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  1. Spec2COBOLRot: An Agentic-AI Degradation Loop for Realistic COBOL Corpus Generation

    Article • October 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher

  2. Code Transformation Rule Synthesis using LLMs: Potential and Limits

    Article • October 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher

  3. Testing Uniform Random Samplers: Methods, Datasets, and Protocols

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, September 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    FNRS Research Associate Gilles Perrouin, Mathieu Acher

  4. Fault Diversity in Reinforcement Learning Policy Testing

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, June 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher

  5. Embracing Deep Variability For Reproducibility and Replicability

    Article • June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher

  6. Testing for Fault Diversity in Reinforcement Learning

    Article • April 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher

  7. Options Matter: Documenting and Fixing Non-Reproducible Builds in Highly-Configurable Systems

    Article • April 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher

  8. Exploring the Computational Complexity of SAT Counting and Uniform Sampling with Phase Transitions

    Article • April 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    FNRS Research Associate Gilles Perrouin, Mathieu Acher

  9. Preprocessing is What You Need: Understanding and Predicting the Complexity of SAT-based Uniform Random Sampling

    Article • April 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    FNRS Research Associate Gilles Perrouin, Mathieu Acher

  10. A Demonstration of End-User Code Customization Using Generative AI

    Article • February 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher

  11. On Programming Variability with Large Language Model-based Assistant

    Article • August 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher

  12. Generative AI for Reengineering Variants into Software Product Lines

    Article • August 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher

  13. Specialization of Run-time Configuration Space at Compile-time: An Exploratory Study

    Article • March 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher

  14. A Call for Removing Variability

    Article • January 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher

  15. From feature models to feature toggles in practice

    Article • September 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher

  16. Beware of the Interactions of Variability Layers When Reasoning about Evolution of MongoDB

    Article • July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher

  17. On the benefits and limits of incremental build of software configurations

    Article • May 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher

  18. Towards incremental build of software configurations

    Article • May 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher

  19. On the Interaction of Feature Toggles

    Article • February 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher

  20. Transferring Performance between Distinct Configurable Systems : A Case Study

    Article • February 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher

  21. Reproducible Science and Deep Software Variability

    Article • February 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher

  22. The interplay of compile-time and run-time options for performance prediction

    Article • September 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher

  23. Fourth International Workshop on Languages for Modelling Variability (MODEVAR@SPLC 2021)

    Article • September 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher

  24. A comparison of performance specialization learning for configurable systems

    Article • September 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher

  25. BURST

    Article • September 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher, FNRS Research Associate Gilles Perrouin

  26. REVE 2020

    Article • October 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher

  27. Third International Workshop on Languages for Modelling Variability (MODEVAR@SPLC 2020)

    Article • October 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher

  28. Machine learning and configurable systems

    Article • October 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher

  29. Test them all, is it worth it?

    Article • October 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher, FNRS Research Associate Gilles Perrouin

  30. Co-evolving code with evolving metamodels

    Article • June 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher

  31. On the power of abstraction

    Article • June 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher

  32. MALTESQUE 2019 Workshop Summary

    Article • ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, January 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher, FNRS Research Associate Gilles Perrouin

  33. Towards Learning-Aided Configuration in 3D Printing

    Article • February 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher

  34. VaryLATEX

    Article • February 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher

  35. Yo variability! JHipster

    Article • February 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher, FNRS Research Associate Gilles Perrouin

  36. A formal modeling and analysis framework for software product line of preemptive real-time systems

    Article • April 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher

  37. Product lines can jeopardize their trade secrets

    Article • August 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher

  38. MatrixMiner: a red pill to architect informal product descriptions in the matrix

    Article • August 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher

  39. Automating the formalization of product comparison matrices

    Article • September 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher

  40. Comparing or configuring products

    Article • January 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher

  41. A survey on teaching of software product lines

    Article • January 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher

  42. Support for reverse engineering and maintaining feature models

    Article • January 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mathieu Acher