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Research projects pursued by the Ptidej team.

Our team has several topics of interest. All these topics relate to patterns, program comprehension, and program quality. Below is a (non-exhaustive!) list of past and current topics of interest. For each topic, we provide a link to relevant publications, related projects, and funding grants.

Binary class relations: Operational descriptions; Modelling and reverse-engineering; UML constituents recovery.	No active projects.
Code and design smells: Operational descriptions; Automated generation of detection algorithms; Automated generation of suggestions of correction; Automated application of corrections; Evolution and relations with external information.	The DECOR method to specify and to detect design defects.^†
Design patterns (structural): Operational descriptions; Automated detection (using explanation-based constraint programming); Automated detection (using efficient bio-informatic algorithms);	DPR, a recommender system for design patterns.^† The EPI approach to identify occurrences of design motifs with efficient algorithms inspired from bioinformatics. The P-MARt repository of occurences of micro-architectures similar to design patterns.^† The DeMIMA approach to identify occurrences of design motifs.
Design patterns (behavioural and creational): Reverse-engineering of sequence diagrams; Operational descriptions; Automated detection (using explanation-based constraint programming).	The MoDeC dynamic analysis tools to identify occurrences of behavioural and creational design motifs.
Evolution patterns: Co-changing files; Traceability of refactorings and other transformations; Framework-Clients Evolution; Architecture as a kind of DNA.	The AURA project on recommending method changes during framework evolution. The OCEAN project on patterns of software evolution for large programs.
Features and requirements: Combining experts and rankings; Elicitation; Traceability.	The MoMS project on the miniaturization of software.
Quality models: Quantitative analyses; Empirical (machine learning and visualisation) analyses.	Kashayar's database of metrics and their definitions.^† Companion Web site for Jean-Yves's thesis on quality and aspects.^† The CONQUIMP project on quality improvement with Integratik, Canada.^† The MOVER project on quality evalutation with the DSIV of SNCF, France.^† The SQUAD project on building quality models that include structural and semantic data.^† The SQuaner project to monitor in "real-time" the quality of software projects.
Understanding program comprehension: Theories of program comprehension with design patterns; Experiments on program comprehension and patterns using eye-trackers; Advanced 3D visualisation techniques.	The Taupe project to analyse and understand the process of program comprehension.
Test-case generation: Tests for object-oriented programs; Tests for hybrid hardware–software systems.	No active projects.
Linguistic analyses of software artifacts: Identifier expansion.	TIDIER; DECOS.
Misc:	The Oraj open-source suite of operations research algorithms, using design patterns extensively.^† The VIHTAVIE project, a virtual assistant to help people in taking drugs and managing side-effects.	Please contact us.

¹ Project with the dagger symbol are not currently active (as of December 2011).

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