474 research outputs found
Message from the Chairs of the 23rd Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop
No full textThe 23rd Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop (BENEVOL 2024) was held in Namur, Netherlands, on November 21–22, 2024.BENEVOL 2024 offered various contribution formats: Technical papers (TECH), which present novel and validated research results; New Ideas and Controversial Perspectives (NICE), which are position papers presenting new and potentially controversial software maintenance and evolution perspectives; Presentation Abstracts (ABS) are summaries of research published elsewhere, and presented as posters during the workshop; Finally, Replicated or Invalidated Papers (RIP), concerned the replication efforts of existing studies.BENEVOL 2024 received 35 submissions, which is the second highest for the workshop, in particular: 15 TECH papers, 6 NICE papers and 14 presentation abstracts/posters. We accepted 14 TECH papers, 3 NICE papers, and 17 presentations abstracts (including 3 NICE papers accepted as ABS ones). Unfortunately, 3 ABS papers could not be presented during event, resulting in 31 contributions discussed during the workshop. These proceedings include only the 17 TECH and NICE papers.The accepted submissions represent a wide range of topics related to software evolution, including; software ecosystems, programming languages, static and dynamic analysis, software repositories, the growing use of artificial intelligence for testing and code comprehension, and insights from practice.BENEVOL 2024 also featured two amazing keynotes. Sonia Haiduc (Florida State University, USA) gave her keynote on “Studying and Supporting Developers' Online Information Seeking,” exploring the sources of information that developers privilege. Andy Zaidman (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) presented “Show Your True Testing Color,” investigating the impact of continuous development and testing practices on sustainability.With so many contributions and more than 80 participants, we believe BENEVOL 2024 was a successful edition! A special thanks to the authors for submitting and presenting their work, the keynote speakers for sharing their knowledge and experiences during the workshop, the program committee members for their availability and care in reviewing a large number of submissions, and the sponsors for providing resources that made the workshop possible and enjoyable
Message from the Chairs of the 23rd Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop
No full textThe 23rd Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop (BENEVOL 2024) was held in Namur, Netherlands, on November 21–22, 2024.BENEVOL 2024 offered various contribution formats: Technical papers (TECH), which present novel and validated research results; New Ideas and Controversial Perspectives (NICE), which are position papers presenting new and potentially controversial software maintenance and evolution perspectives; Presentation Abstracts (ABS) are summaries of research published elsewhere, and presented as posters during the workshop; Finally, Replicated or Invalidated Papers (RIP), concerned the replication efforts of existing studies.BENEVOL 2024 received 35 submissions, which is the second highest for the workshop, in particular: 15 TECH papers, 6 NICE papers and 14 presentation abstracts/posters. We accepted 14 TECH papers, 3 NICE papers, and 17 presentations abstracts (including 3 NICE papers accepted as ABS ones). Unfortunately, 3 ABS papers could not be presented during event, resulting in 31 contributions discussed during the workshop. These proceedings include only the 17 TECH and NICE papers.The accepted submissions represent a wide range of topics related to software evolution, including; software ecosystems, programming languages, static and dynamic analysis, software repositories, the growing use of artificial intelligence for testing and code comprehension, and insights from practice.BENEVOL 2024 also featured two amazing keynotes. Sonia Haiduc (Florida State University, USA) gave her keynote on “Studying and Supporting Developers' Online Information Seeking,” exploring the sources of information that developers privilege. Andy Zaidman (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) presented “Show Your True Testing Color,” investigating the impact of continuous development and testing practices on sustainability.With so many contributions and more than 80 participants, we believe BENEVOL 2024 was a successful edition! A special thanks to the authors for submitting and presenting their work, the keynote speakers for sharing their knowledge and experiences during the workshop, the program committee members for their availability and care in reviewing a large number of submissions, and the sponsors for providing resources that made the workshop possible and enjoyable
La marque : entité spirituelle ou religieuse ? Entretien avec Benoît Heilbrunn, réalisé par Stéphane Dufour
No full textProfesseur à l'ESCP Business School, Benoît Heilbrunn conduit une
recherche originale en marketing qui mobilise abondement les sources et références en
sciences humaines et sociales. Cette orientation scientifique l’a conduit notamment à
observer les enjeux de la spiritualité, de la sacralité et de la croyance dans la société
de consommation. Auteur de nombreux livres et articles, il questionne régulièrement la
jonction entre la religion et les marques en observant que l'économie de ces dernières touche au mystère de la Trinité par trois versants
complémentaires d'un dieu absent : un versant « sensoriel » lié aux émanations matérielles
du bien de consommation, à ses aspects tangibles et directement préhensibles par le
consommateur ; un versant « rhétorique » qui renvoie à la dimension idéologique de la
marque, à son positionnement et à sa capacité à véhiculer un imaginaire et des
valeurs ; un versant « pragmatique » qui renvoie à l'embrayage de pratiques corporelles et
qui s'orchestre notamment à travers des rituels d'achat et de consommation.Professor Benoît Heilbrunn draws on abundant resources and references
from social and human sciences to conduct original research on marketing at ESCP
Business School. This approach leads him to question spirituality, sacredness, and
belief in the consumer society. Author of numerous books and articles, Heilbrunn
regularly discussed the convergence between religion and brands by looking at how their
economy resolves around the mystery of the Trinity through the three complementary sides
of an absent god: a “sensorial” side, linked to the material products of the consumer
good and to its tangible aspects, directly prehensile by consumers; a “rhetoric” side,
which refers to the ideological dimension of the brand, to its place and its capacity to
convey values and imagination; a “pragmatic” side, which points towards engaging
corporal practices and which orchestrate, among others, the rituals of buying and
consumption
Rethinking Paradigmatic Collaboration:A New Metric for Inter-paradigm Synergy in Software Engineering
Full text linkThis paper introduces two novel metrics for assessing collaboration potential between programming paradigms and languages, offering a fresh approach to evaluating inter-paradigm interactions. The quantitative framework introduced challenges traditional methods by highlighting both the opportunities and the challenges of integrating paradigms with varying characteristics. Initial findings suggest that the metric effectively captures collaboration within similar paradigms, with functional paradigms demonstrating particularly strong collaboration potential. However, it also underscores the complexity of unifying divergent paradigms. The goal of this paper is to provoke discussion and foster further research, such as the refinement of metrics to obtain useful measurements in technology selection steps and interdisciplinary software development.<br/
A Brief History of Human Time - Cross-verified Dataset
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This cross-verified dataset contains 2.2 million individuals, it can be used for research purposes. This dataset is linked to the following paper that should be cited directly instead of the data itself:
Morgane Laouenan, Palaash Bhargava, Jean-Benoît Eyméoud, Olivier Gergaud, Guillaume Plique, Etienne Wasmer (2022) A cross-verified database of notable people, 3500BC-2018AD, Scientific Data, June 2022.
Bibtex:
@article{bhht3,
author = {Laouenan, Morgane and Bhargava, Palaash and Eyméoud, Jean-Benoît and Gergaud, Olivier and Plique, Guillaume and Wasmer, Etienne},
title = {A cross-verified database of notable people, 3500BC-2018AD},
journal = {Scientific Data},
publisher = {Nature Publishing Group},
year = {2022},
month = {Jun},
day = {09},
volume = {9},
number = {1},
pages = {290},
issn = {2052-4463},
doi = {10.1038/s41597-022-01369-4},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01369-4}
}
This dataset is subject to CC-BY-SA licensing.
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Supporting a model-driven and iterative quality assessment methodology: The MoCQA framework
Full text linkSoftware Quality has been a major and focal concern of Software Engineering since its infancy. Despite the proficiency of research addressing quality, quantitative quality assessment methods remain mostly inefficient in industrial contexts. Besides, they are mainly used to control and not to guide the developers, decreasing drastically their potential. As a result, although the field itself is mature and provides a wealth of knowledge, the practical quality assessment of software has still not reached a state where it may be performed satisfactorily.
In this research, we propose a framework that supports model-driven and iterative
quality assessment in order to help leverage the potential of quantitative assessment and integrate it into the software development process in a more coherent way. This Model-Centric Quality Assessment (MoCQA) framework defines a goal-driven assessment methodology that allows the exploitation of operational customised quality assessment models (or MoCQA models) through a dedicated quality assessment metamodel. The use of a quality assessment metamodel guarantees the integration of heterogeneous quality models and software measurement methods in MoCQA models and let these models adopt an ecosystemic viewpoint on software quality. Besides, the methodology relies extensively on the involvement of stakeholders and let them steadily construct a common mental model of
the quality aspects at stakes for a given development project.
Through these mechanisms, the framework intends to provide the necessary support for the integration of multiple quantitative quality assessment methods (both existing ones and customised ones) into any type of development and maintenance life-cycles in a meaningful, self-aware and flexible way.La Qualité Logicielle est un défi majeur et capital du Génie Logiciel depuis ses débuts. Malgré la profusion de travaux de recherche abordant la qualité, les méthodes quantitatives d’évaluation de la qualité restent majoritairement inefficaces dans un contexte industriel. De plus, elles sont principalement utilisées pour contrôler les développeurs au lieu de les guider, diminuant de ce fait leur potentiel. En conséquence, bien qu’étant un domaine mature ayant accumulé de nombreuses connaissances, l’évaluation de la qualité des logiciels n’a toujours pas atteint un état lui permettant d’être exécutée de manière satisfaisante.
Dans cette recherche, nous proposons un cadre de référence supportant une évaluation de la qualité guidée par les modèles, itérative et incrémentale de sorte à tirer avantage du potentiel de l’évaluation quantitative et à l’intégrer de manière plus cohérence dans le processus de développement. Ce cadre de référence MoCQA (Model-Centric Quality Assessment) définit une méthodologie d’évaluation guidée par les buts qui permet l’exploitation de modèles de l’évaluation de la qualité personnalisés et opérationnels (ou modèles MoCQA), grâce à un métamodèle de l’évaluation de la qualité. Ce métamodèle garantit l’intégration de modèles de qualité et de méthodes de mesure hétérogènes au sein des modèles MoCQA et permet à ces modèles d’adopter un point de vue écosystémique de la qualité logicielle. De plus, la méthodologie s’appuie sur l’implication des acteurs afin qu’ils puissent se construire peu à peu un modèle mental commun des aspects de qualité primordiaux pour un projet de développement donné.
A l’aide de ces mécanismes, le cadre de référence se veut capable de fournir le support nécessaire à l’intégration de multiples méthodes d’évaluation (à la fois existantes et personnalisées) au sein de n’importe quel cycle de vie de développement ou de maintenance, et ce d’une manière significative, réflexive et flexible.(DOCSC06) -- FUNDP, 201
Rethinking Paradigmatic Collaboration:A New Metric for Inter-paradigm Synergy in Software Engineering
Full text linkThis paper introduces two novel metrics for assessing collaboration potential between programming paradigms and languages, offering a fresh approach to evaluating inter-paradigm interactions. The quantitative framework introduced challenges traditional methods by highlighting both the opportunities and the challenges of integrating paradigms with varying characteristics. Initial findings suggest that the metric effectively captures collaboration within similar paradigms, with functional paradigms demonstrating particularly strong collaboration potential. However, it also underscores the complexity of unifying divergent paradigms. The goal of this paper is to provoke discussion and foster further research, such as the refinement of metrics to obtain useful measurements in technology selection steps and interdisciplinary software development.<br/
Benoît Mandelbrot and fractional Brownian motion
Full text linkAlthough fractional Brownian motion was not invented by Benoît Mandelbrot, it was he who recognized the importance of this random process and gave it the name by which it is known today. This is a personal account of the history behind fractional Brownian motion and some subsequent developments.This work was partially supported by the NSF Grant DMS-10-07616 at Boston University. Any opinions expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF. (DMS-10-07616 - NSF at Boston University)First author draf
Report from the 1st Int. Workshop on Education through Advanced Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence (EASEAI ’19)
Full text linkIn the past years, everyday life has been profoundly transformed by the development and widespread of digital technologies. General, as well as specialized audiences, have to face an ever-increasing amount of knowledge and learn new abilities. This first edition of the EASEAI workshop tried to address that challenge by looking at software engineering, education, and artificial intelligence research fields to explore how they can be combined. Specifically, we brought together researchers, teachers, and practitioners who use advanced software engineering tools and artificial intelligence techniques in education. And researchers and teachers in education science who address the problem of improving the awareness regarding digital technologies through a transgenerational and transdisciplinary range of students.Software Engineerin
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