News / Actualités

05/07/04 - Official opening of the Ptidej web site

The Ptidej project now has its own web site accessible through www.ptidej.net: Check it out for news, publications, downloads, and more...

05/07/13 - 1st International Workshop on Design Pattern Theory and Practice

Information on the 1st International Workshop on Design Pattern Theory and Practice is out!

05/09/27 - ICSM'05, Best Paper Award

Yann and Giulio received the Best Paper award!

05/10/17 - OOPSLA'05

Naouel Moha was student volonteer at OOPSLA'05.

05/10/17 - CASCON'05

The Ptidej Team presented four add-ons to the Ptidej project at CASCON'05, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

05/11/24 - Setting up of the eye-tracking systems

Our team received its eye-tracking systems for the LaiGLE laboratory.

05/11/28 - Samah's master thesis

A jury accepted Samah Rached's master thesis.

05/12/02 - Khashayar's master thesis

A jury accepted Khashayar Khosravi's master thesis.

05/12/23 - LaiGLE

LaiGLE (Laboratoire de Génie Logiciel Expérimental or Experimental Software Engineering Laboratory) mini-site is up and running.

06/02/15 - A new machine in the lab

The PopCorn Machine !!

06/03/27 - CSMR'06

The CSMR'06 conference took place in Bari, Italy.

06/03/27 - LMO'06

The LMO'06 conference took place in Nîmes, France.

06/03/30 - Tables!

On Thursday, the 30th, BureauSpec installed the tables in our lab.

06/07/18 - ICPC'06, Best Paper Award

Denys, Yann, Andy, Giulio, and Václav received the Best Paper award!

06/07/18 - ECOOP'06

Naouel Moha and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc as well as Houari Sahraoui and Guillaume Langellier participated to the 20th ECOOP conference, which took place in Nantes, France.

06/07/18 - Revamping of the Web site

The web-site has been revamped to better reflect the Ptidej Team and its projects.

06/07/21 - Jean-Yves's master thesis

A jury accepted Jean-Yves Guyomarc'h's master thesis.

06/08/03 - Visit of Paolo Tonella

Paolo Tonella visited the Ptidej Team to foster research collaboration.

06/08/31 - Olivier's master thesis

A jury accepted Olivier Kaczor's master thesis.

06/09/22 - The Ptidej Web site under attack

The Ptidej Web site has been attacked by malicious people who created fake users (with fake portraits) to propagate spams.

06/10/17 - CASCON'06

Janice Ka-Yee Ng, Duc-Loc Huynh, Foutse Khomh, and Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc as well as Giuliano Antoniol, Salah Bouktif, and Peyman Meshkinfam participated to the 16th CASCON conference, which took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

06/10/23 - WCRE'06

Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc participated to the 13th WCRE conference, which took place in Benevento, Italy.

06/11/30 - Visit of Massimiliano di Penta

Massimiliano di Penta visited the Ptidej Team to foster research collaboration.

06/12/04 - The Ptidej Web site under attack

The Ptidej Web site has been attacked by malicious people who created fake users (with fake portraits) to propagate spams, but it is finally back on-line!

07/04/28 - New Web Server

The Ptidej Web site is not set up and running on a new machine where it will be easier to control.

07/05/15 - WBT'07

The WBT'07 showcase took place in Arlington, Texas, USA. Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc and Luc Morisset presented three technologies, including Ptidej.

07/05/27 - Apache

The Ptidej Web site is now running behind an Apache Web server for greater flexibility.

07/06/01 - Distribution of Ptidej

The first official distribution of Ptidej is now available!

07/06/21 - Vector Newsletter

Yann-Gaël's trip to the World Best Technology Showcase 2007, in Arlington, Texas, USA.

07/10/25 - OOPSLA'07

Naouel and Yann-Gaël gave a demo of the Ptidej tool suite and the DECOR method as part of OOPSLA'07.

07/10/15 - Visit of Susan Elliott Sim

Susan Elliott Sim visited our lab. and gave a presentation as part of the Colloques du DIRO.

07/10/19 - Visit of Eric Tanter and Guillaume Pothier

Eric Tanter and Guillaume Pothier visited the GEODES lab. from University of Chile. Guillaume presented his work on a scalable omniscient debugger, to be presented at OOPSLA 2007.

07/09/27 - PCODA and Wiley's Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution special issue

Janice's paper has been accepted at PCODA'07 and selected for a special issue of JSME.

07/10/26 - Visit of Alexandre Bergel and Guillaume Pothier

Alexandre Bergel and Guillaume Pothier visited the GEODES lab. from the Hasso-Plattner Institut and University of Chile, respectively. Alexandre presented his work on method namespaces.

07/10/29 - Presentation at PCODA'07

Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc presented Janice Ka-Yee Ng's work on the identification of behavioural and creational design motifs in sequence diagrams.

07/06/19 - Saliha's graduation as master

After a jury accepted Saliha Bouden's master thesis, she received her degree at the Graduation ceremony!

07/11/13 - Foutse's and Stephane's Compulsory Exam

Foutse and Stephane brilliantly passed their compulsory exam.

07/11/16 - LMO'08

Naouel, Foutse, and Stéphane got two papers accepted at LMO'08.

07/12/05 - Problem with the Internet

Between Wednesday the 5th of December and Friday the 7th, the Internet connection was down.

07/12/01 - FASE'08

Naouel got a paper accepted at FASE'08.

07/11/22 - ICFCA'08

Naouel and Amine got a paper accepted at ICFCA'08.

07/12/09 - Web Server

New Web server!

07/12/18 - CSMR'08

Foutse got a paper accepted at CSMR'08.

07/11/29 - Équipe associée

The Ptidej Team is now part of an associated team with INRIA.

08/01/31 - Simon's Qualification

Simon obtained his "qualification" to be able to apply for professorship position in France!

08/02/08 - Salima's master thesis

A jury accepted Salima Hassaine's master thesis.

08/02/29 - ICPC'08

Simon and Yann got papers accepted at ICPC'08.

08/04/27 - Wiki

The Wiki of the Ptidej Team is now officially on-line.

08/05/29 - DeMIMA: A Multi-layered Framework for Design Pattern Identification

Yann and Giulio's paper on DeMIMA: A Multi-layered Framework for Design Pattern Identification has been accepted for publication in TSE.

08/05/25 - ICSM'08

Yann got papers accepted at ICSM'08.

08/06/05 - Janice's master thesis

A jury accepted Janice Ka-Yee Ng's master thesis.

08/07/03 - Yousra's master thesis

A jury accepted Yousra Tagmouti's master thesis.

08/06/16 - Change of Institution

Since Monday, the 16th of June 2008, Yann started working at the Department of Computer and Software Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal.

08/07/22 - Improvement of the Ptidej Web site infrastructure

The Ptidej Web site infrastructure has been improved with a new hard disk.

08/07/21 - CASCON'08

Foutse and Yann got a paper accepted at CASCON'08.

08/07/21 - WCRE'08

Yann got a paper accepted at WCRE'08.

08/07/17 - Paul's master thesis

A jury accepted Paul Bertrand's master thesis.

08/08/26 - Naouel's Ph.D. thesis

Naouel successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis.

08/09/01 - Usman Bhatti

For a couple of months, Usman Bhatti will be invited researcher in our team.

08/10/07 - Gerardo's master thesis

A jury accepted Gerardo Cepeda's master thesis.

08/11/02 - Bibliography

A new mechanism has been put in place to ease the building of the team bibliography.

08/10/22 - Bug Tracker

A bug tracker is now available to track down bug in the code!

08/09/22 - Foutse's Oral Exam

Foutse successfully passed the oral part of his compulsory exam.

08/12/09 - Stéphane's Oral Exam

Stéphane successfully passed the oral part of his compulsory exam.

08/12/18 - Experiments at Pyxis

The Product Manager at Pyxis Technologies kindly invited us to perform a program comprehension study with his developers.

09/01/14 - First Meeting

The first meeting of the semester took place at Poly!

09/01/30 - Norddin's master thesis

A jury accepted Norddin Habti's master thesis.

09/02/27 - Vector Newsletter

The Ptidej Team work on design and code smells detection is highlighted in Univalor's newsletter.

09/02/25 - IWSC'09

Yann got a position paper accepted at IWSC'09.

09/04/16 - New Web Server

The Ptidej Web site and companions moved to a new Web server, which led to temporarily unavailability.

09/04/21 - FACS'09

Naouel and Alban, along with Yann, Laurence, and Anne-Françoise got a paper accepted in the journal Formal Aspects of Computing.

09/04/03 - MSR'09

Yann got a paper accepted at MSR'09.

09/04/30 - Canada Research Chair

NSERC awarded Yann with a Canada Research Chair!

09/05/08 - DECOR: A Method for the Specification and Detection of Code and Design Smells

Naouel's paper on DECOR: A Method for the Specification and Detection of Code and Design Smells has been accepted for publication in TSE.

09/05/07 - A Nursing Virtual Intervention: Real-Time Support for Managing Antiretroviral Therapy

Yann, along with José Côté, Pilar Ramirez-Garcia, Geneviève Rouleau, Diane Saulnier, Annick Hernandez, and Gaston Godin, got a paper accepted by the journal Computers, Informatics, Nursing.

09/05/21 - Network Attack and Relocation of the Web Server

Several universities were under attack through SSH connection, the network was consequently down.

09/05/26 - QSIC'09

Foutse, Stéphane, and Yann, along with Houari got a paper accepted at QSIC'09.

09/05/29 - Naouel's graduation as Ph.D.

After a jury accepted Naouel Moha's Ph.D. thesis, she received her degree at the Graduation ceremony!

09/05/29 - ICSM'09

Foutse, Yann, and Giulio got a paper accepted at ICSM'09.

09/06/08 - ESEM'09

Sébastien, Yann, Naji, and Houari got a paper accepted at ESEM'09.

09/07/22 - WCRE'09

Foutse, Stéphane, Naouel, Max, and Yann got papers accepted at WCRE'09.

09/07/22 - WCRE'09 (Doctroal Symposium)

Foutse was accepted to present his thesis at the WCRE'09 doctoral symposium.

09/11/09 - Refactoring of the Servers

The servers and network was down for three days to perform some major improvements.

09/09/03 - JSME

Janice, Yann, and Giulio got a paper accepted in Wiley's Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice.

09/08/16 - Improving Design-pattern Identification: A New Approach and an Exploratory Study

Jean-Yves, Yann, and Houari got a paper accepted for publication in Springer's Software Quality Journal.

09/08/24 - Identification of Design Motifs with Pattern Matching Algorithms

Olivier, Yann, and Sylvie got a paper accepted for publication in Elsevier's Information and Software Technology.

09/08/16 - An Empirical Study on the Efficiency of Different Design Pattern Representations in UML Class Diagrams

Gerardo and Yann got a paper accepted for publication in Springer's journal of Empirical Software Engineering.

09/11/18 - Seminar

The first seminar of the semester discussed the teams, chairs, and research protocols.

09/11/19 - Dave Parnas' Visit

Dave Parnas, father of information hiding, gave a talk and visited the Ptidej Team and SOCCER lab.

09/11/17 - Diner

A diner took place with all the students.

09/12/01 - Video of the VIH-TAVIE Project

For the World AIDS Day, a video was released about the VIHTAVIE project!

09/12/16 - ICSE'10

Two papers authored by members of the team have been accepted at ICSE'10: one by Wei, Yann, Giulio, and Miryung and the other by Daniel, Max, Giulio, and Yann!

09/12/14 - CSMR'10

Members of the team got two long and two short papers accepted at CSMR'10.

10/01/07 - Salima's Oral Exam

Salima successfully passed the oral part of his compulsory exam.

10/01/19 - Anne-Françoise Le Meur' Visit

Anne-Françoise Le Meur gave a talk and visited the Ptidej Team and SOCCER lab.

10/01/25 - Maintenance of the Web Server

Maintenance of the Web server.

10/03/10 - Maintenance of the Web Server

Maintenance of the Web server.

10/03/16 - Research Subjects

All the recently-enrolled Ph.D. students successfully submitted their research subjects.

10/03/03 - Map of Visits

A map of the visits to the Web site and Wiki pages is now available.

10/05/07 - QUATIC'10

Salima, Foutse, Yann, and Sylvie got a paper accepted at QUATIC'10.

10/06/02 - SSBSE

Fatemeh, Giulio, and Yann got a paper accepted at SSBSE'10.

10/06/26 - SQUALE

An article about SQUALE describes an approach to measuring quality metrics and reporting them.

10/07/20 - Studying Software Evolution of Large Object-oriented Systems using an ETGM algorithm

Ségla, Filippo, Philippe, Giuliano, and Yann got a paper accepted for publication in Wiley's Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice.

10/08/31 - Foutse's Ph.D. Defense

Foutse defended his Ph.D. thesis in front of a jury composed by Julie Vachon (president), Ahmed E. Hassan and Pierre N. Robillard (external examiners), and Michel Delfour (Dean's representative).

10/08/02 - Denys Poshyvanyk's Visit

Denys Poshyvanyk visited our lab. on Monday the 2nd and Tuesday the 3rd of August, 2010.

10/07/27 - ICSM ERA

Laleh, Venera, Giulio, and Yann got papers accepted at the ERA track of ICSM'10.

10/07/23 - WCRE Doctoral Symposium

Six students got their proposals accepted for presentation and discussion at the Doctoral symposium of WCRE'10.

10/07/27 - ICSM Tool Demo

Nicolas, Foutse, and Giulio got a demo accepted at ICSM'10.

10/09/14 - ERA track of ICSM'10, Best Paper Award

Venera and Laleh, with Rocco, Giulio, and Yann, received the Best Paper award!

10/09/18 - IEEE Software Special Issue on Software Evolution

Yann was co-guest editor to a special issue of IEEE Software on Software evolution, which is now available for free on-line.

10/11/29 - Marwen's Master Thesis

A jury accepted Marwen Abbes's master thesis.

10/11/29 - CSMR'11

Members of the team got two long accepted at CSMR'11.

10/11/11 - Design Evolution Metrics for Defect Prediction in Object Oriented Systems

Sègla, Filippo, Philippe, Giuliano, and Yann got a paper accepted for publication in Springer's Journal of Empirical Software Engineering.

10/11/12 - TIDIER: An Identifier Splitting Approach using Speech Recognition Techniques

Latifa, Max, Giuliano, and Yann got a paper accepted for publication in Wiley's Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice.

10/11/25 - A GQM-based Method and a Bayesian Approach for the Detection of Code and Design Smells

Foutse, Stéphane, Yann, and Houari got a paper accepted for publication in Elsevier's Journal of Software and Systems.

10/11/29 - An Exploratory Study of the Impact of Antipatterns on Class Change- and Fault-Proneness

Foutse, Max, Yann, and Giulio got a paper accepted for publication in Springer's Journal of Empirical Software Engineering.

10/11/30 - Comprehensive Exams

Seven Ph.D. students of the team successfully completed their comprehensive exams!

10/12/20 - Comprehensive Exams

Fehmi successfully pass the written part of his comprehensive exam!

11/02/16 - MITACS Globalink

Our research project on "Resilient software update" has been selected for inclusion in the Globalink Program in Québec and two Indian trainees will spend their Summer among us working on this project.

11/02/02 - ICST'11 Poster

Neelesh and Abdelilah got a poster accepted at ICST'11.

11/03/03 - CSMR'11, Best Paper Award

Marwen and Foutse, with Yann and Giulio, received the Best Paper award!

11/03/04 - MSR'11

Laleh and Venera, with Massimiliano, Rocco, Yann, and Giulio, got a paper accepted at MSR'11.

11/03/11 - ICPC'11

Nasir and Latifa, along with Giulio, Bogdan, Yann, and Denys, got two long papers accepted at ICPC'11.

10/03/27 - CSMR'10, Best Paper Award

Nioosha, Latifa, Max, Yann, and Giuliano Antoniol received the Best Paper award!

11/03/25 - ICST'11, Ph.D. Symposium, Best Paper Award

Neelesh received the Best Paper award!

11/03/29 - MITACS PASED Canadian Practical Analyses of Software Engineering Data

MITACS approuved the first Canadian Summer School on the Practical Analyses of Software Engineering Data.

11/05/27 - Foutse's graduation as Ph.D.

After a jury accepted Foutse Khomh's Ph.D. thesis, he received his degree at the Graduation ceremony!

11/06/13 - ICSM'11

Ferdaous, Nasir, Salima, and Wei, along with Giulio, Jane, Max, Sylvie, and Yann, got two long papers accepted at ICSM'11.

11/06/17 - SSBSE'11

Soumaya and Neelesh along with Abdelilah, Giulio, Yann, Philippe, and Gilles got two long papers accepted at SSBSE'11.

11/06/16 - PASED Summer School

The First Canadian Summer School on Practical Analyses of Software Engineering Data took place at the École Polytechnique de Montréal

11/06/21 - Factors Impacting the Inputs of Traceability Recovery Approaches

Nasir, Yann, and Giulio got a chapter accepted for publication in Springer's Software and Systems Traceability.

10/03/10 - Martin Robillard's Visit

Martin Robillard gave a talk and visited the Ptidej Team and SOCCER lab.

11/06/01 - Visit of Daniel German, Massimiliano Di Penta, and Andy Marcus

Daniel German, Massimiliano Di Penta, and Andy Marcus visited the team during the month of June.

11/07/14 - Ottawa

Membres of the team visited Ottawa to enjoy the beauty of our National Capital.

11/08/07 - WCRE'11

Fehmi and Nasir along with Giulio, Yann, and Sylvie got two long papers accepted at WCRE'11.

11/09/01 - Fehmi's Oral Exam

Fehmi successfully passed the oral part of his compulsory exam.

11/08/29 - Enrique Alba's Visit

Enrique Alba visited the Ptidej Team and SOCCER lab.

11/09/25 - Michel Chaudron's Visit

Michel Chaudron visited the Ptidej Team and SOCCER lab.

11/11/28 - Comprehensive Exams

Three Ph.D. students of the team successfully completed their comprehensive exams!

11/12/02 - CSMR'12

Salima along with Giulio, Yann, and Sylvie got one long papers accepted at CSMR'12.

11/12/14 - Revamping of the Web Site

The Web site has been revamped to better reflect the activities of the Ptidej team.

11/01/30 - Taupe: Visualising and Analysing Eye-tracking Data

Benoît, Lorent, and Zohreh, along with Yann and Giulio got a paper accepted for publication in Elsevier's Science of Computer Programming.

12/01/16 - A New Colleague: Bram Adams

Since the 12/01/16, we have a new colleague working on release engineering: Bram Adams!