10 papers
Citation Cliques in Low Impact Journals
Panagiotis-Alexios Spanakis, Grigorios Alexandrou, Diomidis Spinellis
This exploratory study examines how low-impact journals, defined through subject-normalized Eigenfactor percentiles, are associated with denser and more reciprocating patterns of a…
The Fools are Certain; the Wise are Doubtful: Exploring LLM Confidence in Code Completion
Zoe Kotti, Konstantina Dritsa, Diomidis Spinellis +1
Code completion entails the task of providing missing tokens given a surrounding context. It can boost developer productivity and serve as a code discovery tool. Code completion ha…
Measuring and Exploiting Contextual Bias in LLM-Assisted Security Code Review
Dimitris Mitropoulos, Nikolaos Alexopoulos, Georgios Alexopoulos +1
Automated Code Review (ACR) systems integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly adopted in software development workflows, ranging from interactive assistants to auto…
Learning from Change: Predictive Models for Incident Prevention in a Regulated IT Environment
Eileen Kapel, Jan Lennartz, Luis Cruz +2
Effective IT change management is important for businesses that depend on software and services, particularly in highly regulated sectors such as finance, where operational reliabi…
An Empirical Comparison of Security and Privacy Characteristics of Android Messaging Apps
Ioannis Karyotakis, Foivos Timotheos Proestakis, Evangelos Talos +2
Mobile messaging apps are a fundamental communication infrastructure, used by billions of people every day to share information, including sensitive data. Security and Privacy are…
Awakening: Modern Challenges and Opportunities of Software Engineering Research
Diomidis Spinellis, Zoe Kotti
Software engineering research benefited for decades from openly available tools, accessible systems, and problems that could be studied at modest scale. Today, many of the most rel…