New @sosym.org paper on "SymboleoAC: an access control model for smart legal contracts", co-authored by Sofana Alfuhaid, Amal Anda, John Mylopoulos, Marco Revi and me! SymboleoAC adds RBAC-based concepts to Symboleo (a language for specifying legal contracts), with tool support. See rdcu.be/eTCt9

📣 Our friends at the #ScholCommLab have published a preprint, "The Drain of #ScientificPublishing", and are calling for #research communities, funders, governments, and #universities to "re-communalise publishing to serve #science not the market" doi.org/10.48550/arX... #ScholComm #AcademicSky

The #RequirementsEngineering Journal is now on LinkedIn! Follow the page below to receive new articles, calls for papers, information for potential submitters, and more. www.linkedin.com/company/reen...

The Requirements Engineering conference is about to start in Valencia, after two days of great workshops. This is my favorite community and event!

Ah! Tariffs! "Princess Bride" had foreseen that situation...

#OnlineFirst Context-driven process discovery: enhancing process flow interpretability with contextualized activity hierarchies Zahra Ahmadi, Jochen De Weerdt & Estefanía Serral Asensio doi.org/10.1007/s102...

Assez, c’est assez ! : lp.ca/qCiszS?shari...

Interested in legal contract verification and #SmartContract generation? We have two papers on #Symboleo in that special issue of SoSyM!

Yep!

Our paper got published! Nice collaboration with HEC Paris and ATOS. We used our #Symboleo project in that context too! Baquero, P.M., et al. The compliance gap in data supply chains: contract specification languages and smart contracts as compliance technologies. AI & Law. doi.org/10.1007/s105...

Luigi Logrippo was my MSc/ PhD supervisor in 1992-2001. We had dinner at my place on Friday, with other colleagues. We also have another paper coming out soon in the AI & Law journal! I feel very lucky to have been collaborating with him for 33 years! Not sure I will offer this to my students :-)

Four weeks ago, I had the privilege to participate to my first Dagstuhl Seminar, in excellent company (yeah, I finally got one of these pictures!). The 22 of us focused on "AUTOBIZ: Pushing the Boundaries of AI-Driven Process Execution and Adaptation" for a week. More on this topic soon... :-)

Image of library book display labeled: “It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.” Books on display: • On Tyranny • Twenty Lessons From The 21st Century • 1984 • A Handmaids Tale • Diary of Anne Frank • Parable of The Sower • Fahrenheit 451 • Animal Farm • Brave New World ~TAiLS of a Bookworm

At the SnT (Univ. Luxemburg) on May 12, I presented our work on the use of the #Symboleo formal language for converting legal contracts to #SmartContracts, and results in using LLMs (of course!) to generate Symboleo specifications from English contracts. Presentation slides: lnkd.in/euUPUk3x

Two more days of ICSE 2025 in Ottawa, and already much preparation done for the next three editions in Rio, Dublin, and Hawaii!

#ICSE 2025 started! @tcltcl.bsky.social

#OnThisDay - April 12, 1980 - St. John's, NL "Today is the day it all begins..." #TerryFox travelled to Outer Cove Beach, collecting two bottles of Atlantic seawater. He planned to keep one as a souvenir and pour the second one in the Pacific Ocean when he arrived home. $900M collected terryfox.org

In 1981, the province of Quebec ruled that women would keep their birth name when getting married. Here is another situation where such law would have been useful elsewhere...

A fair description of Canada's upcoming election 😉 youtu.be/wT_n4Khmq0o?...

Good bye Richard Chamberlain. The lead actor in Shōgun and The Thorn Birds just passed earlier today.

First, they came after the universities... www.lapresse.ca/actualites/c...

This is the moment when a 30-story skyscraper under construction collapsed in Bangkok, when a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar hundreds of miles away on Friday. Myanmar’s military government said that 144 people had been killed and 732 injured. Follow live updates. nyti.ms/3QSKjuw

Last chance for most #icse2025 hotels 25th March. Many full already. conf.researchr.org/attending/ic... Come to Ottawa to learn about special sessions we have tagged on developing AI systems, quantum SE, SE for security, SE for blockchain and formal methods.

Canadian researchers working on projects funded by US agencies have been sent a questionnaire to determine how their work aligns with Trump’s political agenda, e.g., that it does not include a climate or “environmental justice” or DEI component and that it increases American influence globally!

I regret to inform you that software engineering will transition to requirements engineering.

This is ChatGPT's view of #Nowruz celebrated in Ottawa... I think it forgot the snow! Nowruz Mubarak (and happy spring to all)!

So much for freedom of expression and academic freedom in the "Land of the Free". Libârté!

Je suis encore dans les nouvelles semble-t-il 🙂 Nouvelle article d'Estelle Côté-Sroka à Radio-Canada: "Prestations de sécurité de la vieillesse : recrutement difficile pour changer le système" ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/214...

When the American ports were closed to the "coffin ships" of Ireland, the port at Quebec welcomed the orphans of the famine. It is why you see the Irish flag flying proudly to this day in Montreal and Quebec. It is a bond that built our nation. www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...

The #icse2025 detailed program is released! The core sessions of the main program can now be browsed here: conf.researchr.org/program/icse... You can filter it by session, room and track. Many, but not all, of the co-located events are now also browsable. More details will be added.

MODELS 2025's foundation and practice track deadline is approaching soon: Abstract: March 27; Full paper: April 3 (AoE) conf.researchr.org/track/models... Looking forward to your submissions! @modelsconf.bsky.social

I am in the national news today, commenting on another challenged information system deployment in the Canadian government ($4.4B instead of $1.75B). This is in French but an automatic translation to your favorite language should give you the gist of it... ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/214...

We have to pace ourselves :-)

March 8 is International Women's Day (and also my father's birth date!). I just played a bit with LLMs to see how well gender-based equity is handled in a simple code auto-completion exercise. Still much work to be done... AI will not solve our gender-based issues today, so do something about it!

We. Are. Canadian. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ozb... (see the 25-year old original version at www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY6J...)

🚀 Call for Papers: REWBAH'25 – Sixth International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for #Well-Being, #Aging, and #Health – co-located with the 33rd IEEE International #RequirementsEngineering Conference (RE’25) 📅 Date: Sept. 1 or 2, 2025 📍 Valencia, Spain 🌐 sites.google.com/view/rewbah2...

C'est pas mal ça.

A team at the #ScholCommLab published an open dataset (doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...) and data paper (arxiv.org/abs/2406.08356), where we compiled annual open access fees (APCs) for 8,712 journals published by 6 publishers from 2019 to 2023. We have now combined this dataset… (1/7)

Celebrate IEEE TSE 50th anniversary at #icse2025 in Ottawa. Join TSE editor Sebastian Uchitel and former editors as they discuss the history of SE through the lens of the EiCs, and the challenges facing SE and journals. conf.researchr.org/info/icse-20... (2 days until early reg date Feb 18th)

Yep!

Elon Musk and his #DOGE team are so much about efficiency that they forget at times about security... ;-)

If you do not know who Terry Fox is and what he represents to Canadians, it's time for you to learn... Terry is also on our $5 bills now. Oh, and the guy who speaks in this ad for cancer research is Gord Downie, singer of The Tragically Hip, another Canadian legend. Be kind like them. #FuckCancer

We have a new Online Master of #DigitalTransformation and #Innovation at #uOttawa! This part-time program targets experienced Canadian professionals in engineering, software, finance, government, health, etc. Have a look and pass the word around! For more info: www.uottawa.ca/faculty-engi...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Yep. Very mad indeed...

Thank you, Canada!

#OnlineFirst On the use of large language models in model-driven engineering Juri Di Rocco, Davide Di Ruscio, Claudio Di Sipio, Phuong T. Nguyen & Riccardo Rubei doi.org/10.1007/s102...

Netflix out a year ago Apple+ out 3 months ago Disney+ cancelled yesterday Amazon Prime's automatic renewal cancelled too (due this summer) I will focus on Crave.ca and Tou.tv, both Canadian streamers!