Kris De Volder Assistant Professor  E-mail: kdvolder@cs.ubc.ca   Office Phone: +1 (604) 822 1209 Office Fax: +1 (604) 822 5485 Office: CICSR 309

Lic. in Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (1988-1992); TA/PhD Student Vrije Universiteit Brussel (1992-1998); Postdoc TA Vrije Universiteit Brussel (1998-2000); Assistant Prof. UBC (2000-...).

Research Interests

The current research topics in my group focus around the area of overlap that exists between programming-language design and software development tools. I have a particular interest in aspect-oriented software development, tools and languages.

Two recurring themes in much of our research are:

1. the use and construction of software tools that provide developers with dynamic views on code that help them see and work with implicit structure that could not otherwise be easily discovered or explicitly manipulated.
2. the use of a declarative, logic programming language to express, verify and discover interesting properties and structure of source code.

The following projects and papers are representative of what my group is working on:

• JQuery: JQuery is a query-based source code browser, developed as an Eclipse plug-in. A JQuery user can define his or her own browsers on-the-fly by formulating logic queries against his/her source code. The user can specify how query results should be organized in a hierarchical source code browser in a simple and easy way.
• Tableau: An Eclipse plugin that strives to increase the perceptual locality of source code by dynamically generating views that localize scattered source code elements, based on navigation history and static relationships.
• Programming with Crosscutting Effective Views: In this paper we present a system that allows a developer to move fluidly between two alternative modular views on the decomposition of the program, editing the program either as decomposed into classes, or alternatively as decomposed into modules that crosscut classes.
• TyRuBa: Is a sophisticated logic programming language / query engine that has static type and mode checking system. This language is the query engine on which the JQuery tool was built.

See also:

• CPSC 511 home page
• The TyRuBa home page: TyRuBa is my home grown logic-meta-programming system and query engine.
• Dissertation Advice

Publications

• Programming with Crosscutting Effective Views. European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP) 2004, Oslo. Doug Janzen and Kris De Volder.
• Building Composable Aspect-Specific Languages with Logic Metaprogramming. The ACM SIGPLAN/SIGSOFT Conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE), 2002. Johan Brichau, Kim Mens and Kris De Volder.
• Explicit Programming: Improve the Design Vocabulary of Your Code. Demonstration proposal accepted at OOPSLA 2001, Tampa Florida.
  Avi Bryant, Andrew Catton, Kris De Volder and Gail Murphy
• Logic Meta Programming, a Framework for Domain-Specific Aspect Languages
  Unpublished, 2001.
  Kris De Volder, Johan Brichau, Kim Mens, Theo D'Hondt
• Type-Oriented Logic Meta Programming,
  Ph.D Dissertation, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1998, Brussels.
  Kris De Volder
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• Aspect-Oriented Logic Meta Programming,
  Proceedings of Meta-Level Architectures and Reflection, Second International Conference, Reflection'99. LNCS 1616, pp. 250-272, Springer-Verlag, 1999.
  De Volder Kris, D'Hondt Theo,
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• Co-Evolution of Object-Oriented Software Design and Implementation: TACT Symposium Proceedings, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000. D'Hondt Theo, De Volder Kris, Mens Kim, Wuyts Roel.

• Jumping Aspects. ECOOP 2000, Workshop on Aspects & Dimensions of Concerns, Workshop reader of ECOOP'2000, Cannes, France, 2000. Brichau Johan, De Meuter Wolfgang, De Volder Kris. download)(View extensive information)

• Logic Meta Components as a Generic Component Model

  Fifth International Workshop on Component-Oriented Programming, Workshop reader of ECOOP'2000, Cannes, France, 2000
  De Volder Kris, Fabry Johan, Wuyts Roel,
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• Type-Oriented Logic Meta Programming for Java

  VUB-Prog Techreport 98-3, 1998, Brussels
  De Volder Kris,
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• Construction of the Reflective Tower Based on Open Implementations

  VUB-Prog Techreport 95-01, 1995, Brussels
  De Volder Kris, Steyaert Patrick,
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