Assoc. Prof. HDR. Dr. Tewfik ZIADI

Associate Prof. with Habilitation*)
Head of the MoVe Research Team
LIP6 Lab, Sorbonne University
tewfik.ziadi at lip6.fr
Google Scholar / DBLP / LIP6.fr

Research Interests

Software Engineering,
Software Product Line Engineering and Software Variability Management,
Model-Driven Engineering and Domain Specific Languages ,
Variability Mangement for robotics applications,
Behavioral Models Inference

Selected Recent Publications

All my publications are primarily referenced on my lab page. Some of my recent publications are listed below.

ECSA'24 R. Mzid, I. Rezigui, T. Ziadi : “ Attention-based Method for Design Pattern Detection“, The European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA), Luxembourg, Luxembourg (2024)

IST'24 R. Vacheret, F. Pérez, Ziadi , L. Hillah : “Boosting fault localization of statements by combining topic modeling and Ochiai“, Journal Information and Software Technology, vol. 173, (Elsevier) (2024)

Book'23 A. R. Lopez‑Herrejon, J. Martinez, W. Guez Assunção, T. Ziadi, M. Acher, S. Vergilio : Handbook of Re-Engineering Software Intensive Systems into Software Product Lines”, (Springer Cham), (ISBN: 978-3-031-11685-8) (2023)

Cover of Handbook of Re-Engineering Software Intensive Systems into Software Product Lines

TSE'22 F. Pérez, T. Ziadi , C. Cetina : “A novel approach for Software Architecture Product Line Engineering“, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) (2022)

JSS'22 M.L. Kerdoudi, T. Ziadi , C. Tibermacine, S. Sadou : “A novel approach for Software Architecture Product Line Engineering“, Journal of Systems and Software vol. 186, pp. 111191, (Elsevier) (2021)

ESME'20 Th. Berger, J.‑Ph. Steghöfer, T. Ziadi , J. Robin, J. Martinez : “The State of Adoption and the Challenges of Systematic Variability Management in Industry”, Empirical Software Engineering, vol. 25, (Springer Verlag) (2020)

JSS'20 A. Shatnawi, A. Seriai, H. Sahraoui, T. Ziadi , A. Seriai : “ReSIde: Reusable Service Identification from Software Families”, Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 170, pp. 110748, (Elsevier) (2020)

ISCME'20 A. Chueshev, J. Lawall, R. Bendraou, T. Ziadi : “ Expanding the Number of Reviewers in Open-Source Projects by Recommending Appropriate Developers“, International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), (2020)

ICECCS'19 M. Kerdoudi, T. Ziadi , Ch. Tibermacine, S. Sadou : “Recovering Software Architecture Product Lines”, 24^th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS), Nansha, Guangzhou, China, pp. 226-235, (IEEE) (2019)

APSEC'19 A. Shatnawi, T. Ziadi , M. Mohamadi : “Understanding Source Code Variability in Cloned Android Families: an Empirical Study on 75 Families”, 2019 26^th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC), Putrajava, Malaysia (2019)

TOOLS'19 A. Sadovykh, T. Ziadi , A. Bagnato, Th. Berger, J.‑Ph. Steghöfer, J. Robin, R. Mazo, E. Gallego : “REVaMP 2 Project: Towards Round-Trip Engineering of Software Product Lines -Approach, Intermediate Results and Challenges”, Software Technology: Methods and Tools51^st International Conference, TOOLS 2019, Innopolis, Russia, October 15–17, 2019, Proceedings, Innopolis, Russian Federation (2019)

ESCA'19 M. Kerdoudi, T. Ziadi , Ch. Tibermacine, S. Sadou : “A Bottom-Up Approach for Reconstructing Software Architecture Product Lines”, 13^th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA), vol. 2, ECSA '19: Proceedings of the 13^th European Conference on Software Architecture, Paris, France, pp. 46-49, (ACM) (2019)

Industrial Collaboration & Projects

ITEA REVAMP2 project ( 2017-2020). An ITEA Project with 28 partners in 5 contries. Scientific coordinator.
PROTEUS (Platform for RObotic model Transformations and Exchange between Users and Scientific communities) project funded by ANR(2009-2013). An ANR National project.
SPL4SMA (Software Product Lines for Multi-Agent Systems) LIP6 Project (2013-2017).
BME-ML (Behavior Model Extraction using Machine Learning) LIP6 Project (2011-2013).

Responsabilities & Service

Co-General chair of SPLC 2019.
Member of the steering committee of SPLC .
Co-chair of the REVE workshop ( 8 editions since 2013).
Co-chair of the VSPLE track at ACM-SAC (2018 and 2019)
Publication chair of the ICSR'18 conference .
Co-chair of the PC of CIEL'18 (Conférence en IngénieriE du Logiciel).
Co-founder of the LOUISE group . LOUISE is related to CNRS GDR-GPL and gathers the main researchers on Software Product Lines in France.

Conference Program Committee Member:

SPLC (Systems and Software Product Line Conference), 2024, 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018 and 2017, Research track.
SPLC (Systems and Software Product Line Conference), SPLC 2018, Tool and Data track, 2018.
ICSR (International Conference of Software Reuse), 2020, 2019, and 2018, Research track.
FOSD (International Workshop on Feature-Oriented Software Development), associated to SPLC 2018.
CAL (Conférence francophone sur les Architectures Logicielles), 2018.
EVA (Atelier EVA@INFORSID18), 2018.
ACM SAC Software Engineering Track : ACM SAC 2022, ACM SAC 2020, ACM SAC 2019, ACM SAC 2018, ACM SAC 2017, ACM SAC 2016, ACM SAC 2015
IEEE ICECCS (International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems): ICECCS 2016.
SPLC Doctoral Symposium, SPLC 2016.
ACS/IEEE AICCSA (International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications) : AICCSA 2015, AICCSA 2016, AICCSA 2017.
MISC (International Symposium on Modelling and Implementation of Complex Systems) : MISC 2016, MISC 2014, MISC2018.
DSLRob (International Workshop on Domain-specific Languages and Models for ROBotic systems), DSLRob'10, DSLRob'11, DSLRob'14.

PhD Supervision

Ongoing

Vacheret. R. (with L.Hillah): Feature Location techniques for Automatic Program Repair (2022 - ..)
Ghallab . K.: Migrating entreprise applications to SPL (2020 - ..)
XU. H. (with S. Baarir & L. Hillah). CIFFRE with Renault (2020-..).

Past

MARTINEZ. J. (with Y. Le Traon): Mining Software Artefact Variants for Product Line Migration and Analysis(2013-2016). Jabier's PhD thesis received a runner-up award GDR GPL 2016: http://gdr-gpl.cnrs.fr/node/284. Now a researcher at TECNALIA.
KCHIR. S. (with M. Ziane): Ease the development of robotics applications (2010-2014). Now a researcher at CEA.

Positions and Education

Jan. 2018 - Sep. 2018: Full time researcher (delegation) at CNRS (LIP6).
Feb. 2017: "Qualification aux fonctions de de professeur des universités" (PR)
Dec. 2016: Obtained HDR ("Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches") from Université Pierre et Marie Curie.
Mars. 2015-June 2015: Visiting Researcher at University of Luxembourg & SnT (Luxembourg). Working with Prof. Yves-Le-Traon
Apr. 2014-July 2014: Visiting Researcher at University of Luxembourg & SnT (Luxembourg). Working with Prof. Yves-Le-Traon
Sept. 2005: Apppointed as Assistant Professor (Maître de conférences) at Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris.
2004-2005: Research and Teaching Assistant at Université Rennes 1 (IUT Lannion).
Dec. 2004: Obtained PhD in Computer Science from Université Rennes 1. Supervisor: J-M. Jézéquel.

Tools

But4Reuse: Bottom-Up Technologies for Reuse. All our work on SPL extraction are integrated within the BUT4Reuse tool.
EFLBench: Eclipse Feature Location Benchmark for Software Families uses variants of Eclipse from which a ground-truth is extracted.
ExtractorPL: Software product line reverse engineering tool. For further details please refer to the following paper: "Towards a Language-Independent Approach for Reverse-Engineering of Software Product Lines".
CARE: Comparing Reverse-Engineering Techniques. For further details please refer to the following paper: "CARE: a platform for reliable Comparison and Analysis of Reverse-Engineering techniques".
FroGs: Feature Relations Graphs.For further details please refer to the following paper: "Feature Relations Graphs: A Visualisation Paradigm for Feature Constraints in Software Product Lines"

Teaching

I am responsible of many courses at Sorbonne University. Especially:

Software Engineering & UML Modeling (Licence Degree - 3rd year at Sorbonne university)
Advanced Technologies for Software Development (Master 2 Degree - 5th year at Sorbonne University)