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OpenAPI indicates a behavior where producers offer Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to help end-users access their data, resources, and services. Generally, API has many parameters that need to be entered. However, it is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Shujun Wang , Yongqiang Tian , Dengcheng He

AI-based design tools are proliferating in professional software to assist engineering and industrial designers in complex manufacturing and design tasks. These tools take on more agentic roles than traditional computer-aided design tools…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Frederic Gmeiner , Humphrey Yang , Lining Yao , Kenneth Holstein , Nikolas Martelaro

REST is today's most widely used architectural style for providing web-based services. In the age of service-orientation (a.k.a. Software as a Service (SaaS)) APIs have become core business assets and can easily expose hundreds of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Sven Peldszus , Jan Rutenkolk , Marcel Heide , Jan Sollmann , Benjamin Klatt , Frank Köhne , Thorsten Berger

AI models and services are used in a growing number of highstakes areas, resulting in a need for increased transparency. Consistent with this, several proposals for higher quality and more consistent documentation of AI data, models, and…

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are essential tools for social work researchers aiming to harness advanced technologies like Large Language Models (LLMs) and other AI services. This paper demystifies APIs and illustrates how they…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Brian E. Perron , Hui Luan , Zia Qi , Bryan G. Victor , Kavin Goyal

Despite the widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI), designing user experiences (UX) for AI-powered systems remains challenging. UX designers face hurdles understanding AI technologies, such as pre-trained language models, as design…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Q. Vera Liao , Hariharan Subramonyam , Jennifer Wang , Jennifer Wortman Vaughan

Leveraging Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) has been widely acknowledged as a valuable approach to software and system design that have promoted the acceleration of products and services development by allowing the decoupling of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Juan M. Huerta , Clancy Childs

In the past decades, integrated development environments (IDEs) have been largely advanced to facilitate common software engineering tasks. Yet, with growing information needs driven by increasing complexity in developing modern…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Haipeng Cai

There is a growing need for Large Language Models (LLMs) to effectively use tools and external Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to plan and complete tasks. As such, there is tremendous interest in methods that can acquire…

With artificial intelligence (AI) embedded in many everyday software systems, effectively and reliably developing and maintaining AI systems becomes an essential skill for software developers. However, the complexity inherent to AI poses…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Thomas Weber

In reaction to growing concerns about the potential harms of artificial intelligence (AI), societies have begun to demand more transparency about how AI models and systems are created and used. To address these concerns, several efforts…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-03-13 David Piorkowski , John Richards , Michael Hind

API search involves finding components in an API that are relevant to a programming task. For example, a programmer may need a function in a C library that opens a new network connection, then another function that sends data across that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Zachary Eberhart , Collin McMillan

Artificial intelligence (AI) literacy is a rapidly growing research area and a critical addition to K-12 education. However, support for designing tools and curriculum to teach K-12 AI literacy is still limited. There is a need for…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Xiaofei Zhou , Jessica Van Brummelen , Phoebe Lin

Modern software development depends on APIs to reuse code and increase productivity. As most software systems, these libraries and frameworks also evolve, which may break existing clients. However, the main reasons to introduce breaking…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Aline Brito , Laerte Xavier , Andre Hora , Marco Tulio Valente

The software engineering community recently has witnessed widespread deployment of AI programming assistants, such as GitHub Copilot. However, in practice, developers do not accept AI programming assistants' initial suggestions at a high…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Jenny T. Liang , Chenyang Yang , Brad A. Myers

A major hurdle for students and professional software developers who want to enter the world of machine learning (ML), is mastering not just the scientific background but also the available ML APIs. Therefore, we address the challenge of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Lars Reimann , Günter Kniesel-Wünsche

Intelligent services are becoming increasingly more pervasive; application developers want to leverage the latest advances in areas such as computer vision to provide new services and products to users, and large technology firms enable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Alex Cummaudo , Rajesh Vasa , Scott Barnett , John Grundy , Mohamed Abdelrazek

Machine Learning software systems are frequently used in our day-to-day lives. Some of these systems are used in various sensitive environments to make life-changing decisions. Therefore, it is crucial to ensure that these AI/ML systems do…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Ajoy Das , Gias Uddin , Shaiful Chowdhury , Mostafijur Rahman Akhond , Hadi Hemmati

Scikit-learn is an increasingly popular machine learning li- brary. Written in Python, it is designed to be simple and efficient, accessible to non-experts, and reusable in various contexts. In this paper, we present and discuss our design…

Data-driven approaches are becoming more common as problem-solving techniques in many areas of research and industry. In most cases, machine learning models are the key component of these solutions, but a solution involves multiple such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Parisa Kordjamshidi , Dan Roth , Kristian Kersting