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20202026
most citedOperation is the hardest teacher: estimating DNN accuracy looking for mispredictions

21 citations · 69 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.AI2026

Traceable LLM-Generated Hazard Scenarios for Operational Safety Analysis of Aviation Systems Using ASRS Reports

Cristian Mascia, Roberto Pietrantuono, Daniel Rodriguez +1

Operational hazard analysis of aviation system operations must consider interactions among weather, ATC actions, airspace constraints, aircraft operations, and human factors - dist…

cs.CL2026

Schema-Constrained Document-Level Event Argument Extraction with Lightweight LLM Fine-Tuning

Roberto Pietrantuono, Antonio Guerriero, Pouya Sattari

Event Argument Extraction (EAE) converts documents into structured event records by identifying argument spans and assigning them schema-defined roles. Document-level EAE is challe…

cs.SE2026

Reasoning Beyond Prediction: From Data-Driven to Causal Software Engineering

Roberto Pietrantuono, Luca Giamattei, Stefano Russo

Software engineering is an intellectually demanding, creative discipline that juggles a web of interdependent tasks to design, build, and assure the quality of increasingly complex…

cs.SE2026

Causal Software Engineering: A Vision and Roadmap

Roberto Pietrantuono, Luca Giamattei, Stefano Russo +2

Software engineering increasingly involves making high-stakes decisions under uncertainty, using signals from code, field data, and socio-technical processes. Recent AI-driven supp…

cs.SE2026

Sustainability Is Not Linear: Quantifying Performance, Energy, and Privacy Trade-offs in On-Device Intelligence

Eziyo Ehsani, Luca Giamattei, Ivano Malavolta +1

The migration of Large Language Models (LLMs) from cloud clusters to edge devices promises enhanced privacy and offline accessibility, but this transition encounters a harsh realit…

cs.SE2024★ 13 cited

Causal Reasoning in Software Quality Assurance: A Systematic Review

Luca Giamattei, Antonio Guerriero, Roberto Pietrantuono +1

Context: Software Quality Assurance (SQA) is a fundamental part of software engineering to ensure stakeholders that software products work as expected after release in operation. M…

cs.SE2024★ 6 cited

DeepSample: DNN sampling-based testing for operational accuracy assessment

Antonio Guerriero, Roberto Pietrantuono, Stefano Russo

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) are core components for classification and regression tasks of many software systems. Companies incur in high costs for testing DNN with datasets represe…

cs.SE2024

Reinforcement Learning for Online Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems: a Replication and Extension Study

Luca Giamattei, Matteo Biagiola, Roberto Pietrantuono +2

In a recent study, Reinforcement Learning (RL) used in combination with many-objective search, has been shown to outperform alternative techniques (random search and many-objective…

cs.SE2023★ 4 cited

Reasoning-Based Software Testing

Luca Giamattei, Roberto Pietrantuono, Stefano Russo

With software systems becoming increasingly pervasive and autonomous, our ability to test for their quality is severely challenged. Many systems are called to operate in uncertain…

cs.LG2023★ 5 cited

Iterative Assessment and Improvement of DNN Operational Accuracy

Antonio Guerriero, Roberto Pietrantuono, Stefano Russo

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) are nowadays largely adopted in many application domains thanks to their human-like, or even superhuman, performance in specific tasks. However, due to u…

cs.SE2021★ 20 cited

Software Micro-Rejuvenation for Android Mobile Systems

Domenico Cotroneo, Luigi De Simone, Roberto Natella +2

Software aging -- the phenomenon affecting many long-running systems, causing performance degradation or an increasing failure rate over mission time, and eventually leading to fai…

cs.SE2021★ 21 cited

Operation is the hardest teacher: estimating DNN accuracy looking for mispredictions

Antonio Guerriero, Roberto Pietrantuono, Stefano Russo

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) are typically tested for accuracy relying on a set of unlabelled real world data (operational dataset), from which a subset is selected, manually labelle…

cs.SE2020

A Comprehensive Study on Software Aging across Android Versions and Vendors

Domenico Cotroneo, Antonio Ken Iannillo, Roberto Natella +1

This paper analyzes the phenomenon of software aging - namely, the gradual performance degradation and resource exhaustion in the long run - in the Android OS. The study intends to…