IEEE Software (Special Issue on Persistent Software Attributes): 2005.
• Science of Computer Programming Elsevier (Special Issue on New
Software Composition Concepts), 2004.
• Software: Practice & Experience: 2002, 2003.
• IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation Theme Issue on Object-
Oriented Distributed Control Architectures, G. Menga, Dr. R. Marcus,
Prof. R. Volz, and Mohamed E. Fayad, (editors), 2001.
• Communications of the ACM (Theme Issue on Aspect-Oriented Programming),
2001.
10.3 Book chapters and articles
• Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition,
Mehdi Khosrow-Pour (editor), Idea Group Reference, 2008.
• Adaptable and Adaptive Hypermedia Systems, Sherry Y. Chen and
George D. Magoulas (editors), Published by Idea Group Inc., 2004.
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• Service-Oriented Software System Engineering: Challenges and Practices,
Zoran Stojanovic and Ajantha Dahanayake (editors), 2004.
• Software Architectures, PLAs, Components and Enterprise Frameworks,
M. Fayad, D. Garlan, W. Pree (editors), 2002.
10.4 Conference papers
• ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Fortaleza, Brazil,
March 16-20, 2008.
• ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE):
2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010.
• The Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer
Science Education (ITiCSE): 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009.
• The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering and
Formal Methods (SEFM), Koblenz, Germany, September 7-9, 2005.
• The Software Engineering Process Group Conference (SEPG): 2004.
• 2nd International Conference on Multimedia and ICTs in Education
(m-ICTE2003), Badajoz (Spain), December 3-6, 2003.
• Second International Conference on the Principles and Practice of Programming
in JavaTM, (PPPJ), Kilkenny City (Ireland), June 16-18,
2003.
• The Sixth International Conference on Computer Science and Informatics
(CS&I), Durham, NC (USA), March 8 - 14, 2002.
• International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques
and Applications (PDPTA), Technical Session on Aspect-Oriented
Programming, 2000.
11 ORGANIZATION OF EVENTS
• Co-organizer, Concordia day camp in Mathematics and Computer Science,
Concordia University, Montreal, QC, June 6 - 13, 2010. (with
Drs. V. Chvatal, Grogono and McKay and N. Acemian.)
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• Program co-chair, 8th International Conference on Software Engineering
Research, Management and Applications (SERA’10), Montreal,
May 2010. (with Dr. O. Ormandjieva, Concordia University.)
• Registration co-chair, 8th International Conference on Software Engineering
Research, Management and Applications (SERA’10), Montreal,
May 2010. (With Dr. B. Dessai, Concordia University).
• Local and Publicity Chair, Canadian Conference on Computer Science
and Software Engineering (C3S2E): 2009.
• Poster Session Chair, Canadian Conference on Computer Science and
Software Engineering (C3S2E), Montreal, QC, Canada, 12-14 May,
2008.
• Co-organizer, Technical Session on Aspect-Oriented Programming, International
Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques
and Applications (PDPTA’2000). Monte Carlo Resort, Las
Vegas, Nevada, June 26-29, 2000 (with T. Elrad, Illinois Institute of
Technology, and A. Bader, Lucent Technologies).
• Co-organizer, Workshop of the Midwest Society for Programming Languages
and Systems (MSPLS’99). Illinois Institute of Technology,
Chicago, IL, USA, October 8, 1999. (with Dr. T. Elrad, Illinois Institute
of Technology.)
12 OTHER
Status in Canada: Permanent resident (since 2006).
Citizenship: Republic of Cyprus (member of European Union).
Marital status: Married.
Languages: Greek (native-fluent), English (fluent), French (intermediate),
German (intermediate).
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Contents
Curriculum Vitae
Peter Grogono
Professor
Department of Computer Science
March 2010
1 Personal Data 1
2 Teaching 3
3 Research 5
4 Service 7
5 Publications 2005–2010 11
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Peter Grogono Curriculum Vitae 1
1 Personal Data
Name Peter David Grogono
Citizenship British. Permanent Resident of Canada since February 1973
Native language English
Home Address
4125 Beaconsfield Avenue
Montréal, Québec
Canada H4A 2H4
Tel: (514) 483 1422
Work Address
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Concordia University
1455 deMaisonneuve Blvd. West
Montréal, Québec
Canada H3G 1M8
Tel: (514) 848 2424 x 3012
Fax: (514) 848 2830
E-mail: grogono@cse.concordia.ca
Web page: http://users.encs.concordia.ca/∼grogono/
1.1 Education
1951–61 Forest School, London, England
1962–65 Queens’ College, Cambridge, England
B.A. (Mathematics), 1965
M.A. (Mathematics), 1973
1977–85 Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
M.Comp.Sc., 1980
Ph.D. (Computer Science), 1985
1.2 Professional Organizations
I am registered as a Professional Engineer of Ontario.
I am a member of ACM, IEEE, and the IEEE Computer Society.
1.3 Employment
Present Occupation
Faculty member, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University,
since 1 June 1985. Full professor since 1 June 2002.
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Peter Grogono Curriculum Vitae 2
Previous Employment
Director, July–October 1965. Cardiff Commonwealth Arts Festival, Cardiff, Wales. Directed and
coordinated film festival.
Mathematician, November 1965–December 1966. Electrical and Musical Industries (Electronics)
Limited, London, England. Performed research in automatic pattern classification.
Consultant Programmer, January–August 1967. Electrical and Musical Industries (Australia)
Pty, Adelaide, South Australia. Designed and implemented diagnostic programs for guidance
system.
Analyst/Programmer, November 1967–March 1969. International Computers Limited, London,
England. Designed and implemented components of george 3 operating system.
Director and Consultant Programmer, April 1969–February 1973. Electronic Music Studios,
London, England. Designed and implemented musys system for electronic music synthesis. This
program was awarded a prize for “music software” by Radio Milano.
Consultant Programmer, April 1969–February 1973. Alcock, Shearing, and Partners, London,
England. Implemented aspect compiler for genesys. Specified and designed highways subsystem
for genesys. Implemented programs for interactive geometry and reinforced concrete analysis.
Consultant Programmer, May 1973–November 1976. Quantum Information Resources, Montréal,
Québec. Consulted for CN. Designed and implemented trips, an accounting system for travel agents.
Analyst/Programmer, December 1976–May 1980. Computer Centre, Concordia University,
Montréal, Québec. Provided programming and consulting services to faculty and students. Designed
and implemented freeflo, software for maintaining and analyzing historical records.
Graduate Student, June 1977–May 1985. Completed M.C.S. and Ph.D. degrees in the Department
of Computer Science, Concordia University.
President, February 1980–May 1985. Metonymy Productions, Montréal, Québec. Prepared
books and provided consulting services in writing, editing, and computer technologies to individuals
and organizations.
Lecturer, June 1984–May 1985. Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, Montréal,
Québec.
Assistant Professor, June 1985–May 94. Department of Computer Science, Concordia University,
Montréal, Québec. Performed normal professorial duties, including teaching, research,
and administration.
Tenured Associate Professor, June 1994–May 2002. Department of Computer Science, Concordia
University, Montréal, Québec. Performed normal professorial duties, including teaching,
research, and administration.
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2 Teaching
I consider teaching to be the most important part of my job at Concordia. With 30 years of
experience, I am still finding ways of improving my effectiveness as a teacher.
2.1 Courses Taught
Table 1 on page 4 summarizes the courses that I have taught at Concordia.
• “C” and “N” are the old (pre-1986) prefixes for undergraduate and graduate courses, respectively.
• For each course, I have indicated the calendar years in which I taught it. A superscript
indicates that I taught the course more than once.
• An asterisk (*) in the column headed “XL” indicates that an undergraduate course included
graduate students in a cross-listed course; the corresponding graduate course is not listed.
• An asterisk (*) in the column headed “Des” means that I designed the course and taught it
for the first time. A plus sign (+) in this column means that I substantially redesigned the
course.
• A “year” is an academic year. E.g., “83” means Fall 1983 and Winter 1984.
• A superscript after a year indicates that I taught the course more than once. E.g., The
“Years” column for C 443 has 79 2 , indicating that I taught the course twice during 1979–80.
2.2 Curriculum Development
I have made extensive contributions to undergraduate Computer Science curriculum development,
including a major overhaul of all programs in collaboration with Dr Radhakrishnan.
In 1998, I directed the design and implementation of the undergraduate program in Software
Engineering. I was director of this program during 2000–6.
In 2007, I designed masters programs (course option and thesis option) in Software Engineering.
In 2009, I designed a Ph.D. program in Software Engineering.
2.3 Awards
I received the first award for Teaching Excellence given by the Faculty of Engineering and Computer
Science in 1998.
I received the first President’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 2007.
I received awards from the Engineering and Computer Science Students Association for “outstanding
contributions to student life” in 2002, 2003, and 2004.
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Course # XL Des Title Years
C 221 Assembly Language 83, 85
C 231 Discrete Structures 80, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86
C 352 Algorithms and Data Structures 82
C 443 Operating Systems 792 , 80
N 441 * + Comparative Programming Languages 83, 85
N 602 Discrete Mathematics and Computer Pro- 81
gramming
COMP 215 * Introduction to Computer Science (C++) 96
COMP 231 Discrete Structures 89
COMP 244 * Programming Methodology 86, 873 , 88, 902 , 91
COMP 245 * Programming Methodology 91, 94, 96
COMP 248 * Introduction to Programming 00
COMP 249 * Programming Methodology 98, 02, 03, 04
COMP 291 * Language Laboratory — Pascal 86
COMP 348 + Principles of Programming Languages 02, 03, 04
COMP 354 * Software Engineering 93, 942 , 95
COMP 441 * + Comparative Programming Languages 86, 87, 92, 94
COMP 442 * + Compiler Design 90, 93, 95
COMP 446 * Designing Programs with C++ 05, 06, 07, 08
COMP 468 * * Syntax Analysis 89, 90
COMP 471 * + Computer Graphics 97
COMP 477 + Animation for Computer Games 09
COMP 542 * Object Oriented Programming 98, 00
COMP 550 Programming Methodology, Algorithms, and 88
Data Structures
COMP 641 + Comparative Programming Languages 00, 09
COMP 6441 * Advanced Programming Practices 05
COMP 642 * + Compiler Design 90, 93, 95
COMP 647 * Software Design Methodologies 92, 93
COMP 6441 * Advanced Programming Practices 05
COMP 6761 + Advanced Computer Graphics 98, 02, 03
COMP 690B * Object Oriented Programming 90, 91
COMP 744 * Computer Language Design 89, 91
COMP 745 * Semantics of Programming Languages 96
COMP 746 * New Directions in Programming Languages 93
COMP 790L * Paradigms of Programming 88
SOEN 341 * Software process 00, 01, 02
SOEN 345 + Software Quality Control 02
SOEN 390 * Software Design Project 02
SOEN 490 Software Engineering Design Project 03, 04, 09
Table 1: Courses taught, 1979–2005
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3 Research
My principal areas of research are programming languages, software development, and artificial life.
My current research project is the development of a new paradigm of programming, in collaboration
with Brian Shearing (UK).
3.1 Grants
NSERC = National Science and Engineering Research Council
FPSRT = Faculty Program for Support of Research Theses
CARA = Committee on Aid toResearch Activity
FCAR = Le fonds québécois de la recherche
GSSP = ENCS Graduate Student Support Program
1981–82 Concordia Graduate Fellowship; $7,000.
1982–83 Concordia Graduate Fellowship; $4,000.
1982–84 FCAR Student Scholarship; 2 years at $7,000.
1985–86 NSERC operating grant; $13,140. An environment for applicative programming.
1985–88 FCAR team grant; 3 years at $10,000 per year. Boom, Grogono. An intelligent programming
environment.
1986–88 NSERC operating grant; 2 years at $11,950. An environment for applicative programming.
1988–89 NSERC operating grant; $8,000. A software development environment.
1988–91 FCAR team grant; 3 years at $15,000 per year. Okada, Grogono, Seldin. Constructive
mathematics for program verification.
1989–90 CARA seed grant; $3,000. A software development environment.
1989–90 NSERC equipment grant; $21,600. Okada, Grogono, Seldin. Logic and formal methods
laboratory.
1989–90 CARA equipment grant; $5,000. Okada, Grogono, Seldin. Logic and formal methods
laboratory.
1989–92 Cooperation Québec-France; 3 years at $10,000 per year. Okada, Grogono, Opatrny.
Proofs and rewriting.
1989–93 Bell-Concordia industrial grant; 4 years at $200,000 per year. Suen, Grogono, Shinghal.
Evaluation of Expert Systems.
1991–94 NSERC operating grant; 3 years at $12,000. An Object Oriented Environment for the
Development of Provably Correct Software.
1991–93 Faculty Research Development Program Redirection Grant; 2 years at $10,000. A Development
Environment for Verifiable Software.
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1991–92 NSERC equipment grant; $60,000. Alagar, Grogono, Lakshmanan, Radhakrishnan,
Sadri. Advanced software development methodologies and knowledge based systems research
laboratory.
1994–98 NSERC Operating Grant; 4 years at $15,000.
1995–96 Teaching Development Grant; $5,500. Grogono, Radhakrishnan. Software for Introductory
Programming Courses.
1996–98 Seagram Grant; 2 years at $15,000. Development of Reliable and Robust Software.
1998–02 NSERC Operating Grant; $15,000 followed by 3 years at $17,325. Development of Reliable
and Robust Software.
1999–00 FPSRT; $1,925.
2000–01 FPSRT; $20,500.
2001–02 FPSRT; $69,500.
2002–07 NSERC Operating Grant; 5 years at $24,000. Explorations in Distributed Processing.
2002–03 FPSRT; $65,500.
2003–04 FPSRT; $91,500.
2004–05 FPSRT; $89,000.
2004–05 Faculty Teaching Fellowship; $2,500.
2005–06 FPSRT; $50,000.
2005–06 Faculty Teaching Fellowship; $2,500.
2006–07 FPSRT; $74,000.
2006–07 Faculty Teaching Fellowship; $2,500.
2007–12 NSERC Operating Grant; 5 years at $18,000. Modular Concurrent Programming.
2007–08 FPSRT; $55,000.
2007–08 Faculty Teaching Fellowship; $2,500.
2008–09 FPSRT; $65,000.
2009–10 GSSP; $35,000.
3.2 Software Projects
1. musys, a system for the composition and performance of electronic music. musys won the
first prize for music software (1,000,000 lira) in a competition sponsored by Radio Milano in
1972. Electronic Music Studios, London, England, 1969–72.
2. highways, a subsystem of genesys, for highway design and construction. Alcock, Shearing,
and Partners, London, England, 1970–71.
3. columbine, an interactive program for computing stresses in concrete columns. Alcock,
Shearing, and Partners, London, England, 1972.
4. corgi, an interactive program for coordinate geometry calculations. Alcock, Shearing, and
Partners, London, England, 1973.
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5. trips, a management information system for travel agents. Quantum Information Resources,
Montréal, Canada, 1974–76.
6. freeflo, an information system for maintaining historical data bases. Computer Centre,
Concordia University, 1977–78.
7. bias, a functional programming language for with extensions for object-oriented and real-time
programming. Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, 1986–88.
8. pc-dee, an object-oriented language, PC version. Department of Computer Science, Concordia
University, 1989–93.
9. unix-dee, an object-oriented language, unix version; with graduate students Benjamin Cheung,
Lawrence Hegarty, Wai Ming Wong, and Joseph Yau. Department of Computer Science,
Concordia University, 1991–92.
10. snooker, a 2D (later 3D) simulation of the game. Department of Computer Science, Concordia
University, 1995–.
11. cugl, a library for OpenGL graphics programming. Department of Computer Science, Concordia
University, 2000–.
12. formal, an environment for experimenting with evolutionary programming. Department of
Computer Science, Concordia University, 2002–.
13. erasmus, a new programming language for developing modular, concurrent, distributed software.
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, 2005–.
4 Service
I have used a star (⋆) to indicate administrative tasks that constituted a significant part of my
workload or to which I made a significant contribution.
4.1 University
I have served on the following university committees and boards.
⋆ Advisory Board for Centre for Teaching and Learning Services
⋆ Appraisal Committee for the Science College (Chair)
⋆ Appraisal Committee for the Department of Mathematics
⋆ Appraisal Committee for the Humanities
⋆ Search Committee for Director of Continuing Education
⋆ Course Evaluation Committee
⋆ Selection Committee for Teaching Development Grants
⋆ Task Force on Teaching Evaluation and Teaching Dossier
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◦ Governor General’s Medal Committee (for best Ph.D. Thesis)
◦ McConnell Committee for Academic Technology
4.2 Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
I have served on the following faculty committees and boards:
⋆ Faculty Personnel and Tenure Committee
⋆ Faculty Personnel and Tenure Committee: subcommittee for Concordia Institute of Information
Systems Engineering
⋆ Undergraduate Studies Council
◦ Faculty Council
◦ Graduate Studies Council
◦ Canadian Engineering Design (CDEN) Steering Committee
◦ Accreditation Review Committee
◦ CRIM Software Engineering Education Committee
◦ Graduate Appeal Board
◦ Search Committee for Chair of Department (various departments)
◦ Dean’s Task Force for Undergraduate Recruitment
4.3 Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
I have held the following offices within the Department:
◦ Summer Assistantship Program Director (1993–4)
⋆ Associate Chair (1995–8; 2001–7)
⋆ Undergraduate Program Director (1993–5)
⋆ Software Engineering Program Director (2000–6)
⋆ Acting Software Engineering Program Director (2009–10)
I have served on the following departmental committees:
⋆ Curriculum Committee (several times as Chair)
⋆ Software Engineering Curriculum Committee
⋆ Personnel Committee
⋆ Personnel Committee: hiring subcommittee for Software Engineering
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⋆ Part-Time Faculty Hiring Committee
⋆ Liaison with Digital Image and Sound/Fine Arts
◦ Tenure Committee
◦ Academic Planning and Priorities Committee
◦ Graduate Advisory Committee
◦ Undergraduate Advisory Committee
◦ Mission Statement Committee
◦ Resource Committees (various)
◦ Student Funds Committee
◦ Summer Assistantships Committee
◦ Ad Hoc Committee for Software Purchasing
4.4 Industrial Consulting
I have consulted for a number of companies and institutions, including:
• Ansco Ltd
• Bell Canada
• Canadian Aviation Electronics
• Centre for Building Studies (SIRICON )
• Department of Educational Technology
• League of Canadian Poets
• Lethbridge Rehabilitation Centre
• Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
• SR Telecom
• Writers’ Union of Canada
4.5 Reviewing
I have reviewed:
• grant applications for various organizations, including:
– NSERC
– FCAR/FRNT
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– CRIM
– Marsden Fund (New Zealand)
– Synergie (Québec)
• papers for journals, including:
– Expert Systems with Applications
– Software Engineering Journal
– International Journal of Advances in Engineering Software
– Information Processing Letters
• papers for conferences, including:
– European Conference on Object Oriented Programming
– World Congress on Expert Systems
– International Conference on Parallel Processing
– National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
– Montreal Workshop on Programming Languages
– Computer Aided Software Engineering
– Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
– International Conference on Robotics and Factories of the Future
– Software Engineering and Formal Methods
– Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology
• a number of books for trade and text book publishers.
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5 Publications 2005–2010
5.1 Refereed Journals
[1] Jie Yao, Nawwaf Kharma, and Peter Grogono. A bi-objective multi-population genetic
algorithm for multi-modal function optimization. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation,
14(1):80–102, February 2010.
[2] Taras Kowaliw, Peter Grogono, and Nawwaf Kharma. The artificial development of structural
design. Evolutionary Computation, 2009. Submitted.
[3] Jane Yao, Nawwaf Kharma, and Peter Grogono. A bi-objective multi-population genetic
algorithm for multi-modal function optimization. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation,
2009. In press.
[4] Jie Yao, Nawwaf Kharma, and Peter Grogono. A multi-population genetic algorithm for
robust and fast ellipse detection. Pattern Analysis and Applications, 8(1–2):149–162, April
2005. (This paper won a $1,000 “human-competitive” award at GECCO’06.).
5.2 Refereed Conferences
[1] Yingying She and Peter Grogono. A real-time transfer and adaptive learning approach for
game agents in a layered architecture. In 9th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual
Agents, pages 545–546, Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 2009. LNCS 5773.
[2] Miao Song, Serguei Mokhov, and Peter Grogono. Designing an interactive OpenGL slidebased
presentations of the softbody simulation system for teaching and learning of computer
graphics techniques. In Canadian Conference on Computer Science & Software Engineering
(C 3 S 2 E), pages 131–136, May 2009.
[3] Miao Song and Peter Grogono. Application of advanced rendering and animation techniques
for 3D games to softbody modeling and animation. In Canadian Conference on Computer
Science & Software Engineering (C 3 S 2 E), pages 89–100, May 2009.
[4] Yingying She and Peter Grogono. A procedural planning system for goal oriented agents in
games. In 22nd Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 245–248, May 2009.
[5] Miao Song and Peter Grogono. Are haptics-enabled interactive and tangible cinema, documentaries,
3D games, and specialist training applications our future? In International
Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, pages 393–398, February 2009.
position paper.
[6] Miao Song and Peter Grogono. A framework for dynamic deformation of uniform elastic
two-layer 2D and 3D objects in OpenGL. In Canadian Conference on Computer Science &
Software Engineering (C 3 S 2 E), pages 145–158, New York, NY, USA, 2008. ACM.
[7] Miao Song and Peter Grogono. A LOD control interface for an OpenGL-based softbody
simulation framework. In International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and
Systems Sciences, and Engineering. Springer-Verlag, December 2008. Online presentation.
[8] Yingying She and Peter Grogono. The procedural planning system used in the agent architecture
of games. In Proceeding of ACM Future Play 2008, pages 256–7, November 2008.
[9] Peter Grogono. Glorious accidents or expected results? In 1st Annual North American Simulation
Technology Conference (NASTEC 2008), pages 9–10, August 2008. Invited keynote.
[10] Yingying She and Peter Grogono. Goal oriented behavior trees: A new strategy for controlling
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agents in games. In 4th International North American Conference on Intelligent Games and
Simulation, August 2008.
[11] Yingying She and Peter Grogono. The procedural planning system used in the agent architecture
of games. In GAMEON-NA’08, pages 108–12, August 2008.
[12] Nurudeen Lameed and Peter Grogono. Separating program semantics from deployment.
In 3rd International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2008), pages
63–70, July 2008.
[13] Peter Grogono and Brian Shearing. Modular concurrency: a new approach to manageable
software. In 3rd International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT
2008), pages 47–54, July 2008.
[14] Miao Song and Peter Grogono. A framework for dynamic deformation of uniform elastic
two-layer 2D and 3D objects in OpenGL. In Canadian Conference on Computer Science &
Software Engineering (C 3 S 2 E), pages 145–158, May 2008.
[15] Peter Grogono and Brian Shearing. Concurrent software engineering: Preparing for paradigm
shift. In Canadian Conference on Computer Science & Software Engineering (C 3 S 2 E), pages
99–108, May 2008.
[16] Taras Kowaliw, Peter Grogono, and Nawwaf Kharma. Environment as a spatial constraint
on the growth of structural form. In GECCO ’07: Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference
on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, pages 1037–1044, July 2007.
[17] Taras Kowaliw, Peter Grogono, and Nawwaf Kharma. The evolution of structural design
through artificial embryogeny. In First IEEE Symposuium on Artificial Life, April 2007.
[18] J. Yao, N. Kharma, and P. Grogono. To share or not to share: towards a genetic algorithm
based approach to effective multi-modal function optimization, July 2006.
[19] J. Yao, N. Kharma, and P. Grogono. BMPGA: A bi-objective multi-population genetic
algorithm for multi-modal function optimization. In 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary
Computation, September 2005.
[20] J. Yao, N. Kharma, and P. Grogono. Extracting multiple optima in continuously differentiable
multi-modal functions using a bi-objective multi-population genetic algorithm. In 2005 IEEE
Congress on Evolutionary Computation, September 2005.
[21] Peter Grogono, Serguei A. Mokhov, and Joey Paquet. Towards JLucid, Lucid with embedded
Java functions in the GIPSY. In International Conference on Programming Languages and
Compilers (Las Vegas, NV), June 2005.
5.3 Invited Talks
[1] Peter Grogono. Software and society: the good, the bad, and the ugly, March 2010. Invited
talk for Engineering and Computer Science Alumni Chapter, Concordia University.
[2] Peter Grogono. What makes a program interesting?, January 2010. Invited talk for Philosophy
Students Association, Concordia University.
[3] Peter Grogono. Living with concurrency. Keynote Speech for Concordia Undergraduate
Software Engineering Conference (CUSEC 2008), January 2008.
[4] Peter Grogono. Ports, protocols, and processes: a programming paradigm?, November 2007.
Invited talk for the Advanced Programming Languages Study Group of the British Computer
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[5] Peter Grogono. Complexity in systems and software, April 2007. Invited talk for IEEE
Computer Society (Montreal chapter).
[6] Peter Grogono. Modular concurrency. Keynote Speech for Canadian University Software
Engineering Conference (CUSEC) 2006, January 2006.
[7] Peter Grogono. Think computationally, act locally. Panel at International Joint Conference
on Neural Networks, Montreal, August 2005.
5.4 Ph.D. Theses
[1] Susan Khor Lay Choo. Problem Structure and Evolutionary Algorithm Difficulty. PhD
thesis, Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, September 2008.
[2] Jie Yao. A Bi-objective Multi-population Genetic Algorithm with Applications to Function
Optimization and Ellipse Detection. PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science, Concordia
University, March 2008. Co-supervised with Nawwaf Kharma.
[3] Taras Kowaliw. A Good Number of Forms Fairly Beautiful: An Exploration of Biologically-
Inspired Automated Design. PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science, Concordia University,
September 2007. Co-supervised with Nawwaf Kharma.
[4] Nicolas Brodu. Practical Investigations of Complex Ssytems. PhD thesis, Department of
Computer Science, Concordia University, June 2007.
5.5 Masters Theses
[1] Mitra Nami. ELIDE: an integrated development environment for the erasmus language.
Master’s thesis, Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, April 2009.
[2] Sibo Yao. Dynamic terrain. Master’s thesis, Department of Computer Science, Concordia
University, February 2009.
[3] Yang Lu. 3D real-time nonlinear perspective projection and simulation of wide-angle lens
distortion. Master’s thesis, Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, March
2008.
[4] Nurudeen Lameed. Implementing concurrency in a processs-based language. Master’s thesis,
Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, March 2008.
[5] Nima Jafroodi. A type system for the Erasmus language. Master’s thesis, Department of
Computer Science, Concordia University, January 2008.
[6] Khaled Abdelhay. 3D character animation using geometric constraints. Master’s thesis,
Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, January 2008.
[7] Miao Song. Dynamic deformation of uniform elastic two-layer objects. Master’s thesis,
Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, July 2007.
[8] Luu Huy Danh Vo. Investigation into the simulation of cloth. Master’s thesis, Department
of Computer Science, Concordia University, October 2006.
[9] Li Han. Planning camera motion in a 3D environment. Master’s thesis, Department of
Computer Science, Concordia University, April 2006.
[10] Ying Ying She. Real-time animation of walking and running using inverse kinematics. Master’s
thesis, Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, April 2006.
[11] Rui Bi. Squash ball simulation in OpenGL. Master’s thesis, Department of Computer Science,
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Concordia University, September 2005.
[12] Ce Guan. A Java-based DVI file reader. Master’s thesis, Department of Computer Science,
Concordia University, September 2005.
[13] Patrick Chui. Graph model for object oriented programming languages. Master’s thesis,
Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, September 2005.
[14] Qiao Li. XML-Based context maps and CMapViewer application. Master’s thesis, Department
of Computer Science, Concordia University, August 2005. Co-supervised with Wojciech
Jaworski.
[15] Aimin Zheng. Implementing film grammar with 3D graphics. Master’s thesis, Department
of Computer Science, Concordia University, April 2005.
[16] Pedro Maroun Eid. TViz: a taxonomy visualization tool. Master’s thesis, Department of
Computer Science, Concordia University, April 2005. Co-supervised with Volker Haarslev.
[17] Liping Ye. PPRT: a hybrid point and polygon ray tracer for meshes. Master’s thesis,
Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, April 2005.
[18] Qizhong Wen. Business web service development with ContextMaps. Master’s thesis,
Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, April 2005. Co-supervised with
Wojciech Jaworski.
[19] Jie Xiao. Extending two drawing frameworks to create L ATEX picture environments. Master’s
thesis, Department of Computer Science, Concordia University, April 2005.
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DETAILED RESUME
1. Name : Sudhir Pandurang MUDUR
2. Present Official Address : Professor & Chair, Department of Computer Science and
Software Engineering, Concordia University
1455, de Maisonneuve West, EV3-159,
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1M8
3. Education
Examination University Year Subject of
specialisation
B. Tech Indian Institute of 1970 Electrical Engineering
Technology, Bombay with Electronics
Ph.D Bombay University 1976 Computer Science
(Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
Thesis Title : A Formal Approach to the Design of Microprogram Controlled Computers.
Thesis Advisors: Prof. R. Narasimhan and Prof. P.V.S. Rao
4. Academic awards/distinctions
(a) Ranked 9 th at the State level (among 100,000 or more students) in High School; State level
topper in 3 subjects: Mathematics, Physics and English.
(b) Ranked 24 th in IIT’s JEE (Joint Entrance Examination), an examination held to select top
students from all over India for admission to one of India’s most prestigious undergraduate
engineering degree programmes.
(c) National Merit Scholar (Govt. of India) 1964 to 1970
(d) United Nation's Fellowship 1974 to 1975
(e) Fellow of the Computer Society of India 1996
(f) Governor of International Council for Computer Communication(ICCC) from 1998
(g) Vice President and Executive Secretary of International Council for Computer
Communication(ICCC) since 2002
(h) Senior Member, IEEE
(i) Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Bombay 2000 (awarded to a select few every year).
(j) Distinguished Visiting Lecturer of IEEE (India) for the year 2000
(k) Awarded third best paper of the year 1999 for “Architecture for Shaping of Indic Scripts”,
published in the international journal “Computers & Graphics” published by Pergamon Press
Ltd. USA; judged by the international editorial board of the journal.
(l) Awarded Best Paper in the international conference ICVGIP 2002 co-sponsored by ACM for
“Mudur SP, V. Babaji and D. Shikhare, Advancing Fan Front: An Efficient Connectivity
Compression Technique for Large 3D Triangle Meshes”; judged by a committee headed by Dr.
T. Binford, Stanford.
5. Licensed Professional Engineer with Professional Engineers Ontario:
License No: 100058046
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6. Professional career beyond Bachelor's degree to present date in reverse chronological
order:
2007 June
onwards:
Chair, Dept of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia
University.
2005 (June) Visiting Professor at Central University of Florida, USA.
2002 January
onwards:
2001 March to
2002 January:
Professor, Dept of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia
University.
Officiating Director, National Centre for Software Technology
2000
(July-August):
Visiting Professor at Concordia University, Canada
1991- 2001 : Associate Director, National Centre for Software Technology (NCST)
1995
(June-July) :
1995
(Jan-May) :
Visiting Professor at Ecole Minerales de Nantes, France
Visiting Professor at Michigan State University, USA
1985-1991: Head, Graphics & CAD Division, National Centre for Software Technology
(NCST), Bombay. (Equivalent of Professor in any of the Indian Institutes of
Technology (IIT)).
1981-1985 : Research Scientist (D) at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Equivalent of
Associate Professor in an IIT)
1980-1981 : Consultant at Shape Data Ltd., Cambridge, U.K. (on leave from Tata Institute
of Fundamental Research.) Worked on Solid Modelling.
1975-1980: Research Scientist (C) at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Initiated the
formation of a research group in Computer Graphics)
1974-1975 : UN Fellow, worked in various computer graphics laboratories in Europe
(University of Delft, Holland, Cambridge University, UK and INRIA,
Rocquencourt, France).
1970-1974 : Scientific Officer, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR)
7. Broad field of research interests with specific areas of involvement :
• 3D Computer Graphics and Animation
• Geometric Modelling
• Visualisation Tools and Techniques
• Medical Imaging and Applications
• Virtual Environments and Multimedia
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• Machine Learning in Computer Graphics
I have been actively involved in development of software systems in the areas of Computer
Graphics, Computer Aided Geometric Design, Electronic Publishing, Image Processing and
Computer Animation. I have extensively researched the area of 3D graphics and geometric
modelling, and successfully guided Masters and Doctoral students. In all the above, my primary
emphasis has been and will be on development of algorithms, tools and techniques for modelling
and visualisation.
At Concordia, I have initiated the set up a research laboratory for advanced research in 3D
graphics and visual computing with generous grants from NSERC, Canada and the Canada
Foundation for Innovation. The laboratory includes a powerful 16 node graphics cluster built from
commodity hardware for visualisation and 3D graphics research, a 3D scanner, a full body motion
capture system, Spherical video capture cameras and a suite of VR equipment including Stereo
Glasses with projector, Head Mounted Displays and Sensors for research in immersive
environments.
8. Selected List of Publications
Authored Book
1. Mudur SP, L.S.Wakankar and P.K.Ghosh, "Design Information on Text Composition in
Devanagari'', Published by Research Institute for Newspaper Development, 1980.
2. Kush Kapila and Sudhir Mudur, “Visual Analytics for Protein Folding”, VDM Verlag, 2008, ISBN-
13: 9783639100402
Edited Books
1. Mudur SP, M. Sasikumar and Suresh Dhamapurkar (Eds), Online Learning: Selected Readings,
Proceedings International Conference on Online Learning - Vidyakash-2002, ISBN 81-259-
1429-3
2. S. V. Raghavan and Mudur SP (Eds), Redefining Internet in the context of4Pervasive Computing ,
ICCC Press Washington, Proceedings ICCC 2002 the 15th International Conference on
Computer Communication, ISBN 1-891365-08-8.
3. Mudur SP, (Ed), Information Technology for Innovation, Tata McGraw Hill, India, Proceedings of
the 34 th Annual Convention of the Computer Society of India, 1999, ISBN 0-07-463746-3
4. Mudur SP, Dinesh Shikhare, Jose Encarnacao and Jarek Rossignac, (Eds), "Visual Computing”
Proceedings of the International Conference on Visual Computing (ICVC99), IFIP WG 5.10,
1999, ISBN 81-7764-384-3.
5. Mudur SP and S.N. Pattanaik (Eds), "Graphics, Design and Visualisation'', Published by IFIP and
NORTH-HOLLAND, 1993, ISBN 0-444-81564-3.
Publications in Refereed Journals (published or accepted)
1. Hammad A, Wang H*, Mudur SP, “Distributed Augmented Reality for Visualizing Collaborative
Construction Tasks”. ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering;, Special Issue on
Visualization, Vol 23 (6): 418-427, 2009.
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2. Zhou R, Parida L, Kapila K*, Mudur SP, “PROTERAN: animated terrain evolution for visual
analysis of patterns in protein folding trajectory”. Bioinformatics, Oxford, Vol. 23(1): 99-106,
2007 (Impact Factor: 4.894) (SCI)
3. Zhou H, Mudur SP, “3D scan-based animation techniques for Chinese opera facial expression
documentation”, Computers & Graphics, Elsevier, Vol. 31 (6), p788-799, 2007. (Impact Factor:
0.601) (SCI).
4. Jin C, Fevens T, Li S, Mudur SP, “Motion learning-based framework for unarticulated shape
animation”, The Visual Computer, Wiley, Vol. 23 (9-11), p753-761, 2007. (Impact Factor:
0.708)(SCI)
5. Rilling J, Mudur SP, “3D Visualisation Techniques to Support Slicing Based Program
Comprehension”, Computers & Graphics, Elsevier, Vol. 29(3), pp 311-329, 2006. (Impact
Factor: 0.601)(SCI)
6. Mudur SP, Prachi Gharpure, Parvati Rajan, “A Methodical Assessment of Integrative Model
Based E-Course Development”, IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. 48(4), pp 605-611,
2005.
7. Mudur SP, V. Babji, D. Shikhare, “Advancing Fan-Front: 3D Triangle Mesh Compression Using
Fan Based Traversal”, Journal of Image and Vision Computing, Vol. 22(5), pp 1165-1173, 2005
8. S. Bhakar, L. Luo, Mudur SP, “View Dependent Stochastic Sampling for Efficient Rendering of
Point Sampled Surfaces”, Journal of WSCG, Vol. 12(1), pp 49-56, 2004 1
9. N. Kiran, Mudur SP, S. Chandran and N. Dalvi, Anti-aliased Hemicubes for Performance
Improvements in Radiosity Solutions, Journal of WSCG, Vol. 9(2), pp 336-343, 2001 1
10. J. Preece, C. Busch, R. Guedj, W. Kellog, D. Leevers, Mudur SP, B. Schneiderman, J.
Thomas, D. Roy, J. Yamaguchi, “Defining a research agenda for Online Networked
Communities Graphics”, Siggraph Computer Graphics Journal, Vol. 33(3), pp 55-59, 1999.
11. Mudur SP, Dinesh Shikhare and Deepraj Dixit, “Graphics Research at National Centre for
Software Technology in India”, Siggraph Computer Graphics Journal, Vol. 33(1), pp 21-25,
1999.
12. Deepraj Dixit, Shirish Shanbhag, Mudur SP, Isaac Kurien, S.S.Chinchalkar, “Object Oriented
Design of an Interactive System for Mechanism Design and Simulation”, Computers &
Graphics, Vol. 23(1), pp 85-94, 1999
13. Dinesh Shikhare, S. Gopalsamy, T. Sathi Reddy, Ashwini Patgawkar, Satyashree Mahapatra,
Mudur SP, K.P. Singh, Indira Narayanswamy, Laxmi Ravishankar, “Zeus: Surface Modelling,
Surface Grid Generation, Tetrahedral Volume Discretization”, Computers & Graphics, Vol.
23(1), pp 59-72, No. 1, 1999
14. Mudur SP, Niranjan Nayak, Shrinath Shanbhag and R.K.Joshi, “An Architecture for Shaping of
Indic Scripts” Computers & Graphics, Vol. 23 (1), pp 7-24, 1999 (Was awarded the third best
paper of the year by an international jury).
15. Mudur SP, “Computer Graphics in India” Editorial of Computers & Graphics, Vol. 23(1), pp 3-4,
1999
16. V.V.Kamat, Atul Jain, Mudur SP, "An Evolutionary Programming technique Using Motion
Simulation Features for Animating Articulated Figures'', Computer Science and Informatics,
Vol. 26(4), pp 1-13, 1996.
17. Mudur SP, " Physically Based Modelling for Multimedia Virtual Environments'', Journal of the
Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) Vol. 13(6), pp 63-74, 1996.
18. S.N.Pattanaik and Mudur SP, "Adjoint equations and random walks for illumination
computation'', ACM Transactions in Computer Graphics, Vol. 14(1), pp 77-102, 1995.
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19. Laxmi Parida and Mudur SP, "Common Tangents to Two Planar Parametric Curves - A
Geometric Approach'', Computer-aided Design Vol. 27(1), pp 41-47, 1995.
20. L.Parida and Mudur SP, "Computational Methods for Evaluating Swept Object Boundaries'',
The Visual Computer, Vol. 10(3), pp 266-276, 1994.
21. Laxmi Parida and Mudur SP, "Constraint-satisfying planar development of complex surfaces'',
Computer-aided Design, Vol. 25(4), pp 225-232, 1993.
22. S.N.Pattanaik and Mudur SP, "Computation of Global Illumination in a Participating Medium'',
by Monte Carlo Simulation, Journal of Visualisation and Computer Animation, Vol. 4 (3), pp
133-152, 1993.
23. S.N.Pattanaik and Mudur SP, "Efficient Potential Equation Solutions for Global Illumination on
Computation'', Computers & Graphics, Vol. 17(4) pp 387-396, 1993.
24. S.N.Pattanaik and Mudur SP, " The Potential Equation and Importance in Illumination
Computations '', Computer Graphic forum (Eurographics Journal), Vol. 12(2) pp 131-136, 1993.
25. S.Gopalsamy, D.R.Khandekar and Mudur SP, "A New Method of Evaluating Compact
Geometric Bounds for Use in Subdivision Algorithms'', in Computer Aided Geometric Design,
Vol. 8, pp 337-356, 1991.
26. Mudur SP and S.N.Pattanaik, "Multidimensional Illumination Functions for Visualisation of
Complex 3D Environments'', Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation, Vol.1(2), pp.49-
58 (1990).
27. Y.N.Shinde and Mudur SP, "Algorithms for Handling the Fill Area Primitive of GKS'', Computer
Graphics Forum , 1986, Vol. 5, No.2, p 119-124.
28. P.A.Koparkar and Mudur SP, "Generation of continuous smooth curves resulting from
operations on parametric surface patches'', Computer Aided Design, Vol. 18, No. 4, May 1986
p 193-205.
29. P.K.Ghosh and Mudur SP, "The Brush-Trajectory Approach to Figure Specification: Some
Algebraic-Solutions'', ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol.3, No.2, April 1984, Pages 110-134.
30. Mudur SP and P.A.Koparkar, "Interval Methods for Processing Geometric Objects'', IEEE
Transactions on Computer Graphics and Applications, Feb 1984 p 7-17.
31. P.A.Koparkar and Mudur SP, "Computational Techniques for Processing Parametric
Surfaces'', Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, Vol. 28, No. 3, 1984 p 303-322.
32. P.A.Koparkar and Mudur SP, "The Development of Programs for the Processing of Parametric
Curves'', Computer Graphics Forum (Eurographics Journal), July-Sep. 1983, Vol.2, No.2/3, p
135-144.
33. P.A.Koparkar and Mudur SP, "A New Class of Algorithms for the Processing of Parametric
Curves'', Computer Aided Design, Jan. 1983, Vol.15, No.1, p 41-45.
34. P.K.Ghosh and Mudur SP, "Parametric Curves for Graphic Design Systems'', Computer
Journal, Vol 26, No. 4, 1983, p 312-319.
35. Mudur SP, "Graphics and Related Activities at NCSDCT'', Computer Graphics Forum
(Eurographics Journal), Jan. - Mar. 1983, Vol.2, No.1. p 25-29.
36. Mudur SP and R. Sujatha, "Three Systems for Typesetting: A Survey'', Computer Science and
Informatics, Jan. 1982. Vol.12, No.1, p 28-36.
37. Mudur SP, J.H.Singh, A.Stanislaus, M.M.Dosabhai and S.B.Patankar, "A Microprocessor
Controlled 3 Axis Milling Machine" NCSDCT Research Review, 1981, Vol.3, p 27-40.
38. Mudur SP, P.K.Ghosh and R.Sujatha, "Software Development for Computer Typography and
Type Design'', NCSDCT Annual Research Review, 1981. Vol.3, p 13-26.
39. A.Moitra, Mudur SP and A. Narwekar, "Design and Analysis of a Hyphenation Algorithm'',
Software Practice and Experience, April 1979. Vol.9, p 325-337.
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40. Mudur SP, A.Narwekar and A. Moitra, "Design of Software for Text Composition'', Software
Practice and Experience, April 1979. Vol.9, p 325-337.
41. Mudur SP and J.H.Singh, "A notation for Computer Animation'', IEEE Trans. on Man, Systems
and Cybernetics, April 1978. Vol. SMC8, p 308-311.
42. Mudur SP, "Digital System Simulation based on a Computational Model'', Journal of the Indian
Academy of Sciences, December 1978. Vol Cl, No.4, p 36-64.
43. Mudur SP, "Device Independent Graphics'', Journal of the Computer Society of India,
December 1975. Vol.6, p 1-7.
44. Mudur SP, "Microprogram control'', Journal of the Computer Society of India, June 1973, Vo.4,
p 11-21.
Book Chapters including LNCS and LNAI publications
1. Padda H*, Seffah A, Mudur SP, “Towards a Metrics-Based Framework for Assessing
Comprehension of Software Visualization Systems”, Chapter 38 in Human Interface and the
Management of Information. Methods, Techniques and Tools in Information Design, Eds: M. J.
Smith and G. Salvendy, LNCS 4557, ISBN 978-3-540-73344-7, Springer, p 335-344, 2007.
2. Zhou H*, Mudur SP, “On the Use of 3D Scanner for Chinese Opera Documentation”, Chapter
41 in Interactive Technologies and Sociotechnical Systems, Eds: H. Zha, Z. Pan, H. Thwaites,
A. C. Addison, M. Forte, VSMM 2006, LNCS 4270, ISBN 978-3-540-46304-7, Springer, p377-
386, 2006.
3. Kannappady S*, Mudur SP, Shiri N, “Clickstream Visualization Based on Usage Patterns”,
Chapter 31 in Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, Eds: P. Kalra, S. Peleg,
ICVGIP 2006, LNCS 4338, ISBN 978-3-540-68301-8 , Springer, p 339-351, 2006.
4. Suryavanshi B*, Shiri N, Mudur SP. "Adaptive web usage profiling”, Chapter 7 in Advances in
Web Mining and Web Usage Analysis, Eds: O. Nasraoui, O. Zaïane, M. Spiliopoulou, B.
Mobasher, B. M. Philip, S.Yu, LNAI 4198, ISBN 978-3-540-46346-7, Springer, p 119-138,
2006.
5. Mudur SP “On the need for Cultural Representation in Interactive Systems” Frontiers of
Human-Centred Computing, Online Communities and Virtual Environments, Ed Rae
Earnshaw, Richard Guedj, Andries van Dam and John Vince, Springer-Verlag London, 2001,
pp299-310.
6. Mudur SP, Bipin Patwardhan, Alekh Jamsandekar, Dinesh Shikhare, Deepraj Dixit, Yogesh
Ketkar, Yogin Mashruwala, Keyur Shroff, Anjali Bidaye, “Graphics Research at NCST”, Visual
Information Processing in India, Ed C. V. Jawahar and P. J. Narayan, Allied Publishers Ltd.
India, 2000, p 48-53.
7. Mudur SP and S.N. Pattanaik, "Monte Carlo Methods for Computer Graphics'', State of the Art
Reports EG93, Chapter 3, Eurographics Technical Report Series, Eurographics, 1993, p 3.1-
3.24.
8. Y.N.Shinde and Mudur SP, "Algorithms for Handling the Fill Area Primitive of GKS'', GKS
Theory and Practice, Edited by P.R. Bono and I. Herman, Springer-Verlag, 1987, p 101-122.
9. Mudur SP, "CAD Techniques : State of Art and Future Needs'', Information Processing 86,
Edited by H.J. Kugle, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V (North-Holland), IFIP, 1986, p 199-204.
10. Mudur SP, S.N.Pattanaik and S.J.Nath, "VIDURA : An Interactive Multilingual Publishing
System'', Document Manipulation and Typography, Edited by J.C. vanVliet, Cambridge
University Press, 1988, p 249-260.
11. P.K.Ghosh and Mudur SP, "A New set of Operators for Shape Design and Analysis by
Computer'', CAD/CAM/CAE for Industrial Progress, Edited by V. Rajaraman, North Holland,
1986, p 163-188.
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12. Mudur SP, G.R Shevare and S.P.Koruthu , "B-Spline Control Vertices for Interpolating
Surfaces'', CAD/CAM/CAE for Industrial Progress, Edited by V. Rajaraman, North Holland,
1986, p 145-152.
13. Mudur SP, "Graphic Input Specification in a General Purpose Interactive Graphics System'',
Methodology of Interaction, Edited by R. Guedj and H. Tucker, North Holland, 1979, , p 164-
171.
14. Mudur SP, "Mathematical Elements for Computer Graphics'', Chapter II, Advances Computer
Graphics I, (eds) G. Enderle, M. Grave and F. Lillehagen, Springer-Verlag, , p. 53-134.
15. P.K.Ghosh and Mudur SP, "Theoretical Framework for Shape Representation and Analysis'',
Fundamental Algorithms for Computer Graphics, Editor : R.A. Earnshaw, NATO ASI Series: F,
Springer-Verlag, 1985, Vol.F 17, p 949 - 993.
16. P.A.Koparkar and Mudur SP, "Subdivision Techniques for processing Geometric Objects'',
Fundamental Algorithms for Computer Graphics, Editor : R.A. Earnshaw, NATO ASI Series: F,
Springer-Verlag, 1985, Vol.F 17, p 751-801.
Publications in Peer Refereed Conference/Workshops (published or accepted for
publication)
1. Chen X, Mendhurwar K, Mudur SP, Radhakrishnan T, Bhattacharya P, , “Learning Human
Action Sequence Style from Video for Transfer to 3D Game Characters”, Proceedings of 3 rd
International Conference on Motion in Games MIG 2010, Zeist, Netherlands, Nov. 14-16, 2010.
2. Vaishnavi R, Ranganathan A, Ramgopal R, Mudur SP, “Keyframe-Guided Automatic Non-
Linear Video Editing”, Proceedings of 20 th International Conference on Pattern Recognition
ICPR 2010, Istanbul, Turkey, August 23-26, 2010.
3. Omidbakhsh M, Radhakrishnan T, Mudur SP, “Patient Preference Elicitation Empowerment”,
Proceedings SEHC 2010 – 2nd Workshop on Software Engineering in Healthcare, held at
ICSE 2010, ACM/IEEE 32nd International Conference on Software Engineering, Cape Town,
South Africa, 2-8 May 2010.
4. Eid Pedro M. and Mudur SP, “Synthesizing High Fidelity 3D Landscapes from GIS Data”, ACM
Proceedings of COM.GEO 2010, 1st International Conference and Exhibition on Computing for
Geospatial Research & Application June 21-23, 2010 Washington, DC. 2010.
5. Sohail ASM, Bhattacharya P, Mudur SP, Krishnamurthy S, Gilbert L, “Content-Based Retrieval
and Classification of Ultrasound Medical Images of Ovarian Cysts”, Proceedings of ANNPR
2010, Fourth IAPR TC3 Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition, Cairo,
April 11-13, 2010.
6. Sohail ASM, Bhattacharya P, Rahman M, Krishnamurthy S, Mudur SP,, “Retrieval And
Classification Of Ultrasound Images Of Ovarian Cysts Combining Texture Features And
Histogram Moments”, Proceedings of ISBI 2010, IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical
Imaging, Rotterdam, Netherlands, April 14-17, 2010.
7. Omidbakhsh M, Radhakrishnan T, Mudur SP, “Numeracy Assessment: A Tool for Empowering
Patients”, Proceedings PAHCE 2010 – Pan American Healthcare Exchanges Conference,
Lima, Peru, 15-19 March 2010.
8. Eid Pedro M. and Mudur SP, “Automating Extraction of 3D Detail from GIS Data using
Semantic Web Technology”, Proceedings of “Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and
Education Conference (I/ITSEC 2009), Orlando, USA; also selected for Continuing Education
Credits (CEUs).
9. T. Hassan, Mudur SP, Shiri N., “A Session Generalization Technique for Improved Web Usage
Mining”, Proceedings of 11th ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data
Management (WIDM), Hong Kong. ACM Proceedings of CIKM 2009, WIDM 23-30.
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10.A. Beaudoin, D. Goswami and Mudur SP, "Two-phase Load Distribution for Rendering Large
3D Models on a Graphics Cluster". Accepted as Full paper in IEEE Cluster 2009, New Orleans,
USA. To appear in the proceedings.
11.Eid Pedro M, Mudur SP, “Use of Semantic Web Technology for Adding 3D Detail to GIS
Landscape Data”, Proceedings of Canadian Conference on Computer Science and Software
Engineering, Montreal, ACM International Conference Proceedings Series, 2009, 205-215.
12.Padda HK*, Seffah A, Mudur SP, “Investigating the Comprehension Support for Effective
Visualization Tools - A Case Study”, ACHI 2009, 283-288.
13.Ketata A*, Mudur SP, Shiri N, “Dependable performance analysis for fuzzy clustering of web
usage data”, CIDM 2009: 275-282.
14.Dudek CK, Lypiridou M*, Sedaghat N*, Mudur SP, Szabo F, Sharman L, Fevens T, “African
Kuba textiles: structural inference and contemporary design using shape grammars”, ACM
SIGGRAPH 2008 Art Gallery, p 48-49.
15.Jin C*, Fevens T, Mudur SP, “Generation of Variations in Repetitive Motion Using Bilinear
Factorization”, Proc. GameOn-NA 2008, McGill University, Canada, August 2008, p 91-100.
16.Bhakar S*, Wang Ran*, Mudur SP, “Multi-view 3D Scanned Data Registration”, Proceedings of
Canadian Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering, Montreal, ACM
International Conference Proceedings Series, 2008.
17.Vashisth A*, Mudur SP, “Deforming Point-based Models using an Electronic Glove”,
Proceedings of Canadian Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering,
Montreal, ACM, International Conference Proceedings Series, 2008.
18.Padda, H. K.*. Seffah, A. Mudur SP, Joshi Y*, “Comprehension of Visualization Systems:
Towards Quantitative Assessment”, Proceedings of ACHI 2008: First International Conference
on Advances in Human Computer Interaction, IEEE Computer Society, France, 2008.
19.Wang H*, Hammad A, Mudur SP, “Design of a Mixed Reality System for Construction
Simulation”, Proceedings of 2007 ASCE Workshop On Computing in Civil Engineering, held in
Pittsburgh, USA, July 2007, p 846-853.
20.Padda, H*. Seffah, A. Mudur SP. , “Visualization Patterns: A Context-Sensitive Tool to
Evaluate Visualization Techniques”, Proceedings of VISSOFT 2007: 4th IEEE International
Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis, Canada, 2007.
21.Zhou H*, Mudur SP, “A System for Chinese Opera Facial Expression Animation”, Proceedings
of ARTECH 2006 – Third International conference on Digital and Electronic Art, Spain, 2006.
22.Liu F*, Bhakar S*, Fevens T, Mudur SP, “Environment Lighting for Point Sampled Geometry”,
Proceedings CGIV 2006, (IEEE Computer Society), p353-358, Australia, 2006.
23.Kannappady S*, Mudur SP, Shiri N, “Visualization of Web Usage Patterns”, Proceedings of
IDEAS 2006, (IEEE Computer Society), p220-227, India 2006.
24.Rajagopalan R*, Rajgopalan V*, Mudur SP, “Kolums Revisited: A Study using Shape
Grammars”, in Proceedings of Eurographics VAST 2007: Future technologies to empower
heritage professionals, U.K., 2007.
25.Bhakar S*, Rajagopalan R*, Mudur SP, “Rendering Point-based Representations of
Engineering Models”, Proceedings PLMSS 2006 – International conference on Trends in
Product Life Cycle- Modelling, Simulation and Synthesis, India, December 2006.
26.Bhakar S*, Liu F*, Fevens T, Mudur SP, “Realistic Rendering of Point Cloud Models with
Ambient Shadowing and Environment Lighting”, Proceedings of Game-ON 2006, TU
Braunschweig, Germany, November 2006
27.Rajagopalan R*, Hortop E, El-Khechen D, Dudek C, Sharman L, Szabo M, Fevens T, Mudur
SP, “Inference and Design in Kuba and Zillij Art with Shape Grammars”, Proceedings of
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Bridges Conference - Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science, London August
2006.
28.Suryavanshi B*, Shiri N, Mudur SP, "Analysis of Fuzzy Clustering Techniques Used for Web
Personalization", in Proc. NAFIPS, (IEEE Computer Society), Montreal, Canada, June 3-6,
2006.
29.WJ Meng* J. Rilling Y. Zhang R. Witte, Mudur SP, P. Charland, “A Context-Driven
Software Comprehension Process Model”, Proceedings of Second International IEEE
Workshop on Software Evolvability, 2006. SE '06.
30.S. Kannappady*, K. Demirli, Mudur SP, N. Shiri. "Application of Fuzzy Edge Detection for Fast
Object-based Image Retrieval", in Proc. NAFIPS 2006, (IEEE Computer Society), Montreal,
Canada, June 3-6, 2006.
31.A. Santhanam, Mudur SP, JP Rolland, “An inverse lung deformation analysis for medical
visualization”, Proceedings of CASA 2006 – International Conference on Computer Animation
and Social Agents, Geneva, Switzerland, July 2006.
32.S. Li, C. Jin*, T. Fevens, A. Krzyzak, Mudur SP, “A medical volume reconstruction method
using tetrahedral meshes and level set”, CARS 2006 – 20th International Congress and
Exhibition on Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, Japan, July 2006.
33.B.S. Suryavanshi, N. Shiri, Mudur SP. "Incremental Relational Fuzzy Subtractive Clustering for
Dynamic Web Usage Profiling", In Proc. WEBKDD Workshop on Taming Evolving, Expanding
and Multi-faceted Web Clickstreams, Chicago, Illinois, USA, August 21, 2005.
34.B.S. Suryavanshi, N. Shiri, Mudur SP. "Improving the Effectiveness of Model Based
Recommender Systems for Highly Sparse and Noisy Web Usage Data", In IEEE/WIC/ACM
Int'l Conf. on Web Intelligence (WI'05), Sept. 19-22, Compiegne, France, 2005.
35.B.S. Suryavanshi, N. Shiri, Mudur SP. "A Fuzzy Hybrid Collaborative Filtering Technique for
Web Personalization", In 3rd IJCAI Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web
Personalization (ITWP'05), August 1, Edinburg, Scotland, 2005.
36.T. Radhakrishnan, Mudur SP, N. Heywood, On e-learning by Organ Transplant Patients in a
Hospital Setting, E-Learn 2005--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government,
Healthcare, and Higher Education, Vancouver, Canada, October 24-28, 2005 (accepted)
37.Mashrur Mia, Mudur SP, T. Radhakrishnan, An Interactive System for negotiation in Ecommerce
with incremental user knowledge, CASCON 2005 (accepted).
38.R. Rajagopalan, S. Bhakar, D. Goswami, Mudur SP, Distributed Point Rendering, 12th Annual
IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, December 2005, (accepted)
39.Gharpure, P., Mudur, S., Patil, R., Mohite, A., Gala, P., & Surti, S. (2005). Automation Support
for Systematic Development of Online Instruction Material. In Proceedings of World
Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2005 (pp. 3447-
3452). Norfolk, VA.
40.B. Suryavanshi, N. Shiri, Mudur SP, An Efficient Technique for Mining Usage Profiles Using
Relational Fuzzy Subtractive Clustering, WIRI 2005 - International Workshop on Challenges in
Web Information Retrieval and Integration In conjunction with The 21st International
Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2005), in Proc. of WIRI 2005, pp 23-28..
41.R. Rajagopalan, D. Goswami, Mudur SP, Functionality Distribution for Parallel Rendering,
IEEE 2005 IPDPS - 19th International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (ACM
sponsored).
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42.R. Rajagopalan, D Goswami, Mudur SP, “Functional Parallelism Using Programmable GPUs”,
Poster paper presented at GP2 - ACM Workshop on General Purpose Computing Using
Programmable GPUs, sponsored by and co-located with ACM SIGGRAPH 2004.
43.Mudur SP, Rekha Sharma, “A Reference Model for Localization”, Invited paper in SCALLA
2004, organized by European Commission in Khatamandu, Nepal, Jan 2004.
http://www.elda.org/article144.html
44.Mudur SP, 2003, Rendering and Processing Indian Scripts- A Unified Approach, Invited paper
in International Symposium on Indic Scripts, Japanese Ministry of Education, December 2003,
Tokyo, Japan, p 263-279.
45.Mudur SP and Dinesh Shikhare, “3D Compression of Engineering Models for Cooperative
Computing Applications”, Invited Paper, Proc. Of the International Conference on Infrastructure
for E-Business, E-Education and E-Medicine on the Internet (SSGRR02W), January 21-25,
L’Aquila, Rome, Italy, , ISBN: 88-85280-62-5 p708-717.
46.J. Rilling, Q. Wang and Mudur SP, MetaViz - Issues in Software Visualization Beyond 3D,
position paper in Proc. of IEEE VISSOFT 2003, pp. 87-92.
47.Hao Zhou, S. P Mudur, “Application of 3D Facial Animation Techniques for Chinese Opera,
Proc. VSMM 2003 – Ninth Int. Conf. on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, October 2003, p 165-
175.
48. RK Joshi, Keyur Shroff, S. P Mudur, A Unified Code Based Scheme for Effective processing of
Indian Languages, Proc. 23 rd Internationalization and Unicode Conference, held in Mar 2003,
Prague, Czechoslovakia.
49. Rekha Sharma, Mudur SP, Keyur Shroff and Parvati Rajan , Development of a Bilingual
Electronic Glossary for Automated Assistance in User Interface Localization, Proc. STRANS
2002, IIT Kanpur, March 2002, p.212-219.
50. Mudur SP, Rekha Gaur, Keyur Shroff and P. Rajan, An Integrated Environment for Software
Localisation, Proc. ICCC-2002- ISBN 1-891365-08-8., p828-842
51. Prachi Gharpure, M. Shah, P. Rajan, Mudur SP, Experiments in Model Driven Web
Courseware Development for Individualized Learning, Proc. ICCC-2002- ISBN 1-891365-08-8.,
p290-303
52. Prachi Gharpure, Mudur SP, P. Rajan, V. Kamat, Effectiveness of Integrative Model for
Development of Web-based Courseware, Proc. of Int. Conf.on Online Learning- Vidyakash
2002, p35-46
53. Mudur SP, P. Gharpure and P. Rajan, 2002, A Model Driven Process for Web Based
Instructional Content Development, E-Learn 2002 World Conference, AACE, held in October
202, Montreal, Canada, p706-713.
54. D. Shikhare, SV Babji and Mudur SP, 2002, Compression Techniques for Distributed Use of
3D Data, ICCC-2002- ISBN 1-891365-08-8, Proc. ICCC 2002, p676-696.
55. J. Rilling and Mudur SP, “On the Use of Metaballs to Visually Map Source Code Structures
and Analysis Results onto 3D Space”, 9th IEEE WCRE 2002, pp. 299-308.
56. Mudur SP, S.V. Babji and D. Shikhare, 2002, “Advancing Fan Front- An Efficient Connectivity
Compression Technique for Large 3D Triangle Meshes”, Proc. ICVGIP 2002, (ACM cosponsored)
pp 329-334, Best Paper Award.
57. Mudur SP, K.Shroff, Rekha Gaur, Vinod Kumar and Yogesh Ketkar, 2001, Indic Script
Processing Under X11, ITRANS 2001, p167-174.
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58. Dinesh Shikhare, Sushil Bhakar and Mudur SP, “Compression of Large 3D Engineering
Models using Automatic Discovery of Repeating Geometric Features”, 6 th International Fall
Workshop on Vision, Modelling and Visualisation (VMV2001), November 21-23, 2001,
Stuttgart, Germany, p 233-240.
59. Dinesh Shikhare and Mudur SP, “Discovery of Repeating Feature Patterns in Large 3D Mesh
Models”, Proceedings of the Workshop on Uncertainty in Geometric Computations 2001, July
5-6, 2001, Sheffield, England,
http://www.angelfire.com/space2/dineshshikhare/papers/dineshugc01.pdf
60. Mudur SP, Dinesh Shikhare and Deepraj Dixit, “Computer Graphics Techniques for Interactive
Visualisation of Very Large Models”, Plenary paper presented at the Indian Conference on
Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP’2000) held in Bangalore,
December 2000.
61. Mudur SP and Prachi Gharpure, “A Framework for Authoring Multimedia Content for
Individualised Learning”, Proc. of the National Conference on Multimedia based Education,
organised by Jadhavpur University and sponsored by Ministry of Information Technology, held
at Calcutta in November 2000.
62. Prachi Gharpure and Mudur SP, “On Knowledge Representation for Individualised Learning”,
Proc. Of the WEBNET 2000, International Conference organised by Association for
Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), held at San Antonio, USA, October 2000, p
876-879.
63. Mudur SP, “Online Communities – A Research Agenda for India”, Invited paper presented at
Indian Science Congress held at Pune, 1999.
64. Mudur SP, “Software Innovation – The Real Challenge for the Software Professional in India”,
Inaugural Keynote address presented at IEEE ACE 2000, 26 th Annual Convention of the IEEE
India Council, held in Mumbai, December 2000.
65. Mudur SP, “On the Possibility of Software Originating from India”, Proceedings of TiECon
2000, International Conference organized by The Indus Entrepreneurs, held in Mumbai,
November 2000.
66. Mudur SP, “Courseware, Webware, Beware!”, Proceedings of Edunet 1999, ICCC sponsored
International Conference, held in Chennai, December 1999.
67. Mudur SP, “The Technology of Virtual Environments for Science Communication”,
Proceedings of the First International Conference for Science Communicators, held in Pune,
January 2000, p 43-48.
68. Mudur SP, Dinesh Shikhare and Deepraj Dixit, “Research and Development Activities in CAD
at NCST”, Proceedings of the Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image
Processing (ICVGIP’98) held in New Delhi, December 1998, p 60-63.
69. Ashwini Patgawkar, Dinesh Shikhare, Satyashree Mahapatra, S. Gopalsamy and Mudur SP,
"Tetrahedral Discretization of Complex Volumetric Spaces: Implementation, Efficiency,
Robustness and interactive Control”, Proceedings of International Conference on Visual
Computing (ICVC99), held in Goa, India, 1999, p 68-77.
70. Mudur SP and Niranjan Nayak, "A Suite of Performance Enhancement Techniques for Direct
Volume Rendering”, Proceedings of International Conference on Visual Computing (ICVC99),
held in Goa, India, 1999, p 34-52.
71. Dinesh Shikhare, S. Gopalsamy and Mudur SP, "A Two Phase Technique for Optimal
Tessellation of Complex Geometric Models”, Proceedings of 8 th International Conference on
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Engineering Computer Graphics and Descriptive Geometry, held in Texas, Austin, USA, July
1998, p 175-179.
72. V.V. Kamat and Mudur SP, "Automatic Gait Synthesis Using Generalised Motion
Determinants”, Proceedings of ICIPS 98 held in Queensland, Australia, 1998, p 257-261.
73. Mudur SP, D.S.Dixit and S.H.Shanbhag, "A Distributed Task Delegation Framework for
walkthrough Computations", International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia '97
(VSMM97), held at Geneva, Switzerland in September '97, published by IEEE, p 71-74.
74. Mudur SP, D.S.Dixit and S.H.Shanbhag, "On Parallelisation and Distribution of Computations
for Visually Realistic Walkthroughs", Special Session on "HPCN in Developing Countries" at
Euro-Par '97, held at Passau, Germany in August '97
75. S. Gopalsamy, T. S. Reddy, Dinesh Shikhare and Mudur SP, "A Comprehensive Approach to
Grid Generation Over Complex Piecewise Parametric Surfaces”, in Advances in Mechanical
Engineering, Ed. T. S. Mruthyunjaya, Proc. of Int. Conf. on Graphics in Mechanical Engineering
held in Bangalore, India, December 1996, p 17-29.
76. Mudur SP, "The Technology of Virtual Reality and its Applications in Medicine'', Computers in
Medicine and Health Care, 11th National Convention of Computer Engineers, organised by
Institution of Engineers (India), Mumbai, 23-24 November, 1996, p 182-189.
77. Mudur SP, "The Emergence of Physically Based Modelling in Computer Graphics'', ICCST 96,
Workshop on Impact of Computers on Contemporary Science and Technology, organised by
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, 6 November 1996, p 60-69.
78. J. Mandalia and Mudur SP, "Automation of Bilingual University Graduation Certificates'',
SMATAC'96, Symposium on Machine Aids for Translation and Communication organised by
Society for Machine Aids for Translation and Communication, New Delhi, April 11-12,1996, p
195-201.
79. K. Suresh, A. Irani, N. Nayak and Mudur SP, "An Integrated Software for English to Hindi
Telephone Directory '', SMATAC'96, Symposium on Machine Aids for Translation and
Communication organised by Society for Machine Aids for Translation and Communication,
New Delhi, April 11-12,1996, 188-184.
80. T. S. Reddy and Mudur SP, "Compression Techniques for Managing Gigabytes on the
Internet'', INFOBAHN'96, International Seminar on Information Super Highways,
Tiruvananthpuram, India, August 1996.
81. Mudur SP, "Cyberspace and Virtual Worlds'', INFOBAHN'96, International Seminar on
Information Super Highways, Tiruvananthpuram, India, August 1996.
82. Mudur SP, "Physically Based Modelling for Multimedia Virtual Environments'', Multimedia-96,
International Conference organised by IETE, New Delhi, February 1996, pp 303-315.
83. D.R.Khandekar, S. Gopalsamy and Mudur SP, "Mathematical Techniques for the Interactive
Design of B-Spline Curves Using Form Constraints'', Proc. of the 1st Eurographics Workshop
on Computer Graphics and Mathematics, Genoa, Italy, 1991, p126-135.
84. S.N.Pattanaik and Mudur SP, "Computation of Global Illumination by Monte Carlo Simulation
of the Particle Model of Light'', Proc. of the 3rd Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, Bristol
UK, 1992. p 71-83.
85. Mudur SP, "A Generic Architecture for Rendering of Indian languages”', Proc. Symposium on
Technology Development for Indian Languages, New Delhi, May 1990.
86. Mudur SP and D.R.Khandekar, "An Interactive System for Quick Modelling of Aircraft
Surfaces'', Proc. of the Conference on Curves & Surfaces in Computer Vision and Graphics in
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SPIE/SPSE Symposium on Electronic Imaging Science and Technology, Santa Clara,
California, February, 1990.
87. G.R.Shevare and Mudur SP, "Constrained-interior Interpolating Surfaces'', Proc. of the
Conference on Curves & Surfaces in Computer Vision and Graphics in SPIE/SPSE
Symposium on Electronic Imaging Science and Technology, Santa Clara, California, February,
1990.
88. Mudur SP, S.N.Pattanaik and S.J.Nath, "Computer Processing of Indian Scripts - A Pure
Consonant Approach'', Proc. of the National Seminar on Computer Aided Language
Processing. Delhi 1987.
89. Mudur SP and H.S.Ravishankar, "A Unix Based Image Processing Environment'', Proc. of the
Workshop on Image Processing in Astronomy, Ooty, March, 1987.
90. Mudur SP and H.S.Ravishankar, "An Image Processing Workbench in a UNIX Environment'',
Proc. of International Seminar on Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing for the developing
countries, New Delhi 1986.
91. Mudur SP, "A General Schema for Handling Curves and Surfaces in Geometric Modelling
Systems'', Proc. Nicograph 83, Tokyo, Japan, Dec 1983, p 213-247.
92. Mudur SP and P.A.Koparkar, "Product and Modulated Surfaces for Computer Vision
Systems'', Proc. IEEE SMC International Conf. Cybernetics and Society Bombay, Jan 1983,
p72-79.
93. Mudur SP and P.K.Ghosh, "Computer Aided Text Composition in Indian Scripts'', Proc of the
International Conference INFORMATICS 81, New Delhi, 1981, p 116-125.
94. Mudur SP, "Computer Graphics and Computer Aided Design'', (Invited) Proc. Annual
Conference of the Computer Society of India, Bangalore, 1979,.7-14.
95. Mudur SP, S.C.Gupta, S.Ramesh and C.U.Sharma, "Environmental Independence in a
Graphics Programming System'', Proc Conf. on Interactive Techniques CAD,Bologna, Italy,
1978. (First Eurographics Conference). p 241-248
96. Mudur SP and L.S.Wakankar, "Computer Input Output in Devanagari'', (Invited) Proc.
Symposium on Use of Indian Languages in Computer Based Information Systems, New Delhi,
May 1978.
97. Mudur SP, "CAD Software Development at the NCSDCT'', (Invited) Proc. 20th Technical
Convention of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE),
December 1976.
98. Mudur SP, "General Purpose Graphics System'', (Invited) Proc. Annual Conference of the
Computer Society of India, Hyderabad, 1975.
99. Mudur SP, "An integrated circuit mask generating system'', Proc. of the Annual Computer
Society of India Conference, New Delhi, 1973.
100. Mudur SP, K.V. Ramanathan, N. P. Sastry, P. S. Subramaniam and R. Nagarajan,
"System design of a desk calculator'', Proc. of the International Symposium on Electronics ,
Madras, 1971.
101. Mudur SP, N.P. Sastry and P.S. Subramaniam, "An effort towards logic design automation
of the control functions of a digital system'', Proc. Annual Computer Society of India
Conference, Bangalore 1971.
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Tutorial Notes published during International Conferences
1. Mudur SP, M. Sasikumar and S. V. Raghavan "Web based Testing” Tutorial given at Edunet 99,
organized by International Council for Computer Communication at Chennai, December 1999.
2. Mudur SP "Virtual Reality -- Technology, Applications and Trends'', Tutorial given at VR Expo '96,
Virtual Reality, The Ultimate Computing Experience, Hosted by Special Interest Group on Virtual
Reality of India (SIGVR), New Delhi, 11-13 December, 1996.
3. Mudur SP and T. S. Reddy, "Visual Information Systems'', Tutorial given at Computer Society of
India Annual Convention 1995, Hyderabad, Nov 1995.
4. Mudur SP and K. Suresh, "Emerging Trends in Graphical User Interfaces'', Tutorial given at
Computer Society of India Annual Convention 1993, Bombay, Nov 1993.
5. Mudur SP, "Desk Top Publishing in Indian Languages'', Tutorial given at International Conference
on Computer Processing of Asian Languages CPAL-2 (sponsored by UNESCO), Kanpur, India,
April 1992.
6. Mudur SP, T.M.Vijayaraman, K. Suresh and A.K. Gupta "Object Oriented User Interface
Development in X/Motif'', Tutorial given at the International Conference ICCG93 (sponsored by
IFIP and CSI), Bombay, India, Feb 1993.
7. Mudur SP and K. Suresh "X Window System : Architecture and Programming'', Tutorial given at the
Computer Society of India Annual Convention 1991, New Delhi, India, 1991.
8. J.L. Encarnacao, P.A. Koparkar and Mudur SP, "Advances in Computer Graphics and CAD”,
Tutorial given at International Conference on CAD/CAM/CAE for Industrial Progress (Sponsored
by IFIP and CSI), Bangalore, India, May 1985.
9. Mudur SP, "Mathematical Elements for Computer Graphics'', Tutorial given at Eurographics 85,
Nice, France, Sep 1985.
Guest Edited Issues of International Journals
1. Mudur SP (Guest Editor), "Computer Graphics in India'', Computers and Graphics, Vol 23, No. 1,
1999, Pergamon Press.
2. Mudur SP (Guest Editor), "Computer Graphics in India'', Computers and Graphics, Vol 17, No. 4,
1993, Pergamon Press.
3. Mudur SP (Guest Editor), "Computer Graphics in India'', Computers and Graphics, Vol 11, No. 2,
1987, Pergamon Press.
Solicited Papers (Accepted after Review of Extended Abstracts Only)/Exhibits (List below
only consists of presentations made after joining Concordia)
1. Kush Kapila, Laxmi Parida, Ruhong Zhou, and Sudhir Mudur, Animated Terrain Evolution for
Visual Analysis of Protein Folding Trajectory, DIMACS Workshop on Detecting and Processing
Regularities in High Throughput Biological Data, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, June
20-22, 2005.
2. J. Rilling, H.F. Li, Mudur SP, M. Lizotte, “Applying Predicate Slicing to Enhance the Visualization
of Program Dynamics”, Dagstuhl seminar: Understanding Program Dynamics, December 2003.
3. Mudur SP, P. Gharpure and P. Rajan, 2003, Experiences in Developing Individualised
Courseware Using an Integrative Model, FITIC 2003 – First Quebec Symposium on ICT in
Engineering Teaching, May 2003, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada.
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4. T. Radhakrishnan, Mudur SP and Mashrur Mia, A Trust-based Multi-Issue Negotiation Protocol
Between an Electronic Sales Agent and a Human Customer, Exhibit at CASCON 2002.
5. Mudur SP, 2002, Compression Techniques for Very Large of Engineering Models, 2nd Annual
Faculty Research Colloquium, Concordia University, March 2003. Montreal, Canada
Keynotes Presented in Major International Conferences/Workshops
1. Mudur SP, “Distributed Rendering of Large Engineering Models Using a Graphics
Cluster”,PLMSS 2006 – International conference on Trends in Product Life Cycle-
Modelling, Simulation and Synthesis, India, December 2006.
2. Mudur SP, 2005, E-Learning Prospects and Challenges, Keynote address given at
ELELTECH 2005, National Conference on E-Learning and E-Learning Technologies,
Hyderabad, India. In Proc. Of ELELTECH 2005, pp 1-6.
3. Mudur SP, 2002, E-Learning Developments in Practice – Lessons Learned, Keynote
address given at the International Conference on Online Learning – Vidyakash 2002,
Mumbai, India. http://www.ncst.ernet.in/vidyakash2002/speakers.shtml#Mudur
4. Mudur SP, 2000, “Interactive Visualisation of Very Large Models”, Plenary paper presented
at the ACM sponsored Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image
Processing (ICVGIP’2000) held in Bangalore, December 2000.
5. Mudur SP, 1999, A Software Architecture for Virtual Walkthroughs of Complex Heritage
Sites, Keynote address given at the IFIP TC5/WG5.10 Int'l Conference on Visual
Computing (ICVC 99), Goa, India, Feb. 1999, in Proc. of ICVC 99, p. 134.
Prize Winning Exhibits
S. Bhakar*, Mudur SP (Supervisor), “Pensez en 3D : les télécopieurs, les scanneurs et bien plus”,
Presented at Quebec University Research Forum 2006 Awarded Silver (2nd best) prize, 2006.
9. Major R & D Grants and Projects
Current Research Grants
(Since 2002, after joining Concordia University, Canada)
Prior to joining Concordia, I was responsible for securing large research, development and
education grants for NCST from various agencies including national government, local industry,
international bodies like UNDP, UNIDO and European Commission, international industries
including Microsoft and Intel. A brief description can be found in Annexure B1.
After joining Concordia, I have been part of external research grants from a number of national and
provincial agencies as listed in the table below.
Agency Programme Total
Funds
My Role Other Investigators
NSERC
(Total:
$784K)
Discovery Grant
Individual
(4 years @ $31K per
year and 5 years @
$26K per year)
$124K
2003-
2007
$130K
2007-
2011
Principal
Investigator
Research Tools and $105K Principal
Instruments
Investigator
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CFI +
Provincial
Funds
($400K)
FQRSC
($208K)
SSHRC
($150K)
Hexagram
($40K)
(2 years) 2003-
2004
New Media Initiative
(3 year breakup:
$146K, $162K, $117K
New Opportunities
(4 year breakup:
$268K, 0, 0, $6K)
CFI-IOF
($33K)
CFI 630
(1 year $96K)
Appui à la recherchecréation
(3 year breakup: $88K,
$61K, $59K)
Research/Creation
Grants in Fine Arts
(3 year breakup:
$45K, 59$K, $46K)
Research Axis –
Advanced
Digital Imaging and
Rapid ProtoTyping
(1 year)
$425K
2004-
2007
$274K
2003-
2007
$33K
2007-
2009
$96K
2007
$208K
2003-
2006
$150K
2004-
2007
$40K
2004
Principal
Investigator
Principal
Investigator
Co-Investigtor
Co-Investigator
Collaborator*
External
Researcher +
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Dr. R. Ganesan, MIE
Dr. A. Seffah, CSE
Univ. of Montreal
Prof. P. Lalande
Concordia Univ.
Dr. T. Fevens, CSE
Dr. D. Goswami, CSE
Dr. Nabil Esmail (PI)
Concordia Univ.
Dr. C. Dudek, (PI)
Studio Arts
Dr. L. Sharman,
Design and
Computation Arts
Dr. M. Szabo,
Mathematics and
Statistics
* As collaborator, I have the same involvement, responsibility and role as of a co-investigator.
+
Hexagram has a list of researchers from arts who are funded for their research projects as principal investigators.
External researcher in a Hexagram project is the same as co-investigator.
I have also received substantial internal awards from Concordia University. These include:
1. Start-up grant of $112.5K,
2. Faculty Research funds (for graduate students) of a total of around $300K during 2002-
2008,
In addition I have managed to receive support for the following expenses:
1. Chinese government post doctoral research fellowship awarded to Dr. Quinxin Zhu
completely supporting his travel and living expenses for a period of 6 months. (Dr. A.
Krzyzak was co-supervisor)
Major R&D Grants and Projects until 2001 (during my tenure at NCST, India)
I was responsible for a large number of R & D and Technology development projects. Many of these
have been funded by the government, the industry or other user organisations. The total grant amount
will exceed many millions of US Dollars. Some research results have been successfully
commercialised. The more significant ones are listed below :
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1. GKS and GKS 3D Software Design and Development : Commercially marketed internationally as
Indo-GKS by CMC Ltd of India.
2. Aalekh and Vividha - Multilingual Text Processing Tools : Commercially marketed in India by
Hinditron Ltd, ET&T Ltd and CMC Ltd.
3. Vinyas and Vidura - Desk Top Publishing Tools : Interactive Font design and Typesetting Software
specially for Indian languages and scripts. Sponsored by Indira Gandhi National Centre for the
Arts, New Delhi, Department of Culture of the Government of India.
4. Zeus - Interactive System for Rapid Design of Aircraft Surfaces. Sponsored by the Aeronautical
Development Agency, Bangalore, India.
5. Artemis - Interactive CAD/CAM System for the layout of composite laminate components used in
the aircraft industry. Sponsored by the Aeronautical Development Agency, Bangalore, India.
6. Volvis : Non destructive Evaluation of Composite Laminate Components - Uses volume
visualisation techniques for "looking" into the inside structure derived from Ultra sonic
measurements. Sponsored by the Aeronautical Development Agency, Bangalore, India.
7. Automatic Translation, Typesetting and Printing of Bi-lingual Degree Certificates of the University
of Bombay. Sponsored by the University of Bombay, India.
8. Arcturus : An interactive system for laminate architecturing for use in composite laminate
component design. Sponsored by the Aeronautical Development Agency, Bangalore, India.
9. Surface and Volume Grid Generation for use in CFD Analysis and Other Scientific Visualisation
Applications in the aircraft industry. Sponsored by the Aeronautical Development Agency,
Bangalore, India.
10. Automatic Translation, Typesetting and Production of Film Masters of Hindi Telephone Directory of
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd., Mumbai ; the software converted subscriber data in Oracle
format of over 1.3 million persons and organisations into Hindi and then reordered and paginated
them suitably directly driving a digital image setter. The total volume was over 6000 pages.
11. VISPAR : Parallelisation of 3D rendering and visualisation techniques. A research project funded
by the Commission of European Communities (CEC).
12. 3DR : Direct Volume Rendering for medical Imaging, R & D project being carried out for a
Japanese establishment in collaboration with an Indian software house.
13. VR and Multimedia Software Component Development with applications like Walkthrough of
Complex heritage sites and 3D games.
14. Vidyakaash: Setting up of a National Resource Centre for Online Learning; a project sponsored by
the Ministry of Information Technology, India which includes a strong R & D component in
education technology development for online learning.
15. Localisation of Multimedia educational content: As part of Intel Corporation’s world-wide initiative to
train school teachers in the use of computers for teaching, NCST was chosen as Intel’s education
partner in India for the programme known as Intel Teach to the Future®. I was responsible for
localising the multimedia content and evaluation of the programme which has been offered to over
fifty thousand school teachers in India.
16. Localisation of Microsoft Windows 2000: This was more of a technology transfer project. My
research of over two decades in Indian language shaping technology had matured and was
transferred to Microsoft Corporation, USA for use in the enabling of the localised version of their
operating system for use with Indian languages. I was responsible for the successful execution of
the entire project involving close coordination with Microsoft Windows OS team at Redmond USA.
This was highly successful.
10. Doctoral Degree Level Research Supervised
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Have supervised a large number of students for their Bachelors and Masters Level Research Projects.
Most of these are in the areas of Graphics, Animation, Geometric Modelling, Image Synthesis and
Visualisation.
During the last three years, I have graduated 10 Master’s graduates under my supervision. Presently, I
have 6 Doctoral research students and 10 Masters students carrying out their degree level research
under my supervision.
The list of PhDs successfully supervised by me are given below:
1. Computational Techniques for Processing Parametric Curves and Surfaces by P.A. Koparkar,
submitted to the University of Bombay, Department of Computer Science in February 1984.
2. A Computational Theoretic Framework for Shape Representation and Analysis Using the
Minkowski Addition and Decomposition Operators by P.K. Ghosh, submitted to the University of
Bombay, Department of Computer Science in August 1986.
3. Computational Methods for Global Illumination and Visualisation of Complex 3D Environments by
S. N. Pattanaik, submitted to the Birla Institute of Technology, Pilani, Department of Computer
Science and Engineering in February 1993.
4. Automatic Motion Synthesis of Articulated Figures for Computer Animation by V.V. Kamat,
University of Goa, Department of Computer Science, January 1996.
5. Automatic Multi-block Surface Grid Generation by M. A. Dharap, Indian Institute of Technology,
Bombay, June 1996.
6. Compression of Large Engineering 3D Models using Discovery of Repeated Geometric Features
by D. S. Shikhare, submitted to the Birla Institute of Technology, Pilani, Department of Computer
Science and Engineering in March 2003.
7. An Integrative Instructional Design Model for E-Learning Environments by Prachi Gharpure, SNDT
University, Department of Information Technology, Mumbai, India, August 2006.
8. A Framework for Software Localization by Rekha Sharma, SNDT University, Department of
Information Technology, Mumbai, India, June 2007.
9. CoMoVa – A Comprehension Measurement framework for Visualization Systems by Harkirat Kaur
Padda, Concordia University, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering,
Montreal, Canada, (Co-Supervisor: Dr. A. Seffah) , March 2009.
11. Courses Developed and Taught
Since joining Concordia in 2002, I have taught/developed 9 different courses, five of which are new
courses offered for the first time in the department. Course planning and development had to be done
for all these courses. The courses are:
1. Introduction to Game Development (undergraduate) – COMP 376
2. Computer Graphics (undergraduate) – COMP 471
3. 3 Advanced Computer Graphics (graduate) – COMP 6761
4. System Software (Computer Science undergraduate) – COMP 229
5. Advanced Rendering and Animation in 3D games (graduate) – COMP 7661
6. System Software (Software Engineering undergraduate) –SOEN 229
7. Software Project Management (undergraduate) – SOEN 383
8. Quality Assurance and Management in Software Development(undergraduate) – SOEN 384
9. Multimedia Computing (graduate) – COMP 691T
While in India, over 25 years, I was extensively involved in course planning and curriculum
development on a continuing basis. The following is a list of courses developed and taught, sometimes
with my colleagues. While some of these courses are for professionals, many are at the under
graduate and post graduate level.
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1. Programming Techniques 2. Geometric and Solid Modelling
3. Data Structures and Algorithms 4. Design and Analysis of Algorithms
5. Introduction to Computer Architecture and 6. Introduction to Software Engineering
Operating Systems
7. The Science of Programming 8. Multimedia Technology
9. Principles of Computer Graphics 10. Object Oriented Analysis and Design
11. Fundamentals of Computer Aided Design 12. Software Quality and Project Management
12. Editorial Activities
1. Chairman of the Publications Committee of the Computer Society of India (CSI), for four years
from 1992-1996. The Computer Society of India is a very large professional society in India with
over twelve thousand computer professionals and students as members. As publications chairman
my responsibilities included overseeing the publication of all the four publications of the Computer
Society of India including aspects such as budgeting, appointment of editors etc.
2. Membership of the Editorial /Advisory Boards of the following journals :
a) Computer Science and Informatics Journal, The research publication of the Computer Society
of India (until 2002).
b) Computer Graphics Forum, The research journal of the Eurographics Association. Published
earlier by North Holland and now by Blackwell Press (1985 – 2001).
c) Computers and Graphics, Published by Elsevier.
d) Computer Animation & Virtual Worlds (formerly known as Journal of Visualisation and
Computer Animation), Published by John Wiley.
13. Advisory and Consulting Activities
1. Worked as a Consultant in the areas of Computer Graphics, CAD/CAM and Solid Modelling at
Shape Data Ltd., Cambridge, U.K., in 1980-81.
2. Have served as a member of many high level national committees in India concerned with the
acquisition and application of computer-based technologies in various disciplines. The more
significant of these are listed below :
a) Member of the Technical Advisory Committee for the computerisation of the mapping activities of
the Survey of India, set up by the Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, Government
of India, (1982-1989). Helped prepare a detailed project proposal for the setting up of a Modern
Cartographic Centre with assistance from UNDP. Also to prepare the detailed requirements
specification for the cartographic systems for installation in the Digital Mapping Centre at
Dehradun. (1985)
b) Was the Team Leader for systems evaluation and factory acceptance testing of Survey of India's
Digital Mapping System (worth over 2.5 M US $) acquired from Intergraph Corp. USA. (1989)
c) Was a Government of India Representative for the Mid-term Evaluation and also two subsequent
evaluations of the UNDP sponsored Project, Modern Cartographic Centre. (1990, 1991 and 1993)
d) Was a Member of the National Team which toured Japan for investigating the needs of Multimedia
centre for documentation of Arts and Culture related information. (1989)
e) Member of the Advisory Committee set up by the Computer Society of India to draft a National
Information Technology Policy for India, for review by the Government of India.
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f) Chairman of the Standards Committee set up by the Department of Electronics, Government of
India for the Indian language coding addressing compatibility issues with respect to Unicode and
ISO standardisation efforts.
g) National Project Consultant for the UNDP project on "Setting up of a Multimedia Documentation
Centre for Art and Culture Documentation" at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in
Delhi.
h) Chairman of the (SRIG MLC) SEARCC’s (South East Asian Regional Computer Confederation)
Regional Interest Group on Multilingual Computing
i) Have provided expert advice to a large number of industries in India in the areas of Graphics,
CAD/CAM and Electronic Publishing.
j) Member of the Standing Technical Group set up by the Government of India for advising and
evaluating the information technology related projects carried out by the Indira Gandhi National
Centre for the Arts. (1991 onwards)
k) Member of the National Advisory Committee on Computer Graphics set up by the Secretary,
Department of Electronics, Government of India.
l) Have undertaken expert consultancy missions for United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP) and also for United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO). Such missions
usually require one to visit the site of a UN aided project and provide professional consultancy on
specialised topics to the executing agency.
i) UNIDO Expert in the area of Computer Graphics and Standards (1987), for providing
consultancy to the State Centre for CAD in Sofia, Bulgaria.
ii) UNIDO Expert in the area of Computer Aided Design and Manufacture (1988), for providing
consultancy to the State Centre for CAD in Sofia, Bulgaria.
iii) UNDP Expert for providing consultancy to the Modern Cartographic Centre in Dehradun, India.
(1992)
iv) UNDP Expert for carrying out the feasibility study and also to prepare the project proposal for
setting a Multi media Documentation Centre at the Indira Gandhi Centre for the Arts, in the
Departments of Arts and Culture, Government of India, New Delhi.
m) Also provided advice to venture capital funding agencies like the Industrial Development Bank of
India (IDBI), Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and the Industrial Credit and
Investment Corporation of India (ICICI). This advice is usually in the form of review of project
proposals received by these organisations. ICICI projects are usually joint proposals between a
group in the USA and a group in India.
n) Member of the Research Advisory Board of Tata Research Design and Development Centre, the
R&D unit of TCS, India’s largest IT company.
14. Professional/Industry Associations
• Senior Life member and Fellow of Computer Society of India
• Senior Member of IEEE
• Member AACE
• Member ACM
• Governor, Vice President and Executive Secretary of ICCC until 2004
• Member of Eurographics Association
• Invited Expert Member of IFIP Working Group 5.2 on Computer Aided Design until 2002
• Invited Expert Member of IFIP Working Group 5.10 on Computer Graphics
• Honorary Member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), Mumbai
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• One of the directors of VHN (Virtual Heritage Network) of the VSMM (International
Society on Virtual Systems and Multimedia)
15. International Conference Programme Related Activities
Have been regularly invited to be a member of a large number of international conferences on
computer graphics and related activities. In India my primary contributions were in the form of
reviewing of some of the submitted papers and also to help publicise the event in India. The list of
conferences include the following :
1) Many Computer Society of India sponsored conferences,
2) Many of the Eurographics Annual Conferences,
3) Many IFIP Working Group sponsored conferences and workshops in the fields of Computer
Graphics and CAD/CAM.
4) A number of Eurographics Working Group Workshops in areas like Scientific Visualisation,
Computer Animation, Computer Graphics and Mathematics, etc.
5) IEEE Software Engineering Conference
6) Many computer Graphics conferences held in South Asia and Europe in the 80s and 90s. .
Have been the international programme committee chairman for international conferences on
topics like Computer Graphics, Multimedia, Visual Computing held in India.
16. Academic Governance
1. Have been on the Board of Studies and Academic Councils of the following Universities :
• Member of Senate, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. (2008 - )
• Board of Studies, Department of Computer Science, University of Goa. (1997 - 2002)
• Board of Studies, Department of Computer Science, Mahatma Gandhi University,
Cochin (1996 – 1999).
• Member of Academic Council, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (1994 - 1997).
• Member of the Academic Council, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and
Communication Technology, Ahmedabad.(2000 – 2002).
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1 Personal Information
Curriculum Vitae --- Dr. Joey Paquet
Joey PAQUET
Born August 31, 1970
Canadian citizen, divorced, in charge of two children (9 and 11 years old)
Professional Address
Concordia University, Sir George Williams Campus
Department of Software Engineering and Computer Science
1455 de Maisonneuve Boulevard West, EV 3-221
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1M8
Phone : (514)848-2424 ext.7831
Fax : (514)848-2830
E-mail : paquet@cse.concordia.ca
WWW : www.cse.concordia.ca/~faculty/paquet
Degrees
1999
1995
1993
1989
Ph.D., Computer Science
Title: Intensional Scientific Programming
Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada.
M.Sc., Computer Science
Title: Relational databases as multidimensional dataflow
Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada.
B.Sc., Computer Science
Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada.
Collegial Diploma, Pure and Applied Sciences
CEGEP de Sept-Iles, Quebec, Canada.
Fields of Interest (professional)
design and implementation of programming languages; parallel/distributed programming
languages and execution architectures; intensional programming; software engineering;
software process; teaching software engineering and programming languages.
Fields of Interest (personal)
history of humanity; history of science; history of technology; military history;
philosophy; sociology.
Hobbies
reading; listening to music; hiking; camping; fantasy role playing games; contemplation:
sociology, nature, personal and inter-personal behavior.
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Tenured Associate Professor, Department of Software Engineering and
Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Concordia University,
Montreal, Canada.
Lecturer, Computer Science Department, Concordia University, Montreal,
Canada.
Consultant, OS Communications Informatiques. Topic of contribution:
Implementation of documentation standards and processes for intranet,
internet and wireless web applications development following the CMM model.
Research Assistant, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University
of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia,
Member of the administration council of the Association of Graduate Students
in Computer Science at Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada. President from 04-
1995 until 04-1996.
3 Teaching Record
Computer Science Department, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Course Semester taught Total
SOEN 341 F03, W04, W05, F05, F06 5
SOEN 342 F00, F01, F02 3
SOEN 490 F05-W06 1
SOEN 6441 W06, F06, W07, W09, W10 5
COMP 229 W99 1
COMP 248 F98, W99, W03, S03, W06 5
COMP 345 F07, W08, F09, W10 4
COMP 354 W01, S01, S02, F02, F03, W04, F05 7
COMP 442/6421 F98, W00, W01, F01, W02, W03, W07, F08 8
COMP 5541 S99, F99, F00, S01 4
COMP 6411 W99, W10 2
COMP 6471 W00 1
Number of courses taught 46
Number of different courses taught 12
Number of graduate course taught 16
Number of Software Engineering courses taught 14
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4 Research Record
Research Grants
External
[1] NSERC Personal Research Grant, five years (2009-2010) at $15,000. Title: Design
and Implementation of a General Intensional Programming Environment.
[2] NSERC Personal Research Grant, five years (2005-2009) at $60,000. Title: Design
and Implementation of a General Intensional Programming Environment.
[3] NSERC Personal Research Grant, four years (2000-2004) at $48,000. Title: Design
and Implementation of a General Intensional Programming Environment.
Internal
[1] Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University. Faculty
Program in Support of Research Theses (2008-2009) at $5,000.
[2] Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University. Faculty
Program in Support of Research Theses (2007-2008) at $33,000.
[3] Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University. Faculty
Program in Support of Research Theses (2006-2007) at $33,000.
[4] Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University. Faculty
Program in Support of Research Theses (2005-2006) at $37,000.
[5] Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University. Faculty
Program in Support of Research Theses (2004-2005) at $23,750.
[6] Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University. Faculty
Research Support Grant (2003-2004) at $42,000.
[7] Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University. Faculty
Research Support Grant (2002-2003) at $27,000.
[8] Concordia University Faculty Research Development Program Phase II, two years
(2001-2002) at $16,000. Title: GIPSY: A General Intensional Programming System
[9] Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University. Faculty
Startup Grant, four years (2001-2004) at $61,000. Title: Design and Implementation
of a General and Adaptable Intensional Programming System.
[10] Concordia University. Faculty Research Development Program Phase I, one year
(1999) at $5,000. Title: Design and Implementation of a General Intensional
Programming Environment.
Publications
Publications in Refereed Conference Proceedings
[1] Serguei A. Mokhov and Joey Paquet and Mourad Debbabi, Towards Automated
Deduction in Blackmail Case Analysis with Forensic Lucid,Proceedings of the
Huntsville Simulation Conference (HSC'09), SCS, oct 27-29 2009, Huntsville, AL,
USA.
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[2] Serguei A. Mokhov and Joey Paquet and Xin Tong, A Type System for Hybrid
Intensional-Imperative Programming Support in GIPSY,Proceedings of C3S2E'09,
Montreal, QC, Canada, ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp101--107, may 19-21 2009.
[3] Serguei A. Mokhov and Joey Paquet and Mourad Debbabi, Reasoning About a
Simulated Printer Case Investigation with Forensic Lucid, Proceedings of the
Huntsville Simulation Conference (HSC'09), SCS, oct 27-29 2009, Huntsville, AL,
USA.
[4] Emil Vassev and Joey Paquet, Towards an Autonomic System Specification
Language, Multi-Agent and Grid Systems, Special Issue on Autonomic Systems'
Concepts in Advanced Grid Systems, IOS Press, 2008.
[5] Serguei A. Mokhov and Joey Paquet and Mourad Debbabi. Formally Specifying
Operational Semantics and Language Constructs of Forensic Lucid. In Proceedings
of the IT Incident Management and IT Forensics (IMF'08), pp 197-216, Mannheim,
Germany, September 23-25, 2008.
[6] Serguei A. Mokhov and Joey Paquet. Formally Specifying and Proving Operational
Aspects of Forensic Lucid in Isabelle. In Proceedings of Theorem Proving in Higher
Order Logics (TPHOLs 2008): Emerging Trends, pp 76—98, Montreal, Canada,
August 18-21, 2008.
[7] Joey Paquet, Serguei Mokhov, Xin Tong. Design and Implementation of Context
Calculus in the GIPSY Environment. In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual IEEE
International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2008),
pp1278—1283, IEEE Computer Society, Turku, Finland, July 28 – August 1 2008.
[8] Amir Hossein Pourteymour, Emil Vassev, Joey Paquet. Design and Implementation
of Demand Migration Systems in GIPSY. In Proceedings of The 2008 International
Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications
(PDPTA'08), Las Vegas, USA, July 14-17, 2008.
[9] Emil Vassev, Mike Hinchey, and Joey Paquet, A Self-Scheduling Model for NASA
Swarm-Based Exploration Missions using ASSL, Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE
International Workshop on Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous Systems
(EASe'08), Belfast, Northern Ireland, March 2008.
[10] Emil Vassev and Joey Paquet, Towards Autonomic GIPSY, Proceedings of the Fifth
IEEE International Workshop on Engineering of Autonomic and Autonomous
Systems (EASe'08), Belfast, Northern Ireland, March 2008.
[11] Emil Vassev, Mike Hinchey, and Joey Paquet, Towards an ASSL Specification
Model for NASA Swarm-Based Exploration Missions Proceedings of the 23rd
Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2008) - AC Track,
Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil, March 2008.
[12] Emil Vassev, Olga Ormandjieva, and Joey Paquet. ASSL Specification of
Reliability Self-Assessment in the AS-TRM. Proceedings of the 2nd International
Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2007), pp.198-206,
Barcelona, Spain, July 2007.
[13] Amir Hossein Pourteymour, Emil Vassev, Joey Paquet. Towards a New Demand-
Driven Message-Oriented Middleware in GIPSY. In Proceedings of The 2007
International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and
Applications (PDPTA'07), Las Vegas, USA, June 25-28, 2007.
[14] Emil Vassev, Joey Paquet. Towards an Autonomic Element Architecture for ASSL.
In Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering /
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Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-managing Systems (ICSE 2007
SEAMS), Minneapolis, MN, USA, May 2007.
[15] Emil Vassev, Joey Paquet. ASSL - Autonomic System Specification Language. In
Proceedings of the 31st Annual IEEE / NASA Software Engineering Workshop
(SEW-31), Baltimore, MD, USA, March 2007. (Selected among the best papers
submitted, enabling us to submit an extended version as a journal paper).
[16] Emil Vassev, H. Kuang, O. Ormandjieva, J. Paquet. Reactive, Distributed and
Autonomic Computing Aspects of AS-TRM. In Proceedings of The 1st International
Conference on Software and Data Technologies-ICSOFT2006, September 11-14,
2006, Setubal, Portugal.
[17] Emil Vassev, Joey Paquet. Evaluation Issues in Generic Programming with
Inheritance and Templates in C++ . In Proceedings of The 2006 International
Conference on Programming Languages and Compilers (PLC 2006), Las Vegas,
USA, June 26-29, 2006.
[18] Emil Vassev, Joey Paquet. Aspects of Memory Management in Java and C++. In
Proceedings of The 2006 International Conference on Programming Languages and
Compilers (PLC 2006), Las Vegas, USA, June 26-29, 2006.
[19] Kaiyu Wan, Vasu Alagar and Joey Paquet. A Context theory for Intensional
Programming. In Proceedings of the CRR'05 Workshop on Context Representation
and Reasoning, Paris, France, July 5, 2005.
[20] Aihua Wu, Joey Paquet. Object-Oriented Intensional Programming in the GIPSY:
Preliminary Investigations. In Proceedings of The 2005 International Conference on
Programming Languages and Compilers (PLC 2005), Las Vegas, USA, June 27-30,
2005.
[21] Joey Paquet. Aihua Wu. GIPSY – A platform for the Investigation on Intensional
Programming Languages. In Proceedings of The 2005 International Conference on
Programming Languages and Compilers (PLC 2005), Las Vegas, USA, June 27-30,
2005.
[22] Kaiyu Wan, Vasu Alagar, Joey Paquet. Lucx : Lucid Enriched With Context. In
Proceedings of The 2005 International Conference on Programming Languages and
Compilers (PLC 2005), Las Vegas, USA, June 27-30, 2005.
[23] Emil Vassev, Joey Paquet. A Generic Framework for Migrating Demands in the
GIPSY’ Demand-Driven Execution Engine. In Proceedings of The 2005
International Conference on Programming Languages and Compilers (PLC 2005),
Las Vegas, USA, June 27-30, 2005.
[24] Peter Grogono, Serguei Mokhov, Joey Paquet. Towards JLucid, Lucid with
Embedded Java Functions in the GIPSY. In Proceedings of The 2005 International
Conference on Programming Languages and Compilers (PLC 2005), Las Vegas,
USA, June 27-30, 2005.
[25] Serguei Mokhov, Joey Paquet. Objective Lucid – First Step in Object-Oriented
Intensional Programming in the GIPSY. In Proceedings of The 2005 International
Conference on Programming Languages and Compilers (PLC 2005), Las Vegas,
USA, June 27-30, 2005.
[26] Serguei Mokhov, Joey Paquet. General Imperative Compiler Framework within the
GIPSY. In Proceedings of The 2005 International Conference on Programming
Languages and Compilers (PLC 2005), Las Vegas, USA, June 27-30, 2005.
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[27] Emil Vassev, Joey Paquet. A General Architecture for Demand Migration in a
Demand-Driven Execution Engine in a Heterogeneous and Distributed
Environment. In Proceedings of CNSR 2005, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 16-18,
2005.
[28] Joey Paquet , Aihua Wu. Towards a Framework for the General Intensional
Programming Compiler in the GIPSY (poster). In Proceedings of OOPSLA 2004,
Vancouver, Canada, October 24-28, 2004.
[29] Kaiyu Wan, Vasu Alagar, Joey Paquet. Real Time Reactive Programming in Lucid
Enriched With Contexts. In Proceedings of the First International Colloquium on
Theoretical Aspects of Computing (ICTAC 2004), Guiyang, China, September 20-
24, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3407, pp. 387-402, Springer, 2004.
[30] Vasu Alagar, Kaiyu Wan, Joey Paquet. Intensional Programming for Agent
Communication. In Proceedings of DALT'04 , New York, July 19, 2004.
[31] Ai Hua Wu and Joey Paquet. Translator generation in the general intensional
programming complier, In Eighth International Conference on Computer Supported
Cooperative Work in Design (CSCW2003). XiaMen, P.R. of China. May 24-28,
2004.
[32] Joey Paquet and Ai Hua Wu. Requirements and framework of the general
intensional programming system. In Eighth International Conference on Computer
Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCW2003). XiaMen, P.R. of China. May
24-28, 2004.
[33] Ai Hua Wu, Joey Paquet and Peter Grogono, Design of a compiler framework in the
GIPSY system. In Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems - PDCS 2003,
Marina Del Rey, California, USA, 2003.
[34] Bo Lu, Peter Grogono and Joey Paquet, Distributed execution of intensional
multidimensional programming languages. In Parallel and Distributed Computing
and Systems - PDCS 2003, Marina Del Rey, California, USA, 2003.
[35] Joey Paquet and Peter Kropf. The GIPSY architecture. In Distributed Computing on
the Web, Proceedings of the Third International Workshop, DCW2000, Lecture
Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1830, Springer, 2000.
[36] Joey Paquet and John Plaice. The semantics of dimensions as values. In Intensional
Programming II. World Scientific, 1999.
[37] Jean-Raymond Gagné, Joey Paquet and John Plaice. Indexical translation of tailrecursive
functions. In Intensional Programming II. World Scientific, 1999.
[38] Joey Paquet and John Plaice. Visual presentation of multidimensional dataflow
programs. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Symposium on Lucid and
Intensional Programming, Sun Microsystems, Palo Alto, California, USA, 1998.
[39] Joey Paquet and John Plaice. Dimensions and functions as values. In Proceedings of
the Eleventh International Symposium on Lucid and Intensional Programming, Sun
Microsystems, Palo Alto, California, USA, 1998.
[40] Joey Paquet and John Plaice. Towards an intensional scientific programming
methodology. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on Lucid and
Intensional Programming, University of Victoria, Canada, 1997.
[41] John Plaice and Joey Paquet. Introduction to intensional programming. In
Intensional Programming I, pages 1-14. World Scientific, Singapore, 1996.
[42] John Plaice and Joey Paquet. The intensional relation. In Intensional Programming
I, pages 1-14. World Scientific, Singapore, 1996.
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[43] Joey Paquet. On the design of an indexical query language. In Proceedings of the
Seventh International Symposium on Lucid and Intensional Programming, SRI
International, Menlo Park, California, USA, 1994.
Other Publications
[1] Joey Paquet. Intensional scientific programming. PhD Thesis, Departement
d'Informatique, Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada, April 1999.
[2] Joey Paquet. ParAnimal: Parallel automatic nonlinear image matching and
anatomical labeling. Technical Report. School of Computer Science and
Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 1998.
[3] Joey Paquet. Relational databases as multidimensional dataflow (in French).
Master's Thesis, Departement d'Informatique, Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada,
1995.
Contributions to Practical Applications of Knowledge
[1] Joey Paquet, Alain Bond, Frederic Lannoye. DIONYSOS: Outil web de gestion de
processus de developpement. Technical Report OS-M1008-X-1.0, OS
Communications Informatiques, Montreal, Canada, 2002.
[2] Joey Paquet. Processus de developpement. Technical Report OS-M1006-X-1.0, OS
Communications Informatiques, Montreal, Canada, 2002.
[3] Joey Paquet. Directives de programmation. Technical Report OS-M1007-X-1.0, OS
Communications Informatiques, Montreal, Canada, 2002.
[4] Joey Paquet. PHONOS: software development methodology for web-driven mobile
phone applications. Technical Report OS-M1003-X-0.2, OS Communications
Informatiques, Montreal, Canada, 2001.
[5] Joey Paquet. Exercices de formation sur Web Objects. Technical Report OS-
M1004-X-2.0, OS Communications Informatiques, Montreal, Canada, 2001.
[6] Joey Paquet. Rapid application development. Technical Report OS-M1005-X-0.1,
OS Communications Informatiques, Montreal, Canada, 2001.
[7] Joey Paquet. Movie management system for Omnium Canadien Bell: Requirements
and specifications document. Technical Report OS-P1001-B-1.1, OS
Communications Informatiques, Montreal, Canada, 2001.
[8] Joey Paquet. Movie management system for Omnium Canadien Bell: Project
postmortem document. Technical Report OS-P1001-Z-1.1, OS Communications
Informatiques, Montreal, Canada, 2001.
[9] Joey Paquet. Documentation standard: Project postmortem document. Technical
Report OS-S1001-Z-1.0, OS Communications Informatiques, Montreal, Canada,
2001.
[10] Joey Paquet. The capability maturity model of software development. Technical
Report OS-M1001-X-1.0, OS Communications Informatiques, Montreal, Canada,
2000.
[11] Joey Paquet. OS communications informatiques: Software engineering practices.
Technical Report OS-M1002-X-1.0, OS Communications Informatiques, Montreal,
Canada, 2000.
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Contribution to the Training of Highly Qualified Personnel
Graduate Thesis Supervision --- Completed
[1] Aihua Wu. OO-IP Hybrid Language Design and a Framework Approach to the
GIPC, Ph.D., Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering,
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 2009.
[2] Emil Vassev. Autonomic Systems Specification Language. Ph.D., Department of
Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal,
Canada, 2008.
[3] Xin Tong. Context Caluculus in the GIPSY. M.Sc., Department of Computer
Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 2008.
[4] Amir Pourteymour. Comparative Study of Demand Migration Framework
Implementation Using JMA and Jini. M.Sc., Department of Computer Science and
Software Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 2008.
[5] Kaiyu Wan. Lucx: Lucid Enriched with Context PhD, Computer Science
Department, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 2006.
[6] Serguei Mokhov. Towards Hybrid Intensional Programming with JLucid,
Objective Lucid, and General Imperative Compiler Framework in the GIPSY,
M.Sc. thesis, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering,
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 2005.
[7] Emil Vassev. General Architecture for Demand Migration in the GIPSY Demand-
Driven Execution Engine, M.Comp.Sc, Department of Computer Science and
Software Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 2005.
[8] Elena Tudoroiu. Software process modeling: Investigations using the RUP,
Master’s Thesis, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering,
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 2005.
[9] Yi Min Ding. Bi-directional translation between dataflow graphs and Lucid
programs in the GIPSY environment, Master's Thesis, Department of Computer
Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 2004.
[10] Lei Tao. Warehouse and garbage collection in the GIPSY environment, Master's
Thesis, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia
University, Montreal, Canada, 2004.
[11] Aihua Wu. Semantic checking and translation in the GIPSY Environment,
M.Comp.Sc thesis, Computer Science Department, Concordia University, Montreal,
Canada, 2002.
[12] Chun Lei Ren. Parsing ans abstract syntax tree generation for indexical Lucid in
the GIPSY Environment, M.Comp.Sc thesis, Computer Science Department,
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. 2002.
[13] Lin Fang Wang. Experiment on software documentation standards and
methodology. M.Ap.Comp.Sc, Computer Science Department, Concordia
University, Montreal, Canada, 2002.
[14] Liu Ying Chun. Comparative Study of Java and C++: Design and Implementation
of a Gas Station Network System. M.Ap.Comp.Sc, Computer Science Department,
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 2002.
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[15] Weilan Jiang. Fast Adaptation of Legacy Code for Server Hosting, M.Comp.Sc
thesis, Computer Science Department, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada,
2001.
Graduate Thesis Supervision --- In Progress
[1] Serguei Mokhov. Intensional Cyberforensics. Ph.D., Department of Computer
Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
[2] Han Bin. Implementation of a Scalable Demand-driven Execution Environment in
the GIPSY. M.Sc., Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering,
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
[3] Yi Ji. M.Sc., Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering,
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
Undergraduate Supervision
[1] Andre Lemyre. Design and implementation of a compiler in the GIPSY
environment. Undergraduate research (funded by NSERC undergraduate research
summer grant). Computer Science Department, Concordia University, Montreal,
Canada, December 2000.
Other Contributions
[1] Reviewer, NSERC grant applications. 2003, 2007, 2008.
[2] Reviewer, FQRNT Post-doctoral Grants Program. 2007, 2008
[3] Member of the program and organization committee of C3S2E2010, C* Conference
on Computer Science & Software Engineering. Montreal, Canada. 2010.
[4] Member of the program and organization committee of SERA2010, Software
Engineering Research, Management & Applications. Montreal, Canada. 2010.
[5] Member of the program and organization committee of SECASA2010, 3rd IEEE
International Workshop on Software Engineering for Context Aware Systems and
Applications. Montreal, Canada. 2010.
[6] Member of the program and organization committee of SECASA2009, 2nd IEEE
International Workshop on Software Engineering for Context Aware Systems and
Applications. Seattle, USA. 2009.
[7] Member of the program and organization committee of SECASA2008, 1st IEEE
International Workshop on Software Engineering for Context Aware Systems and
Applications. Turku, Finland. 2008.
[8] Member of the program and organization committee of DCW2000, Workshop on
Distributed Communities on the WEB, Laval University, 2000.
[9] Book reviewer for McGraw-Hill for the proposed sixth edition of Roger Pressman's
Software Engineering book. 2002.
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Table of Contents
PART I: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION ......................................................... 2
IDENTIFICATION.......................................................................................................... 2
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY ........................................................................................... 2
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND ....................................................................................... 3
AWARDS ........................................................................................................................ 3
MEMBERSHIPS ............................................................................................................. 3
CERTIFICATIONS ......................................................................................................... 4
LANGUAGES ................................................................................................................. 4
PART II: RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS ................................................................ 5
CONTRIBUTIONS ......................................................................................................... 5
REFEREED JOURNAL PAPERS .................................................................................. 7
BOOK CHAPTERS ......................................................................................................... 8
REFEREED CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS (2003-2010)................................ 9
REFEREED CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS (before 2003) ............................ 18
NON-REFEREED CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS......................................... 19
OTHER PUBLICATIONS ............................................................................................ 19
TABLE OF PUBLICATIONS ....................................................................................... 20
OTHER EVIDENCE OF IMPACT ............................................................................... 20
PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER’S PERMIT with O.I.Q. ............................................... 21
POST-DOC .................................................................................................................... 22
GRADUATED DOCTORAL STUDENTS .................................................................. 22
IN-PROGRAM DOCTORAL STUDENTS .................................................................. 22
GRADUATED MASTER’S THESIS OPTION STUDENTS ...................................... 23
IN-PROGRAM MASTER’S THESIS OPTION STUDENTS ...................................... 24
GRADUATED MASTER’S MAJOR REPORT OPTION STUDENTS ...................... 25
PART V: TEACHING ACTIVITIES ...................................................................... 27
TEACHING ASSIGNMENTS ...................................................................................... 27
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS SUPERVISION ................................................... 28
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT .............................................................................. 30
PART VI: ACADEMIC SERVICE........................................................................... 31
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PART I: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
IDENTIFICATION
Olga Ormandjieva, Ph.D, Eng.
Computer Science & Software Engineering Department (CSE)
Concordia University
EV 3.165, 1455 de Maisonneuve West
Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1M8
office: (514) 848 2424 (ext.7810)
fax : (514) 848 2830
e-mail: ormandj@cse.concordia.ca
web : http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~ormandj/
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
June 2008 to present Associate Professor
Computer Science & Software Engineering Department
Concordia University, Canada
April 2002 to May2008
Assistant Professor
Computer Science & Software Engineering Department (CSE)
Concordia University, Canada
August 2001 to April 2002 Lecturer
Computer Science & Software Engineering Department (CSE)
Concordia University, Canada
January 2001 to August
2001
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Computer Science & Software Engineering Department (CSE)
Concordia University, Canada
June 1998 to August 2001 Faculty Research Assistant
Computer Science & Software Engineering Department (CSE)
Concordia University, Canada
(1996-1997
1991-1995
Maternity leave)
1993-1994 Part-Time Instructor
Associate Professor
LSI Department, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
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Instituto Catalan de Technologia, Barcelona, Spain
1990-1991 Doctoral Research Assistant
Institute of Computer Science and Mechanics, Academy of
Science, Bulgaria
1990-1991 Teaching Assistant
Computer Science Faculty, University "Climent Ojridski",
Sofia, Bulgaria
1987-1989 System-Analyst
Direccion Provincial de Vivienda, Las Villas, Cuba
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
1998-2002 Ph.D. in Computer Science
Concordia University, Montreal
1984-1987 M.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics
University Central Las Villas, Cuba
1981-1984 B.Tech. in Mathematics
University "Clement Ojridski", Sofia, Bulgaria
AWARDS
1999-2002 McConell Fellowship
Concordia University
1999-2001 FCAR Scholarship, $18,000 per annum
2008 ENCS Merit Award, Concordia University, $600
2008 IEEE Montreal Section Award
MEMBERSHIPS
Since May 2007 Ordre des Ingénieurs du Québec
Professional Engineer
Membership Number: 130066
Since March 2006 American Society for Quality
Membership Number: 63429528
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Since January 2007 IEEE Computer Society Membership
Membership Number: 90330465
Since Fall 2008: IEEE Montreal Computer Chapter
Position: Secretary
Since Fall 2008: IEEE Montreal Women in Engineering WIE Affinity
Group
Position: Chair
CERTIFICATIONS
2006 COSMIC-FFP Functional Size Measurement Method
LANGUAGES
Languages Understand Speak Read Write
English
Spanish
Russian
Bulgarian
French
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PART II: RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
CONTRIBUTIONS
My main area of research is the development of formal methods for modeling and
monitoring non-functional requirements (NFRs) in Software Engineering, more
specifically in Reactive Autonomic Systems, and their extension to other contexts such
as Business Processes Modeling, Enterprise Integration Systems, and SAP ERP
projects. I am currently investigating ways to apply the described methods in the
industrial environment and extend them to the development and self-management of
complex systems such as Internet of Services with Category Theory - a powerful
language, or conceptual framework, allowing us to see the universal components of a
family of structures of a given kind, and how structures of different kinds are
interrelated. Category theory is a branch of mathematics which is superbly capable of
addressing “structure”, consideration of which is the main motivation behind this new
direction of my research: structure emerges from interactions between elements as
captured by arrows, and not extensionally as in set theory. The research question is,
how far can one go in formalizing software development methods and techniques in
mathematical frameworks? Finding the answer to this question is essential for a mature
engineering discipline, and, in my opinion, our responsibility as scientists. Furthermore,
the approach to the university-level teaching of mathematics in software engineering
programs could shift progressively from one based on set theory to one that is centered
on interactions. These are some of the ideas I envisage addressing in the future.
This document presents a summary of my research expertise and achievements
and my contribution to the field of software engineering. My strategy for research and
publications has been to create strong foundations for independent research, publish in
top workshops and conferences supported by IEEE and ACM, and then target
international good quality journals in the field, such as Journal of Systems and
Software. My effort toward independent research has led to several publications in
good quality refereed international conferences, such as QSIC, CSIE and
EUROMICRO, and forums/workshops such as the Software Measurement European
Forum and the International Workshop on Software Measurement, which specialize in
software measurement research.
1. MOST SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS
[1] Mohamad Kassab*, Olga Ormandjieva, Maya Daneva. Formal and Quantitative
Approach for Integrating Nonfunctional Requirements in Software Engineering.
Chapter in the book "Methodologies for Non-Functional Requirements in Service
Oriented Architecture: Requirements Engineering, Model-Driven Development and
Security". Publisher: IGI, 2009.
Much of my current research work is motivated by the need to build software NFRs into the
software solution, a need rooted in the current industrial trend toward developing complex
software systems. Empirical reports consistently indicate that neglecting NFRs leads to project
failures, or at least to considerable delays, and, consequently, to significant increases in the
final cost. The importance of software compliance with the imposed NFRs requires continuous
control of the NFRs at runtime, which brings up another important research issue, namely,
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understanding the complex and frequently ill-defined NFR roles and interrelations in
increasing complex large-scale software systems. In this book chapter, we propose a
metamodel for capturing FRs and NFRs and relations, and we offer a traceability mechanism
under the umbrella of relational models to detect the impact of NFRs on system components. To
the best of our knowledge, the software industry lacks formal NFRs modeling and management
methods and would certainly benefit from the precise and objective approach proposed in this
chapter. A special attention is paid in this chapter towards mapping our approach into service
computing context. The approach is illustrated on a case study. This research direction is
partially supported by my NSERC Discovery Grant 2005-2010.
[2] Heng Kuang*, Olga Ormandjieva, Stan Klasa, Noorulain Khurshid*, Jamal Benthar.
Towards Specifying Reactive Autonomic Systems by a Categorical Approach: A Case
Study. Accepted for publication In Proceedings of International Conference on
Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA 2009), China,
December 2009. [To be published as a Book Chapter in Studies in Computational
Intelligence, LNCS]
Large and complex systems must learn to monitor their own behavior and its conformance to
NFRs in conjunction with high-level guidance from humans – a vision referred to as autonomic
computing. This issue was the motivation for my Reactive Autonomic Systems (RAS) project
aimed to realize the vision of large-scale self-managing autonomic systems. RAS systems are
complex and built from potentially very large numbers of highly autonomic and reactive, yet
socially interactive, elements. Progress has been made along three tracks: i) providing an NFR
hierarchy for RAS along with the mechanisms for their self-control, ii) developing RAS scalable
agent-based architecture with an emphasis on the “social lives” of interacting elements built-in
decision-making facilitating the easy reconfiguration at run-time and without interrupting vital
services, and iii) automated modelling assistance as a foundation for the graphical
formalization of the ARS requirements (FR and NFR), their interrelations and change
management within the RAS life cycle, in terms of Category theory. In this book chapter,
Category Theory has been proposed as a formal framework to adequately address the problem
of verifying two of the most important features of autonomic systems, namely emergent
behavior and evolving behavior specify reactive autonomic systems. The approach is illustrated
with a NASA case study. This research direction is partially supported by my NSERC Discovery
Grant 2005-2010.
[3] Olga Ormandjieva. Victoria Mikhnovsky*, Stan Klasa. Categorical Representation of
Decision-Making Process Guided by Performance in Enterprise Integration Systems.
In Proceedings of 10th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering,
Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD 2009),
pp.221-232, May 27-29, 2009, Daegu, Korea. [Studies in Computational Intelligence
209, LNCS Series of Springer]
This paper introduced an important extension of the previous work concerning formal aspects
of enterprise integration and decision-making based on performance measurement. The work
exploits the applicability of category theory as a unifying formal language that allows using the
same constructs for modeling heterogeneous objects and different types of relations between
them. This research work is partially supported by my NSERC Discovery Grant 2005-2010.
[4] Shadi Moradi Seresht*, Olga Ormandjieva and Samer Sabra*. Automatic Conceptual
Analysis of User Requirements with the Requirements Engineering Assistance
Diagnostic (READ) Tool. In Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Software
Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA 2008), pp.133-142,
Prague, Czech Republic, August 20 - 22, 2008. [DBLP. IEEE Computer Society
Press.]
Requirements Engineering Assistance Diagnostic Tool (READ) project aims at applying
Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to Requirements Engineering (RE), which
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addresses the problem of providing automated assistance to the assessment of the quality of
requirements text and of automatically extracting FR and NFRs models from the text. The
objective is to develop a comprehensive workbench that would facilitate and automate the
process of extracting FR and NFRs models from the preprocessed requirements documents
written in natural language, organized and re-written in a complete and unambiguous fashion;
it has the potential to bring about significant industrial savings in cost and aggravation, as well
as to prevent very costly misinterpretation in the project development or product evolution.
Tool for REED methodology support is currently being developed as a Web-based system. By
using a standard Web browser, users can edit their requirements, and ask for specific views. A
central server will act as a repository for requirements documents in XML format. The domainrelated
knowledge stored in the central server would allow for automated expertise in assessing
the requirements text (substituting for, or reducing, the need for the involvement of human
experts). A repository of domain-related conceptual models would decrease the effort required
to develop new conceptual models for already existing domains in the long term by promoting
the reuse of the previously created models.
[5] O. Ormandjieva, M. Abu Talib*, A. Abran. Reliability Model for Component-Based
Systems in COSMIC (a Case Study). International Journal of Software Engineering
and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE). Vol. 18, No. 4, June 2008. [SCI, DBLP, IF =
0.413]
The importance of early effort estimation, resource allocation and overall quality control in a
software project has led the industry to formulate several methods for functional size
measurement (FSM) of software straight from its requirements document. My 2003-2007
research achievements at Concordia included early NFR assessment in the context of software
engineering standardization, namely, the ISO COSMIC Standard (ISO/IEC 19761. Software
Engineering – COSMIC– A functional size measurement method. Geneva: International
Organization for Standardization – ISO, Geneva, 2003). The main goal of this research was to
contribute to the standardization of software measurement methods for the software industry,
and make them applicable from the early phases of the software life cycle. Advancement in this
area and the consequent extension of COSMIC to NFR assessment is of benefit to the industry,
as long as it concerns compliance with the internationally recognized ISO standards.
2. ALL CONTRIBUTIONS
NOTE: For the reader’s convenience, I have indicated conferences and workshops
included in the DBLP (Computer Science Bibliography, see dblp.uni-trier.de)
and the acceptance rates, where available (proofs can be provided upon request).
As required, inclusion in the Thomson Science Citation Index is marked SCI,
and the names of the student co-authors are marked with an asterisk. The
conference/workshop name indicates whether it is an IEEE or ACM event,
where applicable. The publishers are listed for those accepted/published papers
which are not marked as SCI or DBLP. The Impact Factor (IF) is indicated
where applicable. For comparison purposes, the Impact Factor of the IEEE’s
software journal, which is considered to be the gold standard among software
engineering publications, is in the range of 1.5.
REFEREED JOURNAL PAPERS
[1] Araash Shaban-Nejad*, Olga Ormandjieva, Mohamad Kassab*, Volker Haarslev.
Managing Requirement Volatility in an Ontology-Driven Clinical Laboratory
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Information Management System (LIMS) Using Category Theory. International
Journal of Telemedicine and Applications, Vol. 2009, Article ID 917826, 14 pages,
PubMed ID: 19343191, CoRR abs/0906.1842, 2009. DOI 10.1155/2009/917826
[DBLP]
[2] Olga Ormandjieva and Emil Vassev*. ASSL Specification of a Self-Scheduling
Modeling and Monitoring in Reactive Autonomic Systems: Team-Robotics Case
Study. International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications, Vol. 4, No.
3, pp. 277-286, October 2008, tai: itssa.2008.10.059 [DBLP]
[3] O. Ormandjieva, M. Abu Talib*, A. Abran. Reliability Model for Component-
Based Systems in COSMIC-FFP (a Case Study). International Journal of Software
Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE). Vol. 18, No. 4, June 2008.
[SCI, DBLP, IF = 0.413]
[4] O. Ormandjieva, V.S. Alagar, M. Zheng. Methodology for Early Quality
Monitoring in Real-Time Reactive Systems Development. The Journal of Systems
& Software Volume 81, pp. 1738-1753, November 2008. DOI information:
10.1016/j.jss.2007.12.808.[SCI, DBLP, IF=0.744]
[5] Mao Zheng, Vasu Alagar, Olga Ormandjieva. Automated Generation of Test Suites
from Formal Specifications of Real-Time Reactive Systems. Journal of Systems and
Software, Volume 81 (2), pp. 286-304, 2008.[SCI, DBLP, IF=0.744]
[6] Olga Ormandjieva and Emil Vassev*. ASSL Specification of a Self-Scheduling
Mechanism in Team-Robotics Modeled with the AS-TRM. System and Information
Sciences Notes Vol. 2, No 1, pp. 132-137, September 2007. sai: sisn.2007.09.156.
[7] Manar Abu Talib*, Olga Ormandjieva, Alain Abran, Adel Khelifi, Luigi Buglione.
Scenario-based Black-Box Testing in COSMIC-FFP: a Case Study. ASQ Software
Quality Professional Journal 8 (3), pp. 23-33, June 2006.[SCI, DBLP, IF=0.529]
[8] O. Ormandjieva, H. Kuang*, E. Vassev. Reliability Self-Assessment in Reactive
Autonomic Systems: Autonomic System-Time Reactive Model Approach.
International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications, Volume 2 (1), pp.
99-104, 2006. [DBLP]
[9] Da Yu Li*, V. Kiricenko* and O. Ormandjieva. Halstead’s Software Science in
Today’s Object Oriented World. Metrics News Journal (9) 2, pp. 33-40, 2004.
[Publisher: Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, Germany]
[10] V.S. Alagar, R. Achuthan, M. Haydar, O. Ormandjieva, M. Zheng. A Rigorous
Approach for Constructing Self-Evolving Real-Time Reactive Systems.
Information and Software Technology, Volume 45, Issue 11, pp. 743-761, August
2003.[SCI, DBLP, IF=0.435]
BOOK CHAPTERS
1. M. Abu Talib, A. Abran, O. Ormandjieva, COSMIC-FFP & Functional Complexity
(FC) Measures: A Study of their Scales, Units and Scale Types, p. 95-
102.'COSMIC Function Points: Theory and Advanced Practices', Reiner Dumke &
Alain Abran, Editors, Auerback Publications - Taylor & Francis LLC, Boca Raton,
Florida, 2010, pp. 256.
2. Mohamad Kassab*, Olga Ormandjieva, Maya Daneva. Formal and Quantitative
Approach for Integrating Nonfunctional Requirements in Software Engineering. In
the book "Methodologies for Non-Functional Requirements in Service Oriented
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Architecture: Requirements Engineering, Model-Driven Development and
Security", 2009. [Publisher: IGI].
REFEREED CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS (2003-2010)
2010:
1. Heng Kuang*, Jamal Bentahar, Olga Ormandjieva, Nassir Shafieidizaji and Stan
Klasa. Formal Specification of Substitutability Property for Fault-Tolerance in
Reactive Autonomic Systems. Accepted at V 9th International Conference on
Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques (SoMeT'2010), Yokohama, Japan,
Sept. 29 to Oct. 31st, 2010.
2. Heng Kuang*, Olga Ormandjieva, Stan Klasa, Jamal Bentahar. Formal
Specification of Fault-Tolerance in Prospecting Asteroid Mission with Reactive
Autonomic Systems Framework. In Proceedings of ASAP 2010 — 21st IEEE
International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and
Processors, July 7-9, 2010 Rennes, France. [IEEE. Acceptance rate: 27%]
3. Ishrar Hussain*, Leila Kosseim, Olga Ormandjieva. Towards Approximating
COSMIC Functional Size from User Requirements in Agile Development Processes
Using Text Mining. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on
Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB-2010), June 23-
25, 2010, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK.
4. Noorulain Khurshid*, Olga Ormandjieva, Stan Klasa. Towards a Tool Support for
Specifying Complex Software Systems by Categorical Modeling Language.
Accepted for publication In the IEEE Proceedings of International Conference on
Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA 2010),
Montreal, May 2010. [IEEE]
5. Manar Abu Talib, Adel Khelifi, Alain Abran, Olga Ormandjieva. Techniques for
Quantitative Analysis of Software Quality throughout the SDLC: The SWEBOK
Guide Coverage. Accepted for publication In the IEEE Proceedings of International
Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications
(SERA 2010), Montreal, May 2010. [IEEE]
6. Nelly Condori-Fernandez, Maya Daneva, Luigi Buglione, Olga Ormandjieva.
Experimental study using functional size measurement in building estimation model
for software project size. Accepted for publication In the IEEE Proceedings of
International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and
Applications (SERA 2010), Montreal, May 2010. [IEEE]
2009:
7. M. Kassab*, O. Ormandjieva, M. Daneva. Towards an Early Software Effort
Estimation based on Functional and Non-Functional Requirements. In Proceedings
of IWSM-Mensura International Conference on Software Process and Product
Measurement (IWSM/Mensura 2009), pp.182-196, 2009. [Shaker Verlag]
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8. Heng Kuang*, Olga Ormandjieva, Stan Klasa, Noorulain Khurshid*, Jamal
Benthar. Towards Specifying Reactive Autonomic Systems by a Categorical
Approach: A Case Study. In Proceedings of International Conference on Software
Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA 2009), China,
December 2009. [Studies in Computational Intelligence, LNCS Series of
Springer]
9. M. Kassab*, O. Ormandjieva, M. Daneva. An Ontology Based approach to Non-
Functional Requirements Conceptualization. In Proceedings of the Fourth
International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA 2009), pp.
299-308, September 20-25, 2009, Porto, Portugal.
10. Olga Ormandjieva, Heng Kuang*, Stan Klasa, Jamal Bentahar. Reactive Autonomic
Systems performance Modeling and Self-monitoring with Category Theory. In
Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies
(ICSOFT 2009), pp.325-330, July 26 - 29, 2009, Sofia, Bulgaria. [Conference
Proceedings Citation Index - THOMSON REUTERS, INSPEC and DBLP]
11. Magda G. Ilieva, Olga Ormandjieva. Nested NL representation for OO analysis
and design. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Software
Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2009), pp. 49-54, July 1 - July 3,
2009, Boston, USA. [DBLP]
12. Ishrar Hussain*, Olga Ormandjieva, Leila Kosseim. Mining and Clustering Textual
Requirements to Measure Functional Size of Software with COSMIC. In
Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering Research
and Practice SERP 2009, Special Session on Software Measurement.
[Acceptance rate 27%, DBLP]
13. Olga Ormandjieva. Victoria Mikhnovsky*, Stan Klasa. Categorical Representation
of Decision-Making Process guided by Performance in Enterprise Integration
Systems. In Proceedings of 10th ACIS International Conference on Software
Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed
Computing (SNPD 2009), pp.221-232, May 27-29, 2009, Daegu, Korea.
[Studies in Computational Intelligence, LNCS Series of Springer]
14. Mao Zeng, Olga Ormandjieva. Reliability Analysis in the Early Development of
Real-Time Reactive Systems. In Proceedings of World Congress on Computer
Science and Information Engineering (CSIE 2009), pp. 807 – 812, Los Angeles,
USA. [IEEE Computer Society Press, indexed in the EI/ISTP]
15. Olga Ormandjieva. Victoria Mikhnovsky*. Enterprise Integration Performance
Modeling and Measurement based on Category Theory. In Proceedings of World
Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE 2009), pp. 432
– 437, Los Angeles, USA.
[IEEE Computer Society Press, indexed in the EI/ISTP]
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16. M. Kassab*, O. Ormandjieva, M. Daneva. A Metamodel for Tracing Non-
Functional Requirements. In Proceedings of 2009 World Congress on Computer
Science and Information Engineering (CSIE 2009), pp. 687 – 694. Los Angeles,
USA.
[IEEE Computer Society Press, indexed in the EI/ISTP]
17. Reem Al-Nanih*, Hana Al-Nuaim, Olga Ormandjieva. New Health Information
Systems (HIS) Quality-in-Use Model based on GQM Approach and HCI Principles.
In Proceedings of HCI International 2009 conference, pp.429-438, July 19-24,
2009, SAN DIEGO, CA, USA. [LNCS Series of Springer]
2008:
18. Victoria Mikhnovsky*, Olga Ormandjieva. Towards Enterprise Integration
Performance Assessment based on Category Theory. In Proceedings of
Engineering/Computing and Systems Research E-Conference CISSE 2008.
19. Luigi Buglione, Olga Ormandjieva, Maya Daneva. Using PSU for Early Prediction
of COSMIC Size of Functional and Nonfunctional Requirements. In Proceedings of
MENSURA2008 International Conference on Software Process and Product
Measurement, November 18-19, 2008, Munich, Germany, LNCS Series Volume
5338/2008 352-361, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-89403-2_29.
[LNCS Series of Springer]
20. Shadi Moradi Seresht*, Olga Ormandjieva. Automated Assistance for Use Cases
Elicitation from User Requirements Text. In Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on
Requirements Engineering (WER’08), September 12-13, Barcelona, Spain.
[IEEE Computer Society Press]
21. M. Kassab * , M. Daneva, O. Ormandjieva. A Meta-model for Assessment of Non-
Functional Requirements Size. In Proceedings of Software Engineering and
Advanced Applications, 2008 (SEAA '08) 34th Euromicro Conference, 3-5 Sept.
2008. Pp. 411 - 418, Parma, Italy.
22. Manar Abu Talib*, Adel Khelifi, Alain Abram, Olga Ormandjieva. Assessment of
Real-Time Software Specifications Quality using COSMIC-FFP. In Lecture Notes
in Computer Science #4895, Special Issue on Software Process and Product
Measurement, pp. 183-194 (2008).
[LNCS Series of Springer]
23. M. Kassab*, O. Ormandjieva, M. Daneva, A. Abran. Non-Functional Requirements
Size Measurement Method (NFSM) with COSMIC-FFP. In. Lecture Notes in
Computer Science #4895, Special Issue on Software Process and Product
Measurement, pp. 168-182 (2008).
[LNCS Series of Springer]
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24. Heng Kuang* and Olga Ormandjieva. Self-Monitoring of Non-Functional
Requirements in Reactive Autonomic System Framework:
A Multi-Agent Systems Approach. In Proceedings of the Third International Multi-
Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology (ICCGI’08) July
27 - August 1, 2008, pp.186-192, Athens, Greece.
[IEEE Computer Society Press. Acceptance rate: 33%]
25. Shadi Moradi Seresht*, Olga Ormandjieva and Samer Sabra*. Automatic
Conceptual Analysis of User Requirements with the Requirements Engineering
Assistance Diagnostic (READ) Tool. In Proceedings of 6th International
Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications
(SERA 2008), pp.133-142, Prague, Czech Republic, August 20 - 22, 2008.
[DBLP. IEEE Computer Society Press. Acceptance rate: 42%]
26. M. Kassab * , O. Ormandjieva, M. Daneva. A Traceability Metamodel for Change
Management of Non-Functional Requirements. In Proceedings of 6th International
Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications
(SERA 2008), pp.245-254, Prague, Czech Republic, August 20 - 22, 2008.
[DBLP. IEEE Computer Society Press. Acceptance rate: 42%]
27. Ishrar Hussain*, Leila Kosseim, and Olga Ormandjieva. Using Linguistic
Knowledge to Improve the Detection of Non-Functional Requirements
Specifications. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 5039, E. Kapetanios
et al. (Eds). Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Applications of
Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB-2008), pp. 287-298. London, UK,
June 2008.
[DBLP. Publisher: Springer-Verlag. Acceptance rate: 27.9%]
28. Shadi Moradi Serasht*, Olga Ormandjieva. Automatic Assessment of Software
Requirements Modeling: READ (Requirements Engineering Assistance Diagnostic)
Project. In Proceeedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering
Theory and Practice (SETP2008), pp.105-114, July 7-10, Orlando, FL, USA.
[DBLP]
29. Javier Quiroz*, Olga Ormandjieva. Methodology for Automatic Generation of
Exhaustive Behavioral Models in Reactive Autonomic Systems. In Proceeedings of
the International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice
(SETP2008), pp.95-104, July 7-10, Orlando, FL, USA.
[DBLP]
2007:
30. Olga Ormandjieva, Emil Vassev*. ASSL Specification of Self-Scheduling Design
and Monitoring in Team-Robotics Modeled with AS-TRM. In Proceedings of the
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IEEE Engineering/Computing and Systems Research E-Conference (CISSE 2007),
December 3 - 12, 2007, University of Bridgeport.
[LNCS Series of Springer]
31. Manar Abu Talib*, Adel Khelifi, Alain Abran, Olga Ormandjieva. A Case Study of
using COSMIC-FFP Measurement Method from a Specification Problem. In
Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Process and Product
Measurement IWSM-Mensura 2007, pp.132-141, Palma de Majorca, Spain,
November 5-8, 2007.
[Publisher: Magdeburger Schriften zum Empirischen Software Engineering.
Shaker Verlag]
[Extended version will be published in LNCS Series of Springer]
32. M. Kassab*, O. Ormandjieva, M. Daneva, A. Abran. Non-Functional
Requirements: Size Measurement and Testing with COSMIC-FFP. In Proceedings
of the International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement
IWSM-Mensura 2007, pp. 247-259, Palma de Majorca, Spain, November 5-8, 2007.
[Publisher: Magdeburger Schriften zum Empirischen Software Engineering.
Shaker Verlag]
[Extended version will be published in LNCS Series of Springer]
33. M. Kassab*, O. Ormandjieva, M. Daneva, A. Abran. Scope Management of Non-
Functional Requirements in Requirements Engineering. In Proceedings of MeReP:
Workshop on Measuring Requirements for Project and Product Success, Palma de
Majorca, Spain, November 6, 2007.
[Publisher: Magdeburger Schriften zum Empirischen Software Engineering.
Shaker Verlag]
34. Ishrar Hussain*, Olga Ormandjieva, Leila Kosseim. Automatic Quality Assessment
of SRS Text by Means of a Decision-Tree-Based Text Classifier. In Proceedings of
the Seventh International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC 2007), pp. 209-
218, Portland, USA, October 11-12, 2007.
[Acceptance rate 26%, DBLP]
35. Olga Ormandjieva, Ishrar Hussain*, Leila Kosseim. Toward Text Classification
System for Quality Assessment of Software Requirements Written in Natural
Language. In Proceedings of The 6th Joint Meeting of the European Software
Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of
Software Engineering, pp. 39-45, Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 2-4, 2007.
[Publisher: ACM New York, NY, USA, Acceptance rate 60%]
36. M. Kassab*, M. Daneva, O. Ormandjieva. Scope Management of the Non-
Functional Requirements. In Proceedings of the IEEE 33 d EUROMICRO-SEAA
Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, pp. 409-417,
Luebeck, Germany, August 29-31, 2007.
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[Acceptance rate 40%, DBLP]
37. Emil Vassev*, Olga Ormandjieva, Joey Paquet. ASSL Specification of Reliability
Self-Assessment in the AS-TRM. In Proceedings of the 2nd International
Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2007), pp. 198-206,
Barcelona, Spain, July 2007.
[Acceptance rate 39%, DBLP]
38. M. Daneva, M. Kassab*, M. L. Ponisio, R. J. Wieringa, O. Ormandjieva. Exploiting
a Goal-Decomposition Technique to Prioritize Non-functional Requirements. In
Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Requirements Engineering
(WER'07), pp. 190-196, Toronto, Canada, May 17-18, 2007.
[DBLP]
39. Manar Abu-Talib*, Olga Ormandjieva, Alain Abran. AS-TRM and Functional Size
with COSMIC-FFP. In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on
Industrial Electronics – ISIE 2007, Vigo, Spain, June 4-7, 2007.
[Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Acceptance
rate 62%]
2006:
40. M. Daneva, A. Abran, O. Ormandjieva, M. Abu Talib*. A case study of metricbased
and scenario-driven black-box testing for SAP projects. In Proceedings of the
International Workshop on Software Measurement – IWSM 2006, pp. 285-304,
Potsdam, Germany, November 1-3, 2006.
[Publisher: Magdeburger Schriften zum Empirischen Software Engineering.
Shaker Verlag]
41. E. Vassev*, H. Kuang*, O. Ormandjieva, E., Paquet. Reactive, Distributed and
Autonomic Computing Aspects of AS-TRM. In Proceedings of the 1st
International Conference on Software and Data Technologies-ICSOFT2006, pp.
196-202, Setubal, Portugal, September 11-14, 2006.
[DBLP]
42. M. G. Ilieva*, O. Ormandjieva. Models Derived from Automatically Analyzed
Textual User Requirements. In Proceedings of the Fourth International
Conference on Software Engineering, Research, Management and
Applications (SERA 2006), pp. 13–21, Seattle, Washington, August 9-11, 2006.
[DBLP]
43. O. Ormandjieva, M. G. Ilieva*. Automatic Comprehension of Textual User
Requirements and Their Static and Dynamic Modeling. In Proceedings of the 2006
International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice
(SERP’06), pp. 266-273, Las Vegas, USA, June 26-29, 2006. [DBLP]
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44. O. Ormandjieva, I. Hussain*. Towards Automatic Generation of Formal System-
Scenario Specifications from Real-Time Reactive Systems Requirements Written in
NL. In Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Real-Time Computing
Systems and Applications (RTCOMP’06), pp. 991-999, Las Vegas, USA, June 26-
29, 2006.
[DBLP]
45. Manar Abu-Talib*, Alain Abran, Olga Ormandjieva. Markov Model and Functional
Size with COSMIC-FFP. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference International
Symposium on Industrial Electronics (IEEE-ISIE3006), vol.4, pp. 3240-3245,
Montreal, Canada, July 2006.
[Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.]
46. M. Kassab*, O. Ormandjieva. Towards an Aspect-Oriented Software Development
Model with Traceability Mechanism. In Proceedings of the Early Aspects 2006:
Traceability of Aspects in the Early Life Cycle Workshop, Bonn, Germany, March
20-25, 2006.
[Publisher: ACM New York, NY, USA]
2005:
47. M. Kassab*, O. Ormandjieva, C. Constantinides. Providing Quality Measurement
for Aspect-Oriented Software Development. In Proceedings of the 12th Asia-
Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC’05), pp.769-775, Taipei,
Taiwan, December 15-17, 2005.
[Acceptance rate 33%, DBLP]
48. M.G. Ilieva*, O. Ormandjieva. Automatic Transition of Natural Language Software
Requirements Specification into Formal Presentation. In Proceedings of the 10th
International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information
Systems (NLDB’05), pp. 392-397, Alicante, Spain, June 14-17, 2005.
[Acceptance rate 54%, SCI, DBLP, Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS
3513]
49. Mubarak Sami*, V.S. Alagar, O. Ormandjieva. A Visualization Tool for Safety
Critical Systems. In Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on
Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods (MSV'05), pp. 152-156, Las
Vegas, USA, June 27-30, 2005.
[Acceptance rate 54%, DBLP]
50. O. Ormandjieva. Modeling and Monitoring NFRs in Autonomic Systems: AS-
TROM Approach. In Proceedings of the XL International Scientific Conference on
Information, Communication and Energy Systems and Technologies (ICEST 2005),
pp. 683-686, Nis, June 19-22, 2005.
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51. O. Ormandjieva, M. Kassab*, C. Constantinides. Measurement of Cohesion and
Coupling in OO Analysis Model Based on Crosscutting Concerns. In Proceedings
of the 15 th International Workshop on Software Measurement (IWSM2005), pp.
305-320, Montreal, Canada, September 12-14, 2005.
[Publisher: Magdeburger Schriften zum Empirischen Software Engineering.
Shaker Verlag]
52. M. Abu-Talib*, O. Ormandjieva, A. Abran, L. Buglione. COSMIC-FFP &
Functional Complexity (FC) Measures: A Study of Their Scales Types. In
Proceedings of the 15 th International Workshop on Software Measurement
(IWSM2005), pp. 209-226, Montreal, Canada, September 12-14, 2005.
[Publisher: Magdeburger Schriften zum Empirischen Software Engineering.
Shaker Verlag]
53. V.S. Alagar, O. Ormandjieva, K. Wan*, M. Zheng. Ensuring Service Availability
for Media Handling in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks. In Proceedings of the 2005
International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT2005), pp.133-136,
Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan, May 2005.
[Publisher: ACM New York, NY, USA]
54. V. Kiricenko*, O. Ormandjieva. Measurement of OOP Size Based on Halstead’s
Software Science. In Proceedings of Software Measurement European Forum
(SMEF 2005), pp. 253-260, Rome, Italy, March 2005.
[Acceptance rate 60%; proceedings available online]
55. M. Abu-Talib*, O. Ormandjieva, A. Abran, L. Buglione. Scenario-based Black-Box
Testing in COSMIC-FFP. In Proceedings of Software Measurement European
Forum 2005 (SMEF2005), pp. 173-182, Rome, Italy, March 2005.
[Acceptance rate 60%; proceedings available online]
2004:
56. A. Abran, O. Ormandjieva, M. Abu-Talib*. Information Theory-Based Functional
Complexity Measures and Functional Size with COSMIC-FFP. In Proceedings of
the 14th International Workshop of Software Measurement (IWSM-MetriKon 2004),
pp. 457-471, Germany, 2004.
[Publisher: Springer-Verlag, Konigs Wusterhausen]
57. J. Rilling, Wen Jun Meng, O. Ormandjieva. Context Driven Slicing Based Coupling
Measure. In Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Software
Maintenance 2004 (ICSM 2004), p. 532, Chicago, Illinois, September 11-17, 2004.
[Acceptance rate 38%, DBLP]
58. V.S. Alagar, O. Ormandjieva. Reliability Assessment of E-Commerce Applications.
In Proceedings of 1st International Conference on E-Business and
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Telecommunication Networks (ICETE 2004), pp. 30-37, Setbal, Portugal, August
25-28, 2004.
59. V.S. Alagar, O. Ormandjieva, M. Zheng. Simulated Validation of Autonomous
Traffic Control Systems. In Proceedings of the IEEE 4 th International Conference
on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2004), pp. 641-647,
Budapest, August 26-28, 2004.
[DBLP]
60. V.S. Alagar, O. Ormandjieva, Shi Hui Liu*. Scenario-Based Performance
Modelling and Validation in Real-Time Reactive Systems. In Proceedings of
Software Measurement European Forum 2004 (SMEF2004), Italy, January 28-30,
2004.
[proceedings available online]
61. V.S. Alagar, O.Ormandjieva, M.Zheng. Two-tier Agent Architecture for Trusted
Communication in Ad-Hoc Mobile Networks (Extended Abstract). In Proceedings
of the Winter International Symposium on Information and Communication
Technologies 2004 (WISICT04), pp. 392-397, Cancun, Mexico, January, 2004.
[Publisher: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3034, Springer-Verlag]
[Acceptance rate 45%]
62. V.S. Alagar, O. Ormandjieva, M. Zheng, Performance Modeling and Validation of
Web Applications. Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent Agents,
Web Technologies, and Internet Commerce (IAWTIC 2004), pp. 140-153, Gold
Coast, Australia, July 2004.
[Publisher: Canberra ACT Australia]
2003:
63. V. S. Alagar, M. Chen*, O. Ormandjieva, M. Zheng. Automated Test Generation
from Object-Oriented Specifications of Real-Time Reactive Systems. In
Proceedings of the 10 th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference
http://basil.computer.org/cspress/CATALOG/pr02011.htm (APSEC2003), pp. 406-
414, 2003. [Acceptance rate 40%, DBLP]
64. K. Meridji*, O. Ormandjieva. Measuring Consistency of the Analysis Model: An
XML Approach. In Proceedings of the 13 th International Workshop on Software
Measurement (IWSM2003), Montreal, Canada, November 2003.
[Publisher: Springer-Verlag, Konigs Wusterhausen]
65. V.S. Alagar, O. Ormandjieva, M. Zheng. Incremental Testing for Self-Evolving
Timed Systems. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Quality
Software (QSIC 2003), pp.12-19, IEEE Computer Society Press, Dallas, Texas,
November 2003.
[Acceptance rate 30%, DBLP]
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REFEREED CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS (before 2003)
66. V.S. Alagar, O. Ormandjieva. Reliability Assessment of Web Applications. In
Proceedings of the IEEE 26 th Annual International Computer Software and
Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2002), pp. 405-412, Oxford, August 26-29,
2002.
[DBLP]
67. V.S. Alagar, O. Ormandjieva, Qiaoyun Li. Assessment of Maintainability in
Object-Oriented Software. In Proceedings of the IEEE 39 th International
Conference on Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems (TOOLS
USA 2001), pp. 194-206, July 29 - August 03, 2001.
[DBLP]
68. V.S. Alagar, O. Ormandjieva, M. Zheng. Managing Complexity in Real-Time
Reactive Systems. In Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Conference on
Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS2000), pp. 12-24, Tokyo,
Japan, September 2000.
[DBLP]
69. V.S. Alagar, O. Ormandjieva, M. Zheng. Specification-based testing for real-time
reactive systems. In Proceedings of the 34 th International Conference on
Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems (TOOLS USA 2000), pp.
25-36, USA, August 2000.
[DBLP]
70. V.S. Alagar, O. Ormandjieva. Testing Measurement in Real-Time Reactive
Systems. In Proceedings of the combined 11 th European Software Control and
Metrics Conference and the 3d SCOPE Conference on Software Product Quality
(ESCOM-SCOPE 2000), 2000.
[Publisher: Shaker Publ.]
71. J. Alvarez, N. Castell, O. Slavkova Ormandjieva. Combining knowledge and
metrics to control software quality factors. In Proceedings of the Achieving Quality
in Software (AQUIS'96), 1996.
[Publisher: Ed.: Chapman & Hall]
72. N. Castell, O. Slavkova Ormandjieva. Metrics for Quality Factors in the LESD
Project. In Proceedings of ESEC'95, Sitges (Barcelona, Spain), Lecture Notes in
Computer Science 989, 1995.
[Publisher: Elsevier.]
73. N. Castell, O. Slavkova Ormandjieva, Y. Toussaint. Quality Control of Software
Specifications Written in Natural Language. In Proceedings of 7th International
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Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
and Expert Systems, Austin (Texas-USA), 1995.
[Publisher: Gordon and Breach Science]
NON-REFEREED CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Note: The papers published in Proceedings of the IASTED-SEA conferences are not
considered as refereed by the CSE Department.
1. Magda Ilieva*, Olga Ormandjieva. Natural Language Processing and Formal
Concept Analysis Technologies for Automatic Building of Domain Model. I
Proceedings of 11 th International Conference on Software Engineering (IASTED-
SEA 2007), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, November 19-21, 2007.
[DBLP]
2. Mubarak Sami*, O. Ormandjieva, V.S. Alagar. Visualization Tool for Reactive
Systems Simulation. In Proceedings of 9 th International Conference on Software
Engineering (IASTED-SEA 2005), pp. 65-70, Novosibirsk, Russia, June 20-24,
2005.
[DBLP]
3. M. Kassab*, C. Constantinides, O. Ormandjieva. Specifying and Separating
Concerns from Requirements to Design: A Case Study. In Proceedings of 9 th
International Conference on Software Engineering (IASTED-SEA 2005), pp. 65-70,
Novosibirsk, Russia, June 20-24, 2005.
[DBLP]
4. V.S. Alagar, O. Ormandjieva, Shi Hui Liu*. Performance Assessment in Real-Time
Reactive Systems. In Proceedings of the 7 th International Conference on Software
Engineering and Applications (IASTED-SEA 2003), pp. 714-722, Marina del Rey,
CA, USA, November 3-5, 2003.
[DBLP]
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
1. M. Kassab*, M. Daneva, O. Ormandjieva. Early Quantitative Assessment of Non-
Functional Requirements. Technical Report TR-CTIT-07-35 Centre for Telematics
and Information Technology, University of Twente, Enschede, 2007.
2. O. Ormandjieva. Deriving New Measurements for Real-Time Reactive Systems.
Ph.D. Thesis. Computer Science Department, Concordia University, Montreal,
April 2002.
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SUMMARY AND TABLE OF PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal
Publications
Refereed Conference /
Workshop Publications
Chapters in Books
Non-refereed Conference
/ Workshop Publications
Other disseminated work
OTHER EVIDENCE OF IMPACT
Since 2003 Life-time
10 published
62 published
2 published, 4 accepted
4 published
2
same
70 published
same
same
same
Organized conferences/workshops:
[1] 8th International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications
SERA2010, Montreal, Concordia, May 2010. Proceedings IEEE, LNCS
[2] Canadian Conference on Computer Science & Software Engineering, C3S2E 2009, Montreal,
Quebec, Canada, May 19-21, 2009, 2010, Proceedings ACM
[3] Quantifying the estimation of efforts for building Non-functional Requirements Workshop.
November 8th, 2007, MENSURA-IWSM2007 conference, Palma de Majorca, Spain. Proceedings
LNCS
Journals Editorial Board / External Reviewing
[1] Journal of Supercomputing, SPRINGER
[2] Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems
[3] IEEE Journal of Systems and Software
[4] IARIA International Journal On Advances in Software ISSN 1942-2628
NSERC
Evaluation of NSERC grant applications
Program Committees for Conferences/Workshops
[1] EUROMICRO 2008, 2009, 2010 SEAA Conference, Program Committee member
[2] 4th International Conference on Self-organization and Adaptation of Computing and
Communications (SSCC 2008, 2009, 2010) Program Committee member
[3] Canadian Conference for Computer Science (C3S2E) Program Committee member, 2008, 2009,
2010, Program Committee member
[4] Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA 2008, 2009, 2010) Program
Committee member. Program Chair of SERA2010.
[5] CSIE 2009 World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering, Program
Committee member
[6] SERP2009 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice
SERP, Program Committee member
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[7] IWSM/Mensura 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 International Conference on Software
Process and Product Measurement, Program Committee member
[8] Workshop on Software Economics and Management as part of the 7th joint meeting of the
European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC) and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium
on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE0 2009. Program Committee member
[9] The 8th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2009). Program
Committee member
[10] 10th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence,
Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD 2009) , Program Committee
member
[11] ASEA 2009 International Conference on Advanced Software Engineering & Its
Applications, Program Committee member
[12] ICCGI 2009 The Fourth International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global
Information Technology, Program Committee member
[13] SACC 2009 5th International Conference on Self-organization and Adaptation of
Computing and Communications. Program Committee member
[14] ITNG 2009 SSM track at the 6th IEEE International Conference on Information
Technology: New Generations. Program Committee member
[15] IEEE Engineering/Computing and Systems Research E-Conference Technical Committee Member
(CISSE 2008) Program Committee member
[16] Systemics and Informatics World Congress (SIWN 2008) Program Committee member
[17] Workshops on Requirements Engineering and Project Management, Conference on Advanced
Information Systems Engineering (CaiSe 2008) Program Committee member
[18] International Conference on Self-organization and Self-management in Computing and
Communications (SSCC'08) Program Committee member
[19] IEEE Engineering/Computing and Systems Research E-Conference (CISSE 2007, 2008, 2009).
Program Committee member
[20] XL International Scientific Conference on Information, Communication and Energy Systems and
Technologies (2005). Program Committee member
IEEE Montreal Section activities
[1] Chair of the WIE affinity group of IEEE Montreal section since 2009
[2] Vice-Chair of Computer Chapter of IEEE Montreal section since 2009
Seminars / Presentations:
[1] Affinity group IEEE-WIE Title: “Role of Women in Software Engineering Education”,
invited talk, 2008.
[2] University of Windsor: Title: “Quality Assessment with COSMIC-FFP”, 2007.
[3] University of Saskatchewan: Title:“COSMIC-FFP: Entropy-Based Testing and
Reliability Assessment”, 2005
Awards
[1] ENCS Merit Award, Concordia University 2008
[2] IEEE Montreal Section Award 2008
PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER’S PERMIT with O.I.Q.
My Professional Engineer’s Permit with the O.I.Q. was granted in June 2008.
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PART 2.III: TRAINING OF HIGHLY QUALIFIED PERSONNEL
POST-DOC
Dr. Magda Ilieva December 2005- September 2006
Research Project:
Co-authored
publications:
GRADUATED DOCTORAL STUDENTS
Natural Language Processing in Software Engineering (see
READ Project, Research Dossier)
Five refereed conference papers and one non-refereed
conference paper
1. Mohamad Kassab Graduated in the Fall of 2009
Thesis Topic: Formal and Quantitative Approach to Non-Functional
Requirements Modeling and Assessment in Software
Co-authored
publications:
Engineering
One book chapter, one refereed journal paper, fourteen
refereed conference/workshop papers and one technical
report.
Co-supervisor: Dr. Maya Daneva, University of Twente
2. Manar Abu-Talib Graduated in the Spring of 2007
Thesis Topic: Exploratory Study on an Innovative Use of COSMIC-FFP
for Early Quality Assessment
Co-authored Two rpublished refereed journal papers; seven refereed
publications: conference/workshop papers
Co-supervisor: Dr. Abran (ETS - Montreal)
Current position Assistant Professor at the Zayed University, Abu Dhabi,
(2007/08): UAE.
IN-PROGRAM DOCTORAL STUDENTS
1. Heng Kuang
Thesis Topic: Framework for Developing and Monitoring Evolving
Autonomic Reactive Systems
Status: Started in the fall of 2006. In progress (he finished his
course work, passed successfully the comprehensive
examination defended his doctoral proposal and passed
successfully the doctoral seminar examination in 2009).
Co-authored
publications: Four refereed conference papers
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Co-supervisor: Dr. Bentahar
2. H M Ishrar Hussain
Thesis Topic: Using Automated Functional Size Measurement To Improve
Early Effort Estimation from Software Requirements
Status: Started in the fall of 2007. In progress (he finished his
course work, passed successfully the comprehensive
examination and defended his doctoral proposal in 2009)
Co-authored Five published refereed conference/workshop papers
publications:
Co-supervisor: Dr. Kosseim
3. Reem Alnanih
Thesis Topic: TBD (general topic: HCI and Patterns)
Status: Started under my supervision in the fall of 2008. In progress
(courses)
Co-authored
publications:
One published refereed conference paper
Co-supervisor: Dr. Krishnan
GRADUATED MASTER’S THESIS OPTION STUDENTS
1. Shadi Moradi Seresht
Thesis Topic: A Methodology for Semi-Automatic Assistance in
Elicitation and Analysis of Textual User Requirements
Status: Graduated in the Fall of 2008
Co-authored Three referred papers
publications:
2. Javier Quiroz
Thesis Topic: Automatic Generation of Behavioral Specification in
Autonomic Reactive Systems
Status: Graduated in December 2007
Co-authored Two conference papers
publications:
3. H M Ishrar Hussain
Thesis Topic: Automatic Assessment of Quality of Software Requirements
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Written in Natural Language
Status: Graduated in September 2007
Co-supervisor: Dr. Kosseim
4. Heng Kuang
Thesis Topic: Architecture for Autonomic Systems: AS-TRM approach
Status: Graduated in the spring of 2006
5. Mohamad Kassab
Thesis Topic: Methodology for Modeling and Measuring Aspects in AOSD
Status: Graduated in the fall of 2005
6. Mubarak Sami Mohammad
Thesis Topic: Graphical Simulation of Real-Time Reactive Systems
Status: Graduated in fall 2004
Co-authored One refereed conference/workshop paper and one non-
publications: refereed conference paper
Co-supervisor: Dr. Alagar
7. Jian Shen
Thesis Topic: Scenario-Based Performance Assessment of Real-Time
Reactive Systems
Status: Graduated in the spring of 2004
Co-supervisor: Dr. Alagar
8. Shi Hui Liu
Thesis Topic: Simulated Validation of Real-Time Reactive Systems
Status: Graduated in the fall of 2003
Co-supervisor Dr. Alagar
Co-authored
publications:
One refereed conference/workshop paper and one nonrefereed
conference paper
IN-PROGRAM MASTER’S THESIS OPTION STUDENTS
1. Rolan Abdukalykov
Thesis Topic: Automatic Size Measurement from SAP requirements
Status: In progress.
2. Zakaria Siddiqui
Thesis Topic: NFR Ontology
Status: In progress.
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Co-supervisor Jointly supervised with Dr. Witte
3. Nassir Shafiei Dizaji
Thesis Topic:
Status:
Co-supervisor
4. Jinzi Huang
Thesis Topic:
Status:
Co-supervisor
5. Noorulain Khurshid
Thesis Topic:
Status:
Co-supervisor
Tool for Transformation of Reactive Autonomic Systems
into MAS and JDAX code
In progress.
Jointly supervised with Dr. Bentahar
Categorical modeling of multiagent systems in RASF
In progress.
Jointly supervised with Dr. Bentahar
A Graphical Tool for Specifying RASF Models using
Category Theory.
In progress.
Jointly supervised with Dr. Klasa
GRADUATED MASTER’S MAJOR REPORT OPTION STUDENTS
NOTE: the Major report option is not offered anymore to the CSE graduate students; a
Major report required a work equivalent to 15 credits and included topics such as a
survey or an implementation of new algorithms/tools.
1. Irina Paltin
Graduated in: Spring 2006
Major Report Topic: Autonomic Systems Modeling and Development: A
Survey
2. Helen Zhou
Graduated in: Spring 2004
Major Report Topic: Survey of Formal Approaches to Non-Functional
Requirements Specifications
3. Manjiang Zhuo
Graduated in: Winter 2004
Major Report Topic: Measurement Module for TROMLAB
4. Fong-An Lee
Graduated in: Fall 2003
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Major Report Topic: Reliability Measurement Based on the Markov Model for
Real Time Reactive Systems: Design and Implementation
5. Kenza Meridji
Graduated in: Fall 2003
Major Report Topic: Documentation and Validation of SRS – An XML
Approach
Publications: One refereed workshop paper (see the corresponding
section, [37])
6. Renwei He
Graduated in: Spring 2003
Major Report Topic: Test Adequacy Measurement for Real-Time Reactive
Systems
7. Minghua Chen
Graduated in: Spring 2003
Major Report Topic: The Implementation of Specification-based Testing
System for Real-time Reactive Systems in TROMLAB
Framework
8. WenJun Xu
Graduated in: Winter 2003
Major Report Topic: Quality Assurance of WEB Applications – A Survey
9. Jiazhong Tu
Graduated in: Winter 2003
Major Report Topic: Software Engineering: From Requirements to
Implementation. A Case Study: Developing an Icon
Graphic Image Editor
10. Xiaobin Li
Graduated in: Fall 2002
Major Report Topic: Software Reliability Engineering and Measurement: A
Survey
PART IV FUNDING
Work-Study Program 2009-2010
Total: $4.700
NSERC – Strategic Project Grant 2009-2012, applied for in 2010
“Automatic Effort Estimation from Requirements Total: 248,100
Text in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) projects”
Other team members: Dr. Kosseim, Dr. Witte
NSERC – Engage 2010, 6 months
“SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Effort Total: 25,000
Estimation Model Based on Functional and
Non-functional Requirements Text”.
Other team members: Dr. Kosseim, Dr. Witte
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SEED – Individual Grant 2009-2010, applied for in 2009
“Unified Framework for Software Life-Cycle Total: $7,500
Management, Control and Improvement
based on Category Theory: CATHY project”
SEED – Team Grant
“Requirements Engineering Assistance Diagnostic
Tool (READ) project”
Principal Investigator
Other team members: Dr. Kosseim, Dr. Zeng
NSERC – Discovery Grant
“Formalization of Quality Requirements in
Autonomic Systems”
NSERC – Discovery Grant
“Reliability Prediction Measures and Real-Time
Reactive Systems”
SRT –Students Research Theses Support Grant
Concordia University
START–UP Grant
Concordia University
PART V: TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2009-2010
Total: $15,000
2005 - 2010, $19,000 per annum.
Total: $95,000.
2002 - 2004, $12,000 per annum
Total: $24,000
2002 – 2009, amount vary each
year
2002 - 2004, $30,000 per annum
TEACHING ASSIGNMENTS
This section summarizes the information on the courses I have taught and coordinated
in the CSE Department. Since winter 2001, I have taught 11 different courses at
Concordia, spread over 35 sections (excluding the half-year sabbatical in 2009). The
table below summarizes this information.
Session Course
Course
No. of
No.
Title
Students
F’10 SOEN384 Software Management, Measurement and
Quality Control
40
W’10 SOEN345 Software Testing, Verification and Quality
Assurance
40
S’09 SOEN661 Software Measurement: Theory and Practice 45
W’09 SOEN390 Software Project 20
W’09 SOEN337 Measurement in Software Development 30
F’08 SOEN342 Software Requirements and Specifications 45
S’08 SOEN7481 Software Testing and Verification 35
W’08 SOEN337 Measurement in Software Development 25
W’08 SOEN390 Software Project 22
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S’07 SOEN6481 System Requirements Specifications 58
S’07 SOEN7481 Software Testing and Verification
(reading course, evaluated online)
3
W’07 SOEN6611 Software Measurement: Theory and Practice 48
W’07 SOEN337 Measurement in Software Development 25
F’06 SOEN342 Software Requirements and Specifications 40
F’06 SOEN6481 System Requirements Specifications 52
W’06 SOEN337 Measurement in Software Development 18
F’05 COMP6481 System Requirements Specifications 42
F’05 SOEN342 Software Requirements and Specifications 41
S’05 COMP691D Software Measurement: Theory and Practice 49
W’05 SOEN337 Measurement in Software Development 47
W’05 COMP354 Software Engineering I 26
F’04 COMP6481 System Requirements Specifications 48
F’04 SOEN342 Software Requirements and Specifications 48
W’04 SOEN337 Measurement in Software Development 23
W’04 COMP354 Software Engineering I 25
F’03 COMP6481 System Requirements Specifications 26
W’03 SOEN337 Measurement in Software Development 50
W’03 COMP354 Software Engineering I 18
F’02 COMP352 Data Structured and Algorithms 52
F’02 SOEN343 Software Design 47
S’02 COMP6481 System Requirements Specifications 50
W’02 COMP248 Introduction to Programming 26
W’02 COMP354 Software Engineering I 42
F’01 SOEN343 Software Design 66
S’01 COMP648 System Requirements Specifications 45
W’01 COMP648 System Requirements Specifications 29
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS SUPERVISION
I have supervised a number of COMP490 projects and ENGR410/411 reports.
COMP490 is a project course and ENGR410/411 are technical report courses, all to be
completed under a professor's supervision. These courses are taught on a one-on-one
basis and are not evaluated by the students.
NSERC:
[1] Ayrin Tabib 2008, 2009, 2010
COMP490:
[1] Cesar Aquiles Cerros 2001
Project Topic: Rational Rose Quality Assistant
[2] Seiji Okada 2001
Project Topic: Rational Rose Quality Assistant
[3] Tamara Melnik 2002
Project Topic: Architectural Complexity Measurement
Tool for TROMLAB
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ENGR410:
ENGR411:
[4] Guang Huang 2002
Project Topic: Generator of Test Cases for TROMLAB
[5] Chun Hua Chen 2002
Project Topic: Generator of Test Cases for TROMLAB
[6] Zhieng Ye 2002
Project Topic: Generator of Test Cases for TROMLAB
[7] Li Hong Cui 2002
Project Topic: Generator of Test Cases for TROMLAB
[8] Yan Lu 2002
Project Topic: Reliability Prediction Model for Generic
Reactive Classes
[9] Aarti Umapathy 2003
Project Topic: specification and design of Metrics Tool
[10] Yuan Yao 2003
Project Topic: Implementation of Metrics Tool
[11] Isabelle Thibert 2004
Project Topic: Java Metrics Tool
[12] Aleisy Amirghahari 2004
Project Topic: Java Metrics Tool
[13] Martin Leggett 2004
Project Topic: Online Kiviat Graph SYSTEM
[14] S. Sabra 2008
Project Topic: Visualization of Conceptual Models in
READ Project
[1] Pradeepa Krishnamoorthy 2002
Report Topic: Formal Specifications and Safety Critical Systems
[2] Piriyanthy Pathmanathan 2002
Report Topic: Visual Modeling with UML
[3] Sarah Illouz 2003
Report Topic: General Description of E-Commerce Patterns
[1] Ismal El Kady 2007
Report Topic: Agile Software Development Process
[2] Nicola Lipari 2007
Report Topic: Aspect Oriented Software Development (AOSD)
[3] Michel Parisien 2008
Plug-In Development for Eclipse and Eclipse's Future
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CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
NEW COURSES
REDEVELOPED
COURSES
SUPERVISORY COMMITTEES
SOEN6611
I have introduced a new graduate software engineering
course, SOEN6611 Software Measurement: Theory and
Practice (initially listed as COMP691D), in tune with
current research theories and practices in software
measurement. The course is currently a core course in the
graduate software engineering program at the CSE
Department.
SOEN345
I have developed a new software engineering course
SOEN345 on software testing, verification and quality
assurance. It reflects the newest trends in software testing
methodologies, the ISO/IEC and IEEE standards, and the
available testing/verification tools.
SOEN337
I have redeveloped the software engineering course
SOEN337 on software measurement. It now reflects the
newest trends in software measurement methodologies,
the ISO/IEC and IEEE standards, and the available
measurement tools.
SOEN7481
I have redeveloped the graduate software engineering course
SOEN7481 on software testing and verification. It now covers
the classical testing methods and reflects the newest trends in
software testing methodologies, the ISO/IEC and IEEE
standards, and the available testing tools.
In the past, I have served as an examiner for Major Reports. I have served on the
examination committees for a large number of Master’s and PhD students in the CSE
Department and in the Faculty of Engineering in general.
COMMITTEE WORKLOAD
1. Member of the GAC (2004, 2005, 2010)
2. Member of the SOEN curriculum committee (2006 - 2010)
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3. Course Graduate Advisory Committee (CGAC) (2007/08)
4. Member of the Undergraduate Advisory Committee (UGAC) (2002/05)
5. Member of the Hiring Committee for faculty positions in the Software Engineering
group (2004/05)
THESIS EXAMINATION COMMITTEES
1. Thesis Defense Chair in the CSE Department and other Faculty of Engineering
departments
2. Committee Examiner for Major Reports, as well as Master’s and Doctoral theses, in
the CSE Department and in the Faculty of Engineering.
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CurriculumVitae
Name and Rank Radhakrishnan Thiruvengadam, Professor , Tenured
Department Computer Science and Software Engineering
Degrees
B.E. (Hons)
M.Tech.
Ph.D.
Field Date Awarded Institution/Countr
y
Electronics & Comm.
Eng
Electrical Engg.
Electrical Engg.
June 1966
July 1968
August 1971
College of Engg.
Guindy, Madras India
I.I.T. Kanpur, India
I.I.T. Kanpur, India
Date of Original Appointment and Rank: August 1974, Post Doctoral Fellow
Advancement in Rank
To Date
Professor June 1991
Associate Professor June 1979
Assistant Professor June 1975
Current Professional Engineering Registration (P.Eng. or ing.)
Province/Territory Date
Professional Engineer Ontario Since 2001
Current Memberships (e.g. Professional, Scientific, or Standards Development)
1. Member IEEE 2. Member ACM
3. 4.
5. 6.
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Sabbatical leaves
Year Organization Location
2000 June to December Nortel Networks Ottawa
2004 July to December IISc Bangalore India
Courses taught in the past three years (course number and title)
Undergraduate Graduate
SOEN 228 System Hardware COMP 7761 Intelligent User Interfaces
SOEN 357 User Interface Design
COMP 490 Computer Science Project I
COMP 492 Computer Science Project II
COMP 495 Honours Seminar
ENGR 410 Technical writing
ENGR 411 Project Technical Report
Number of Student theses
Supervised
Undergraduate M.Sc. Ph.D.
Completed (last 3 years) 1 8 3
Completed (Lifetime) 30 83 10
In Progress
2 3
Scholarship/Publications Refereed
Journals
Number (last 6 years)
Number (life time)
Funding
6
NSERC
Research
Grants
Refereed
Conferences
21
Other
Research
Grants
Other
Publications
(Identify)
Tech Report 2
2
Patent
1 Applied
Research
Contracts Non-
Research
Current Year
$ 32,700 $ $
Total (Last 5 years) $ 163,500 $ 40,000 $ $
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Brief description of main areas of professional/scholarly activity (technical and research
interests, offices held in professional and technical organizations, participation on technical
standards development committees, etc.)
Distributed Multi Agent Systems, Computer Human Interactions, Agent oriented Software
Engineering, Medical Informatics Applications, ICT for Development
Member and reviewer of Technical papers for both IEEE and ACM conferences
Industrial and related experience.
Worked with MITEL and NORTEL in Ottawa on Industrial Research projects
One of the works has been awarded a Patent applied through MITEL Corporation, Ottawa
Currently working on a research initiative with Royal Victoria Hospital on Medical Informatics.
Administrative Services as Chair of two departments 2001 - 2010
Serving as the Department Chair of General Studies Unit in ENCS Faculty since the year 2006 and
has built the this department that focuses on Socio-Technical and Technical communication aspects
for engineers.
A notable achievement includes the hiring of about 14 faculty members in this period and rebuilding
the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering during the years 2001 -
2004
List of Publications:
Significant Contributions:
S1. H.Javahery, A.Seffah and T.Radhakrishnan, “ Beyond Power: Making Bioinformatics Tools
User Centered”, Communications of the ACM, vol 47, No.11, pp 58-63, 2004.
[This paper is by a doctoral student who won an NSERC award working in the area of usability
oriented design based on ‘personas’. Its focus is on systematization of UI design going from
requirements to design to testing and evaluation. Following this she completed Ph.D and
developed a new process model called UX-P.]
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S2 A.Narasimhadevara, B.Leung, T.Radhakrishnan and R.Jayakumar, “On designing a usable
interactive software system to support transplant nursing” Journal of Biomedical Informatics, vol
41, pp137-151, 2008 [It is the result of a recent pilot project, part of my future focus. Software
process-integrations and information system design has resulted in this field tested software
product that was an HQP training ground for the Canadian healthcare industry]
S3. H.F.Li, Yu Zhang, and T.Radhakrishnan, “TSAF: A Tuple Space Based Agent
Programming Framework” Out of a master’s thesis which has been serving as a test vehicle for
many master’s theses. Appeared also as a Chapter in a book on Electronic Commerce, Published
by Springer Verlag in June 2006.
S4. (a) P.Desharnais, J.Lu, and T.Radhakrishnan, " Exploring Agent Support at the User
Interface in E-Commerce Applications" International Journal of Digital Libraries, Vol 3, pp284-
290, 2002.
(b) Xiaojun Shen, T.Radakrishnan and Nicolas D. Georganas, “vCOM: Electronic Commerce
in a Collaborative Virtual World” Journal of Electronic Commerce Research and Applications,
vol 1, Issues 3-4, 2002, pp 281-300.
[The paper (a) is an outcome of the masters’ theses of my two students who were supported by
the NSERC grant. The development of user models and agents based on such models has
resulted in conference papers, which was expanded upon invitation for this journal publication.
The work was later continued by two other masters’ students. In HQP see Masrur Mia (a) and (b)
are outcomes of our work in CITR-NCE project]
S5. K.Pitula and T.Radhakrishnan, "A Framework and Process for Designing Inclusive
Technology"(Second International Conference on Software Engineering Advances, August 25-
31, 2007, France) [Having been motivated by the lack of success in many ICT4D projects, with a
doctoral student we are exploring the notion of inclusive technology and rural development. This
presents one aspect of that exploration. Also see references and recent publications in the
following section]
2. Research Contributions and Practical Applications
1. K. Pitula, D. Sinnig, T. Radhakrishnan (2009). Requirements Engineering in the ICT4D
Domain, chapter in Mobile Information Communication Technologies Adoption in
Developing Countries: Effects and Implications; Published by IGI Global (www.igiglobal.com).
[Book Chapter]
2. K. Pitula, D. Dysart-Gale, T. Radhakrishnan (2010). Expanding the Boundaries of HCI:
A case study in requirements engineering for ICT4D. Accepted for publication Journal of
Information Technologies & International Development, 6(1). USC Annenberg Press.
3. D. Dysart-Gale, K. Pitula, T. Radhakrishnan (2010). Improving Professional Writing for
Lay Practitioners: A Rhetorical Approach, Accepted for publication in IEEE
Transactions on Professional Communication, December issue.
4. D. Dysart-Gale, K. Pitula, T. Radhakrishnan (2009). Report and Recommendation
Writing for Development: Rhetorical Skills for Social Action, Technical Communication,
56(4): 387-396.
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5. D. Dysart-Gale, K. Pitula, T. Radhakrishnan (2009). A community-driven
communicative approach to adoption of a client record management system, Proceedings
of the Pan American Health Care Exchanges Conference (PAHCE), 50 – 52. [Endorsed
and supported by the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering
(IFMBE), World Heath Organization (WHO), IEEE among others]
6. K. Pitula, T. Radhakrishan (2007). A conceptual model of inclusive technology for
information access by the rural sector, Proceedings of the International Human Computer
Interaction Conference (HCII’07), Beijing, 243–252.
7. K. Pitula, T. Radhakrishan (2007). A framework for Inclusive Technology: Incorporating
development goals into ICT design, COGNITIO, Montreal.
8. D. Dysart-Gale, K. Pitula, T. Radhakrishnan, "Culture, Communication, and ICT for
Development: A Carribean Study. Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on
Professional Communication.
9. K.Pitula and T.Radhakrishnan, “A Multimedia tool to elicit information needs in rural
communities”. Presented at the Workshop on HCI for Community and International
Development, at 26-th CHI Conference, held in Florence, Italy, August 5-10, 2008.
10. K.Pitula and T.Radhakrishnan, "A Framework for Inclusive technology: Incorporating
Development Goals into ICT Design" (Presented at the COGNITIO 2007, June 15, 2007,
Sponsored by UQAM at Montreal – Cognitive Psychology Conference and Doctoral
theses presentations)
11. K.Pitula and T.Radhakrishnan, "A Conceptual Model of Inclusive Technology for
Information Access by the Rural Sector" ( Human Computer Interaction International,
July 22-27, 2007, Beijing, China)
12. K.Pitula and T.Radhakrishnan, "A Set of Heuristic Measurements for Evaluating the
Inclusiveness of a Technology" (International Conference Home/Community Oriented
ICT, August 22-25,2007, Chennai, India, Sponsored by IFIP)
13. M.Wurdel, P.Forbrig, T.Radhakrishnan, and D.Sinnig, “Patterns for Task and Dialog
Modelling” (Human Computer Interaction International, July 22-27, 2007, Beijing,
China)
14. H.Javahery, A.Deichman, A.Seffah, and T.Radhakrishnan, "Incorporating Human
Experiences into the Design Process of a Visualization Tool: A Case Study from
Bioinformatics" (IEEE SMC Conference in Montreal, October, 20007)
15. Abolfazl Keighobadi Lamjiri, L.Kosseim, and T.Radhakrishnan, “ A Hybrid
Unification Method for Question Answering in a Closed Domain”, Third International
Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning for Answering Questions, January 2007,
Hyderabad, India in conjunction with AAAI Conference.
16. Abolfazl Keighobadi Lamjiri, L.Kosseim, and T.Radhakrishnan, “Comparing the
Contributions of Syntactic and Semantic features in Closed versus Open domains”, (First
IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, September, 2007, Irvine
California.
17. Abolfazl Keighobadi Lamjiri, L.Kosseim, and T.Radhakrishnan, “A Syntactic
Candidate Ranking Method for Answering Questions with a main content verb”,
(“RANLP-2007: Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing Conference, Bulgaria,
September 2007.
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18. J.Chelin, L.Kosseim and T.Radhakrishnan, “"Using Natural Language Processing To
Assist the Visually Handicapped in Writing Compositions” Proceedings of the 19th
Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence", 2006.
19. Mashrur Mia, S.P. Mudur, T. Radhakrishnan, “An Interactive System for Negotiation
in E-commerce with Incremental User Knowledge” Presented at the IBM CASCON 2005
Conference October 2005, Toronto.
20. T.Radhakrishnan, S.P.Mudur and N.Heywood, “On e-learning by Organ Transplant
Patients in a Hospital Setting” Presented at the e-Learn 2005 Conference held in
Vancouver, October 2005.
21. T.Radhakrishnan, Arun Radhakrishnan, R.Ramachandran and S.P.Mudur, “An
Intelligent System for Patient Education” Presented at The International Conference on
Intelligent Systems, Malaysia, December 2005.
22. A.Graham, T.Radhakrishnan and C.Grossner, “Incremental Validation of Policy Based
Systems” Proceedings of the Policy 2004 Conference held at NewYork. pp 1-11.
23. J.Van Der Poll, P. Kotzi, A. Seffah, T. Radhakrishnan and A. Alsumait. Combining
UCMs and Formal Methods for Representing and Checking the Validity of Scenarios as
User Requirements, Proceedings of ACM- SAICSIT September, 2003, Gauteng, South
Africa, pp 111-113.[This and several other papers were based on Alsumait’s PhD work in
which we introduced UCM based UI Design.
24. A. Alsumait, A. Seffah and T. Radhakrishnan. Use Case Maps: A Visual Notation for
Scenario-Based Requirements. 10th International Conference on Human - Computer
Interaction, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2003.
25. Tom Gray, Ramiro Liscano, Barry Wellman, Anabel Quan-haase, T.Radhakrishnan,
Yongseok Choi, “Context and Intent in Call Processing”, Presented at the Annual
Feature Interaction Workshop on Telecommunications; in June 2003, held in
Ottawa.[This practical work was supported by NSERC-MITEL grant. It resulted in
industrial prototype and a U.K.patent]
26. A.Andreevskaia, R.Abi-Aad and T. Radhakrishnan, “Agent-mediated knowledge
acquisition for user profiling”. Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent
Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce (IAWTIC’03), Proceedings, Feb. 12-
14, 2003, Vienna, Austria. 10 pp. [also selected and included as a Chapter in the book M.
Mohammadian (ed.) "Intelligent Agents for Data Mining and Information Retrieval"
published by Idea Publishing Group (USA)].
27. R.Abi-Aad, D. Sinnig, T. Radhakrishnan, and A Seffah (2003), “CoU: Context of Use
Model for User Interface Designing”, to appear in the Proceedings of 10th International
Conference on Human - Computer Interaction, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2003.[Abi-Aad
and Andreevskaia were supported by NSERC grants and by a special CITR grant related
to HCI and knowledge engineering. They both started their doctoral work after that]
28. A.Alsumait, A. Seffah and T. Radhakrishnan. Use Case Maps: A Roadmap for Usability
and Software Integrated Specification. Usability Stream. IFIP World Computer
Conference, Montreal, Canada, August 25-30, 2002.
29. J.Zhao, T.Radhakrishnan, and F.Kurfess, “ Knowledge Management Support for Web
Based Learning” Proceedings of the Workshop on Transdisciplinary Education at a
Distance held at the Sixth Biennial World Conference on Integrated Design and Process
Technology, Pasadena, California, June 2002, sponsored by Software Engineering
Society. pp 1-10.
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[Boldfaced names in the above list indicate the graduate students supervised by me]
3. Other Evidence of Impact and Contributions
As a result of the good industrially oriented research work done by my graduate students in the
CITR-NCE Electronic Commerce project that ended 5 years ago, I won additional follow up
grants especially for HQP training. This two-year grant was used to train two graduate students
Alina Andreevskaia and M.H.Lokman who is working in the ministry of Ontario. Alina has
completed her PhD thesis, published papers, won NSERC scholarship and has started working in
a Montreal company in 2007.
The second grant in recognition was that my work was selected as the potential one for transition
to Industrial application under the “Innovation Grant” by the CITR/NCE. MITEL Corporation
came forward and Tom Gray was my collaborator from MITEL. My graduate student Yongseok
Choi worked on this project and we have published a paper from his work at the well-known
“Annual Feature Interactions in Telecommunications workshop”. This work has also received a
U.K Patent on “Context aware call handling system” “Intelligent Messaging in PBX
environment” (Patent-Number 03017607.7/2003) through MITEL Corporation. [Coinvsetigators:
Ramiro Liscano, Thomas Gray MITEL employees and my graduate student
Yongseok Choi].
Research supervision of graduate students supported by industrial grants has reduced when I
took the Chairmanship of the CSE department (2001 to 2004). Even then, with Dr.Seffah whom I
was mentoring we had a joint grant from Dymler Chrysler from Germany to study the
requirements of a good user interface within an automobile. Since 2007 June I am serving as a
Chair of General Engineering Studies Unit in the Faculty. In this unit Dr.Dysart-Gale is a new
Assistant Professor whom I am introducing her to the ICT4D field. Under my collaboration she
won an internal seed research grant from the vice president Research at Concordia University.
This grant is being used to explore the introduction of information systems for e-Governance in a
small island country in the Caribbean’s, St.Kitts.
Contributions through Text Book Writing: My contributions through technical writing are in
two fold: (a) I have co-authored two undergraduate text books with my PhD thesis supervisor in
India during 2004 to 2007 titled : Computer Logic and Organization; Computer Organization
and Architecture for Software Engineers, both published by Prentice Hall India in 2006 and
2007. The first one has won a National Text Book Award. (b) With my gift of the ability to
write technical things in vernacular (an Indian language called Tamil), I was able to write two
popular books on “Computers for the Common man” and “The role of Internet in our lives”
during 2002 to 2004. These two books are widely circulated and printed in Tamil weekly
magazines that are read by hundreds of thousands of people. Spreading knowledge through
education and teaching is my passion.
4. Delays in Research Activity:
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I have had two major setbacks in my research undertakings: From 2001-2004 I was selected to
serve as the Department Chair of the Computer Science department at Concordia University.
This is one of the largest Computer Science departments. The load was further increased as I
hired 14 new professors and mentored many of them in this period. All these have demanded
enormous time and efforts from my side. Secondly, I was diagnosed to have liver cirrhosis due to
the non-symptomatic and silent hepatitis-B viral infection of the liver. I underwent the major
liver-transplant surgery in 2002; following that I developed the colongitis problem in the bile
duct connecting the liver and I had to be operated again for bile-duct reconstruction surgery. The
colongitis problem has re-occurred after four years in 2007 for which I have been treated for the
past eight months requiring hospitalizations now and then. Yet, under all these uncertain
conditions of my life, I continued my duties working even from the hospital. This experience has
given me new insights into my life and new career and to research goals on socially relevant
topics. Since this year I will be involved only in research and project courses. I have limited the
number of research students to 4 or 5 and accordingly also decreased the amount of grant
requested.
5 Contributions to the Training of HQP
Training masters and doctoral students through research supervision is my passion. I have been
maintaining a steady rate of graduating HQP over the past three decades. Due to my uncertain
health conditions mentioned in section 4, I have placed my students under co-supervision so that
they do not suffer; in the event anything happens to me. Although I am a co-supervisor I fully
participate in the research discussions and I involve myself in supervision activities even when I
am hospitalized. This is because I greatly care for my students and training them with good
values. My research has been focused to be application based and product driven. In the last six
years one of the master’s theses I have supervised has resulted in both publication and a U.K
Patent shared with MITEL Corporation. Another student’s thesis by J.Chelin has resulted in
usable software tool for the Visually Handicapped, published in the Canadian AI conference, and
its commercialization is being tried by its author. The thesis completed in 2006 and published in
a journal by Narasimhadevara has resulted in usable software product for Nursing in a hospital
transplant ward. At present it is being considered for incorporation into the clinical information
system. That student after training has joined a company in Toronto and has worked as a lead
person in the Ontario’s Hospital wait-time project and completed very successfully. In the same
metropolitan hospital, the thesis work and its software product of Ramachandran completed in
2007 is being used for patient education in self-medication training of the patients after an organ
transplant. That student after training has joined IBM Vancouver to work on HealthCare
projects.
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Contact
Web: www.cse.cocnordia.ca/~rilling and
aseg.cs.concordia.ca
Area(s) of expertise
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Juergen Rilling
Software Engineering in general with a specific research focus on:
Software comprehension
Software maintenance
Source code analysis,
Traceability,
Reverse engineering,
Software visualization
Architectural Recovery
Requirements Engineering
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Academic Background
Degree Year Discipline/Field Institution and Country
Ph.D.
1998 Computer Science Illinois Institute of
Technology, Chicago, IL,
USA
M.Sc.
M.Sc.
1993
1991
Computer Science
Computer Science
Experience (academic, research, professional and industrial)
Position Held
Institution/Organization
Associate professor
Concordia University
Assistant professor,
Concordia University
Assistant professor,
Clarkson University
Software Engineer, WCSS
Software Engineer,
Bausparkasse Schwaebisch
Hall
Software Engineer,
Bausparkasse Schwaebisch
Hall
Department/Faculty
Country
Computer Science and
Software Engineering,
Canada
Computer Science and
Software Engineering,
Canada
Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Potsdam
USA
Chicago, USA
Schwaebisch Hall,
Germany
Schwaebisch Hall,
Germany
University of East Anglia,
Norwich, Great Britain
FH-Reutlingen, Germany
Period (year)
From to
2004 present
1999 2004
1998 1999
1994 1995
1992 1993
1990 1991
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Research support/projects
Project title Funding Source/Program
Software Ecosystem National Science and Research
Council – Canada
Discovery Grants Program -
Individual (RGPIN )
Software traceability Defence Research and
Development Canada
Component substitution:
Juergen Rilling (PI)
Net-centered system
architecture recovery and
comprehension”
Architecture Recovery (PI)
State of the Art Report on
Architecture Recovery (PI)
Concordia Research Chair
(Tier II)
MOOSE – A program
comprehension environment
(PI)
Program slicing and its
application in software
maintenance and software
testing (PI)
Defence Research and
Development Canada
National Science and Research
Council – Canada
Discovery Grants Program -
Individual (RGPIN )
Defence Research and
Development Canada
Concordia University
FCAR/ nouveau chercheur
and
FCAR/ Equipment
National Science and Research
Council – Canada
Discovery Grants Program -
Individual (RGPIN )
Years of tenure
From To
2010 to 2015
2008 to 2011
2006 to 2008
2004 to 2010
2002 to 2003
2001 to 2006
2002 to 2005
2000 to 2004
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Publications and works
(Co) supervised students are highlighted in bold. Funding source: in brackets and main
source in bold.
Journal publications (peer reviewed)
2010
Hassine, J., Rilling, J., and Dssouli, R. (2010). An evaluation of timed scenario
12j notations, Journal of Systems and Software. Elsevier. Volume 83, Issue 2, February
2010, Pages 326-350. IPF: 1.24.
2009
Hassine, J., Rilling, J., and Dssouli, R. (2009) Use Case Maps as a Property
11j Speci¯cation Language, Journal of Software and Systems Modeling. Springer.
Volume 8, Issue 2, April 2009, Pages 205-220.
J. Rilling, R. Witte, P. Schuegerl, and P. Charland. Beyond Information Silos — An
10j
Omnipresent Approach to Software Evolution. International Journal of Semantic
Computing (IJSC), Special Issue on Ambient Semantic Computing, May 2009.
(NSERC, Concordia, DRDC). IPF: 1.8.
A. Rohatgi, A. Hamou-Lhadj, and J. Rilling , “An Approach for Solving the
9j Feature Location Problem by Measuring the Component Modification Impact”,IET
Software, pp. 292-311, 2009. (NSERC), IPF: 0.54.
2008
J Rilling, W. J. Meng, R. Witte, and P Charland. “Story Driven Approach to
8j Software Evolution”, IET Software, Volume 2, Issue 4, August 2008, pp.304–320,
2008, (DRDC, NSERC, Concordia), IPF: 0.54.
Y. Zhang, R. Witte, J. Rilling, and V. Haarslev. “An Ontological Approach for the
7j
Semantic Recovery of Traceability Links between Software Artifacts”, IET
Software, Special issue on Language Eng., pp. 185-203, 2008, (NSERC,
Concordia), IPF: 0.54.
R. Witte, Q. Li, Y. Zhang, and J. Rilling. Text Mining and Software Engineering:
6j
An Integrated Source Code and Document Analysis Approach. IET Software, Vol.
2, Issue 1, February 2008. Special Section on Natural Language in Software
Engineering, pp. 3-16, 2008 (NSERC, Concordia), IPF: 0.54.
2007
J. Hassine, J. Rilling, R. Dssouli, “Use Case Maps as a Property Specification
5j Language”, Journal of Software and Systems Modeling, pp. 205-220, 2007
(NSERC, Concordia), IPF. 045 .
R. Witte, Q. Li, Y. Zhang, and J. Rilling, “Text Mining and Software Engineering:
4j
An Integrated Source Code and Document Analysis Approach”. IET Software
Journal, Special Issue on Natural Language in Software Development, pp.3–16,
2007, (NSERC, Concordia), IPF: 0.54.
3j
2j
1j
2005
J. Rilling and S.P. Mudur; “3D visualization techniques to support slicing-based
program comprehension”, Computers & Graphics, Volume 29, Issue 3, June, pp.
311-329, 2005, IPF: 0.882.
2004
H. F. Li, J. Rilling, D. Goswami, “Granularity-Driven Dynamic Predicate Slicing
Algorithms for Message Passing Systems”, Automated Software Engineering 11(1),
pp. 63-89, 2004, (NSERC), IPF: 0.97.
J. Hassine, R. Dssouli, J. Rilling, “Applying Reduction Techniques to Software
Functional Requirement Specifications”, Analysis and Modeling: 4th Int. SDL and
MSC Workshop, SAM 2004, Ottawa, Canada, June 1-4, 2004, Revised Selected
Papers, Editors: Daniel Amyot, Alan W. Williams, Lecture Notes in Computer
Science, Springer ISBN: 3-540-24561-8, pp.180-195, 2004. (NSERC).
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International Workshop and Conference Publications (peer reviewed)
2009
P. Schugerl, J. Rilling, P. Charland, "Quality Perspective of Evolvability Using
33p Semantic Analysis",3 rd IEEE Int. Conf. on Semantic Computing, Berkeley, USA,
2009 (acceptance rate 30%.) (NSERC, DRDC).
P. Schugerl, J. Rilling, P. Charland, "Beyond Generated Software Documentation
3p – A Web 2.0 Perspective", 25th IEEE Int. Conf. on Software Maintenance (ICSM),
2009. (acceptance rate: 20%) (NSERC, DRDC, Concordia).
P. Schugerl, D. Walsh, J. Rilling, P. Charland,“A Contextual Guidance Approach
31p
to Software Security”, 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Software Engineering
for Context Aware Systems and Applications (SECASA 2009), 2009. (NSERC,
DRDC, Concordia).
30p C. Patel, A. Hamou-Lhadj, J. Rilling, Software Clustering Using Dynamic
Analysis and Static Dependencies”, CSMR 09 – Euro. Conf. on Software
Maintenance and Reeng., (NSERC, Concordia).
2008
P. Schuegerl, J. Rilling, and P. Charland, "Mining Bug Repositories – A Quality
29p Assessment," Int’l Conf. on Innovation in Software Eng. (ISE 2008), Austria, Dec.
2008. pp. 1105-1110, 2008, (NSERC, DRDC).
28p
P. Schugerl, J. Rilling,P. Charland, "Enriching SE Ontologies with Bug Report Quality",
SWESE 2008. (DRDC).
A. Rohatgi, A. Hamou-Lhadj, and J. Rilling , “An Approach for Mapping
27p
Features to Code Based on Static and Dynamic Analysis”, Proc. of the 16th IEEE
International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), June 10-13, 2008,
Amsterdam, pp. 236-241, 2008 (NSERC, Concordia).
J. Rilling, R. Witte, D. Gašević, and J. Z. Pan., “Semantic Technologies in System
26p
Maintenance”, Proceedings of the 16th IEEE Int. Conf. on Program
Comprehension (ICPC), June 10-13, 2008, Amsterdam, IEEE, pp. 279-282, 2008,
(NSERC).
2007
R. Witte, Q. Li, Y. Zhang, and J. Rilling, “Ontological Text Mining of Software
25p
Documents”. 12th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language
to Information Systems (NLDB 2007), June 27-29, 2007, CNAM, Paris, France.
Springer LNCS 4592, pp.168-180. (Acceptance rate: 28%) (NSERC)
J. Rilling, W. J. Meng, F. Chen , and P. Charland, “Software Visualization – A
24p
Process Perspective”, 4th IEEE International Workshop on Visualizing Software
for Understanding and Analysis(VISSOFT), June 2007, Banff Centre, Alberta,
Canada, pp. 10-17, 2007 (NSERC, DRDC)..
M. Donyaee, A. Seffah, J. Rilling, “Benchmarking Usability of Early Designs
23p Using Predictive Metrics”, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and
Cybernetics (SMC 2007), Montreal, Canada, pp. 2514-2519, 2007, (Concordia).
A. Rohatgi, A. Hamou-Lhadj, J. Rilling, "Feature Location Based on Impact
22p Analysis", in Proc. of 11th IASTED Int. Conf on Software Engineering and
Applications (SEA), 2007. (NSERC, Concordia)
R. Witte, Y. Zhang, J. Rilling, “Empowering Software Maintainers with
21p
Semantic Web Technologies”, 4th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC
2007), Insbruck, Germany. (NSERC, Concordia)
Note: Paper received best paper award, pp. 37-52, 2007.(Acceptance rate 16%).
J. Rilling, R. Witte, Y. Zhang, “Automatic Traceability Recovery: Ontological
20p Approach”, Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering) workshop
series. (TEFSE’07), , 2007. (NSERC, Concordia).
19p
J. Hassine, J. Rilling, R. Dssouli, “ Formal Verification of Use Case Maps with
Real Time Extensions”. SDL Forum 2007: 225-241, 2007, (NSERC, Concordia).
18p M. Shir, J. Hassine, Juergen Rilling, ”Modification Analysis Support at the
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16p
15p
14p
13p
12p
11p
10p
9p
8p
7p
6p
5p
4p
Requirements Level”, ACM IWPSE 2007, Dubrovnik, Croatia, pp. 43 - 50 , 2007,
(NSERC, Concordia)
M. Shir, J. Hassine, J. Rilling, “A Requirement Level Modification Analysis
Support Framework”, 3rd IEEE Software Evolvability Workshop, Paris, October,
pp. pp. 67-74, 2007. (NSERC, Concordia)
M. Shir, J. Hassine, J. Rilling,“Feature Interaction Analysis: A Maintenance
Perspective”, 22nd IEEE/ACM Int. Conf. on Automated Software Engineering
(ASE), short paper, pp. 437-440, 2007, acceptance rate: 20% (NSERC,
Concordia).
2006
J. Hassine, J. Rilling and R. Dssouli, "Timed Use Case Maps",System Analysis
and Modeling: Language Profiles, 5th Int. Workshop, SAM 2006, , Germany ,
2006, pp. 99-114, 2006, (NSERC).
J. Rilling, Y. Zhang, W. J. Meng, R. Witte, V. Haarslev, P. Charland, “A Unified
Ontology-Based Process Model for Software Maintenance and Comprehension”,
IEEE/ACM MoDELS'06 Satellite, Events Proceedings, Geno Italy 2006
(Acceptance rate: 20%). pp. 56–65, 2007, (NSERC, DRDC, Concordia).
W. J. Meng, J. Rilling, Y. Zhang, R. Witte, P. Charland, “An Ontological
Software Comprehension Process Model”, 3rd Int. Workshop on Metamodels,
Schemas, Grammars, and Ontologies for Reverse Engineering (ATEM 2006),
Genoa 2006. (NSERC, DRDC, Concordia).
Note: Paper received “Best paper award”.*
Y. Zhang, R. Witte, J. Rilling, V. Haarslev, “An Ontology-based Approach for
Traceability Recovery”, 3rd Int. Work. on Metamodels, Schemas, Grammars, and
Ontologies for Reverse Engineering (ATEM 2006), Genoa, 2006. (NSERC).
Note: Paper received “Best paper award”.*
W. J. Meng, J. Rilling, Y. Zhang, R. Witte, S. Mudur, P. Charland , “A Context-
Driven Software Comprehension Process Model”, IEEE Software Evolvability
Workshop (SE’06), pp. 50-57, 2006 (NSERC, Concordia).
Y. Zhang, R. Witte, J. Rilling, V. Haarslev, “Ontology-based Program
Comprehension Tool Supporting Website Architectural Evolution”. 8th IEEE Int.
Symp. on Web Site Evolution (WSE'06), pp. 41-49, 2006
Y. Zhang, J. Rilling, V. Haarslev, “An ontology based approach to software
comprehension- Reasoning about security concerns in source code”, 30th IEEE
COMPSAC, pp.333-342,2006, (NSERC, Concordia)
2005
J. Hewitt, J. Rilling, “A Light-Weight Proactive Software Change Impact
Analysis Using Use Case Maps“, Proc. of the Special Session on Software
Evolvability 2005, IEEE press, (Oct. 2005), pp. 41 - 48 , 2005,
(NSERC,Concordia).
J. Rilling, V.-L. Nguyen, “Applying Code Analysis and 3D Design Pattern
Grouping to Facilitate Program Comprehension”, IEEE Visualization Software
for Understanding and Analysis (VISSOFT 2005), Workshop, Budapest 2005, pp.
33-40, 2005 (NSERC, Concordia).
J. Hassine, J. Rilling and R. Dssouli (2005), “An Abstract Operational Semantics
for Use Case Maps”, In: Farn Wang (Ed.): Formal Techniques for Networked and
Distributed Systems - FORTE 2005, 25th IFIP WG 6.1 Int. Conference, Taiwan,
October, 2005. LNCS 3731 Springer 2005, pp. 366-380.(Concordia).
J. Hassine, J. Rilling, J. Hewitt and R. Dssouli, ”Change Impact Analysis for
Requirement Evolution using Use Case Maps”. In Proceedings of IWPSE 2005
(8th International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution), Lisbon,
Portugal, September 2005. IEEE CS Press, pp. 81-90. (NSERC, Concordia).
J. Hassine, J. Rilling and R. Dssouli (2005), “An ASM Operational Semantics for
Use Case Maps”. In Proceedings of RE 2005 (13th IEEE International
Requirement Engineering Conference), Paris, France, September 2005. IEEE CS
Press, 467-468. (NSERC, Concordia).
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Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
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2008
Juergen Rilling, Philipp Schuegerl, Philippe Charland, and Ren´eWitte. SE-
2po Advisor. CASCON Technical Showcase, Sheraton Parkway Toronto North Hotel
and Convention Centre, October 27–30, 2008, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
1po
2002
Juergen Rilling. MOOSE – A Software comprehension environment. CASCON
Technical Showcase, Sheraton Parkway Toronto North Hotel and Convention
Centre, October, 2002, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Organized Workshops and Tutorials
2008
Co-Organizer and Program Co-Chair, International Workshop on Semantic
3wt
Technologies in System Maintenance (STSM 2008) at the sixteenth IEEE
International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2008), Amsterdam,
The Netherlands.
2wt
1wt
2004
M. Lizotte; J. Rilling;, “OASIS: Opening-Up Architectures Of Software-Intensive
Systems”, 24th Army Science Conference, Dec 2004. (DRDC).
J.Hassine, Rachida Dssouli, Juergen Rilling, “Applying Reduction Techniques to
Software Functional Requirement Specifications”, SAM 2004: 138-153.
(NSERC).
J. Rilling, W. J. Meng, O. Ormandjieva, “Context Driven Slicing Based Coupling
Measure”, ICSM 2004: pp. 532-534 (NSERC, Concordia).
2007
Co-Organizer and Program Co-Chair, Traceability in Software Engineering – Past,
Present and Future, Workshop at CASCON 2007, October 25, Sheraton Parkway
Toronto North Hotel and Convention Centre, Ontario, Canada.
2002
Co-Organizer and Program Co-Chair, Software Usability, Workshop at CASCON
2002, October, Sheraton Parkway Toronto North Hotel and Convention Centre,
Ontario, Canada.
Activities and contributions
Partial list of program committee memberships and, in brackets, the number of
articles reviewed during for the conference/workshop during the 2004-2009:
• IEEE Int. Conf. on Software Maintenance (ICSM): Years: 2010, 2008, 2007, 2006,
2004 (19 articles)
• IEEE Work. on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM): Years: 2009, 2008,
2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002 (25 articles)
• IEEE Work on Visualization for Software Understanding (VISSOFT): Years: 2007,
2002 (4 articles)
• International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems
(NLDB) Years: 2009, 2008 (9 articles)
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Dr. Juergen Rilling Computer Science and Software Engineering
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
• ACM Symposium on Software Visualization (SoftVis) Year: 2008 (7 articles)
• International Workshop on (Software) Language Engineering (ATEM) Year: 2007 (3
articles)
• IEEE International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing Year: 2009 (4
articles)
• ACM Conf. on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'09) Year:
2009 (3 articles)
Reviews for journals (Period: 2004 - 2008)
• IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (4 articles)
• IET Software (6 articles)
• Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution (2 articles)
• IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (1 article),
• International Journal of Computer Systems Science & Engineering (1 article),
• Journal of Systems and Software (1 articles)
• Journal of Systems and Architecture (2 articles)
• Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: (JSME) (2 articles)
• International Journal of Computers and Their Applications (1 article)
• Journal of Empirical Software Engineering (1 article)
• Automated Software Engineering Journal (2 articles)
• Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (2 articles)
Organizations of Tutorials and Workshops
• Co-Organizer and Program Co-Chair, International Workshop on Semantic
Technologies in System Maintenance (STSM 2008) at the sixteenth IEEE
International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2008), Amsterdam, The
Netherlands.
• Co-Organizer and Program Co-Chair, Traceability in Software Engineering – Past,
Present and Future, Workshop at CASCON 2007, October 25, Sheraton Parkway
Toronto North Hotel and Convention Centre, Ontario, Canada.
• LORNET ((Learning Objects Repositories Network) tutorial, “Introduction to
Ontology Driven Architectures”, Montreal, Nov.8 th 2006
Session chair:
SCAM 2009, ICSM 2004.
Reviews for the following granting agencies:
NSERC discovery grant reviews (2007, 2008) and Kentucky Science & Engineering
Foundation (2006)
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FACULTY INFORMATION FORM:
Name and Rank Dr. Witte, René Assistant Professor
Department Computer Science and Software Engineering
Tenured Tenure Track Limited Term Other (Specify)
X
Degrees Field Date Awarded Institution/Country
Dipl.-Inform. (TH) Informatics 1996/03 Universität Fridericiana
Karlsruhe (TH) /
Germany
Dr.-Ing. Informatics 2002/07 Universität Fridericiana
Karlsruhe (TH) /
Germany
Date of Original Appointment and Rank: 01.06.2008, Assistant Professor
Advancement in Rank
To Date
Current Professional Engineering Registration (P.Eng. or ing.)
Province/Territory Date
Current Memberships (e.g. Professional, Scientific, or Standards Development)
1. 2.
3. 4.
5. 6.
Sabbatical leaves
Year Organization Location
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Courses taught in the past three years (course number and title)
Undergraduate Graduate
COMP 239 Mathematics for Computer SOEN 6481 Systems Requirement Specifications
Science II
COMP 446 Designing Programs with C++
SOEN 342 Software Requirements and
Specifications
SOEN 343 Software Design
COMP 345 Advanced Program Design
with C++
Number of Student
theses Supervised
Undergraduate M.Sc. Ph.D.
Completed (last 3 years) - 7 -
Completed (Lifetime) - 7 -
In Progress - 3 -
Scholarship/Publications Refereed
Journals
Refereed
Conferences
Other
Publications
(Identify)
Number (last 6 years) 8 31 22 -
Number (life time) 8 31 22 -
Funding NSERC
Research
Grants
Other
Research
Grants
Research
Contracts
Current Year $15,000 $30,000.00 $45,000.00 $
Total (Last 5 years) $30,000.00 $170,000.00 $90,000.00 $
Patent
Non-Research
Brief description of main areas of professional/scholarly activity (technical and research
interests, offices held in professional and technical organizations, participation on technical
standards development committees, etc.)
Dr. René Witte has been working on semantic technologies and knowledge engineering for more
than 10 years. His current research focus is the development of productive semantic systems and the
applications of semantic technologies in software engineering. In particular, he works on topics
intersecting the areas of software engineering, natural language processing (NLP) and text mining,
as well as semantic desktops, knowledge management, database and information systems, and fuzzy
theory. He is well known for performing innovative research and development in close
collaboration with domain experts, including diverse application areas such as building engineering,
language engineering, biomedical research, information system engineering, and social science. The
theoretical and practical research results published by his lab are in constant use within industry and
academia. He has been a reviewer on numerous international conferences and workshops in these
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areas, as well as for journals and project proposals (see below). During the last 6 years, he
(co-)authored more than 50 publications in these areas and received 3 best paper awards.
More information is available online under http://www.semanticsoftware.info and
http://rene-witte.net.
Industrial and related experience.
Position
Organization
Period
Senior IT Architect/Consultant
Dresdner Bank AG, Research & Consulting, Frankfurt, Germany
1999/05 – 2000/11
IT Consultant
debis AG (now T-Systems International), Stuttgart, Germany
1997/05 – 1998/03
Acting Partner
AIS Automations- und Informationssysteme GmbH, Kassel, Germany
1990/07 – 1993/08
IT Consultant
pdv Gesellschaft fuer Datenverarbeitung, Hamburg, Germany
1989/06 – 1990/04
MaTA (certified programmer)
Thyssen Industrie AG, Kassel, Germany
1988/06 – 1988/10
Honours and Awards, other pertinent information.
Awards
[1a] Best Paper Award at the 20th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI 2007).
Acceptance rate: 17.7%
[2a] Best Paper Award at the 4th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2007). Acceptance
rate: 17%
[3a] Best Paper Award (jointly for two contributions), at the 3rd International Workshop on
Metamodels, Schemas, Grammars, and Ontologies for Reverse Engineering (ATEM 2006).
Acceptance rate: 18%
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Invited Lectures and Keynotes
[1l] Invited Talk, Software Engineering and Natural Language Processing: Friends or Foes?
February 26th, 2009. Colloques du DIRO, Universitéde Montréal, Québec, Canada.
[2l] Invited Talk, Ontology and Text Mining: Connecting your Documents with the Real World.
July 5th, 2007. University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
[3l] Keynote Speaker, Empowering Software Maintainers with Semantic Web Technologies. June 6,
2007. 3rd Intl. WS on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering (SWESE 2007), Innsbruck,
Austria.
[4l] Invited Talk, Ontology and Text Mining: Connecting your Documents with the Real World.
February 28th, 2007. Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Knowledge Discovery Department,
Singapore.
Conference Tutorials
[1t] Dragan Gasevic, René Witte, and Carlo Torniai. Applications for the Semantic Web. 4th Annual
International Conference, LORNET Research Network: “User Centered Knowledge Environments:
from Theory to Practice” (I2LOR-2007), November 4–7, 2007, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
[2t] René Witte. Introduction to Text Mining. 10th International Conference on Extending Database
Technology (EDBT), March 26–30, 2006, Munich, Germany.
Workshop and Conference Organization
[1o] Co-Organizer and Program Co-Chair, New Challenges for NLP Frameworks, Workshop at
LREC 2010, May 22, Valletta, Malta.
[2o] Program Co-Chair, The Third International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing
(SEMAPRO 2009), October 11-16, 2009, Sliema, Malta.
[1o] Co-Organizer/Program Co-Chair, Intl. WS on Semantic Technologies in System Maintenance
(STSM 2008), 16th IEEE Intl. Conf. on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2008), Amsterdam,
Netherlands.
[2o] Co-Organizer/Program Co-Chair, Traceability in Software Engineering – Past, Present and
Future, Workshop at CASCON 2007, October 25, Sheraton Parkway, Toronto, Canada.
Reviews for Journals and Projects
[1v] Journal Paper Reviewer, International Journal of Semantic Computing (IJSC), 2009. World
Scientific.
[2v] Expert Evaluator for project proposals in the area “Semantic Systems and Services” of the
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Austrian research funding initiative FIT-IT. Reviewer meeting August 8th, 2008, Salzburg, Austria.
[3v] Journal Reviewer: Soft Computing, 2008, Springer; Information Systems (IS), 2008, Elsevier;
Jnl. of Interesting Negative Results in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning (JINR),
2008.
[4v] Journal Special Issue Review Board member, Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational
Biology (JBCB), 2007, Special Issue “Making Sense of Mutations requires Knowledge
Management”.
Committee Memberships
[1m] 8th ACIS Intl. Conf. on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications
(SERA2010), May 31–June 2, 2010, Montréal, Canada. IEEE.
[2m] 3rd Intl. Conf. on Advances in Semantic Processing (SEMAPRO 2009), Sliema, Malta.
[3m] The 2nd Intl. Conf. on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2009), Denver, Colorado, USA.
[4m] 3rd IEEE Intl. Conf. on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2009), 2009, Berkeley, CA, USA.
[5m] Conf. on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2009), Singapore.
[6m] The People’s Web meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources, Workshop at
ACL/IJCNLP 2009, Singapore.
[7m] The 32nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, July 19–23, 2009, Boston, MA, USA.
[8m] 14th Intl. Conf. on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2009),
Germany.
[9m] The 6th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2009), Demo/Poster Session
Reviewer, 31 May–4 June 2009, Heraklion, Greece.
[10m] 22nd Canadian Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (Canadian AI 2009), 2009, Kelowna, BC,
Canada.
[11m] The Second Canadian Semantic Web Working Symposium (CSWWS 2009), Kelowna, BC,
Canada.
[12m] 8th Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2008), Kaohsiung,
Taiwan.
[13m] 4th Intl. Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering (SWESE), Karlsruhe,
Germany.
[14m] 12th Intl. Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS 2008), M¨ nster,
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[15m] 2nd IEEE Intl. Conf. on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2008), Santa Clara, California, USA.
[16m] 21st Canadian Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (Canadian AI 2008), Windsor, Ontario,
Canada.
[17m] The 2nd Intl. Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine (LBM 2007), Biopolis,
Singapore.
[18m] 4th International Workshop on Language Engineering: Metamodels, Schemas, Grammars,
and Ontologies (ATEM 2007), Workshop at MoDELs 2007, Nashville, TN, USA.
[19m] 11th Intl. Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS 2007), Banff, AB,
Canada.
[20m] 7th Intl. Conf. on Intelligent System Design and Applications (ISDA 2007), Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil.
[21m] 10th Intl. Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS 2006), Delhi, India.
IEEE.
[22m] 6th Intl. Conf. on Intelligent System Design and Applications (ISDA 2006), Jinan, China.
List of Publications.
JOURNAL PAPERS
[1j] René Witte, Ralf Krestel, Thomas Kappler, and Peter C. Lockemann. Converting a Historical
Encyclopedia of Architecture into a Semantic Knowledge Base. IEEE Intelligent Systems. 2010(1).
[2j] Juergen Rilling, Wen Jun Meng, Ren´ Witte, and Philippe Charland. Story Driven Approach to
Software Evolution. IET Software, Volume 2, Issue 4, 2008, pp.304–320. Special Section for
selected papers from WSE 2006. Impact Factor: 0.543.
[3j] Juergen Rilling, Ren´ Witte, Philipp Schuegerl, and Philippe Charland. Beyond Information
Silos – An Omnipresent Approach to Software Evolution. Intl. Journal of Semantic Computing
(IJSC), Special Issue on Ambient Semantic Computing. Volume 2, Issue 4, December 2008.
[4j] Yonggang Zhang, René Witte, Juergen Rilling, Volker Haarslev. Ontological Approach for the
Semantic Recovery of Traceability Links between Software Artifacts. IET Software, 2008,
2(3):185–203. Special Section for selected papers from ATEM 2006. Impact Factor: 0.543.
[5j] René Witte, Qiangqiang Li, Yonggang Zhang, and Juergen Rilling. Text Mining and Software
Engineering: An Integrated Source Code and Document Analysis Approach. IET Software,
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Volume 2, Issue 1, 2008, pp. 3-16. Special Section on Natural Language in Software Engineering.
[6j] René Witte and Christopher J. O. Baker. Towards a Systematic Evaluation of Protein Mutation
Extraction Systems. Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (JBCB), Volume 5, Issue
6, December 2007, pp. 1339–1359. PMID: 18172932.
[7j] René Witte, Thomas Kappler, and Christopher J. O. Baker. Enhanced Semantic Access to the
Protein Engineering Literature using Ontologies Populated by Text Mining. Intl. Journal of
Bioinformatics Research and Applications (IJBRA), Volume 3, Issue 3, 2007. PMID: 18048198.
[8j] Christopher J. O. Baker and Ren´ Witte. Mutation Mining—a Prospector’s Tale. Journal of
Information Systems Frontiers (ISF), Springer Science+Business, 8:47–57, 2006. Impact Factor:
0.706.
PEER-REVIEWED PAPERS IN CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
[1c] Philipp Schugerl, Juergen Rilling, René Witte, and Philippe Charland. A Quality Perspective of
Evolvability Using Semantic Analysis. Third IEEE International Conference on Semantic
Computing (ICSC 2009), September 14–16, 2009, Berkeley, CA, USA. (Acceptance rate: 30%)
[2c] René Witte and Thomas Gitzinger. Semantic Assistants – User-Centric Natural Language
Processing Services for Desktop Clients. 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2008).
Springer LNCS 5367, pp. 360–374.
[3c] René Witte and Thomas Gitzinger. A General Architecture for Connecting NLP Frameworks
and Desktop Clients using Web Services. 13th International Conference on Applications of Natural
Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2008), June 24–27, London, UK.
[4c] René Witte, Thomas Gitzinger, Thomas Kappler, and Ralf Krestel. A Semantic Wiki Approach
to Cultural Heritage Data Management. Language Technology for Cultural Heritage Data
(LaTeCH 2008), Workshop at LREC 2008, June 1st, 2008, Marrakech, Morocco.
[5c] Thomas Gitzinger and René Witte. Enhancing the OpenOffice.org Word Processor with
Natural Language Processing Capabilities. Natural Language Processing Resources, Algorithms
and Tools for Authoring Aids, Workshop at LREC 2008, June 1st, 2008, Marrakech, Morocco.
[6c] Ralf Krestel, Sabine Bergler, and René Witte. Minding the Source: Automatic Tagging of
Reported Speech in Newspaper Articles. The sixth international conference on Language Resources
and Evaluation (LREC 2008), 28–30 May 2008, Marrakech, Morocco.
[7c] René Witte and Thomas Gitzinger. Connecting Wikis and Natural Language Processing
Systems. 2007 International Symposium on Wikis (WikiSym 2007), Co-located with ACM OOPSLA
2007, October 21–23, 2007, Montréal, Canada.
[8c] Ralf Krestel, René Witte, and Sabine Bergler. Processing of Beliefs extracted from Reported
Speech in Newspaper Articles. International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language
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Processing (RANLP 2007), September 27–29, 2007, Borovets, Bulgaria.
[9c] René Witte and Ting Tang. Task-Dependent Visualization of Coreference Resolution Results.
International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2007),
September 27–29, 2007, Borovets, Bulgaria.
[10c] René Witte and Sabine Bergler. Next-Generation Summarization: Contrastive, Focused, and
Update Summaries. International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing
(RANLP 2007), September 27–29, 2007, Borovets, Bulgaria.
[11c] René Witte, Qiangqiang Li, Yonggang Zhang, and Juergen Rilling. Ontological Text Mining
of Software Documents. 12th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to
Information Systems (NLDB 2007), June 27–29, 2007, CNAM, Paris, France. Springer LNCS 4592.
(Acceptance rate: 28%)
[12c] Ralf Krestel, René Witte, and Sabine Bergler. Creating a Fuzzy Believer to Model Human
Newspaper Readers. 20th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Canadian AI 2007), May
28–30, 2007, Montréal, Québec, Canada. Springer LNAI 4509. (Acceptance rate: 17.7%)
[13c] RenéWitte and Sabine Bergler. Fuzzy Clustering for Topic Analysis and Summarization of
Document Collections. 20th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Canadian AI 2007),
May 28–30, 2007, Montréal, Québec, Canada. Springer LNAI 4509. (Acceptance rate: 17.7%)
Received “Best Paper” Award.
[14c] René Witte, Yonggang Zhang, and Juergen Rilling. Empowering Software Maintainers with
Semantic Web Technologies. 4th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2007), June 3–7,
2007, Innsbruck, Austria. Springer LNCS 4519. (Acceptance rate: 17%) Received “Best Paper”
Award.
[15c] Juergen Rilling, René Witte, and Yonggang Zhang. Automatic Traceability Recovery: An
Ontological Approach. International Symposium on Grand Challenges in Traceability (GCT’07),
Center of Excellence in Traceability, March 22–23, 2007, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
[16c] Wen Jun Meng, Juergen Rilling, Yonggang Zhang, René Witte, and Philippe Charland. An
Ontological Software Comprehension Process Model. 3rd International Workshop on Metamodels,
Schemas, Grammars, and Ontologies for Reverse Engineering (ATEM 2006). October 1st, Genoa,
Italy. (Acceptance rate: 18%) Received joint “Best Paper” award with our second ATEM
contribution (see below).
[17c] Yonggang Zhang, René Witte, Juergen Rilling, and Volker Haarslev. An Ontology-based
Approach for the Recovery of Traceability Links. 3rd International Workshop on Metamodels,
Schemas, Grammars, and Ontologies for Reverse Engineering (ATEM 2006). October 1st, Genoa,
Italy. (Acceptance rate: 18%) Received joint “Best Paper” award with our second ATEM
contribution (see above).
[18c] Wen Jun Meng, Juergen Rilling, Yonggang Zhang, René Witte, Sudhir Mudur, and Philippe
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Charland. A Context-Driven Software Comprehension Process Model. Second International IEEE
Workshop on Software Evolvability at the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance
(ICSM), 24 September 2006, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
[19c] Yonggang Zhang, René Witte, Juergen Rilling, and Volker Haarslev. Ontology-based
Program Comprehension Tool Supporting Website Architectural Evolution. 8th IEEE International
Symposium on Web Site Evolution (WSE 2006), September 23-24, 2006, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, USA.
[20c] René Witte, Petra Gerlach, Markus Joachim, Thomas Kappler, Ralf Krestel, and Praharshana
Perera. Engineering a Semantic Desktop for Building Historians and Architects. 1stWorkshop on
The Semantic Desktop – Next Generation Personal Information Management and Collaboration
Infrastructure at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), November 6, 2005, Galway,
Ireland. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073.
[21c] Praharshana Perera and René Witte. A Self-Learning Context-Aware Lemmatizer for German.
Human Language Technology Conference/Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language
Processing (HLT/EMNLP 2005), pages 636–643, October 6–8, 2005, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
(Acceptance rate: 31.6%)
[22c] Christopher J. O. Baker, René Witte, Arash Shaban-Nejad, Greg Butler, and Volker Haarslev.
The FungalWeb Ontology: Application Scenarios. Eighth Annual Bio-Ontologies Meeting, June 24,
2005, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
[23c] René Witte and Christopher J. O. Baker. Combining Biological Databases and Text Mining to
support New Bioinformatics Applications. 10th International Conference on Applications of
Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB), Springer LNCS 3513, pages 310–321, June 15–
17, Alicante, Spain.
[24c] Christopher J. O. Baker and René Witte. Mutation Miner – Textual Annotation of Protein
Structures. CERMM Symposium 2005, Centre for Research in Molecular Modeling, Abstracts, page
29, February 11–13, 2005, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
[25c] Christopher J. O. Baker and René Witte. Enriching Protein Structure Visualizations with
Mutation Annotations Obtained by Text Mining Protein Engineering Literature. The Third
Canadian Working Conference on Computational Biology (CCCB’04), October 4th, 2004,
Markham, Ontario, Canada.
[26c] René Witte. An Integration Architecture for User-Centric Document Creation, Retrieval, and
Analysis. Proceedings of the VLDB Workshop on Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb 2004),
August 30th, 2004, Toronto, Canada.
[27c] René Witte and Ulrike Kölsch. Supporting Reverse Engineering Tasks with a Fuzzy
Repository Framework. Softwaretechnik-Trends , Band 24, Heft 2, ISSN 0720-8928, GI. Sonderteil
6. Workshop Software-Reengineering, May 3–5 2004, Bad Honnef, Germany.
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[28c] Sabine Bergler, Monia Doandes, Christine Gerard, and René Witte. Attributions. Yan Qu,
James G. Shanahan, Janyce Wiebe (Editors), Proceedings of AAAI Spring Symposium on Exploring
Attitude and Affect in Text, ISBN 1-57735-219-x, SS-04-07, AAAI Technical Report Series, AAAI
Press. March 22–24 2004, Stanford, California, USA.
[29c] Ulrike Kölsch and René Witte. Fuzzy Extensions for Reverse Engineering Repository Models.
Proceedings of the 10th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2003), pages 113–
122, Victoria, B.C., Canada, November 13–16 2003. IEEE.
[30c] René Witte and Sabine Bergler. Fuzzy Coreference Resolution for Summarization.
Proceedings of 2003 International Symposium on Reference Resolution and Its Applications to
Question Answering and Summarization (ARQAS), pages 43–50, Venice, Italy, June 23–24 2003.
Università Ca’ Foscari.
[31c] René Witte. Fuzzy Belief Revision. 9th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic
Reasoning (NMR’02), pages 311–320, Toulouse, France, April 19–21 2002.
INVITED PAPERS
[1i] Juergen Rilling, Yonggang Zhang, Wen Jun Meng, René Witte, Volker Haarslev, and Philippe
Charland. A Unified Ontology-Based Process Model for Software Maintenance and
Comprehension. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 9th International Conference on Model Driven
Engineering Languages and Systems (MoDELS/UML 2006), Springer, LNCS 4364, pp. 56–65,
2006.
[2i] Peter C. Lockemann and René Witte. Agents and Databases: Friends or Foes? International
Database Engineering and Applications Symposium (IDEAS), IEEE Computer Society, pp. 137–
147, July 25–27, 2005, Montréal, Canada.
EDITORIALS
[1e] Juergen Rilling, René Witte, Dragan Gasević, and Jeff Z. Pan. Semantic Technologies in
System Maintenance. The 16th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension
(ICPC), 10–13 June, 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. IEEE.
TAC/DUC COMPETITION PAPERS
Publications from the international, U.S. NIST-sponsored competitions on automatic text analysis
(TAC, formerly DUC). Note that these papers are not peer-reviewed, but can only be submitted by
competition participants, where the systems’ results are formally evaluated by NIST assessors.
[1d] Ralf Krestel, Sabine Bergler, and René Witte. A Belief Revision Approach to Textual
Entailment Recognition. Text Analysis Conference (TAC), November 17–19, 2008, National
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[2d] Sylvain Bellemare, Sabine Bergler, and René Witte. ERSS at TAC 2008. Text Analysis
Conference (TAC), November 17–19, 2008, National Institute of Standards and Technology,
Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA. NIST.
[3d] René Witte, Ralf Krestel, and Sabine Bergler. Generating Update Summaries for DUC 2007.
Document Understanding Conference (DUC), Workshop at NAACL-HLT 2007, April 26–27,
2007, Rochester, NY, USA. NIST.
[4d] René Witte, Ralf Krestel, and Sabine Bergler. Context-based Multi-Document Summarization
using Fuzzy Coreference Cluster Graphs. Document Understanding Conference (DUC), Workshop
at HLT/NAACL 2006, June 8–9, 2006, New York City, NY, USA. NIST.
[5d] René Witte, Ralf Krestel, and Sabine Bergler. ERSS 2005: Coreference-Based Summarization
Reloaded. Document Understanding Conference (DUC),Workshop at HLT/EMNLP 2005, October
9–10, 2005, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. NIST.
[6d] Sabine Bergler, René Witte, Zhuoyan Li, Michelle Khalifé, Yunyu Chen, Monia Doandes, and
Alina Andreevskaia. Multi-ERSS and ERSS 2004. Document Understanding Conference (DUC)
Workshop, May 6–7, 2004, Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers, Boston, USA. NIST.
[7d] Sabine Bergler, René Witte, Michelle Khalife, Zhuoyan Li, and Frank Rudzicz. Using
Knowledge-poor Coreference Resolution for Text Summarization. Workshop on Text
Summarization , Document Understanding Conference (DUC), May 31–June 1 2003, Edmonton,
Canada, NIST.
AUTHORED BOOKS
[1a] René Witte. Architektur von Fuzzy-Informationssystemen . BoD, 2002. ISBN 3-8311-4149-5.
BOOK CHAPTERS (REVIEWED)
[1b] René Witte, Thomas Kappler, and Christopher J. O. Baker. Ontology Design for Biomedical
Text Mining. Chapter 13 in SemanticWeb: Revolutionizing Knowledge Discovery in the Life
Sciences. Springer-Verlag, 2006.
REVIEWED POSTERS
[1p] René Witte and Nikolaos Papadakis. Semantic Assistants: SOA for Text Mining. CASCON
2009 Technical Showcase Proceedings, November 2-9, 2009, Markham, Ontario, Canada.
[2p] Juergen Rilling, Philipp Schuegerl, Philippe Charland, and René Witte. SE-Advisor. CASCON
Technical Showcase, Sheraton Parkway Toronto North Hotel and Convention Centre, October 27–
30, 2008, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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[3p] Ralf Krestel, René Witte, and Sabine Bergler. Fuzzy Set Theory-Based Belief Processing for
Natural Language Texts. The Twenty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI
2007), Student Abstract Program, July 22–26, 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
[4p] Christopher J. O. Baker, Arash Shaban-Nejad, RenéWitte, Volker Haarslev, and Greg Butler.
Empowering the Enzyme Biotechnologist with Ontologies. 10th International Congress on
Biotechnology in the Pulp and Paper Industry (ICBPPI 2007), June 10-14, 2007, Monona Terrace,
Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
[5p] Christopher J. O. Baker and René Witte. Mutation Miner. 13th Annual International
conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2005), June 25–29, 2005, Detroit,
Michigan, USA.
[6p] Christopher J. O. Baker, René Witte, Ashwin Bhat Gurpur, and Vladislav Ryzhikov. Mutation
Miner. 5th International Conference of the Canadian Proteomics Initiative (CPI 2005), May 13–14,
2005, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Also presented at Knowledge-based Bioinformatics Workshop (KBB), September 21–23, 2005,
Montréal, Québec, Canada.
TECHNICAL REPORTS
[1r] Juergen Rilling, Philippe Charland, and René Witte. Traceability in Software Engineering –
Past, Present and Future. CASCON Workshop, IBM Technical Report: TR-74-211, October 25,
2007. http://www.ibm.com/ibm/cas/publications/cascon2007reports/cascon07 TR-74-211.pdf
[2r] René Witte and Jutta Mülle (Editors). Text Mining: Wissensgewinnung aus natürlichsprachigen
Dokumenten. Interner Bericht 2006-5, Fakultät für Informatik, Universität Karlsruhe. ISSN 1432-
7864. http://rene-witte.net/text-mining-report-2006
CONFERENCE TUTORIALS
[1t] Dragan Gasević, René Witte, and Carlo Torniai. Applications for the Semantic Web. 4th
Annual International Conference, LORNET Research Network: “User Centered Knowledge
Environments: from Theory to Practice” (I2LOR-2007), November 4–7 2007, Montréal, Québec,
Canada.
[2t] René Witte. Introduction to Text Mining. 10th International Conference on Extending
Database Technology (EDBT), March 26–30 2006, Munich, Germany.
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1 Significant Contributions
The key contributions of my research are foundations and applications of Semantic Computing. A particular
focus is the connection between algorithms and methods of natural language processing (NLP) with information
system architectures, including semantic desktops and Web-based service-oriented architectures.
1.1 Semantic Technologies in Software Engineering
My research goal in this area is to improve software development and maintenance tasks by integrating
knowledge on a semantic level. The developed approach employs OWL-DL ontologies (based on Description
Logics), in order to model key concepts and relations in the software domain. What differentiates my
work from similar endeavours is that I use sophisticated systems to automatically populate these ontologies
and show how the obtained knowledge bases help in concrete software engineering tasks, like program
comprehension, traceability link recovery, and process modeling [14c][2j]. This research was the first to
demonstrate the feasibility of combining knowledge from source code and its natural language documentation
in a single, formal representation using ontologies, which works on the much more fine-grained level
of individuals words and phrases compared with competing approaches using information retrieval (IR)
techniques. This allows to integrate knowledge about source code, derived from static code analysis, into
the text mining pipelines we developed for document analysis. The resulting, unified representation can
then be queried and used for automated reasoning using description logics reasoners ([11c], extended in
[5j]). In particular, we developed an approach for the automated recovery of traceability links, which works
on this ontological knowledge base ([16c], extended in [4j]).
Our examples on the successful integration of semantic technologies with software engineering have
been highly regarded by the research community, as evidenced by best paper awards [2a, 3a] and invitations
to keynote talks [3l]. Ongoing work in this area is financed by Defence Research and Development Canada
(DRDC), Valcartier, QC (joint project with Dr. Rilling, Concordia).
1.2 Semantic Computing for Biomedical Research
Biomedical research and discovery is a particularly important application area of semantic technologies,
due to the large amount and complexity of the data involved. Semantic systems for this domain are of high
practical interest to both science and industry.
In the Mutation Miner [4p] project, developed jointly with Dr. Baker (UNB), we target users for a
specific area in biology: protein engineers [3p]. Information about protein mutations described in full-text
research papers is extracted through a text mining subsystem and mapped to protein databases using a
sophisticated pipeline of bioinformatics tools [8j]. The end result is transferred to a 3D-visualization of
a particular molecule, showing information extracted from documents in a spatial context meaningful to
bio-engineers. Mutation Miner was one of the first systems that went beyond simply delivering information
extracts by integrating a complete natural language subsystem into a biologically relevant application,
thereby combining text analysis with bioinformatics algorithms [22c]. Mutation Miner introduced a number
of novel concepts that have meanwhile been adapted by the research community: sequence validation of
text-extracted information using biomedical databases and bioinformatics tools, ontology population [1b],
navigating the bibliome through ontology queries [7j] and direct integration of semantic annotation into
visualization tools [23c], as well as evaluation guidelines [6j]. In ongoing work, I collaborate with the new
Canadian Cellulosic Biofuel Network (CBN) (joint PDF supervision), where we extend and evaluate this
technology for the development of enzymes used in the production of biofuel out of biomass.
1.3 Semantic Systems for Cultural Heritage Data Management
Providing access to cultural heritage data beyond book digitization and information retrieval projects is
important for delivering advanced semantic support to end users, in order to address their specific needs
[1j]. In my research, I introduced a separation of concerns for different user groups (e.g., historians,
computational linguists, laypersons, practitioners) and analyzed their particular requirements for the
management of textual cultural heritage data. Based on this analysis, I developed a comprehensive system
architecture [24c] for accessing, annotating, and querying textual historic data. Novel features include
the deployment of a Wiki user interface, natural language processing services for end users, metadata
generation in OWL ontology format, SPARQL queries on textual data, and integration of external clients
through Web services [4c]. Together with my students and end users, I performed extensive experiments
within a case study using a historical encyclopedia on architecture [19c]. This completed project was funded
by the German DFG; results including data and tools have been made available under open source licenses
and are under constant use by both the research community and industry.
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1.4 Foundations of Natural Language Processing and Text Mining
As indicated by the previous topics, an important source of semantic knowledge is natural language text: it
is estimated that at least 80–85% of all data is of this nature. I have been active in the domain of text mining
and related fields (natural language processing, language technology) to develop theoretical foundations
and algorithms for the analysis and transformation of large textual data sets. My work has been among the
first to demonstrate the utility of fuzzy set theory for explicitly modeling the uncertainty inherent in natural
language. Using a formal representation and belief revision model developed during my PhD research,
I showed how existing research from soft computing can be transferred to NLP to improve tasks like
coreference resolution [28c], automatic summarization [13c], textual entailment [2p], and belief acquisition
[12c]. In particular, my topic analysis and summarization technique based on fuzzy clustering [13c] has
been shown to be highly competitive in large-scale evaluations, for which I received a best paper award [1a]
from the Canadian research community. I have also been active in a number of complementary NLP areas,
resulting in open source components for multilingual noun phrase (NP) chunking, reported speech tagging
[6c] and German lemmatization [20c].
1.5 Engineering of Semantic Systems
In this area I examine the interrelationships between (Web) information systems engineering and natural
language processing: Collecting, maintaining, and deriving actionable knowledge from diverse information
repositories is at the core of every organization. To stay competitive, knowledge management tasks are
increasingly supported by automated software systems that are capable of maintaining semantic information.
While foundations for these systems are developed in areas like natural language processing, information
retrieval, and the Semantic Web, these fields do not address specific software engineering concerns for
the development and deployment of productive semantic systems. The goal of my research in this area is
to further existing principles from software development, like system architectures [24c][3c], to the area
of semantic systems. My work on integrating Wiki technology, a commonly-used collaboration platform
with high industrial relevance, with NLP systems was the first of its kind [7c]. More recently, I started
the ambitious Semantic Assistants project, which aims to provide a general architecture for integrating
semantic analysis services, in particular those based on text mining, and end-user clients found on today’s
desktop environments [2c][3c].
2 Research contributions in the last six years (Excerpt)
Over the last six years, I (co-)authored more than 50 publications, including eight journal papers, 29 papers
in conferences and workshops (some with an acceptance rate of less than 20%), and a book chapter. Three
of my publications received a best paper award; and two conference papers were selected for extended
journal publications. Note that the following list is partial, due to space constraints.
2.1 Journal Papers
[1j] René Witte, Ralf Krestel, Thomas Kappler, and Peter C. Lockemann. Converting a Historical
Encyclopedia of Architecture into a Semantic Knowledge Base. IEEE Intelligent Systems. In press.
[2j] Juergen Rilling, Wen Jun Meng, René Witte, and Philippe Charland. Story Driven Approach to
Software Evolution. IET Software, Volume 2, Issue 4, 2008, pp.304–320. Special Section for selected
papers from WSE 2006. Impact Factor: 0.543.
[3j] Juergen Rilling, René Witte, Philipp Schuegerl, and Philippe Charland. Beyond Information Silos
– An Omnipresent Approach to Software Evolution. Intl. Journal of Semantic Computing (IJSC),
Special Issue on Ambient Semantic Computing. Volume 2, Issue 4, December 2008.
[4j] Yonggang Zhang, René Witte, Juergen Rilling, Volker Haarslev. Ontological Approach for the
Semantic Recovery of Traceability Links between Software Artifacts. IET Software, 2008, 2(3):185–
203. Special Section for selected papers from ATEM 2006. Impact Factor: 0.543.
[5j] René Witte, Qiangqiang Li, Yonggang Zhang, and Juergen Rilling. Text Mining and Software
Engineering: An Integrated Source Code and Document Analysis Approach. IET Software, Volume 2,
Issue 1, 2008, pp. 3-16. Special Section on Natural Language in Software Engineering.
[6j] René Witte and Christopher J. O. Baker. Towards a Systematic Evaluation of Protein Mutation
Extraction Systems. Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (JBCB), Volume 5, Issue
6, December 2007, pp. 1339–1359. PMID: 18172932.
[7j] René Witte, Thomas Kappler, and Christopher J. O. Baker. Enhanced Semantic Access to the Protein
Engineering Literature using Ontologies Populated by Text Mining. Intl. Journal of Bioinformatics
Research and Applications (IJBRA), Volume 3, Issue 3, 2007. PMID: 18048198.
[8j] Christopher J. O. Baker and René Witte. Mutation Mining—a Prospector’s Tale. Journal of Information
Systems Frontiers (ISF), Springer Science+Business, 8:47–57, 2006. Impact Factor: 0.706.
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2.2 Peer-Reviewed Papers in Conferences and Workshops (Excerpt)
[1c] Philipp Schugerl, Juergen Rilling, René Witte, and Philippe Charland. A Quality Perspective of
Evolvability Using Semantic Analysis. Third IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing
(ICSC 2009), September 14–16, 2009, Berkeley, CA, USA. (Acceptance rate: 30%)
[2c] René Witte and Thomas Gitzinger. Semantic Assistants – User-Centric Natural Language Processing
Services for Desktop Clients. 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2008), February 2—5,
2009, Bangkog, Thailand. Springer LNCS 5367, pp. 360–374. (Acceptance rate: 31%)
[3c] René Witte and Thomas Gitzinger. A General Architecture for Connecting NLP Frameworks and
Desktop Clients using Web Services. 13th International Conference on Applications of Natural
Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2008), June 24–27, London, UK.
[4c] René Witte, Thomas Gitzinger, Thomas Kappler, and Ralf Krestel. A Semantic Wiki Approach
to Cultural Heritage Data Management. Language Technology for Cultural Heritage Data (LaTeCH
2008), Workshop at LREC 2008, June 1st, 2008, Marrakech, Morocco.
[5c] Thomas Gitzinger and René Witte. Enhancing the OpenOffice.org Word Processor with Natural
Language Processing Capabilities. Natural Language Processing Resources, Algorithms and Tools
for Authoring Aids, Workshop at LREC 2008, June 1st, 2008, Marrakech, Morocco.
[6c] Ralf Krestel, Sabine Bergler, and René Witte. Minding the Source: Automatic Tagging of Reported
Speech in Newspaper Articles. The Sixth Intl. Conf. on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC
2008), 28–30 May 2008, Marrakech, Morocco.
[7c] René Witte and Thomas Gitzinger. Connecting Wikis and Natural Language Processing Systems.
2007 Intl. Symposium on Wikis (WikiSym 2007), October 21–23, 2007, Montréal, Canada.
[8c] René Witte and Ting Tang. Task-Dependent Visualization of Coreference Resolution Results. Intl.
Conf. on Recent Advances in NLP (RANLP 2007), Sept. 27–29, 2007, Borovets, Bulgaria.
[9c] Ralf Krestel, René Witte, and Sabine Bergler. Processing of Beliefs extracted from Reported Speech
in Newspaper Articles. Intl. Conf. on Recent Advances in NLP (RANLP 2007), 2007, Bulgaria.
[10c] René Witte and Sabine Bergler. Next-Generation Summarization: Contrastive, Focused, and Update
Summaries. Intl. Conf. on Recent Advances in NLP (RANLP 2007), 2007, Borovets, Bulgaria.
[11c] René Witte, Qiangqiang Li, Yonggang Zhang, and Juergen Rilling. Ontological Text Mining of
Software Documents. 12th Intl. Conf. on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems
(NLDB 2007), June 27–29, 2007, Paris, France. Springer LNCS 4592. (Acceptance rate: 28%)
[12c] Ralf Krestel, René Witte, and Sabine Bergler. Creating a Fuzzy Believer to Model Human Newspaper
Readers. 20th Canadian Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (Canadian AI 2007), May 28–30, 2007,
Montréal, QC, Canada. Springer LNAI 4509. (Acceptance rate: 17.7%)
[13c] René Witte and Sabine Bergler. Fuzzy Clustering for Topic Analysis and Summarization of Document
Collections. 20th Canadian Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (CAI 2007), May 28–30, 2007, Montréal,
Canada. Springer LNAI 4509. (Acceptance rate: 17.7%) Received “Best Paper” Award.
[14c] René Witte, Yonggang Zhang, and Juergen Rilling. Empowering Software Maintainers with Semantic
Web Technologies. 4th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2007), June 3–7, 2007, Innsbruck,
Austria. Springer LNCS 4519. (Acceptance rate: 17%) Received “Best Paper” Award.
[15c] Wen Jun Meng, Juergen Rilling, Yonggang Zhang, René Witte, and Philippe Charland. An Ontological
Software Comprehension Process Model. 3rd Intl. Workshop on Metamodels, Schemas, Grammars,
and Ontologies for Reverse Engineering (ATEM 2006). Oct. 1st, Genoa, Italy. (Acceptance rate: 18%)
Received joint “Best Paper” award with our second ATEM contribution (see below).
[16c] Yonggang Zhang, René Witte, Juergen Rilling, and Volker Haarslev. An Ontology-based Approach for
the Recovery of Traceability Links. 3rd International Workshop on Metamodels, Schemas, Grammars,
and Ontologies for Reverse Engineering (ATEM 2006). October 1st, Genoa, Italy. (Acceptance rate:
18%) Received joint “Best Paper” award with our second ATEM contribution (see above).
[17c] Wen Jun Meng, Juergen Rilling, Yonggang Zhang, René Witte, Sudhir Mudur, and Philippe Charland.
A Context-Driven Software Comprehension Process Model. 2nd Intl. IEEE Workshop on Software
Evolvability at ICSM, Sept. 24, 2006, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
[18c] Yonggang Zhang, René Witte, Juergen Rilling, and Volker Haarslev. Ontology-based Program
Comprehension Tool Supporting Website Architectural Evolution. 8th IEEE International Symposium
on Web Site Evolution (WSE 2006), September 23-24, 2006, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
[19c] René Witte, Petra Gerlach, Markus Joachim, Thomas Kappler, Ralf Krestel, and Praharshana
Perera. Engineering a Semantic Desktop for Building Historians and Architects. 1st Workshop
on The Semantic Desktop – Next Generation Personal Information Management and Collaboration
Infrastructure at the Intl. Semantic Web Conf. (ISWC), Nov. 6, 2005, Galway, Ireland. CEUR.
[20c] Praharshana Perera and René Witte. A Self-Learning Context-Aware Lemmatizer for German.
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Human Language Technology Conf./Conf. on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
(HLT/EMNLP 2005), pp.636–643, Oct. 6–8, 2005, Vancouver, Canada. (Acceptance rate: 31.6%)
[21c] Christopher J. O. Baker, René Witte, Arash Shaban-Nejad, Greg Butler, and Volker Haarslev. The
FungalWeb Ontology: Application Scenarios. 8th Ann. Bio-Ontologies Meeting, 2005, Detroit, USA.
[22c] René Witte and Christopher J. O. Baker. Combining Biological Databases and Text Mining to
support New Bioinformatics Applications. 10th Intl. Conf. on Applications of Natural Language to
Information Systems (NLDB), Springer LNCS 3513, pp.310–321, June 15–17, Alicante, Spain.
[23c] Christopher J. O. Baker and René Witte. Enriching Protein Structure Visualizations with Mutation
Annotations Obtained by Text Mining Protein Engineering Literature. The Third Canadian Working
Conference on Computational Biology (CCCB’04), October 4th, 2004, Markham, Ontario, Canada.
[24c] René Witte. An Integration Architecture for User-Centric Document Creation, Retrieval, and
Analysis. VLDB WS on Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb 2004), 2004, Toronto, Canada.
[25c] René Witte and Ulrike Kölsch. Supporting Reverse Engineering Tasks with a Fuzzy Repository
Framework. Workshop Software-Reengineering, May 3–5, 2004, Bad Honnef, Germany.
[26c] Sabine Bergler, Monia Doandes, Christine Gerard, and René Witte. Attributions. Proc. AAAI Spring
Symposium on Exploring Attitude and Affect in Text, March 22–24, 2004, Stanford, California, USA.
[27c] Ulrike Kölsch and René Witte. Fuzzy Extensions for Reverse Engineering Repository Models. Proc.
10th Working Conf. on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2003), pp.113–122, Victoria, BC, Canada.
[28c] René Witte and Sabine Bergler. Fuzzy Coreference Resolution for Summarization. Proceedings of
2003 International Symposium on Reference Resolution and Its Applications to Question Answering
and Summarization (ARQAS), pp.43–50, Venice, Italy, June 23–24 2003. Università Ca’ Foscari.
2.3 Invited Papers (Excerpt)
[1i] Peter C. Lockemann and René Witte. Agents and Databases: Friends or Foes? Intl. Database
Engineering and Applications Symposium (IDEAS), pp.137–147, July 25–27, 2005, Montréal, Canada.
2.4 Editorials
[1e] Juergen Rilling, René Witte, Dragan Gaˇsević, and Jeff Z. Pan. Semantic Technologies in System
Maintenance. The 16th IEEE Intl. Conf. on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2008), 10–13 June, 2008.
2.5 Book Chapters (Reviewed)
[1b] René Witte, Thomas Kappler, and Christopher J. O. Baker. Ontology Design for Biomedical Text
Mining. In Semantic Web: Revolutionizing Knowledge Discovery in the Life Sciences. Springer, 2006.
2.6 Reviewed Posters & Demos (Excerpt)
[1p] René Witte and Nikolaos Papadakis. Semantic Assistants: SOA for Text Mining. CASCON 2009
Technical Showcase Proceedings, November 2–9, 2009, Markham, Ontario, Canada.
[2p] Ralf Krestel, René Witte, and Sabine Bergler. Fuzzy Set Theory-Based Belief Processing for Natural
Language Texts. The Twenty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2007), Student
Abstract Program, July 22–26, 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
[3p] Christopher J. O. Baker, Arash Shaban-Nejad, René Witte, Volker Haarslev, and Greg Butler. Empowering
the Enzyme Biotechnologist with Ontologies. 10th International Congress on Biotechnology in
the Pulp and Paper Industry (ICBPPI 2007), June 10–14, 2007, Madison, USA.
[4p] Christopher J. O. Baker, René Witte, Ashwin Bhat Gurpur, and Vladislav Ryzhikov. Mutation Miner.
5th Intl. Conf. of the Canadian Proteomics Initiative (CPI 2005), May 13–14, Toronto, ON, Canada.
3 Other Evidence of Impact and Contributions (Excerpt)
3.1 Awards
[1a] Best Paper Award [13c] at the 20th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI 2007)
[2a] Best Paper Award [14c] at the 4th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2007)
[3a] Best Paper Award [15c, 16c] (jointly for two contributions), at the 3rd International Workshop on
Metamodels, Schemas, Grammars, and Ontologies for Reverse Engineering (ATEM 2006)
3.2 Invited Lectures and Keynotes
[1l] Invited Talk, Software Engineering and Natural Language Processing: Friends or Foes? February
26th, 2009. Colloques du DIRO, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada.
[2l] Invited Talk, Ontology and Text Mining: Connecting your Documents with the Real World. July 5th,
2007. University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
[3l] Keynote Speaker, Empowering Software Maintainers with Semantic Web Technologies. June 6, 2007.
3rd Intl. WS on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering (SWESE 2007), Innsbruck, Austria.
[4l] Invited Talk, Ontology and Text Mining: Connecting your Documents with the Real World. February
28th, 2007. Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Knowledge Discovery Department, Singapore.
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[5l] Invited Talk, Ontology and Text Mining: Connecting your Documents with the Real World. February
23rd, 2007. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea.
[6l] Invited Talk, Text Mining. December 9th, 2004. European Media Lab (EML), Heidelberg, Germany.
3.3 Conference Tutorials
[1t] Dragan Gaˇsević, René Witte, and Carlo Torniai. Applications for the Semantic Web. 4th Annual
International Conference, LORNET Research Network: “User Centered Knowledge Environments:
from Theory to Practice” (I2LOR-2007), November 4–7, 2007, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
[2t] René Witte. Introduction to Text Mining. 10th International Conference on Extending Database
Technology (EDBT), March 26–30, 2006, Munich, Germany.
3.4 Workshop Organization
[1o] Co-Organizer/Program Co-Chair, Intl. WS on Semantic Technologies in System Maintenance (STSM
2008), 16th IEEE Intl. Conf. on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2008), Amsterdam, Netherlands.
[2o] Co-Organizer/Program Co-Chair, Traceability in Software Engineering – Past, Present and Future,
Workshop at CASCON 2007, October 25, Sheraton Parkway, Toronto, Canada.
3.5 Reviews for Journals and Projects
[1v] Journal Paper Reviewer, International Journal of Semantic Computing (IJSC), 2009. World Scientific.
[2v] Expert Evaluator for project proposals in the area “Semantic Systems and Services” of the Austrian
research funding initiative FIT-IT. Reviewer meeting August 8th, 2008, Salzburg, Austria.
[3v] Journal Reviewer: Soft Computing, 2008, Springer; Information Systems (IS), 2008, Elsevier; Jnl. of
Interesting Negative Results in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning (JINR), 2008.
[4v] Journal Special Issue Review Board member, Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
(JBCB), 2007, Special Issue “Making Sense of Mutations requires Knowledge Management”.
3.6 Committee Memberships
[1m] 8th ACIS Intl. Conf. on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA2010),
May 31–June 2, 2010, Montréal, Canada. IEEE.
[2m] 3rd Intl. Conf. on Advances in Semantic Processing (SEMAPRO 2009), Sliema, Malta.
[3m] The 2nd Intl. Conf. on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2009), Denver, Colorado, USA.
[4m] 3rd IEEE Intl. Conf. on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2009), 2009, Berkeley, CA, USA.
[5m] Conf. on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2009), Singapore.
[6m] The People’s Web meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources, Workshop at
ACL/IJCNLP 2009, Singapore.
[7m] The 32nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, July 19–23, 2009, Boston, MA, USA.
[8m] 14th Intl. Conf. on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2009), Germany.
[9m] The 6th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2009), Demo/Poster Session Reviewer,
31 May–4 June 2009, Heraklion, Greece.
[10m] 22nd Canadian Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (Canadian AI 2009), 2009, Kelowna, BC, Canada.
[11m] The Second Canadian Semantic Web Working Symposium (CSWWS 2009), Kelowna, BC, Canada.
[12m] 8th Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2008), Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
[13m] 4th Intl. Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering (SWESE), Karlsruhe, Germany.
[14m] 12th Intl. Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS 2008), Münster, Germany.
[15m] 2nd IEEE Intl. Conf. on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2008), Santa Clara, California, USA.
[16m] 21st Canadian Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (Canadian AI 2008), Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
[17m] The 2nd Intl. Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine (LBM 2007), Biopolis, Singapore.
[18m] 4th International Workshop on Language Engineering: Metamodels, Schemas, Grammars, and
Ontologies (ATEM 2007), Workshop at MoDELs 2007, Nashville, TN, USA.
[19m] 11th Intl. Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS 2007), Banff, AB, Canada.
[20m] 7th Intl. Conf. on Intelligent System Design and Applications (ISDA 2007), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
[21m] 10th Intl. Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS 2006), Delhi, India. IEEE.
[22m] 6th Intl. Conf. on Intelligent System Design and Applications (ISDA 2006), Jinan, China.
4 Delays in Research Activity – None.
5 Training of Highly Qualified Personnel (HQP)
As part of my work at the University of Karlsruhe, I supervised 7 graduate students during the last 4
years. As of 10/2008, all completed their graduate studies (“Dipl.-Inform. (TH)”, corresponds to MSc);
2 are meanwhile pursuing a PhD and 4 are working in the software industry. Due to my recent move to
Concordia University, Canada, I am currently in the process of re-building my research group (currently 2
undergraduate, 2 MSc), which I expect to grow to an average of 8–10 students during the next 3–5 years.
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Contact Information
Computer Science and Software Engineering Voice: (514) 848-2424 ext. 8715
Concordia University Fax: (514) 8482839
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, EV3.161 E-mail: yuhong@cse.concordia.ca
Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1M8, Canada Official Website: users.encs.concordia.ca/∼yuhong/
Experience
Assistant Professor 06/2008 - present
Dept. Computer Sicence and Software Engineering
Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Research Officer 02/2003 - 5/2008
Institute of Information Technology
National Research Council of Canada (NRC), Fredericton, NB, Canada
Research on Research on Web services, service computing, artificial intelligence.
Post-doc Fellow 04/2001 - 01/2003
Department of Informatics (under supervision of Prof. Philippe Dague)
University of Paris 13, Paris, France
Research on Model-based Approaches and Qualitative Reasoning in EU FP5 project on Integration
of Diagnosis and Design (IDD).
Software Engineer 01/2000 - 03/2001
Westgroup Inc., Rochester, NY, USA
Project 1: workflow management system for document processing based middleware.
Project 2: Honda production data management system (client side GUI and middleware), partner
with Oracle and Honda. Team leader for 5 software engineers.
Post-doc Fellow 09/1999 - 01/2000
Enterprise Integration Laboratory (EIL) (under supervision of Prof. Mark Fox)
University of Toronto, Canada
Research on workflow management, autonomous agents and virtual enterprises modeling. Design and
develop visualization tools for agent behavior definition based on the Conversational Coordination
methodology developed in EIL.
Secondary affiliation
Adjunct professor at the Faculty of Computer Science in the University of New Brunswick (UNB)
since 2005.
Education
Ph.D. (1999), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (A joint program with the University of
Leipzig, Germany)
M.S. (1995), Science Academy of China, China
B.E. (1992), Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China
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Teaching
At Concordia University
• SOEN691A Service Computing: Foundations, Designs, and Implementations (graduate
course, Summer 2009, Winter 2010)
• CS249 Programming Methodology (Undergraduate, Fall 2008, Winter 2009, Winter 2010)
• CS354 Software Engineering I (Undergraduate, Winter 2009)
• SOEN287 Introduction to Web Application (Undergraduate, Winter 2010)
• SOEN 487 Web Services and Applications (Undergraduate, Winter 2011)
At the University of New Brunswick
• CS6905 Advanced Technology for E-business: Service Computing: Foundations,
Design and Implementation (Graduate, Fall 2004 and Winter 2006)
• CS6905 Model-based Diagnosis (Graduate, Summer 2003)
Student Supervision
Current Students
2 Post-doc fellows, 1 Ph.D. student, 2 Master’s students
Past Students
4 Master’s students, 4 co-op students, 1 Ph.D. advices committee
• Master’s student, CS, UNB, (9/2005-5/2007). Co-supervised with Prof. Huajie Zhang. Thesis
title: “Learning Naive Bayes Tree for Conditional Probability Estimation”. 6 co-authored papers
published ([IJAIT08], [AJCAI06], [ICTAI06a], [ICTAI06b], [ICWS06], and [CAI06]). He is in the
Ph.D. program in the University of Alberta since Sept. 2007.
• Master’s student, CS, UNB, (9/2004-5/2007). Co-supervised with Prof. Weicheng Du. Thesis
title: “Composing Business Processes with Partial Observable Problem Space in Web Services
Environment”. 5 Co-authored papers published ([ITPro06], [ICWS06], [ICWS05], [CSCWD05],
and [EDMEDIA06]). He won 2006-2007 Part-time Graduate Student Merit Award at
UNB. He is working as a software engineer in Toronto.
• Master’s student, CS, UNB, (9/2004-5/2007). Co-supervised with Prof. Jane Fritz. Thesis
title: “Design and Prototype a Music Learning Portal”. 2 Co-authored papers published ([ESC06]
and [EDMEDIA05]). He switched to part-time program in September 2005. He is now a full
time software engineer in Germany.
• Master’s student, CS, UNB, (12/2004-5/2006). Co-supervised with Prof. Ali Ghorbani. Thesis
title: “Applying Web Services to Online Experiment Systems”. 4 Co-authored papers published
([ITPro06], [ICWS05], [CSCWD05], and [EDMEDIA05]). He is now a software engineer in
Swiftradius, an IT company in Fredericton, NB Canada.
Advise Committee
• Ph.D. student, CS, UNB (12/2004-5/2007). Supervisor: Prof. Huajie Zhang. Dissertation
topic: “Learning Decision Trees from Probabilistic Perspective”.
Co-op Supervision (omitted)
Academic Services
Organizing Committee
• the 2010, 2009, and 2008 IEEE Service Cup Contest (Service Cup) (chair or co-chair).
• the 2010 IEEE SERVICES
• the 2009, 2008, and 2007 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS) (2007 publication
chair)
• the 2009, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Service Computing (SCC) (2009 Ph.D. symposium
chair)
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• the Workshop of Service Oriented Techniques (co-chair, co-located in the 8th International Conference
of E-Commerce (ICEC06)).
Program Committee
• the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA
2010)
• the 2010 ACIS Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications
(SERA10)
• the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA09)
• 5th International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid (SKG09)
• the 2011, 2009 MCETECH Conference on eTechnology (MCETECH).
• the 2008 International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning.
• the 2007 and 2006 International Conference on CSCW in Design (CSCWD).
• the 2005 International Symposium on Business Excellence through Services-oriented Transformation
(BEST 2005).
• the 2005 and 2004 International Conference on Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic
Web (RuleML).
• the Monet Workshop of Model-based System, in IJCAI05, and in ECAI04.
Referee for Journals
• IEEE Transaction on Service Computing, 1 paper in 2009, 2 paper in 2008.
• IEEE IT Professional, 2 papers in 2010,
• Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 1 paper in 2009, 1 paper in 2008.
• Pattern Recognition, 1 paper in 2007.
• ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 1 paper in 2006.
• The International Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks and Complex Problem-
Solving Technologies (JAI), 1 paper in 2006.
• Data & Knowledge Engineering Journal (DKE), 2 papers in 2006, 1 papers in 2007.
Referee for Conferences
• IEEE ICWS, 4 papers in 2010, 4 Ph.D. Symposium papers in 2009.
• IEEE SCC, 1 Ph.D. Symposium paper in 2009.
• SERA 2010.
• IEEE SOCA, 4 papers in 2009.
• 2009 MCETECH Conference on eTechnology, 3 papers in 2009.
• International Conference on CSCW in Design, 3 papers in 2005, 5 papers in 2007.
• International Workshop of Qualitative Reasoning, 3 papers in 2008.
• Monet Workshop on Model-based System, 3 papers in 2005.
• International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning, 2 papers in 2005.
• International Conference on Rule Markup Language, 5 papers in 2004 and 2005.
Referee for Grant Proposals
• NSERC Discovery grant, 1 proposal in 2009, 1 proposal in 2010.
Journal Editorship
• A special issue for International Journal on Business Process Integration and Management, to
appear in 2007.
Awards, Distinctions and Fellowships (from Ph.D. program)
• Visiting Professorship Award from the Exchange Program between France and Canada (Visting
University of Paris 11, Orsay, Dec. 2008, travel fund)
• Visiting Professorship Award from INRIA research center in Rennes, France (Mar - Apr 2007,
living allowance).
• Visiting Professorship Award from University of Paris 11 (Orsay) (Dec 2006, living allowance).
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• France CNRS Visiting Professorship Award - for my visit to INRIA research center in Rennes,
France (May - Jul 2005, living allowance).
• NRC DG Reserve (�9, 600), NRC-IIT - for supporting my master students.
• Postdoctoral Fellowship (�24,000/year) from University of Paris (Apr 2001 - Jan 2003).
• Postdoctoral Fellowship from University of Toronto (Sep 1999 - Jan 2000).
• International Research Award from the German Academic Exchange Foundation (Deustcher
Akademisher Austausch Dienst, DAAD) - for my one year visit to University of Leipzig (Sep
1997 - Dec 1998).
• CIMS Research Award (�30,000) in Tsinghua University (with my supervisor Prof. Shiyuan
Yang) - for supporting traveling, publications and other research related cost for me and the
master students working with me (1997 - 1998).
• Excellent TA Scholarship in Tsinghua University (1996 - 1997).
• Excellent Student Scholarship in Tsinghua University (1995 - 1996).
Invited Talks, Tutorials, and Seminars
• 10 June, 2008, “Service Oriented Architecture vs. Domain Specific Middleware in Remote Instrument
Control”, invited talk, at the Fifteenth Pan-American Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation
(SRI) Conference.
• 3 September 2007, “Web Services Computing: from Middleware to Process Management”, seminar
at Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
• 31 August, 2007, “Web Services Computing: from Middleware to Process Management”, seminar
at Department of Computer Science, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China.
• 15 November 2006, “Web Services enabled Online Experiment Systems”, invited talk at the
3rd Workshop on Internet Enabling Technologies and Advanced Applications, November 15-17,
2006 in So Paulo, Brazil.
• 13 September 2006, “Model-based Approaches for Web Service Process Reasoning”, seminar at
Faculty of Computer Science in University of New Brunswick.
• 15 August 2006, “Foundations of Web services and SOA”, tutorial at the 8th International
Conference on E-Commerce.
• 5 December 2005, “A Model-based Approach for Web Services Network Modeling and Monitoring”,
seminar at INRIA and University Paris (Orsay) , Paris, France.
• July 2005, “Monotonicity Analysis in Qualitative Modeling and Data Mining”, seminar at
IRISA, University of Rennes 1, France.
• May 2005, “Web Services as Architecture for Online Experiment System”, seminar at IRISA,
University of Rennes 1, France.
• March 2005, “Qualitative Reasoning and Qualitative Model Abstraction for Diagnosis”, seminar
at the National Research Council Colloquium Series, Ottawa, Canada.
• December 2003, “Qualitative Model Abstraction and Model Debugging for Model-based Diagnosis”,
seminar at the Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick, Canada.
• October 2000, “Workflow Management and Multiagent System”, seminar at Phantom Works,
Boeing, USA.
Projects
Science Studio (�175K, 6/2008-5/2011), funded by Canarie. Use Service Oriented Architecture to
build an online experiment managmeent for experimental science.
Self-manageable Web Service Processes (�75K, 2007-2012), funded by NSERC Discovery Grant
(individual). The objective of this project is to build adaptive Web service processes that can react
to environment changes and recover from failures.
Past Projects
• Semantic Service Computing (2006-5/2008), NRC-IIT internal priority project.
• Web Services for Online Experiment Systems (Feb. 2004 - May 2006)
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• eConservatoire: a Music Learning Portal (May 2004 - Nov. 2006)
Professional Memberships
Member of ACM, IEEE and AAAI.
Languages
Fluent in English, Chinese (native speaking), intermediate level for French and German.
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Publications
Journal Papers 1
IJPRAI10 Han Liang ∗ , Yuhong Yan, and Huajie Zhang, “Learning Decision Trees With Log Conditional
Likelihood”, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 24(1),
p117-151, 2010.
IJWSR09a Yuhong Yan, Yong Liang ∗ , Abhijeet Roy ∗ , and Xinge Du ∗ , “Web Service Enabled Online
Laboratory”, International Journal on Web Service Research, 6(4), Oct.-Dec. 2009.
IJCM09 Daniel Lemire, Martin Brooks and Yuhong Yan, “An Optimal Linear Time Algorithm for
Quasi-Monotonic Segmentation”, International Journal on Computer Mathematics, Volume
86, Issue 7, 2009.
IJWSR09b Yuhong Yan, Philippe Dague, Yannick Pencole, and Marie-Odile Cordier, “A Model-based
Approach for Diagnosing Faults in Web Service Processes”, International Journal on Web
Service Research, 6(1), January-March 2009, p87-110.
IJAIT08 Yuhong Yan and Han Liang ∗ , “Improve Decision Trees for Probability-Based Ranking by
Lazy Learners” , the International Journal on Tools with AI, Feb. 2008, p139-158.
ITPro06 Yuhong Yan, Yong Liang ∗ , Xinge Du*, Hamadou Saliah-Hasane and Ali Ghorbani, “Put
Labs Online with Web Services”, IEEE IT Professional, p37-44, March/April 2006.
IJPE00 Yuhong Yan, Torsten Kuphal, Jürgen Bode, “Application of Intelligent Agents in Project
Management”, International Journal of Production Economics, 68, p185-197, Elsevier, 2000.
IandC97 Yan Yuhong, Yang Shiyuan, “The Structure of Multiagent System Applied in Concurrent
Engineering”, Information and Control (Chinese journal), Vol. 11, No. 1, 1997.
SW96 Yan Yuhong, Wu Jiannan, “Several Technical Problems in Developing Software for Internet
Application”, Software (Chinese journal), 1996, No. 2, p11-15. ”
MicApp95 Yan Yuhong, Wu Jiannan,“Several Applications of Static Memory”, Microcomputer and its
Application (Chinese journal), No. 10, 1995.
CIT95 Yan Yuhong, Wu Jiannan,“Analysis of the Image File Formats and Their Usage”, Computer
and Information Technology (Chinese journal), No. 1, 1995.
RSI94 Yusheng Rao, Jiannan Wu, Yuhong Yan, Lei Qi and Yong Zhang, “Discharge mechanism of
Kyoto University-type microwave plasma cathode or microwave source”, Review of Scientific
Instrument, American Institute of Physics, April 1994.
Book Chapters
ESC06 Yuhong Yan, Matthias Klein ∗ , “Web Services vs. ebXML: An Evaluation of Web Services and
ebXML for e-Business Applications”, in Robin G. Qiu (Ed.), Enterprise Service Computing:
From Concept to Deployment, Idea Group Inc., October 2006.
Peer Reviewed Conference Papers
ICSOC10 Yuhong Yan, Pascal Poizat, and Ludeng Zhao ∗ , “Repair vs. Recomposition for Broken Service
Compositions”, International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC), San
Francisco, US, Dec. 7-10, 2010. (Acceptance rate is about 15%).
ISOLA10 Pascal Poizat and Yuhong Yan, “Conversational Service Composition with Adaptive Graph
Planning”, an invited paper to 4th International Symposium On Leveraging Applications of
Formal Methods, Verification and Validation (Isola), 18-20 October 2010 Amirandes, Heraklion,
Crete, 16-23 October 2010.
ICWS10a Yuhong Yan, Pascal Poizat, and Ludeng Zhao ∗ , “Self-Adaptive Service Composition through
Graphplan Repair”, the 8th IEEE International Conference on Web Services, Miami, US, July
5-10, 2010.
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ICWS10b Yuhong Yan, Ali Ait-Bachir, Min Chen ∗ , and Kai Zhang ∗ , “Compatibility and Reparation
of Web Service Processes”, the 8th IEEE International Conference on Web Services, Miami,
US, July 5-10, 2010.
SERA10 Yuhong Yan, Pascal Poizat, and Ludeng Zhao ∗ , “Repairing Service Compositions in a Changing
World”, Studies of Computational Intelligence, Springer, (selected paper from the 8th
IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and
Applications (SERA2010)), (acceptance rate = 14%)
ICTAI09 Lina Ye, Philippe Dague, and Yuhong Yan, “A Distributed Approach for Pattern Diagnosability”,
the 21st International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI09),
November 2-5, 2009, Newark, New Jersey, USA, 123-130.
SMC09 Zahid Anwar ∗ , Zhiguo Wang ∗ , Chun Wang, Dan Ni ∗ , Yaofeng Xu ∗ , Yuhong Yan, “A Integer
Programming Model and Heuristic Algorithm for Automatic Scheduling in Synchrotron Facilities”,
2009 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC’09),
Oct. 11-14, 2009, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
ICWS08 Xianrong Zheng ∗ and Yuhong Yan, “An Efficient Web Service Composition Algorithm Based
on Planning Graph”, the 7th IEEE International Conference on Web Services, Sept23-26,
Beijing, China, (acceptance rate = 18%).
SERVICE08a Yuhong Yan, Juergen Bode, and Bill McIver, “Between Service Science and Service Oriented
Software Systems”, published in 2008 IEEE SERVICE Congress Part II.
SERVICE08b Suresh Jeyaverasingam ∗ and Yuhong Yan, “Mash up Home Library Systems” , a finalist
paper in 2008 IEEE Services Computing Contest, published in 2008 IEEE SERVICE Congress
Part I.
EMS08 Yuhong Yan, “When Service Computing Meets Software Engineering” , 2008 IEEE Education
Methodology Summit on Services Computing, July 8, 2008, in IEEE SERVICE Congress Part
I.
CEC08 Yuhong Yan and Xianrong Zheng ∗ , “A Planning Graph Based Algorithm for Semantic Web
Service Composition”, a finalist paper in 2008 IEEE Web Service Challenge at CEC08 and
EEE08, July 21-24, Washington DC, 2008.
ICWS07 Yuhong Yan and Philippe Dague, “Modeling and Diagnosing Orchestrated Web Service
Processes” , the 6th IEEE International Conference on Web Services, July 9-13, Salt Lake
City, USA, (acceptance rate = 18%).
AJCAI06 Han Liang ∗ and Yuhong Yan, “Lazy Learning for Improving Ranking of Decision Trees”,
the 19th Australian Joint Conference on AI, Dec. 4-6, 2006, Springer LNAI, (acceptance rate
164/689 = 23.8%).
ICTAI06a Han Liang ∗ , Harry Zhang and Yuhong Yan, “Decision Trees for Probability Estimation: An
Empirical Study”, the 18th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence,
Nov. 13-15, 2006, Washington D.C., USA, (regular paper acceptance rate 60/240 = 25%).
ICTAI06b Han Liang ∗ and Yuhong Yan, “Improve Decision Trees for Probability-Based Ranking for
Lazy Learners”, the 18th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence,
Nov. 13-15, 2006, Washington D.C., USA, (regular paper acceptance rate 60/240 = 25%).
ICWS06 Yuhong Yan, Yong Liang ∗ and Han Liang ∗ , “Composing Business Processes with Partial
Observable Problem Space in Web Services Environment”, IEEE International Conference on
Web Service, Sept. 18-22, 2006, Chicago, USA, (Acceptance rate 18%).
CAI06 Han Liang ∗ , Yuhong Yan, “Learning Naive Bayes Tree for Conditional Probability Estimation”,
Canadian AI Conference, Quebec City, Quebec, 7-9 Jun., 2006, (Acceptance Rate
48/220 = 22%).
ICDM05 Daniel Lemire, Martin Brooks, and Yuhong Yan, “An Optimal Linear Time Algorithm for
Quasi-Monotonic Segmentation”, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, New Orleans,
Louisiana, U.S.A. 27-30 Nov. 2005, (Acceptance Rate 141/630=22%).
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IJCAI05 Martin Brooks, Yuhong Yan, Daniel Lemire, “Scale-Based Monotonicity Analysis in Qualitative
Modeling with Flat Segments”, 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
Edinburgh, Scotland, 30 Jul.-5 Aug, 2005, (Acceptance Rate 240/1329 = 18%).
ECOWS05 Yuhong Yan, Yannick Pencole, Marie-Odile Cordier and Alban Grastien, “Monitoring Web
Service Networks in a Model-based Approach”, 3rd European Conference on Web Services,
Växjö, Sweden, 14-16 Nov. 2005, (Acceptance Rate about 35%).
ICWS05 Yuhong Yan, Yong Liang ∗ , Xinge Du ∗ , “Controlling Remote Instruments Using Web Services
for Online Experiment Systems”, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Web Service, Orlando,
Florida, USA, 11-15 Jul. 2005, (Acceptance Rate 23%).
CSCWD05 Yuhong Yan, Xinge Du ∗ , Yong Liang ∗ , “Distributed and Collaborative Environment for Online
Experiment System Using Web Services”, International Conference on CSCW in Design,
Springer LNCS3865, 24-26 May 2005, Coventry, UK, (Acceptance rate about 33%).
EDMEDIA05a Yuhong Yan, Yong Liang ∗ , Xinge Du ∗ , Hamadou Saliah-Hassane, Ali Ghorbani, “Design Instrumental
Web Services for Online Experiment Systems”, Ed-Media 2005, Montreal, Canada,
27 Jun.-2 Jul. 2005.
iNEER05 Hamadou Saliah-Hassane, Djamal Benslimane, Ileana De La Teja, B. Fattouh, Lin Kim Do,
Paquette Gilbert, Maarouf Saad, Louis Villardier, Yuhong Yan, “A General Framework for
Web Services and Grid-Based Technologies for Online Laboratories”, iNEER Conference for
Engineering Education and Research, Mar. 2005, Tainan, Taiwan, (Invited Paper).
CSCWD01a Yuhong Yan, Alex Bejan, “Modeling Workflow within Distributed Systems” The Sixth International
Conference on CSCW in Design, 12-14 Jul. 2001, London, Ontario, Canada.
CSCWD01b Yuhong Yan, Zakaria Maamar, and Weiming Shen, “Integration of Workflow and Agent
Technology for Business Process Management”, The Sixth International Conference on CSCW
in Design, 12-14 Jul. 2001, London, Ontario, Canada.
ICIPS97 Liu Ping, Hu Yongtong, Yan Yuhong, Zheng Danian, and Yang Shiyuan, “Using Counterproposal
to Optimize Genetic Algorithm based Cooperative Negotiation”, 1997 IEEE International
Conference on Intelligent Processing Systems, Vol.1 p891-895, 28-31 Oct. 1997, Beijing,
China.
SMC97 Yuhong Yan, Yongtong Hu, Ping Liu, Danian Zheng, Changchao Ma, and Shiyuan Yang,
“A Genetic Algorithm for Conflict Resolution in Concurrent Production Development”, IEEE
International Conference on Man System and Cybernetics, 12-15 Oct. 1997, Orlando, USA.
SMC96 Hu Yongtong, Liu Ping, Yan Yuhong, Zheng Danian, Changchao Ma, Jügen Bode, Shouju
Ren, “A multiagent System for Support of Concurrent Engineering”, IEEE International Conference
on System, Man and Cybernetics, 14-17 Oct. 1996, Beijing, China.
ICIS93 Yusheng Rao, Jiannan Wu, Yuhong Yan, Lei Qi and Yong Zhang, “ Discharge Mechanism of
Kyoto University-type Microwave Plasma Cathode (MPC) or Microwave Ion Source (MIS)”,
5th International Conference on Ion Sources, 31 Aug.-4 Sept. 1993, Beijing, China.
Non-peer Reviewed Conference Papers
EDMEDIA05b Matthias Klein ∗ , Yuhong Yan, Ning Wang*, Liang Han*, “The design of an Online Music
Learning Portal”, Ed-Media 2005, Montreal, Canada, 27 Jun.-2 Jul. 2005.
MBR04 Yuhong Yan, Daniel Lemire, and Martin Brooks, “Monotonicity Analysis for Constructing
Qualitative Models”, 2004 Conference on Model-based Reasoning, 16-18 Dec. 2004, Pavia,
Italy.
Peer Reviewed Workshop Papers
PCaPAC10 Yuhong Yan, Chun Wang, Zhiguo Wang ∗ , and Ludeng Zhao ∗ , “Beamline Scheduling Software”,
Eighth International Workshop on Personal Computers and Particle Accelerators (PCaPAC),
Oct. 2010.
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DX09 Lina Ye, Philippe Dague, and Yuhong Yan, “A Distributed Approach for Pattern Diagnosability”,
The 20th International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis, June 14-17, 2009 at
Skepparholmen, Sweden, p179-186.
Monet04a Yuhong Yan, “Sensor Placement and Diagnosability Analysis at Design Stage”, MONET
Workshop on Model-Based Systems at ECAI 2004, 22-26 Aug 2004, Valencia, Spain.
Monet04b Yuhong Yan, Daniel Lemire and Martin Brooks, “Monotone Pieces Analysis for Qualitative
Modeling”, MONET Workshop on Model-Based Systems at ECAI 2004, 22-26 Aug. 2004,
Valencia, Spain.
BASeWEB04 Yue Wang, Huajie Zhang, Bruce Spencer, Yuhong Yan, “Learning the Ontological Positions
of Natural Language Objects”, In Proceedings of the Business Agents and Semantic Web
Workshop at the Canadian AI Conference, p55-71, May 2004, London, Canada.
QR03 Yuhong Yan, “Qualitative Model Abstraction for Diagnosis”, the 17th Int. Workshop on
Qualitative Reasoning, 20-23 Aug. 2003, Brasilia, Brazil.
DX03 Yuhong Yan, “Automatic Qualitative Model Abstraction from Numeric Simulation Model”,
the 14th International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis, 11-14 Jun. 2003, Washington
DC, USA.
AAMAS98 Yuhong Yan, Torsten Kuphal, Jürgen Bode, “Application of Intelligent Agents in Project
Management”, Workshop on Industrial Application at 2nd International Conference on Autonomous
Agents and Multiagent Systems, Minneapolis, 9-13 May 1998, MN, USA.
WSPE98 Torsten Kuphal, Yuhong Yan, Jürgen Bode, “Application of Intelligent Agents in the Management
of Virtual Projects”, the 10th International Working Seminar on Production Economics,
12-16 Feb. 1998, Igls, Austria.
Lecture Notes
ICEC06 Yuhong Yan and Harold Boley, “A Tutorial on Service Oriented Architecture: (Semantic)
Web Services, Business Process Modeling, Software Engineering”, at 2006 International Conference
on e-Commerce, Aug 2006, Fredericton, NB, Canada.
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