More information: http://sci.aalto.fi/en/current/events/vaitos_ekberg_jan_erik/

Hannu Peltola: Towards Faster String Matching

Opponent: Ph.D. Juha Kärkkäinen, University of Helsinki

Supervisor: Professor Jorma Tarhio, Aalto University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

M.Sc. Hannu Peltola will defend the dissertation “Towards Faster String Matching” on 10th of May. Exact string matching is a much studied and popular problem. The task is to find the occurrences of a string pattern in a long text. We introduce several new algorithms for online exact string matching and study their experimental performance and compare them with some earlier algorithms. Moreover, we give examples of anomalies caused by repetitive texts, and present algorithms for that kind of data. Specialized algorithms for long patterns (longer than about 50 characters) are also studied. In addition, we discuss the principles of fair testing of string matching algorithms.

More information: http://sci.aalto.fi/en/current/events/vaitos_peltola_hannu/

Welcome!

The lecture is in English.

Mikael Johnson: How Social Media Changes User-Centred Design

Opponent: Prof. Jan Gulliksen, KTH, Sweden

Supervisor: Prof. Marko Nieminen, Aalto University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

Social media changes the game for user involvement in service design.

Active user communities, fast paced iterative development, digital trails, peer production, and low-cost software distribution are well known facets that bring substantial changes. The question is, have the most important user involvement approaches—user-centred and participatory design as well as lead-user involvement—kept up with the changes, or do they preserve an outdated perspective that holds us back?

In this thesis, the author distils lessons for designers, managers, and researchers from an in-depth case study of a pioneering digital service, Habbo Hotel by Sulake Corporation. The analysis demonstrates how collaboration and feedback loops between developers and users change over ten years. The key message is that user involvement timing and method choice should be carefully considered and decisions should consider, for instance, developer–user social distance, cumulation of user knowledge, and relevant rhythms in development. The author argues that one can forget generic process guidance on user involvement, because it is based on ‘one-off’ projects as well as stable and orderly project phases, which is a rare situation in service design practice.

Please, register to this dissertation by this link: http://is.gd/johnson_vaitos

Opponent: Professor Tapio Salakoski, University of Turu

Supervisor: Professor Lauri Malmi, Aalto University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

Lic.Sc.(Tech.) Ahmad Taherkhani will defend the dissertation “Automatic Algorithm Recognition Based on Programming Schemas and Beacons: A Supervised Machine Learning Classification Approach” on 8th March 2013 at 12 am in Hall T2. This dissertation introduces the techniques developed for automatic algorithm recognition and discusses the empirical studies conducted for evaluating the performance of the techniques. The techniques can be used, for example, in automatic assessment of student-implemented algorithms.

We strive for research that is both practically relevant and of high academic quality. Our research projects are often carried out in close cooperation with industry, and are often multi-disciplinary and constructive in nature. Our staff consists of people with various backgrounds: engineering, business, law and psychology.

We are hiring summer interns for the summer 2013 for the projects of our research groups. For more information see the groups and project topics below.

Preago (Product requirements and architecture research group) Requirements and software architectures, the complexities related to the transfer of relevant design information. Development of software or software intensive products and service products, especially in cases where variability is of importance. Summer Interns especially to projects: Shape, EIT and Cloud.

SPRG (Software Process Research Group) Software process and process improvement, SW product development, as well as development in company networks. Multi-disciplinary projects, combining project and process management with legal and human aspects.

STRATUS (Strategic Usability Research Group) Research in usability engineering and user-centred design, focus is in the human actors that are surrounded by the technical systems and services. Central concepts usability and user-centred design, methods from controlled laboratory studies to experimental field techniques the emphasis being on qualitative studies.

From the summer trainees we expect successful studies and an interest in research work. Successful summer interns may have a possibility to continue working in the group either as a full or part time teaching or research assistant, for example working on a master’s thesis.

In addition to the basic information requested, please describe also which research project or topics you would be interested in and the status of your studies detailed. Attach your CV and transcript of records. You can attach one additional attachment (Something you have written -This could be your Bachelor thesis, a seminar report or such related to your studies or something different that describes you as a writer and thinker). 

Applications should be filed before 3.3.2013 in the web portal:
https://eage.aalto.fi/?ff/en/HR_JOB_T3050_IIII

For more information, please, contact the professors of the appropriate research group.

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M.Sc. (Tech.) Pin Nie will defend the dissertation “Multifaceted Optimization of Energy Efficiency for Stationary WSN Applications” on 1 February 2013 in lecture hall T2, Konemiehentie 2, Espoo. This dissertation investigates energy constraint in stationary wireless sensor network (S-WSN) applications, and presents our comprehensive solution to improve energy efficiency with multiple techniques.

Opponent: Professor Thomas Peter Plagemann, University of Oslo, Norway

Supervising Professor: Professor Antti Ylä-Jääski, Aalto University School of Science, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Electronic dissertation: http://lib.tkk.fi/Diss

From the summer trainees we expect successful studies and an interest in research work. Each intern will have a personal supervisor that guides the work during the summer. Work done as a summer trainee can often be included in studies as a special assignment or as training work. Successful summer interns have a possibility to continue working in the group either as a full or part time teaching or research assistant, for example working on a master’s thesis.

Applications should include

• current study record (OODI transcript as pdf) and what courses will be completed this spring
• short statement why you want to become a summer intern and why you should be chosen
• in which technology areas you would prefer to work (e.g., cloud computing, energy efficiency in Internet, Internet of Things, machine-to-machine communications, applications and services, networking, security, identity management)
• preferred type of work: SW-development, simulations, modeling, kernel programming, etc.
• optionally name your preferred supervisor from the research staff
• which programming languages you know well and how much experience you have in programming

Applications should be filed before 31.1.2013 (extended to) 3.2.2013 electronically in the web portal.

Prof Tuomas Aura, Prof Antti Ylä-Jääski and Prof Jukka Nurminen
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Aalto University School of Science
P.O.Box 15400
FI-00076 Aalto, Finland

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