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Modern code review is a ubiquitous software quality assurance process aimed at identifying potential issues within newly written code. Despite its effectiveness, the process demands large amounts of effort from the human reviewers involved.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Hong Yi Lin , Patanamon Thongtanunam , Christoph Treude , Michael W. Godfrey , Chunhua Liu , Wachiraphan Charoenwet

Code review is a fundamental process in software development that plays a critical role in ensuring code quality and reducing the likelihood of errors and bugs. However, code review might be complex, subjective, and time-consuming. Comment…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Oussama Ben Sghaier , Lucas Maes , Houari Sahraoui

With the widespread use of online social media platforms, information diffusion has become a prevalent phenomenon, making Information Diffusion Prediction (IDP) increasingly important for various applications. Despite significant…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Songbo Yang

An abundance of literature has shown that the injection of noise into complex socio-economic systems can improve their resilience. This study aims to understand whether the same applies in the context of information diffusion in social…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-03-21 Diana Riazi , Giacomo Livan

Online social networks facilitate the diffusion of misinformation. Some theorists construe the problem of misinformation as a problem of knowledge, hence of ignorance. This assumption leads to solutions in which misinformation (false…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Brett Bourbon , Renita Murimi

Context: Software code review aims to early find code anomalies and to perform code improvements when they are less expensive. However, issues and challenges faced by developers who do not apply code review practices regularly are unclear.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Marcos Dosea , Claudio Sant'Anna , Ythanna Oliveira , Methanias Colaco Junior

Research on information diffusion generally assumes complete knowledge of the underlying network. However, in the presence of factors such as increasing privacy awareness, restrictions on application programming interfaces (APIs) and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-05-22 Václav Belák , Afra Mashhadi , Alessandra Sala , Donn Morrison

In recent years, the rise of deep learning and automation requirements in the software industry has elevated Intelligent Software Engineering to new heights. The number of approaches and applications in code understanding is growing, with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Ruoting Wu , Yuxin Zhang , Qibiao Peng , Liang Chen , Zibin Zheng

Previous studies have shown that high-quality code comments assist developers in program comprehension and maintenance tasks. However, the semi-structured nature of comments, unclear conventions for writing good comments, and the lack of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Pooja Rani

The (re)creation and distribution of cultural products such as music are increasingly shaped by digital platforms. This study explores how TikTok and Spotify, situated in different governance and user contexts, could influence digital music…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Na Ta , Fang Jiao , Cong Lin , Cuihua Shen

Recently, automatic code comment generation is proposed to facilitate program comprehension. Existing code comment generation techniques focus on describing the functionality of the source code. However, there are other aspects such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Chanchal K. Roy , Iman Keivanloo

GitHub introduced the suggestion feature to enable reviewers to explicitly suggest code modifications in pull requests. These suggestions make the reviewers' feedback more actionable for the submitters and represent a valuable knowledge for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Abir Bouraffa , Yen Dieu Pham , Walid Maalej

Diffusion of innovation can be interpreted as a social spreading phenomena governed by the impact of media and social interactions. Although these mechanisms have been identified by quantitative theories, their role and relative importance…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-10-24 Márton Karsai , Gerardo Iñiguez , Kimmo Kaski , János Kertész

Nowadays, social networks such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn become increasingly popular. In fact, they introduced new habits, new ways of communication and they collect every day several information that have different sources. Most…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-23 Siwar Jendoubi , Arnaud Martin , Ludovic Liétard , Boutheina Ben Yaghlane

The uniform information density (UID) hypothesis posits a preference among language users for utterances structured such that information is distributed uniformly across a signal. While its implications on language production have been well…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Clara Meister , Tiago Pimentel , Patrick Haller , Lena Jäger , Ryan Cotterell , Roger Levy

In this report there will be a discussion for Information Diffusion. There will be discussions on what information diffusion is, its key characteristics and on several other aspects of these kinds of networks. This report will focus on peer…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Jonathan Helmigh

To analyze the flow of information online, experts often rely on platform-provided data from social media companies, which typically attribute all resharing actions to an original poster. This obscures the true dynamics of how information…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Matthew R. DeVerna , Francesco Pierri , Rachith Aiyappa , Diogo Pacheco , John Bryden , Filippo Menczer

Background: Modern Code Review (MCR) is a key component for delivering high-quality software and sharing knowledge among developers. Effective reviews require an in-depth understanding of the code and demand from the reviewers to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Michael Unterkalmsteiner , Deepika Badampudi , Ricardo Britto , Nauman bin Ali

Online social networking technologies enable individuals to simultaneously share information with any number of peers. Quantifying the causal effect of these technologies on the dissemination of information requires not only identification…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-02-29 Eytan Bakshy , Itamar Rosenn , Cameron Marlow , Lada Adamic

Change-based code review is used widely in industrial software development. Thus, research on tools that help the reviewer to achieve better review performance can have a high impact. We analyze one possibility to provide cognitive support…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Tobias Baum , Steffen Herbold , Kurt Schneider