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 | Dirk Deridder Vrije Universiteit Brussel Faculty of Sciences, INFO - SSEL Pleinlaan 2 B-1050 Brussels, Belgium Office: Campus Etterbeek, 4 K 208 Tel: +32 2 629.29.65 Fax: +32 2 629.28.70 E-mail: Dirk.Deridder@vub.ac.be  acm.org business card Dirk Deridder (vcard) |   |
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 | I co-organise the IWPSE-EVOL'09 workshop at ESEC/FSE 2009 in Amsterdam. For this year’s anniversary edition, the special theme of the workshop is “The Future of Software Evolution”. We particularly welcome submissions that take a historical perspective on a particular facet of software evolution research, practice or education, argue for the current challenges, and speculate on what the future might bring. More information is available at the IWPSE-EVOL'09 website. |
 | I co-organised the SVPP'08 symposium in Brussels this year. The theme of the Symposium was Software Variability from a Programmer's Perspective. We had four invited speakers: Jim Coplien, Robert Hirschfeld, Karl Lieberherr, and Oscar Nierstrasz. More information is available at the SVPP'08 website |
 | I co-organised the MCCM'08 workshop at MoDELS 2008. The theme of the workshop was Model Co-Evolution and Consistency Management (download flyer). More information is available at the MCCM'08 website |
Short Bio
Dirk Deridder is a post-doctoral researcher at the System and Software Engineering Lab (SSEL), which is part of both the Computer Science Department of the Faculty of Sciences and the Informatics Department of the Faculty of Applied Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. He joined SSEL on january 1st, 2007 after receiving a grant by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel to establish a post-doctoral position. He was awarded his PhD degree in 2006 at the same university where he also obtained a degree 'Licentiaat in de Toegepaste Informatica' (comparable to Master in Applied Computer Science) in 1997.
He started his research career as a teaching assistant at the Computer Science Department in 1997. His research at that time was in the area of database systems and linguistic tools under supervision of Prof. Dr. Robert Meersman at the Semantics Technology & Applications Research Laboratory.
In 1999 he reoriented his research in the area of programming languages and software engineering when he joined the Programming Technology Lab under supervision of Prof. Dr. Theo D'Hondt. During the years 1999 - 2006 he participated in several research projects with industry:
- CCOOS (1999): 'Compliance Checking on Object-Oriented Systems' - performed in collaboration with Getronics.
- SoFa (1999-2002): 'Component Development and Product Assembly in a Software Factory - Organisation, Process and Tools' - an IWT-funded research project, performed in collaboration with EDS Belgium and Mediagenix.
- MPEG Research Project (2002-2003): performed in collaboration with Belgian Television (VRT), IMEC and ETRO.
- Advanced Media (2003-2005): in collaboration with Belgian Television (VRT) and the Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology (IBBT).
- ARRIBA (2005-2006): 'Architectural Resources for the Restructuring and Integration of Business Applications' - an IWT-funded research project in collaboration with Universiteit Antwerpen, and Universiteit Gent.
Currently he is funded by the MoVES IAP Project (2007-2011), which is part of the Interuniversity Attraction Poles programme (Belgian State - Belgian Science Policy Office). The goal of this project is to establish a network between several Belgian and EU universities on the topic of the Modelling, Evolution and Verification of Software.
The research topics he was (and still is) involved in cover a wide range in the domain of software and programming language engineering. His research is always backed up by the development of tool-implementations in order to validate the underlying ideas. He typically addresses the research challenges from a programmer's perspective.
The overall theme of his research can be broadly characterised as meta programming, software evolution/variability, and co-evolution of models and code. In these domains he is actively investigating new programming techniques, abstractions, architectures, and language features that enable the development of flexible and malleable software implementations. Currently he is pursuing Concept-Centric Coding (C3) as a novel approach for achieving malleable and documented software implementations.
