2025
Périodiques scientifiques/Article
- Chidambaram, N., Decan, A., & Mens, T. (March 2025). A Bot Identification Model and Tool Based on GitHub Activity Sequences. "Journal of Systems and Software, 221". doi:10.1016/j.jss.2024.112287
Colloques et congrès scientifiques/Communication publiée dans un ouvrage
- Hourri, Y., Decan, A., & Mens, T. (2025). A Dataset of Contributor Activities in the NumFocus Open-Source Community. In "Proceedings of 22nd International Conference on Mining Software Repositories". IEEE.
2024
Colloques et congrès scientifiques/Communication publiée dans un ouvrage
- Chidambaram, N., Mens, T., & Decan, A. (2024). RABBIT: A tool for identifying bot accounts based on their recent GitHub event history. In "21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories" (pp. 5). Lisbon, Portugal: ACM. doi:10.1145/3643991.3644877
- Onsori delicheh, H., Decan, A., & Mens, T. (2024). Quantifying Security Issues in Reusable JavaScript Actions in GitHub Workflows. In "21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR '24)". ACM. doi:10.1145/3643991.3644899
- Rostami mazrae, P., Decan, A., & Mens, T. (2024). gawd: A Differencing Tool for GitHub Actions Workflows. In "21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR '24)". ACM. doi:10.1145/3643991.3644873
- Cardoen, G., Mens, T., & Decan, A. (2024). A dataset of GitHub Actions workflow histories. In "21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR '24)". ACM. doi:10.1145/3643991.3644867
Colloques et congrès scientifiques/Communication publiée dans un périodique
- Mens, T., & Decan, A. (2024). An Overview and Catalogue of Dependency Challenges in Open Source Software Package Registries. "CEUR Workshop Proceedings".
2023
Parties d’ouvrages/Contribution à des ouvrages collectifs
- Wessel, M., Mens, T., Decan, A., & Rostami mazrae, P. (2023). The GitHub Development Workflow Automation Ecosystems. In T. Mens, C. De Roover, ... A. Cleve, "Software Ecosystems: Tooling and Analytics". Berlin, Germany: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-36060-2_8
Périodiques scientifiques/Article
- Decan, A., Mens, T., & Onsori delicheh, H. (2023). On the outdatedness of workflows in the GitHub Actions ecosystem. "Journal of Systems and Software", 111827. doi:10.1016/j.jss.2023.111827
- Rostami mazrae, P., Mens, T., Golzadeh, M., & Decan, A. (07 March 2023). On the usage, co-usage and migration of CI/CD tools: A qualitative analysis. "Empirical Software Engineering, 28" (52). doi:10.1007/s10664-022-10285-5
Colloques et congrès scientifiques/Communication publiée dans un ouvrage
- Chidambaram, N., Decan, A., & Mens, T. (2023). A Dataset of Bot and Human Activities in GitHub. In "Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2023)". IEEE. doi:10.1109/MSR59073.2023.00070
Colloques et congrès scientifiques/Communication publiée dans un périodique
- Onsori delicheh, H., Decan, A., & Mens, T. (12 September 2023). A Preliminary Study of GitHub Actions Dependencies. "CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 3483".
- Rostami mazrae, P., Decan, A., Mens, T., & Wessel, M. (2023). A Preliminary Study of GitHub Actions Workflow Changes. "CEUR Workshop Proceedings".
- Chidambaram, N., Decan, A., & Mens, T. (12 June 2023). Distinguishing Bots From Human Developers Based on Their GitHub Activity Types. "CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 3483", 31-39.
Mémoires et thèses/Thèse de doctorat
- Golzadeh, M. (2023). "Identifying Development Bots in Social Coding Platforms" [Doctoral thesis, UMONS - Université de Mons]. ORBi UMONS-University of Mons. https://orbi.umons.ac.be/handle/20.500.12907/46100
2022
Périodiques scientifiques/Article
- Zerouali, A., Mens, T., Decan, A., & De Roover, C. (30 May 2022). On the Impact of Security Vulnerabilities in the npm and RubyGems Dependency Networks. "Empirical Software Engineering, 27" (107), 45. doi:10.1007/s10664-022-10154-1
- Golzadeh, M., Mens, T., Decan, A., Constantinou, E., & Chidambaram, N. (26 May 2022). Recognizing bot activity in collaborative software development. "IEEE Software, 39" (5), 56-61. doi:10.1109/ms.2022.3178601
- Golzadeh, M., Decan, A., & Mens, T. (2022). On the rise and fall of CI services in GitHub. "29th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), Honolulu, Hawai, 2022".
Colloques et congrès scientifiques/Communication publiée dans un ouvrage
- Ramkisoen, P., Businge, J., Van Bradel, B., Decan, A., Demeyer, S., De Roover, C., & Khomh, F. (2022). PaReco: Patched Clones and Missed Patches among the Divergent Variants of a Software Family. In "Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2022)". ACM.
- Decan, A., Mens, T., Rostami Mazrae, P., & Golzadeh, M. (2022). On the Use of GitHub Actions in Software Development Repositories. In "Proceedings of 38th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)". IEEE.
- Chidambaram, N., Decan, A., & Golzadeh, M. (2022). Leveraging Predictions From Multiple Repositories to Improve Bot Detection. In "4th Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering (BotSE), IEEE/ACM ICSEW 2022". IEEE. doi:10.1145/3528228.3528403
- Golzadeh, M., Decan, A., & Mens, T. (2022). On the rise and fall of CI services in GitHub. In "Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)". Honolulu, Unknown/unspecified: IEEE.
- Golzadeh, M., Decan, A., & Chidambaram, N. (2022). On the Accuracy of Bot Detection Techniques. In "4th Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering (BotSE), IEEE/ACM ICSEW 2022". ACM. doi:10.1145/3528228.3528406
- Businge, J., Zerouali, A., Decan, A., Mens, T., Demeyer, S., & De Roover, C. (2022). Variant Forks - Motivations and Impediments. In "29th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)". IEEE.
2021
Périodiques scientifiques/Article
- Decan, A., Mens, T., Zerouali, A., & De Roover, C. (2021). Back to the Past - Analysing Backporting Practices in Package Dependency Networks. "IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering". doi:10.1109/TSE.2021.3112204
- Decan, A., & Mens, T. (2021). Lost in Zero Space - An Empirical Comparison of 0.y.z Releases in Software Package Distributions. "Science of Computer Programming". doi:10.1016/j.scico.2021.102656
- Golzadeh, M., Decan, A., Legay, D., & Mens, T. (02 February 2021). A ground-truth dataset and classification model for detecting bots in GitHub issue and PR comments. "Journal of Systems and Software, 175". doi:10.1016/j.jss.2021.110911
- Zerouali, A., Mens, T., Decan, A., Gonzalez-Barahona, J., & Robles, G. (2021). A multi-dimensional analysis of technical lag in Debian-based Docker images. "Empirical Software Engineering". doi:10.1007/s10664-020-09908-6
Colloques et congrès scientifiques/Communication orale non publiée/Abstract
- Golzadeh, M., Decan, A., & Mens, T. (08 December 2021). "On the evolution of CI usage and GitHub Actions" [Paper presentation]. BENEVOL - 20th Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.
- Golzadeh, M., Decan, A., & Mens, T. (02 December 2021). "A ground-truth dataset and classification model for detecting bots in GitHub issue and PR comments" [Paper presentation]. Groupe de Travail Vélocité Logicielle, Paris, France.
- Golzadeh, M., Decan, A., Legay, D., & Mens, T. (04 June 2021). "A ground-truth dataset and classification model for detecting bots in GitHub issue and PR comments" [Paper presentation]. 3rd Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering (BotSE), Madrid, Spain.
Colloques et congrès scientifiques/Communication publiée dans un ouvrage
- Businge, J., Decan, A., Zerouali, A., Mens, T., & Demeyer, S. (2021). An Empirical Investigation of Forks as Variants in the npm Package Distribution. In "Proceedings of the 19th Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop". CEUR-WS.org.
- Golzadeh, M., Decan, A., Constantinou, E., & Mens, T. (2021). Identifying bot activity in GitHub pull request and issue comments. In "2021 IEEE/ACM Third International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering (BotSE)". IEEE.
- Legay, D., Decan, A., & Mens, T. (2021). A Quantitative Assessment of Package Freshness in Linux Distributions. In "2021 IEEE/ACM 4th International Workshop on Software Health in Projects, Ecosystems and Communities (SoHeal)". IEEE.
- Golzadeh, M., Decan, A., & Mens, T. (2021). Evaluating a bot detection model on git commit messages. In "Proceedings of the 19th Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop". CEUR-WS.org.
2020
Périodiques scientifiques/Article
- Decan, A., & Mens, T. (2020). Sismic - A Python library for statechart execution and testing. "SoftwareX". doi:10.1016/j.softx.2020.100590
- Decan, A., Constantinou, E., Mens, T., & Rocha, H. (10 March 2020). GAP: Forecasting commit activity in git projects. "Journal of Systems and Software, 165". doi:10.1016/j.jss.2020.110573
Colloques et congrès scientifiques/Communication orale non publiée/Abstract
- Legay, D., Decan, A., & Mens, T. (03 December 2020). "A mixed-method approach to analysing package freshness in Linux distributions" [Paper presentation]. Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop (BENEVOL), Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Colloques et congrès scientifiques/Communication publiée dans un périodique
- Legay, D., Decan, A., & Mens, T. (2020). "On Package Freshness in Linux Distributions" [Paper presentation]. IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, Adelaïde, Australia.
- Golzadeh, M., Legay, D., Decan, A., & Mens, T. (2020). "Bot or not? Detecting bots in GitHub pull request activity based on comment similarity" [Paper presentation]. BotSE20: ICSE Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering, Seoul, South Korea.
- Legay, D., Decan, A., & Mens, T. (2020). "On the usage of badges in open source packages in GitHub" [Paper presentation]. Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop, Bruxelles, Belgium.
- Decan, A., & Mens, T. (2020). "How Magic Is Zero? An Empirical Analysis of Initial Development Releases in Three Software Package Distributions" [Paper presentation]. SoHeal 2020 : 3rd International Workshop on Software Health, Seoul, South Korea.
Développements informatiques/Logiciel
- Decan, A. (2020). "GAP: A Python-based command-line tool for forecasting commit activity in git projects".
- Decan, A., & Mens, T. (2020). "GAP: Forecasting Commit Activity in git Projects: Replication Package". doi:10.5281/zenodo.3666047
2019
Périodiques scientifiques/Article
- Decan, A., & Mens, T. (2019). What do package dependencies tell us about semantic versioning? "IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering". doi:10.1109/TSE.2019.2918315
- Mens, T., Decan, A., & Spanoudakis, N. I. (04 April 2019). A method for testing and validating executable statechart models. "Software and Systems Modeling, 18" (2), 837-863. doi:10.1007/s10270-018-0676-3
- Zerouali, A., Mens, T., Gonzalez-Barahona, J., Decan, A., Constantinou, E., & Robles, G. (2019). A formal framework for measuring technical lag in component repositories -- and its application to npm. "Journal of Software: Evolution and Process". doi:10.1002/smr.2157
- Decan, A., Mens, T., & Grosjean, P. (01 February 2019). An empirical comparison of dependency network evolution in seven software packaging ecosystems. "Empirical Software Engineering, 24" (1), 381-416. doi:10.1007/s10664-017-9589-y
Colloques et congrès scientifiques/Communication orale non publiée/Abstract
- Legay, D., Decan, A., & Mens, T. (28 November 2019). "Towards an Understanding of the Impact of Badges in GitHub Repositories" [Paper presentation]. Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop, Bruxelles, Belgium.
- Legay, D., Decan, A., & Mens, T. (22 November 2019). "Towards understanding the relation between badges and contributions in GitHub repositories" [Paper presentation]. Grascomp Doctoral Day (GDD'19), UNamur, Belgium.
- Golzadeh, M., Decan, A., & Mens, T. (22 November 2019). "On the effect of discussions on pull request decisions" [Paper presentation]. Grascomp Doctoral Day (GDD'19), UNamur, Belgium.
Colloques et congrès scientifiques/Communication publiée dans un périodique
- Golzadeh, M., Decan, A., & Mens, T. (2019). "On the effect of discussions on pull request decisions" [Paper presentation]. Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop, Bruxelles, Belgium.
- Legay, D., Decan, A., & Mens, T. (2019). "On the impact of pull request decisions on future contributions" [Paper presentation]. Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop (BENEVOL), Delft, Netherlands.
Mémoires et thèses/Thèse de doctorat
- Zerouali, A. (2019). "A Measurement Framework for Analyzing Technical Lag in Open-Source Software Ecosystems" [Doctoral thesis, Université de Mons]. ORBi UMONS-University of Mons. https://orbi.umons.ac.be/handle/20.500.12907/15134
2018
Colloques et congrès scientifiques/Communication orale non publiée/Abstract
- Constantinou, E., Decan, A., & Mens, T. (10 December 2018). "Breaking the borders: an investigation of cross-ecosystem software packages" [Paper presentation]. BENEVOL 2018, Delft, Netherlands.
- Decan, A., Constantinou, E., & Mens, T. (04 July 2018). "On the impact of security vulnerabilities in the npm package dependency network" [Paper presentation]. Seminar on Advanced Tools and Techniques for Software Evolution (SATTOSE 2018), Athens, Greece.
Colloques et congrès scientifiques/Communication publiée dans un périodique
- Constantinou, E., Decan, A., & Mens, T. (2018). "Breaking the Borders: An Investigation of Cross-Ecosystem Software Packages" [Paper presentation]. Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop (BENEVOL), Delft, Netherlands.
- Decan, A., Mens, T., & Constantinou, E. (2018). "On the evolution of technical lag in the npm package dependency network" [Paper presentation]. IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, Madrid, Spain.
- Decan, A., Mens, T., & Constantinou, E. (2018). "On the impact of security vulnerabilities in the npm package dependency network" [Paper presentation]. IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, Gothenburg, Sweden. doi:10.1145/3196398.3196401
2017
Parties d’ouvrages/Contribution à des ouvrages collectifs
- Claes, M., Decan, A., & Mens, T. (2017). Intercomponent dependency issues in software ecosystems. In "Software Technology: 10 Years of Innovation in IEEE Computer". Wiley.
- Meurice, L., Goeminne, M., Mens, T., Nagy, C., Decan, A., & Cleve, A. (2017). Analyzing the evolution of database usage in data-intensive software systems. In "Software Technology: 10 Years of Innovation in IEEE Computer". Wiley.
Colloques et congrès scientifiques/Communication orale non publiée/Abstract
- Mens, T., & Decan, A. (07 June 2017). "Towards Laws of Software Ecosystem Evolution: An Empirical Comparison of Seven Package Dependency Networks" [Paper presentation]. Seminar on Advanced Tools and Techniques for Software Evolution (SATTOSE 2017), Madrid, Spain.
Colloques et congrès scientifiques/Communication publiée dans un périodique
- Decan, A., Goeminne, M., & Mens, T. (2017). "On the Interaction of Relational Database Access Technologies in Open Source Java Projects" [Paper presentation]. SATToSE 2015, Mons, Belgium.
- Decan, A., Mens, T., & Claes, M. (2017). "An Empirical Comparison of Dependency Issues in OSS Packaging Ecosystems" [Paper presentation]. IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering, Klagenfurt, Austria.
2016
Colloques et congrès scientifiques/Communication publiée dans un périodique
- Decan, A., Mens, T., & Claes, M. (2016). "On the Topology of Package Dependency Networks: A Comparison of Three Programming Language Ecosystems" [Paper presentation]. European Conference on Software Architecture Workshops, Copenhagen, Denmark. doi:10.1145/2993412.3003382
- Decan, A., Mens, T., Claes, M., & Grosjean, P. (2016). "When GitHub meets CRAN: An Analysis of Inter-Repository Package Dependency Problems" [Paper presentation]. IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering, Osaka, Japan.
2015
Colloques et congrès scientifiques/Communication publiée dans un périodique
- Decan, A., Mens, T., Claes, M., & Grosjean, P. (2015). "On the Development and Distribution of R Packages: An Empirical Analysis of the R Ecosystem" [Paper presentation]. International Workshop on Software Ecosystems (IWSECO), .
2014
Colloques et congrès scientifiques/Communication publiée dans un périodique
- Goeminne, M., Decan, A., & Mens, T. (2014). "Co-evolving code-related and database-related changes in a data-intensive software system" [Paper presentation]. IEEE CSMR-WCRE 2014 Software Evolution Week, Antwerpen, Belgium. doi:10.1109/CSMR-WCRE.2014.6747193
2013
Mémoires et thèses/Thèse de doctorat
- Decan, A. (2013). "Certain Query Answering in First-Order Languages" [Doctoral thesis, Université de Mons]. ORBi UMONS-University of Mons. https://orbi.umons.ac.be/handle/20.500.12907/41214
2012
Périodiques scientifiques/Article
- Decan, A., Pijcke, F., & Wijsen, J. (17 September 2012). Certain Conjunctive Query Answering in SQL. "Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7520", 154-167.
- Bruyère, V., Carton, O., Decan, A., Gauwin, O., & Wijsen, J. (01 January 2012). An Aperiodicity Problem for Multiwords. "RAIRO: Informatique Théorique et Applications, 46" (1), 33-50.
Colloques et congrès scientifiques/Communication orale non publiée/Abstract
- Decan, A., Pijcke, F., & Wijsen, J. (21 November 2012). "Certain Conjunctive Query Answering in SQL" [Paper presentation]. The Dutch-Belgian Database Day (DBDBD), Brussels, Belgium.
- Decan, A., Pijcke, F., & Wijsen, J. (17 September 2012). "Certain Conjunctive Query Answering in SQL" [Paper presentation]. International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM), Marburg, Germany.
2010
Colloques et congrès scientifiques/Communication orale non publiée/Abstract
- Decan, A., & Wijsen, J. (10 September 2010). "A Variant of Pattern Matching for Multiwords" [Paper presentation]. Journées Montoises en Informatique Théorique, Amiens, France.
Colloques et congrès scientifiques/Communication publiée dans un périodique
- Bruyère, V., Carton, O., Decan, A., Gauwin, O., & Wijsen, J. (2010). "A Variant of Pattern Matching for Multiwords" [Paper presentation]. Journées Montoises en Informatique Théorique, Amiens, France.
2009
Colloques et congrès scientifiques/Communication publiée dans un périodique
- Bruyère, V., Decan, A., & Wijsen, J. (2009). "On first-order query rewriting for incomplete database histories" [Paper presentation]. International Symposium/Workshop on Temporal Representation and Reasoning, Bressanone-Brixen, Italy.
2008
Colloques et congrès scientifiques/Communication publiée dans un périodique
- Decan, A., & Wijsen, J. (2008). "On first-order query rewriting for incomplete database histories" [Paper presentation]. International Workshop on Logic in Databases (LID), .