Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

Awards

Thomas Durieux, who defended his PhD thesis [11] in September 2018 on automated software repair, has obtained two best paper awards in 2018: at the 29th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) [26] for his work on self-healing web applications based on HTML and JavaScript rewriting, and at the 6th Workshop on Software Visualization, Evolution and Maintenance (VEM) [38] for his contribution to the automatic detection of bug fixing patterns, which is a joint work with Fernanda Madeiral and colleagues from the Federal University of Uberlândia in Brazil.

Browser fingerprinting  [48] has emerged as a technique to track users without their consent. Studying the implication of this technique on user privacy, and proposing software systems that can self-protect against such techniques, have become an important topic in the research activities of Spirals on self-adaptation. In 2018, two papers authored by Spirals members in the context of the ongoing PhD thesis of Antoine Vastel have been published in A* conferences of the domain of security: [36] at the 39th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, and [35] at 27th USENIX Security Symposium.

In 2018, we published at the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering, Track Software Engineering in Practice, a paper on Repairnator [34], which this is the very first bot for automated software repair. This work has been conducted by Simon Urli and his coworkers in Spirals in the context of Inria ADT Librepair. An article on Repairnator has also been published on the Inria web site.

Stéphanie Challita won the Prix L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science. She is among the 30 laureates rewarded out of 900 candidates. Stéphanie Challita has defended her PhD thesis in December 2018 on fclouds , a framework to achieve semantic interoperability in multi-cloud computing systems.

Xscalibur is a transfer project led by Christophe Gourdin and Philippe Merle that aims at creating a startup company with innovative solutions for the management of multi-cloud systems. The project has been selected by Serre Numérique Valenciennes. The research activities that led to this project have been, in part, conducted in the context of the joint lab between Spirals and the Scalair cloud hosting company. Several papers in relation with these research activities have also been published in 2018: [30], [25], [24], [13], [23].

Best Papers Awards:

[26]
[38]