6 papers
The Human Need for Storytelling: Reflections on Qualitative Software Engineering Research With a Focus Group of Experts
Roberto Verdecchia, Justus Bogner
From its first adoption in the late 80s, qualitative research has slowly but steadily made a name for itself in what was, and perhaps still is, the predominantly quantitative softw…
ACM SIGSOFT SEN Empirical Software Engineering: Introducing Our New Regular Column
Justus Bogner, Roberto Verdecchia
From its early foundations in the 1970s, empirical software engineering (ESE) has evolved into a mature research discipline that embraces a plethora of different topics, methodolog…
Notes On Writing Effective Empirical Software Engineering Papers: An Opinionated Primer
Roberto Verdecchia, Justus Bogner
While mastered by some, good scientific writing practices within Empirical Software Engineering (ESE) research appear to be seldom discussed and documented. Despite this, these pra…
Greening AI-enabled Systems with Software Engineering: A Research Agenda for Environmentally Sustainable AI Practices
Luís Cruz, João Paulo Fernandes, Maja H. Kirkeby +22
The environmental impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled systems is increasing rapidly, and software engineering plays a critical role in developing sustainable solutions.…
How Do Companies Manage the Environmental Sustainability of AI? An Interview Study About Green AI Efforts and Regulations
Ashmita Sampatsing, Sophie Vos, Emma Beauxis-Aussalet +1
With the ever-growing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), AI-based software and its negative impact on the environment are no longer negligible, and studying and mitigating t…
How Do Model Export Formats Impact the Development of ML-Enabled Systems? A Case Study on Model Integration
Shreyas Kumar Parida, Ilias Gerostathopoulos, Justus Bogner
Machine learning (ML) models are often integrated into ML-enabled systems to provide software functionality that would otherwise be impossible. This integration requires the select…