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Version françaiseDans le cadre d’une Chaire Francqui internationale 2024-2025, la faculté d’informatique (UNamur) aura le plaisir de recevoir le Professeur Arie Van Deursen (TU Delft, Pays-bas) du 24 au 27 mars 2025, pour une série de leçons sur le thème: "Explainable Software Engineering". Explainable Software Engineering in the Public Sector The field of software engineering seeks to devise theories, methods, tools, and techniques that support the development, operation, and evolution of the digital infrastructure modern society relies on. While the software engineering capabilities have advanced substantially over the past decades, it remains challenging to deliver high quality systems in a timely and cost-effective manner. Government system in particular have a weak reputation in this respect.To better understand why, we analyze 125 complex software projects in the public sector in The Netherlands. The projects are described in public reports published by the Advisory Council on IT Assessments (AcICT), which advises the Dutch parliament and cabinet on riks and chances of success in complex Information Technology (IT) projects. The projects span a time period of 10 years, represent a total budget of over 14 billion Euros, and cover such areas as tax collection, social security, pensions, health, traffic control, defense, or water management.We study these reports through the lens of "explainability", focusing on supporting decision making. Furthermore, we reflect on current advances in software engineering, including modern software testing and large language models, in addressing current software engineering challenges. Program INAUGURAL LECTURE: Explainable Software Engineering in the Public Sector - Tuesday 25/03 - 18:00-19:00 - PA02 SESSION 1: Architectural decision making in software engineering - Monday 24/03 - 10:30-12:30 - I33SESSION 2 : Tests as executable explanations - Tuesday 25/03 - 14:00-16:00 - I33SESSION 3: Technical debt, test smells, legacy systems - Wednesday 26/03 - 14:00-16:00 - I33SESSION 4: Artificial Intelligence for Software Engineering - Thursday 27/03 - 10:30-12:30 - I33 About the speaker Arie van Deursen is a professor at Delft University of Technology, where he leads the Software Engineering Research Group. His research interests include software testing, language models for code, trustworthy artificial intelligence, and human aspects of software engineering. He presently serves as chair of the Steering Commmittee of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE).He is a member of the Dutch Advisory Council on IT Assessments (AcICT), as well as a member of the Advisory Board of ING Bank The Netherlands. In 2023, he was elected fellow of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering (NAE). Read more

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In recent decades, electoral reforms have strengthened the individual dimension of elected representatives in proportional representation (PR) electoral systems. This general trend towards the "personalization of political life" is leading researchers to study its effects on intra-partisan competition.

Since 1979, the powers of the European Parliament (EP) have expanded considerably. However, the EP's ability to make full use of its decision-making capacity also depends on the profile of the MEPs who sit there. It is therefore important to examine the relationship between the political background of MEPs and their legislative behavior.

Five types of research seminars take place within the Institute. These seminars bring together members around a variety of themes and generally take place during the day.

The "Vulnerabilities and Societies" research center brings together members from various UNamur Faculties with the aim of studying the dynamics of vulnerability in our societies.

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Researchers at the Unit study, among other things: children's rights protection systems; children's vulnerability; children's best interests; children's right to autonomy and participation; children's procedural status; children's rights in the context of youth welfare and youth protection: the rights of the child in parentage and adoption law; the rights of the migrant child; the right of the child to a non-violent education; the rights of the child in the digital environment; the rights of intersex children; the rights of transgender children.The Unit's activities are manifold: promotion of doctoral theses and research projects; teaching and training (intervention in the Master de spécialisation interuniversitaire en approche interdisciplinaire des droits de l'enfant, the Certificat en approche interdisciplinaire des droits l'enfant, the Certificat en accompagnement de l'accrochage scolaire et social and the Certificat en approche multidisciplinaire des maltraitances infanto-juvéniles) ; organization and participation in colloquia, conferences, seminars in Belgium and abroad; publication of individual and collective works, articles, commentaries and proceedings; consultancy activities for public or private bodies; links with the associative world (Service Learning); collaboration with universities abroad.List of membersGéraldine Mathieu - Professor and Director of the UnitGilles Abel - Scientific collaborator and philosopherAline Bodson - Doctoral studentEmma Bourcelet - Assistant and doctoral studentManon Brulard -. ResearcherAurélie Cassiers - LecturerCéline Derclaye - Assistant and family mediatorAurore François - Visiting professorMarie Goffaux - Scientific collaborator, lawyer at the Namur BarEmilie Hermans - Doctoral studentPauline Mailleux - AssistantMichaël Mallien - Visiting lecturer, lawyer at the Brussels BarBee Marique - Didactic collaborator, lawyer and family mediator at the Dinant BarFrançois-Xavier Polis - Scientific collaborator, adolescent psychiatrist, director of AthanorAnne-Catherine Rasson - Scientific contributorMathieu Rolain- Didactic contributor and lecturerAgathe Willaume - Scientific contributor, director of SMAJ Other units Health, Social and Well-being Unit Vulnerabilities and Citizens' Rights Unit The CSS

Moved by a fundamental motivation to serve the community and make research results accessible, the Health, Social and Wellbeing Unit (SSBE) has today developed its activities around various human sciences, such as law, psychology, philosophy, economics, etc., and regularly collaborates with players in the so-called hard sciences (medicine, pharmacy, engineering...). Its research focus, like the constant concern for respect for the human person, lends itself more to a broader approach than just the legal framework.The researchers at SSBE examine how societal systems take into account, or fail to take into account, the various forms of vulnerability that can affect individuals or groups, on a one-off or permanent basis. The various norms and systems are thus analyzed in terms of their principles, practices, effectiveness, contradictions, players and developments, with a resolutely forward-looking objective and an important fundamental research dimension.SSBE has developed national and international expertise in the fields of social protection, welfare, psychosocial risks, mental health, equality and non-discrimination, and issues closely or remotely related to public health (patients' rights, aging, disability...), as well as in interdisciplinary research methodology. Other units Vulnerabilities and Children's Rights Unit Vulnerabilities and Citizens' Rights Unit The CSS

Special attention is therefore paid to the field of public law (constitutional law and civil liberties, administrative law and criminal law and procedure), and particularly to the individual in his or her relationship with public authority. Various contexts of vulnerability are targeted: terrorism, radicalization, religious minorities, gender discrimination, armed conflicts, incivilities, begging, mental disorders, organized crime, sexual and gender violence, child pornography, cyber harassment, professional secrecy, anti-discrimination, etc.While the Unit is fundamentally rooted in legal science research, and in the field of public law in particular, it is also - like each of the Units that make up the V&S Centre - interdisciplinary and naturally draws on other social sciences to refine its expertise. Other units Vulnerabilities and Children's Rights Unit Health, Social and Well-being Unit The CSS

The "Crime, Security and Surveillance in the Digital Age (CSS)" unit brings together researchers from CRIDS and the V&S Centre, some of whom are practitioners and most of whom are teachers, around three lines of research: crime, security and surveillance in the digital age.

Created in memory of the founder of UNamur's Biology Department, the Fonds Adrien Bauchau (FAB) has been promoting research excellence in the life sciences since 1989.