[ecoop-info] CFP - MSR 2008 Mining Challenge

[Michele Lanza]

Call for Participation - MSR 2008 Mining Challenge

This year's Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR  
2008)
will host a mining challenge to bring together researchers and  
practitioners
who are interested in applying, comparing, and challenging their  
mining tools
and approaches on software repositories using data from the Eclipse  
project.
There will be two challenge tracks:

#1: general

The first challenge requires you to demonstrate the usefulness of  
your mining
tools. The main task will be to find interesting insights by  
analyzing the
software repositories of Eclipse. Eclipse is large in size, several  
years mature,
and provides lots of input for mining tools. 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. Keep in mind that the report will be  
evaluated by
juries. Reports must be at most 4 pages long and in the ICSE format.

#2: prediction

For Eclipse, predict the number of bugs per each module that will be  
reported
between 2008/2/7 and 2008/5/7 (both days included). Your job is  
predicting the
future bug numbers (per modules) using all possible resources such as  
previous
bug report numbers, change numbers, or just your intuition.
The required format for submissions may be found on the challenge  
website.

More information such as sources of Eclipse data, detailed  
requirements and
explanations can be found on the challenge web page:
http://msr.uwaterloo.ca/msr2008/challenge/

We are grateful to our generous sponsor, "Static Analysis, Software
Quality for C, C++, and Java" - Coverity Inc

Organizers

Sung Kim (chair) - MIT, USA
Ahmed E. Hassan - Queen's University, Canada
Michele Lanza - University of Lugano, Switzerland
Michael W. Godfrey - University of Waterloo, Canada

Jury

Thomas Zimmermann (U. of Calgary, Canada)
Marco D'Ambros (U. of Lugano, Switzerland)
Peter Weißgerber (U. of Trier, Germany)
Christian Bird (University of California, Davis)
Shivkumar Shivaji (Yahoo)

Important Dates
Submissions: 7th Feb, 2008
Acceptance notification: 14th Feb, 2008
Camera ready: 21st Feb, 2008
Conference date: 10-11th May, 2008