Publications from the BESSER team.
Selected papers at the intersection of low-code, modeling, and AI.
Publications
67 research papers and counting.
- Preprint 2026
On the use of LLMs to generate a dataset of Neural Networks
Nadia Daoudi, Jordi Cabot
arXiv preprint Free PDF
- Conference 2026
B-OCL: An Object Constraint Language Parser and Interpreter
Fitash Ul Haq, Armen Sulejmani, Jordi Cabot
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 29th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
- Conference 2026
BESSER-NN: Visual Neural Network Design and Automated Code Generation with the BESSER Low-Code Platform
Nadia Daoudi, Armen Sulejmani, Jordi Cabot
Proceedings of the 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
- Conference 2026
Who are my users? A graphical language and modeling environment for specifying end-user profiles
A. Conrardy, Alfredo Capozucca, Jordi Cabot
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 29th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
- Conference 2026
PolicyDSL: A Model-Driven Approach for the Definition and Enforcement of Fine-Grained Access Control Policies
Atefeh Nirumand, Jordi Cabot
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 29th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
- Workshop 2026
Defining and Deploying Agentic Swarms with the BESSER Low-Code Platform
Adem Ait, J. L. Cánovas Izquierdo, Jordi Cabot
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Agentic AI for Next-Generation Software Development
- Preprint 2026
A Two-Dimensional Study of the Model Context Protocol: Publication and Adoption
Natarajan Chidambaram, Mauro Dalle Lucca Tosi, Jordi Cabot
arXiv preprint Free PDF
- Journal 2026
A Framework for Defining and Enforcing Governance Policies in Human-Agent Software Development
Adem Ait, Gwendal Jouneaux, Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo, Jordi Cabot
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology Free PDF
- Journal 2026
The Software Diversity Card: A framework for reporting diversity in software projects
Joan Giner-Miguelez, Sergio Morales, Sergio Cobos, Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo, Robert Clarisó, Jordi Cabot
Inf. Softw. Technol., vol. 190, pp. 107950 Free PDF
- Conference 2026
A Low-Code Approach for the Automatic Personalization of Conversational Agents
Aaron Conrardy, Alfredo Capozucca, Jordi Cabot
ICWE, pp. 47-61 Free PDF
- Conference 2026
Towards Migrating Neural Network Implementations
Nadia Daoudi, Iván Alfonso, Jordi Cabot
AIware, pp. 268-277 Free PDF
- Conference 2026
Testing Low-Resource Language Support in LLMs Using Language Proficiency Exams: the Case of Luxembourgish
Cedric Lothritz, Jordi Cabot, Laura Bernardy
EACL (Findings), pp. 2453-2476 Free PDF
- Conference 2026
BESSER-TestGen: Automated Model-based Unit Test Generation for Low-Code Applications
Fitash Ul Haq, Jordi Cabot
ICST, pp. 206-210
- Conference 2026
Low-Code and No-Code with BESSER to Create and Deploy Smart Web Applications
Iván Alfonso, Armen Sulejmani, Aaron Conrardy, Jordi Cabot
ICWE, pp. 315-319 Free PDF
- Conference 2026
Robust LLM-as-a-Judge Validators for Assessing the Quality of Educational Exams
Renzo Degiovanni, Sergio Morales, Miriam Coccia, Robert Clarisó, Jordi Cabot
SAC, pp. 95-102 Free PDF
- Journal 2026
A dataset of neural network architectures generated via large language models
Nadia Daoudi, Jordi Cabot
Scientific Data Free PDF
- Journal 2026
Cross-platform evaluation of reasoning capabilities in foundation models
Joachim de Curtò, Irene de Zarzà, Pablo García, Jordi Cabot, Juan-Carlos Cano, Carlos T. Calafate
Inf. Process. Manag., vol. 63, no. 7, pp. 104878 Free PDF
- Preprint 2026
Semantic Invariance in Agentic AI
Irene de Zarzà, Joachim de Curtò, Jordi Cabot, Pietro Manzoni, Carlos T. Calafate
arXiv preprint Free PDF
- Preprint 2026
Can Language Models Pass Software Testing Certification Exams? a case study
Fitash Ul Haq, Jordi Cabot
arXiv preprint Free PDF
- Preprint 2025
Mind the Language Gap: Automated and Augmented Evaluation of Bias in LLMs for High- and Low-Resource Languages
A. Buscemi, Cedric Lothritz, Sergio Morales, Marcos Gomez-Vazquez, Robert Clarisó, Jordi Cabot, German Castignani
arXiv preprint Free PDF
- Workshop 2025
Towards a Unified User Modeling Language for Engineering Human Centered AI Systems
Aaron Conrardy, Alfredo Capozucca, Jordi Cabot
EICS (Workshops), pp. 69-85 Free PDF
- Conference 2025
ModelFed: A Federated Protocol for Collaborative Cross-Platform Modeling
Iván Alfonso, Jordi Cabot
ER, pp. 45-62 Free PDF
- Conference 2025
Towards Reliable LLM-based Exam Generation: Lessons Learned and Open Challenges in an Industrial Project
Renzo Degiovanni, Jordi Cabot
ASE, pp. 3766-3771 Free PDF
- Conference 2025
Towards Modeling Human-Agentic Collaborative Workflows: A BPMN Extension
Adem Ait, Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo, Jordi Cabot
SEAA, pp. 367-382 Free PDF
- Workshop 2025
Towards Sustainability Model Cards
Gwendal Jouneaux, Jordi Cabot
Green-Aware AI@ECAI, pp. 20-28 Free PDF
- Conference 2025
From Mock-Ups to IFML-Like GUI Models: Using Large Language Models in Web Engineering
Atefeh Nirumand, Jordi Cabot
ICWE, pp. 253-268 Free PDF
- Conference 2025
Towards Automated Governance: A DSL for Human-Agent Collaboration in Software Projects
Adem Ait, Gwendal Jouneaux, Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo, Jordi Cabot
ASE, pp. 3891-3895 Free PDF
- Conference 2025
Teaching low-code development with BESSER
Iván Alfonso, Jordi Cabot
MODELS-C, pp. 39-42
- Workshop 2025
Exploring the use of large language models in domain-specific language development: an experience report
Jordi Cabot
STAF Workshops Free PDF
- Workshop 2025
OCL on life support: can we revitalize the community for a stronger future?
Mauro Dalle Lucca Tosi, Jordi Cabot
STAF Workshops Free PDF
- Workshop 2025
Automated and Augmented Evaluation of Bias in LLMs for High- and Low-Resource Languages
Alessio Buscemi, Cedric Lothritz, Sergio Morales, Marcos Gómez-Vázquez, Robert Clarisó, Jordi Cabot, German Castignani
TRUST-AI@ECAI, pp. 10-18 Free PDF
- Preprint 2025
B-OCL: An Object Constraint Language Interpreter in Python
Fitash Ul Haq, Jordi Cabot
arXiv preprint Free PDF
- Preprint 2025
Towards a DSL to Formalize Multimodal Requirements
Marcos Gómez-Vázquez, Jordi Cabot
arXiv preprint Free PDF
- Preprint 2025
The Sandbox Configurator: A Framework to Support Technical Assessment in AI Regulatory Sandboxes
Alessio Buscemi, Thibault Simonetto, Daniele Pagani, German Castignani, Maxime Cordy, Jordi Cabot
arXiv preprint Free PDF
- Preprint 2025
LuxIT: A Luxembourgish Instruction Tuning Dataset from Monolingual Seed Data
Julian Valline, Cedric Lothritz, Jordi Cabot
arXiv preprint Free PDF
- Preprint 2025
AgentSLA : Towards a Service Level Agreement for AI Agents
Gwendal Jouneaux, Jordi Cabot
arXiv preprint Free PDF
- Preprint 2025
Ask Safely: Privacy-Aware LLM Query Generation for Knowledge Graphs
Mauro Dalle Lucca Tosi, Jordi Cabot
arXiv preprint Free PDF
- Journal 2025
A Metascience Study of the Low-Code Scientific Field
Mauro Dalle Lucca Tosi, Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo, Jordi Cabot
Journal of Object Technology, vol. 24, no. 2 Free PDF
- Journal 2025
User Modeling in Model-Driven Engineering: A Systematic Literature Review
Aaron Conrardy, Alfredo Capozucca, Jordi Cabot
Journal of Object Technology, vol. 24, no. 2 Free PDF
- Workshop 2025
Low-code to fight climate change: the Climaborough project
Aaron Conrardy, Armen Sulejmani, Cindy Guerlain, Daniele Pagani, David Hick, Matteo Satta, Jordi Cabot
RCIS 2025 Workshops Free PDF
- Journal 2025
Modeling the obsolescence of models
Iván Alfonso, Jean-Sébastien Sottet, Pierre Brimont, Jordi Cabot
Software and Systems Modeling, 24(3), 705–719
- Conference 2025
Modelling Neural Network Models
Nadia Daoudi, Iván Alfonso, Jordi Cabot
International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, pp. 130–139 Free PDF
- Conference 2025
ImageBiTe: A Framework for Evaluating Representational Harms in Text-to-Image Models
Sergio Morales, Robert Clarisó, Jordi Cabot
IEEE/ACM 4th International Conference on AI Engineering Free PDF
- Journal 2025
On the suitability of Hugging Face Hub for empirical studies
Adem Ait, Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo, Jordi Cabot
Empirical Software Engineering, 30(2) Free PDF
- Workshop 2025
Towards the interoperability of Low-Code platforms
Iván Alfonso, Aaron David Conrardy, Jordi Cabot
CAiSE Forum 2025, pp. 3–11 Free PDF
- Journal 2025
Impromptu: A framework for model-driven prompt engineering
Sergio Morales, Robert Clarisó, Jordi Cabot
Software and Systems Modeling Free PDF
- Journal 2025
On the Readiness of Scientific Data Papers for a Fair and Transparent Use in Machine Learning
Joan Giner-Miguelez, Abel Gómez, Jordi Cabot
Scientific Data, 12, 61 Free PDF
- Journal 2024
LangBiTe: An open-source platform to automate bias testing of large language models
Sergio Morales, Robert Clarisó, Jordi Cabot
Software X, vol. 31 Free PDF
- Journal 2024
On the Creation of Representative Samples of Software Repositories
June Gorostidi, Adem Ait, Jordi Cabot, Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo
18th ACM/IEEE Int. Symp. on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, pp. 434–439 Free PDF
- Conference 2024
Application of the Tree-of-Thoughts Framework to LLM-Enabled Domain Modeling
Jonathan Silva, Qin Ma, Jordi Cabot, Pierre Kelsen, Henderik A. Proper
International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, pp. 94–111 Free PDF
- Conference 2024
Low-Code Flutter Application Development Solution
Atefeh Nirumand Jazi, Iván Alfonso, Jordi Cabot
ACM/IEEE 27th Int. Conf. on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems Free PDF
- Conference 2024
A DSL for Testing LLMs for Fairness and Bias
Sergio Morales, Robert Clarisó, Jordi Cabot
ACM/IEEE 27th Int. Conf. on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, pp. 203–213 Free PDF
- Workshop 2024
From Image to UML: First results of image-based UML diagram generation using LLMs
Aaron Conrardy, Jordi Cabot
STAF 2024 Workshops: AgileMDE, LLM4MDE, MeSS, pp. 55–65 Free PDF
- Conference 2024
Exploring the use of software product lines for the combination of machine learning models
Marcos Gómez-Vázquez, Jordi Cabot
28th ACM Int. Systems and Software Product Line Conference, pp. 26–29 Free PDF
- Conference 2024
Extending a low-code tool with multi-cloud deployment capabilities
Fitash Ul Haq, Iván Alfonso, Armen Sulejmani, Jordi Cabot
European Conference on Software Architecture, pp. 39–46 Free PDF
- Conference 2024
Automatic Generation of Conversational Interfaces for Tabular Data Analysis
Marcos Gómez-Vázquez, Jordi Cabot, Robert Clarisó
6th ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, pp. 1–6 Free PDF
- Journal 2024
What makes a good modeling research contribution?
Richard F. Paige, Jordi Cabot
Software and Systems Modeling, 23(3), 527–531 Free PDF
- Journal 2024
HFCommunity: An extraction process and relational database to analyze Hugging Face Hub data
Adem Ait, Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo, Jordi Cabot
Science of Computer Programming, 234 Free PDF
- Conference 2024
Low-modeling of software systems
Jordi Cabot
International Conference on Software Technologies, pp. 19–28 Free PDF
- Conference 2024
A leaderboard to benchmark ethical biases in LLMs
Marcos Gómez-Vázquez, Sergio Morales, German Castignani, Robert Clarisó, Aaron Conrardy, Louis Deladiennée, Samuel Renault, Jordi Cabot
AIMMES 2024 Free PDF
- Preprint 2024
A Framework to Model ML Engineering Processes
Sergio Morales, Robert Clarisó, Jordi Cabot
arXiv preprint Free PDF
- Conference 2024
Towards Data Interoperability for the Digital Product Passport Ecosystem
Iván Alfonso, Daniele Pagani, Jordi Cabot
IDS Semantic / position paper Free PDF
- Conference 2024
Building BESSER: An Open-Source Low-Code Platform
Iván Alfonso, Aaron Conrardy, Armen Sulejmani, Atefeh Nirumand, Fitash Ul Haq, Marcos Gómez-Vázquez, Jean-Sébastien Sottet, Jordi Cabot
International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support Free PDF
- Journal 2023
Modeling and enforcing access control policies in conversational user interfaces
Elena Planas, Salvador Martínez, Marco Brambilla, Jordi Cabot
Software and Systems Modeling, 22(6), 1925–1944 Free PDF
- Conference 2023
A tool for the definition and deployment of platform-independent bots on open source projects
Adem Ait, Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo, Jordi Cabot
16th ACM SIGPLAN Int. Conf. on Software Language Engineering, pp. 214–219 Free PDF
- Conference 2023
Model-driven prompt engineering
Robert Clarisó, Jordi Cabot
ACM/IEEE 26th Int. Conf. on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS), pp. 47–54 Free PDF
- Conference 2023
Automating bias testing of LLMs
Sergio Morales, Robert Clarisó, Jordi Cabot
38th IEEE/ACM Int. Conf. on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) Free PDF