MODES Lab

Publications

Publications by MODES Lab members from 2021 onwards. For a complete list, see the individual Google Scholar profiles of Juri Di Rocco, Davide Di Ruscio, Alfonso Pierantonio, and Phuong T. Nguyen.

2026

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    Automated Summarization of Software Documents: An LLM-based Multi-Agent Approach

    Nguyen, Duc S.H. and Nguyen, Minh T. and Nguyen, Phuong T. and Di Rocco, Juri and Di Ruscio, Davide

    Automated Software Engineering (AUSE)

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    Engineering LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems: A Taxonomy of Emerging Frameworks

    Di Ruscio, Davide and Nguyen, Phuong T. and Di Sipio, Claudio and Rubei, Riccardo and Di Rocco, Juri

    IEEE Software

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    Many Hands Make Light Work: An LLM-based Multi-Agent System for Detecting Malicious PyPI Packages

    Zeshan, Muhammad Umar and Ibiyo, Motunrayo and Di Sipio, Claudio and Nguyen, Phuong T. and Di Ruscio, Davide

    Journal of Systems and Software (JSS)

  • Conference

    Model Persistence in Distributed Environments: Change-Based Encoding on Blockchain

    Scappa, Marco and Di Rocco, Juri and Pierantonio, Alfonso

    IEEE SANER 2026

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    The Cognitive Science of Modeling Tools

    Pierantonio, Alfonso and Gozzano, Simone and Mazza, Massimo

    Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM)

  • Conference

    Model-Driven Quality Analysis of Cyber-Physical Systems: State of the Art and Perspectives

    Cortellessa, Vittorio and Di Ruscio, Davide and Lombardi, Tommaso and Pierantonio, Alfonso

    MODELSWARD 2026

2025

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    On the Use of Large Language Models in Model-Driven Engineering

    Di Rocco, Juri and Di Ruscio, Davide and Di Sipio, Claudio and Nguyen, Phuong T. and Rubei, Riccardo

    Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM)

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    Modeling in Jjodel: Towards Bridging Complexity and Usability in Model-Driven Engineering

    Bucchiarone, Antonio and Di Rocco, Juri and Di Vincenzo, Damiano and Pierantonio, Alfonso

    Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM)

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    A Framework for Evaluating Tool Support for Co-Evolution of Modeling Languages, Tools and Models

    Tolvanen, Juha-Pekka and Kelly, Steven and Di Rocco, Juri and Pierantonio, Alfonso and Tinella, Gianluca

    Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM)

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    DeepMig: A Transformer-based Approach to Support Coupled Library and Code Migrations

    Di Rocco, Juri and Nguyen, Phuong T. and Di Sipio, Claudio and Rubei, Riccardo and Di Ruscio, Davide and Di Penta, Massimiliano

    Information and Software Technology (IST)

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    Binary and Multi-Class Classification of Self-Admitted Technical Debt: How Far Can We Go?

    Fontana, Francesca Arcelli and Di Rocco, Juri and Di Ruscio, Davide and Di Salle, Amleto and Nguyen, Phuong T.

    Information and Software Technology (IST)

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    On the Energy Consumption of ATL Transformations

    Rubei, Riccardo and Di Rocco, Juri and Di Ruscio, Davide

    Software: Practice and Experience (SPE)

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    EnseSmells: Deep Ensemble and Programming Language Models for Automated Code Smells Detection

    Ho, Anh and Bui, Anh M.T. and Nguyen, Phuong T. and Di Salle, Amleto and Le, Bac

    Journal of Systems and Software (JSS)

  • Journal

    Automation in Model-Driven Engineering: A Look Back, and Ahead

    Burgueño, Loli and Di Ruscio, Davide and Sahraoui, Houari and Wimmer, Manuel

    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)

  • Conference

    Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: LLMs-Based Agents for GitHub README.MD Summarization

    Nguyen, Duc S.H. and Truong, Bach G. and Nguyen, Phuong T. and Di Rocco, Juri and Di Ruscio, Davide

    ACM FSE 2025

  • Conference

    Addressing Popularity Bias in Third-Party Library Recommendations Using LLMs

    Di Sipio, Claudio and Di Rocco, Juri and Di Ruscio, Davide and Bulhakov, Viktor

    IEEE SANER 2025

  • Conference

    Generate with CodeXHug: A Dataset to Enhance Model Cards with Code Usage Patterns

    Palombo, Sara and Di Sipio, Claudio and Di Rocco, Juri and Di Ruscio, Davide

    EUROMICRO SEAA 2025

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    Modeling: The Heart and Soul of Engineering Smart Ecosystems

    Bucchiarone, Antonio and Combemale, Benoit and Pierantonio, Alfonso and Bencomo, Nelly and others

    ACM/IEEE MoDELS 2025

2024

  • Journal

    GPTSniffer: A CodeBERT-based Classifier to Detect Source Code Written by ChatGPT

    Nguyen, Phuong T. and Di Rocco, Juri and Di Sipio, Claudio and Rubei, Riccardo and Di Ruscio, Davide and Di Penta, Massimiliano

    Journal of Systems and Software (JSS)

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    Advanced Discovery Mechanisms in Model Repositories

    Indamutsa, Adrien and Di Rocco, Juri and Almonte, Lissette and Di Ruscio, Davide and Pierantonio, Alfonso

    Software: Practice and Experience (SPE)

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    Leveraging Privacy Profiles to Empower Users in the Digital Society

    Di Ruscio, Davide and Inverardi, Paola and Migliarini, Patrizio and Nguyen, Phuong T.

    Automated Software Engineering (AUSE)

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    LEV4REC: A Feature-based Approach to Engineering RSSEs

    Di Sipio, Claudio and Di Rocco, Juri and Di Ruscio, Davide and Nguyen, Phuong T.

    Journal of Computer Languages (COLA)

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    AMINO: A Quality Assessment Framework for Modeling Ecosystems

    Di Ruscio, Davide and Iovino, Ludovico and Pierantonio, Alfonso

    Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (JSEP)

  • Journal

    Multi-objective Model Transformation Chain Exploration with MOMoT

    Eisenberg, Markus and Sahay, Aamir and Di Ruscio, Davide and Iovino, Ludovico and Wimmer, Manuel and Pierantonio, Alfonso

    Information and Software Technology (IST)

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    CHESSIoT: A Model-Driven Approach for Engineering Multi-Layered IoT Systems

    Ihirwe, Feston and Di Ruscio, Davide and Gianfranceschi, Simone and Pierantonio, Alfonso

    Journal of Computer Languages (COLA)

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    Supporting Model-Based Safety Analysis for Safety-Critical IoT Systems

    Ihirwe, Feston and Di Ruscio, Davide and Di Blasio, Kevin and Gianfranceschi, Simone and Pierantonio, Alfonso

    Journal of Computer Languages (COLA)

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    Exploring User Privacy Awareness on GitHub: An Empirical Study

    Alfieri, Claudio and Di Rocco, Juri and Inverardi, Paola and Nguyen, Phuong T.

    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)

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    Supporting Reusable Model Migration with Edelta

    Bettini, Lorenzo and Di Ruscio, Davide and Di Salle, Amleto and Iovino, Ludovico and Pierantonio, Alfonso

    Journal of Systems and Software (JSS)

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    TyphonML: Tool Support for Hybrid Polystores

    Basciani, Francesco and Di Rocco, Juri and Iovino, Ludovico and Pierantonio, Alfonso

    Science of Computer Programming (SCICO)

  • Journal

    Detection of Technical Debt in Java Source Code

    Le Hai, Nguyen and Bui, Anh M.T. and Nguyen, Phuong T. and Di Ruscio, Davide and Kazman, Rick

    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)

  • Conference

    On the Use of LLMs to Support the Development of Domain-Specific Modeling Languages

    Di Sipio, Claudio and Rubei, Riccardo and Di Rocco, Juri and Di Ruscio, Davide and Iovino, Ludovico

    ACM/IEEE MoDELS 2024

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    Keeping Clients' Models Up-to-Date with Edelta

    Bettini, Lorenzo and Di Ruscio, Davide and Di Salle, Amleto and Iovino, Ludovico and Pierantonio, Alfonso

    ACM/IEEE MoDELS 2024

  • Conference

    Automatic Categorization of GitHub Actions with Transformers and Few-Shot Learning

    Nguyen, Phuong T. and Di Rocco, Juri and Di Sipio, Claudio and Shakya, Manish and Di Ruscio, Davide and Di Penta, Massimiliano

    ACM/IEEE ESEM 2024

  • Conference Best Paper Award EASE 2024

    Automated Categorization of Pre-Trained Models in Software Engineering: A Case Study with Hugging Face

    Di Sipio, Claudio and Rubei, Riccardo and Di Rocco, Juri and Di Ruscio, Davide and Nguyen, Phuong T.

    ACM EASE 2024

2023

  • Journal

    MORGAN: A Modeling Recommender System Based on Graph Kernel

    Di Sipio, Claudio and Di Rocco, Juri and Di Ruscio, Davide and Nguyen, Phuong T.

    Software & Systems Modeling (SoSyM)

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    HybridRec: A Recommender System for Tagging GitHub Repositories

    Di Rocco, Juri and Di Ruscio, Davide and Di Sipio, Claudio and Nguyen, Phuong T. and Rubei, Riccardo

    Applied Intelligence (APIN)

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    GitRanking: A Ranking of GitHub Topics for Software Classification Using Active Sampling

    Sas, Claudiu and Capiluppi, Andrea and Di Sipio, Claudio and Di Rocco, Juri and Di Ruscio, Davide

    Software: Practice and Experience (SPE)

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    Fitting Missing API Puzzles with Machine Translation Techniques

    Nguyen, Phuong T. and Di Sipio, Claudio and Di Rocco, Juri and Di Ruscio, Davide and Di Penta, Massimiliano

    Expert Systems with Applications (ESWA)

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    A Modeling Assistant to Manage Technical Debt in Coupled Evolution

    Di Ruscio, Davide and Di Salle, Amleto and Iovino, Ludovico and Pierantonio, Alfonso

    Information and Software Technology (IST)

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    Analyzing Business Process Management Capabilities of Low-Code Development Platforms

    Sahay, Aamir and Di Ruscio, Davide and Iovino, Ludovico and Pierantonio, Alfonso

    Software: Practice and Experience (SPE)

  • Journal Best Paper Award COLA 2023

    LEV4REC: A Feature-based Approach to Engineering Recommender Systems for Software Engineering

    Di Sipio, Claudio and Di Rocco, Juri and Di Ruscio, Davide and Nguyen, Phuong T.

    Journal of Computer Languages (COLA)

  • Conference

    JJodel — A Reflective Cloud-Based Modeling Framework

    Di Rocco, Juri and Di Ruscio, Davide and Di Salle, Amleto and Di Vincenzo, Damiano and Pierantonio, Alfonso and others

    ACM/IEEE MoDELS 2023

  • Conference

    Dealing with Popularity Bias in Recommender Systems for Third-Party Libraries: How Far Are We?

    Nguyen, Phuong T. and Rubei, Riccardo and Di Rocco, Juri and Di Sipio, Claudio and Di Ruscio, Davide and Di Penta, Massimiliano

    IEEE/ACM MSR 2023

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    Too Long; Didn't Read: Automatic Summarization of GitHub README.md with Transformers

    Doan, Thi T.H. and Nguyen, Phuong T. and Di Rocco, Juri and Di Ruscio, Davide

    ACM EASE 2023

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    Supporting Early-Safety Analysis of IoT Systems by Exploiting Testing Techniques

    Clerissi, Diego and Di Rocco, Juri and Di Ruscio, Davide and Di Sipio, Claudio and Ihirwe, Feston and Mariani, Leonardo and others

    ACM/IEEE MoDELS 2023

  • Conference

    A Customizable Approach to Assess Software Quality through Multi-Criteria Decision Making

    Basciani, Francesco and Di Pompeo, Dario and Di Rocco, Juri and Pierantonio, Alfonso

    IEEE ICSA Companion 2023

2022

  • Journal SoSyM First Paper Award 2022

    MemoRec: A Recommender System for Assisting Modelers in Specifying Metamodels

    Di Rocco, Juri and Di Ruscio, Davide and Di Sipio, Claudio and Nguyen, Phuong T. and Pierantonio, Alfonso

    Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM)

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    Low-Code Development and Model-Driven Engineering: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

    Di Ruscio, Davide and Kolovos, Dimitrios and de Lara, Juan and Pierantonio, Alfonso and Tisi, Massimo and Wimmer, Manuel

    Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM)

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    DeepLib: Machine Translation Techniques to Recommend Upgrades for Third-Party Libraries

    Nguyen, Phuong T. and Di Rocco, Juri and Rubei, Riccardo and Di Sipio, Claudio and Di Ruscio, Davide

    Expert Systems with Applications (ESWA)

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    Providing Upgrade Plans for Third-Party Libraries: A Recommender System Using Migration Graphs

    Rubei, Riccardo and Di Ruscio, Davide and Di Sipio, Claudio and Di Rocco, Juri and Nguyen, Phuong T.

    Applied Intelligence (APIN)

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    An Executable Metamodel Refactoring Catalog

    Bettini, Lorenzo and Di Ruscio, Davide and Iovino, Ludovico and Pierantonio, Alfonso

    Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM)

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    Supporting Safe Metamodel Evolution with Edelta

    Bettini, Lorenzo and Di Ruscio, Davide and Iovino, Ludovico and Pierantonio, Alfonso

    International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT)

  • Conference

    Finding with NEMO: A Recommender System to Forecast the Next Modeling Operations

    Di Rocco, Juri and Di Sipio, Claudio and Nguyen, Phuong T. and Di Ruscio, Davide and Pierantonio, Alfonso

    ACM/IEEE MoDELS 2022

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    Endowing Third-Party Libraries Recommender Systems with Explicit User Feedback Mechanisms

    Rubei, Riccardo and Di Sipio, Claudio and Di Rocco, Juri and Di Ruscio, Davide and Nguyen, Phuong T.

    IEEE SANER 2022

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    PILOT: Synergy Between Text Processing and Neural Networks to Detect Self-Admitted Technical Debt

    Di Salle, Amleto and Rota, Andrea and Nguyen, Phuong T. and Di Ruscio, Davide and Fontana, Francesca Arcelli and Sala, Isabella

    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Technical Debt 2022

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    Assessing the Quality of Low-Code and Model-Driven Engineering Platforms for Engineering IoT Systems

    Ihirwe, Feston and Di Ruscio, Davide and Gianfranceschi, Simone and Pierantonio, Alfonso

    IEEE QRS 2022

2021

  • Journal

    Development of Recommendation Systems for Software Engineering: The CROSSMINER Experience

    Di Rocco, Juri and Di Ruscio, Davide and Di Sipio, Claudio and Nguyen, Phuong T. and Rubei, Riccardo

    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)

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    Recommending API Function Calls and Code Snippets to Support Software Development

    Nguyen, Phuong T. and Di Rocco, Juri and Di Sipio, Claudio and Di Ruscio, Davide and Di Penta, Massimiliano

    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)

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    Evaluation of Machine Learning Classifiers for Metamodels

    Nguyen, Phuong T. and Di Rocco, Juri and Iovino, Ludovico and Di Ruscio, Davide and Pierantonio, Alfonso

    Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM)

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    Convolutional Neural Networks for Enhanced Classification Mechanisms of Metamodels

    Nguyen, Phuong T. and Di Ruscio, Davide and Pierantonio, Alfonso and Di Rocco, Juri and Iovino, Ludovico

    Journal of Systems and Software (JSS)

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    What Is the Future of Modeling?

    Bucchiarone, Antonio and Ciccozzi, Federico and Lambers, Leen and Pierantonio, Alfonso and Tichy, Matthias and Tisi, Massimo and others

    IEEE Software

  • Conference Best Foundation Paper Award MoDELS 2021

    A GNN-based Recommender System to Assist the Specification of Metamodels and Models

    Di Rocco, Juri and Di Sipio, Claudio and Di Ruscio, Davide and Nguyen, Phuong T.

    ACM/IEEE MoDELS 2021

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    Adversarial Attacks to API Recommender Systems: Time to Wake Up and Smell the Coffee?

    Nguyen, Phuong T. and Di Sipio, Claudio and Di Rocco, Juri and Di Penta, Massimiliano and Di Ruscio, Davide

    IEEE/ACM ASE 2021

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    A Lightweight Approach for the Automated Classification and Clustering of Metamodels

    Rubei, Riccardo and Di Rocco, Juri and Di Ruscio, Davide and Nguyen, Phuong T. and Pierantonio, Alfonso

    ACM/IEEE MoDELS 2021

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    Enhancing Syntax Expressiveness in Domain-Specific Modelling

    Di Vincenzo, Damiano and Di Rocco, Juri and Di Ruscio, Davide and Pierantonio, Alfonso

    ACM/IEEE MoDELS 2021

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    MDEForgeWL: Towards Cloud-Based Discovery and Composition of Model Management Services

    Indamutsa, Adrien and Di Rocco, Juri and Di Ruscio, Davide and Pierantonio, Alfonso

    ACM/IEEE MoDELS 2021

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    A Low-Code Tool Supporting the Development of Recommender Systems

    Di Sipio, Claudio and Di Rocco, Juri and Di Ruscio, Davide and Nguyen, Phuong T.

    ACM RecSys 2021

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    Cloud-Based Modeling in IoT Domain: A Survey, Open Challenges and Opportunities

    Ihirwe, Feston and Indamutsa, Adrien and Di Ruscio, Davide and Mazzini, Silvia and Pierantonio, Alfonso

    ACM/IEEE MoDELS 2021

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    Automated Quality Assessment of Interrelated Modeling Artifacts

    Basciani, Francesco and Di Ruscio, Davide and Iovino, Ludovico and Pierantonio, Alfonso

    EUROMICRO SEAA 2021

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    Adversarial Machine Learning: On the Resilience of Third-Party Library Recommender Systems

    Nguyen, Phuong T. and Di Ruscio, Davide and Di Rocco, Juri and Di Sipio, Claudio and Di Penta, Massimiliano

    ACM EASE 2021