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The growing literature on affect among software developers mostly reports on the linkage between happiness, software quality, and developer productivity. Understanding happiness and unhappiness in all its components -- positive and negative…

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Generative AI tools hold promise to increase human productivity. This paper presents results from a controlled experiment with GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer. Recruited software developers were asked to implement an HTTP server in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Sida Peng , Eirini Kalliamvakou , Peter Cihon , Mert Demirer

In this paper, we discuss the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on alcohol consumption habit changes among healthcare workers in the United States. We utilize multiple supervised and unsupervised machine learning methods and models such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Mostafa Rezapour

Mental health disorders affect a large number of people, leading to many lives being lost every year. These disorders affect struggling individuals and businesses whose productivity decreases due to days of lost work or lower employee…

Along with the increasing popularity of agile software development, software work has become much more social than ever. Contemporary software teams rely on a variety of collaborative practices, such as pair programming, the topic of our…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Darja Smite , Marius Mikalsen , Nils B. Moe , Viktoria Stray , Eriks Klotins

Large language model assistants (LLM-assistants) present new opportunities to transform software development. Developers are increasingly adopting these tools across tasks, including coding, testing, debugging, documentation, and design.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Amr Mohamed , Maram Assi , Mariam Guizani

The spread of the Sars-COV-2 pandemic in 2020 had a huge impact on the life course of all of us. This rapid spread has also caused an increase in the research production in topics related to COVID-19 with regard to different aspects. Italy…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Gianpaolo Zammarchi , Andrea Carta , Silvia Columbu , Luca Frigau , Monica Musio

One factor of success in software development companies is their ability to deliver good quality products, fast. For this, they need to improve their software development practices. We work with a medium-sized company modernizing its…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Houékpétodji Mahugnon Honoré , Nicolas Anquetil , Stéphane Ducasse , Fatiha Djareddir , Jérôme Sudich

Software bots have been facilitating several development activities in Open Source Software (OSS) projects, including code review. However, these bots may bring unexpected impacts to group dynamics, as frequently occurs with new technology…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Mairieli Wessel , Alexander Serebrenik , Igor Wiese , Igor Steinmacher , Marco A. Gerosa

The COVID-19 pandemic has had and continues to have major impacts on planned and ongoing clinical trials. Its effects on trial data create multiple potential statistical issues. The scale of impact is unprecedented, but when viewed…

This study investigates teamwork dynamics in student software development projects through a mixed-method approach combining quantitative analysis of GitLab commit logs and qualitative survey data. We analyzed individual contributions…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Santiago Berrezueta-Guzman , Ivan Parmacli , Mohammad Kasra Habib , Stephan Krusche , Stefan Wagner

CONTEXT: Self-efficacy is a concept researched in various areas of knowledge that impacts various factors such as performance, satisfaction, and motivation. In Software Engineering, it has mainly been studied in the academic context,…

This paper investigates the impact of COVID-19 on the power sector in Bangladesh, how the country has dealt with it, and explores the path to stability. The study employs data visualisation and complex statistics to examine critical data…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Anis Ahmed , Arefin Ahamed Shuvo , Naruttam Kumar Roy , Neloy Prosad Bishnu , Ali Nasir

The SARS-CoV-2 virus and COVID-19 disease have posed unprecedented and overwhelming demand, challenges and opportunities to domain, model and data driven modeling. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the challenges, tasks,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Longbing Cao , Qing Liu

Data-driven requirements engineering leverages the abundance of openly accessible and crowdsourced information on the web. By incorporating user feedback provided about a software product, such as reviews in mobile app stores, these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Shadikur Rahman , Faiz Ahmed , Maleknaz Nayebi

Online social media provides a channel for monitoring people's social behaviors and their mental distress. Due to the restrictions imposed by COVID-19 people are increasingly using online social networks to express their feelings.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Sahraoui Dhelim , Liming Luke Chen , Huansheng Ning , Sajal K Das , Chris Nugent , Devin Burns , Gerard Leavey , Dirk Pesch , Eleanor Bantry-White

The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has wreaked havoc worldwide with millions of lives claimed, human travel restricted and economic development halted. Leveraging city-level mobility and case data, our analysis shows…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-06-29 Yafei Zhang , Lin Wang , Jonathan J. H. Zhu , Xiaofan Wang

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been continuously affecting human lives and communities around the world in many ways, from cities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Ashkan Ebadi , Pengcheng Xi , Stéphane Tremblay , Bruce Spencer , Raman Pall , Alexander Wong

Given aggregated mobile device data, the goal is to understand the impact of COVID-19 policy interventions on mobility. This problem is vital due to important societal use cases, such as safely reopening the economy. Challenges include…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Arun Sharma , Majid Farhadloo , Yan Li , Aditya Kulkarni , Jayant Gupta , Shashi Shekhar

The time when everyone is struggling in the cruel hands of COVID19, we present the holistic view on the effects of this pandemic in certain aspects of life. A lot of literature exists in COVID-19, but most of them talk about the social and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Aneesh Mathews Paul , Sinnu Susan Thomas