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The Mancoosi team met in Lisbon on October 29th and 30th, at the very nice premises of the Instututo Superior Tecnico. This was a very fruitful project meeting, which allowed to see the state of advancement on both tracks of the project, on the Domain Specific Languages for rolling back unwanted upgrades, and on the advanced solver algorithms for planning upgrades. We could also see Mancoosi mentioned in the Portuguese press (courtesy of Caixa Magica), and the team took a moment to relax after the hard work by discovering the virtues of a certain amount of Portuguese wines.

Last week, I presented a MANCOOSI article at the ESEM 2009 conference in Lake Buena Vista, Florida (better known as Disneyworld).

It's a nice experience going from a Paris autumn to a Florida one (net difference: something like 20 degrees Celsius); and taking the train from Miami to Orlando definitely raised my opinion about American railways (there might not be as many of them as in Europe, but the ones they do have are absolutely wonderful). And when the conference venue looks like this:

Not bad at all.

The conference itself was interesting as well; ESEM stands for Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, a field that I didn't really know much about, but there were some good presentations that expanded my horizons, so to speak.

The paper I presented was written by Pietro Abate, Roberto Di Cosmo, Stefano Zacchiroli and myself: Strong Dependencies between Software Components, about our ideas for using strong dependencies to measure several properties of component-based systems. The paper does not seem to be online yet, but a technical report version can be found on HAL.