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Task-Aware Reduction for Scalable LLM-Database Systems
Marcus Emmanuel Barnes, Taher A. Ghaleb, Safwat Hassan
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to data-intensive workflows, from database querying to developer observability. Yet the effectiveness of these systems is cons…
From First Use to Final Commit: Studying the Evolution of Multi-CI Service Adoption
Nitika Chopra, Taher A. Ghaleb
Continuous Integration (CI) services, such as GitHub Actions and Travis CI, are widely adopted in open-source development to automate testing and deployment. Though existing resear…
Can LLMs Write CI? A Study on Automatic Generation of GitHub Actions Configurations
Taher A. Ghaleb, Dulina Rathnayake
Continuous Integration (CI) services, such as GitHub Actions, require developers to write YAML-based configurations, which can be tedious and error-prone. Despite the increasing us…
CIgrate: Automating CI Service Migration with Large Language Models
Md Nazmul Hossain, Taher A. Ghaleb
Continuous Integration (CI) configurations often need to be migrated between services (e.g., Travis CI to GitHub Actions) as projects evolve due to changes in service capabilities,…
An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows
Edward Abrokwah, Taher A. Ghaleb
Continuous Integration (CI) has become a core practice in modern software engineering, enabling rapid and collaborative software delivery. GitHub Actions (GHA) has become a leading…
Security Debt in Practice: Nuanced Insights from Practitioners
Chaima Boufaied, Taher Ghaleb, Zainab Masood
With the increasing reliance on software and automation nowadays, tight deadlines, limited resources, and prioritization of functionality over security can lead to insecure coding…
A Comprehensive Multi-Vocal Empirical Study of ML Cloud Service Misuses
Hadil Ben Amor, Manel Abdellatif, Taher Ghaleb
Machine Learning (ML) models are widely used across various domains, including medical diagnostics and autonomous driving. To support this growth, cloud providers offer ML services…