Dr. Gabriela Arévalo

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Neubrückstrasse 10
3012 - Bern
Switzerland
Tel: +41 31 631 4868
Fax: +41 31 631 3355
arevalo@iam.unibe.ch
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~arevalo/

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3014 - Bern
Switzerland

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Research Interests

On January 14th, 2005 I finished the Ph.D. thesis entitled: "High-Level Views in Object-Oriented Systems using Formal Concept Analysis" under the supervision of Prof. Oscar Nierstrasz and Prof. Stéphane Ducasse in the Software Composition Group in the University of Bern

My main research topic is the applicability of Formal Concept Analysis to Software Understanding and Reengineering. In general terms, Formal Concept Analysis is a technique coming from Graph Theory which allows to group elements based on their similarities expressed in terms of predicates. We have focused our work on different granularity levels of an object oriented software and we have built different high-level views to understand which are the different constraints imposed in a system.

Classes: We analyse which are the different groups of dependencies based on the state and behavior defined in a class.
Class Hierarchies: We analyse which are the commonalities between classes based on the hierarchical information.
Software Patterns: We analyse which are the recurring patterns we find a system to be able to understand how the different pieces are working and collaborating together

Research Projects

From October 2002, my research is involved in the context of Tools and Techniques for Decomposing and Composing Software project (NFS project 2000-067855.02).
From October 2000 until September 2002, my research was involved in the context of PECOS Project (ESPRIT project IST-20398).
I also participated in SORTIE (A Collective Demonstration of Reverse Engineering Tools) whose results were presented at WCRE 2001. Here is the report the SCG P.U.R.E. produced: Sortie Report, 2001

Past Work

From 1994 to September 1999, I worked in research in Geographic Information Systems in L.I.F.I.A. research lab in La Plata (Buenos Aires - Argentina). Based on this work, I made my degree thesis "GIS + Oceans = A strange combination" with Dr. Silvia Gordillo as advisor

From September 1999 to September 2000, I took the courses of EMOOSE Master project in Ecole des Mines de Nantes in Nantes (France). My master thesis Object Oriented Architectural Description of Frameworks was based on the use of formal languages to represent object oriented frameworks and was advised by Prof. Isabelle Borne

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