Research Activities

Research Area

My research domain is software engineering, more precisely software evolution, reengineering, and language design. As Kent Beck writes:

Succession is the price of success.
The needs of the design evolve.

I’m interested in making tools to better understand existing software, and to (pro)actively support its evolution though more expressive or simpler programming tools:

• Reverse-engineering, analysis, and visualisation techniques for program comprehension;
• Development tools and more expressive language constructs to build understandable and evolvable programs.

This builds on my previous experience in model-driven engineering and software architecture, and in the context of RMoD, I follow these interests in the perspective of modularity, remodularization, and dynamic languages.

Main Conferences and Publication Outlets

Here’s a quick list of the main conferences & journals I submit to:

General

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, OOPSLA, ECOOP, ICSE, ASE

Reengineering & Maintenance

ICSM, WCRE, CSMR

Tools, Language Design, Models

Elsevier COMLAN, TOOLS, ESUG/IWST, UML/Models, LMO (french)

Community Involvement

Conference Organization

Journées IDM & GDR-GPL, 2011

University of Lille 1 organizes the journées IDM & génie de la programmation et du logiciel, a francophone event on model-driven engineering and software engineering in Lille, 7–10 june 2011. I’m responsible for maintaining the website.

Benevol 2010

Inria Lille organizes the 9th Benevol seminar in Lille, France, on the 16–17 december 2010. I’m a member of the organizing committee and responsible for the website.

WCRE 2009

RMoD organizes WCRE’09 in Lille, France, at Telecom Lille 1. I’m also chair for the workshops with Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc.

Student volunteer

• SPLC 2005 in Rennes, France
• ESUG 2006 in Prague, Czech Republic, and 2007 in Lugano, Swiss

Programme Committees and Peer Review

Programme Committee

• Smalltalks 2010
• International Symposium on Software Composition (SC 08)
• International Conference on Dynamic Languages (ICDL 2007), part of the 15th International Smalltalk Joint Conference

Reviewer

I’ve been a (co-)reviewer for a number of international conferences and journals¹:

• Elsevier COMLAN
• JSS
• CSMR 2006 and 2007
• ECOOP 2007
• ICPC 2010
• ICSM 2010
• MODELS 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010
• Software Composition 2009, 2010
• Tools 2009, 2010
• TOSEM
• WCRE 2006, 2009

National publications (in French):

• JFDLPA 2007
• Journées sur l’Ingénierie Dirigée par les Modèles (IDM) 2006 and 2007

Events and Presence

Conferences and Talks

2010

• September 11–17, ESUG, Barcelona, Spain
• April 25–29, Sattose, Montpellier, France

2009

• October 13–16, WCRE, Lille, France
• August 31–September 4, ESUG, Brest, France
• July 1–3, TOOLS, Zürich, Swiss: conference talk for the paper Reusing and Composing Tests with Traits

2008

• August 25-29, ESUG, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• February 23–24, FOSDEM’08, Brussels, Belgium: lightning talk on Squeak
• January 30–31, Moose dojo, Bern, Swiss

2007

• August 25–31, ESUG, Lugano, Swiss
• July 10, University of Lugano: presentation of the Package Blueprint visualization
• March 21–23, CSMR, Amsterdam, Netherlands: conference talk for the paper Towards A Process-Oriented Software Architecture Reconstruction Taxonomy, best paper award
• March 13, Inria, Bordeaux, France: presentation of my current works to the Phoenix research group
• February 23, LIFL, Lille, France:
  visiting Laurence Duchien from the Jacquard research group
• February 9, Lirmm, Montpellier, France: presentation of my current works to the D’OC research group

2006 and Before…

• ESUG 2006, Prague, Czech Republic
• ECOOP 2002, Malaga, Spain (workshop speaker)
• the french conferences LMO and OCM(Objets Composants et Modèles) 2002
• UML/Models 2001, Toronto, Canada (conference paper speaker)

Informal and Local Involvment

I’m the maintainer of the LaTeX style for JOT, the Journal of Object Technology.

I represent RMoD in the Lille subgroup of the Action IDM (Ingénierie Dirigée par les Modèles), and at the CUMI (Commission des Utilisateurs des Moyens Informatiques), which coordinates IT choices at Inria.

I’m regularly attending open-source community events like the Smalltalk gathering organized by ESUG, JDLL, RMLL, OSDC.fr, or FOSDEM.