CHAIR OF

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Our article "Annotron: Semi-automatic Acquisition of Datasets for Retail Recognition" by Marco Filax, Tim Gonschorek and Frank Ortmeier has been accepted for publication.

The paper proposes an approach to reduce the manual annotation effort of labelers by reducing the time spent on repetitive, error-prone tasks. We evaluate the approach in the retail recognition domain, a fine-grained domain, which means that instance-level annotations are costly due to the density of products on the shelves. We refine an existing retrial product dataset and outperform the number of stock keeping units found previously. We labeled over 446,500 individual bounding boxes from 1188 different SKUs.

The CSE is participating in the BMWK-funded joint project SafeTrAIn together with Siemens, Fraunhofer, Edge Case Research, Merantix Labs, Bit Technology Solutions and many other partners in researching methods for safeguarding artificial intelligence for fully autonomous rail transport.

We are looking forward to this exciting project and the collaboration!

In recent months, members of the Chair of Software Engineering have been honored.

Prof. Frank Ortmeier's spin-off bridgefield GmbH has been awarded the "KfW Entrepreneurs' Prize 2021" for the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt for the topic "KI für statt gegen den Menschen" ("AI for instead of against humans“). The award ceremony by KfW Bank took place on October 28, 2021 in Berlin together with the Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy, Peter Altmeier. There will be a further audience award from all the state winners, which you can vote for on this website.

In addition, Leon Wehmeier, research assistant at the Chair of Software Engineering, was honored by the Faculty of Computer Science as the best graduate in the Computer Systems in Engineering Master's program.

We congratulate both of them on their achievements and awards!

The team is back in Magdeburg after the European Police Congress and is continuing its work on the project. The congress brought positive feedback, many interesting discussions and showed once again the need and the innovation possibilities in civil security research.

The team would like to thank the VDI and the BMBF for this wonderful opportunity!

Findings and prototypes of the EVOK project will be presented at the European Police Congress 2021 The congress will take place from September 14 to 15, 2021 at the bcc Berlin Congress Center. The European Police Congress is organized by Behörden Spiegel and is aimed at decision-makers from the police, security authorities and industry. You will find us at the stand of the civil security demand

Further information can be found here.

Our article "Guided Pattern Mining for API Misuse Detection by Change-Based Code Analysis" by Sebastian Nielebock, Robert Heumüller, Kevin Michael Schott and Frank Ortmeier has been accepted for publication in the journal Fachjournal "Automated Software Engineering“ published by Springer-Verlag.

In this article, we address the problem of API abuse, which occurs when developers incorrectly use the application programming interface of a particular code library. Existing detection tools use pattern mining techniques, i.e. they collect a set of potentially correct API applications and derive common usage patterns as correct specifications. In this way, violations of these specifications can be identified as API abuse. In this work, we analyzed the effects of different prior filtering and search strategies to obtain source code for the pattern mining step and were able to show that certain strategies improve pattern mining and misuse detection results regardless of the mining and detection technique applied.

A preprint of the article can be found on arXiv.

Our paper "Exploit Those Code Reviews! Bigger Data for Deeper Learning" has been accepted for the demonstrations track at ESEC/FSE 2021!

The paper presents the ETCR infrastructure for mining Modern Code Review (MCR) datasets from GitHub pull requests together with the ETCR Elasticsearch dataset of more than 40k pull requests, more than 231k comments and more than 15k different file revisions.

A preprint of the paper and the ETCR Elasticsearch artifact will be made available shortly. 

Since the EVOK project (real-time on-site reconnaissance and mission monitoring) won first place in the "Most innovative projects in the field of applied interactive technologies" category of the 2020 Hugo Junkers Prize, public interest has continued to grow.

On June 25, 2021, the EVOK team presented the latest state of research to the press in a field test. The project was also able to impress with its topicality, importance and innovation.

The latest reports can be viewed here: ARD Mediathek; MDR; Volksstimme. 

The Chair of Software Engineering (CSE) has successfully started the summer semester 2021 with digital lectures on software engineering, specification technology and programming paradigms as well as a large number of seminars and student projects.

Students and lecturers met routinely on the online teaching platforms and video conferencing tools in what is now the third (partially) digital semester to start teaching after the Easter break.

Of course, we are available for our students as usual by email, video conference and, depending on the pandemic situation, also to a limited extent in person.