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.
Vacancies
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News
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."
Software Renovation by Reverse Engineering Source Code
Currently, software renovation is a hot topic, because our society is depending more and more on aging software. By renovating software we refresh aging software to better match the current technical and business environment. In his thesis CWI PhD candidate Davy Landman studied the automation of software renovation by using Reverse Engineering.
Distinguished paper Award for CWI researchers Davy Landman and Jurgen Vinju
At the ICSE 2017 (39th International Conference on Software Engineering) in Buenos Aires CWI researchers Davy Landman and Jurgen Vinju in collaboration with Alexander Serebrenik (TUE) have been awarded with the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award for their paper "Challenges for Static Analysisof Java Reflection - Literature Review and Empirical Study".
Talk by Tijs van der Storm at Curry On conference (video)
On 18 July 2016, CWI researcher Tijs van der Storm gave a talk at the Curry On conference in Rome. The full recording of this talk, titled 'Rascal: the Swiss Army Knife of Meta Programming' can be found below.
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Publications
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Soethout, T.M, van der Storm, T, & Vinju, J.J. (2021). Contract-based return-value commutativity: safely exploiting contract-based commutativity for faster serializable transactions. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Programming Based on Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control (pp. 1–11). doi:10.1145/3486601.3486707
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Soethout, T.M, van der Storm, T, & Vinju, J.J. (2021). Path-Sensitive Atomic Commit: Local Coordination Avoidance for Distributed Transactions. The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming, 5(1). doi:10.22152/programming-journal.org/2021/5/3
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Vinju, J.J. (2020). Noisy numbers : column I/O magazine. I/O Magazine : ICT Research Platform Nederland, 17(3), 3–3.
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van Binsbergen, L.T, Verano Merino, M, Jeanjean, P, van der Storm, T, Combemale, B, & Barais, O. (2020). A principled approach to REPL interpreters. In Onward! 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software, Co-located with SPLASH 2020 (pp. 84–100). doi:10.1145/3426428.3426917
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Verano Merino, M, & van der Storm, T. (2020). Block-based syntax from context-free grammars. In SLE 2020 - Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering, Co-located with SPLASH 2020 (pp. 283–295). doi:10.1145/3426425.3426948
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van der Storm, T, & Bakker, G. (2020). MATLAB doesn't love me: An essay. In ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (pp. 97–101). doi:10.1145/3397537.3397557
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van Rozen, R.A. (2020, February 19). Languages of games and play : automating game design and enabling live programming. IPA dissertation series.
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Aarssen, R.T.A, & van der Storm, T. (2020). High-fidelity metaprogramming with separator syntax trees. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation (pp. 27–37). doi:10.1145/3372884.3373162
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Azadbakht, K, de Boer, F.S, Bezirgiannis, N, & de Vink, E.P. (2019). A formal actor-based model for streaming the future. Science of Computer Programming, 186. doi:10.1016/j.scico.2019.102341
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Soethout, T.M, van der Storm, T, & Vinju, J.J. (2019). Static local coordination avoidance for distributed objects. In AGERE 2019 - Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Programming Based on Actors, Agents, and Decentralized Control, co-located with SPLASH 2019 (pp. 21–30). doi:10.1145/3358499.3361222
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 ()
Related partners
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ING Bank