I am Full Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J). I teach in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, and evolve within the research team SM@RT at the CNRS Research Institute of Computer Science in Toulouse (IRIT). I am also Research Scientist at Inria, evolving within the DiverSE team. See my bio or CV.

       

I teach software engineering in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J), and used to give invited lectures and complete courses in various universities and engineering schools worldwide. More specifically, I teach in the following areas:

• Software Language Engineering (SLE),
• Model-Driven Engineering (MDE),
• Software Validation and Verification (V&V),
• DevOps (continuous integration, delivery and deployment), and
• Object-Oriented Modeling and Programming.

    

Materials for the students from the Master ICE at UT2J (²⁰¹⁸⁄₂₀₁₉): Master 2 and Master 1.

My research activities lie in Software and Systems Engineering, focusing on agility and safety within the development of software-intensive systems. In our group, we develop techniques, frameworks, and environments to facilitate the creation, integration, and automated processing of software languages. The main application domains include cyber-physical systems, Internet of things, embedded systems, smart technologies and sustainability systems.

In particular, we contribute to the following fields:

• Model-Driven (software and systems) Engineering, Software Language Engineering, Generative approaches
• Domain Specific (Modeling) Languages, and Metamodeling
• Software variability, and dynamic adaptive systems
• Aspect-oriented modeling and model composition
• Model Validation & Verification
• Software Development Process & Business Process Management

  

Want to hack languages yourself? I have open positions and I am always looking for talented and motivated persons who want to join us for an internship, a PhD, a Post-doc, or a research visit. Feel free to contact me.

Since 2009, I have very much enjoyed collaborating with (and learned from) the following PhD and MSc students.

See the list of all my publications on Google Scholar, DBLP, or my CV. You can also access all the preprints from HAL.

Major Recent Publications (selected):

Here is a list of my presentations (invited talks, seminars and keynotes). Most of the recent slide decks are available from my SlideShare account.

I am involving into the following software projects:

• The GEMOC Studio, a language workbench for language executability, assembling and globalization. The GEMOC Studio includes, among others:
  • Action Language for EMF (ALE), to make Ecore metamodels executable.
  • Sirius Animator, to bring execution, debug and simulation in domain specific tooling built with EMF.
  • Model of Concurrency and Communication Modeling Language (MoCCML), to reify a formal model of concurrency in executable modeling languages.
  • Behavioral Coordination Operator Language (BCOoL), to explicitly specify coordination patterns between heterogeneous languages.
• Melange, a language and platform for assembling and integrating multiple domain-specific languages (DSL)
• Kermeta, an executable metamodeling language
• Kompren, a generic approach for model slicing

In the past, I involved in:

• Topcased simulation tools
• COQ4MDE, a formal metamodeling framework based on COQ

• Deputy Editor in Chief of the platinum open access journal JOT.
• Editorial Board member of the journals SoSyM, COLA, SQJ and SCP (Advisory Board of the Software Section).
• Steering Committee member of the ACM SIGPLAN Intl. Conference on Software Language Engineering (since 2014, chair since 2018)
• General chair for SLE 2017 and MODELS 2016, PC chair for ICT4S 2020, ECMFA 2019 and SLE 2014, member of organizing committees and program committees for various SE conferences (MODELS, SLE, ECMFA, ICMT, APSEC, SEFM…)
• Coordinator of the Dagstuhl Seminars 17342 and 14412
• Founding member and coordinator of the GEMOC Initiative (Eclipse Research Consortium, Eclipse project, Workshop…)
• Member of hiring juries for academic positions, and PhD committees
• Reviewer for different national research agencies

• benoit.combemale@inria.fr
• +332.99.84.25.68
• Benoit Combemale, Inria Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique Research Centre, Campus universitaire de Beaulieu, 263 Avenue du Général Leclerc, 35042 Rennes, France