Tom Mens

Tom Mens obtained his PhD in Science in 1999 at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium). After that, he was a postdoctoral fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research – Flanders (FWO) for three years. In October 2003 he became a Lecturer at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Mons (Belgium), where he founded and directs a research lab on software engineering. Since November 2008 he is full Professor. His main research interest lies in the underlying foundations of, and tool support for, modeling, developing, and evolving software. He published numerous peer-reviewed articles on this research topic in international journals and conferences. He has been co-organizer, program committee member, and reviewer of numerous international symposia and workshops on model-driven software engineering and software evolution. He has been involved in several interuniversity research projects and networks, and is founder and chair of the ERCIM Working Group on Software Evolution. In 2008 he co-edited the Springer book “Software Evolution” with S. Demeyer.

Publications

Foreword
Foreword
Tom Mens. © 2012. 2 pages.
This Foreword is included in the book Emerging Technologies for the Evolution and Maintenance of Software Models.
Model-Driven Software Refactoring
Model-Driven Software Refactoring
Tom Mens, Gabriele Taentzer, Dirk Müller. © 2009. 34 pages.
In this chapter, we explore the emerging research domain of model-driven software refactoring. Program refactoring is a proven technique that aims at improving the quality of...