Seminar by Dr. Hafedh Milli (UQÀM)

Speaker: Dr. Hafedh Milli (UQÀM)                                                                                                                        

Title: How Data Killed Research in Software Engineering

Date: Friday Feb. 22, 2019

Time: 10:30am  

Room: EV1.162

ABSTRACT

In this talk, I will attempt a ‘historical retrospective’ on software engineering research aiming at understanding and formalizing the essentially complex transformation from requirements/problems to solutions. I will attempt to look at design patterns, model-driven engineering, and empirical software engineering from that perspective.

BIO

Hafedh Mili has been with the department of computer science of UQAM since 1988, first as an assistant professor (1988 - 1991), then associate (1992 - 1999), then full (since 2000). With a PhD in knowledge representation, he gradually moved to object-oriented languages and methodologies (1988 - 1996), to aspect oriented languages and methods (1992 - 2002), to various other problems related to software design, but also the messier earlier phases of analysis, business modelling, and requirements. He has participated in, or led, a number of collaborative research projects with industry. He has co-founded the Laboratoire de Recherches sur les Technologies du Commerce Électronique (www.latece.uqam.ca) in 2002, which he has led since. LATECE explores the software (mostly), business, and sometimes social/ethical issues related to the analysis, design, deployment and operation of internet-mediated applications. He has only a career total of about 130 refereed publications—not all of which good ones—and two books on software engineering. He holds an engineering degree from Ecole Centrale de Paris (1984), and PhD in computer science from the George Washington University (1988).