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Jordi Cabot

Jordi Cabot

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Engineering Sciences

Jordi Cabot received his PhD degree in Computer Science from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in 2006 and his Habilitation (French HdR) from the École Doctorale in Nantes in 2012. He has been a visiting researcher in Milan (Politecnico di Milano) and Toronto (University of Toronto) and an Associate Professor and Inria International Chair at École des Mines de Nantes where he led an Inria Research team in Software Engineering. Since May 2015, he is an ICREA Research Professor at Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3), a research center of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) where he leads the SOM (Systems, Software and Models) research lab. Beyond his core research activities, he books some time for blogging and other dissemination and technology transfer actions.


Research interests

My research falls into the broad area of systems and software engineering, especially promoting the rigorous use of software models and engineering principles in all software engineering tasks while keeping an eye on the most unpredictable element in any project: the people involved in it. Current research topics include the development of pragmatic formal verification techniques to assess the quality and security of software systems, the analysis and data mining of open source projects (and the communities around them) to optimize their collaboration and organizational structures, the study of scalability challenges in the design and deployment of large systems and the role AI can play in software development (and vice versa).

Selected publications

– Rodriguez, Cristo; Garces, Kelly; Cabot, Jordi; Casallas, Rubby; Melo, Fabian; Escobar, Daniel; Salamanca, Alejandro 2021, ‘Model-based assisted migration of oracle forms applications: The overall process in an industrial setting’, Software-practice & Experience, Volume51, Issue8, Pages 1641-1675.

– Planas, Elena; Daniel, Gwendal; Brambilla, Marco; Cabot, Jordi 2021, ‘Towards a model-driven approach for multiexperience AI-based user interfaces’, Software And Systems Modeling, 20, pages 997–1009.

Cabot, Jordi; Bruneliere, Hugo; Daniel, Gwendal; Gomez, Abel 2021, ‘All Researchers Should Become Entrepreneurs’, 2021 Ieee/acm 8th International Workshop On Software Engineering Research And Industrial Practice (ser&ip 2021), 73 – 74.

– Burgueno, Loli; Clariso, Robert; Gerard, Sebastien; Li, Shuai; Cabot, Jordi 2021, ‘An NLP-Based Architecture for the Autocompletion of Partial Domain Models’, Advanced Information Systems Engineering (caise 2021), 12751, 91 – 106.


Selected research activities

  • Constitution of the spin-off Xatkit specialized in the automatic generation of chatbots from any type of available data
  • Start of AIDOaRT ECSEL-JU project to work on AI-augmented automation for efficient DevOps, a model-based framework for continuous development At RunTime in cyber-physical systems.
  • Start of the Transact ECSEL-JU project to study how to transform safety-critical cyber-physical systems into distributed solutions for end-users and partners
  • Start of the LOCOSS National project focusing on the low-code development of smart software
  • Start of the BODI National project to create bots to interact with open data sources to facilitate citizen access to public data

ICREA Memoir 2021