I am Renan Peixoto da Silva, a former exchange student at UWB. Although it was for a short period of time, I had the pleasure of working with a great team in the Provenance and Traceability Research Group and helping to improve the FACTS project. More precisely, I was responsible for exploring new ways of determining relationships between source code changes and other software artifacts. As a result of this investigation, I had the privilege of presenting our paper, entitled “Connecting Source Code Changes with Reasons”, at the Tenth International Conference on Information, Process, and Knowledge Management (eKNOW 2018), in Rome, Italy.
The eKNOW conference, co-located with a number of other events as part of DigitalWorld 2018, focuses on information and knowledge discovery, extraction, processing, and management, among other related tracks. I presented our paper at the session on Information Management, and the Q&A portion was very stimulating as many people expressed their interest in our work and wanted to discuss it a little more. This was especially important for our research group because I was able to collect great feedback and some valuable advice regarding user studies and the next steps of our project.
Attending an international conference is a truly exciting and enriching experience. I had the opportunity to meet many excellent and accomplished researchers coming from different countries and with different backgrounds who also presented their works and led exceptionally insightful discussions. I was very much inspired by their research spirit and the experiences they shared. There were also many break-out periods and social events for casual conversation and interaction.
It was a rewarding and fun trip overall, and now I am very much encouraged to develop more research projects and potentially present my work again at other conferences in the future.
Note: R.P. da Silva is sponsored by CAPES and the Science Without Borders program. This work is based in part upon work supported by the US National Science Foundation under Grant No. CCF 1218266 and ACI 1350724.