Arie van Deursen

I recently moved from CWI to Delft University of Technology, where I've been appointed as professor in software engineering. I'm in the process of updating my home page accordingly: until then the old information may still be useful.

I am a software engineering researcher and project leader interested in reverse engineering, object-orientation, program comprehension, software components, programming languages, ... and a lot more!

I work for CWI, where I'm project leader of the Software Renovation Research group in the (SEN1) software engineering theme.

I am also professor in software engineering at Delft University of Technology, where we are setting up a new Software Evolution Research Laboratory (SWERL).

Contact / Directions

On Tuesday, I can be reached via my Delft address.

Publications

• The fairly complete list that I maintain myself.
• The subset of publications in key refereed journals and conference proceedings available from DBLP.
• The list of citations to my papers that the Research Index is able to find in articles that are available on line.
• The list that scholar.google is able to find all over the web.

Professional Activities

• 10th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering FASE 2007; (program committee member);
• The 13d Working Conference on Reverse Engineering; WCRE 2006 (program committee member).
• 16th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering CASCON 2006 (program committee member);
• 22nd International Conference on Software Maintenance; ICSM 2006 (program committee member);
• The 8th IEEE International Symposium on Web Site Evolution WSE'06 (program committee member);
• 2nd ISSTA Workshop on Testing Aspect-Oriented Programs, WTAOP'06 (program committee member);
• 2nd AOSD Workshop on Linking Aspect Technology and Evolution revisited LATEr'06 (program committee member);
• 14th IEEE International conference on Program Comprehension; ICPC 2006 (program committee member);
• 10th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering; CSMR 2006 (program committee member);
• 15th International Conference on Compiler Construction; CC 2006 (program committee member).

Since the reviewing load of these conferences and the various journals that know how to reach me can become quite heavy, I often ask the help of my colleagues and PhD students. That this can lead to very good reviews indeed was illustrated by the fact that the chairs of ICSM 2005 were kind enough to reward me (as well as two others out of the 60 reviewers) with a best reviewer award. Thanks to those who assisted me in reviewing!

I'm also a member of:

• The Beoordelingscommissie informatica of NWO Exacte Wetenschappen, a committee responsible for ranking the approximately 100 computer science research proposals submitted each year to the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research based on review reports from external referees identified by that committee.
• The programme committee of NWO's Jacquard research programme devoted to software engineering.

See also my past activities.

Selected presentations

• The Software Evolution Paradox: An Aspect Mining Perspective. International ERCIM Workshop on Software Evolution EVOL'06, Lille, France, April 7, 2006 (Invited talk);
• The Software Evolution Paradox: Do Aspects Help? Development Presentation, Philips Medical Systems, Best, The Netherlands, February 1st, 2006.
• Isolating Crosscutting Concerns in Embedded Systems. Workshop on Distributed Embedded Systems, Lorentz Center, Leiden, November 21st, 2005 (Invited presentation).
• Link Reconstruction: A Forward Engineering Concern? Panelist at the ICSM 2005 Panel on Identification of concepts, features, and concerns in source code, Budapest, September 28th, 2005.
• Improving Embedded Systems Quality with Aspects Symposium on Embedded Software Quality, Amsterdam, August 31, 2005;
• Isolating Crosscutting Concerns in System Software. Philips Research Colloquium, Eindhoven, April 27, 2005.
• Symphony: view-driven software architecture reconstruction. IPA Spring Days on Software Architecture, March 31st, 2005.
• The Software Evolution Paradox. Inaugural Lecture, Delft University of Technology, Delft, 23 February 2005.

Hot Links

• On February 23d 2005 I've presented my inaugural lecture as a professor in software engineering at Delft University of Technology, entitled The Software Evolution Paradox.

• The Ideals project, in which we analyze C systems from ASML searching for cross cutting concerns. Ideals is conducted in collaboration with the Embedded Systems Institute (ESI), Eindhoven University of Technology, and Twente University.

• The Single Page Computer Interaction project, in which we're investigating ways to migrate existing web applications to the new Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) paradigm, in collaboration with Backbase and SWERL.

• The other research projects I'm involved in at Delft University of Technology.

• The Software Improvement Group (SIG) of which I'm one of the co-founders. Established in 2000, SIG offers software redocumentation services based on DocGen, and source-based software audits.

• I've been involved in setting up the Reengineering Wiki, an on line discussion forum where you can contribute to topics such as program comprehension, software evolution, and so on.