MCIS

lab on Maintenance, Construction and Intelligence of Software

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2026


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2023


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  • Jinfu Chen, Zishuo Ding, Yiming Tang, Mohammed Sayagh, Heng Li, Bram Adams and Weiyi Shang (2023). IoPV: On Inconsistent Option Performance Variations, in Proceedings of the 31st Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) (San Francisco, USA), p. 845-857. (Acceptance ratio: 60/465=12.9%)
  • Kazi Amit Hasan, Marcos Macedo, Yuan Tian, Bram Adams and Steven Ding (2023). Understanding the Time to First Response In GitHub Pull Requests, in Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) (Melbourne, Australia), p. 1-11. (Acceptance ratio: 43/115=37.4%)





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  • Bram Adams (2023). Foreword, in Software Ecosystems: Tooling and Analytics, edited by Tom Mens, Coen De Roover and Anthony Cleve, 1st ed., p. vii-ix, Springer.




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  • Nan Yang, Isabella Ferreira, Alexander Serebrenik and Bram Adams (2022). Why Do Projects Join the Apache Software Foundation?, in Proceedings of the Software Engineering in Society track at the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) (Pittsburgh, PA, USA), p. 161-171. (Acceptance ratio: 17/39=43.59%)




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  • Bram Adams (2016). How the Release Process Impacts your Software Analytics, chapter in Perspectives on Data Science for Software Engineering, edited by Tim Menzies, Laurie Williams and Tom Zimmermann, p. 249-254, Morgan Kaufmann.
  • Len Bass, Bram Adams, Chris Parnin and Lorin Hochstein (2016). Why You Should Be Teaching Deployment in Your Curriculum!, panel at the 29th IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEET). [video recording]
  • Felienne Hermans, Janet Siegmund, Thomas Fritz, Gabriele Bavota, Meiyappan Nagappan, Abram Hindle, Yasutaka Kamei, Ali Mesbah and Bram Adams (2016). , IEEE Software, 33(2), p. 99-104.
  • Noureddine Kerzazi and Bram Adams (2016). Who Needs Release and DevOps Engineers, and Why?, in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Continuous Software Evolution and Delivery (CSED) (Austin, Texas), p. 77-83. (Acceptance ratio: 14/18=77.8%)




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2014


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  • Yujuan Jiang, Bram Adams and Daniel M. Germán (2014). How much does this commit cost?, position paper at the 2nd International Workshop on Release Engineering (RELENG) (Mountain View, CA, US).
  • Yujuan Jiang and Bram Adams (2014). Improving the Integration Process of Large Software Systems [poster], 2nd International Workshop on Release Engineering (RELENG) (Mountain View, CA, US).
  • Shane McIntosh, Bram Adams, Meiyappan Nagappan and Ahmed E. Hassan (2014). Identifying Header File Hotspots in C/C++ Build Processes [poster], 2nd International Workshop on Release Engineering (RELENG) (Mountain View, CA, US).




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  • Mark D. Syer, Meiyappan Nagappan, Ahmed E. Hassan and Bram Adams (2013). Revisiting Prior Empirical Findings For Mobile Apps: An Empirical Case Study on the 15 Most Popular Open-Source Android Apps, in Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research (CASCON) (Markham, ON, Canada), p. 283-297. (Acceptance ratio: 25/70=35.7%)
  • Zéphyrin Soh, Foutse Khomh, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Giuliano Antoniol and Bram Adams (2013). On the Effect of Program Exploration on Maintenance Tasks, in Proceedings of the 20th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE) (Koblenz, Germany), p. 391-400, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 38/97=39%)
  • Mika Mäntylä, Foutse Khomh, Bram Adams, Emelie Engström and Kai Petersen (2013). On Rapid Releases and Software Testing, in Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) (Eindhoven, The Netherlands), p. 20-29, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 36/163=22%) (invited for special issue)
  • Weiyi Shang, Zhen Ming Jiang, Hadi Hemmati, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan and Patrick Martin (2013). Assisting Big Data Analytics Developers When Cloud Deploying Hadoop Applications, in Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) (San Francisco, CA, US), p. 402-411. (Acceptance ratio: 85/461=18.5%) (ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award)
  • Yujuan Jiang, Bram Adams and Daniel M. Germán (2013). Will My Patch Make It? And How Fast? - Case Study on the Linux Kernel, in Proceedings of the 10th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) (San Francisco, CA, US), p. 101-110. (Acceptance ratio: 31/81=38%) [replication package]
  • Daniel M. Germán, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2013). Programming Language Ecosystems: the Evolution of R, in Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR) (Genova, Italy), p. 243-252. (Acceptance ratio: 29/80=36.3%)
  • Fehmi Jaafar, Salima Hassaine, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Sylvia Hamel and Bram Adams (2013). , in Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR) (Genova), p. 15-24. (Acceptance ratio: 29/80=36.3%)
  • Étienne Duclos, Sébastien Le Digabel, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc and Bram Adams (2013). , in Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR) (Genova), p. 121-130. (Acceptance ratio: 29/80=36.3%)





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  • Bram Adams (2012). Technical Briefing on Software Release Engineering, in Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) (Zurich, Switzerland). (Acceptance ratio: 18/50=36%)
  • Max Di Penta, Giuliano Antoniol, Daniel M. Germán, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc and Bram Adams (2012). Five Days of Empirical Software Engineering: The PASED Experience, in Proceedings of the Software Engineering Education Track at the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) (Zurich, Switzerland), p. 1255-1258. (Acceptance ratio: 11/49=22.4%)
  • Rina Nagano, Hiroki Nakamura, Yasutaka Kamei, Bram Adams, Kenji Hisazumi, Naoyasu Ubayashi and Akira Fukuda (2012). Using the GPGPU for Large-Scale Mining Software Repositories Studies [poster], in Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) (Zurich, Switzerland), p. 1435-1436. (Acceptance ratio: 8/22=36.4%)
  • Shahed Zaman, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2012). A Large Scale Empirical Study on User-Centric Performance Analysis, in Proceedings of the industry track of the 5th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST) (Montréal, Canada), p. 410-419.




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2008


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  • Bram Adams, Kris De Schutter, Herman Tromp and Wolfgang De Meuter (2008). The Evolution of the Linux Build System, in Proceedings of the ERCIM Working Group on Software Evolution 2007 , Electronic Communications of the ECEASST (Paris, France), 8, p. 16 p..

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  • Bram Adams, Van Bart Rompaey, Celina Gibbs and Yvonne Coady (2008). Aspect mining in the Presence of the C Preprocessor, in Proceedings of the 4th Linking Aspect Technology and Evolution Workshop (LATE) (Brussels, Belgium), p. 1-6, ACM.
  • Stijn Timbermont, Bram Adams and Michael Haupt (2008). Towards a DSAL for Object Layout in Virtual Machines, in Proceedings of the 3rd Domain-Specific Aspect Languages Workshop (DSAL) (Brussels, Belgium), p. 1-4, ACM.
  • Bram Adams, Charlotte Herzeel and Kris Gybels (2008). cHALO, Stateful Aspects in C, in Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Aspects, Components, and Patterns for Infrastructure Software (ACP4IS) (Brussels, Belgium), p. 1-6, ACM.





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  • Zhen Ming Jiang, Dharmesh Thakkar, Haroon Malik, Emad Shihab, Ahmed E. Hassan, Dave Dietz, Parminder Flora, Gilbert Hamann, Adele Newton, James Sutherland and Bram Adams (2008). Quality Engineering for Large Scale Enterprise Systems, in Center of Advanced Studies Conference Exhibit (CASCON) (Toronto, Canada).
  • Bram Adams (2008). Lessons learnt from Studying Build Systems with MAKAO [presentation], 2nd Workshop on Advanced Software Development Tools and Techniques (WASDeTT) (Beijing, China).
  • Bram Adams (2008). Mining the Build System [presentation], Lightning workshop on Mining Software Repositories (Antwerp, Belgium).




2007


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  • Bram Adams, Kris De Schutter, Herman Tromp and Wolfgang De Meuter (2007). Design Recovery and Maintenance of Build Systems, in Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) (Paris, France), p. 114-123, IEEE. (Acceptance ratio: 46/214=21%) (invited for special issue)





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Latest Work

Doriane Olewicki, Leuson Da Silva, Oussama Ben Sghaier, Suhaib Mujahid, Arezou Amini, Benjamin Mah, Marco Castelluccio, Sarra Habchi, Foutse Khomh and Bram Adams (2026). Impact of LLM-based Review Assistant in Practice: A Mixed Open-/Closed-source Case Study, Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), IEEE, to appear.


Hao Li, Hicham Masri, Filipe Roseiro Côgo, Abdul Ali Bangash, Bram Adams and Ahmed E. Hassan (2026). Understanding Prompt Management in GitHub Repositories: A Call for Best Practices, IEEE Software, IEEE, to appear.