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An article about Michal Antkiewicz, Thiago Tonelli Bartolomei and Krzysztof Czarnecki, who received the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, appeared on the IBM Centers for Advanced Studies success stories page.

Michal Antkiewicz, Thiago Tonelli Bartolomei and Krzysztof Czarnecki received the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at the 22nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE'07) for the paper entitled Automatic Extraction of Framework-Specific Models From Framework-Based Application Code.

Prof. Czarnecki presented a full-day tutorial entitled Software Reuse and Evolution with Generative Techniques at the 22nd International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, Nov 05, 2007, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Tutorial slides

At OOPSLA'07 we presented a demo of the FUDA (Framework Understanding through Dynamic Analysis) framework comprehension technique. In this demonstration, we used the prototype implementation of FUDA to generate implementation templates for the concept context menu in Eclipse views.

A. Heydarnoori and K. Czarnecki. Comprehending Implementation Recipes of Framework-Provided Concepts through Dynamic Analysis. In OOPSLA Companion, October 2007, pp. 819-820.

University of Waterloo's ECE Department received an "award of excellence" from the British Computer Society, recognizing "50 years of outstanding contribution to the IT industry in Canada". Prof. Krzysztof Czarnecki accepted the award at a dinner in Toronto hosted by the British Computer Society in Upper Canada.

More information on the UW's Daily Bulletin.

Prof. Czarnecki presented a tutorial entitled Model-Based Evolution at the 2nd Summer School on Generative and Transformational Techniques in Software Engineering, 2 - 7 July, 2007, Braga, Portugal.

Paper Framework-Specific Modeling Languages with Round-Trip Engineering has been selected as one of the best research papers at the MoDELS'06 conference.