INTiMALS
Mines programming idioms, coding conventions, and usage patterns from source-code repositories, version history, and developer interactions to proactively recommend modernisation actions for legacy software.
Website: soft.vub.ac.be/intimals Funding: Innoviris TeamUp (Strategic Basic Research Brussels) Timeline: 2018–2020 Additional PIs: Kim Mens (UCLouvain), Siegfried Nijssen (UCLouvain), Vadim Zaytsev (Raincode Labs)
Researched and deployed pattern-mining algorithms in an industrial prototype that pro-actively recommends source-code modernisation actions, drawing its intelligence from previously unknown patterns mined from a system’s code, version history, and changes.