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Daniel Amyot @danielamyot.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Also at #RequirementsEngineering 2026 in Montréal! the New Faculty Symposium is an opportunity for you to have lunch with this year's five mentors, and then learn from them in interactive and instructive presentations on important topics! See the program at lnkd.in/gPdmSrek

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Daniel Amyot @danielamyot.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The Seventh International Workshop on #RequirementsEngineering for Well-Being, Aging (#REWBAH 2026) will be held next Tuesday at ÉTS, Montréal, during the IEEE RE 2026 conference! Our keynote is Dr. Alan John Forster from McGill University Health Centre. T See full program at: lnkd.in/e8EEy7hJ

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arXiv cs.SE Software Engineering @csse-bot.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Daniel Amyot: Towards Process Mining Use Case Map Models with PM4Py-UCM arxiv.org/abs/2606.04350 arxiv.org/pdf/2606.04350 arxiv.org/html/2606.04350

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Daniel Amyot @danielamyot.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Wonderful win by the Canadian men's team at the World Cup, 6-0! Still, quite sad about Koné's severe injury during the match. Thanks Nathan Saliba for showing Koné's jersey after your goal; classy!

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Daniel Amyot @danielamyot.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Just out! This research manifesto on Agentic BPM results from a week-long Dagsthul Seminar. I'm biased, but this paper offers great insight about what is coming next in that space, including a conceptual architecture and current research challenges. Enjoy! authors.elsevier.com/c/1myN-15hGZ...

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Daniel Amyot @danielamyot.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

#OnThisDay - April 12, 1980 - St. John's, NL "Today is the day it all begins..." #TerryFox travelled to Outer Cove Beach, collecting two bottles of Atlantic seawater. He planned to keep one as a souvenir and pour the second one in the Pacific Ocean when he arrived home. $900M collected terryfox.org

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Daniel Amyot @danielamyot.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

New @sosym.org paper on "SymboleoAC: an access control model for smart legal contracts", co-authored by Sofana Alfuhaid, Amal Anda, John Mylopoulos, Marco Revi and me! SymboleoAC adds RBAC-based concepts to Symboleo (a language for specifying legal contracts), with tool support. See rdcu.be/eTCt9

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Public Knowledge Project @pkp.sfu.ca · 08/12/2025

📣 Our friends at the #ScholCommLab have published a preprint, "The Drain of #ScientificPublishing", and are calling for #research communities, funders, governments, and #universities to "re-communalise publishing to serve #science not the market" doi.org/10.48550/arX... #ScholComm #AcademicSky

Infographic titled “The Drain of Scientific Publishing,” describing four problems in scholarly publishing: Money, Time, Trust, and Control.

Money: Illustration of flying dollar bills and buildings beside a bank. Text explains that for-profit publishers charge unreasonable reading and publishing fees disconnected from production costs, noting that Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley, and Taylor & Francis made $US 12 billion profit from 2019–2024.

Time: Illustration of a stressed researcher surrounded by stacks of papers and a clock. Text states researchers spend enormous time as authors, reviewers, and editors, maintaining a system that prioritizes quantity over quality, causing burnout and reduced rigor.

Trust: Illustration of a magnifying glass over retracted papers. Text describes commercial pressures to publish quickly, enabling low-quality and fraudulent papers, eroding public confidence.

Control: Illustration of a person with medals labeled with journal metrics. Text explains that rankings like journal impact factor and h-index dictate success, with infrastructures biased toward English journals and controlled by for-profit companies.

At the bottom, a stop-sign graphic reads “Stop the Drain.” Additional text calls for altering incentives and ownership of publishing, re-communalizing scholarly publishing, building community-led systems, preventing unreasonable profits, and using existing open models and infrastructures (e.g., preprints, diamond journals, OJS, SciELO). A final statement urges aligning research assessment with open, community-led publishing.

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Daniel Amyot @danielamyot.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

The #RequirementsEngineering Journal is now on LinkedIn! Follow the page below to receive new articles, calls for papers, information for potential submitters, and more. www.linkedin.com/company/reen...

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Daniel Amyot @danielamyot.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

The Requirements Engineering conference is about to start in Valencia, after two days of great workshops. This is my favorite community and event!

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Daniel Amyot @danielamyot.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Ah! Tariffs! "Princess Bride" had foreseen that situation...

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Daniel Amyot @danielamyot.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Interested in legal contract verification and #SmartContract generation? We have two papers on #Symboleo in that special issue of SoSyM!

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Daniel Amyot @danielamyot.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Our paper got published! Nice collaboration with HEC Paris and ATOS. We used our #Symboleo project in that context too! Baquero, P.M., et al. The compliance gap in data supply chains: contract specification languages and smart contracts as compliance technologies. AI & Law. doi.org/10.1007/s105...

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Daniel Amyot @danielamyot.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Luigi Logrippo was my MSc/ PhD supervisor in 1992-2001. We had dinner at my place on Friday, with other colleagues. We also have another paper coming out soon in the AI & Law journal! I feel very lucky to have been collaborating with him for 33 years! Not sure I will offer this to my students :-)

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Daniel Amyot @danielamyot.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Four weeks ago, I had the privilege to participate to my first Dagstuhl Seminar, in excellent company (yeah, I finally got one of these pictures!). The 22 of us focused on "AUTOBIZ: Pushing the Boundaries of AI-Driven Process Execution and Adaptation" for a week. More on this topic soon... :-)

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tamrakat @tamrakat.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Image of library book display labeled: “It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.” Books on display: • On Tyranny • Twenty Lessons From The 21st Century • 1984 • A Handmaids Tale • Diary of Anne Frank • Parable of The Sower • Fahrenheit 451 • Animal Farm • Brave New World ~TAiLS of a Bookworm

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Daniel Amyot @danielamyot.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

At the SnT (Univ. Luxemburg) on May 12, I presented our work on the use of the #Symboleo formal language for converting legal contracts to #SmartContracts, and results in using LLMs (of course!) to generate Symboleo specifications from English contracts. Presentation slides: lnkd.in/euUPUk3x

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Daniel Amyot @danielamyot.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Two more days of ICSE 2025 in Ottawa, and already much preparation done for the next three editions in Rio, Dublin, and Hawaii!

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Daniel Amyot @danielamyot.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

In 1981, the province of Quebec ruled that women would keep their birth name when getting married. Here is another situation where such law would have been useful elsewhere...

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Daniel Amyot @danielamyot.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Good bye Richard Chamberlain. The lead actor in Shōgun and The Thorn Birds just passed earlier today.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/03/2025

This is the moment when a 30-story skyscraper under construction collapsed in Bangkok, when a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar hundreds of miles away on Friday. Myanmar’s military government said that 144 people had been killed and 732 injured. Follow live updates. nyti.ms/3QSKjuw

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International Conference on Software Engineering @icseconf.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Last chance for most #icse2025 hotels 25th March. Many full already. conf.researchr.org/attending/ic... Come to Ottawa to learn about special sessions we have tagged on developing AI systems, quantum SE, SE for security, SE for blockchain and formal methods.

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Hotels - ICSE 2025

ICSE, the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, is the premier software engineering conference. It will be held April 27-May 3 2025 in Ottawa. Core conference days will be Wednesd...

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Daniel Amyot @danielamyot.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Canadian researchers working on projects funded by US agencies have been sent a questionnaire to determine how their work aligns with Trump’s political agenda, e.g., that it does not include a climate or “environmental justice” or DEI component and that it increases American influence globally!

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Trump administration threatening Canadian researchers

(Ottawa – March 17, 2025) The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) is warning that the

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Ruurtjan @ruurtjan.com · 03/03/2025

I regret to inform you that software engineering will transition to requirements engineering.

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Daniel Amyot @danielamyot.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

This is ChatGPT's view of #Nowruz celebrated in Ottawa... I think it forgot the snow! Nowruz Mubarak (and happy spring to all)!

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Daniel Amyot @danielamyot.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

So much for freedom of expression and academic freedom in the "Land of the Free". Libârté!

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Daniel Amyot @danielamyot.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Je suis encore dans les nouvelles semble-t-il 🙂 Nouvelle article d'Estelle Côté-Sroka à Radio-Canada: "Prestations de sécurité de la vieillesse : recrutement difficile pour changer le système" ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/214...

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

When the American ports were closed to the "coffin ships" of Ireland, the port at Quebec welcomed the orphans of the famine. It is why you see the Irish flag flying proudly to this day in Montreal and Quebec. It is a bond that built our nation. www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...

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Heritage Minutes: Orphans

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International Conference on Software Engineering @icseconf.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

The #icse2025 detailed program is released! The core sessions of the main program can now be browsed here: conf.researchr.org/program/icse... You can filter it by session, room and track. Many, but not all, of the co-located events are now also browsable. More details will be added.

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Program - ICSE 2025

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Daniel Amyot @danielamyot.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I am in the national news today, commenting on another challenged information system deployment in the Canadian government ($4.4B instead of $1.75B). This is in French but an automatic translation to your favorite language should give you the gist of it... ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/214...

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Nouveau logiciel de prestations vieillesse : un autre Phénix?

Des fonctionnaires fédéraux pourraient avoir de la difficulté à exploiter le nouveau logiciel pour le versement des prestations de la sécurité de la vieillesse.

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Daniel Amyot @danielamyot.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

March 8 is International Women's Day (and also my father's birth date!). I just played a bit with LLMs to see how well gender-based equity is handled in a simple code auto-completion exercise. Still much work to be done... AI will not solve our gender-based issues today, so do something about it!

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Daniel Amyot @danielamyot.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

We. Are. Canadian. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ozb... (see the 25-year old original version at www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY6J...)

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We Are Canadian

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Daniel Amyot @danielamyot.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

🚀 Call for Papers: REWBAH'25 – Sixth International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for #Well-Being, #Aging, and #Health – co-located with the 33rd IEEE International #RequirementsEngineering Conference (RE’25) 📅 Date: Sept. 1 or 2, 2025 📍 Valencia, Spain 🌐 sites.google.com/view/rewbah2...

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 28/02/2025

A team at the #ScholCommLab published an open dataset (doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...) and data paper (arxiv.org/abs/2406.08356), where we compiled annual open access fees (APCs) for 8,712 journals published by 6 publishers from 2019 to 2023. We have now combined this dataset… (1/7)

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International Conference on Software Engineering @icseconf.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Celebrate IEEE TSE 50th anniversary at #icse2025 in Ottawa. Join TSE editor Sebastian Uchitel and former editors as they discuss the history of SE through the lens of the EiCs, and the challenges facing SE and journals. conf.researchr.org/info/icse-20... (2 days until early reg date Feb 18th)

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IEEE TSE 50th Anniversary - ICSE 2025

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Daniel Amyot @danielamyot.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Elon Musk and his #DOGE team are so much about efficiency that they forget at times about security... ;-)

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Daniel Amyot @danielamyot.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

If you do not know who Terry Fox is and what he represents to Canadians, it's time for you to learn... Terry is also on our $5 bills now. Oh, and the guy who speaks in this ad for cancer research is Gord Downie, singer of The Tragically Hip, another Canadian legend. Be kind like them. #FuckCancer

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Daniel Amyot @danielamyot.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

We have a new Online Master of #DigitalTransformation and #Innovation at #uOttawa! This part-time program targets experienced Canadian professionals in engineering, software, finance, government, health, etc. Have a look and pass the word around! For more info: www.uottawa.ca/faculty-engi...

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NEW Online Master of Digital Transformation and Innovation at uOttawa

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