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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January 09, 2024
The EFELIA french school for artifical intelligence is organizing a national day for Software Development and Large Language Models (LLMs) in Sophia Antipolis, on Jan 30, 2024. The program has been mainly set up by Mireille Blay-Fornarino. Details can be found in the french version of the program.
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October 10, 2023
Our article “Visualization of Object-Oriented Software in a City Metaphor: Comprehending the Implemented Variability and its Technical Debt” was accepted in the Elsevier Journal of Systems & Software! Check the preprint here.
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October 01, 2023
Yann Brault is starting a PhD in the team (topic is “Smart Identification and Visualization of Variability in Very Large Software Architectures”). Welcome aboard Yann!
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July 14, 2023
Philippe Collet will give a keynote at the Doctoral Symposium of the SPLC’2023 conference in Tokyo (more information here).
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)Postdoc Researchers
Graduate Students
Nassim Bounouas
MSc 2019
Yann Brault
MSc 2023