|
 Living in the time of abundance of information, publications, and social networks is a great opportunity for software engineering researchers. They can find much information about many projects, various relevant publications, and other researchers who did a work on a related topic. Yet, availability of (open source) software freely/publicly available is a great convenience for many. All this definitely opens up many exciting opportunities for a higher-quality and more creative research. However, this wealth causes another (bigger) challenge– how to manage and comprehend all that data and interactions and be able to contextualize the data to the research needs at hand?
In this talk, we will discuss a need for the development of new-generation personal information management systems for software engineering research. The key requirement is ubiquitous access, delivery and publishing of research data from “anywhere and anytime.” Through a more organic integration of software engineering tools, publication sources, collaborative and community research tools, researchers should be able to able to build their own personal research environments, which satisfy their personal needs, preferences, formal obligations, and life-long objectives. To illustrate some promising directions for personal research environments, we will discuss different examples built on principles of the Social Web, the Semantic Web, technology-enhanced learning, and computer-supported cooperative work.
Short Bio: Dragan Gašević is a Canada Research Chair in Semantic Technologies and an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at Athabasca University and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University. Dragan received his Dipl.Ing., MSc, and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Belgrade in 2000, 2002, and 2004, respectively. Being a recipient of Alberta Ingenuity's 2008 New Faculty Award, in his current research activities, Dragan investigates relations of semantic technologies with software language engineering, technology-enhanced learning, and service-oriented architectures. He has (co-)authored more than 200 research papers and is the lead author of the book entitled "Model Driven Engineering and Ontology Development.” Serving as an associated editor and editorial board member of six international journals, he has also edited special issues in journals such as IET Software, SoSym, IEEE TSE, and Information Systems. Having a pleasure to serve on the steering committee of the International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE), Dragan has also been a keynote speaker, organizer, chair, and member of program committees of many international conferences and workshops.
 |
Download the presentation
Show/hide comment form