New Journal – EAI Endorsed Transactions on Self-Adaptive Systems

The European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) (url: http://eai.eu/transaction/self-adaptive-systems) started a new journal entitled “EAI Endorsed Transactions on Self-Adaptive Systems” with Editor-in-Chief Emil Vassev. This journal seeks contributions from leading experts from research and practice of self-adaptive systems that will provide the connection between theory and practice with the ultimate goal to bring both the science...

Best Paper Award at SEAMS 2014

Liliana Pasquale received the Best Paper Award at the 9th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2014) for the paper titled “User-centric Adaptation of Multi-tenant Services: Preference-based Analysis for Service Reconfiguration” co-authored with Jesús García Galán, who was a visiting PhD sutdent in Lero, and Pablo Trinidad and Antonio Ruiz-Cortés...

Scratch 2014

The 2014 finals took place in the Printworks conference centre in Dublin Castle on Friday May 2nd. Project finalists set up at 11am and then the general public arrived to view all of the projects. Prizes were awarded once judging was completed in the afternoon. Prizes were given out to children from junior infants up...

Annual Lero-NII-OU Workshop

Bashar Nuseibeh and Liliana Pasquale, organised and attended the annual Lero-NII-OU Workshop, on 20-21 April 2014, and which this year was held at the MASDAR Institute, in MASDAR City, Abu Dhabi, UAE. The theme of this year’s workshop was “Software Engineering for Smart Cities”, in recognition of the the venue of the workshop – MASDAR...

Poor selection of ICT projects costs Irish business and public sector organisations millions of Euro

Study advocates wider use of project portfolio management controls Lero researchers in NUI Galway (from left) Dr. Kieran Conboy, Dr. Orla O’Dwyer andRoger Sweetman. Photo: Aengus McMahon Many companies and public sector organisations in Ireland are wasting millions of Euro through failure to select the right ICT (Information, Communications & Technology) projects to implement, according...

How Lean and Agile are You?

Orla O’Dwyer, Kieran Conboy (Lero) and Deirdre Giblin (Ericsson) presented at an Irish Software Innovation Network (ISIN) event in Dublin on April 4th.The event focused on leading edge research and practice in agile project and portfolio management. Deirdre Giblin (Agile Line Manager, Ericsson) shared the experiences of Ericsson in relation to the project management of...

The current state of play of agile project and portfolio management in Irish software organisations

The latest in a series of fora for companies practising Agile and Lean methods was held in NUI Galway on March 7th. The event, focusing on leading edge research and practice in agile project and portfolio management, was attended by over 30 people from companies such as IBM, Lumension, Ericsson, Aró, Fidelity, CSGI, SourceDogg and...

CHI 2014 Honourable Mention Award

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction. As a highly active area of research within Computer Science, over 2000 papers were submitted to the main track at the conference this year, making it highly competitive. The conference will take place at the Metro Toronto...

Irish firms should make New Year resolution to unlock EU €1 billion plus research grants

Lero announces Horizon 2020 seminar Irish firms and researchers need to make a New Year Resolution to start preparing now if they are to achieve a target of at least €1 billion in research grants under the EU Horizon 2020 innovation programme. This was stated by Professor Brian Fitzgerald, chief scientist of Lero, the Irish...