I spent a couple of days in Japan (mainly Tokyo) for visiting the National Institute of Informatics (NII) and attending the 27th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2023). I have been involved in several scientific activities:

• talk about deep software variability and reproducibility/replicability in computational science at SES 2023, IPSJ/SIGSE Software Engineering Symposium in Tokyo, Japan
• talk about ChatGPT and reengineering variants
• talk about ChatGPT and programming variability/variants
• panel about intelligent software product lines: I defended some ideas (eg intelligent assistants for exploring variants’ space) and research directions (eg generative AI for software product lines) https://twitter.com/FortzSophie/status/1697133197686173933 https://twitter.com/FortzSophie/status/1697115284300235072
• chairing of the session about feature model evolution and analysis
• steering committee of SPLC
• many, many discussions

Japan was truly amazing, I highly recommend, and we researchers are lucky to visit incredible locations and meet diverse people!

(new!) I realized that some of my blog post entries are sometimes cited in academic works, so why not using the following bibtex entry?

@misc{acher2023scientifictripsplc23japan,
  author = {Mathieu Acher},
  title = {Scientific Trip in Japan and SPLC 2023},
  year = {2023},
  month = {aug},
  howpublished = {\url{https://blog.mathieuacher.com/ScientificTripSPLC23Japan/}},
  note = {\url{https://blog.mathieuacher.com/ScientificTripSPLC23Japan/}}
}