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The workshop provides a forum for the discussion of new research directions and applications in Artificial Life, Evolutionary Computation and in related fields, where different disciplines and research areas could effectively meet. It was first held in 2007 in Sampieri (Ragusa), as the incorporation of two separate workshops (WIVA and GSICE). 

Plusieurs séances sont prévues : les 5, 12,19 et 26 novembre de 17h à 19h.  S'inscrire

Plusieurs séances sont prévues : les 5, 12,19 et 26 novembre de 17h à 19h.  S'inscrire

Plusieurs séances sont prévues : les 5, 12,19 et 26 novembre de 17h à 19h.  S'inscrire

Plusieurs séances sont prévues : les 5, 12,19 et 26 novembre de 17h à 19h.  S'inscrire

JuryProf. Benoit Frénay, Université de Namur (Promoteur)Prof. Isabelle Linden, Université de Namur (Co-Promoteur) ;Prof. Xavier Devroey, Université Namur (Président) ;Prof. Claire Lobet, Université de Namur ;Prof. Florentin Kucharczak, Université de Montpellier ;Mr. Achimi Hassaini, Thales Alenia SpaceMr. Olivier Dequenne, AISIN Europe.AbstractThis thesis proposes a robust, interpretable, and transferable deep-learning framework for anomaly detection in safety-critical domains such as industrial quality control and medical diagnostics. These two fields, though distinct, share major challenges: class imbalance with limited abnormal samples, and the need for trustworthy and real-time decisions under strict reliability constraints. The main objective is, thus, to build methods with minimal supervision (training with normal data only) while allowing a human-aligned interpretability.The approach combines artificial intelligence unsupervised generative modeling with supervised classification, focusing on patching techniques, local representation, and interpretable scoring. Four key contributions structure this work:(i) Generative Adversarial Network Anomaly Detection through IntermediatePatches (GanoDIP), a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) architecture for high-resolution, industrial anomaly localization at the patch level.(ii) Vector Quantized Generative Adversarial Network Anomaly Detectionthrough Intermediate Patches (VQGanoDIP), an extension with vector-quantized latent representations and composite scoring for improved reconstruction and fidelity.(iii) Cycle Generative Adversarial Network-Anomaly Detection (CGAN-AD), a conditional image translation model that integrates both normal and abnormal data for enhanced domain transfer in industrial and medical settings.(iv) Trustworthy approximated partial AUC (tapAUC), a loss function that enforces the Zero False Negative constraint, for high recall in critical scenarios.These models are deployed in real-world use cases. The framework is integrated into an active production line to detect unexpected components (such as screws) in printed circuit boards, delivering interpretable decisions with minimal false alarms. In the medical domain, the approach is adapted to well perform in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) based coma receptivity analysis, and some techniques are incorporated for an ovarian cancer segmentation application. These results demonstrate not only technical efficiency but also organizational viability through human-in-the-loop deployment and real-time scalability.Together, these contributions establish a modular, constraint-aware, and explainable anomaly detection paradigm, advancing the field towards trustworthy and human-centered artificial intelligence in high-stakes environments.

What? BENEVOL on Thursday and Friday, 21 and 22 November: the congress will bring together researchers working in software engineering, evolution, and maintenance. This year, we will have two keynotes: one by Prof. Andy Zaidman from TU Delft and one by Prof. Sonia Haiduc from Florida State University. IMPACT! day on November 20: as a PhD student and/or researcher, you can join us to learn to communicate what you bring to the table efficiently thanks to the tried and tested Value Proposition canvas and exchange with practitioners, who will expose the challenges they encounter daily. The IMPACT! day initiative is supported by the GRASCOMP doctoral school, and participants will receive a certificate. As a software development professional, you can join us on Wednesday afternoon, November 20, as a guest from the corporate world to share your current challenges and connect with researchers working to advance software development and maintenance practices (please do not hesitate to contact us at snail.info@unamur.be if you would like to participate in the introductory panel of guests from the professional world and/or at the World Café). When? Wednesday 20 (IMPACT Day!) Thursday 21 - Friday 22 November 2024 (BENEVOL Research Congress) Organizers Xavier Devroey, Gilles Perrouin, Benoît Vanderose, Anthony Cleve, Babette Di Guardia, Amélie Notaro, Sophie Panarotto, Alix Decrop, Tom Mens Where? TRAKK, Namur creative hub (Journée IMPACT!) S09, Faculty of Sciences, University of Namur, Belgium (BENEVOL Research Congress) More information

English versionIn the context of an international Chaire Francqui 2024-2025, the Faculty of Computer Science (UNamur) has the honor to receive Professor Arie Van Deursen (TU Delft, Netherlands ) from the 24th to the 27st of March, for a series of lectures on the theme of: “ Explainable Software Engineering ”.The inaugural lecture, entitled “Explainable Software Engineering in the Public Sector”, will be held on the 25th of March 2025, at 6pm at PA02 (Sentier Thomas, 5000 – Namur).Version française Dans le cadre d’une Chaire Francqui internationale 2024-2025, la faculté d’informatique (UNamur) aura le plaisir de recevoir le Professeur Arie Van Deursen (TU Delft, Pays-bas) du 24 au 27 mars 2025, pour une série de leçons sur le thème: "Explainable Software Engineering".   La leçon inaugurale, intitulée "Explainable Software Engineering in the Public Sector ", se tiendra le mardi 25 mars 2025 à 18h00 au PA02 (Sentier Thomas, 5000 – Namur). Explainable Software Engineering in the Public Sector The field of software engineering seeks to devise theories, methods, tools, and techniques that support the development, operation, and evolution of the digital infrastructure modern society relies on. While the software engineering capabilities have advanced substantially over the past decades, it remains challenging to deliver high quality systems in a timely and cost-effective manner. Government system in particular have a weak reputation in this respect.To better understand why, we analyze 125 complex software projects in the public sector in The Netherlands. The projects are described in public reports published by the Advisory Council on IT Assessments (AcICT), which advises the Dutch parliament and cabinet on riks and chances of success in complex Information Technology (IT) projects. The projects span a time period of 10 years, represent a total budget of over 14 billion Euros, and cover such areas as tax collection, social security, pensions, health, traffic control, defense, or water management.We study these reports through the lens of "explainability", focusing on supporting decision making. Furthermore, we reflect on current advances in software engineering, including modern software testing and large language models, in addressing current software engineering challenges. Program INAUGURAL LECTURE: Explainable Software Engineering in the Public Sector - Tuesday 25/03 – 18:00-19:00 – PA02 SESSION 1 : Architectural decision making in software engineering - Monday 24/03 – 10:30-12:30 – I33SESSION 2 : Tests as executable explanations - Tuesday 25/03 – 14:00-16:00 – I33SESSION 3 : Technical debt, test smells, legacy systems - Wednesday 26/03 – 14:00-16:00 – I33SESSION 4 : Artificial Intelligence for Software Engineering - Thursday 27/03 – 10:30-12:30 – I33 About the speaker Arie van Deursen is a professor at Delft University of Technology, where he leads the Software Engineering Research Group. His research interests include software testing, language models for code, trustworthy artificial intelligence, and human aspects of software engineering. He presently serves as chair of the Steering Commmittee of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE).He is a member of the Dutch Advisory Council on IT Assessments (AcICT), as well as a member of the Advisory Board of ING Bank The Netherlands. In 2023, he was elected fellow of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering (NAE). En savoir plus S'inscrire à l'événement

English versionIn the context of an international Chaire Francqui 2024-2025, the Faculty of Computer Science (UNamur) has the honor to receive Professor Arie Van Deursen (TU Delft, Netherlands ) from the 24th to the 27st of March, for a series of lectures on the theme of: “ Explainable Software Engineering ”.The inaugural lecture, entitled “Explainable Software Engineering in the Public Sector”, will be held on the 25th of March 2025, at 6pm at PA02 (Sentier Thomas, 5000 – Namur).Version françaiseDans le cadre d’une Chaire Francqui internationale 2024-2025, la faculté d’informatique (UNamur) aura le plaisir de recevoir le Professeur Arie Van Deursen (TU Delft, Pays-bas) du 24 au 27 mars 2025, pour une série de leçons sur le thème: "Explainable Software Engineering".   La leçon inaugurale, intitulée "Explainable Software Engineering in the Public Sector ", se tiendra le mardi 25 mars 2025 à 18h00 au PA02 (Sentier Thomas, 5000 – Namur). Explainable Software Engineering in the Public Sector The field of software engineering seeks to devise theories, methods, tools, and techniques that support the development, operation, and evolution of the digital infrastructure modern society relies on. While the software engineering capabilities have advanced substantially over the past decades, it remains challenging to deliver high quality systems in a timely and cost-effective manner. Government system in particular have a weak reputation in this respect.To better understand why, we analyze 125 complex software projects in the public sector in The Netherlands. The projects are described in public reports published by the Advisory Council on IT Assessments (AcICT), which advises the Dutch parliament and cabinet on riks and chances of success in complex Information Technology (IT) projects. The projects span a time period of 10 years, represent a total budget of over 14 billion Euros, and cover such areas as tax collection, social security, pensions, health, traffic control, defense, or water management.We study these reports through the lens of "explainability", focusing on supporting decision making. Furthermore, we reflect on current advances in software engineering, including modern software testing and large language models, in addressing current software engineering challenges. Program INAUGURAL LECTURE: Explainable Software Engineering in the Public Sector - Tuesday 25/03 – 18:00-19:00 – PA02 SESSION 1 : Architectural decision making in software engineering - Monday 24/03 – 10:30-12:30 – I33SESSION 2 : Tests as executable explanations - Tuesday 25/03 – 14:00-16:00 – I33SESSION 3 : Technical debt, test smells, legacy systems - Wednesday 26/03 – 14:00-16:00 – I33SESSION 4 : Artificial Intelligence for Software Engineering - Thursday 27/03 – 10:30-12:30 – I33 About the speaker Arie van Deursen is a professor at Delft University of Technology, where he leads the Software Engineering Research Group. His research interests include software testing, language models for code, trustworthy artificial intelligence, and human aspects of software engineering. He presently serves as chair of the Steering Commmittee of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE).He is a member of the Dutch Advisory Council on IT Assessments (AcICT), as well as a member of the Advisory Board of ING Bank The Netherlands. In 2023, he was elected fellow of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering (NAE). En savoir plus S'inscrire à l'événement

English versionIn the context of an international Chaire Francqui 2024-2025, the Faculty of Computer Science (UNamur) has the honor to receive Professor Arie Van Deursen (TU Delft, Netherlands ) from the 24th to the 27st of March, for a series of lectures on the theme of: “ Explainable Software Engineering ”.The inaugural lecture, entitled “Explainable Software Engineering in the Public Sector”, will be held on the 25th of March 2025, at 6pm at PA02 (Sentier Thomas, 5000 – Namur).Version françaiseDans le cadre d’une Chaire Francqui internationale 2024-2025, la faculté d’informatique (UNamur) aura le plaisir de recevoir le Professeur Arie Van Deursen (TU Delft, Pays-bas) du 24 au 27 mars 2025, pour une série de leçons sur le thème: "Explainable Software Engineering".   La leçon inaugurale, intitulée "Explainable Software Engineering in the Public Sector ", se tiendra le mardi 25 mars 2025 à 18h00 au PA02 (Sentier Thomas, 5000 – Namur). Explainable Software Engineering in the Public Sector The field of software engineering seeks to devise theories, methods, tools, and techniques that support the development, operation, and evolution of the digital infrastructure modern society relies on. While the software engineering capabilities have advanced substantially over the past decades, it remains challenging to deliver high quality systems in a timely and cost-effective manner. Government system in particular have a weak reputation in this respect.To better understand why, we analyze 125 complex software projects in the public sector in The Netherlands. The projects are described in public reports published by the Advisory Council on IT Assessments (AcICT), which advises the Dutch parliament and cabinet on riks and chances of success in complex Information Technology (IT) projects. The projects span a time period of 10 years, represent a total budget of over 14 billion Euros, and cover such areas as tax collection, social security, pensions, health, traffic control, defense, or water management.We study these reports through the lens of "explainability", focusing on supporting decision making. Furthermore, we reflect on current advances in software engineering, including modern software testing and large language models, in addressing current software engineering challenges. Program INAUGURAL LECTURE: Explainable Software Engineering in the Public Sector - Tuesday 25/03 – 18:00-19:00 – PA02 SESSION 1 : Architectural decision making in software engineering - Monday 24/03 – 10:30-12:30 – I33SESSION 2 : Tests as executable explanations - Tuesday 25/03 – 14:00-16:00 – I33SESSION 3 : Technical debt, test smells, legacy systems - Wednesday 26/03 – 14:00-16:00 – I33SESSION 4 : Artificial Intelligence for Software Engineering - Thursday 27/03 – 10:30-12:30 – I33 About the speaker Arie van Deursen is a professor at Delft University of Technology, where he leads the Software Engineering Research Group. His research interests include software testing, language models for code, trustworthy artificial intelligence, and human aspects of software engineering. He presently serves as chair of the Steering Commmittee of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE).He is a member of the Dutch Advisory Council on IT Assessments (AcICT), as well as a member of the Advisory Board of ING Bank The Netherlands. In 2023, he was elected fellow of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering (NAE). En savoir plus sur Arie van Deursen S'inscrire à l'événement

English versionIn the context of an international Chaire Francqui 2024-2025, the Faculty of Computer Science (UNamur) has the honor to receive Professor Arie Van Deursen (TU Delft, Netherlands ) from the 24th to the 27st of March, for a series of lectures on the theme of: “ Explainable Software Engineering ”.The inaugural lecture, entitled “Explainable Software Engineering in the Public Sector”, will be held on the 25th of March 2025, at 6pm at PA02 (Sentier Thomas, 5000 – Namur).Version françaiseDans le cadre d’une Chaire Francqui internationale 2024-2025, la faculté d’informatique (UNamur) aura le plaisir de recevoir le Professeur Arie Van Deursen (TU Delft, Pays-bas) du 24 au 27 mars 2025, pour une série de leçons sur le thème: "Explainable Software Engineering".   La leçon inaugurale, intitulée "Explainable Software Engineering in the Public Sector ", se tiendra le mardi 25 mars 2025 à 18h00 au PA02 (Sentier Thomas, 5000 – Namur). Explainable Software Engineering in the Public Sector The field of software engineering seeks to devise theories, methods, tools, and techniques that support the development, operation, and evolution of the digital infrastructure modern society relies on. While the software engineering capabilities have advanced substantially over the past decades, it remains challenging to deliver high quality systems in a timely and cost-effective manner. Government system in particular have a weak reputation in this respect.To better understand why, we analyze 125 complex software projects in the public sector in The Netherlands. The projects are described in public reports published by the Advisory Council on IT Assessments (AcICT), which advises the Dutch parliament and cabinet on riks and chances of success in complex Information Technology (IT) projects. The projects span a time period of 10 years, represent a total budget of over 14 billion Euros, and cover such areas as tax collection, social security, pensions, health, traffic control, defense, or water management.We study these reports through the lens of "explainability", focusing on supporting decision making. Furthermore, we reflect on current advances in software engineering, including modern software testing and large language models, in addressing current software engineering challenges. Program INAUGURAL LECTURE: Explainable Software Engineering in the Public Sector - Tuesday 25/03 – 18:00-19:00 – PA02 SESSION 1 : Architectural decision making in software engineering - Monday 24/03 – 10:30-12:30 – I33SESSION 2 : Tests as executable explanations - Tuesday 25/03 – 14:00-16:00 – I33SESSION 3 : Technical debt, test smells, legacy systems - Wednesday 26/03 – 14:00-16:00 – I33SESSION 4 : Artificial Intelligence for Software Engineering - Thursday 27/03 – 10:30-12:30 – I33 About the speaker Arie van Deursen is a professor at Delft University of Technology, where he leads the Software Engineering Research Group. His research interests include software testing, language models for code, trustworthy artificial intelligence, and human aspects of software engineering. He presently serves as chair of the Steering Commmittee of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE).He is a member of the Dutch Advisory Council on IT Assessments (AcICT), as well as a member of the Advisory Board of ING Bank The Netherlands. In 2023, he was elected fellow of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering (NAE). En savoir plus S'inscrire à l'événement

English versionIn the context of an international Chaire Francqui 2024-2025, the Faculty of Computer Science (UNamur) has the honor to receive Professor Arie Van Deursen (TU Delft, Netherlands ) from the 24th to the 27st of March, for a series of lectures on the theme of: “ Explainable Software Engineering ”.The inaugural lecture, entitled “Explainable Software Engineering in the Public Sector”, will be held on the 25th of March 2025, at 6pm at PA02 (Sentier Thomas, 5000 – Namur).Version françaiseDans le cadre d’une Chaire Francqui internationale 2024-2025, la faculté d’informatique (UNamur) aura le plaisir de recevoir le Professeur Arie Van Deursen (TU Delft, Pays-bas) du 24 au 27 mars 2025, pour une série de leçons sur le thème: "Explainable Software Engineering".   La leçon inaugurale, intitulée "Explainable Software Engineering in the Public Sector ", se tiendra le mardi 25 mars 2025 à 18h00 au PA02 (Sentier Thomas, 5000 – Namur). Explainable Software Engineering in the Public Sector The field of software engineering seeks to devise theories, methods, tools, and techniques that support the development, operation, and evolution of the digital infrastructure modern society relies on. While the software engineering capabilities have advanced substantially over the past decades, it remains challenging to deliver high quality systems in a timely and cost-effective manner. Government system in particular have a weak reputation in this respect.To better understand why, we analyze 125 complex software projects in the public sector in The Netherlands. The projects are described in public reports published by the Advisory Council on IT Assessments (AcICT), which advises the Dutch parliament and cabinet on riks and chances of success in complex Information Technology (IT) projects. The projects span a time period of 10 years, represent a total budget of over 14 billion Euros, and cover such areas as tax collection, social security, pensions, health, traffic control, defense, or water management.We study these reports through the lens of "explainability", focusing on supporting decision making. Furthermore, we reflect on current advances in software engineering, including modern software testing and large language models, in addressing current software engineering challenges. Program INAUGURAL LECTURE: Explainable Software Engineering in the Public Sector - Tuesday 25/03 – 18:00-19:00 – PA02 SESSION 1 : Architectural decision making in software engineering - Monday 24/03 – 10:30-12:30 – I33SESSION 2 : Tests as executable explanations - Tuesday 25/03 – 14:00-16:00 – I33SESSION 3 : Technical debt, test smells, legacy systems - Wednesday 26/03 – 14:00-16:00 – I33SESSION 4 : Artificial Intelligence for Software Engineering - Thursday 27/03 – 10:30-12:30 – I33 About the speaker Arie van Deursen is a professor at Delft University of Technology, where he leads the Software Engineering Research Group. His research interests include software testing, language models for code, trustworthy artificial intelligence, and human aspects of software engineering. He presently serves as chair of the Steering Commmittee of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE).He is a member of the Dutch Advisory Council on IT Assessments (AcICT), as well as a member of the Advisory Board of ING Bank The Netherlands. In 2023, he was elected fellow of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering (NAE). En savoir plus S'inscrire à l'événement