For the third time MoDELS will host an ACM Student Research Competition SRC), sponsored by Microsoft Research. The ACM SRC is a forum for undergraduate and graduate students to showcase their research, exchange ideas, and improve their communication skills while competing for prizes at MoDELS 2015. The Student Research Competition has the following goals:
Participants must be undergraduate or graduate students pursuing an academic degree at the time of initial submission. Participants must be current student members of the ACM, and must provide their ACM member number. Supervisors of the work may not be listed as co-authors; you must submit a single-authored version of your work for the competition.
The contest has two categories, one for undergraduate research and the other for graduate research. Three winners will be selected in each category. Research completed while the student was an undergraduate may be submitted to the undergraduate category even if the student is now a first-year graduate student.
Each competition entry must be authored by one student only; neither supervisors or other students are allowed as co-authors.
For work accepted to the MoDELS 2015 Student Research Competition, a travel grant of up to US $500 will be awarded to help cover travel expenses to the conference. While the student must be an ACM member to qualify for travel funding and awards, she/he does not need to be one to submit to the competition.
The top three winners at ACM SRC models 2015 in each category (undergraduate and graduate) will receive prizes of US $500, US $300, and US $200, respectively. In addition, they will receive gold, silver and bronze medals, respectively, and two-year complimentary ACM membership with a subscription to ACM's Digital Library. The first place winners will advance to the ACM Grand Finals with winners from other ACM SRCs. The top three winners will be recognized during the closing plenary session of MoDELS 2015 conference
To participate in the competition, submit an extended research abstract (5 pages in IEEE 2-column format) related to the main themes of the conference (see the call for conference papers) for a list of conference topics). The submission should describe: the research problem and motivation, background and related work, approach and uniqueness, results, and contributions. Papers will be judged based on how well they cover these aspects of the work.
A panel of experts will review the submissions and select the students to participate in the second round of the Student Research Competition, which will be held at MoDELS 2015 in Ottawa (Canada).
The second round of the competition will take place in Ottawa at the MoDELS 2015 conference and will be a poster session. This is your opportunity to present your research to conference attendees and leading experts in the software engineering fields, including the SRC committee. Judges will review the posters and speak to participants about their research. The judges will evaluate the research (quality, novelty, and significance) and the presentation of the research (poster, discussion); some of the students will be selected advance to the next round of the competition.
Selected students will continue by giving a short presentation of their research before a panel of judges in a special session conference. After each presentation, there will be a short question and answer session.
Evaluations will be based on the presenter's knowledge of his/her research area, contribution of the research, and the quality of the oral and visual presentation. Three winners will be chosen in each category, undergraduate and graduate, and receive prizes.
The first-place winners in both categories (undergraduate and graduate) from the SRC held at MoDELS 2015 will advance to the SRC Grand Finals. A different panel of judges evaluates the winners of all SRCs held during the calendar year against each other via the web. Three undergraduates and three graduates will be chosen as the SRC Grand Finals winners. They are invited, along with their advisors, to the annual ACM Awards Banquet, where they receive formal recognition.
All submissions selected to participate in the second round of the ACM SRC @ MoDELS 2015, and who attend the conference, will be published in a post-conference volume of CEUR
The research abstract must conform at time of submission to the following format:
The core content of your proposal must not exceed 5 pages, including all text, appendices, and figures. However, please note that for this SRC, references do not count against the page limit: the list of references may expand into a sixth page but no content (text, figures) is allowed on the sixth page, i.e., the sixth page, if any, should contain nothing except all or part of your references. Submissions must be in English, and in PDF format.
Papers should be submitted electronically through EasyChair
Students who are selected to participate in the main competition at the MoDELS conference are entitled to a stipend for their travel expenses, up to a maximum of US$500.
The top three winners in each category (undergraduate and graduate) will be recognized during the conference and will receive prizes of US$500, US$300, and US$200, respectively. The winners of the MoDELS SRC are also invited to compete with winners from other conferences in the ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals.
All deadlines are hard. No extensions will be allowed. Deadline is midnight for time zone UTC-12
We gratefully acknowledge Microsoft Research for their support of the ACM SRC