Welcome to the home of the Distribution and Concurrency (DisCo) Research Group! We are part of the Software Languages Lab (SOFT) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). We specialize in programming languages and tools for concurrent and distributed systems, with a focus on:

  • Debugging tools for concurrent systems.
  • Programming abstractions for replicated data types.
  • Secure programming technologies.

We invite you to explore our research further, and if you are interested in our work or would like more information, please feel free to contact us.




Recent news:

2025
πŸ“– October 12th, 2025

New publication: JASMaint: Portable Multi-language Taint Analysis for the Web

πŸ‘€ October 1st, 2025

Thomas Vandermotten has joined the lab!

πŸ“– August 10th, 2025

New publication: WaShadow: Dynamic Analysis Extending a Shadow Runtime for Profit

πŸ“– June 25th, 2025

New publication: Wastrumentation: Portable WebAssembly Dynamic Analysis with Support for Intercession

πŸ”¬ May 21st, 2025

FWO has accepted to fund the SODISA project πŸ₯³

πŸ“– May 1st, 2025

New publication: Concurrency Contracts for Designing Highly Available Replicated Data Types

πŸ“– April 2nd, 2025

New publication: ReDunT: Automatically Deriving Redundancy Relations for Pure Op-Based CRDTs

πŸ“– February 15th, 2025

New publication: The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming Journal. Volume 10 Issue 1

πŸ“– January 1st, 2025

New publication: Ensuring Convergence and Invariants Without Coordination

2024
πŸ“– October 15th, 2024

New publication: The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming Journal. Volume 9 Issue 1

πŸ‘€ October 1st, 2024

Jonas Sys has joined the lab!

πŸ“– September 13th, 2024

New publication: Language-Agnostic Debugging for Microcontrollers

πŸ“– September 13th, 2024

New publication: DEBT 2024: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Workshop on Future Debugging Techniques

πŸŽ“ August 23rd, 2024

Jim Bauwens has successfully defended his PhD!

πŸ“– March 11th, 2024

New publication: BoaSpect: An Expressive Instrumentation Platform for JavaScript


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