The RELEASeD laboratory, headed by Prof. Kim Mens is part of the Pôle d’Ingénierie Informatique (INGI) which belongs to the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics (ICTEAM) at Université catholique de Louvain.
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RELEASeD is the REsearch Laboratory on software Evolution And Software Development, which focusses on a variety of research topics related to programming technology, languages and tool support for software development. The RELEASeD lab actively contributes to ICTEAM's research direction of Software Engineering and Programming Systems. |
Research domains under active investigation at RELEASeD are:
- Software Evolution Technology: advanced mechanisms, languages, formalisms, methodologies and tools to support software engineers during software maintenance and evolution, with a particular focus on software variability and reuse, and on co-evolution of source code and higher-level design artefacts;
- Software Development Technology: state-of-the art software development technology, mainly from a programming language-engineering angle, with a particular focus on the paradigms of object-oriented, aspect-oriented and context-oriented programming.
- Context-Oriented Programming: novel programming languages, paragdigms and tools to support building applications that can dynamically adapt their behaviour to changing execution contexts.
Latest news 
Context Petri Nets Enabling Consistent Definition of Context-Dependent Behavior —
The paper Context Petri Nets: Enabling Consistent Definition of Context-Dependent Behavior has been accepted for the International Workshop on Petri Nets and Software Engineering PNSE'12 co-located with Petri Nets 2012.
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DynamicSchema -A Lightweight Persistency Framework for Context-Oriented Data Management —
The paper DynamicSchema: A Lightweight Persistency Framework for Context-Oriented Data Management has been accepted at the 4th COP workshop, co-located with ECOOP'12.
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Course on reflection and context-oriented programming —
The RELEASeD lab will be giving a 4-day lecture on computational reflection and context-oriented programming at the University of Milano, Italy.
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Collaborative project FNRS MINCyT approved —
A collaborative project between RELEASeD and Prof. Gabriela Arevalo at the Centro de Altos Estudios en Tecnología Informática – Universidad Abierta Interamericana, was granted by the funding agency FNRS for the academic years 2011-2013. In this collaboration we will study the identification of structural degradation so developers can perform anti-regressive work.
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Uniting Global and Local Context Behavior with Context Petri Nets —
The paper Uniting Global and Local Context Behavior with Context Petri Nets was accepted to the 4th COP workshop.
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Phenomenal Gem —
Phenomenal Gem is a context-oriented framework implemented in Ruby that allows context-oriented programming in Ruby and Ruby on Rails applications.
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Best paper award —
Our paper "Context-Oriented Programming for Customizable SaaS Applications" was selected as one of the best papers for the distributed systems tracks at SAC2012
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Collaborative project Wallonie-Bruxelles/Québec approved —
A collaborative project between RELEASeD and Prof. Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc at the École Polytechnique de Montréal, was granted by the funding agency Wallonie-Bruxelles International for the academic years 2011-2013. In this collaboration we will study the effect of using source code regularities on software maintenance and evolution.
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VariBru lunch event - Solving your variability headache —
The next VariBru lunch gathering will take place on 24 April 2012, from 12:30 until 15:00, at the Diamant Building, Bd. A. Reyerslaan 80, 1030 Brussels.
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Towards a student-centric approach in teaching object-oriented design and data management —
Since this year, a new course on "object-oriented design and data management" is taught, using a student-centric teaching approach.
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