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All news →SWEN Talks, 23 and 24 September: sustainable microservices and fairness in multi-class classification
Two seminars next week in the SWEN Talks series: Eoan O'Dea (PhD student, SWEN) on what research and practitioners know and do about sustainable microservices (Wednesday 23, 14:30), and visiting researcher Maryam Boubekraoui (HESTIM and Cadi Ayyad University) on constrained optimisation for fairness in multi-class classification (Thursday 24, 12:00). Alan Turing Seminar Room.
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Jjodel 3.0 released: a redesigned metamodeling workbench in the browser
The MODES Lab has released Jjodel 3.0, a complete redesign of SWEN's cloud-based metamodeling workbench: a new transformation language (JjTL), a unified expression language (JjEL), JjScript automation, the Jjodie AI assistant and a new UI. Free, open source, nothing to install.
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Women in STEM 2026: 13 scholarships to support female talent in STEM
The Fondazione Giuseppina Mai, with the support of Confindustria's Sistema partners, opens the fourth edition of the Women in STEM call: 13 scholarships of €3,000 each for first-year female students in STEM master's degree programmes (AY 2025/2026). Applications close on 30 September 2026.
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Research Labs
4 labs, one group.
FrAmeLab explores the intersection of software architecture
FrAmeLab explores the intersection of software architecture with quality assurance, resilience, and green software engineering. The lab comb...
The MODES Laboratory (Model-Driven Engineering and Software
The MODES Laboratory (Model-Driven Engineering and Software Mining Laboratory) is proposed within one of the most active international resea...
The SoSy Group conducts research on automated software synth
The SoSy Group conducts research on automated software synthesis, software architectures, and adaptive systems. Focus on formal approaches t...
The SPENCER Lab specializes in the performance and reliabili
The SPENCER Lab specializes in the performance and reliability of software systems, combining search-based and automated techniques to tackl...
SWEN Talks
Our seminar series.
A monthly research seminar featuring SWEN members and invited speakers from academia and industry.
Constrained Optimisation for Fairness in Multi-Class Classification
The growing deployment of machine learning in sensitive domains such as healthcare, finance, education, and criminal justice has made algorithmic fairness a cen...
Maryam Boubekraoui
Lecturer and Researcher at HESTIM (Morocco), Postdoctoral Fellow at Cadi Ayyad University (Morocco)
What We Know vs What We Do: A Research and Practitioner View on Sustainable Microservices
The ICT sector accounts for a significant and growing share of global electricity consumption, and microservices have become the default architectural style for...
Eoan O'Dea
PhD Student at SWEN, Università degli Studi dell'Aquila
Bridging Academia and Industry: ITE Programs, Research, and Collaboration Horizons
This seminar presents an overview of the Faculty of Information Technology Engineering at Damascus University — its academic structure, Master's and PhD program...
Mohammad Saeed AbouTrab
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Information Technology Engineering, Damascus University