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Comparing Smart Contract Paradigms: A Preliminary Study of Security and Developer Experience
Matteo Vaccargiu, Andrea Pinna, Maria Ilaria Lunesu +1
Smart contract vulnerabilities have caused billions in financial losses, raising questions about whether programming language paradigms can reduce security overhead. While imperati…
Efficiency for Experts, Visibility for Newcomers: A Case Study of Label-Code Alignment in Kubernetes
Matteo Vaccargiu, Sabrina Aufiero, Silvia Bartolucci +3
Labels on platforms such as GitHub support triage and coordination, yet little is known about how well they align with code modifications or how such alignment affects collaboratio…
Introducing Repository Stability
Giuseppe Destefanis, Silvia Bartolucci, Daniel Graziotin +2
Drawing from engineering systems and control theory, we introduce a framework to understand repository stability, which is a repository activity capacity to return to equilibrium f…
Mining a Decade of Event Impacts on Contributor Dynamics in Ethereum: A Longitudinal Study
Matteo Vaccargiu, Sabrina Aufiero, Cheick Ba +6
We analyze developer activity across 10 major Ethereum repositories (totaling 129884 commits, 40550 issues) spanning 10 years to examine how events such as technical upgrades, mark…