Nicolas Palix

Research interests

I am interested in the following research topics (in no particular order):

• Software engineering (Domain-specific languages, bug management)
• Frameworks and middlewares
• Hardware systems (multi-cores, embedded/cyber-physical systems)

Working on those topics, I have so far been involved in the following domains:

• Linux kernel development
• Ubiquitous systems
• IP telephony
• Embedded systems
• MPSoC

Current project

I am currently continuing the study of the evolution of faults in software systems. In parallel, I am also studying how to improve the performance of multicore systems.

Post-doc position: "Language Design for Linux scheduling" (Grenoble)

Former projects

• I worked in the joint lab between the CEA Leti and Magillem Design Service.
  
  See press releases to have more information:
  • Magillem announces the signing of a multi-year collaboration agreement with CEA, the French alternative energies and atomic energy commission
  • Magillem Design Services and CEA Sign a Multi-Year Collaboration Agreement
  • Magillem and Green Hills Software to build a bridge and help software teams debug with MULTI® IDE based on accurate automatically updated IEEE1685 compliant hardware description
• Coccinelle, a tool for semantic patching used to find and fix bugs, and handle collateral evolutions
• Herodotos, a tool for correlating code pattern occurences across software versions. It has mainly been used to study 34 versions of Linux 2.6
• SPL, a DSL for IP telephony services
• DiaGen (now part of the DiaSuite project), a domain-specific architecture language and its generator of distributed framework. DiaSuite aims to ease the development of ubiquitous applications and theirs simulations
• Pantaxou, a DSL for developing ubiquitous services