4 papers
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…
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…
Source Code Hotspots: A Diagnostic Method for Quality Issues
Saleha Muzammil, Mughees Ur Rehman, Zoe Kotti +1
Software source code often harbours "hotspots": small portions of the code that change far more often than the rest of the project and thus concentrate maintenance activity. We min…
Improving Sequential Recommendations with LLMs
Artun Boz, Wouter Zorgdrager, Zoe Kotti +5
The sequential recommendation problem has attracted considerable research attention in the past few years, leading to the rise of numerous recommendation models. In this work, we e…