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Welcome to all the new members of the SI!
Please join us in welcoming all our new members! Good luck and welcome to the Software Institute, the Faculty of Informatics, and the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)! 🍀 [...]
General Assembly 2020
The second General Assembly of the Software Institute took place on Thursday, January 23, 2020. Professors and researchers of our institute came together for a review of 2019 and a preview of 2020, with a focus on Research & Development, Education, Outreach, and the move of the Software Institute to the new East Campus. [...]
USI Hackathon 2019
We are happy to announce the USI Hackathon 2019, which will take place at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) on November 15 - 17. The USI Hackathon is an open competition for students and professionals, in developing prototypes and analyzing data. It represents a first experiment in Lugano of an open data approach to share city-related data, with a total prize cachet of 10,000 CHF and the opportunity to have a real impact in future city decisions. [...]
SIESTA... on the road!
It is our pleasure to announce the SIESTA 2019 (International Summer School on Software Engineering) in Termoli, Italy on September 3-6, 2019. SIESTA is organized by the Software Institute @ Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) and University of Molise. [...]
Prof. Cesare Pautasso receives the EuroPLoP Shepherding Award for 2019
Prof. Cesare Pautasso is the recipient of the EuroPLoP Neil Harrison Shepherding Award for 2019. [...]
Nargiz Humbatova and Michael Weiss join the TAU Research Group
Welcome to Nargiz Humbatova and Michael Weiss who start their PhD in the TAU Research Group today! Good luck and welcome to the Software Institute, the Faculty of Informatics, and the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)! [...]
Hat-trick by the Software Institute: 3 papers accepted at ICSE 2019
Researchers from the Software Institute at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) got three papers accepted at ICSE 2019, the 41st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, that will be held in Montréal, Canada. [...]
Bhargav Bhatt joins the ATOM Research Group
Welcome to [Bhargav Bhatt] who starts his PhD in the ATOM Research Group today! Good luck and welcome to the [Software Institute], the [Faculty of Informatics], and the [Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)]! [Bhargav Bhatt]: [Software Institute]: http://si.usi.ch [Faculty of Informatics]: http://inf.usi.ch [Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)]: http://www.usi.ch/en [...]
Davide Paolo Tua joins CodeLounge
Welcome to Davide Paolo Tua who officially joins CodeLounge today! Good luck and welcome to the Software Institute, part of the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)! [...]
Researchers of the REVEAL research group received the IEEE CS TCSE Distinguished Paper Award at ICSME 2018
The paper entitled “Are Bug Reports Enough for Text Retrieval-based Bug Localization?” received the IEEE CS TCSE Distinguished Paper Award at ICSME 2018. Congratulations to [Jevgenija Pantiuchina], [Gabriele Bavota] and the other co-authors! [Jevgenija Pantiuchina]: [Gabriele Bavota]: http://www.inf.usi.ch/faculty/bavota/ [...]
Alejandro Mazuera Rozo joins the REVEAL Research Group
Welcome to [Alejandro Mazuera Rozo] who starts his PhD in the REVEAL Research Group today! Good luck and welcome to the [Software Institute], the [Faculty of Informatics], and the [Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)]! [Alejandro Mazuera Rozo]: [Software Institute]: http://si.usi.ch [Faculty of Informatics]: http://inf.usi.ch [Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)]: http://www.usi.ch/en [...]
CHOOSE Forum 2018
Researchers from the Software Institute at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) will be traveling to Zurich to attend the CHOOSE Forum 2018. [...]
Fengcai Wen joins the REVEAL Research Group
Welcome to [Fengcai Wen] who starts his PhD in the REVEAL Research Group today! Good luck and welcome to the [Software Institute], the [Faculty of Informatics], and the [Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)]! [Fengcai Wen]: [Software Institute]: http://si.usi.ch [Faculty of Informatics]: http://inf.usi.ch [Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)]: http://www.usi.ch/en [...]
Congratulations to Dr. Vasileios Triglianos!
Congratulations to Vasileios Triglianos, Ph.D. student in the DESIGN research group of the Software Institute at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation entitled “ASQ: Active Learning with Interactive Web Presentations and Classroom Analytics.” [...]
Prof. Paolo Tonella joins the Software Institute
Welcome to Prof. Paolo Tonella who officially joins the Software Institute, the Faculty of Informatics, and the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) today! [...]
Four papers accepted at ICSME 2018
Researchers from the Software Institute at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) got four papers accepted at ICSME 2018, the 34th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, that will be held in Madrid, Spain. [...]
Prof. Carlo Alberto Furia joins the Software Institute
Welcome to Prof. Carlo Alberto Furia who officially joins the Software Institute, the Faculty of Informatics, and the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) today! [...]
Perspectives on our Master in Software and Data Engineering Courses
While the second semester of our Master in Software and Data Engineering (MSDE) is in full swing, we are reviewing and improving our first-semester courses. Our MSDE was born in Fall 2017, so we are excited about this first opportunity to reflect on our program! What worked well? What could be improved? Where are we headed? Let’s hear that directly from the instructors of our new courses: [...]
Prof. Gabriele Bavota receives the ACM SIGSOFT Early Career Researcher Award 2018
Prof. Gabriele Bavota is the recipient of the ACM SIGSOFT Early Career Researcher Award 2018. This award is presented to an individual or individuals who have made outstanding contributions in the area of software engineering as an early career investigator. [...]
SIESTA 2018
It is our pleasure to announce that the Software Institute of Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) organizes the SIESTA 2018 International Summer School on Software Engineering in Lugano, Switzerland on September 10-12, 2018! [...]
Master in Software and Data Engineering - Student Evaluations for first semester courses
Fall 2017 was the first semester of the Master in Software & Data Engineering (MSDE) at USI. USI monitors teaching quality by means of student evaluations. On average, the six courses we offered were evaluated with a 8.3 score on a scale from 1 to 10 (min=7.3, max=9.7). Overall the students appreciated all courses, also expressing their satisfactions in the open comments they left in the evaluation form: [...]
CHOOSE Forum 2017
The Software Institute at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), in collaboration with the SEAL Research Group at the University of Zurich co-organized the CHOOSE Forum 2017. [...]
ACM Distinguished Paper Award at ASE 2017
Can we automatically assess the understandability of a given snippet of code? This is the question that the paper “Automatically Assessing Code Understandability: How Far Are We?” authored by Simone Scalabrino, Gabriele Bavota (Software Institute), Christophere Vendome, Mario Linares-Vásquez, Denys Poshyvanyk, and Rocco Oliveto tried to answer. [...]
CfP - IEEE Software Special Issue on Cloudware Engineering
Researchers from the Software Institute at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) are going to edit a special issue of IEEE Software about Cloudware Engineering. [...]
Three papers accepted at ESEC/FSE 2017
Researchers from the Software Institute at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) got three papers accepted at ESEC/FSE 2017, the 11th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, that will be held in Padeborn, Germany. [...]
The Code Time Machine awarded as the best tool at the 25th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2017)
Researchers from the Software Institute at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) have been recently awarded at ICPC 2017, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for the Code Time Machine, a tool developed by Emad Aghajani, under the supervision of Andrea Mocci, Gabriele Bavota and Michele Lanza. [...]