SSM continues as MILES
From October 2026, the Sustainable Systems and Methods Lab (SSM) continues its operation as the Model-Integrated and Learning-Enabled Systems Lab (MILES). We founded our lab at McMaster University in 2023 …
New publication at MODELS’26 on the model-driven data contracts for digital twin services
Our paper Model-Driven Data Contracts for Digital Twin Services, co-authored with Philipp Zech (University of Innsbruck, Austria) has been accepted for the New Ideas and Emerging Results track of the …
Rebecca Di Filippo joins lab as a Master’s student
Rebecca Di Filippo has joined our lab as a Master of Applied Science (MASc) student in Software Engineering starting from September. Rebecca brings a particularly strong software engineering skillset and …
Sharon Liu presented her work on a reference architecture for RL at ICSA
Xiaoran (Sharon) Liu just presented her work on A Reference Architecture of Reinforcement Learning Frameworks in the main track of the CORE A-ranked International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA). In …
New publication at MODELS’26 on the model-driven development of families of reinforcement learning environments
Our paper A Model-Driven Approach for Developing Families of Reinforcement Learning Environments, co-authored with my fantastic PhD student, Xiaoran (Sharon) Liu has been accepted for the ACM/IEEE 29th International Conference …
Sharon Liu wins the Department’s poster session
Sharon Liu has won 1st Prize in the Department’s annual poster session. Sharon’s work has been recently focusing on the engineering of reinforcement learning environments through model-driven principles and genetic …
Lisa and Chehine join lab
Lisa-Kooner Singh (undergraduate researcher) and Chéhine Zouari (international research student with Mitacs Globalink) joined our lab for this Summer. Lisa will work on reinforcement learning and simulation-related topics; Chéhine will …
Two new MSc graduates from the lab: Baran Shajari and Feyi Adesanya
Baran Shajari and Feyi Adesanya have successfully defended their theses and graduated from our program with an MSc in Computer Science degree. Baran’s thesis “On the Need for Individual Sustainability …
Call for papers: 2nd International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing (LOCO2026)
https://lancaster-university.github.io/loco2026 The carbon footprint of ICT is rising despite the urgent need to decarbonise society and to stay within planetary boundaries. The operational and embodied carbon emissions from ICT are …
Call for papers: 3nd International Workshop on Sustainability and Modeling (SusMod) – co-located with MODELS’26
https://sustainability-and-modeling.github.io/ Sustainability is becoming a key characteristic of modern systems. While this trend has been long recognized, rigorous formal methods for assessing sustainability, reasoning about often contradicting sustainability properties, and …