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At the end of March 2023, the Initiation to the Scientific Approach course poster session was held in the Faculty of Computer Science entrance hall. The course aims to provide bachelor’s and master’s students with a basis for decoding, analyzing and designing a research question, as well as the experimental protocol to answer it. For their poster, the students had to analyze a research paper and present the experimental protocol defined in it. The teacher’s (Prof. Xavier Devroey) task was to discuss the 14 posters over 2 hours… The final result: mission accomplished for all! In the last lecture, Prof. Benoît Vanderose gave a much-appreciated seminar on the links between scientific method and critical thinking, in his very own style. Finally, the course was the subject of a presentation at the Grand banquet of inspiring pedagogical practices organized by the PUNCH team in May 2023, which made it possible to establish links with the BUMP library training team, who will intervene in the course this year 2023-2024 to give a seminar on bibliographic research.
Busy week for the SNAIL team at the International Conference on Software Testing (ICST) 2023! First presentation of his work by Martin Balfroid at the TestEd workshop. It was an opportunity to meet experts from the software verification and validation community and to discuss the latest advances in the field. Xavier Devroey presented a journal article describing the JUGE infrastructure for evaluating unit test generators in Java.
On February 10th, Professor Cynthia Liem from the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands visited us at the Computer Science Faculty. This was an opportunity to talk about her research on verification and validation of machine learning models in different contexts and the fundamental questions this raises.
On Monday, January 9, 2023, the faculty welcomed FORMaNAM and Interface3.Namur for the official launch of the project Gender Equals Future: 011 for IT, which is part of the Woman In Digital plan of the SPF Economie. Dr. Julie Henry, STEAM project leader at the University of Namur, is the coordinator of the project. The objective is to formulate suggestions and recommendations for educational institutions in order to encourage the retention of women in digital training. Also involved are doctors Fanny Boraita and Catherine Bernard and professors Benoît Vanderose and Xavier Devroey of the SNAIL team.
A bitter cold, but a good atmosphere for an intense week! The presentations of the CyberWal in Galaxia Winterschool continued all week from December 13 to 16, 2022 at the Eurospace center in Redu. The CyberWal consortium brings together researchers working on cybersecurity within the universities of the Walloon-Brussels Federation and accredited research centers.
Last week was the first edition of the Greater Region Software Engineering Research Days (SOFTER), organised in Namur. It was the occasion for researchers from the Serval team of the SnT, University of Luxembourg ,and researchers from the VERTIGO and SNAIL teams of the Namur Digital Institute (NaDI), University of Namur, to meet and discuss during two days around testing and verification, machine learning robustness, architecture quality assurance, code analysis, and machine learning for industry 4.0. The seminar finished with a presentation of recent and new research directions in machine learning for financial technology. The seminar featured a brainstorming session, and researchers involved in a session collectively prepared a joint presentation to introduce the topic to other attendees and show how their research contribute to advance the area, contributing to a successful and highly interactive first edition of SOFTER!
Version française : https://nouvelles.unamur.be/upnews.2021-10-18.2189995459/view.
Last Monday and Tuesday 11 and 12 October 2021 took place the 13th edition of the Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SSBSE ’21). This symposium is held every year and brings together specialists in evolutionary computation applied to software engineering (SBSE).
