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Daniel Amyot
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Software Engineering Professor, and Director of the Online Master of Digital Transformation and Innovation, University of Ottawa. Loves his family, Requirements Engineering / Modelling, Process Mining, soccer, teaching, and good craft beer.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Ah! Tariffs! "Princess Bride" had foreseen that situation...
August 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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...
July 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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 :-)
June 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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... :-)
June 6, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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
May 14, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Two more days of ICSE 2025 in Ottawa, and already much preparation done for the next three editions in Rio, Dublin, and Hawaii!
May 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
April 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
#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
April 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Good bye Richard Chamberlain. The lead actor in Shōgun and The Thorn Birds just passed earlier today.
March 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This is ChatGPT's view of #Nowruz celebrated in Ottawa... I think it forgot the snow!

Nowruz Mubarak (and happy spring to all)!
March 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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...
March 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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!
March 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🚀 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...
March 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Elon Musk and his #DOGE team are so much about efficiency that they forget at times about security... ;-)
February 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
January 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Netflix out a year ago
Apple+ out 3 months ago
Disney+ cancelled yesterday
Amazon Prime's automatic renewal cancelled too (due this summer)

I will focus on Crave.ca and Tou.tv, both Canadian streamers!
January 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Share the news!!! We are hiring *four* (4) people in #ComputerScience at #uOttawa! These are tenure-track, Assistant or Associate Prof positions at the School of EECS.

You will get great colleagues too :-)

Application deadline: March 1, 2025. See uottawa.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/uOttaw...
January 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Le Canal Rideau est ouvert si tu veux venir y patiner!
January 28, 2025 at 1:49 AM
And just like that, #NSERC augmented my Discovery Grant on Requirements-Oriented Process Mining by $7,000 per year for the next 5 years... Good news of the day!
January 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Accepted at RAISE 2025 (@ICSE)! We explored how well #GPT-4o can convert English legal contracts into #Symboleo specifications, using 38 prompt configurations. We also tested a few configurations on Claude, Gemini, Llama, and Mistral. Great potential for #LegalTech! See arxiv.org/pdf/2411.15898
December 21, 2024 at 9:38 PM
The latest Research and Impact Report of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Ottawa is now available! Have a look at the details at: lnkd.in/exUyHqe3
December 17, 2024 at 11:10 PM
Good news, with our paper accepted at the New Ideas and Early Results (NIER) track of ICSE2025! @icseconf.bsky.social

More to come on this topic soon...
December 13, 2024 at 3:33 AM
A few thoughts about the Apromore tool. Earlier this year, I had the chance to teach a new online graduate course in our Digital Transformation and Innovation program on "Process Modelling, Mining, and Automation". I had selected Apromore, and that was definitely the right choice in my context.
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December 8, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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December 6, 2024 at 3:38 PM