Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

Awards

In 2015, we are particularly proud that our project-team received four awards. We are all the more proud of the fact these awards have been granted to PhD students and to young engineers involved in transfer activities.

Clément Quinton received the Best thesis award from the CNRS GDR GPL (Génie de la programmation et du logiciel). Clément Quinton PhD thesis  [82] proposes an innovative solution for configuring and deploying software systems on cloud computing environments with software product lines and ontologies. The work of Clément Quinton led to the implementation of the Saloon software system (see Section  6.3 ) and contributed to the FP7 PaaSage project (see Section  9.3 ).

Maria Gomez Lacruz received an award in the ACM Best Student Research Competition for her paper [26] at the ACM MobileSoft conference on mobile software engineering and systems. Maria Gomez Lacruz proposes a solution for detecting buggy applications with a recommendation system that learns from software available on mobile application stores.

Gérard Paligot received two awards at the STAF Transformation Tool Contest for his work on the Spoon (see Section  6.4 ) library for Java source code analysis and transformation. The two awards were in the categories Java refactoring, and Java annotation processing live, respectively.

Nicolas Petitprez received the Bpifrance award in the Création d'entreprise innovante contest in the category Emergence. This award is linked to the work of Nicolas Petitprez and Martin Monperrus towards the creation of the Makitoo start-up company that is planned to be launched in 2016. This transfer project is built around the Spoon (see Section  6.4 ) library for Java source code analysis and transformation.

Best Paper Award:

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