9 papers
A Research Agenda on Agents and Software Engineering: Outcomes from the Rio A2SE Seminar
Davide Taibi, Henry Muccini, Karthik Vaidhyanathan +15
The rise of agentic AI is reshaping software engineering in two intertwined directions: agents are increasingly applied to support software engineering tasks, and Agentic AI system…
An Empirical Study of Generative AI Adoption in Software Engineering
Görkem Giray, Onur Demirörs, Marcos Kalinowski +1
Context. GenAI tools are being increasingly adopted by practitioners in SE, promising support for several SE activities. Despite increasing adoption, we still lack empirical eviden…
Towards AI Agents Supported Research Problem Formulation
Anrafel Fernandes Pereira, Maria Teresa Baldassarre, Daniel Mendez +1
Poorly formulated research problems can compromise the practical relevance of Software Engineering studies by not reflecting the complexities of industrial practice. This vision pa…
Attributes to Support the Formulation of Practically Relevant Research Problems in Software Engineering
Anrafel Fernandes Pereira, Maria Teresa Baldassarre, Daniel Mendez +9
[Background] A well-formulated research problem is essential for achieving practical relevance in Software Engineering (SE), yet there is a lack of structured guidance in this earl…
Towards a Framework for Operationalizing the Specification of Trustworthy AI Requirements
Hugo Villamizar, Daniel Mendez, Marcos Kalinowski
Growing concerns around the trustworthiness of AI-enabled systems highlight the role of requirements engineering (RE) in addressing emergent, context-dependent properties that are…
Towards Lean Research Inception: Assessing Practical Relevance of Formulated Research Problems
Anrafel Fernandes Pereira, Marcos Kalinowski, Maria Teresa Baldassarre +3
[Context] The lack of practical relevance in many Software Engineering (SE) research contributions is often rooted in oversimplified views of industrial practice, weak industry con…