ANNUAL REPORT - Laboratory for Internet Software Technologies

ANNUAL REPORT 

Laboratory For Internet Software Technologies 

Institute Of Software Chinese Academy Of Sciences 

2011

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PROFILE 

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ACADEMIC EXCHANGES 

AND COOPERATION 

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RESEARCH 

2.1 

Research Areas 

2.1.1 

Software Process Engineering 

2.1.2 

Requirement Engineering 

2.1.3 

Empirical Software Engineering 

2.1.4 

Software Testing Automation 

2.2 

Research Projects 

2.3 

Research Achievements 

2.3.1 

Achievements in Scientific Research 

2.3.2 

Publications 

2.3.3 

Software Copyrights and Patents 

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3.1 

International Exchanges and Cooperation 

3.1.1 

Hosted International Conferences 

3.1.2 

Joint Workshops 

3.1.3 

Joint Laboratories 

3.1.4 

Exchanges and Visits 

3.2 

Domestic Cooperation 

3.2.1 

Domestic Academic Cooperation 

3.2.2 

Domestic Industry Cooperation

CONTENTS 

 

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Education 

54 

 

Lab Culture 

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4.1 

Degree Programs 

4.2 

Graduate Education 

4.3 

2011 Graduates 

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iT echser 

What iTechsers Say 

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52 

 

Personnel Training and 

Team Construction 

5.1 

New Associate Professors

PROFILE 

 

2011 

Barry Boehm75 

 

International Journal of Software and Informatics IJSI 

Symposium of Software and System 

Engineering Honor of Prof. Barry W. Boehm2 

Leon J. OsterweilLori ClarkeFraunhofer 

Dieter RombachRoss JefferyIBM 

RationalWalker Royce• 

Neil Siegel 

Guenther Ruhe 

RuheTRLabs 

ACMIEEE2008 

IBM Faculty award 

 

 

 

 

863973 

 

 

201162 

194711 

611527 

33.8 

20113 

181 

 

Founder and Chief Scientist, 

Mingshu Li 

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Director, Qing Wang 

In 2011, the beginning of the new decade, iTechs had a fruitful year. 

In April, to celebrate the 75th birthday of our respectable old friend Dr. Barry Boehm and 

in honor of his distinguished contribution to the software engineering community, iTechs 

cooperating with International Journal of Software and Informatics successfully held the 

Symposium of Software and System Engineering —— Honor of Prof. Barry W. Boehm 

under ISCAS's support. The two-day symposium featured keynotes and research papers. 

Numerous experts and scholars in SE field were invited including Professor Leon J. Osterweil 

and Professor Lori Clarke with University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA, Professor Dieter 

Rombach, the Director of Fraunhofer Institute of Empirical Software Engineering, Germany, 

Professor Ross Jeffery with University of New South Wales, Australia, Mr. Walker Royce, 

Chief software economist of IBM Rational, Mr. Neil Siegel, Chief Engineer and Vice President 

of Northrop Grumman Corp., USA and et al.. 

In May, Professor Guenther Ruhe, Chair of Software Engineering Industrial Research 

Association visited iTechs for two months and established the long-term academic 

cooperation with iTechs. Professor Ruhe is the scientist with Information Communication 

Technology Center of TRLabs and the Fellow with ACM, IEEE and German Information 

Society. He has won the IBM Faculty Award in 2008. This academic visit was supported by 

the CAS Visiting Professorship for Senior International Scientist. 

In September, based on the previous research collaboration, iTechs formally signed the 

agreement to establish the ISCAS/NICTA Joint Laboratory with NICTA. The joint laboratory 

will conduct extensive research cooperation on software architecture, formal methods and 

system, cloud computing, business and software process, etc. 

iTechs has accomplished three key research projects and successfully passed the 

acceptance examinations respectively by NSFC, 863 Program and 973 Program in April, 

June and November. Excellent results have been achieved in the examinations. 

In November, the research outcome "Software Requirement Evolution Modeling and 

Management System" won the Second Prize of Beijing Science and Technology Progress 

Award. 

2011 is also the transitive and developing year for the Lab. There are 62 regular members 

including 19 faculty and staff, 1 postdoc, 15 Ph.D. students, 27 graduated students. The 

average age of faculty is 33.8 years old which represents a youthful and vibrant group. 

In 2011, our group has published a series of high-quality research papers, including 

1 publication, 3 papers in international journals, 18 papers in international academic 

conferences, 1 paper in first-class domestic journals, 6 patents under authorization or 

application, and 19 software copyright authorizations. 

Three young researchers have received NFSC Youth Project Awards and have been 

promoted as Associate Professors. 

Guided by the concept that the research should serve the society and industry, we have 

devoted the efforts to take our technologies and ideas to the industry, to the universities 

and to the society. 

During the 13-year development, iTechs always follows the "With Innovation and Practice, 

Head for the Excellence" spirit. Innovation is our development source, and Practice is our 

solid foundation and Excellence is our ultimate goal. Although there is still a long way to go, 

we are willing to strive with all of our friends to a more successful tomorrow.

ORGANIZATION 

STRUCTURE 

 

 

Chief Scientist: Mingshu Li 

 

Director: Qing Wang

GRADUATE COMMITTEE 

 

 

Chen Zhao 

 

Leader: Mingshu Li 

 

Qing Wang 

 

Ye Yang 

 

Yongji Wang 

 


Research Group 





 

Testing Automation Research 

Group 

 

Deputy Director: Ye Yang 

Leader: Junchao Xiao 

 

Leader: Juan Li 

 

Leader: Yunzhi Xue

RESEARCH

RESEARCH AREAS 

2.1 


2.1.1 

 

 

Leader of Software Process Engineering Research Group: 

Junchao Xiao, Associate Professor 

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ANNUAL REPORT 2011 

 

 

 

The primary goal of our research, including the representation, instantiation, simulation and enactment of 

software processes, is to construct sound software process models, provide concrete guidance to actual software 

development activities, and thus significantly improve the quality of final software products. 

 

Research topics 

 

 

 

Modeling the software process with formal methods to avoid 

ambiguities and inconsistencies in non-formal ones and laying a 

foundation for the analysis and execution of process models. 

Modeling the capabilities of organization entities based on the 

agent autonomous and inferring mechanism to increase the 

flexibility and intelligence of software process models. 

Identifying and describing different uncertain factors which affect 

Agent 

software process execution. Finding the evolution characteristics 

 

of uncertainties, and building the uncertainty model for software 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

process. 

Automatic and optimized resource scheduling for given tasks and 

resources in disruption prone systems. 

Simulation of instantiated software process models with stochastic 

process algebras, discrete event simulation and stochastic model 

checking to discover the dynamics of software processes. 

Mining process models from various kinds of execution logs to 

learn how a defined process model is implemented. 

Identifying and defining activities as well as their metrics involved 

 

in the process of legacy systems migration to cloud environments 

 

 

so as to establish a systematic and measurable legacy systems 

migration process to guide the industry practices. 

 

Faculty includes Prof. Mingshu Li, Prof. Qing Wang, Prof. Yongji 

 

 

 

Wang, Assoc. Prof. Junchao Xiao, Assoc. Prof. Qiusong Yang, Assis. 

Prof. Jian Zhai. Students include Hong Wu, Hua Wan, Jie Chen, 

Xin Dong, Jialiang Dong, Ke Li, Yang Su, Miao Xie, Xiaochen Chai, 

淼 

玥 Wuyuan Zhao, Weiheng Li, Xinyue Feng,Hanyu Wu, Pengying Zhou.


2.1.2 

 

 

 

 

 

Software development is considered to be a dynamic process where demands for changes seem to be inevitable. 

A variety of factors may contribute to requirements evolution including requirements vagueness and inaccuracy, 

technological limit and changing software usage scenarios. Requirements evolution is one major driver for 

software evolution. Frequent requirements evolution may result in the decreased quality, schedule slippage and 

cost overrun, so requirements evolution is a primary risk in large and complex projects management. 

 

 

Leader of Requirement Engineering Research Group: 

Juan Li, Associate Professor 

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Requirements evolution modeling for networked software 

Requirements evolution measurement 

Requirements negotiation 

Requirements evolution data mining 

 

 

 


Wang, Assoc. Prof. Juan Li, Da Yang, Hao Zhong. Students include 

Lin Shi, Qiang Cui, Fuwei Sun, Wen Tao, Junjie Wang, Dexin Wang, 

Zhonghao Lu, Zhibin Bai.


2.1.3 

 

 

 

 

The Empirical software engineering research group follows an approach that is driven by industrial data analysis 

to address practical problems utilizing statistics and other analysis methods. It involves estimation techniques 

for software intensive systems and software engineering, software project measurement, software quality 

management, knowledge science, and so on. Based on the research, software data repository and software 

estimation and measurement tools are under development. 

杨叶 

副研究员经验软件工程研究室召集人 

Leader of Empirical Software Engineering Research 

Group: Ye Yang, Associate Professor 

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Quantitative software process management model 

Empirical methods for software process management 

 

Reuse-based software project cost estimation 

 

 

 

Uncertainty in software cost estimation 

Software defect estimation 

Knowledge management and knowledge discovery 

 

 

 

 

 


Wang, Assoc. Professor Ye Yang, Assoc. Professor Da Yang, Assoc. 

Professor Wen Zhan, and Postdoc Yanbin Liu. Students include: 

Haitao Wang, Jing Du, Jia Chen, Zhimin He, Jie Hu, Dandan Wang, Xu 

Wang, Ran Liang, Yueming Sun, Wenpei Liu, Lihua Cao, Xihao Xie, 

Rongbo Qi, Ke Mao, Kexin Xu, Guangle Han, Song Wang, Yanqi Mao.

Software Testing Automation 

2.1.4 

 

 

 

 

SQL 

 

As software system is becoming more and more complicated and evolving more and more rapidly, software 

testing automation is becoming one of the major techniques that can assure the systems work with high 

stability, high security and high confidence. Software Testing Automation Research Group mainly concerns on 

theories and technologies of testing automation for large-scale, complicated system, including formal modeling 

theory, test case generation based on formal model, test adequacy evaluation, automated test execution and 

deployment, automated adaption to SUT, test management, test result analysis and report, technique and 

approaches of automatic unit testing of source code, and methods of automatic test of SQL injection etc. 

 

 

Leader of Testing Automation Research Group: 

Yunzhi Xue, Assistant Professor 

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Formal modeling theory 

Automation of test case generation 

 

Formal specification of structured test case and test case 

 

 

 

GUI 

 

SQL 

generation 

Testing techniques and infrastructures for embedded, real-time 

systems 

Security testing and evaluation 

Test management for large-scale systems 

Automatic GUI Testing 

Automatic unit testing 

 

Automatic testing of SQL injection 

 

 

Faculty includes Prof. Chen Zhao, Senior Engineer Yunzhi Xue, Assis. 

Eng. Weiren Lin, Mingkun Chen, Chen Ni, Yanfeng Li, Zhonghe Liu 

and Zhihong Ji. Students include Juncheng Chen and Can Zhang.

RESEARCH PROJECTS 

2.2 

 

No. 

 

Project Names 

 

Principle 

Investigator 

 

Fund Source 

 

Time Periods 

1 

 

 

Research on Convert Channel Mechanism in Cloud 

Yongji Wang 

Environment 

 

NSFC 

2012.1-2015.12 

2 

 

 

A Research on OSS Bug Resolution based on Latent 

Wen Zhang 

Network Communities 

 

2012.1-2014.12 

NSFC Youth 

3 

 

 

A research on mining specifications based on 

Hao Zhong 

heterogeneous data 

 

2012.1-2014.12 

NSFC Youth 

4 

 

 

Research on Automation of Structured Test Generation 

Yunzhi Xue 

for Real-Time Communication Protocols 

 

2012.1-2014.12 

NSFC Youth 

5 

 

 

Research on Open Sourcing Mechanism and 

Wen Zhang 

Substantial Development Capability 

 

National Science and 

Technology Major Project 

2012.1-2014.12 

6 

 

Process Management and Quality 

Assurance 

 

Ye Yang 

 

National Science and 

Technology Major Project 

2012.1-2014.12 

7 

 

 

Research on software effort estimation and code 

Ye Yang 

quality evaluation models 

 

China Development Bank 

2011.10-2012. 6 

 

8 

** 

 

Software engineering environment supporting 

Ye Yang 

technology-the integrated software development 

environment 

 

National defense project 

2011.1-2015.12 

9 

 

 

Research on Knowledge-Driven Software Process 

Qing Wang 

Resource Configuration and Quality Control Method 

 

NSFC 

2011.1-2013.12 

10 

 

 

Research on uncertain in software 

Junchao Xiao 

process execution 

 

2011.1-2013.12 

NSFC Youth 

11 

 

 

Research on Comprehensive Evaluation for Software 

Ye Yang 

Outsourcing Project 

 

Hitachi China research and Development 

2011.1-2011.5 

Corporation 

12 

 

 

Research on Software Process Trustworthiness 

Measurement and Risk Analysis Model in Uncertain 

Environment 

 

Benhai Yu 

 

2010.11-2012.12 

China Postdoctoral Science Foundation 

13 

 

Ming Repository for Software Quality Prediction 

Wen Zhang 

 

Ministry of Education 

2010-2012 

18 



 

No. 

 

Project Names 

 

Principle 

Investigator 

 

Fund Source 

 

Time Periods 

14 

 

 

Research on Performance Evaluation-Oriented 

Benhai Yu 

Software Process Improvement Model 

 

NSFC 

2010.1-2012.12 

15 

 

 

A Research On Key Technologies for The Modeling, 

Analysis, Enactment Of High-Trustworthy Software 

Processes 

 

Qiusong Yang 

 

2010.1-2012.12 

NSFC Youth 

16 

 

 

Research on Software Cost and Its Uncertainty 

Da Yang 

Estimation Model 

 

2010.1-2012.12 

NSFC Youth 

17 

 

 

ChineseAcademy of Sciences and GuangDong 2009.11-2011.11 

Data Driven Software Quality Management Platform 

Da Yang 

Province Corporation Plan 

18 

 

Empirical Software Engineering Methodology 

 

Ye Yang 

 

 

2009.9-2013.9 

ISCAS Mid-Long Term Development Plan 

19 

 

 

Research on Hybrid Cost Estimation Methods and 

Da Yang 

Support Tools 

 

 

2009.9-2012.9 


20 

 

 

 

Research on Formal Approach Based Trust Worthy 

Qiusong Yang 

Software Process Modeling 

 

 

2009.9-2012.9 


21 

 

 

Research on Automation of Structured Test Generation 

Yunzhi Xue 

for Real-Time Communication Protocols 

 

 

2009.9-2012.9 


22 

 

Ming Repository for Software Quality Prediction 

Wen Zhang 

 

 

2009.9-2012.9 


23 

 

 

Research on System Dynamics Based Software Defect 

 

2009.9-2012.9 

Fengdi Shu 

Prediction 


24 

 

 

Research on Reuse-Based Software Project Cost 

Ye Yang 

Estimation Method 

 

NSFC 

2009.1-2011.12 

25 

 

 

Research on Requirement Evolution Measurement 

Juan Li 

Method 

 

2009.1-2011.12 

NSFC Youth 

26 

 

Requirement Evolution Modeling 

 

Chen Zhao 

 

National Key Technologies R&D Program 

2008.01-2012.12 

27 

** 

Research on High reliable technology and Application Qiusong Yang 

 

National defense project 

2008.1-2011.12

RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENTS 

2.3 

Achievements in Scientific Research 

2.3.1 

2.3.1.1 

Software Requirement Evolution Modeling and Management System 

 

 

 

 

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stakeholders 

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SCI3EI62ISTP362 

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This research result mainly supports requirement evolution 

prediction, analysis and management in the networked environment. 

It has formed a requirement evolution model and management 

system whose characteristics are requirement evolution prediction, 

evaluation and risk analysis and management. The contents include: 

(1) The prediction methods of software requirements evolution. 

SaaS (Software as a service) allows users’ experience and preference 

to become the key drivers of software development and evolution. 

By analyzing users' history for usage, experience tracing, label 

or feedback, evolution pattern and so on, we forecast software 

requirement evolution on our own initiative. 

(2) Software requirements evolution evaluation and risk analysis 

methods. The nature of evolution decision is the balance between 

value and cost risks. Our project mainly analyzes the evolution 

cost, transmission impact and risks to make all the success critical 

stakeholders win-win. 

(3) Software requirement evolution management method. 

Our project aims to research the automatic establishment and 

maintenance of requirement traceability, requirement negotiation 

and measurement, the compliance verification of requirement 

evolution, and mining and management of evolution process to 

establish sound fundamental architecture for software evolution. 

The research result has its novelty in measurable requirement 

negotiation, automatic establishment and maintenance of 

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requirement traceability, software risk simulation, compliance 

verification of requirement evolution and invisible task mining in 

evolution process. The research has been supported by National Hi- 

Tech R&D Plan of China and National Basic Research Program and 

in 2011 won the Second Prize of Beijing Science and Technology 

Award. As research results, 4 books have been compiled/authored, 

Among them, 3 papers were indexed by SCI, 62 papers were indexed 

by EI, and 36 papers were indexed by ISTP. There are 16 registered 

software copyrights, 2 authorized patents. The research organizations 

include ISCAS, Tsinghua University, etc. Also part of the outcome has 

realized industrialization and gained remarkable financial benefit and 

social effects. 

101 papers have been published, in domestic or foreign publications. 

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Figure 1: Software Requirement Evolution 

Modeling and Management Framework 

工 

具 

层 

演化预测演化评估与风险分析演化管理 

偏好依附的需求多样性演化需求管理需求协商 

软件用例网络拓扑分析 

需求演化风险仿真 

跟踪关系识别 

基于用户偏好预测需求演化 

基于用例的成本估算 

过程模型管理 

方 

法 

层 

群体智能 

用户偏好 

过程挖掘 

演化规律 

成本估算传播分析 

风险仿真多样性演化 

服务组合影响 

演化跟踪演化度量 

需求协商过程管理 

演化一致性 

数 

据 

层 

系统日志用户需求社会标注偏好数据过程数据领域知识 

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Figure 2: Honorary Certificate

2.3.1.2 

Product Line of Trustworthy Software Process Management 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Figure 3: Trustworthy Software Process Management Product Line 

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Quality is built in the process. Thus all the trustworthiness attributes 

are formed during the development process while all the activities 

in the product line need the coordination and management of 

processes and resources. This research result mainly deals with 

assuring the trustworthiness of final product from the process aspect. 

The major technologies include: How to decompose the software 

trustworthiness into the different processes and roles in the product 

line; How to systematically collect, analyze the trustworthiness 

evidence and provide comprehensive and objective prediction, 

control, assurance and evaluation for the software trustworthiness; 

How to control the product line process to make it more predictable 

and controllable. This research has achieved novel results on 

trustworthy software measurement model, modularized software 

simulation, software trustworthiness verification method, software 

cost estimation for uncertainty and so on. The major framework and 

research content are presented in the above figure: 

As the research result, there are 54 registered software copyrights and 

1 authorized patent. The research result has provided the companies 

with flexible and customized support and service in various aspects 

including task management, risk control, process management, 

quality management, measurement and analysis, change 

management, etc. It has been applied in more than 100 companies 

of various domains including government, military manufacture 

telecommunication, financial transportation, software, etc. It has 

more than half of the market share in military project management 

market in China, and ranks top 3 in civilian market. 

process modeling method, software process resource scheduling and 

2.3.1.3 

Trustworthy Software Process Management and Risk Control Framework 

 

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The basic issue for software trustworthiness is providing 

evidence to convince the users: the software can satisfy user’s 

request. The major research topics in this project include: (1) 

Systematically collect and analyze trustworthiness evidence 

to provide comprehensive and object prediction, control, 

assurance and evaluation of software trustworthiness (2) 

Identify and solve risks to reduce the impact on software 

trustworthiness caused by development uncertainty. 

This project has successfully been completed in 2011 and the 

major outcomes include: (1) Establish process data model 

throughout the software life cycle to collect process and 

products data which will affect trustworthiness. (2) According

to the software process trustworthiness model, reasonable 

trustworthy software process is established which meets the 

business value of the software organization and feature of 

the products. (3) Support the dynamic assembly and building 

of the trustworthy software process management and risk 

management model, which is through software life cycle, with 

trustworthiness risks and supporting data.(4) Evaluate the 

capability of software process trustworthiness in the software 

organization. As research results, 3 books have been compiled/ 

authored, 124 papers have been published, in domestic or 

Based on the research result, we have developed a Trustworthy 

Software Process Management and Risk Control System. In 

practice it has helped the software company improve the 

software process trustworthiness, efficiently control the 

process risks, increase the planning stability and predictability, 

reduce the management cost and increase the overall 

benefit. Validated by the industrialization, the research 

outcome’s practicability has been remarkably improved. The 

research organizations include ISCAS, Graduate University of 

CAS(GUCAS), Institute of Policy and Management CAS. 

foreign publications. Among them, 6 papers were indexed by 

SCI, 77 papers were indexed by EI, and 36 papers were indexed 

by ISTP. 

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Figure 4: Trustworthy Software Process Management and Risk Management Model 

风险管理模型 

Risk Management Model 

度量模型 

Measurement Model 

风险识别 

Risk I dentification 

风险因素 

Risk factors 

证据模型 

Evidence Model 

数据 

data 

分析模型 

Analysis Model 

可信度量 

Trust measurement 

风险评估 

Risk Assessment 

风险控制 

Risk Control 

风险管理优化策略库 

Risk Database 

风险策略 

Risk st rategies 

可信属性数据库 

Trustworthy attribute 

Database 

项目度量数据 

Measurement D ata 

过程管理 

工具及平台 

TPMF T oolkit 

性能基线 

Performance 

Baseline 

数据 

data 

性能模型 

Performance Model 

可信原则 

Trust principle 

可信原则 


可信原则 


评估框架 

Appraisal framework 

证据指标 

Evidential metrics 

可信原则 


可信评价方法 

Appraisal methods 

风险驱动的过程管理模型 

Risk-driven process mgmt m odel 

可信保障 

过程域 

TAPAs 

可信工程 

过程域 

TEPAs 

可信监控 

过程域 

TMPAs 

过程仿真 

Process simulation 

过程建模组装 

Process assembly 

标准过程定义和裁剪 

Define and tailor 

可信分级准则 

Trust level scheme 

可信级别 

Trust level 

过程管理框架 

Process Management Framework 

可信度模型 

Trustworthiness Model 

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Publications 

2.3.2 

: 

Books 

He Zhang, Ye Yang, Reidar Conradi: EAST 2011 - Proceeding of the 1st International Workshop on 

Evidential Assessment of Software Technologies, In conjunction with ENASE 2011, Beijing, China, June 

2011 SciTePress 2011. 

 

Papers in International 

Academic Conferences 

Qi Li, Barry Boehm, Ye Yang, and Qing Wang, “A Value-Based Review Process for Prioritizing 

Artifacts”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Software and Systems Process, 2011, 

pp.13-22. 

Hui Huang, Qiusong Yang, Junchao Xiao, and Jian Zhai, “Automatic mining of change set size 

information from repository for precise productivity estimation”, Proceedings of the International 

Conference on Software and Systems Process, 2011, pp.72-80. 

Lin Shi, Hao Zhong, Tao Xie, Mingshu Li, “An Empirical Study on Evolution of API Documentation”, 

Proceedings of the International Conference on on Fundamental Approaches to Software 

Engineering, 2011, pp.416-431. 

Qiusong Yang, Bei Zhang, Jian Zhai, Mingshu Li, “Attacking Dimensionality Problem of 

Parameterized Systems via Bounded Reachability Graph”, Proceedings of the International 

Conference on Fundamentals of Software Engineering, 2011, pp.221-235.

Wen Zhang, Ye Yang, and Qing Wang, “Network Analysis 

of Oss Evolution :An Empirical Study on ArgoUML Project”, 

Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Principles 

of Software Evolution and the 7th annual ERCIM Workshop on 

Software Evolution, 2011, pp.71-80. 

Wen Zhang, Ye Yang, and Qing Wang, “Handling Missing 

Data In Software Effort Prediction With Naive Bayes And Em 

Algorithm”, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference 

on Predictive Models in Software Engineering, 2011, New York, 

USA, Article 4 , 10 pages. 

Jian Zhai, Bei Zhang, and Qiusong Yang, “Simulation Modeling 

for Quality Enhanced Software Process Based on Rework 

Analysis”, Proceedings of the International Conference on 

Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods, 2011, 

pp.208-214. 

Dandan Wang, Qing Wang, Ye Yang, Qi Li, Haitao Wang, 

and Feng Yuan, “Is It Really a Defect” -An empirical study 

on measuring and improving the process of software defect 

reporting, Proceedings of the 2011 International Symposium 

on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, 2011, 

pp.434-443. 

Da Yang, Wenpei Liu, Qiang Cui, Juan Li, Ye Yang, and Qing 

Wang, “Modeling the Number of Active Software users”, 

Lang Xie, Da Yang, Ye Yang, Mingshu Li, Qing Wang, 

“Mean- 

Proceedings of the 2011 International Symposium on Empirical 

Software Engineering and Measurement, 2011, pp.376-379. 

VarianceCombination(MVC): A new Method for Evaluating 

Effort Estimation Models”, Proceedings of the Symposium in 

Honor of Prof. Barry W. Boehm, 2011, pp 67-78. 

Yan Ku, Jing Du, Ye Yang, Qing Wang, “Estimating Software 

Maintenance Effort form Use Cases:an Industrial Case Study”, 

Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on 

Software Maintenance, 2011, pp.482-491. 

Xinguang Chen, Fengdi Shu, Ye Yang, “Software Effort 

Estimation Model Based on Use Case Specification”, 

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Evaluation 

of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, 2011, 226-231. 

Yanbin Liu, Ye Yang, Qiusong Yang, Mingshu Li, “Driver: 

Diagnosing Runtime Property Violations Based On Dependency 

Rules”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Secure 

Software Integration and Reliability Improvement, 2011, pp. 

194-201. 

Peng Wan, Juan Li, Yin Li, “A Case Study of WikiWinWin 

Negotiation in Bug Decision Making Process”, Proceedings 

of 1st International Workshop on Evidential Assessment of 

Software Technologies , 2011, pp.61-67. 

Ye Yang, Lang Xie, Zhimin He, Qi Li, Vu Nguyen, Barry Boehm, 

and Ricardo Valerdi, “Local Bias And Its Impacts On The 

Performance Of Parametric Estimation Models”, Proceedings 

of the 7th International Conference on Predictive Models in 

Juncheng Chen, Yunzhi Xue, Chen Zhao, “An Empirical Study 

on Test-Driven Development Process for Android Applications”, 

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Software 

Engineering and Applications, 2011, pp.137-144. 

Software Engineering, 2011, New York, USA, Article 14 , 10 

pages. 

Xin Dong, Ruhe, G. ,Qiusong Yang, Qing Wang, Jian Zhai, 

“Value-Risk Trade-off Analysis for Iteration Planning in eXtreme 

Wen Zhang, Ye Yang, Qing Wang, “On the Predictability 

of Software Efforts using Machine Learning Techniques”, 

Programming”, Proceedings of the 18th Asia Pacific Software 

Engineering Conference, 2011, pp.397-404. 

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Evaluation 

of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering. 2011, pp.5-14. 

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: 

Papers in International 

Journals 

Wen Zhang, Yoshida Taketoshi, Tang Xijin, “A Comparative Study Of Tf*idf, Lsi And Multi-words 

For Text Classification”, Expert Systems with Applications, Volume 38, Issue 3, 2011, pages 

2758-2765. 

Zhimin He, Fengdi Shu, Ye Yang, Mingshu Li and Qing Wang, “An Investigation On The Feasibility 

Of Cross-project Defect Prediction”, Automated Software Engineering, Volume 19, Issue 2, 2011, 

pages 167-199. 

Hao Zhong, Lu Zhang, Tao Xie and Hong Mei, “Inferring specifications for resources from natural 

language API documentation”, Automated Software Engineering, Volume 18, Issue 3-4, 2011, 

pages 227-261. 

 

: 

Papers in First-Class 

D o m e s t i c J o u r n a l s 

and National Kernel 

Journals 

, 

2011pp 005-010. 

 

2011pp20-25,43. 

 

2011pp174-178. 

GQM2011 

pp878-881. 

 

2011pp501-512. 

 

2011pp001-016. 

2011pp.34-36.

Software Copyrights and Patents 

2.3.3 

 

Software Copyrights 

 

1 Android2011SR000231 

2 Android 2011SR000495 

3 AndroidUI 2011SR000197 

4 AndroidUI2011SR000198 

5 Promela 2011SR002398 

6 2011SR002375 

7 2011SR002530 

8 

2011SR002843 

9 AHP 2011SR002841 

10 2011SR006767 

11 

2011SR045031 

12 2011SR056923 

13 COQU ALMO 

2011SR061045 

14 

2011SR056376 

15 2011SR056501 

16 2011SR056312 

17 

2011R11S068629 

18 

2011R11S068631 

19 2011R11S068632 

28 



 

Patents under Application 

 

1 Android 

PCT/CN2011/071889 

2 Qone 

201110067910.8 

3 

201110083894.1 

4 

201110099875.8 

5 BUGBUG 

201110133561.5 

6 201110209093.5

ACADEMIC 

EXCHANGES AND 

COOPERATION

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION 

3.1 

Hosted International Conferences 

3.1.1 

a) 

Symposium of Software and System Engineering 

Honor of Prof. Barry . Boehm W 

Barry W. Boehm 

COCOMO 

 

W 

2005Boehm 

 

Barry W. Boehm 

2011426 

27(IJSI) 

Symposium of 

Software and System Engineering Honor of Prof. Barry W. 

Boehm 

Leon J. OsterweilLori Clarke 

Ross Jeffery 

Dieter 

RombachFraunhofer 

Dines BjornerShanghua 

Teng 

IBMRationalWalker 

Royce 

•Neil 

SiegelInfosys 

Narayana N. R. MurthyInfosys 

Subrahmanyam Goparaju 

BoehmBoehm 

 

Barry Boehm 

 

32 



 

Barry Boehm· 

427 

BoehmBoehm 

Skating to Where the Puck Is Going: Future Software 

Engineering Opportunities and Challenges 

Australia), Professor Dieter Rombach (Director of Fraunhofer 

Institute of Empirical Software Engineering, Germany), Professor 

Dines Bjorner (Demark University of Technology), Professor 

Shanghua Teng (Director of Computer Science Department of 

USC). The attended experts from industry include Mr. Walker 

Royce (Chief software economist of IBM Rational), Mr. Kouichi 

Kishida (Chief Consultant of Software Research Associates, Japan), 

Professor Barry W. Boehm with University of Southern California 

is a renowned expert in the software engineering field all over 

the world. His research results, including COCOMO model, spiral 

model, Incremental Commitment Spiral Model (ICSM), valuebased 

software engineering, W theory, etc, have profoundly 

influenced the international software engineering research and 

been widely-adopted in the industry community. The research 

collaboration and communication between Professor Boehm 

and iTechs began in 2005. In honor of Professor Boehm's 

distinguished contribution to the whole software engineering 

community, Symposium of Software and System Engineering 

Honor of Prof. Barry W. Boehm has been held from 26th to 

27th April 2011, which was sponsored by ISCAS and International 

Journal of Software and Informatics (IJSI). 

The attended professors included Professor Leon J. Osterweil 

and Lori Clarke (University of Massachusetts Amherst in USA), 

Professor Ross Jeffery (University of New South Wales in 

Mr. Neil Siegel (Chief Engineer and Vice President of Northrop 

Grumman Corp., USA), Dr. Narayana N. R. Murthy (Founder and 

Director of Infosys Technologies Ltd., India) and Subrahmanyam 

Goparaju (Senior Vice President of Infosys Technologies Ltd., 

India). During the symposium the experts addressed the 

keynote speeches. The speeches related to Professor Boehm's 

contributions were delivered by the participants. Also Professor 

Boehm's friends and students sent their wishes and regards 

through VCRs. 

On April 27th, as part of the Symposium, Prof. Mingshu Li 

presented an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Computer Software 

and Theory to Dr. Barry Boehm, showing ISCAS's respect to his 

outstanding contributions to the field of Software Engineering, as 

well as his long time collaboration and support to both academia 

and industry in China. Then Professor Boehm gave the keynote 

speech "Skating to Where the Puck Is Going: Future Software 

Engineering Opportunities and Challenges ".

) EAST 

International Workshop on Evidential Assessment of Software Technologies 

 

 

 

 

NICTAReidar 

Conradi 

20116 

 

 

 

IT 

Muhammad Ali Babar 

researchers and practitioners to assess the current research methods, 

tools and technologies. To present the state-of-the-practice of 

evidence-based practices and address the emerging challenges and 

issues in current empirical and evidence-based research, Assoc Prof. 

Ye Yang, together with Jason Zhang with NICTA and Reidar Conradi 

with Norwegian University of Science and Technology, initiated and 

co-chaired the 1st International Workshop on Evidential Assessment 

of Software Technologies. The workshop which co-located with 6th 

ENASE was successfully held in June 2011 in Beijing. It brought 

together both researchers and practitioners in software engineering, 

empiricists and theorists in research community and discussed the 

challenges when applying the evidence in support practice, which 

can provide improvement advice for future research. Muhammad 

With the emergence of Evidence-Based Software Engineering 

(EBSE), various empirical studies and research in SE have helped the 

Ali Babar from IT University of Copenhagen was invited to address a 

keynote speech on the workshop. 

c) 

ICSSP 

ICSP (International Conference on Software 

Process) 

ISPA 

2005200520062007 

ICSP)6ICSSP2011 

ICSE2011 

 

2006 

2011 

 

 

ICSSP2011 

Barry BoehmLeon OsterweilNICTARoss 

Jeffery 

 

International Conference on Software Process (ICSP) is sponsored 

by International Software Process Associate (ISPA) in cooperation 

with ISCAS, USC, UMASS. Since 2005, the conference has been held 

annually which was changed to International Conference on Software 

and System Process (ICSSP) in 2011. In September 2011, ICSSP 2011 

was successfully held in Hawaii USA co-locating with ICSE2011. The 

theme of this year was "Process for Tomorrow's System Engineering". 

The Chief Scientist with iTechs, Professor Mingshu Li serves as a 

member of ICSSP steering committee since 2006. In 2011, Director 

of iTechs, Professor Qing Wang and Assoc Prof. Qiusong Yang 

attended the conference and addressed speeches regarding their 

research. Many renowned professors and experts have attended 

ICSSP 2011 including Professor Barry Boehm with USC, Professor 

Leon Osterweil with UMASS, Professor Ross Jeffery with NICTA, etc. 

In the conference, all attendants discussed on various topics and 

promoted the academic exchange and communication. 

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Joint Workshop 

3.1.2 

a) ISCAS/USC/UAMSS 

2005 

 

 

2011428ISCAS/USC/UMASS 

Barry Boehm 

Leon OsterweilLori Clark 

 

 

Since 2005, iTechs has begun to cooperate with University of 

Southern California and University of Massachusetts Amherst. 

The joint laboratory was established and ISCAS/USC/UMASS Joint 

Workshop has been held since 2007. The Third ISCAS/USC/UMASS 

Joint Workshop was held in ISCAS on 28th April 2011. Professor 

Barry Boehm from USC, Professor Leon Osterweil and Professor 

Lori Clark from UMASS have given their keynote speeches on 

the workshop. Also the iTechers have reported their research on 

 

software cost estimation, software evolution management, and 

software process modeling etc. The participants have ardently 

discussed and communicated regarding the speeches.

) ISCAS/UQ 

(University of Queensland, UQ) 

(Go8)21(Universities 21) 

200810 

(ITEE) 

(DSER) 

20111128ISCAS-UQ 

Paul Strooper 

4 

 

GUIWeb 

 

UQ (University of Queensland), in Australia, is the founder of the 

coalition of Group of Eight (Go8), and is also one of the three 

Australian members of the famous union of University 21. In 

October of 2008, ISCAS and School of Information Technology 

and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland (ITEE, UQ) 

established the ISCAS/UQ Joint Lab, the Joint Lab for Data and 

Software Engineering Research (DSER). 

On Nov 28th, 2011, the 3rd ISCAS-UQ Joint Workshop was 

successfully held in ISCAS. A four-member group from UQ, 

including Prof. Paul Strooper and Prof. Xiaofang Zhou, attended 

the workshop, together with teachers and students of our lab. The 

speakers discussed with the participators about their new point 

views and progresses in quite a few fields, including service of 

data analysis, legacy software migration for cloud computing, data 

mining for intelligent transportation, GUI software testing, web 

data cleaning, etc. 

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Joint Laboratory 

3.1.3 

a) ISCAS/USC, ISCAS/UMASS, ISCAS/UQ 

ISCAS/USC, ISCAS/UMASS, ISCAS/UQ Joint Laboratory 

2005 

2005 

 

 

2011USC-CSSE 

 

2Local Bias and 

Its Impacts On The Performance Of Parametric Estimation Models 

PROMISE2011 

20118201226 

 

iTechs has formally signed the agreement in 2005 to establish the 

ISCAS/USC Joint Laboratory. Since then, iTechs has devoted much 

effort in the collaborative research with USC on uncertainty in software 

cost estimation, value-based software testing, cost estimation 

modeling for secure software, etc. 

In 2011, iTechs and USC-CSSE collaborated on value-based software 

testing and parametric software cost modeling, etc. 2 papers have 

been collaboratively accomplished and published in international 

conferences. The paper "Local Bias and Its Impacts on the 

Performance of Parametric Estimation Models" has won the Best 

Paper Award in PROMISE2011. During Aug. 2011 to Feb. 2012, the 

PhD candidate Jing Du with iTechs has visited USC-CSSE for academic 

exchange and researched on cost estimation modeling for secure 

software. 

(Laboratory for Advanced Software 

Engineering Research, LASER) 

LASER 

 

LASER 

 

2007iTechs 

LASERiTechs 

LASER 

20115LASERLeon J. OsterweilLori A. Clarke 

 

 

Laboratory for Advanced Software Engineering Research (LASER) 

is a research lab in the Department of Computer Science at the 

University of Massachusetts Amherst. LASER is dedicated to 

investigating techniques for reducing software development and 

maintenance costs while simultaneously improving the quality of the 

systems produced. LASER research centers on the use of finite state 

verification of concurrent and distributed systems to assure that these 

systems must adhere to key properties for all possible executions, 

process programming and workflow, process simulation, resource 

management and scheduling, etc. Since the establishment of ISCAS/ 

UMASS Joint Laboratory in 2007, iTechs have Assoc. Prof. Junchao 

Xiao and Qiusong Yang visiting LASER respectively. In May 2011, 

Professor Leon J. Osterweil and Professor Lori A. Clarke from LASER 

were invited to visit iTechs. We have exchanged ideas about research 

on software development under uncertain environment and dynamic 

resource scheduling.

(University of Queensland, UQ)(Go8) 

21(Universities 21) 

 

200810 

(ITEE) 

(DSER) 

 

2010920114 

2011 

 

 

UQ (University of Queensland), in Australia, is the founder of the 

coalition of Group of Eight (Go8), and is also one of the three 

Australian members of the famous union of University 21. As a 

renowned university in Australia, UQ has solid strength and rich 

research fruits in the area of computer and information technology. 

In October of 2008, ISCAS and School of Information Technology 

and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland (ITEE, UQ) 

established a joint lab, the Joint Lab for Data and Software Engineering 

Research (DSER), and thus launched long-term cooperation between 

both sides in the areas of database and software engineering. 

Qiuming Tao and Jian Liu have visited UQ respectively during 

September 2010 to April 2011. In 2011, iTechs has deeply 

collaborated with UQ on moving object database and intelligent 

transportation management. Two high-quality academic papers have 

been published on the international conferences. 

b) ISCAS/NICT A 

New ISCAS/NICTA Joint Laboratory 

(National ICT Australia) 

2002NICTA 

NICTA 

700 

NICTA 

 

 

2006NICTA 

 

20119NICTA 

 

 

 

2011 

REFSQ 2012Best 

Paper 

NICTA (National ICT Australia Ltd), Australia's Information and 

Communications Technology Research Centre of Excellence was 

founded in 2002 funded by Australian Government. Its business 

areas cover the science research, research outcome industrialization 

and research techniques training, etc. With over 700 people, NICTA is 

the largest organization in Australia dedicated to ICT research. 

NICTA has been devoting its effort in expanding its influence with the 

research outcomes. Its research topics include Embedded System, 

Networked System, Large-scale data analysis techniques, System and 

Process Complexity Management, etc. 

The collaboration between ISCAS and NICTA started from 2006, 

including short-term or long-term visits, joint workshop, and joint 

research projects. In September 2011, iTechs formally signed the 

agreement to establish the ISCAS/NICTA Joint Laboratory. The joint 

laboratory conducts extensive research cooperation on software 

architecture, formal methods and system, cloud computing, 

business and software process modeling, etc. In 2011, a joint paper 

on requirement change analysis based on process simulation was 

accepted by REFSQ 2012 and nominated as the Best Paper. 

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Exchanges and Visits 

3.1.4 

a) 

Guenther Harry Ruhe 

CAS Visit Professorship 

 

Guenther Harry Ruhe201151 

2011630 

Ruhe 

 

 

 

Ruhe 

Ruhe 

 

 

2009Ruhe 

2010 

 

Ruhe4 

 

 

Ruhe 

 

 

 

Computer Science and Department of Electrical and Computer 

Engineering, UC. His research interests include Software Engineering, 

Project Management, Decision Support, Product Release Planning, 

Empirical Software Engineering, Software Measurement, Modeling 

and Simulation, Combinatorial Optimization. He has chaired many 

international conferences and workshops, addressed keynotes 

speeches and also is the reviewer of various software engineering 

journals. Meanwhile, Professor Ruhe actively colloabrates with the 

industry community. The collaborative organizations include Ericsson, 

Nokia, Schlumberger, Siemens, etc. 

Early in 2009, Professor Ruhe discussed collaborative research topics 

and goals with iTechs. In 2010, we collaboratively applied a NSFC 

project "Research on Knowledge-Driven Software Process Resource 

Configuration and Quality Control Method". During the visit, Professor 

Ruhe has given four speeches in ISCAS to introduce the research in 

his group. Also he has held an industry salon focusing on software 

release planning and participated in several international conferences 

Under the support of CAS Visiting Professorship for Senior 

International Scientist, Professor Guenther Harry Ruhe with University 

of Calgary, Alberta, Canada (UC) has visited the lab from 1st May to 

30th June 2011. 

Professor Ruhe is now the chair of Software Engineering Industrial 

Research Association, UC and professor with Department of 

and symposiums. He has supervised the graduate students in 

iTechs and co-authored some published papers. The collaboration 

has facilitated the academic exchange and deepened mutual 

understanding. Both sides have reached a consensus on students' 

co-education, regular exchanges and visits, project cooperation in the 

future.

) 

CAS Senior Visit Plan Qiusong ang Y 

 

Edmund M. Clarke 

 

Prof. Edmund M. Clarke's research interests include software and 

hardware verification and automatic theorem proving. He is the first 

one to propose the use of model checking as a verification technique 

for finite state concurrent systems. Dr. Clarke was a co-recipient of 

the 2007 ACM Turing Award. Dr. Clarke's group is currently focusing 

on probabilistic model checking, compositional verification, concolic 

testing, type theory for dynamic languages, parallel model checking, 


 

2007 


 

etc. Those techniques have been applied in the verification of complex 

systems such as hybrid, biology, and cyber-physical systems. Supported 

by the Foundation for Selected Young Scientists Studying Abroad, 

Chinese Academy of Sciences, Assoc. Prof Qiusong Yang of iTechs 

will pay one year academic visit to Dr. Clarke's group, scheduling from 

Cyber- 

Sep. 2011 to Spe. 2012. His current research is centered on machine- 

physical2011920129 

learning-based compositional verification of concurrent system. 

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c) USC 

Exchange Student Jing Du 

Boehm 

Boehm 

 

26COCOMO Forum 

 

University of Southern California has a long history and wellaccepted 

reputation over the world. The Center for System 

and Software Engineering (CSSE), which has been established 

and developed by Professor Barry Boehm, has been acting 

as the international leading research organization in software 

engineering field. Professor Boehm, together with his team focus 

their research on the software cost estimation, software process 

model, software risk management and quality factor analysis, etc. 

The COCOMO model proposed and developed by Professor Boehm 

 

Barry Boehm 

Boehm 

 

 

COCOMO 

 

20118 

20122 

has been leading the development of software cost estimation 

technologies and is widely-adopted in industry all over the world. 

Therefore, he is respected as "the Father of Software Economics". 

During August 2011 to February 2012, the PhD candidate Jing Du 

has paid a visit of CSSE. Under Professor Boehm’s supervision, her 

research topic is the cost estimation modeling for secure software 

system and evaluation of secure software process product. During 

the visit, she has participated in the 26th COCOMO Forum, given a 

speech and communicated with other participants.

d) 

Invited Academic Exchange 

 

1 2011 Jorgen Staunstrup 

 

University of Copenhagen 

2011.4.11-2011.4.13 

 

Beijing 

2 2011 

Barry BoehmT omas Tan 

Shuanghua Teng 

 

2011.4.25-2011.4.28 

University of Southern California 

 

Beijing 

3 2011 Leon J.OsterweilLori A. Clarke 

 

2011.4.25-2011.4.28 

University of Massachusetts 

 

Beijing 

4 2011 Guenther Harry Ruhe 

 

2011.5.6-2011.6.30 

University of Calgary 

 

Beijing 

5 2011 

Barry BoehmDines Bjorner 

Loen OsterweilClark 

OsterweilK oichi Kishida 

Walker RoyceNeil Siegel 

Dieter RombachRoss Jeffery 

SUBRAHMANYAM G VNarayana 

MurthyShuanghua eng T 

Tomas Tan 

Boehm 

Symposium in Honor of Prof. Barry 2011.4.26-2011.4.27 

W. Boehm 

 

Beijing 

6 2011 ZhangheMuhammad Ali Babar 

 

2011.6.07-2011.6.08 

NICTA 

 

Beijing 

7 2011 

 

Xiao Liu 

 

Swinburne University of 

2011.6.18-2011.6.20 

Technology 

 

Beijing 

8 2011 

 

Tao Xie 

 

2011.7.1-2011.7.10 

North Carolina State University 

 

Beijing 

9 2011 Nasro Min Allah 

COMSA TS 

2011.8.12-2011.10.30 

CIIT 

 

Beijing 

10 2011 

 

Bo Sun 

 

2011.11.30-2012.2.28 

University of Calgary 

 

Beijing 

11 2011 David Weiss 

 

2011.12.23-2011.12.29 

Lowa State University 

 

Beijing 

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e) 

Attended Conferences and Workshops 

 

1 2011 

 

2011 

Lin ShiHao 

2011.3.26-2011.4.3 

FASE2011 

Zhong 

 

Germany 

2 2011 

20112011 

Qing Wang ICSE2011 

2011.5.20-2011.5.27 

Qiusong Yang 

ICSSP2011 

 

USA 

3 2011 

 

Jing Du 

2011 

20119.25- 2011.9.30 

ICSM2011 

 

USA 

4 2011 

 

Jing Du 

26COCOMO 

26th COCOMO Forum 

2011.11.2-2011.11.4 

 

USA 

5 2011 

 

Jian Zhai 

2011 

2011.7.17-2011.7.22 

MSV11 

 

USA 

6 2011 

 

Wen Zhang 

12 

12th International Workshop on 

Principles of Software Evolution and 2011.9.3-2011.9.8 

the 7th annual ERCIM Workshop on 

Software Evolution 

 

Hungary 

7 2011 

 

 

Qing WangY e 

YangDandan 

WangDa ang Y 

International Conference Week on 


2011.9.18-2011.9.23 

 

Canada 

8 2011 

 

Qing Wang 

CMMI 

CMMI Workshop 

2011.10.20-2011.10.25 

 

USA 

9 2011 

 

Juncheng Chen 

2011 

2011.12.13-2012.11.18 

SEA11 

 

USA 

10 2011 

 

Yongji Wang 

 

9th International Conference on IT 2011.12.16-2012.12.22 

frontier 

 

Pakistan 

11 2011 

 

Xin Dong 

18 

2011.12.05-2011.12.08 

18th APSEC 

 

Viet Nam

DOMESTIC COOPERATION 

3.2 

Domestic Academic 

Cooperation 

3.2.1 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2011 

20114 

 

 

 

 

61 

 

Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences has a good 

reputation in China. Since its foundation, iTechs has been 

attaching much importance to domestic academic cooperation. 

Through co-applying the research projects, joint studying group 

and other ways, iTechs has reinforced the collaboration and 

communication with other domestic universities and institutes. 

Our partners include Academy of Mathematics and Systems 

Sciences of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Computer 

Technology, Institute of Policy and Management Science, Graduate 

In 2011, iTechs has explored the cooperation with South China 

University of Technology in various aspects including academia 

visit, students’ co-education, etc. In April 2011, the Chief Scientist 

with the Lab, Professor Mingshu Li was granted as Adjunct 

Professor by South China University of Technology. Professor 

Mingshu Li addressed the keynote speech “Software Engineering 

Technologies——The Development and Outlook in the Cloud 

Environment”. After the speech, Professor Mingshu Li answered 

the questions and discussed with the attendants. 

School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tsinghua University, 

Peking University, Nanjing University, Beijing University of 

Aeronautics & Astronautics, Wuhan University, National University 

of Defense technology, etc. 

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Domestic Industry Cooperation 

3.2.2 

 

China Development Bank 

 

 

Hitachi (China) Research 

and Development Limited Corporation 

2011120115 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

iTechs 

iTechs 

iTechs 

 

 

 

In 2011, collaborated with Hitachi (China) Research and 

Development Limited Corporation, iTechs launched the 

research project about a comprehensive assessment method of 

software outsourcing project. This project includes researches 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Delegated by China Development Bank, iTechs has launched the 

research project on software effort estimation and code quality 

evaluation models. This project’s goal is provide the software 

process measurement system, cost estimation model for the CDB’s 

outsourcing development lifecycle. The system and model aim to 

assure the compliance and comparability of the estimation scope 

and evaluation result, which can control the effort and budget for 

outsourcing software project and reasonably allocate the project 

resource and schedule. Based on the research, we have produced a 

solution system supporting the CDB to evaluate the code quality of 

supplier, establish evaluation rules, and accumulate organizational 

quantitative process data to continuously improve the estimation 

ability, support supplier selection and provide evidence for 

outsourcing decision making. 

on the measurement system of software outsourcing project, 

establishment of empirical data repository for software 

outsourcing industry, cost estimation model, and the method for 

assessing software outsourcing supplier. The research outcome 

is expected to customize a cost estimation model for software 

outsourcing based on project characteristics and provide a 

supplier capability assessment model based on expert experience 

and historical data. 

 

Chengdu aircraft design & research institute 

2011 

 

 

In this research project, iTechs and Hitachi has performed a sound 

collaboration. iTechs has obtained the first-hand Hitachi data 

outsourced to the Chinese software industry while Hitachi has 

established a method of cost estimation and supplier’s capability 

assessment for outsourcing software project. 

In 2011, iTechs has deeply collaborated with Chengdu aircraft design 

& research institute to provide a set of software process standards for 

complex software-intensive system, which aims to guide the process 

tailoring and management.

EDUCATION 

 

 

 

 

iTechs provides a series of education opportunities for graduate students in the context 

of its research, development, and international collaboration in the internet software 

technologies. With the joint emphasis on knowledge, capability, and expertise, 

iTechs has paid particular attention to both innovative and practical aspects of 

graduate education and professional training.

DEGREE PROGRAMS 

4.1 

 

 

The Lab offers both ISCAS Master and Ph.D. degrees in Computer 

Science with specialization in Compute Software and Theory degree 

programs for graduate students, which are officially offered by the 

Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (GUCAS). 

GRADUATE EDUCATION 

4.2 

The daily learning and research of the graduates are under the 

considerate guidance of the Graduate Advisor Team. The Chief 

Scientist of the Lab is in charge of the team. The team sets up a set 

of training plans, including major learning, research methodology 

learning, research practice and thesis writing guidance according 

 

 

 

 

 

 

to the requirements and conditions of ISCAS and the Lab. 

Meanwhile, several research groups are set up and research 

works are in progress under the teachers’ guidance. 

iTechs organizes a series of academic communication activities, 

such as seminar which is usually organized by the research 

group and open to the whole laboratory. Thus students will 

 

know each other better and their articulation abilities will be 

 

 

 

 

 

improved. Also iTechs actively invites the renowned professors 

and scholars to visit the lab. Through the keynote speech and 

discussion as well as collaborative research, the lab has 

provided a broad platform for the students to know the top 

researchers and their research. 

 

A series of quantitative assessment indicators were specified 

 

 

 

 

 

 

for the required research, involving the practical engineering 

practice workload and the number of academic reports and 

papers. The excellent one will be rewarded. 

iTechs tried its best to create the best environments for all 

students, and to expand the innovation and development room 

for students. 

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2011 GRADUATES 

4.3 

20118 

In 2011, 8 Master students graduated from iTechs.Information about master graduates: 

 

No. 

 

Name 

 

Degree Advisor 

 

Thesis Title 

 

Current Employer 

1 

 

Yan Ku 

 

Master 

 

Qing Wang 

 

 

 

A Software Cost Estimation Method 

NetEase 

based on Use Cases and Its 

Supporting Tool 

2 

 

Peng Wan 

 

Master 

 

Yongji Wang 

WinWin 

 

User-driven Negotiation Process University of Southern 

and its Application in Requirement 

California 

Analysis and Defect Negotiation 

3 

 

Hui 

Huang 

 

Master 

 

Qing Wang 

Agent 

 

A Process Asset Library Mining China North Industries 

Based Method for Creating Process- 

Corp. 

Agents 

4 

 

Lang Xie 

 

Master 

 

Yongji Wang 

 

 

An Evaluation and Optimization 

Yahoo R&D 

method of Software Effort Estimation 

Model 

5 

 

Wenjin 

Wu 

 

Master 

 

Ye Yang 

 

 

Social Network Analysis Based 

 

Approach to Recommending 

Sogou company 

Bug Fixing Developers and 

Implementation 

6 

 

Xinguang 

Chen 

 

Master 

 

Qing Wang 

 

 

 

Software Third-party Test Strategy in 

NetEase 

Electronic Government Application 

and Implementation 

7 

 

Haopeng 

Zhang 

 

Master 

 

Mingshu Li 

 

 

 

A Fuzzy-Based Method and Tool for 

NetEase 

Evaluating the Trustworthiness of 

Software Processes 

8 

 

Bei Zhang 

 

Master 

 

Xiaoyong 

Huai 

 

 

Sencha 

Resource-Stochastic-Feature- 

Sencha Inc. 

Description Oriented 

Software Process Modeling Method

PERSONNEL TRAINING AND 

TEAM CONSTRUCTION

20113 

 

iTechs attaches importance to personnel training and team construction. 

Following the unity and serious, intense and lively team-building policy, there 

were fruitful achievements in 2011. Three assistant researchers have been 

promoted as associate professors.

NEW ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS 

5.1 

19792009 

 

2010 

ICSEECOOPASEFASEASE 

ACM SIGSOFTACM SIGSOFT 

102 

Hao Zhong is now an associate professor with Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences. 

 

Hao Zhong 

He obtained his PhD degree from Peking University in 2009. He was elected as one of the excellent 

students when he was a student with Peking University, and his PhD dissertation was nominated 

as a distinguished dissertation by CCF. His papers have been published in top software engineering 

conferences and journals such as ICSE, ASE, ECOOP, and FASE. Among them, his ASE paper won the 

ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished paper award. This award was elected from the best papers published in 

top conference globally, and in each year, only about ten papers were elected. His ASE paper was the 

second ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished paper elected from mainland China. 

19792002 

200320091 

 

 

/ 

COCOMO_U 

USC-CSSEWikiWinWin 

 

 

Da Yang 

 

 

Da Yang is now an associate professor with Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He 

got a bachelor degree of computer science from Peking University in 2002 and a bachelor degree of 

economics from Peking University in 2003. He got his PhD degree from Institute of Software, Chinese 

Academy of Sciences in Jan. 2009. He used to be a visiting scholar at Center for Systems and Software 

Engineering, University of Southern California. 

His research works include systems and software process improvement, systems and software cost 

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estimation, systems and software measurement, requirement engineering, online software evolution, 

software ecosystem, and mining user behavior data. In the area of cost estimation, he proposed the 

COCOMO_U method. In the area of requirement engineering, he collaborated with USC-CSSE and 

proposed the WikiWinWin method. In the area of online software evolution, he collaborated with 

Taobao (the largest e-commerce company in China) and improved the advertisement recommendation 

service in Taobao. In the area of ecosystem, he collaborated with RenRen (the Chinese Facebook), and 

improved the online social network application platform based on user behavior mining. 

1981 

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2009 4 Japan Advanced Institute of Science and 

Technology20094iTechs20121 

 

20International Journal of Software Engineering 

and Knowledge EngineeringKnowledge-based SystemsExpert Systems with Applications 

 

Wen Zhang 

International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making , QSICESEM 

APSECPROMISEIWPSE 

 

Wen Zhang is an associate professor with Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He 

is a member in empirical software engineering group in iTechs and his primary research interests 

include software data mining and knowledge management in software engineering. In July 2002, he 

obtained his bachelor degree in engineering from Chongqing University. In May 2006, he obtained 

his master degree in management science from the Key Laboratory of Management, Decision and 

Information Systems, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences. 

In April 2009, he obtained his PhD degree in knowledge science from Japan Advanced Institute of 

Science and Technology. Since then, he worked as an assistant professor with iTechs. In January, 

2012, he was promoted as an associate professor. He has published more than 20 journal and 

conference papers in the area of software engineering, data mining and knowledge management, 

such as the international journals IJSEKE, Knowledge-based Systems and IJITDM, and the international 

conferences QSIC, ESEM, APSEC, PROMISE and IWPSE, etc. Currently, he is responsible for one national 

natural science project of China, one Beijing natural science project and one research project for the 

Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars.

LAB CULTURE 

Every year, a variety of student culture activities is held regularly in 

 

iTechs, which makes everyone feels the laboratory culture and the 

warmth of family. 

In 2011, iTechs held or participated in many activities including 

Happy Hour, singing competition, badminton game, annual meeting 

and graduates reunion, etc. 

 

 

2011Happy Hour 

 

Happy Hour 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Hour is a birthday party held for teachers and students in the 

laboratory. At Happy Hour, teachers and students gather together 

happily, share delicious cakes and send their best wishes. In addition, 

Badminton is held regularly every week in iTechs. Teachers and 

students are encouraged to exercise actively to strengthen their 

physique. Thus they can keep a more energetic state of mind for 

study, work and life. Annual meeting and singing competition is also 

held, which provides a show stage for teachers and students in the 

laboratory. What's more, graduates reunion is held in the laboratory 

every summer. Students who have graduated from iTechs are invited 

back to communicate with us. They recall their lifes in iTechs and 

talk about their working experience, which provides reference and 

guidance to the present students. 

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Good organizational culture is an impetus of organizational development. iTechs actively advocates building the 

laboratory culture "bring into full play each one's ability, make the best of things, fulfill the utmost value of the 

talents", in order to create a good cultural atmosphere in that all the 

teachers and students work passionately to pursue 

their ambitions.

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ITECHSERS SAY 

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WEN ZHANG 

7.1 

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When I look at the iTechs annual report 2008 in my hands, I 

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understand that I have already been in iTechs for 3 years. Time 

flies so quickly and it is another time to make the iTechs annual 

report 2011. 

The life in iTechs of these 3 years is delightful. Although I was 

confronted with difficulties from time to time in my research 

work, the outcome of the research is always promising on the 

condition that I invested my effort to the research continuously. 

When I came here at the first time, iTechs impressed me with 

its youth and vitality. In these 3 years, my stay in iTechs validates 

my first impression of iTechs. The professors of iTechs are very 

talented and most of them have overseas research experiences. 

Despite that the current academic environment in China causes 

undesirable influence on some research institutions, iTechs 

professors' international vision ensures that the research is in 

cutting edge frontiers and sustainable progress is made in iTechs. 

The students in iTechs are very excellent, and before entering 

iTechs as graduate students, most of them graduated from the top 

universities in China with remarkable grades. 

iTechs is like a large and warm family. Each member of the 

family is striving for outstanding scientific research. Sometimes, 

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we are depressed for not reaching the expected goal, and at 

other times, we are pleased for the acceptance of our research 

outcome. Although the research field in iTechs is of diversity and 

each member may have different research questions, we have 

no barrier in communication with other people’s research. In 

seminar, iTechsers are eager to express their views and opinions. 

Sometimes they discussed with each other so actively that the 

seminar had to be prolonged again and again. In daily life, 

iTechsers support each other to make progress together. iTechsers 

work collaboratively for their common goals, i.e., to make iTechs 

an internationally influential laboratory in software engineering. 

I still remember that when I joined iTechs in April, 2009. It was 

very hard for me to find interesting research questions due 

to the difference between my doctoral research and software 

engineering. Professor Qing Wang helped me a lot on how to 

combine knowledge management and software engineering 

by analyzing my research basis and the advantages of iTechs. In 

the spring of 2010, when I prepared to apply the natural science 

foundation of china (NSFC) project, Professors Mingshu Li, Qing 

Wang and Ye Yang provided me with much guidance on the 

contents and writing structures of my application. I can understand 

that, as a researcher, it is my own responsibility to individually 

apply scientific research fund by myself. The warmness, help and 

guidance from professors Mingshu Li, Qing Wang and Ye Yang 

really encouraged me very much to improve myself as an iTechser. 

I enjoyed the research life in iTechs in these 3 years very much. 

Everything here is so positive and happy. Although sometimes I 

was also confused and frustrated with my research and life, I can 

always find the way out after communicating with my colleagues 

in iTechs. I know, what I have done is of little significance for 

iTechs. However, what iTechs has provided to me is an opportunity 

to explore more and more unknown research fields for me. 

The three years' life in iTechs is wonderful. This makes me 

believing that, we are destined to achieve our ambition if we 

invest our energy and enthusiasm here. The future of iTechs and 

iTechsers will be fine! 

JUNCHAO XIAO 

7.2 

2011 

 

QoneQone 

1999 

863Qone5.X 

 

Qone 

Qone2.02004 

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In 2011, I join the department of software engineering tool 

and service, NFS-China Ltd. I am in charge of the consulting 

of software process improvement, and also the development 

and selling of software process management platform - Qone. 

Qone is one important fruit of our lab. Since the lab undertook 

863 project of software process technique in 1999, Qone has 

developed for more than 10 years. The current version is 5.3 and 

has hundreds of enterprise customers. A lot of early students in 

the lab have ever taken part in Qone development. For example, 

I joined the lab when Qone 2.0 was delivered. In the spring of 

2004, I experienced the whole development process, including 

requirement analysis, design, coding and testing, in developing 

Qone 2.5. In the following years, I also worked as Qone technical 

support, software process development consultant, etc. All these 

work provide me with valuable materials for later researches. 

From researches to industry in 2011, I devote to Qone related 

work in the company. From the combination of theory with 

practice, I have a deeper understanding of the theories and 

methods proposed by the lab. One important goal of the company 

is to improve ROI. The main investment of software development 

is human resources. The return is the product functions needed by 

users. To gain the maximal return, on one hand, the productivity of 

human resources should be increased. It is valuable that we have 

the research issues in the lab such as software process modeling, 

software estimation, human resource capability estimation, 

multi-project resource scheduling, quality management, and risk 

management. Thus, according to resource capability and usability, 

resources can be properly used. Products' quality is assured so 

that rework and maintaining can be reduced. In addition, risks 

can be properly prevented under complex actual development 

environment and the trustworthy development process is 

guaranteed. On the other hand, according to different customers' 

demands, it is required that process output can have the highest 

value. Therefore, researches such as requirement negotiation, 

release planning based on value play an important role for 

obtaining customer demands and avoiding meaningless effort. 

I am lucky to have such a chance to participate in the company 

and have the industrial experience. The valuable experience will 

be very helpful to the future research! 

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LIN SHI 

7.3 

 

 

 

 

 

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2008 

2010 

 

 

 

Randy 

 

Pausch"Brick walls are there for a 

 

reason: they let us prove how badly we want things." 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I like to read the annual report of the laboratory every year, for that 

it summarized and accumulated the harvest and progress of the 

laboratory each year. This year I exchange my role from reader to 

writer to share some of my experiences here, and hope that it can 

help. 

Let me briefly introduce myself first. I come from Changchun, 

Jilin, and graduated from Nanjing University software institute. 

My study field is theory and practice of software process. I came 

to our lab in 2008, and turned to Ph.D student in 2010. I affiliate 

to Requirements engineering group and my research direction 

is requirements evolution, software evolution and requirements 

impact analysis. 

Time seems to slip away much faster. This is already the fourth 

year I came to the laboratory. 

My first year in graduate school mainly related to class learning 

and this years’ time can be counted the most "carefree". After four 

years of college training, exam and study seems not so difficulty 

to us. We get acquainted with many new friends and classmates, 

and usually play together for fun. We also have new mentors in 

 

the lab. They lead us to understand what and how to do research. 

 

CMMI 

 

 

Although the first year seems to be rather “carefree” than others, 

there are at least three things need to be noticed. The first one 

is about the content of our courses, which are the basis of our 

future work. The course needs to be carefully selected, and should

e closely related to our future research directions. The second 

thing is the way we study in graduated school, which is quite 

different from the way we study in the college. We should not only 

know what a thing is but also know why it is. The third thing is 

involvement in the research. For students who still have enough 

energy on other things, they can participate in some light tasks 

in the lab. It will be better if they can apply what they learned in 

courses into the tasks, because they can reinforce their knowledge 

as well as lay a good foundation for future research work. 

After one-year study, I eventually enter the requirements group in 

our lab. Our group leader made international academic exchange 

to Australia, and then Dr. Zhong taught me instead. I would like 

to thank Dr. Zhong. He gave me great help from the beginning to 

the end. Dr. Zhong helped me to modify my drafts. Those printed 

revisions can pile thickly. Although the process was difficult, I have 

experienced an outstanding research worker who has rigorous 

Then I have a chance to participate in software practice via the 

channel of production and research of our lab. I serve as an intern 

for the NFSChina Company. I saw the real software industry and 

how it works. I realized some of my ideas before, in fact, were 

whimsical and unrealistic. In practice, I can see different types of 

software projects, which can make growth of my knowledge and 

experience. I tried my best to take care both practice and research. 

In daytime, I work in the company. And in nighttime, I came back 

to lab for research. Although such kind of life seems tired, I feel 

quite fulfilled inside. 

The research is very hard. When we find it difficult to stick on, 

let us think about students around and teachers who still pay 

ongoing efforts. Then we will not feel lonely. Finally, I would like 

to cite Professor Randy Pausch's words for encouraging all of us: 

"Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we 

want things." 

altitude and cautious spirit and perseverance. All of them are 

deserved to be my future goals. 

DU JING 

7.4 

2011814CA983 

iTechser 

 

 

Barry 

Boehm 

 

 

 

Tommy Trojan 

Doheny 

24Leavey 

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the library’s 80% seats are occupied. In Leavey, I witnessed the “Flash 

Mob” activity and “Bear Burning” before the American football game 

between USC and UCLA (Bear is the significance of UCLA). 

Compared with the relaxing campus atmosphere, the teachers and 

students take the study and research pretty serious. I have audited two 

courses in USC. In the class the students can raise their hands at any time 

to interrupt the teacher for questions or discussion. I heard a very typical 

case to show their attitude to study. One famous professor opened a 

course to teach the master students to write normative code. He was very 

tough with the students and even required the thresholds of variables and 

statements within a function. Even the writing style should be followed 

as he instructed. The students all felt miserable in writing the homework 

and exams. But they all think it is so helpful in their later study. 

In USC, my research topic is cost estimation modeling for secure software 

system supervised by Professor Boehm. As mentioned by Associate 

Professor Ye Yang, every time when I held some questions and entered 

Professor’s office, I always ended with bunch of more questions without 

the former ones unsolved. Sometimes I felt puzzled with Professor’s 

suggestions on the further research. But when I dug deeper, his 

suggestions and questions showed its significance itself. Sometimes, 

while he is guiding me on the research, he could just fetch a book and 

turn to the page which is related to my research. I am so amazed by all 

of these. Not only the Professor himself, but also his students all show 

their serious attitude to the research. In their research, the hypothesis, 

On 14th August 2011, I landed on the flight CA983 heading for Los 

Angeles, US and flied across the oceans. As an iTechser, I use my eyes to 

feel the big big world. 

I know I am so lucky that I can have this precious opportunity to visit 

one of the most famous universities world-wide-University of Southern 

California. Also it is my great honor to be supervised by Professor Barry 

Boehm who is respected as “the father of software economics” during 

my stay. Besides expressing my gratitude, I would like to share my 

feelings and gains in US. 

The first day when I entered the campus, I was amazed by the active as 

well as peaceful atmosphere. Bunch of young students are everywhere. 

The campus constructions are very distinctive, especially the famous 

methodology, application, validation in one research work is complete 

and clear. 

In my spare time, I have experienced Los Angeles every aspect with the 

friends. When Americans say Chinese “XIEXIE” to me, I really feel happy. 

When I encountered trouble and the strangers walk up and offer their 

help, I feel so moved. In LA, every day, I am feeling, and being moved so 

that I always dream back to LA even when I am Beijing now. 

The visit ended very soon. But the experience has already stamped 

heavily in my heart and I will cherish this memory all my life. Thanks to 

the teachers, thank them to provide me such a precious chance. I will 

use it to encourage myself to improve continuously and try to achieve top 

research result in the future! 

Tommy Trojan Status. The Libraries in USC are also fantastic. The Doheny 

Memorial Library with a long history is said to be act as the scene in 

a famous TV play. Leavey Library opening 24-hour a day is my most 

frequent stay place. It is famous for its high occupancy. Even at 1 or 2 am,

7.5 

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冯馨玥 

 

 

 

 

韩广乐 

 

 

 

 

 

韩旭 

happy hour 

 

 

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李姣阳 

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happy hourBoehm

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LABORATORY FOR INTERNET SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES 

INSTITUTE OF SOFTWARE CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 

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