Description
Leader of the group Software Analysis and Transformation: Jurgen Vinju.
SWAT studies software systems: their design, construction and evolution. Our mission is to learn to understand software systems and to improve their quality. In particular, we study the causes of software complexity – a major cause of technology failure in society – and investigate how complex systems can be made simpler and more reliable. We analyze and visualize software systems, transforming them into better versions of themselves. We also generate new software with the goal of simplifying it through automation and abstraction. We keep our feet on the ground by working with corporate IT departments on streamlining their software systems and making them more reliable. Putting our ideas into practice is the best way to ensure they work.
News
Floor Sietsma awarded 'Nerd van het Jaar 2012'
Researcher at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam Floor Sietsma is awarded by Quest readers as Nerd of the Year 2012. In the race she left her main competitors Diederik Jekel, known from ‘De Wereld Draait Door’ and medical biologist Elza van Deel behind, who finished in second and third place.
Theme CWI Lectures 2012 ‘Understanding Software’
The theme of the annual CWI Lectures that takes place 14 June 2012 is 'Understanding Software. The size of software systems ranges from dozens to hundreds of millions lines of code. Programming and maintenance have therefore become increasingly expensive and complex.
IBM Scientific Award 2010 awarded to Alexandra Silva
The IBM Scientific Prize 2010 was presented on 18 October 2011 to Alexandra Silva, for her PhD research at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam.
Members of Software Analysis and Transformation
Publications
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Landman, D. (2017, October 5). Reverse engineering source code : empirical studies of limitations and opportunities. Institute for Programming research and Algorithmics Dissertation Series.
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van Rozen, R, & van der Storm, T. (2017). Toward live domain-specific languages: From text differencing to adapting models at run time. Software and Systems Modeling. doi:10.1007/s10270-017-0608-7
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Inostroza Valdera, P.A, & van der Storm, T. (2017). Modular interpreters with implicit context propagation. Computer Languages, Systems and Structures, 48, 39–67. doi:10.1016/j.cl.2016.08.001
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van den Brand, M.G.J, Vinju, J.J, & Mens, K. (2017). Guest editors' introduction to the 6th issue of Experimental Software and Toolkits (EST-6). Science of Computer Programming, 134, 1–3. doi:10.1016/j.scico.2016.11.001
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van Eijck, D.J.N, Gattinger, M, & Wang, Y. (2017). Knowing Values and Public Inspection. Presented at the Indian Conference on Logic and its Applications.
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Vinju, J.J. (2017). OSSMETER.
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Zacharopoulos, T, Inostroza Valdera, P.A, & van der Storm, T. (2016). Extensible modeling with managed data in Java. In GPCE 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts and Experiences, co-located with SPLASH 2016 (pp. 25–35). doi:10.1145/2993236.2993240
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van Eijck, D.J.N, Gattinger, M, & Wang, Y. (2016). Knowing Values and Public Inspection. arXiv.org e-Print archive.
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M. Ó Cinnéide (Mel), Yamashita, A, & S. Counsell (Steve). (2016). Measuring refactoring benefits: a survey of the evidence. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Software Refactoring (pp. 9–12). doi:10.1145/2975945.2975948
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Steindorfer, M.J. (2016, August). Immutable Collections.
Software
Rascal: one-stop shop for metaprogramming
Rascal is a general metaprogramming language, facilitating programmers in analyzing, transforming and generating source code.
Rebel: A domain-specific language for product development in finance
Rebel is a domain-specific language (DSL) targeted at the financial sector.
SAGA: A run-time verifier for Java programs
SAGA is a run-time verifier for single-threaded as well as multi-threaded Java programs.
Current projects with external funding
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Adviseren en verrichten van onderzoek naar de functionele en niet-functionele eigenschappen van een deel van ING\'s IT-infrastructuur
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Enterprise software engineering
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Live Game Design
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CROSSMINERDeveloper-Centric Knowledge Mining from Large Open-Source Repositories
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MERITSModel Extraction for Re-engineering Traditional Software
Related partners
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Dutch Game garden
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Firebrush Studios
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IC3D Media
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ING Bank
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ING Bank
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Ludomotion
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Hogeschool van Amsterdam
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Technische Universiteit Delft