Publications: Conference Papers

NEW ICSE: An LLM-Based Agent-Oriented Approach for Automated Code Design Issue Localization Fraol Batole, David OBrien, Tien N. Nguyen, Robert Dyer, Hridesh Rajan. January 1, 2025.
Acceptance rate: 140/642 (21.81%)
NEW MSR'25: pyMethods2Test: A Dataset of Python Tests Mapped to Focal Methods Idriss Abdelmadjid, Robert Dyer. January 1, 2025.
Acceptance rate: 38/63 (60.32%)

ICSE: Data-Driven Evidence-Based Syntactic Sugar Design David OBrien, Robert Dyer, Tien N. Nguyen, Hridesh Rajan. April 17, 2024.
Acceptance rate: 234/1049 (22.31%)

MSR: Method Chaining Redux: An Empirical Study of Method Chaining in Java, Kotlin, and Python Ali M. Keshk, Robert Dyer. May 15, 2023.
Acceptance rate: 43/115 (37.39%)

ESEC/FSE: An Exploratory Study on the Predominant Programming Paradigms in Python Code Robert Dyer, Jigyasa Chauhan. November 16, 2022.
Acceptance rate: 99/449 (22.05%)

MSR: Escaping the Time Pit: Pitfalls and Guidelines for Using Time-Based Git Data Distinguished Paper Award Samuel W. Flint, Jigyasa Chauhan, Robert Dyer. May 17, 2021.
Acceptance rate: 48/140 (34.29%)

MSR: Boa Views: Easy Modularization and Sharing of MSR Analyses Che Shian Hung, Robert Dyer. June 29, 2020.
Acceptance rate: 45/171 (26.32%)

ESEC/FSE: Software Engineering Collaboratories (SEClabs) and Collaboratories as a Service (CaaS) Elena Sherman, Robert Dyer. November 6, 2018.
Acceptance rate: 14/?? (??%)

IJCNN: Classifying commit messages: A case study in resampling techniques SeyedHamid Shekarforoush, Robert Green, Robert Dyer. May 18, 2017.

ICSE: Inferring Behavioral Specifications from Large-scale Repositories by Leveraging Collective Intelligence Hridesh Rajan, Tien N. Nguyen, Gary T. Leavens, Robert Dyer. May 20, 2015.
Acceptance rate: 25/135 (18.52%)
MODULARITY: Modular Reasoning in the Presence of Event Subtyping Best Paper Award Mehdi Bagherzadeh, Robert Dyer, Rex D. Fernando, José Sánchez, Hridesh Rajan. March 18, 2015.
Acceptance rate: 12/25 (48.00%)

FSE: Mining Preconditions of APIs in Large-Scale Code Corpus Hoan Anh Nguyen, Robert Dyer, Tien N. Nguyen, Hridesh Rajan. November 18, 2014.
Acceptance rate: 61/273 (22.34%)
ICSE: Mining Billions of AST Nodes to Study Actual and Potential Usage of Java Language Features Robert Dyer, Hridesh Rajan, Hoan Anh Nguyen, Tien N. Nguyen. June 3, 2014.
Acceptance rate: 99/495 (20.00%)

SPLASH SRC: Task Fusion: Improving Utilization of Multi-user Clusters Robert Dyer. October 31, 2013.
GPCE: Declarative Visitors to Ease Fine-grained Source Code Mining with Full History on Billions of AST Nodes Robert Dyer, Hridesh Rajan, Tien N. Nguyen. October 27, 2013.
Acceptance rate: 20/57 (35.09%)
ICSE: Boa: A Language and Infrastructure for Analyzing Ultra-Large-Scale Software Repositories Robert Dyer, Hoan Anh Nguyen, Hridesh Rajan, Tien N. Nguyen. May 23, 2013.
Acceptance rate: 85/461 (18.43%)

AOSD: An Exploratory Study of the Design Impact of Language Features for Aspect-Oriented Interfaces Robert Dyer, Hridesh Rajan, Yuanfang Cai. March 30, 2012.
Acceptance rate: 20/79 (25.31%)

AOSD: Nu: A Dynamic Aspect-Oriented Intermediate Language Model and Virtual Machine for Flexible Runtime Adaptation Robert Dyer, Hridesh Rajan. March 31, 2008.
Acceptance rate: 17/79 (21.52%)