Publications

Characterizing Packages for Vulnerability Prediction

Saviour Owolabi, Francesco Rosati, Ahmad Abdellatif, Lorenzo De Carli

Published in Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR'25), 2025 - PDF

Tracing Vulnerabilities in Maven: A Study of CVE lifecycles and Dependency Networks

Corey Yang-Smith, Ahmad Abdellatif

Published in Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR'25), 2025 - PDF

Predicting the First Response Latency of Maintainers and Contributors in Pull Requests

SayedHassan Khatoonabadi, Ahmad Abdellatif, Diego Elias Costa, and Emad Shihab

Published in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2024 - PDF

Code Mapper: Mapping the Global Contributions of OSS

T. Le Tourneau, J. Latendresse, A. Abdellatif, and E. Shihab

Published in Proceedings of the 46th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'24), 2024 - PDF

An Exploratory Study on Machine Learning Model Management

Jasmine Latendresse, Samuel Abedu, Ahmad Abdellatif, Emad Shihab

Published in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2024 - PDF

DVC in Open Source ML-development: The Action and the Reactions

L. Barreto Simedo Pacheco, M. Rahman, F. Rabbi, P. Fathollahzadeh, A. Abdellatif, E. Shihab, T. P. Chen, J. Yang, and Y. Zou

Published in 2024 IEEE/ACM 3rd International Conference on AI Engineering–Software Engineering for AI (CAIN), 2024 - PDF

LLM-Based Chatbots for Mining Software Repositories:Challenges and Opportunities

S. Abedu, A. Abdellatif, and E. Shihab

Published in Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2024), 2024 - PDF

A Transformer-based Approach for Augmenting Software Engineering Chatbots Datasets

A. Abdellatif, K. Badran, D. E. Costa, and E. Shihab

Published in Proceedings of the 18th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM'24), 2024 - PDF

A Weak Supervision-Based Approach to Improve Chatbots for Code Repositories

Farbod Farhour, Ahmad Abdellatif, Essam Mansour, Emad Shihab

Published in The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2024 - PDF

SE4AI: A Training Program Considering Technical, Social, and Professional Aspects of AI-based Software Systems

Ahmad Abdellatif,Gita Ghiasi,Diego Costa,Emad Shihab,Tanja Tajmel

Published in IEEE Software: Software Engineering Educating and Training, 2023 - PDF

Bots for Pull Requests: The Good, the Bad, and the Promising

Mairieli Wessel, Ahmad Abdellatif, Igor Wiese, Tayana Conte, Emad Shihab, Marco Gerosa, Igor Steinmacher

Published in Proceedings of the 44th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'22), 2022 - PDF

BotHunter: An Approach to Detect Software Bots in GitHub

Ahmad Abdellatif, Mairieli Wessel, Igor Steinmacher, Marco Gerosa, Emad Shihab

Published in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR'22), 2022 - PDF

A Comparison of Natural Language Understanding Platforms for Chatbots in Software Engineering

Ahmad Abdellatif, Khaled Badran, Diego Costa, Emad Shihab

Published in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2021 - PDF

Challenges in Chatbot Development: A Study of Stack Overflow Posts

Ahmad Abdellatif, Diego Costa, Khaled Badran, Rabe Abdelkareem, Emad Shihab

Published in Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR'20), 2020 - PDF

Simplifying the Search of npm Packages

Ahmad Abdellatif, Yi Zeng, Mohamed Elshafei, Emad Shihab, Weiyi Shang

Published in Information and Software Technology, 2020 - PDF

MSRBot: Using Bots to Answer Questions from Software Repositories

Ahmad Abdellatif, Khaled Badran, Emad Shihab

Published in Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2020 - PDF

A Measurement Framework for Software Product Maturity Assessment

Ahmad Abdellatif, Mohammad Alshayeb, Sami Zahran, Mahmood Niazi

Published in Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, 2019 - PDF

Effect of Coupling on Software Faults: An Empirical Study

Sajid Anwer, Ahmad Adbellatif, Mohammad Alshayeb, Muhammad Anjum

Published in 2017 International Conference on Communication, Computing and Digital Systems (C-CODE), 2017 - PDF

Towards a Framework for Software Product Maturity Measurement

Mohammad Alshayeb, Ahmad Abdellatif, Sami Zahran, Mahmood Niazi

Published in The Tenth international conference on software engineering advances, 2015 - PDF