most citedEnhancing Code Understanding for Impact Analysis by Combining Transformers and Program Dependence Graphs

6 citations · 6 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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33 papers

cs.SE2026

Fusing UI Structure & Semantics for Feature-Oriented App Screen Retrieval & Clustering

Arun Krishna Vajjala, Yanfu Yan, Ajay Krishna Vajjala +3

User Interface (UI) programming is challenging due to the complex abstraction gap between code and graphical software representations. To bridge this gap, UI programming tools ofte…

cs.SE2026

On Automated and Explainable Provenance of AI-Generated Code

Alejandro Velasco, Nathan Wintersgill, Trevor Stalnaker +2

Generative AI for code generation has transformed software development, but it has also introduced a critical transparency problem: the origins of AI-generated code are opaque to t…

cs.SE2026

ECLAIR: A Causally-Grounded AI Framework for Scientific Discovery in Empirical Software Engineering

Alejandro Velasco, Daniel Rodriguez-Cardenas, Dipin Khati +2

The scientific method has long guided empirical research in Software Engineering (SE), but the complexity of modern software systems often hinders its systematic application. This…

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Enhancing Code Understanding for Impact Analysis by Combining Transformers and Program Dependence Graphs

Yanfu Yan, Nathan Cooper, Kevin Moran +3

Impact analysis (IA) is a critical software maintenance task that identifies the effects of a given set of code changes on a larger software project with the intention of avoiding…

cs.SE2026

Rethinking Software Empirical Studies with Structural Causal Models

Daniel Rodriguez-Cardenas, Aya Garryyeva, David Nader Palacio +2

Causal Inference offers a fundamental approach for advancing empirical software engineering (ESE) beyond traditional statistical association, enabling researchers to rigorously ide…

cs.SE2026

Towards Enabling An Artificial Self-Construction Software Life-cycle via Autopoietic Architectures

Daniel Rodriguez-Cardenas, David Nader Palacio, Denys Poshyvanyk

Software engineering research has focused on automating maintenance and evolution processes to reduce costs and improve reliability. The emergence of foundation models (FMs) with s…