The ACE research group is a part of the Computer Science Department at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), focusing on Software Engineering and Software Composition.
News
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June 29, 2020
The team welcomes one new intern. Yan will work on the definition of a reference corpus to support our experiments on code composition algorithms. He is currently an MSc student et Université Côte d’Azur, studying software engineering at Polytech Nice-Sophia Antipolis.
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May 04, 2020
The team welcomes three new interns. Avril de Goër de Herve is a graduate student at École Normale Supérieur de Lyon in France, and she currently investigates how passes impact each others in the LLVM compiler. Olivier Levasseur just finished is Bachelor of computer Science at UQAM, and obtained funding from the NSERC to spent 16 weeks in the team to work on source code merging data structures. Alison Lecuyer studies computer science at IUT Nice Côte d’Azur, and she is working on the design of a website to support the FRQNT/MAE project between UQAM and Université Côte d’Azur about software engineering to support ageing populations.
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April 21, 2020
Our paper entitled Characterizing Black-box Composition Operators via Generated Tailored Benchmarks (Benni, Mosser, Acher and Paillart) is accepted for publication at the 16th European Conference on Modelling (Foundations and Applications). It is published in the Journal of Object Technology special issue associated to this conference. This work is a collaboration with the IRISA lab in Rennes, France, to support the characterization of composition operators.
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April 14, 2020
The 2nd event of the workshop series “DevOps at Models” (started in 2019 in Munich) will be hosted by the MODELS conference in 2020! Check out the website here: https://ace-design.github.io/devops-at-models/
Research Themes
Software Craftsmanship
We are focusing here on the way software engineers develop piece of software. Classical development ecosystems rely on version control systems (e.g., Git) in an agile environment.
Scalable Software Composition
Separating concerns without being able to recompose them in a scalable way does not make sense. There is a need to consider this class of issues as a first-class citizen with respect to current software development to accelerate it.
Variability
Software variability studies the variation points and commonality that exists within a family of software products. In this context, the ACE group investigates how composition operators can be used to support additive and subtractive variability.
Cyber-Physical Systems
In this domain, we focus our efforts on the definition of model-based composition operators dedicated to data collection policies and large-scale sensor networks.
Team Members
Faculty
Sébastien Mosser
Professor, UQAM
Jean Privat
Professor, UQAMResearchers
Benjamin Benni
Postdoc, Concordia UniversityCats
Jinx
European cat (COVID-19 funding)
Ravioli
European cat (COVID-19 funding)Students
Jean-Philippe Caissy
MSc Student, UQAM
Yan Conigliaro
M.Sc. student, Université Côte d'Azur
Jérémy Fornarino
MSc Student, ESIEE
Olivier Levasseur
B.Sc, UQAM (NSERC grant)
Florian Vouters
MSc Student, Exia.CESI / UQAMAvril de Goër de Herve
École Normale Supérieure (ENS) de LyonCollaborators
Mireille Blay-Fornarino
Professor, UCA
Jean-Michel Bruel
Professor, Univ. Toulouse
Philippe Collet
Professor, UCA
Laure Gonnord
Ass. Professor, Université Lyon 1, LIP & Inria
Jörg Kienzle
Professor, McGill University
Marie-Jean Meurs
Professor, UQAM
Matthieu Moy
Ass. Professor, Université Lyon 1, LIP & Inria
Gunter Mussbacher
Ass. Professor, McGill University
Houari Sahraoui
Professor, UdeM
Interns
No one right now. Interested to join us?
Alumni
Eirik Brandtzæg
MSc, 2011. Now software engineer.
Cyril Cecchinel
PhD, 2017. MSc, 2014. Now research engineer at DataThings
Alexandre Feugas
PhD, 2014. Now senior R&D consultant at F. Incivitas
Gunter Jüngbluth
MSc 2018, now lead architect at Games Lab
Ivan Logre
PhD, 2017. MSc, 2013. Now postdoc at Université Grenoble Alpes
Past Interns
Guillaume André
Autumn 2018, UCA. Now Graduate student at UCA.
Sébastien Bonnieux
PhD Student, UCA
Olivier Boulet
Summer 2018, UCA. Now Graduate student at UCA.
Florian Bourniquel
2018, UCA. Now Graduate student at UCA.
Alexis Couvreur
Summer 2018, UCA. Now Graduate student at UCA.
Enzo Dalla-Nora
Autumn 2018, UCA. Now Graduate student at UCA.
Pierre Froidevaux
MSc Student, Exia.CESI / UQAM
Iokannan Goutier
Summer 2016. Now Independent Software Engineer.
Dorian Haouz-Gachet
Winter/Spring 2019, now grad student at exia.CESI
Tanguy Invernizzi
Autumn 2018, UCA. Now Graduate student at UCA.
Marc Jourdes
Autumn 2018, UCA. Now Graduate student at UCA.
Florian Juroszek
Summer 2019, UCA. Now Graduate student at UCA.
Rayan Lakhdar
MSc Student, Exia.CESI / UQAM
Lou-Théo Laurent
MSc Student, Exia.CESI / UQAM
Sami Lazreg
PhD Student, UCA
Nicolas Lecourtois
Summer 2016. Now Software Engineer, Atos.
Alison Lecuyer
B.Sc (IUT), Université Côte d'Azur
Florian Lehmann
2018, UCA. Now Graduate student at UCA.
Lucas Mattéo
Autumn 2018, UCA. Now Graduate student at UCA.
Sébastien Michelland
Spring 2019, ENS Lyon. Now graduate student at ENS Lyon.
Gaël Miton
Fall 2019, St Cyr. Now graduate student at St Cyr
Johann Mortara
Summer 2018, UCA. Now Graduate student at UCA.
Maxime Mulder
MSc Student, Exia.CESI / UQAM
Jean Oudot
Summer 2014. Now PhD Student at Telecom ParisTech.
Mathieu Paillard
Summer 2019, UCA. Now Graduate student at UCA.
Misericordia Paul
Winter/Spring 2019, now grad student at exia.CESI
Prune Pillone
Summer 2019, UCA. Now Graduate student at UCA.
Corinne Pulgar
Winter 2020. B.Sc, UQAM. Now student at UQAM
Jean-Adam Puskaric
Autumn 2018, UCA. Now Graduate student at UCA.
Alexis Segura
Summer 2019, UCA. Now Graduate student at UCA.
David Sene
Autumn 2018, UCA. Now Graduate student at UCA.
Fabien Vicente
Summer 2016. Now Software Engineer, Meritis.