Description
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
New insights from reconstructing the first ALGOL 60 system
Gauthier van den Hove (CWI) reconstructed and analyzed the first ALGOL 60 system, a computer system designed and implemented at the Mathematical Centre (MC), now CWI. On 15 February he defends his PhD thesis, which has a foreword written by the famous computer science pioneer Donald Knuth.
CWI develops new techniques for modular programming languages
The development of domain specific languages requires highly specialized skills. CWI PhD student Pablo Inostroza Valdera proposes to develop them by composing language fragments from software libraries, which makes this activity less laborious. He defends his PhD thesis at the UvA on 29 November 2018.
Two awards for CWI SWAT / INRIA collaboration at SLE 2018
Last week Tijs van der Storm and Thomas Degueule of CWI's SWAT group were awarded with two prizes at ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE) in Boston, Massachussets.
Davy Landman awarded with IPA dissertation Award
Former CWI PhD candidate and CEO of CWI spinoff SWAT.Engineering Davy Landman has been awarded the Institute for Programming research and Algorithmics (IPA) Dissertation Award 2018 for his thesis "Reverse engineering source code: Empirical studies of limitations and opportunities."
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Publications
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Leduc, M, Degueule, T.F, van Wyk, E, & Combemale, B. (2019). The software Language Extension Problem. Software and Systems Modeling. doi:10.1007/s10270-019-00772-7
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Stoel, J, van der Storm, T, & Vinju, J.J. (2019). AlleAlle: Bounded relational model finding with unbounded data. In Onward! 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software, co-located with SPLASH 2019 (pp. 46–61). doi:10.1145/3359591.3359726
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Klint, P, van der Storm, T, & Vinju, J.J. (2019). Rascal, 10 years later. In Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (pp. 139–139). doi:10.1109/SCAM.2019.00023
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van Rozen, R.A, & van der Storm, T. (2019). 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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Bezirgiannis, N, de Boer, F.S, Johnsen, E.B, Pun, K.I, & Tapia Tarifa, S.L. (2019). Implementing SOS with active objects: A case study of a multicore memory system. In FASE 2019: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (pp. 332–350). doi:10.1007/978-3-030-16722-6_20
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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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Aarssen, R.T.A, Vinju, J.J, & van der Storm, T. (2019). Concrete syntax with black box parsers. The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming, 3(3). doi:10.22152/programming-journal.org/2019/3/15
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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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Leduc, M, Degueule, T.F, & Combemale, B. (2018). Modular language composition for the masses. In Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering SLE-2018, co-located with SPLASH 2018 (pp. 47–59). doi:10.1145/3276604.3276622
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Ju, F, & van Eijck, D.J.N. (2018). A temporal dynamic deontic logic. Journal of Logic and Computation, 29(2), 265–284. doi:10.1093/logcom/exy008
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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Enterprise software engineering
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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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SWAT.Engineering
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X/Open Company Limited
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Volkswagen AG