In the past decade, a scientific community has emerged around the notion of “Automated Software Engineering”. This community has made several advances in two kinds of challenges: the complexity of processing software engineering information, and the difficulty to capture knowledge about software. This position paper first recalls these challenges. It then describes how these challenges influenc...

The upcoming major revision of the UML (see OMG [2003]) has introduced significant changes and additions to “the lingua franca of Software Engineering”. Within the UML, activity diagrams are particularly prominent, since they are the natural choice when it comes to the modeling of web-services, workflows, and service-oriented architectures. One of the most novel concepts introduced are so calle...

Twenty years ago, the seminal work of Grinvald et al. revolutionized the view cast on spontaneous cortical activity by showing how, instead of being a mere measure of noise, it profoundly impacts cortical responses to a sensory input and therefore could play a role in sensory processing. This paved the way for a number of studies on the interactions between spontaneous and sensory-evoked activi...