[ecoop-info] Mining Challenge 2007: Get feedback by open source stars!

[Tom Zimmermann]

The submission deadline for the Mining Challenge has been extended
to February 7th, 2007.

Use this unique opportunity to get feedback by open source stars such
as Erich Gamma, Darin Swanson, and Andre Weinand (for Eclipse)
and Mike Shaver (for Firefox).

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   CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

     MSR MINING CHALLENGE 2007

   http://msr.uwaterloo.ca/msr2007/challenge/

   Special track within MSR 2007,
   International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories
   http://msr.uwaterloo.ca/msr2007/

   May 19-20, 2007
   Minneapolis, USA

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This year's International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories
(MSR 2007) will host a mining challenge. The MSR Mining Challenge
brings together researchers and practitioners who are interested in
applying, comparing, and challenging their mining tools and approaches
on software repositories for two common open source projects: Eclipse
and Firefox.

The challenge wil be an excellent opportunity to get feedback on your
research by open source stars such as Erich Gamma, Darin Swanson, and
Andre Weinand (for Eclipse) and Mike Shaver (for Firefox).

The input data sources for the challenge include but are not limited
to the following: source code releases, source control data, bug data,
mailing lists, execution traces, design and project documentation. The
basic data sources of both open source projects are available online
and can be downloaded from the projects' web sites: for Eclipse go to
www.eclipse.org; for Firefox go to www.mozilla.org.

There will be two challenges: #1: Scale and #2: Predict.
http://msr.uwaterloo.ca/msr2007/challenge/


CHALLENGE #1: SCALE

In this category you can demonstrate the usefulness of your mining
tools. The main task will be to find interesting insights by analyzing
the software repositories of Eclipse and Firefox. Both systems are
large in size, several years mature, and provide lots of input for
mining tools. Since the submissions will be evaluated together with
experts and developers of Eclipse and Firefox, this will be a unique
opportunity to get candid feedback on your tools.

Participation is straightforward:

1. Select your mining area (one of bug analysis, change analysis,
    architecture and design, process analysis, team structure)
2. Get project data of Eclipse and/or Firefox
3. Formulate your mining questions
4. Use your mining tool(s) to answer them
5. Write up and submit your challenge report

The challenge report should describe the results of your work and
cover the following aspects: questions addressed, input data, approach
and tools used, derived results and interpretation of them, and
conclusions. Reports must be at most 4 pages long and in ICSE format.

Submit your challenge reports via the EasyChair submission site:
http://www.easychair.org/MSRChallenge2007/

Each report will undergo a thorough review and accepted
challenge reports will be published as part of the MSR 2007
proceedings. Authors of selected papers will be invited to give a
presentation at the MSR workshop in the MSR Challenge track.


CHALLENGE #2: PREDICT

This year, the MSR Mining Challenge will have a special task:

   Predict for Eclipse the number of bug/changes that will happen
   between February 1 and April 30, 2007 (both days included).

Participation is as follows:

1. Pick a team name
2. Come up with predictions for changes and/or bugs
3. Write a paragraph (max 200 words) that describes how you computed
    your predictions
4. Submit everything before February 7 by email to
    msrchallenge2007 at gmail.com

The level of predictions is for changes the plug-in level
(plugins.txt) and for bugs the component level (components.txt).

Obviously, the team with the best predictions will win. However, to
increase the competition, we will organize a set of "benchmark"
predictions.

For more details visit the Mining Challenge website:
http://msr.uwaterloo.ca/msr2007/challenge/#predict


DISCUSSION LIST

Since many mining approaches require advanced extraction techniques to
process the basic data sources, participants are encouraged to
collaborate by sharing extracted data and co-authoring their
reports. To facilitate and encourage the sharing of extracted
repository data and early results, a dedicated discussion list
(http://groups.google.com/group/mining-challenge-2007) has been
established.


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of reports and predictions: 7th February 2007 (extended)
Acceptance notification: 24th February 2007 (extended)
Camera-ready: 2nd March 2007
Workshop date: 19th-20th May 2007

--
Thomas Zimmermann, zimmerth at cs.uni-sb.de
http://www.st.cs.uni-sb.de/~zimmerth/


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