will be working with MrGookins and MrJalali on the BeLief system, and MrBlake will be working with MrTobrey on JuNO. .title Masters thesis defense .tags Events
MrSowers will defend his masters' thesis on Thursday (Thu, April 10, 13:00 to 14:00, venue TBD). He will propose a data mining approach to refining preexisting grammar-based definitions of games, wherein a user can specify buildings which they prefer, and from these preferences a set of rules will be generated that will guide future building generation. He shows that the generated rules have a high degree of accuracy when used to predict whether a user will like or dislike a building, often in the upper 90%. Come along and support your fellow grad students! .title Battlestar starts
Battlestar started Friday. Starbuck may be a Cylon. Like we didn't know. Not up to date? Here's a synposis. .title New lab space?
DrTrapp and DrWoerner meet to discuss room space and how to fuse together the two labs of MsTanner and DrMenzies. It is a complex issue- when the new engineering wing opens, there will be much rearragement of lab space. Do we move now or do we wait for that? No answers, yet. .title Ted Nelson speaks at WVU .tags talk
MrGay organized an excellent talk by one of the pioneers of the internet, TedNelson. The talk was well attended (filled MRB113) .title CodeWorks workshop .tags Workshop
MrSowers, MrGay, and DrMenzies attended the NSF CodeWorks workshop (http://clc.as.wvu.edu:8080/clc/nsfworkshop ). MrSowers gave the demo to end all demos. In fact, it nearly ended 30 seconds into the demo when MrSowers told his audience (a room full of artists) that he was going to use his AI tools to get rid of all artists. Happily, they let him live and he lives to present his thesis, on Thursday. DrMenzies was at the same conference and found he had written completely the wrong talk (on the economics of creativity: http://menzies.us/index.php?news=7143). One manic morning of typing later, a second talk was written and given (on why we should think about Turing machines http://menzies.us/talks/turing/ ). .title New work at the ATL .tags AtL
MrHiggins and MsKotikalapudi are busily studying runtime monintoring and generating executable UML models. .title Mean vs Median
MrJalali did some CoSeekmo runs studying mean vs median. Wow- what a difference. .title Model imports in BeLief
MrGookins got large scale model inputs working with BeLief .title A-star vs KEYS: the battle continues
MrGay has new and exciting results using AsTar with KeYS .title New interface for HamLet
MrNelson build a new interface for HamLet .title NASA grants due
DrMenzies is involved in six grant proposals, all due Friday. Sigh. Meanwhile, he keeps playing with his NomoGrams. .title Students writing thesis
MrJalali and MrMilton and going crazy righting thesis drafts. DrMenzies is going crazy trying to read them all, each version, again and again and... Good thing he has the NomoGrams to keep him happy. .title Updating StAR .tags StAR
MrElwaras is working to update StAR to allow processing of the new data from DrBoehm. .title Strange travel tales
MrMatheny spent his mid-session break in the Neatherlands and didn't go to Amsterdam. WTF? .title Sad tales
MrNelson's mid-session break was not as much fun. Buy him a cup of coffee and ask him (very gently) about why his DVR is missing. .title Matrimonial bliss (still)
MrTobrey is still married. .title Reseaerch paper: 2cEE, a twenty-first century effort esimation methodolofy .tags Paper EffortEstimation
DrHihn (JPL), DrMenzies, MsLum (JPL), MrBaker and MrJalali have a paper accepted International Conference on Parametric Analysis " 2cEE, A TWENTY FIRST CENTURY EFFORT ESTIMATION METHODOLOGY" : http://menzies.us/pdf/08ispa.pdf (http://www.congrex.nl/08a01/programme_ispa.asp ). This is work based on MrBaker and MrJalali's effort estimation work. .title Resarch paper: Automated Severity Assessment of Software Defect Reports .tags Paper TextMining DrMarcus (BallState) and DrMenzies submitted a paper to the International Conference on Software Maintenance on text mining for learning issue severity: Automated Severity Assessment of Software Defect Reports. .title Nearest Neighbor Sampling for Cross Company Defect Predictors .tags Paper DefectPrediction DrAyes (Turkey), MrTurham (Turkey), and DrMenzies are racing to submit a paper to the International Conference on Software Maintenance on text mining for learning issue severity. Currently, the clock is winning. .title Meetings
If you cant make the above times, please email between your selves and swap around.
Tuesday esb 841a
Wednesday (at NASA)
Thursday
Anyone else i've forgotten?