Projects

International projects

EVOLVE: Evolutionary Validation, Verification and Certification [1]

EU ITEA2 project
Partners: Autoliv (Sweden), Barco (Belgium), Critical Software (Portugal), DS2 (Spain), Elektrobit (Finland), European Software Institute (Spain), FUDECO (Finland), I3B (Spain), Ibermatica (Spain), Ingeteam (Spain), Jönköping University (Sweden), K.U.Leuven DistriNet (Belgium), Lero (Ireland), Melexis (Belgium), Mondragon University MGEP (Spain), Nokia (Finland), Nokia Siemens Networks (Finland), Open License Society (Belgium), Triphase (Belgium), Universidad de Cantabria (Spain), VTT (Finland)
Duration: April 2008 - March 2011
Budget:
The aim of the project is to create a methodological framework for early verification and validation of evolutionary products through the accredited/certified integration of each iteration and/or component in a Model Driven Engineering context.

FLOSSMetrics: Free/Libre/Open Source Software Metrics [2]

EU FP6 ICT project FP6-033982
Partners: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Universiteit Maastricht, Wirtschatsuniversitaet Wien, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Conecta s.r.l., ZEA Partners, Philips Medical Systems
Duration: September 2006 - February 2009
Budget: 585100 euros
The main objective is to construct, publish and analyse a large-scale database with information and metrics about libre software development coming from several thousands of software projects, using existing methodologies, and tools already developed.

QUALOSS: Quality in Open Source Software [3]

EU FP6 ICT
Partners : CETIC, University of Namur, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Fraunhofer IESE, Zea Partners, MERIT-Maastricht-, Adacore, PEPITe
Duration: October 2006 - September 2009
Budget: 2 million euros
The results of the QUALOSS project directly address the strategic objective 2.5.5 of providing methodologies to use open source software into industrial development, to enable its benchmarking, and to support its development and evolution.

SERIOUS: Software Evolution, Refactoring, Improvement of Operational & Usable Systems [4]

EU ITEA Project
Partners: Philips Healthcare, Philips Applied Technologies, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Ibermatica, European Software Institute, University of Zurich, University of Antwerp, Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia Research Center, Tampere University of Technology, University of Helsinki, Calassa Labs, Bertin Technologies, Surlog, Softeam
Duration: September 2005 - August 2008
Budget: 17.7 million euros
The SERIOUS project aimed at the breakthrough of turning the current practice of handcrafted evolution to methodologically sound techniques supported by industry-adoptable tools, including corresponding development processes for the development of operational software-intensive systems.

Leg2NET: From Legacy Systems to Services in the Net [5]

Marie Curie TOK-IAP
Duration: June 2004 - May 2008

RELEASE: Research Links to Explore and Advance Sofware Evolution [6]

European Science Foundation
Scientific Network Number 106
The funding to support this network has ended in October 2005.

National projects

Belgium

FRFC Research Center on Software Flexibility [7]

Fondation Nationale de Recherche Scientifique.
January 2009 - December 2012

Model-Driven Software Evolution [8]

Actions de Recherche Concertée, Ministère de la Communauté francaise -- Direction générale de l'Enseignement non obligatoire et de la Recherche scientifique.
July 2008 - December 2012

FRFC Research Center on Software Restructuring [9]

Fondation Nationale de Recherche Scientifique.
January 2005 - December 2008

FWO Research Project Formal Foundations for Software Refactoring [10]

Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders.

Scientific Research Network Foundations of Software Evolution [11]

Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders.
The funding to support this network ended by December 2005.

Canada

S3M: Software Maintenance Maturity Model [12] [13]

Software Maintenance process research - numerous projects underway French and English.

Norway

SEVO: Software EVOlution in Component-Based Software Engineering [14]

Norwegian Research Councils IKT-2010 program.
Autumn 2004 - Spring 2008

Switzerland

EvoSpaces [15]

Hasler Foundation (project no. 1976)
Haute Ecole de Gestion Geneva, University of Zurich, University of Lugano
865,000 CHF
Jan 1, 2006 - Dec. 31, 2009

Enabling the evolution of J2EE applications through reverse engineering and quality assurance [16]

Prof. Oscar Nierstrasz, University of Bern

Hasler Foundation (project no. 2234)
352'820 CHF
Oct 1, 2007 - Sept. 30, 2010

Analyzing, Capturing and Taming Software Change [17]

Prof. Oscar Nierstrasz, University of Bern

Swiss National Science Foundation
260'152 CHF
Oct 1, 2006 - Sep 30, 2008

NOREX: Network of Reengineering Expertise [18]

Swiss National Science Foundation under SCOPES 2005-2008: Scientific Co-operation between Eastern Europe and Switzerland

Prof. Michele Lanza, Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano, Prof. Radu Marinescu, University of Timisoara, Romania, Prof. Oscar Nierstrasz, University of Bern.
Nov. 1, 2005 - Oct. 31, 2007

Recast: Evolution of Object-Oriented Applications [19]

Swiss National Science Foundation (project number 620-066077)

Prof. S. Ducasse
From 2002 to 2006.

Italy

METAMORPHOS: Methods and tools for migrating software systems towards web and service oriented architectures [20]

Ministero dell'Universita della Ricerca, Programmi di ricerca di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (PRIN)
Grant number 2006098097
Duration: February 2007 - February 2009
Budget: 271430 euros
Prof. A. De Lucia, University of Salerno; University of Bari; University of Sannio; University of Turin
The objective of this project is to facilitate the selection and the adoption of reverse engineering and migration techniques and tools in industry. To pursue such an objective, the project aims at empirically evaluating reverse engineering and migration techniques and tools that can potentially fulfill industry needs. The empirical evaluation will be conducted in three different stages: a first stages aiming at surveying the state of the art and of the practice; a second stage aiming at assessing the different techniques in a controlled environment; and a third stage, in which techniques will be further experimented in industry with some case studies.

France

Squale: the Software QUALity Enhancement project [21]

Sponsored by the FUI (Fonds unique interministériel), supported by the Ouverture group and labeled by the System@tic Paris-Region competitive cluster.
Partners: Air France ; PSA Peugeot Citroen ; INRIA Lille research center ; LIASD University Paris 8 ; Paqtigo
3.1 million euros
June 2008 - June 2010

REMOOS: Remodularisation of Object Oriented System (REMOOS) [22]

Director: Stéphane Ducasse
Direction des Relations et Internationales (DRI), Programme INRIA "Equipes Associées" (2008)
External partners: University of Bern (Switzerland); University of Montreal (Canada)
24300 euros

Cook: Réarchitecturisation des applications industrielles objets [23]

Director: Stéphane Ducasse
French ANR project (JC05 42872)
2005-2008 150K euros

Germany

ArQuE: Architecture-centric Quality Engineering []

German Ministry of Education and Research
Partners: Fraunhofer IESE, University of Bremen, Alcatel-Lucent, Buren&Partner, Testo, Tynos, Wikon
May 2006 - April 2009
Budget: 1.6 million euros
ArQuE enables goal-oriented architecture analyses in an effort-efficient manner to achieve strategic innovations in the lifecycle of a software system or product line.