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- proceedingJuly 2024
SEA4DQ 2024: Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Software Engineering and AI for Data Quality in Cyber-Physical Systems/Internet of Things
Welcome to the The 4th International Workshop on Software Engineering and AI for Data Quality (SEA4DQ 2024), held in Brazil, on 16 July, 2024, co-located with the 32nd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2024). ...
- research-articleJuly 2024
Socialz: Multi-Feature Social Fuzz Testing
GECCO '24: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation ConferenceJuly 2024, Pages 1445–1453https://doi.org/10.1145/3638529.3654033Online social networks have become an integral aspect of our daily lives and play a crucial role in shaping our relationships with others. However, bugs and glitches, even minor ones, can cause anything from frustrating problems to serious data leaks ...
- abstractJuly 2024
NIMEW - New Interface for Musical Expression on a piece of Wood
SIGGRAPH '24: ACM SIGGRAPH 2024 LabsJuly 2024, Article No.: 6, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/3641236.3664416A workshop is proposed in which participants will build an electronic circuit on a piece of wood that creates a musical instrument. Creativity and non-conformity are encouraged. Participants will keep their creation with which they can entertain or ...
- abstractJuly 2024
Student / Futures: Creative Careers in Animation, Computer Graphics, and Interactive Techniques
SIGGRAPH '24: ACM SIGGRAPH 2024 Educator's ForumJuly 2024, Article No.: 1, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/3641235.3664452Industry panelists share perspectives and insights for students, educators, and creative professionals who are considering careers in animation, computer graphics, creative technologies, and interactive techniques. Within rapid and ever-expanding fields ...
- abstractJuly 2024
The "How-To" as a Post-AI Assessment Tool
SIGGRAPH '24: ACM SIGGRAPH 2024 Educator's ForumJuly 2024, Article No.: 15, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/3641235.3664442This paper introduces a simple but innovative assignment technique, the "How-To" as a way to simplify the relationship with AI in assessment events. As an assignment, the "How-To" guide merges reflective practice with technical skill development in ...
- abstractJuly 2024
Integrating Independent Contributions in a Game Programming Assignment
SIGGRAPH '24: ACM SIGGRAPH 2024 Educator's ForumJuly 2024, Article No.: 10, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/3641235.3664431In game development curriculum, mastering programming skills is important. Traditional methods to teach programming in computer science curriculum often face challenges in relevance for game development students, leaning towards individual mastery of the ...
- research-articleJuly 2024JUST ACCEPTED
Converging Measures and an Emergent Model: A Meta-Analysis of Human-Machine Trust Questionnaires
Trust is crucial for technological acceptance, continued usage, and teamwork. However, human-robot trust, and human-machine trust more generally, suffer from terminological disagreement and construct proliferation. By comparing, mapping, and analyzing ...
- surveyJuly 2024
Survey of Federated Learning Models for Spatial-Temporal Mobility Applications
ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems (TSAS), Volume 10, Issue 3Article No.: 18, Pages 1–39https://doi.org/10.1145/3666089Federated learning involves training statistical models over edge devices such as mobile phones such that the training data are kept local. Federated Learning (FL) can serve as an ideal candidate for training spatial temporal models that rely on ...
Do Words Have Power? Understanding and Fostering Civility in Code Review Discussion
Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering (PACMSE), Volume 1, Issue FSEArticle No.: 73, Pages 1632–1655https://doi.org/10.1145/3660780Modern Code Review (MCR) is an integral part of the software development process where developers improve product quality through collaborative discussions. Unfortunately, these discussions can sometimes become heated by the presence of inappropriate ...
- research-articleJuly 2024ONLINE FIRST
- research-articleJuly 2024ONLINE FIRST
Generative AI for Pull Request Descriptions: Adoption, Impact, and Developer Interventions
Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering (PACMSE), Volume 1, Issue FSEArticle No.: 47, Pages 1043–1065https://doi.org/10.1145/3643773GitHub's Copilot for Pull Requests (PRs) is a promising service aiming to automate various developer tasks related to PRs, such as generating summaries of changes or providing complete walkthroughs with links to the relevant code. As this innovative ...
- research-articleJuly 2024
The Idealized Machine Learning Pipeline (IMLP) for Advancing Reproducibility in Machine Learning
ACM REP '24: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Reproducibility and ReplicabilityJune 2024, Pages 110–120https://doi.org/10.1145/3641525.3663630We investigate the influence of Human Factors on reproducible machine learning, using a novel “Idealized Machine Learning Pipeline” we introduce as a conceptual framework. The study of Human Factors seeks to ensure that systems meet the needs and ...
- research-articleJuly 2024
Reproscreener: Leveraging LLMs for Assessing Computational Reproducibility of Machine Learning Pipelines
ACM REP '24: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Reproducibility and ReplicabilityJune 2024, Pages 101–109https://doi.org/10.1145/3641525.3663629The increasing reliance on machine learning models in scientific research and day-to-day applications – and the near-opacity of their associated computational methods – creates a widely recognized need to enable others to verify results coming from ...
- short-paperJuly 2024
Relevance Feedback Method For Patent Searching Using Vector Subspaces
SIGIR '24: Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information RetrievalJuly 2024, Pages 2860–2864https://doi.org/10.1145/3626772.3661365Searching for novelty-destroying prior art is an important part of patent application drafting and invalidation. The task is challenging due to the detailed information needed to determine whether a document is novelty-destroying or simply closely ...
- short-paperJuly 2024
International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation (BIAS)
- Alejandro BellogÍn,
- Ludovico Boratto,
- Styliani Kleanthous,
- Elisabeth Lex,
- Francesca Maridina Malloci,
- Mirko Marras
SIGIR '24: Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information RetrievalJuly 2024, Pages 3033–3035https://doi.org/10.1145/3626772.3657990Creating efficient and effective search and recommendation algorithms has been the main objective of industry practitioners and academic researchers over the years. However, recent research has shown how these algorithms trained on historical data lead ...
- research-articleJuly 2024
OEHR: An Orthopedic Electronic Health Record Dataset
SIGIR '24: Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information RetrievalJuly 2024, Pages 1126–1135https://doi.org/10.1145/3626772.3657885During the past decades, healthcare institutions continually amassed clinical data that is not intended to support research. Despite the increasing number of publicly available electronic health record (EHR) datasets, it is difficult to find publicly ...
- research-articleJuly 2024
DAC: Quantized Optimal Transport Reward-based Reinforcement Learning Approach to Detoxify Query Auto-Completion
SIGIR '24: Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information RetrievalJuly 2024, Pages 608–618https://doi.org/10.1145/3626772.3657779Modern Query Auto-Completion (QAC) systems utilize natural language generation (NLG) using large language models (LLM) to achieve remarkable performance. However, these systems are prone to generating biased and toxic completions due to inherent learning ...
- research-articleJuly 2024JUST ACCEPTED
Examining the Role of Parental Support on Youth’s Interest in and Self-Efficacy of Computer Programming
Objectives. The increasing demand for computing skills has led to a rapid rise in the development of new computer science (CS) curricula, many with the goal of equitably broadening participation of underrepresented students in CS. While such initiatives ...
- research-articleJuly 2024JUST ACCEPTED
Longitudinal Loyalty: Understanding The Barriers To Running Longitudinal Studies On Crowdsourcing Platforms
Crowdsourcing tasks have been widely used to collect a large number of human labels at scale. While some of these tasks are deployed by requesters and performed only once by crowd workers, others require the same worker to perform the same task or a ...