mads.uniud.it

Website of the MADS Lab — Methods for Autonomous and Dependable Systems, University of Udine. Built with Jekyll and a custom, dependency-free theme (plain CSS and a little vanilla JS, self-hosted fonts, no cookies).

Run locally

bundle install
bundle exec jekyll serve      # http://localhost:4000

Updating content

Most changes are a matter of editing one file.

What	Where
People	_data/people.yml
Projects	_data/projects.yml
Funders / partners	_data/partners.yml
News	_posts/YYYY-MM-DD-title.md
Research areas	_groups/*.md
Software	_software/*.md
Publications	_bibliography/mads.bib (see below)
Menu	_data/navigation.yml
Name, email, address	_config.yml

Adding a person

Copy a block in _data/people.yml. role is one of faculty, postdoc, phd, student, alumni; groups lists research-area ids (testing, cybersecurity, choreographies). Photos (optional, square) go in assets/images/people/; initials are shown otherwise.

Writing a news post

Create _posts/2026-10-04-my-news.md:

---
title: "Paper accepted at ICSE 2027"
tags: ["Testing", "Research"]
---
Text in Markdown…

Publications

Publications are kept in BibTeX and converted to _data/publications.json by a small script (Python 3, no dependencies):

python3 scripts/bib2json.py

Commit both files. The GitHub Actions workflow also runs the script before every build. Optional extra BibTeX fields:

• groups = {testing, cybersecurity}: show the paper on the research-area pages and in the group filter;
• pdf = {https://…}: link to an open-access PDF.
• month = {October}: publications are listed newest first by year and month, so add it to new entries (those without a month go last in their year).

Duplicate entries (same title and year) are merged automatically.

Deployment

The site uses only plugins supported by GitHub Pages, so it builds anywhere.

• GitHub Pages (current setup): push to main. .github/workflows/pages.yml builds and deploys the site (Settings → Pages → Source: GitHub Actions). The CNAME file sets the custom domain mads.uniud.it, whose DNS record is mads.uniud.it. CNAME cysecud.github.io.
• Any web server: run JEKYLL_ENV=production bundle exec jekyll build and copy _site/ to the document root.

Old WordPress URLs (/members/, /downloads/…, /contacts/, /thesis-internships/, and all news posts) are preserved or redirected.