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.
Vacancies
Postdoc on the subject of hybrid polystore query language design and implementation
TYPHON is an EU H2020 project, which aims at providing an industry-validated methodology and integrated technical offering for designing, developing, querying, evolving, analysing and monitoring scalable hybrid data persistence architectures that will meet the growing scalability and heterogeneity requirements of the European industry. Designing and deploying a hybrid data persistence architecture that involves a combination of relational and NoSQL databases, and which can manage different types of structured and textual data (polystores for conciseness), is a complex, technically challenging, and error-prone task.
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
Associated Members
Publications
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Ochoa, L.M, González-Rojas, O, Cardozo, N, González, A, Chavarriaga, J, Casallas, R, & Díaz, J.F. (2019). Constraint programming heuristics for configuring optimal products in multi product lines. Information Sciences, 474, 33–47. doi:10.1016/j.ins.2018.09.042
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Inostroza Valdera, P.A. (2018, November 29). Structuring languages as object-oriented libraries. Institute for Programming research and Algorithmics Dissertation Series.
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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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Degueule, T.F, Mayerhofer, T, & Wortmann, A. (2017). Engineering a ROVER language in GEMOC STUDIO & MONTICORE: A comparison of language reuse support. In CEUR Workshop Proceedings (pp. 349–354).
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Leduc, M, Degueule, T.F, Combemale, B, van der Storm, T, & Barais, O. (2017). Revisiting visitors for modular extension of executable DSMLs. In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (pp. 112–122). doi:10.1109/MODELS.2017.23
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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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Bagnato, A, Barmpis, K, Bessis, N, Cabrera-Diego, L.A, Di Rocco, J, Di Ruscio, D, … Vinju, J.J. (2017). Developer-Centric Knowledge Mining from Large Open-Source Software Repositories (CROSSMINER). In M Seidl & S Zschaler (Eds.), Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations. STAF 2017 (pp. 375–384). doi:10.1007/978-3-319-74730-9_33
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van Eijck, D.J.N. (2017). A programming road to logic, maths, language, and philosophy : a tribute to Jan van Eijck on the occasion of his retirement.
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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
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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Developer-Centric Knowledge Mining from Large Open-Source Repositories (CROSSMINER)
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To provide a domain-agnostic, blockchain-based identity management platform for the distributed and immutable storage, authority-based attestation and provision of trusted and self-sovereign digital (IdentityChain)
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Model Extraction for Re-engineering Traditional Software (MERITS)
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Polyglot and Hybrid Persistence Architectures for Big Data Analytics (TYPHON)
Related partners
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ING Bank
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Universita Degli Studi Dell'Qquila
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University of York
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Alpha Bank Anonymos Etairia
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Institut für Angewandte Systemtechnik Bremen
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Zorgios Ioannis
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Edge Hill University
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GMV Aerospace and Defence SA
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Universite de Namur ASBL
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Nea Odos Anonymi Eteria Parahorisis
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X/Open Company Limited
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Technische Universität Berlin
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Volkswagen AG