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Mutation testing has been widely accepted as an approach to guide test case generation or to assess the effectiveness of test suites. Empirical studies have shown that mutants are representative of real faults; yet they also indicated a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Michele Tufano , Cody Watson , Gabriele Bavota , Massimiliano Di Penta , Martin White , Denys Poshyvanyk

Conversational agents are increasingly used as support tools along mental therapeutic pathways with significant societal impacts. In particular, empathy is a key non-functional requirement in therapeutic contexts, yet current chatbot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Francesco Dettori , Matteo Forasassi , Lorenzo Veronese , Livia Lestingi , Vincenzo Scotti , Matteo Giovanni Rossi

Quantum machine learning integrates the strengths of quantum computing and machine learning, enabling models to learn complex features using fewer parameters than their classical counterparts. Due to the increasing complexity of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Emma Andrews , Prabhat Mishra

Mutation testing is a well-established technique for assessing a test suite's quality by injecting artificial faults into production code. In recent years, mutation testing has been extended to machine learning (ML) systems, and deep…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Annibale Panichella , Cynthia C. S. Liem

A Chatbot serves as a communication tool between a human user and a machine to achieve an appropriate answer based on the human input. In more recent approaches, a combination of Natural Language Processing and sequential models are used to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Nura Esfandiari , Kourosh Kiani , Razieh Rastgoo

This article explores the phenomenon of confirmation bias in generative AI chatbots, a relatively underexamined aspect of AI-human interaction. Drawing on cognitive psychology and computational linguistics, it examines how confirmation…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yiran Du

Driven by ongoing improvements in machine learning, chatbots have increasingly grown from experimental interface prototypes to reliable and robust tools for process automation. Building on these advances, companies have identified various…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Alessandro Casadei , Stephan Schlögl , Markus Bergmann

ChatGPT is a chatbot that can answer text prompts fairly accurately, even performing very well on postgraduate-level questions. Many educators have found that their take-home or remote tests and exams are vulnerable to ChatGPT-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Shanker Ram , Chen Qian

Mutation testing may be used to guide test case generation and as a technique to assess the quality of test suites. Despite being used frequently, mutation testing is not so commonly applied in the mobile world. One critical challenge in…

Educational chatbots come with a promise of interactive and personalized learning experiences, yet their development has been limited by the restricted free interaction capabilities of available platforms and the difficulty of encoding…

In the field of mutation analysis, mutation is the systematic generation of mutated programs (i.e., mutants) from an original program. The concept of mutation has been widely applied to various testing problems, including test set…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Donghwan Shin , Doo-Hwan Bae

Industrial robotic systems (IRS) are increasingly deployed in diverse environments, where failures can result in severe accidents and costly downtime. Ensuring the reliability of the software controlling these systems is therefore critical.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Marcela Gonçalves dos Santos , Sylvain Hallé , Fábio Petrillo

The communication of potential students with a university department is performed manually and it is a very time consuming procedure. The opportunity to communicate with on a one-to-one basis is highly valued. However with many hundreds of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-08-29 Nikolaos Polatidis

Mutation testing consists of generating test cases that detect faults injected into software (generating mutants) which its original test suite could not. By running such an augmented set of test cases, it may discover actual faults that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jaekwon Lee , Enrico Viganò , Fabrizio Pastore , Lionel Briand

This paper introduces BURT, a web-based chatbot for interactive reporting of Android app bugs. BURT is designed to assist Android app end-users in reporting high-quality defect information using an interactive interface. BURT guides the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Yang Song , Junayed Mahmud , Nadeeshan De Silva , Ying Zhou , Oscar Chaparro , Kevin Moran , Andrian Marcus , Denys Poshyvanyk

Mutation testing is the state-of-the-art technique for assessing the fault-detection capacity of a test suite. Unfortunately, mutation testing consumes enormous computing resources because it runs the whole test suite for each and every…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Sten Vercammen , Mohammad Ghafari , Serge Demeyer , Markus Borg

A set of steps for implementing a chatbot, to support decision-making activities in the software incident management process is proposed and discussed in this article. Each step is presented independently of the platform used for the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Nagib Sabbag Filho , Rogerio Rossi

In the rapidly evolving domain of artificial intelligence, chatbots have emerged as a potent tool for various applications ranging from e-commerce to healthcare. This research delves into the intricacies of chatbot technology, from its…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Feriel Khennouche , Youssef Elmir , Nabil Djebari , Yassine Himeur , Abbes Amira

Dialogue systems, also called chatbots, are now used in a wide range of applications. However, they still have some major weaknesses. One key weakness is that they are typically trained from manually-labeled data and/or written with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Bing Liu , Sahisnu Mazumder

Context: Online collaborative creation of models is becoming commonplace. Collaborative modeling using chatbots and natural language may lower the barriers to modeling for users from different domains. Objective: We compare the perceived…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Ranci Ren , John W. Castro , Santiago R. Acuña , Oscar Dieste , Silvia T. Acuña