Welcome!
NJR Workshop
Series: This workshop is the third in a series of workshops
with the goal to work towards the establishment of a Normalized
Java Resource.
Vision: Our
vision is a collection of 10,000 Java projects, each of which
builds and runs, and for which popular tools succeed and have
cached outputs. This Normalized Java Resource will lower the
barrier to implementation of new tools, speed up research, and
ultimately help advance research frontiers. In particular, the
Normalized Java Resource will enable tools that take advantage of
Big Code in such areas as code synthesis, error repair, and
program understanding. Ideas for the Normalized Java Resource
include easy search for projects with desired characteristics,
examples of how to run a new tool on the entire collection, and a
web interface that enables anyone to run experiments.
Goal: What
do researchers need from a Normalized Java Resource to make
progress on their tools? A common road block is that existing
collections of Java code are either small, without ability to
build and run, or both. The main goals of the workshops are to:
discuss the list of tools that researchers commonly use as
building blocks for their own tools,
debate what features of the Normalized Java Resource that
researchers would like to see, and
see how an early prototype of the Normalized Java Resource
works.
We hope that
several of the workshop participants will sign up to be early
users and evaluators of our infrastructure.
Here is a glimpse
of the capabilities of an early prototype of a
Normalized Java Resource.
Participation:
This workshop is open to all researchers interested in the topic,
whether they have prepared a presentation or not. If you would
like to give a presentation, view the Call for
Abstracts. All participants should register
in advance.
Location:
This edition of the NJR workshop will be held at the University of
California, Irvine, in Donald Bren Hall (pictured above), in room
5011. Directions
and parking information are available.
