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Detecting Internet routing instability is a critical yet challenging task, particularly when relying solely on endpoint active measurements. This study introduces TRACE, a MachineLearning (ML)pipeline designed to identify route changes…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Raul Suzuki , Rodrigo Moreira , Pedro Henrique A. Damaso de Melo , Larissa F. Rodrigues Moreira , Flávio de Oliveira Silva

Requirements traceability is an important activity to reach an effective requirements management method in the requirements engineering. Requirement-to-Code Traceability Links (RtC-TLs) shape the relations between requirement and source…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Ra'Fat Al-Msie'deen

In application domains that are regulated, software vendors must maintain traceability links between the regulatory items and the code base implementing them. In this paper, we present a traceability approach based on the intuition that the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-03-12 Antoine Mischler , Martin Monperrus

Modern research heavily relies on software. A significant challenge researchers face is understanding the complex software used in specific research fields. We target two scenarios in this context, namely long onboarding times for newcomers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Adrian Bajraktari , Andreas Vogelsang

Algorithm selection is commonly used to predict the best solver from a portfolio per per-instance. In many real scenarios, instances arrive in a stream: new instances become available over time, while the number of class labels can also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Mate Botond Nemeth , Emma Hart , Kevin Sim , Quentin Renau

Traceability approves trace links among software artifacts based on whether two artifacts are related by system functionalities. The traces are valuable for software development, but are difficult to obtain manually. To cope with the costly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Hui Gao , Hongyu Kuang , Kexin Sun , Xiaoxing Ma , Alexander Egyed , Patrick Mäder , Guoping Rong , Dong Shao , He Zhang

In automotive software development, as well as other domains, traceability between stakeholder requirements and system requirements is crucial to ensure consistency, correctness, and regulatory compliance. However, erroneous or missing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Feifei Niu , Rongqi Pan , Lionel C. Briand , Hanyang Hu

The aim in imitation learning is to learn effective policies by utilizing near-optimal expert demonstrations. However, high-quality demonstrations from human experts can be expensive to obtain in large numbers. On the other hand, it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Mengjiao Yang , Sergey Levine , Ofir Nachum

Many contemporary software products have subsystems for automatic crash reporting. However, it is well-known that the same bug can produce slightly different reports. To manage this problem, reports are usually grouped, often manually by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Roman Vasiliev , Dmitrij Koznov , George Chernishev , Aleksandr Khvorov , Dmitry Luciv , Nikita Povarov

Background: As Machine Learning (ML) advances rapidly in many fields, it is being adopted by academics and businesses alike. However, ML has a number of different challenges in terms of maintenance not found in traditional software…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Karthik Shivashankar , Antonio Martini

Large Language Models (LLMs) offer new potential for automating documentation-to-code traceability, yet their capabilities remain underexplored. We present a comprehensive evaluation of LLMs (Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4o, and o3-mini) in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Ebube Alor , SayedHassan Khatoonabadi , Emad Shihab

The increasing adoption of agentic workflows across diverse domains brings a critical need to scalably and systematically evaluate the complex traces these systems generate. Current evaluation methods depend on manual, domain-specific human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Darshan Deshpande , Varun Gangal , Hersh Mehta , Jitin Krishnan , Anand Kannappan , Rebecca Qian

Modern software projects include automated tests written to check the programs' functionality. The set of functions invoked by a test is called the trace of the test, and the action of obtaining a trace is called tracing. There are many…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Eyal Hadad , Roni Stern

Machine learning (ML) reproducibility is often framed as a problem of incomplete artifact recording. This framing leads to systems that prioritize capturing datasets, code, configurations, and execution environments. However, in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Zhiwei Li , Carl Kesselman

Data attribution, tracing a model's prediction back to specific training data, is an important tool for interpreting sophisticated AI models. The widely used TRAK algorithm addresses this challenge by first approximating the underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Han Tong , Shubhangi Ghosh , Haolin Zou , Arian Maleki

Requirements traceability in safety-critical software development remains largely dependent on external documentation maintained separately from the systems it describes. This separation introduces structural fragility: traces degrade…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Thorsten Schlathölter

Software traceability establishes associations between diverse software artifacts such as requirements, design, code, and test cases. Due to the non-trivial costs of manually creating and maintaining links, many researchers have proposed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Yalin Liu , Jinfeng Lin , Jane Cleland-Huang

In 2007, the software and systems traceability community met at the first Natural Bridge symposium on the Grand Challenges of Traceability to establish and address research goals for achieving effective, trustworthy, and ubiquitous…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Giuliano Antoniol , Jane Cleland-Huang , Jane Huffman Hayes , Michael Vierhauser

Modern software is constantly changing. Researchers and practitioners are increasingly aware that verification tools can be impactful if they embrace change through analyses that are compositional and span program versions. Reasoning about…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Timos Antonopoulos , Eric Koskinen , Ton-Chanh Le

Requirement traceability is the process of identifying the inter-dependencies between requirements. It poses a significant challenge when conducted manually, especially when dealing with requirements at various levels of abstraction. In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Baher Mohammad , Riad Sonbol , Ghaida Rebdawi