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Book Chapter

• [B1] Yang Zhou, Bowen Xu, David Lo. Supporting Collateral Evolution in Software Ecosystems of the book titled Software Ecosystems: Tooling and Analytics. Link

Conference Papers

• [C25] Ummay Kulsum, Haotian Zhu, Bowen Xu, Marcelo d'Amorim. A Case Study of LLM for Automated Vulnerability Repair: Assessing Impact of Reasoning and Patch Validation Feedback. 1st ACM International Conference on AI-powered Software (AIware 2024). PDF
• [C24] Chen Gong, Zhou Yang, Yunpeng Bai, Junda He, Jieke Shi, Kecen Li, Arunesh Sinha, Bowen Xu, Xinwen Hou, David Lo, Tianhao Wang. BAFFLE: Backdoor Attack in Offline Reinforcement Learning. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P 2024). PDF
• [C23] Xin Zhou, Kisub Kim, Bowen Xu, DongGyun Han, David Lo. Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Better Automatic Vulnerability Repair by Broadening Input Ranges and Sources. The 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2024). Accepted as a Full Paper. PDF
• [C22] Junda He, Zhou Yang, Jieke Shi, Chengran Yang, Kisub Kim, Bowen Xu, Xin Zhou, David Lo. Curiosity-Driven Testing for Sequential Decision-Making Process. The 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2024). Accepted as a Full Paper. TBA
• [C21] Jieke Shi, Zhou Yang, Hong Jin Kang, Bowen Xu, Junda He, David Lo. Greening Large Language Models of Code. The 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2024) -- Software Engineering in Society Track (ICSE 2024 SEIS). Accepted as a Full Paper. TBA
• [C20] Xin Zhou, Kisub Kim, Bowen Xu, Jiakun Liu, DongGyun Han, David Lo. The Devil is in the Tails: An Exploratory Study on Long-tailed. 39th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ASE 2023). Accepted as a Full Paper. PDF
• [C19] Bowen Xu, Thanh-Dat Nguyen, Thanh Le-Cong, Thong Hoang, Jiakun Liu, Kisub Kim, Chen Gong, Changan Niu, Chenyu Wang, Bach Le, David Lo. Are We Ready to Embrace Generative AI for Software Q&A?. 39th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ASE 2023). Accepted as a NIER-track Paper. PDF
• [C18] Xin Zhou, Bowen Xu, Donggyun Han, Zhou Yang, Junda He and David Lo. Self-Supervised Code Change Representation Learning. 39th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2023). Accepted as a Full Paper. PDF
• [C17] Xin Zhou, Kisub Kim, Bowen Xu, DongGyun Han, Junda He, David Lo. Generation-based Code Review Automation: How Far Are We?. The 31st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2023). Accepted as a Full Paper. PDF
• [C16] Chen Gong, Zhou Yang, Yunpeng Bai, Jieke Shi, Arunesh Sinha, Bowen Xu, David Lo, Xinwen Hou, Guoliang Fan. Curiosity-Driven and Victim-Aware Adversarial Policies. The Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC). Accepted as a Full Paper. PDF Won Honorable Mention Award
• [C15] Chengran Yang, Bowen Xu, Ferdian Thung, Yucen Shi, Ting Zhang, Zhou Yang, Xin Zhou, Jieke Shi, Junda He, DongGyun Han, David Lo. Answer Summarization for Technical Queries: Benchmark and New Approach. The 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering. Accepted as a Full Paper. PDF
• [C14] Jieke Shi, Zhou Yang, Bowen Xu, Hong Jin Kang, David Lo. Compressing Pre-trained Models of Code into 3 MB. The 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering. Accepted as a Full Paper. PDF Nominated for ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
• [C13] Yucen Shi, Ying Yin, Zhengkui Wang, David Lo, Tao Zhang, Xin Xia, Yuhai Zhao, Bowen Xu. How to Better Utilize Code Graphs in Semantic Code Search?. The 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2022). Accepted as a Full Paper. PDF
• [C12] Junda He, Bowen Xu, Zhou Yang, DongGyun Han, Chengran Yang and David Lo. PTM4Tag: Sharpening Tag Recommendation of Stack Overflow with Pre-trained Models. 30th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2022). Accepted as a Full Paper. PDF Code Invited to Empirical Software Engineering Journal
• [C11] Jieke Shi, Zhou Yang, Junda He, Bowen Xu and David Lo. Can Identifier Splitting Improve Open-Vocabulary Language Model of Code?. 29th IEEE International Conference onSoftware Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2022). Accepted as a ERA track Paper. PDF Code
• [C10] Chengran Yang, Bowen Xu, Junaed Younus Khan, Gias Uddin, Donggyun Han, Zhou Yang and David Lo. Aspect-Based API Review Classification: How Far Can Pre-Trained Transformer Model Go?. 29th IEEE International Conference onSoftware Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2022). Accepted as a Full Paper. PDF Code
• [C9] Ting Zhang, Bowen Xu, Ferdian Thung, Stefanus Agus Haryono, David Lo, Lingxiao Jiang. Sentiment Analysis for Software Engineering: How Far Can Pre-trained Transformer Models Go?. 36th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2020). Accepted as a Full Paper. PDF Code
• [C8] Heng-Yi Li, Shu-Ting Shi, Ferdian Thung, Xuan Huo, Bowen Xu, Ming Li, and David Lo. DeepReview: Automatic Code Review using Deep Multi-Instance Learning. The 23rd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2019). Accepted as a Full Paper. PDF
• [C7] Bowen Xu, Amirreza Shirani, David Lo and Mohammad Amin Alipour. Prediction of Relatedness in Stack Overflow: Deep Learning vs. SVM - A Reproducibility Study. 12th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2018). Accepted as a Full Paper. PDF Slide Code Won Highly Commended Full Paper Award
• [C6] Bowen Xu, Zhenchang Xing, Xin Xia, David Lo. AnswerBot - Automated Generation of Answer Summary to Developers' Technical Questions. 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2017). Accepted as a Full Paper. PDF Code Slide Poster
• [C5] Bowen Xu, Deheng Ye, Zhenchang Xing, Xin Xia, Guibin Chen, Shanping Li. Predicting Semantically Linkable Knowledge in Developer Online Forums via Convolutional Neural Network. 31st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2016). Accepted as a Full Paper. PDF Code
• [C4] Guibin Chen, Chunyang Chen, Zhenchang Xing, Bowen Xu. Learning a Dual-Language Vector Space for Domain-Specific Cross-Lingual Question Retrieval. 31st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2016). Accepted as a Full Paper. PDF
• [C3] Bowen Xu, Zhenchang Xing, Xin Xia, David Lo, Qingye Wang, Shanping Li. Domain-Specific Cross-Language Relevant Question Retrieval. 13th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2016). Accepted as a Full Paper. PDF Invited to Empirical Software Engineering Journal
• [C2] Bowen Xu, David Lo, Xin Xia, Ashish Sureka, Shanping Li. EFSPredictor: Predicting Configuration Bugs With Ensemble Feature Selection. 22nd Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2015). Accepted as a Full Paper. PDF
• [C1] Yun Zhang, David Lo, Xin Xia, Bowen Xu, Jianling Sun, Shanping Li. Combining Software Metrics and Text Features for Vulnerable File Prediction. 20th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2015). Accepted as a Full Paper. PDF

Journal Papers

• [J10] Zhou Yang, Jieke Shi, Hilmi Asyrofi, Bowen Xu, Xin Zhou, DongGyun Han, David Lo. Prioritizing Speech Test Cases. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM). 2024.
• [J9] Mohammad Sadegh Sheikhaei, Yuan Tian, Shaowei Wang, Bowen Xu. An empirical study on the effectiveness of large language models for SATD identification and classification. Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE). 2024.
• [J8] Xin Zhou, Bowen Xu, Kisub Kim, DongGyun Han, Nguyen Huu Hung, Thanh Le-Cong, Junda He, Bach Le, and David Lo. Leveraging Large Language Model for Automatic Patch Correctness Assessment. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE). 2024.
• [J7] Zhou Yang, Bowen Xu, Jie M. Zhang, Hong Jin Kang, Jieke Shi, Junda He, David Lo. Stealthy Backdoor Attack for Code Models. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE). 2024.
• [J6] Junda He, Xin Zhou, Bowen Xu, Ting Zhang, Kisub Kim, Zhou Yang, Ferdian Thung, Ivana Irsan, David Lo. Representation Learning for Stack Overflow Posts: How Far are We?. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM). 2023. PREPRINT
• [J5] Truong Giang Nguyen, Thanh Le-Cong, Hong Jin Kang, Ratnadira Widyasari, Chengran Yang, Zhipeng Zhao, Bowen Xu, Jiayuan Zhou, Xin Xia, Ahmed Hassan, Xuan-Bach Le, David Lo, Multi-Granularity Detector for Vulnerability Fixes. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE). 2023. PREPRINT
• [J4] Ting Zhang, DongGyun Han, Venkatesh Vinayakarao, Ivana Irsan, Bowen Xu, Ferdian Thung, David Lo, Lingxiao Jiang. Duplicate Bug Report Detection: How Far Are We?. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM). 2023. PREPRINT
• [J3] Bowen Xu, Thong Hoang, Abhishek Sharma, Chengran Yang, Xin Xia, and David Lo. Post2Vec: Learning Distributed Representations of Stack Overflow Posts. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE). PREPRINT
• [J2] Bowen Xu, Le An, Ferdian Thung, Foutse Khomh, David Lo. Why Reinventing the Wheels? An Empirical Study on Library Reuse and Re-implementation. Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE). PREPRINT Code
• [J1] Bowen Xu, Zhenchang Xing, Xin Xia, David Lo, Shanping Li. Domain-Specific Cross-Language Relevant Question Retrieval. Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE). PREPRINT

Tool Demo Papers

• [T3] Chengran Yang, Bowen Xu, Jiakun Liu, David Lo. TECHSUMBOT: A Stack Overflow Answer Summarization Tool for Technical Query. The 45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2023). Accepted as a tool demo paper. PDF Video Demo Code
• [T2] Liang Cai, Haoye Wang, Bowen Xu, Qiao Huang, Xin Xia, David Lo, Zhenchang Xing. AnswerBot: An Answer Summary Generation Tool Based on Stack Overflow. The 27th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2019). Accepted as a tool demo paper. PDF Video Demo Code
• [T1] Bowen Xu, Zhenchang Xing, Xin Xia, David Lo Xuan-Bach D. Le. XSearch: A DomainSpecific Cross-Language Relevant Question Retrieval Tool. 11th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2017). Accepted as a tool demo paper. PDF Video Demo

Workshop Papers

• [W2] Aftab Hussain, Md Rafiqul Islam Rabin, Bowen Xu, David Lo, Amin Alipour. A Study of Variable-Role-based Feature Enrichment in Neural Models of Code ICSE 2023 The 1st International Workshop on Interpretability and Robustness in Neural Software Engineering (ICSE-InteNSE).
• [W1] Amirreza Shirani, Bowen Xu, David Lo, Thamar Solorio and Mohammad Amin Alipour. Question Relatedness on Stack Overflow: The Task, Dataset, and Corpus-inspired Model. AAAI 2019 Reasoning and Complex QA Workshop (AAAI-RCQA).