The MUSCAT Thematic Focus Group is part of the SPARKS team of the I3S laboratory (CNRS / Université Côte d'Azur).
MUSCAT stands for eMpowering hUmans in maStering production of large sCale sysTems (yes, this is quite far, but you know, we've got a catchy name...). We study problems in software engineering in which we aim at helping human stakeholders (software architect, developer, product owner, final user) to understand and make decisions on practices, processes, and code. The application domains we target are quite broad, with machine learning related software (e.g. ML workflows), cyber-physical systems, or human-machine interfaces. We are especially intersted in very large variability-rich systems and emergent systems.
News
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October 01, 2024
Nicolas Lacroix is starting a PhD in the team. He will be the main workforce of our team in the ANR project FATES-MLOps. Welcome aboard Nicolas!
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September 20, 2024
The article “The VariCity ecosystem: City visualization of object-oriented variability in Java and TypeScript” is accepted in the SCP (Science of Computer Programming) journal. Check the preprint here.
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August 30, 2024
The FATES-MLOps project has been funded by ANR. It will start in October 2024 with research works that focus on modelling Machine Learning workflows to reason on and check FATES (Fairness-Accountability-Transparency-Ethics-Safety) properties in a compositional way!
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July 20, 2024
The PROFIL project has been funded by ANR. It will start in January 2025 with research works that focus on automating Machine Learning workflows to analyze their quality and foster good practices!
Research Topics
Mastering ML practices and operations
With the continuous development of large scale software systems, different forms of requirements must be related, in a consistent way, to other activities and artifacts of the development and operational life cycle (dev+ops).
Exploring Sofware Engineering with LLMs
With the continuous development of large scale software systems, different forms of requirements must be related, in a consistent way, to other activities and artifacts of the development and operational life cycle (dev+ops).
Large Scale Variability
Software variability studies the variation points and commonality that exists within a family of software products. We study large scale management of variability-aware software.
Distributed Interfaces
We study the application of territoriality in contexts such as multi-display gaming in which personal information must be correctly managed.
People
Faculty
Mireille Blay-Fornarino
Professor, (Université Côte d'Azur)
Philippe Collet
Professor, (Université Côte d'Azur), group leader
Philippe Lahire
Professor, (Université Côte d'Azur), on secondment as executive vice president for Information Systems at Université Côte d'Azur
Anne-Marie Pinna-Dery
Assistant Professor, (Université Côte d'Azur)
Philippe Renevier-Gonin
Assistant Professor, (Université Côte d'Azur), on secondment as high school ProfessorPostdoc Researchers
Graduate Students
Nassim Bounouas
MSc 2019
Yann Brault
MSc 2023