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 ===== Achievements =====
-==== 2014 ====
+=== Scientific Results 2014 ===
+== WP 1 ==
+Progress on a new iteration on the reflective layer and metaobject protocol for Pharo: We have implemented the Slots Mechanism in Pharo, which resulted in a first-class reification of instance variables and their accessing through assignment and reading. This allows us to hook into reading and writing of instance variables and perform meta-level operations on them, e.g. adding breakpoints to the reading of a specific instance var, or a transparent notification mechanism for when a specific instance variable is written. The latter can be used, e.g. in WP3 to dynamically update a visualization of the object that contains the instance variable whenever the variable changes.
+== WP 2 ==
+Interaction and scalability in Roassal 2D. We have improved the FFI support of Pharo to use external libraries. With that, we created binding to [[https://www.libsdl.org|SDL2]] which allowed to move the window management code from the Virtual Machine to Pharo (OSWindow).
+With the new FFI and the OSWindow functionality, bindings to OpenGL has been created. The Woden 3D graphics engine is a first demo that uses this foundation to bring the ideas of Roassal to 3D.
+[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Nze9tnwYxY|Video]].
+== WP 3 ==
+Live Robot Programming (LRP) as a case for the first two points of WP3: Visualization to navigate and browse source code, Visualizing dynamic information to navigate source code. Firstly, in LRP the (Domain-Specific) source code is shown in a (Domain-Specific) visualization made in Roassal2 and Spec. Clicking on the entities in the visual representation causes a navigation action in the source code of the program. Secondly, in the LRP visualization the dynamic information of the state of variables in scope is shown, as well as which piece of the code is currently running, and this is partially enabled by Slots. Future work of LRP will improve the dynamic visualization, adding a log of key information that allows to replay the visualization from (and to) a given point, which should be possible by using Slots.
+=== Scientific Results 2015 ===
+== WP 1 ==
+Expressive Reflective Infrastructure:
+We worked extensively on the new reflection infrastructure of Pharo as well as First Class Variables. Reflective operations in the form of meta-links can be added to any expression tree. All variables can now be annotated with meta data. Reflectivity has been improved to allow Meta-Links to be put on First Class Variables. All work has been integrated in the current Pharo5 development version and is used already by other projects of RMOD and a research project of the Universit of Lugano/Switzerland.
+The stay of Marcus Denker in Chile in November has the goal to make the new reflective infratructure to be reliable enough for other PLOMO sub projects to use (namely LRP and Profilers).
+== WP 2 ==
+Advanced Visualization Techniques:
+Roassal 2D continues to improve. The 2D infrastructure work (OSWindow) has been taken up by another Project (Inria in collaboration with Thales). It has been extended with multi-touch support and a gesture engine. Besides pre-defined low level gestures (e.g. pinch or multi-finger swipe), the engine is extensible with user-defined gestures. In addition, work on Roassal 3D is progressing. Roassal 3D is now based on the Woden 3D engine. We hope to see a first release next year.
+== WP 3 ==
+Analyzing Dynamic Information:
+The work on Live Robot Programming (LRP) continues. The visit of Marcus Denker to Chile in spring 2015 helped to make serious progress on the base implementation infrastructure: The LRP protoype now is based in the First Class Variables (Slots and Globals) that are available in Pharo4.
 === Publications ===
   * Johan Fabry, Andy Kellens, Simon Denier, Stephane Ducasse -- AspectMaps: Extending Moose to Visualize AOP Software -- Science of Computer Programming, volume 79, number 1, pp.6-22, January 2014, Elsevier
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   * Alexandre Bergel, Sergio Maass, Stéphane Ducasse, Tudor Girba -- A Domain-Specific Language For Visualizing Software Dependencies as a Graph. Proceedings of 2nd IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT NIER) [[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31543901/MyPapers/Berg14c-Graph.pdf|pdf]]
   * A book chapter about the Spec user interface description framework has been finished for a new Pharo Book. [[https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/job/PharoForTheEnterprise/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/Spec/Spec.pier.pdf|pdf]]
+  * LinuxMag articles on Roassal and the Charter charting framwork.
+  * Leonardo Humberto Silva, Marco Tulio Valente, Nicolas Anquetil, Daniel Carlos Hovadick Félix, Alexandre Bergel, Anne Etien -- JSClassFinder: A Tool to Detect Class-like Structures in JavaScript. Proceedings of Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice (CBSOFT'15)
+  * Miguel Campusano and Johan Fabry: "From Robots to Humans: Visualizations for Robot Sensor Data.” In the third IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT 2015), Sep 27-28, 2015 , IEEE press
+  * Damien Cassou,  Stéphane Ducasse, Luc Fabresse, Johan Fabry, Sven Van Caekenberghe: Enterprise Pharo. This is the third volume of a series of books covering Pharo and its community. http://files.pharo.org/books/enterprisepharo/
 === Publications in preparation ===
-  * LinuxMag articles on Roassal and Charter
+  * Book Agile Visualization: [[http://agilevisualization.com]]. The work on a book on Agile Visualization with Pharo and Roassal has been started.
+  * Miguel Campusano and Johan Fabry: “ Live Robot Programming: The Language, its Implementation, and Robot API Independence” Submitted to  Elsevier journal Science of Computer Programming, September, 2015
+  * "Identifying Classes in Legacy JavaScript Source Code” by Leonardo Humberto Silva, Marco Tulio Valente, Alexandre Bergel,Nicolas Anquetil, and Anne Etien. To be submitted to TSE.
 === Software artifacts ===
-  * Moose: Cleaned and pushing toward 5.0
+  * Pharo: Pharo3 has been released Spring 2014, Pharo4 has seen active development with a release planned for early 2015. [[http://pharo.org]]
-  * Roassal2: Fully based on Athens, the vector graphic support in Pharo
+  * Pharo: Pharo4 has been released Spring 2015, Pharo5 has seen active development with a release planned for early 2016. [[http://pharo.org]]
+  * Moose: Version 5.0 was relseased. [[http://moosetechnology.org]]
+  * Roassal2D: Fully based on Athens, the vector graphics support in Pharo
+  * Roassal3D: first version of a 3D version of Roassal. [[https://vimeo.com/141916068]]
+  * Woden: a new 3D graphic engine, the base of the next generation of Roassal3D.
   * Improvement of the FFI [[http://users.dcc.uchile.cl/~rsalgado/uffi-fourth-draft.pdf|description pdf]]
+  * Reflectivity has been integrated in Pharo5
   * OSWindow has been integrated in Pharo4.
-  * Opal
+  * The Opal Compiler has been further improved. It has been extended with support for Slots.
-=== Other artifacts ===
-  * Book Agile Visualization: http://agilevisualization.com
 === Event organization ===
   * International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies ([[http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2014/IWST14|IWST]]), co-located at ESUG 2014. Paper awards were sponsored by [[http://www.lamresearch.com/|Lam Research]].
+  * International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies  ([[http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2015/IWST15|IWST]]), co-located at ESUG 2015. Paper awards were sponsored by [[http://www.lamresearch.com/|Lam Research]].
+  *  International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies  ([[http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2016/IWST16|IWST]]), co-located at ESUG 2016. Paper awards were sponsored by [[http://www.lamresearch.com/|Lam Research]].
 === Visits ===
-Santiago To Lille:
+ Santiago To Lille:
   * Ronie Saldago: 24/08/2014 until 07/09/2014. Subject was FFI and OSWindow.
   * Miguel Campusano: 16/08/2014 until 11/09/2014. Subject was Slots and visual representation of code.
-  * Alexandre Bergel: 13/12/2014 until 01/01/2015. Subject is
+  * Alexandre Bergel: 13/12/2014 until 01/01/2015. Subject: system support for advanced profiling.
-  * Juraj Kubelka: 06/12/2014 until 19/12/2014. Subject is
+  * Juraj Kubelka: 06/12/2014 until 19/12/2014. First visit to RMoD to plan future collaboration.
+  * Johan Fabry (January 2015 for Pharo Days Lille, PLEIAD funded)
+  * Alexandre Bergel (01/07/2015 until 27/07/2015)
+  * Johan Fabry (July 2015 for ESUG, PLEIAD funded)
+  * Pierre Chanson (July 2015 and September 2015)
+  * Miguel Campusano (20/09/2015-07/10/2015)
+  * Alexandre Bergel (Dec 2015)
+  * Johan Fabry: July 2016. Subject was the writing of the book on Spec.
 Lille to Santiago:
   * Marcus Denker: 2/1/2015 until 20/1/2015, sponsored by PLEIAD. Subject is Slots.
+  * Marcus Denker: Nov 2015 funded by PLEIAD. Subject is Reflection Framework.
+  * Marcus Denker: December 2016 funded by PLEIAD. Subject is further integration of the Reflection Framework.