Sigaccess fy’04 Annual Report
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- Significant papers on new areas that were published in proceedings
- Significant programs that provided a springboard for further technical efforts
- Innovative programs which provide service to our technical community
- Summary of key issues that SIGSIM membership will have to deal with in the next 2-3 years
Awards
Significant papers on new areas that were published in proceedingsSIGSIM sponsored the following two conferences and one workshop.
WSC, MSWiM, and PADS publish high quality papers in their proceedings. It is infeasible to identify which papers were significant since they all contribute to the state of the art in many different dimensions. Additionally, we continue expand in coops with many other simulation conferences, notably from the Society for Modeling and Simulation and in doing so we increase the size of the simulation holdings in the ACM Digital Library. Significant programs that provided a springboard for further technical effortsSIGSIM provided the following benefits to its members:
SIGSIM provided the following benefits to its community:
SIGSIM’s benefits delivered to its members and community together with the two conferences and one workshop it has sponsored providing a springboard for further technical efforts. However these conferences and workshops are run outside of ACM, Our plan is to establish a unique SIGSIM conference to give our SIG more of its own identity as well as increasing participation by new members. Innovative programs which provide service to our technical communitySIGSIM’s Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Knowledge Repository (MSKR) at http://www.acm-sigsim-mskr.org/ has been an innovative program which provided services to the SIGSIM technical community. Summary of key issues that SIGSIM membership will have to deal with in the next 2-3 yearsSIGSIM’s mission continues to promote and disseminate the advancement of high quality state of-the-art in Modeling and Simulation (M&S) across a broad range of interests and disciplines. The expansion of the M&S Knowledge Repository’s content to provide better technical service to the SIGSIM membership is promising, but may be slow growing unless SIGSIM provides a venue for more growth. This expansion is very important for SIGSIM to accomplish its mission. How to motivate people to submit multimedia contributions for publication in the M&S Knowledge Repository remains to be a challenge. An ACM SIGSIM Conference could help motivate that effort. SIGSOFT FY’11 Annual Report July 2010 - June 2011 Submitted by: David S. Rosenblum, Chair SIGSOFT had another excellent year, both technically and financially in 2010-11. This report provides a summary of key SIGSOFT activities over the past year. AWARDS THAT WERE GIVEN OUT SIGSOFT has a large awards program that recognises the many achievements of the software engineering community. Our prestigious service, research and education awards were presented again this year at ICSE 2011 in Hawaii. The ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award was presented to Jeff Kramer, in recognition of his many years of service to ICSE (including General Co-Chair of ICSE 2010, Program Co-Chair of ICSE 1999, and member and chair of the ICSE Steering Committee), as well as his service to the leading archival journals in software engineering (including Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology). The ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award was presented to Mary Shaw and David Garlan for their work on the development and promotion of software architecture. As is customary for this award, Mary and David will have the opportunity to deliver a keynote address about their work at ESEC/FSE 2011 in Hungary. Finally, the ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award was presented to Ian Sommerville, who is the author of probably the most widely used general textbook in software engineering (currently in its 9th edition) as well as co-author of two texts on requirements engineering and the Director of the Graduate Academy of the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance. At ICSE we also recognised new ACM Senior Members, ACM Distinguished Members and ACM Fellows for 2010 from the SIGSOFT community. The new ACM Senior Members are Jeffrey C. Carver (University of Alabama), Kevin Daimi (University of Detroit Mercy), Glenn D. House, Sr. (2Is Inc.), Chang Liu (Ohio University), Andrian Marcus (Wayne State University), Sudarshan Murthy (Wipro Technologies), Martin P. Robillard (McGill University), Joseph P. Skudlarek (Cypress Semiconductor Corp.), Colin Smythe (Dunelm Services Limited) and Jayakanth Srinivasan (MIT). Linda M. Northrop (SEI, Carnegie Mellon University) was recognised as a new ACM Distinguished Engineer, while the new ACM Distinguished Scientists are Donald D. Cowan (University of Waterloo), Gail C. Murphy (University of British Columbia), Lori L. Pollock (University of Delaware), Walter F. Tichy (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology). Finally, the new ACM Fellows are Dieter Rombach (for contributions to empirical software engineering research and its successful application to industrial practice), David Rosenblum (for contributions to software testing and distributed systems, and for service to the software engineering community) and Andreas Zeller (for contributions to automated debugging, and to mining software archives). The SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award recognizes a paper published in a SIGSOFT conference at least 10 years earlier that has had exceptional impact on research or practice. The 2010 SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award committee, led by David Notkin, selected the paper "Bandera: Extracting Finite-State Models from Java Source Code" by James C. Corbett, Matthew B. Dwyer, John Hatcliff, Shawn Laubach, Corina S. Păsăreanu, Robby, and Hongjun Zheng, from the Proceedings of ICSE 2000. Accepting the award at FSE 2010 were Matt, John and Corina, who gave a keynote presentation reflecting on the origins and impact of their paper. We also presented Retrospective Impact Paper Awards to papers from the first 23 years of SIGSOFT's history of conference sponsorship. Michal Young chaired the selection committee, which selected the following four papers: Thomas Reps and Tim Teitelbaum. "The Synthesizer Generator". In Proc. First ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN Software Engineering Symposium on Practical Software Development Environments (Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 23–25 April 1984). Karl J. Ottenstein and Linda M. Ottenstein. "The Program Dependence Graph in a Software Development Environment". In Proc. First ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN Software Engineering Symposium on Practical Software Development Environments (Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 23–25 April 1984). Robert Balzer. "Tolerating Inconsistency". In Proc. 13th International Conference on Software Engineering (Austin, TX, USA, 13–17 May 1991). David Lorge Parnas. "Software Aging". In Proc. 16th International Software Engineering Conference (Sorrento, Italy, 16–21 May 1994). And many of our sponsored meetings this year presented ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards to the authors of a select number of their accepted papers.
The problems and topics addressed in the papers presented at SIGSOFT meetings remain tremendously varied and timely. As in many other fields, analysis of large data sets is seeing increased interest, with relevant data sets in software engineering being code repositories, version histories, bug reports and fixes, and their interrelationships. Related to this is the increasing use of statistical analysis and reasoning in software engineering, including the application of data mining and machine learning techniques. Testing and analysis remain the predominant areas of research interest, with increasing numbers of papers exploring approaches that combine static and dynamic analysis for fault detection, fault localisation and even automated fault removal. And researchers are also targeting more specialised forms of software such as Web-based systems, software for multicore processors and software for clouds. SIGNIFICANT PROGRAMS THAT PROVIDED A SPRINGBOARD FOR FURTHER TECHNICAL EFFORTS This year we established our first SIGSOFT chapter, the India Chapter of SIGSOFT (ISOFT). This effort was spearheaded by our India Liaison, Pankaj Jalote, and it will serve an important and active segment of the global software engineering community. Also this year, at ICSE 2011 we continued our support for two established student programs, the Student Contest on Software Engineering (SCORE) and the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC). These programs serve to recognise significant achievements of student members of the community and to provide stronger integration of students with professional attendees at our sponsored meetings. SIGSOFT will be a significant participant and supporter at ACM's Turing celebrations in 2012. Our efforts for this are being led by Carlo Ghezzi, Mark Grechanik and Will Tracz. And this year we obtained approval for a new award, the ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, for outstanding PhD dissertations in the field of software engineering. We expect to be making our first award in the coming year.
Through the efforts of our History Liaison, Tao Xie, SIGSOFT continues to provide valuable resources to the community documenting the history of our field and the people involved in that history. This year we released the SIGSOFT Community Directory (SIGSOFT-CD, http://historywiki.acm.org/sigs/SIGSOFT-CD), which provides an alphabetical listing of ACM SIGSOFT officers, ACM officers from the SIGSOFT community, General Chairs and Program Chairs of SIGSOFT-sponsored meetings, recipients of SIGSOFT-related awards, and other such contributors to our community. We also continued our outreach to the community through our increasing presence in social media outlets, and we have an entry in Wikipedia as well. And there was a significant change this year to SEWORLD, the SIGSOFT-hosted email list announcing calls for participation, faculty and postdoc positions and other events to the software engineering community: After nearly two decades of tireless management and moderation of the list, Alexander Wolf decided to retire from his SEWORLD responsibilities. The list is now being managed by Jim Vallino and Mike Lutz at Rochester Institute of Technology. As in past years, we made numerous awards to support travel by PhD students to SIGSOFT-sponsored meetings, under our CAPS Conference Attendance Program for Students (CAPS). We also continued to make CAPS awards to undergraduates and provided awards for childcare support at conferences. Regrettably we were unable once again to identify a suitable recipient this year from the SIGSOFT community for the SIGBED/SIGSOFT Frank Anger Memorial Award. BRIEF SUMMARY OF KEY ISSUES FACING THE SIGSOFT MEMBERSHIP Conference finance remains the key challenge for SIGSOFT, particularly for the volunteers who organise its sponsored meetings, and ultimately for its membership who pay the registration fees for those meetings. Operating and venue costs for conferences continue to soar, but the effects of the global economic downturn seem to have softened somewhat this past year, since our meetings enjoyed an increase in contributions from companies and other external supporters. In addition, meeting organisers are finding ever more creative ways to keep costs and registration fees down while still providing a rich and rewarding experience for attendees, with the high quality programs, benefits, amenities and activities they have come to expect. SIGSPATIAL FY'11 Annual Report July 2010-June 2011 Submitted by: Hanan Samet, SIGSPATIAL Chair 1. SIGSPATIAL CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS SIGSPATIAL's mission is to address issues related to the acquisition, management, and processing of spatially-related information with a focus on algorithmic, geometric, and visual considerations. The scope includes, but is not limited to, geographic information systems (GIS). These issues have become increasingly important in terms of public awareness with the growing interest and use of online mapping systems such as Microsoft Virtual Earth and Google Maps and Google Earth as well as the integration of GPS into applications and devices such as, but not limited to, the iPhone. Presently, SIGSPATIAL is fulfilling this mission by sponsoring high quality research conferences and workshops. As indicated by its mission, SIGSPATIAL's domain is much more than just geographic information systems and with this in mind it tries to differentiate its conferences and workshop from others by focusing on the computer science aspects of the field rather than on the available commercial products. In addition, a major concern and focus of the SIGSPATIAL leadership is keeping its flagship conference, the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS), affordable so that it can continue to be of good value to its attendees and be competitive price-wise with related conferences which are priced at considerably lower levels than most ACM SIG conferences. SIGSPATIAL has been able to achieve this goal by being very active in soliciting sponsor contributions as well as being vigilant at minimizing SIGSPATIAL's financial exposure in terms of contractual obligations when planning the conference by building reserves that can be used in years when the financial climate is not so healthy. 2010 was the third year of SIGSPATIAL and its main activity was its flagship conference (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS) that was held in San Jose, California, USA, on November 3-5, 2010. ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010 was the eighteenth event of an annual series of symposia and workshops with the mission to bring together researchers, developers, users, and practitioners carrying out research and development in novel systems based on geo-spatial data and knowledge. The conference fosters interdisciplinary discussions and research in all aspects of Geographic Information Systems and Science (GIS) and provides a forum for original research contributions covering all conceptual, design, and implementation aspects of GIS and ranging from applications, user interface considerations, and visualization to storage management, indexing, and algorithmic issues. This was the third time that the conference was held under the auspices of the new ACM Special Interest Group on Spatial Information (SIGSPATIAL). The conference program attracted a record number of 247 attendees. The technical program lasted for two and half days, and based on the feedback of the participants, we can conclude that the conference was very successful in terms of new ideas presented and level of interaction provided. The call for papers led to 209 paper submissions over four tracks: research, industry, PhD showcases, and demos. The research paper track attracted 172 research paper submissions, of which 36 were accepted as full papers and another 36 were accepted as poster papers. The industry track attracted six submissions, of which four were accepted as full papers. The Ph.D. Showcase track received 12 submissions, of which 5 were accepted, while the demonstrations track received 19 submissions, of which 12 were accepted. The submissions were reviewed by a program committee of 120 members. Each paper was reviewed by at least three reviewers, and in most cases four. This resulted in 793 reviews over all paper tracks. These numbers indicate the continued health, interest, and growth of the research field of geographic information systems, and the need to bring its researchers, students, and industrial practitioners together. The conference program featured two outstanding invited speakers: 1. Maneesh Agrawala, University of California at Berkeley, for a talk titled "Designing Maps to Help People" 2. Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University and Google, for a talk titled “Photographing the World Ground Up". The conference was run in a single track with one of the highlights being a fast forward poster session in the first afternoon where each poster author was given 2 minutes to present the highlights of their work to the audience. This was followed by a poster reception in the evening where the conference participants had an opportunity to interact with the poster authors. Poster paper authors were encouraged to do a good job by having two awards: one for best fast forward presentation and one for the actual poster. The poster component of the conference proved to be very popular with both the conference audience and the poster authors. The conference also included a business meeting for SIGSPATIAL which was open to all SIGSPATIAL members as well as to all conference attendees. The meeting included a discussion of budgetary issues, plans for next year's conference, a discussion of some initiatives such as ensuring that the ACM Digital Library has copies of all past issues of the conference proceedings, and soliciting feedback from members. The conference was preceded by a workshop day with the following seven workshops: 1. CTS 2010: The Third International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science 2. DMGIS 2010: The First International Workshop on Data Mining for Geoinformatics 3. IWGS 2010: The First International Workshop on GeoStreaming 4. HPDGIS 2009: The First International Workshop on High Performance and Distributed Geographic Information Systems 5. ISA 2009: The Second International Workshop on Indoor Spatial Awareness 6. LBSN 2010: The Second International Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks 7. SPRINGL 2010: The Third International Workshop on Security and Privacy in GIS and LBS
(e.g., UBICOMP'11 which has already been approved on a 0% sponsorship basis), SIGs, and professional organization in the GIS area. 2. SIGSPATIAL PUBLICATION INITIATIVES SIGSPATIAL is continuing to explore the idea of starting an ACM Transactions on Spatial Systems and Algorithms or some mutually acceptable variant of this title, but this is still a year or two away as the current focus of the SIG continues to be on maintaining the quality of the flagship conference, and getting the workshops organized. Nevertheless, a draft proposal is circulating among some key members who are expected to form the nucleus of the Editorial Board of the proposed Transactions. The model is based on the anticipation that the papers published in the workshops and conferences would be expanded upon and submitted to the Transactions for consideration for possible publication. 3. AWARDS In 2010, SIGSPATIAL continued to offer a best paper award, but chose not to make any best student paper awards as virtually all papers had some student authors. The ad hoc 2010 ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS Best Paper Award Committee consisting of Peter Scheuermann, Agnes Voisard, Peter Widmayer, and Ouri Wolfson selected the papers for the following two awards: Best Paper: Natural Neighbor Interpolation Based Grid DEM Construction Using a GPU Alex Beutel (Duke University), Thomas Molhave (Duke University), Pankaj K. Agarwal (Duke University)
T-Drive: Driving Directions Based on Taxi Trajectories Jing Yuan (University of Science and Technology of China), Yu Zheng(Microsoft Research Asia), Chengyang Zhang (University of North Texas), Wenlei Xie (Microsoft Research Asia), Xing Xie (Microsoft Research Asia), Guangzhong Sun (University of Science and Technology of China), Yan Huang (University of North Texas) Awards were also made at the conference by a pair of ad hoc committees for the best poster paper presentation and the best fast forward poster paper presentation: Best Poster Paper Presentation: Location Recommendation for Location-Based Social Networks Mao Ye (Pennsylvania State University), Peifeng Yin (Pennsylvania State University), Wang-Chien Lee (Pennsylvania State University) Best Poster Presentation Runners-up: Efficient Indexing Structure for Scalable Processing of Spatial Alarms Myungcheol Doo and Ling Liu (GaTech), Nitya Narasimhan (Motorola Applied Research Center), Venu Vasudevan (Motorola Applied Research Center) Algorithms for Compressing GPS Trajectory Data: An Empirical Evaluation Jonathan Muckell (SUNY Albany), Jeong-Hyon Hwang (SUNY Albany), Catherine T. Lawson (SUNY Albany), S. S. Ravi (SUNY Albany) Best Fast Forward Poster Paper Presentation: Augmenting Internet Maps with Property Information from Aerial Imagery Philipp Meixner (Graz University of Technology), Franz Leberl (Graz University of Technology) Best Fast Forward Poster Paper Presentation Runners-up: A Model for Progressive Transmission of Spatial Data based on Shape Complexity Fangli Ying (NUIM), Peter Mooney (EPA, Ireland), Padraig Corcoran (NUIM), and Adam C. Winstanley (NUIM) Time Geography Inverted: Recognizing Intentions in Space and Time Peter Kiefer (Universitat Bamberg), Martin Raubal (UCSB), Christoph Schlieder (Universitat Bamberg) In addition, for the first time, SIGSPATIAL initiated a Distinguished Service Award to recognize individuals whom the Executive Committee felt made significant contributions to the success of the SIG. These awards were made at the banquet of the 2010 conference to: 1. Prof. Yan Huang of the University of North Texas for her outstanding contributions in ``maintaining the financial health of the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems'' in her continuous role as Conference Treasurer thereby ensuring the financial well-being of SIGSPATIAL for which the conference serves as the key source of revenue. 2. Prof. Robert Laurini of INSA de Lyon for his outstanding contributions to the foundation of the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advance in Geographic Information Systems who for many years served as the head of the ACMGIS Steering Committee which oversaw the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advance in Geographic Information Systems in its various states as a workshop, symposium, and eventual transition to a conference at the time of the founding of SIGSPATIAL. 4. ACM DIGITAL LIBRARY SIGSPATIAL plans to expand its presence in the ACM Digital Library by soliciting workshop proposals both in its role as a sponsor and on an in cooperation status. This can be seen by the increased number of workshops that it sponsored in 2010. These workshops were proposed independently to SIGSPATIAL. In 2010, SIGSPATIAL was more proactive in soliciting workshop proposals and designated its Treasurer, Markus Schneider, as the Workshops Chair. He successfully created a uniform framework for them. He continued in this role for the 2011 Workshops. 5. SIGSPATIAL CHAPTERS Fiscal year 2010 saw the chartering of the first two SIGSPATIAL Chapters: 2. SIGSPATIAL Australia We have also had inquiries about starting a SIGSPATIAL Korea chapter as well as a proposed Taiwan chapter. These chapters are representative of the amount in interest in SIGSPATIAL from members in these regions and are reflected by their participation in the flagship conference as authors and attendees. 6. PLANS FOR THE 2012 FISCAL YEAR SIGSPATIAL is working hard to fulfill its mission of sponsoring high quality research conferences and workshops. It will start to be more proactive in soliciting workshops and will also continue to seek out more sponsors and try to devise activities that will increase its attractiveness to the potential sponsors. It will try to continue to maintain, as well as build on, the momentum of its first three years of existence. 7. ELECTIONS SIGSPATIAL held its first elections for officers this year. The candidates for the various positions were: Chair: Walid G. Aref, Purdue University Pusheng Zhang, Microsoft Corporation Vice-Chair: Chang-Tien Lu, Virginia Tech University Markus Schneider, University of Florida
Divy Agrawal, University of California at Santa Barbara Mohamed Ali, Microsoft Corporation
Mohamed Mokbel, University of Minnesota Shawn Newsam, University of California at Merced
running from July 1, 2011 through June 30, 2014: Chair: Walid G. Aref, Purdue University Vice-Chair: Chang-Tien Lu, Virginia Tech University Secretary: Divy Agrawal, University of California at Santa Barbara Treasurer: Mohamed Mokbel, University of Minnesota SIGUCCS FY’11 Annual Report July 2010- June 2011 Submitted by: Robert Haring-Smith, Chair During the past year, SIGUCCS (Special Interest Group for University and College Computing Services) continued its service to the community of professionals who provide computer support at institutions of higher education while also preparing for two significant transitions. This was the final year, for at least a while, in which we held our Fall Conference and spring Management Symposium as separate events. In the fall of 2011, they will be held jointly as part of a SIGUCCS annual conference. Also this year, we prepared for a leadership transition and conducted elections for a new Executive Committee for the SIG. The Executive Committee members for 2010-2011 (Chair, Bob Haring-Smith; Vice Chair/Fall Conference Liaison, Kelly Wainwright; Secretary/Management Symposium Liaison, Tim Foley; Treasurer, Alex Nagorski; Information Director, Patti Mitch; and Past Chair Leila Lyons) completed the final year of their three-year term of office. Continuing to serve as appointed members of the board were Karen McRitchie (Tutorial Chair), Greg Hanek (coordinator of the Communication Awards program), and Christine Vucinich (chair of the Membership and Marketing Committee). Other volunteers too numerous to name here individually contribute their energy and ideas to the organization through service on conference and program committees, on the Awards Committee, on the Membership and Marketing Committee, and as judges for the Communication Awards. Many of these individuals are listed in appropriate pages on the SIGUCCS web site (http://www.siguccs.org). The election was held in the spring, but we started to publicize it last fall in order to solicit volunteers to run for office and to encourage voting participation by the membership. A strong slate of two candidates for Chair and nine candidates for the other four newly elected positions on the Committee was assembled by the Nominating Committee. No one petitioned for inclusion on the ballot. Kelly Wainwright was elected Chair and Melissa Bauer, Mat Felthousen, Karen McRitchie, and Parrish Nnambi won the other positions.
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