Seminar “Model-based Engineering”

Summer semester

Event number: 43MBE1015V (Undergraduate seminar, for Bachelor) or 43MBE1016V (Seminar, for Master)

Prerequisites: Module “Software Engineering I” or “Database Systems I” is recommended.

The event can be taken as an undergraduate seminar in the Bachelor’s programme or as a seminar in the Master’s programme. The individual topic will be adapted accordingly in terms of scope and requirement.

Topics in Summer semester 2024

• Finding Near-Optimal Configurations
• Using ML to Infer Constraints
• Performance Influence Models
• SATzilla
• Transferring Performance Models
• Combinatorial BLAS
• Memory Error Detection
• Fuzzing
• Energy Games

Procedure

Enrol for the undergraduate seminar (Bachelor) or seminar (Master) event in Unisono by 03.04.2024 12 noon. Information on the introduction event will follow via Unisono e-mail. The specific topics will be presented at the introductory event. The topics will be selected afterwards.

Each participant receives selected literature (in English) on the chosen topic:

• Undergraduate seminar: introductory literature (e.g. book chapters from textbooks or survey articles).
• Seminar: 2 – 3 recent research publications.

Requirements

• Scientific presentation on the chosen topic as part of a central event at the end of the semester.
  1. Undergraduate seminar: 20 minutes presentation + 10 minutes discussion
  2. Seminar: 30 minutes presentation + 15 minutes discussion

• Written elaboration of the chosen topic, to be handed in by 31.08.2024 at the latest. Also register for the examination in Unisono before submitting it.
  1. Undergraduate seminar: 6 pages (ACM style two columns) / 9 pages (ACM style one column)
  2. Seminar: 10 pages (ACM style two columns) / 15 pages (ACM style one column)

• Further milestones over the course of the semester:
  1. Discussion of the literature and first draft of the outline of the paper (approx. 4 weeks after the beginning of the semester).
  2. Submission of a first interim status of the paper and preparation of reviews for the papers of other participants (approx. 4 weeks before the date of the presentation).
     1. Undergraduate seminar: 1 review
     2. Seminar: 2 reviews
  3. Submission of a first draft of the presentation and rehearsal talk (approx. 2 weeks before the presentation date).

Templates

• Template for the written elaboration of the seminar
• PowerPoint template for the final presentation

Associated persons

• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Malte Lochau
• M. Sc. Tobias Schüler
• M. Sc. Robert Müller
• M. Sc. Mathis Weiß