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most citedFinding Trends in Software Research

40 citations · 163 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.SE2021★ 35 cited

Cross-Language Code Search using Static and Dynamic Analyses

George Mathew, Kathryn T. Stolee

As code search permeates most activities in software development,code-to-code search has emerged to support using code as a query and retrieving similar code in the search results.…

cs.SE2020★ 23 cited

SLACC: Simion-based Language Agnostic Code Clones

George Mathew, Chris Parnin, Kathryn T Stolee

Successful cross-language clone detection could enable researchers and developers to create robust language migration tools, facilitate learning additional programming languages on…

cs.DL2018★ 1 cited

Better Metrics for Ranking SE Researchers

George Mathew, Tim Menzies

This paper studies how SE researchers are ranked using a variety of metrics and data from 35,406 authors of 35,391 papers from 34 top SE venues in the period 1992-2016. Based on th…

cs.SE2018★ 32 cited

Hyperparameter Optimization for Effort Estimation

Tianpei Xia, Rahul Krishna, Jianfeng Chen +3

Software analytics has been widely used in software engineering for many tasks such as generating effort estimates for software projects. One of the "black arts" of software analyt…

cs.SE2018★ 3 cited

Why Software Effort Estimation Needs SBSE

Tianpei Xia, Jianfeng Chen, George Mathew +2

Industrial practitioners now face a bewildering array of possible configurations for effort estimation. How to select the best one for a particular dataset? This paper introduces O…

cs.SE2018★ 17 cited

Data-Driven Search-based Software Engineering

Vivek Nair, Amritanshu Agrawal, Jianfeng Chen +6

This paper introduces Data-Driven Search-based Software Engineering (DSE), which combines insights from Mining Software Repositories (MSR) and Search-based Software Engineering (SB…

cs.SE2017★ 1 cited

"SHORT"er Reasoning About Larger Requirements Models

George Mathew, Tim Menzies, Neil A. Ernst +1

When Requirements Engineering(RE) models are unreasonably complex, they cannot support efficient decision making. SHORT is a tool to simplify that reasoning by exploiting the "key"…

cs.SE2016★ 2 cited

Impacts of Bad ESP (Early Size Predictions) on Software Effort Estimation

George Mathew, Tim Menzies, Jairus Hihn

Context: Early size predictions (ESP) can lead to errors in effort predictions for software projects. This problem is particular acute in parametric effort models that give extra w…

cs.SE2016★ 9 cited

Negative Results for Software Effort Estimation

Tim Menzies, Ye Yang, George Mathew +2

Context:More than half the literature on software effort estimation (SEE) focuses on comparisons of new estimation methods. Surprisingly, there are no studies comparing state of th…

cs.SE2016★ 40 cited

Finding Trends in Software Research

George Mathew, Amritanshu Agrawal, Tim Menzies

This paper explores the structure of research papers in software engineering. Using text mining, we study 35,391 software engineering (SE) papers from 34 leading SE venues over the…