Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

Collaborations in European Programs, Except FP7 & H2020

University of Novi Sad, Serbia

Participants: Stéphane Ducasse, Anne Etien, Nicolas Anquetil, Vincent Aranega

A collaboration with the University of Novi Sad, Serbia, started in 2018 with the university joining the Pharo Consortium as an academic member.

We have handed in a bilateral project (Campus France) between Novi Sad and RMOD: An innovative visual environment in service of developer experience. We expect results by the end of this year.

A Master thesis has been cosupervised. Nina Medic: Graph library with layout algorithms in Pharo.

Visitors:

• Sebastijan Kaplar [University of Novi Sad, Serbia, Aug 2019]

• Gordana Rakic [University of Novi Sad, Serbia, from Nov 2019]

• Nina Medic [University of Novi Sad, Serbia, from Jun 2019 until Jul 2019]

University of Prague, Czech Republic

Participants: Stéphane Ducasse.

From 2015, ongoing.

We are working with Dr. Robert Pergl from the University of Prague. Stéphane Ducasse gave a lecture at the University of Prague in 2018, the next lecture is planned for 2020.

University of Cagliari, Italy

Participants: Stéphane Ducasse

We are working on sofware engineering problems in the context of blockchain based sofware.

Visitor: Giuseppe Antonio Pierro [University of Cagliari, until July 2019].

University of Bern, Switzerland

Participants: Stéphane Ducasse, Marcus Denker

We are working on dynamic software update to, for example, automatically transform users of deprecated code.

Visitor: Manuel Leuenberger [University of Bern, from Sep 2019 until Nov 2019]

Siemens AG, Germany

Participants: Stéphane Ducasse, Anne Etien, Nicolas Anquetil

The Siemens Digital Industry Division approached our team to help them restructure a large legacy systems. The joined work resulted in a publication in 2019: Decomposing God Classes at Siemens [1].