Welcome!

The PLEIAD laboratory of the Computer Science Department (DCC) of the University of Chile (Faculty of Engineering) is a laboratory dedicated to research on new software development techniques.

More precisely, we work on many ways to better support software development at different levels, from programming languages to development environments, including tools to support program understanding (debuggers, profilers, visualizers). We also study the practice of programming, through mining software repositories as well as user studies.

Where do we publish? Here is the PLEIAD Trail (major conferences only) since 2010:

• 2012: AOSD (proc.), ECOOP, FSE, ICPC, ICSE (2), OOPSLA
• 2011: AOSD, ECOOP (3), FSE, ICPC (2), ICSE (2), MODELS, MSR, OOPSLA
• 2010: AOSD (2), ASE, GPCE, ICSE, MSR (2), SAC, SC, SCAM, TOOLS

We also publish in the following journals: Automated Software Engineering, Computer Languages, Systems and Structures; Concurrency and Computation-Practice and Experience; Empirical Software Engineering; IEEE Software; IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering; Personal and Ubiquitous Computing; Science of Computer Programming; Software-Practice and Experience.

With whom do we collaborate? Here is a list of PLEIAD scientific collaborations (projects, publications, visits) since 2010: Brown University (USA), Carnegie Mellon University (USA), INRIA Nantes and Lille (France), Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany), Universidad de La Plata (Argentina), University of Bern (Switzerland), University of British Columbia (Canada), University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany), University of Lugano (Switzerland), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)

What else do we do? We are involved in teaching a variety of courses covering our topics of interest. We also develop(ed) a number of software artifacts to support our research.

• Alexandre Bergel is co-chair of the Artifact program at ESEC/FSE 2013

• Simon Urli, from the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France, is visiting Pleiad from Nov 13 until Dec 15

• James Swaine, from Northwestern University, USA, is visiting Pleiad from Oct 27 until Nov 28

• É. Tanter gave a Keynote at GPCE 2012 on Taming Aspects (pdf (43MB) | mov (23MB))

• Roassal and Object-centric debugger won the third and first place at the 9th Innovation Technology Awards (ESUG 2012)

• Papers on the impact of types in practice accepted at ICPC 2012 and OOPSLA 2012

• A. Bergel is part of the ECOOP 2013 program committee

• Paper Extensions during Software Evolution: Do Objects Meet Their Promise? accepted at ECOOP 2012

• Paper on Programming with Ghosts accepted for publication in IEEE Software. Check out the Ghosts website!

• The paper PHANtom: a Modern Aspect Language for Pharo Smalltalk by J.Fabry and D.Galdames has been accepted in the Wiley journal Software – Practice and Experience

• The paper AspectMaps: Extending Moose to Visualize AOP Software by J. Fabry, A. Kellens, S. Denier, and S. Ducasse is accepted in the Elsevier Journal Science of Computer Programming.

• The paper Expressing Aspectual Interactions in Requirements Engineering: Experiences, Problems and Solutions by A. Zambrano, J. Fabry, and S. Gordillo is accepted in the Elsevier Journal Science of Computer Programming.

• Alexandre Bergel is a featured ACM reviewer

• Article “Object Centric Debugging”, accepted as technical paper at ICSE'12

• Three papers of PLEIAD accepted at FOAL 2012! “A Practical Monadic Aspect Weaver” (Figueroa/Tanter/Tabareau), “A Self-Replicating Algorithm to Flexibly Match Execution Traces” (Leger/Tanter), “Taming Aspects with Membranes” (Tanter/Tabareau/Douence).

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