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Context: Software metrics, as one form of static analyses, is a commonly used approach in software engineering in order to understand the state of a software system, in particular to identify potential areas prone to defects. Family-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Sascha El-Sharkawy , Adam Krafczyk , Klaus Schmid

In many engineered systems, optimization is used for decision making at time-scales ranging from real-time operation to long-term planning. This process often involves solving similar optimization problems over and over again with slightly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-18 Sidhant Misra , Line Roald , Yeesian Ng

Many of the core disciplines of artificial intelligence have sets of standard benchmark problems well known and widely used by the community when developing new algorithms. Constraint programming and automated planning are examples of these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Özgür Akgün , Nguyen Dang , Joan Espasa , Ian Miguel , András Z. Salamon , Christopher Stone

A common cause of bugs and vulnerabilities are the violations of usage constraints associated with Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). API misuses are common in software projects, and while there have been techniques proposed to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Hong Jin Kang , David Lo

Modern software development requires developers to find and effectively utilize new APIs and their documentation, but documentation has many well-known issues. Despite this, developers eventually overcome these issues but have no way of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Amber Horvath , Michael Xieyang Liu , River Hendriksen , Connor Shannon , Emma Paterson , Kazi Jawad , Andrew Macvean , Brad A. Myers

Code translation is an essential task in software migration, multilingual development, and system refactoring. Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in this task. However, prior studies…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Chaofan Wang , Guanjie Qiu , Xiaodong Gu , Beijun Shen

Porting a scientific data analysis workflow (DAW) to a cluster infrastructure, a new software stack, or even only a new dataset with some notably different properties is often challenging. Despite the structured definition of the steps…

Many databases on the web are "hidden" behind (i.e., accessible only through) their restrictive, form-like, search interfaces. Recent studies have shown that it is possible to estimate aggregate query answers over such hidden web databases…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-05-02 Weimo Liu , Saravanan Thirumuruganathan , Nan Zhang , Gautam Das

Enterprise API design is often bottlenecked by the tension between rapid feature delivery and the rigorous maintenance of usability standards. We present an industrial case study evaluating an AI-assisted design workflow trained on API…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Mak Ahmad , Andrew Macvean , JJ Geewax , David Karger

Open Source Software projects add labels to open issues to help contributors choose tasks. However, manually labeling issues is time-consuming and error-prone. Current automatic approaches for creating labels are mostly limited to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Fabio Santos , Igor Wiese , Bianca Trinkenreich , Igor Steinmacher , Anita Sarma , Marco Gerosa

We develop a general framework for estimating function-valued parameters under equality or inequality constraints in infinite-dimensional statistical models. Such constrained learning problems are common across many areas of statistics and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-22 Razieh Nabi , Nima S. Hejazi , Mark J. van der Laan , David Benkeser

The purpose of regulatory data minimization obligations is to limit personal data to the absolute minimum necessary for a given context. Beyond the initial data collection, storage, and processing, data minimization is also required for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Frank Pallas , David Hartmann , Paul Heinrich , Josefine Kipke , Elias Grünewald

APIs are increasingly becoming new business assets for organizations and consequently, API functionality and its pricing should be precisely defined for customers. Pricing is typically composed by different plans that specify a range of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Rafael Fresno-Aranda , Pablo Fernandez , Antonio Gamez-Diaz , Amador Duran , Antonio Ruiz-Cortes

We introduce a novel approach for testing static typing implementations based on the concept of API-driven program synthesis. The idea is to synthesize type-intensive but small and well-typed programs by leveraging and combining application…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Thodoris Sotiropoulos , Stefanos Chaliasos , Zhendong Su

Feature model configuration can be supported on the basis of various types of reasoning approaches. Examples thereof are SAT solving, constraint solving, and answer set programming (ASP). Using these approaches requires technical expertise…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Alexander Felfernig , Viet-Man Le , Sebastian Lubos

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

Labeling issues with the skills required to complete them can help contributors to choose tasks in Open Source Software projects. However, manually labeling issues is time-consuming and error-prone, and current automated approaches are…

With web and mobile platforms becoming more prominent devices utilized in data analysis, there are currently few systems which are not without flaw. In order to increase the performance of these systems and decrease errors of data…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Daniel Szelogowski

For highly regulated industries such as banking and healthcare, one of the major hindrances to the adoption of cloud computing is compliance with regulatory standards. This is a complex problem due to many regulatory and technical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Abdulhamid Adebayo , Daby Sow , Muhammed Fatih Bulut

Methods for query answering over incomplete knowledge graphs retrieve entities that are likely to be answers, which is particularly useful when such answers cannot be reached by direct graph traversal due to missing edges. However, existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Daniel Daza , Alberto Bernardi , Luca Costabello , Christophe Gueret , Masoud Mansoury , Michael Cochez , Martijn Schut