Publications

                   

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Journals

1. Mohammed Tayeeb Hasan, Nikolaos Tsantalis, and Pouria Alikhanifard, "Refactoring-aware Block Tracking in Commit History," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 50, no. 12, pp. 3330-3350, December 2024. [cited by ]

   BibTeX

   

   @article{Hasan:TSE:2024:CodeTracker2.0,
     author={Hasan, Mohammed Tayeeb and Tsantalis, Nikolaos and Alikhanifard, Pouria},
     journal={IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering}, 
     title={Refactoring-aware Block Tracking in Commit History}, 
     year={2024},
     volume={50},
     number={12},
     pages={3330-3350},
     doi={10.1109/TSE.2024.3484586}
   }

2. Pouria Alikhanifard, and Nikolaos Tsantalis, "A Novel Refactoring and Semantic Aware Abstract Syntax Tree Differencing Tool and a Benchmark for Evaluating the Accuracy of Diff Tools," ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2024. [cited by ]

   BibTeX

   

   @article{Alikhanifard:TOSEM:2024:RefactoringMiner3.0,
   	author = {Alikhanifard, Pouria and Tsantalis, Nikolaos},
   	title = {A Novel Refactoring and Semantic Aware Abstract Syntax Tree Differencing Tool and a Benchmark for Evaluating the Accuracy of Diff Tools},
   	year = {2024},
   	publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
   	address = {New York, NY, USA},
   	issn = {1049-331X},
   	url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3696002},
   	doi = {10.1145/3696002},
   	note = {Just Accepted},
   	journal = {ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology},
   	month = {sep},
   	keywords = {Source code differencing, Abstract Syntax Trees, Benchmark}
   }

3. Flavia Coelho, Nikolaos Tsantalis, Tiago Massoni, and Everton L. G. Alves, "A Qualitative Study on Refactorings Induced by Code Review," Empirical Software Engineering, vol. 30, article number 17, 2025. [cited by ]

   BibTeX

   

   @article{Coelho:EMSE:2024,
     author = {Coelho, Flávia and Tsantalis, Nikolaos and Massoni, Tiago and Alves, Everton L. G.},
     journal = {Empirical Software Engineering},
     title = {A Qualitative Study on Refactorings Induced by Code Review},
     year = {2025},
     volume = {30}, 
     number = {17},
     doi = {10.1007/s10664-024-10560-7},
   }

4. Hanying Shao, Zishuo Ding, Weiyi Shang, Jinqiu Yang, and Nikolaos Tsantalis, "Towards Effectively Testing Machine Translation Systems from White-Box Perspectives," Empirical Software Engineering, vol. 30, article number 13, 2025. [cited by ]

   BibTeX

   

   @article{Shao:EMSE:2024,
     author = {Shao, Hanying and Ding, Zishuo and Shang, Weiyi and Yang, Jinqiu and Tsantalis, Nikolaos},
     journal = {Empirical Software Engineering},
     title = {Towards Effectively Testing Machine Translation Systems from White-Box Perspectives},
     year = {2025},
     volume = {30}, 
     number = {13},
     doi = {10.1007/s10664-024-10549-2},
   }

5. Abbas Javan Jafari, Diego Elias Costa, Rabe Abdalkareem, Emad Shihab, and Nikolaos Tsantalis, "Dependency Smells in JavaScript Projects," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 48, no. 10, pp. 3790-3807, October 2022. [cited by ] Journal-first paper at ICSE 2022

   BibTeX

   

   @article{Jafari:TSE:2021,
   	author={Javan Jafari, Abbas and Costa, Diego Elias and Abdalkareem, Rabe and Shihab, Emad and Tsantalis, Nikolaos},
   	journal={IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering}, 
   	title={Dependency Smells in JavaScript Projects}, 
   	year={2022},
   	volume={48},
   	number={10},
   	pages={3790-3807},
   	doi={10.1109/TSE.2021.3106247},
   }

6. Nikolaos Tsantalis, Ameya Ketkar, and Danny Dig, "RefactoringMiner 2.0," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 930-950, March 2022. [cited by ]

   BibTeX

   

   @article{Tsantalis:TSE:2020:RefactoringMiner2.0,
   	author={Tsantalis, Nikolaos and Ketkar, Ameya and Dig, Danny},
   	title={RefactoringMiner 2.0},
   	journal={IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering},
   	year={2022},
   	volume={48},
   	number={3},
   	pages={930-950},
   	doi={10.1109/TSE.2020.3007722}
   }

7. Sara Seif Afjehei, Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen, and Nikolaos Tsantalis, "iPerfDetector: Characterizing and detecting performance anti-patterns in iOS applications," Empirical Software Engineering, vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 3484-3513, December 2019. [cited by ]

   BibTeX

   

   @article{Afjehei:EMSE:2019,
   	@Article{Afjehei2019,
   	author="Afjehei, Sara Seif and Chen, Tse-Hsun (Peter) and Tsantalis, Nikolaos",
   	title="iPerfDetector: Characterizing and detecting performance anti-patterns in iOS applications",
   	journal="Empirical Software Engineering",
   	year="2019",
   	month="Dec",
   	day="01",
   	volume="24",
   	number="6",
   	pages="3484--3513",
   	issn="1573-7616",
   	doi="10.1007/s10664-019-09703-y",
   	url="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-019-09703-y"
   }

8. Mehran Hassani, Weiyi Shang, Emad Shihab, and Nikolaos Tsantalis, "Studying and Detecting Log-Related Issues," Empirical Software Engineering, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 3248-3280, December 2018. [cited by ] Journal-first paper at ESEC/FSE 2018

   BibTeX

   

   @article{Hassani:EMSE:2018,
   	author={Hassani, Mehran and Shang, Weiyi and Shihab, Emad and Tsantalis, Nikolaos},
   	journal={Empirical Software Engineering},
   	title={Studying and Detecting Log-Related Issues},
   	year={2018},
   	month=dec,
   	volume={23},
   	number={6},
   	pages={3248-3280},
   	issn={1573-7616},
   	doi={10.1007/s10664-018-9603-z},
   	url={https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-018-9603-z}
   }

9. Everton da Silva Maldonado, Emad Shihab, and Nikolaos Tsantalis, "Using Natural Language Processing to Automatically Detect Self-Admitted Technical Debt," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 43, no. 11, pp. 1044-1062, November 2017. [cited by ] Featured article of the November 2017 issue

   Data/BibTeX

   

   @article{Maldonado:TSE:2017,
   	author={Maldonado, Everton da Silva and Shihab, Emad and Tsantalis, Nikolaos}, 
   	title={Using Natural Language Processing to Automatically Detect Self-Admitted Technical Debt},
   	year={2017},
   	volume={43},
   	number={11},
   	pages={1044-1062},
   	doi={10.1109/TSE.2017.2654244},
   	ISSN={0098-5589},
   	month=nov,
   }

10. Nikolaos Tsantalis, Davood Mazinanian, and Giri Panamoottil Krishnan, "Assessing the Refactorability of Software Clones," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 41, no. 11, pp. 1055-1090, November 2015. [cited by ] Featured article of the November 2015 issue

    Data/BibTeX

    

    @article{Tsantalis:TSE:2015,
    	author={Tsantalis, Nikolaos and Mazinanian, Davood and Krishnan, Giri P.}, 
    	journal={IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering}, 
    	title={Assessing the Refactorability of Software Clones}, 
    	year={2015}, 
    	volume={41}, 
    	number={11}, 
    	pages={1055-1090}, 
    	doi={10.1109/TSE.2015.2448531}, 
    	ISSN={0098-5589}, 
    	month=nov,
    }

11. Marios Fokaefs, Nikolaos Tsantalis, Eleni Stroulia, and Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, "Identification and Application of Extract Class Refactorings in Object-Oriented Systems," Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 85, no. 10, pp. 2241–2260, October 2012. [cited by ]

    BibTeX

    

    @article{Fokaefs:2012:IAE:2330373.2330432,
    	author = {Fokaefs, Marios and Tsantalis, Nikolaos and Stroulia, Eleni and Chatzigeorgiou, Alexander},
    	title = {Identification and Application of Extract Class Refactorings in Object-oriented Systems},
    	journal = {Journal of Systems and Software},
    	issue_date = {October, 2012},
    	volume = {85},
    	number = {10},
    	month = oct,
    	year = {2012},
    	issn = {0164-1212},
    	pages = {2241--2260},
    	numpages = {20},
    	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2012.04.013},
    	doi = {10.1016/j.jss.2012.04.013},
    	acmid = {2330432},
    	publisher = {Elsevier Science Inc.},
    	address = {New York, NY, USA},
    	keywords = {Clustering, Object-oriented programming, Refactoring, Software reengineering},
    }

12. Nikolaos Tsantalis, and Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, "Identification of Extract Method Refactoring Opportunities for the Decomposition of Methods," Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 84, no. 10, pp. 1757–1782, October 2011. [cited by ] IEEE Computer Society TCSE Most Influential Paper Award (SANER 2019)

    BibTeX

    

    @article{Tsantalis:2011:IEM:2010601.2010870,
    	author = {Tsantalis, Nikolaos and Chatzigeorgiou, Alexander},
    	title = {Identification of Extract Method Refactoring Opportunities for the Decomposition of Methods},
    	journal = {Journal of Systems and Software},
    	issue_date = {October, 2011},
    	volume = {84},
    	number = {10},
    	month = oct,
    	year = {2011},
    	issn = {0164-1212},
    	pages = {1757--1782},
    	numpages = {26},
    	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2011.05.016},
    	doi = {10.1016/j.jss.2011.05.016},
    	acmid = {2010870},
    	publisher = {Elsevier Science Inc.},
    	address = {New York, NY, USA},
    	keywords = {Extract Method refactoring, Module decomposition, Program slicing},
    }

13. Nikolaos Tsantalis, and Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, "Identification of Refactoring Opportunities Introducing Polymorphism," Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 83, no. 3, pp. 391-404, March 2010. [cited by ]

    BibTeX

    

    @article{Tsantalis:2010:IRO:1739313.1739401,
    	author = {Tsantalis, Nikolaos and Chatzigeorgiou, Alexander},
    	title = {Identification of Refactoring Opportunities Introducing Polymorphism},
    	journal = {Journal of Systems and Software},
    	issue_date = {March, 2010},
    	volume = {83},
    	number = {3},
    	month = mar,
    	year = {2010},
    	issn = {0164-1212},
    	pages = {391--404},
    	numpages = {14},
    	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2009.09.017},
    	doi = {10.1016/j.jss.2009.09.017},
    	acmid = {1739401},
    	publisher = {Elsevier Science Inc.},
    	address = {New York, NY, USA},
    	keywords = {Object-oriented design, Polymorphism, Refactoring, State/Strategy design pattern},
    }

14. Nikolaos Tsantalis, and Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, "Identification of Move Method Refactoring Opportunities," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 347-367, May/June 2009. [cited by ]

    BibTeX

    

    @article{Tsantalis:2009:IMM:1591905.1592367,
    	author = {Tsantalis, Nikolaos and Chatzigeorgiou, Alexander},
    	title = {Identification of Move Method Refactoring Opportunities},
    	journal = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering},
    	issue_date = {May 2009},
    	volume = {35},
    	number = {3},
    	month = may,
    	year = {2009},
    	issn = {0098-5589},
    	pages = {347--367},
    	numpages = {21},
    	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2009.1},
    	doi = {10.1109/TSE.2009.1},
    	acmid = {1592367},
    	publisher = {IEEE Press},
    	address = {Piscataway, NJ, USA},
    }

15. Spyros T. Halkidis, Nikolaos Tsantalis, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, and George Stephanides, "Architectural Risk Analysis of Software Systems based on Security Patterns," ΙΕΕΕ Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 129-142, July-September 2008. [cited by ] Featured article of the July-September 2008 issue

    BibTeX

    

    @article{10.1109/TDSC.2007.70240,
    	author = {Spyros T. Halkidis and Nikolaos Tsantalis and Alexander Chatzigeorgiou and George Stephanides},
    	title = {Architectural Risk Analysis of Software Systems Based on Security Patterns},
    	journal = {IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing},
    	volume = {5},
    	number = {3},
    	issn = {1545-5971},
    	year = {2008},
    	pages = {129-142},
    	doi = {10.1109/TDSC.2007.70240},
    	url = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TDSC.2007.70240},
    	publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
    	address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
    }

16. Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, Nikolaos Tsantalis, and Ignatios Deligiannis, "An Empirical Study on Students' Ability to Comprehend Design Patterns," Computers & Education, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 1007-1016, November 2008. [cited by ]

    BibTeX

    

    @article{Chatzigeorgiou:2008:ESS:1383659.1383847,
    	author = {Chatzigeorgiou, Alexander and Tsantalis, Nikolaos and Deligiannis, Ignatios},
    	title = {An Empirical Study on Students' Ability to Comprehend Design Patterns},
    	journal = {Comput. Educ.},
    	issue_date = {November, 2008},
    	volume = {51},
    	number = {3},
    	month = nov,
    	year = {2008},
    	issn = {0360-1315},
    	pages = {1007--1016},
    	numpages = {10},
    	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2007.10.003},
    	doi = {10.1016/j.compedu.2007.10.003},
    	acmid = {1383847},
    	publisher = {Elsevier Science Ltd.},
    	address = {Oxford, UK, UK},
    }

17. Nikolaos Tsantalis, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, George Stephanides, and Spyros T. Halkidis, "Design Pattern Detection Using Similarity Scoring," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 32, no. 11, pp. 896-909, November 2006. [cited by ]

    Data/BibTeX

    

    @article{Tsantalis:2006:DPD:1248727.1248777,
    	author = {Tsantalis, Nikolaos and Chatzigeorgiou, Alexander and Stephanides, George and Halkidis, Spyros T.},
    	title = {Design Pattern Detection Using Similarity Scoring},
    	journal = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering},
    	issue_date = {November 2006},
    	volume = {32},
    	number = {11},
    	month = nov,
    	year = {2006},
    	issn = {0098-5589},
    	pages = {896--909},
    	numpages = {14},
    	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2006.112},
    	doi = {10.1109/TSE.2006.112},
    	acmid = {1248777},
    	publisher = {IEEE Press},
    	address = {Piscataway, NJ, USA},
    } 

18. Nikolaos Tsantalis, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, and George Stephanides, "Predicting the Probability of Change in Object-Oriented Systems," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 31, no. 7, pp. 601-614, July 2005. [cited by ]

    Data/BibTeX

    

    @article{Tsantalis:2005:PPC:1083823.1084002,
    	author = {Tsantalis, Nikolaos and Chatzigeorgiou, Alexander and Stephanides, George},
    	title = {Predicting the Probability of Change in Object-Oriented Systems},
    	journal = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering},
    	issue_date = {July 2005},
    	volume = {31},
    	number = {7},
    	month = jul,
    	year = {2005},
    	issn = {0098-5589},
    	pages = {601--614},
    	numpages = {14},
    	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2005.83},
    	doi = {10.1109/TSE.2005.83},
    	acmid = {1084002},
    	publisher = {IEEE Press},
    	address = {Piscataway, NJ, USA},
    }

Book Chapters

1. Rimon Mikhaiel, Nikolaos Tsantalis, Natalia Negara, Eleni Stroulia, and Zhenchang Xing, "Differencing UML Models: A Domain-Specific vs. a Domain-Agnostic Method," in Generative and Transformational Techniques in Software Engineering IV, Ralf Lämmel, João Saraiva, Joost Visser, Eds. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013, pp. 159-196. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 7680, International Summer School, GTTSE 2011, Braga, Portugal, July 3-9, 2011, Revised and Extended Papers) [cited by ]

   BibTeX

   

   @incollection{
   	year={2013},
   	isbn={978-3-642-35991-0},
   	booktitle={Generative and Transformational Techniques in Software Engineering IV},
   	volume={7680},
   	series={Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
   	editor={L\"{a}mmel, Ralf and Saraiva, Jo\~{a}o and Visser, Joost},
   	doi={10.1007/978-3-642-35992-7_4},
   	title={Differencing UML Models: A Domain-Specific vs. a Domain-Agnostic Method},
   	url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35992-7_4},
   	publisher={Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
   	keywords={UML, software differencing, software evolution},
   	author={Mikhaiel, Rimon and Tsantalis, Nikolaos and Negara, Natalia and Stroulia, Eleni and Xing, Zhenchang},
   	pages={159-196},
   	language={English}
   }

International Conferences

1. Mehran Jodavi and Nikolaos Tsantalis, "Accurate Method and Variable Tracking in Commit History," pp. 183-195, 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE'2022), Singapore, Singapore, November 14–18, 2022. (Acceptance rate: 22%, 99/449) [cited by ]

   Presentation/Data/BibTeX

   

   @inproceedings{10.1145/3540250.3549079,
   	author = {Jodavi, Mehran and Tsantalis, Nikolaos},
   	title = {Accurate Method and Variable Tracking in Commit History},
   	year = {2022},
   	isbn = {9781450394130},
   	publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
   	address = {New York, NY, USA},
   	url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3540250.3549079},
   	doi = {10.1145/3540250.3549079},
   	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering},
   	pages = {183–195},
   	numpages = {13},
   	keywords = {commit change history, refactoring-aware source code tracking},
   	location = {Singapore, Singapore},
   	series = {ESEC/FSE 2022}
   }

2. Ameya Ketkar, Oleg Smirnov, Nikolaos Tsantalis, Danny Dig, and Timofey Bryksin, "Inferring and Applying Type Changes," pp. 1206-1218, 44th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'2022), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, May 25-27, 2022. (Acceptance rate: 26.2%, 197/751) [cited by ]

   Presentation/Data/BibTeX

   

   @inproceedings{Ketkar:ICSE:2022,
   	author = {Ketkar, Ameya and Smirnov, Oleg and Tsantalis, Nikolaos and Dig, Danny and Bryksin, Timofey},
   	title = {Inferring and Applying Type Changes},
   	year = {2022},
   	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering},
   	series = {ICSE 2022},
   	doi = {10.1145/3510003.3510115},
   	publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
   	address = {New York, NY, USA},
   }

3. Flávia Coelho, Nikolaos Tsantalis, Tiago Massoni, and Everton L. G. Alves, "An Empirical Study on Refactoring-Inducing Pull Requests," article no. 9, pages 1-12, 15th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM'2021), Bari, Italy, October 11-15, 2021. (Acceptance rate: 19.4%, 24/124) [cited by ]

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   @inproceedings{Coelho:ESEM:2021,
   	author = {Coelho, Fl\'{a}via and Tsantalis, Nikolaos and Massoni, Tiago and Alves, Everton L. G.},
   	title = {An Empirical Study on Refactoring-Inducing Pull Requests},
   	year = {2021},
   	isbn = {9781450386654},
   	publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
   	address = {New York, NY, USA},
   	url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3475716.3475785},
   	doi = {10.1145/3475716.3475785},
   	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th ACM / IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement},
   	articleno = {9},
   	numpages = {12},
   	keywords = {code review mining, empirical study, refactoring-inducing pull request},
   	location = {Bari, Italy},
   	series = {ESEM '21}
   }

4. Dong Jae Kim, Nikolaos Tsantalis, Tse-Hsun (Peter) Chen, and Jinqiu Yang, "Studying Test Annotation Maintenance in the Wild," pp. 62-73, 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'2021), Madrid, Spain, May 25-28, 2021. (Acceptance rate: 22.4%, 138/615) [cited by ]

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   @inproceedings{Kim:ICSE:2021,
   	author = {Kim, Dong Jae and Tsantalis, Nikolaos and Chen, Tse-Hsun (Peter) and Yang, Jinqiu},
   	title = {Studying Test Annotation Maintenance in the Wild},
   	year = {2021},
   	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering},
   	series = {ICSE 2021},
   	pages = {62-73},
   	keywords = {java;annotations;fixtures;taxonomy;maintenance engineering;tools;testing},
   	doi = {10.1109/ICSE43902.2021.00019},
   	publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
   	address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
   }

5. Ameya Ketkar, Nikolaos Tsantalis, and Danny Dig, "Understanding Type Changes in Java," pp. 629–641, 28th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE'2020), Sacramento, California, United States, November 8-13, 2020. (Acceptance rate: 28%, 101/360) [cited by ]

   Presentation/Data/BibTeX

   

   @inproceedings{Ketkar:FSE:2020,
   	author = {Ketkar, Ameya and Tsantalis, Nikolaos and Dig, Danny},
   	title = {Understanding Type Changes in Java},
   	year = {2020},
   	isbn = {9781450370431},
   	publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
   	address = {New York, NY, USA},
   	url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3368089.3409725},
   	doi = {10.1145/3368089.3409725},
   	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 28th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering},
   	pages = {629–641},
   	numpages = {13},
   	keywords = {Type Change Adaptations, Git, Empirical Study, Type Migration, Type Change Mining, Type Change Patterns, Commit},
   	location = {Virtual Event, USA},
   	series = {ESEC/FSE 2020}
   }

6. Mehran Mahmoudi, Sarah Nadi, and Nikolaos Tsantalis, "Are Refactorings to Blame? An Empirical Study of Refactorings in Merge Conflicts," pp. 151-162, 26th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER'2019), Hangzhou, China, February 24-27, 2019. (Acceptance rate: 27%, 40/148) [cited by ]

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   @inproceedings{Mahmoudi:SANER:2019,
   	author={Mahmoudi, Mehran and Nadi, Sarah and Tsantalis, Nikolaos},
   	booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE 26th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering},
   	title={Are Refactorings to Blame? An Empirical Study of Refactorings in Merge Conflicts},
   	year={2019},
   	series={SANER '19},
   	pages={151-162},
   	doi={10.1109/SANER.2019.8668012},
   	ISSN={1534-5351},
   	month={Feb},
   }

7. Nikolaos Tsantalis, Matin Mansouri, Laleh Eshkevari, Davood Mazinanian, and Danny Dig, "Accurate and Efficient Refactoring Detection in Commit History," pp. 483-494, 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'2018), Gothenburg, Sweden, May 27 - June 3, 2018. (Acceptance rate: 20.9%, 105/502) [cited by ]

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   @inproceedings{Tsantalis:ICSE:2018:RefactoringMiner,
   	author = {Tsantalis, Nikolaos and Mansouri, Matin and Eshkevari, Laleh M. and Mazinanian, Davood and Dig, Danny},
   	title = {Accurate and Efficient Refactoring Detection in Commit History},
   	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering},
   	series = {ICSE '18},
   	year = {2018},
   	isbn = {978-1-4503-5638-1},
   	location = {Gothenburg, Sweden},
   	pages = {483--494},
   	numpages = {12},
   	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3180155.3180206},
   	doi = {10.1145/3180155.3180206},
   	acmid = {3180206},
   	publisher = {ACM},
   	address = {New York, NY, USA},
   	keywords = {Git, Oracle, abstract syntax tree, accuracy, commit, refactoring},
   }

8. Nikolaos Tsantalis, Theodoros Chaikalis, and Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, "Ten Years of JDeodorant: Lessons Learned from the Hunt for Smells," pp. 4-14, 25th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER'2018), Campobasso, Italy, March 20-23, 2018. [cited by ] Most Influential Paper Retrospective

   BibTeX

   

   @inproceedings{Tsantalis:MIP:2018,
   	author={Tsantalis, Nikolaos and Chaikalis, Theodoros and Chatzigeorgiou, Alexander},
   	booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE 25th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering},
   	title={Ten years of JDeodorant: Lessons learned from the hunt for smells},
   	series={SANER '18},
   	year={2018},
   	pages={4-14},
   	doi={10.1109/SANER.2018.8330192},
   	month={March},
   }

9. Davood Mazinanian, Ameya Ketkar, Nikolaos Tsantalis, and Danny Dig, "Understanding the Use of Lambda Expressions in Java," 2017 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA'2017), Vancouver, Canada, October 25-27, 2017. (Acceptance rate: 29.6%, 66/223) [cited by ] ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Artifact Award

   Presentation/Data/BibTeX

   

   @article{Mazinanian:2017:UUL:3152284.3133909,
   	author = {Mazinanian, Davood and Ketkar, Ameya and Tsantalis, Nikolaos and Dig, Danny},
   	title = {Understanding the Use of Lambda Expressions in Java},
   	journal = {Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages},
   	issue_date = {October 2017},
   	volume = {1},
   	number = {OOPSLA},
   	month = oct,
   	year = {2017},
   	issn = {2475-1421},
   	pages = {85:1--85:31},
   	articleno = {85},
   	numpages = {31},
   	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3133909},
   	doi = {10.1145/3133909},
   	acmid = {3133909},
   	publisher = {ACM},
   	address = {New York, NY, USA},
   	keywords = {Empirical Studies, Functional Programming, Java 8, Lambda Expressions,
   	Multi-paradigm Programming, The Firehouse Interview Method},
   }

10. Nikolaos Tsantalis, Davood Mazinanian, and Shahriar Rostami, "Clone Refactoring with Lambda Expressions," pp. 60-70, 39th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'2017), Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 20-28, 2017. (Acceptance rate: 17.1%, 68/398) [cited by ] ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award

    Presentation/Data/BibTeX

    

    @inproceedings{Tsantalis:ICSE:2017,
    	author = {Tsantalis, Nikolaos and Mazinanian, Davood and Rostami, Shahriar},
    	title = {Clone Refactoring with Lambda Expressions},
    	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Software Engineering},
    	series = {ICSE '17},
    	year = {2017},
    	isbn = {978-1-5386-3868-2},
    	location = {Buenos Aires, Argentina},
    	pages = {60--70},
    	numpages = {11},
    	url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE.2017.14},
    	doi = {10.1109/ICSE.2017.14},
    	acmid = {3097377},
    	publisher = {IEEE Press},
    	address = {Piscataway, NJ, USA},
    	keywords = {code duplication, lambda expressions, refactoring},
    }

11. Davood Mazinanian, and Nikolaos Tsantalis, "Migrating Cascading Style Sheets to Preprocessors by Introducing Mixins," pp. 672-683, 31st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE'2016), Singapore, Singapore, September 3-7, 2016. (Acceptance rate: 19.1%, 57/298) [cited by ] Invited to Special Issue of the Automated Software Engineering Journal

    Presentation/Data/BibTeX

    

    @inproceedings{Mazinanian:ASE:2016,
    	author = {Mazinanian, Davood and Tsantalis, Nikolaos},
    	title = {Migrating Cascading Style Sheets to Preprocessors by Introducing Mixins},
    	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 31st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering},
    	series = {ASE 2016},
    	year = {2016},
    	isbn = {978-1-4503-3845-5},
    	location = {Singapore, Singapore},
    	pages = {672--683},
    	numpages = {12},
    	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2970276.2970348},
    	doi = {10.1145/2970276.2970348},
    	acmid = {2970348},
    	publisher = {ACM},
    	address = {New York, NY, USA},
    	keywords = {Cascading style sheets, duplication, migration, refactoring},
    }

12. Danilo Silva, Nikolaos Tsantalis, and Marco Tulio Valente, "Why We Refactor? Confessions of GitHub Contributors," pp. 858-870, 24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE'2016), Seattle, WA, USA, November 13-18, 2016. (Acceptance rate: 27.1%, 74/273) [cited by ] ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award and ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Artifact Award

    Presentation/Data/BibTeX

    

    @inproceedings{Silva:FSE:2016,
    	author = {Silva, Danilo and Tsantalis, Nikolaos and Valente, Marco Tulio},
    	title = {Why We Refactor? Confessions of GitHub Contributors},
    	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2016 24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering},
    	series = {FSE 2016},
    	year = {2016},
    	isbn = {978-1-4503-4218-6},
    	location = {Seattle, WA, USA},
    	pages = {858--870},
    	numpages = {13},
    	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2950290.2950305},
    	doi = {10.1145/2950290.2950305},
    	acmid = {2950305},
    	publisher = {ACM},
    	address = {New York, NY, USA},
    	keywords = {GitHub, Refactoring, code smells, software evolution},
    }

13. Davood Mazinanian, and Nikolaos Tsantalis, "An Empirical Study on the Use of CSS Preprocessors," pp. 168-178, 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER'2016), Osaka, Japan, March 14-18, 2016. (Acceptance rate: 37.1%, 52/140) [cited by ] Best Paper Candidate Award

    Presentation/Data/BibTeX

    

    @inproceedings{Mazinanian:SANER:2016,
    	author = {Mazinanian, Davood and Tsantalis, Nikolaos},
    	title = {An empirical study on the use of CSS preprocessors},
    	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering},
    	series = {SANER '16},
    	year = {2016},
    	location = {Osaka, Japan},
    	pages = {168--178},
    	numpages = {11},
    	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SANER.2016.18},
    	doi = {10.1109/SANER.2016.18},
    }

14. Davood Mazinanian, Nikolaos Tsantalis, and Ali Mesbah, "Discovering Refactoring Opportunities in Cascading Style Sheets," pp. 496-506, 22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE'2014), Hong Kong, November 16-22, 2014. (Acceptance rate: 22.3%, 61/273) [cited by ]

    Presentation/Artifact/Data/BibTeX

    

    @inproceedings{Mazinanian:2014:DRO:2635868.2635879,
    	author = {Mazinanian, Davood and Tsantalis, Nikolaos and Mesbah, Ali},
    	title = {Discovering Refactoring Opportunities in Cascading Style Sheets},
    	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering},
    	series = {FSE '14},
    	year = {2014},
    	isbn = {978-1-4503-3056-5},
    	location = {Hong Kong, China},
    	pages = {496--506},
    	numpages = {11},
    	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2635868.2635879},
    	doi = {10.1145/2635868.2635879},
    	acmid = {2635879},
    	publisher = {ACM},
    	address = {New York, NY, USA},
    	keywords = {Cascading style sheets, duplication, refactoring},
    }

15. Giri Panamoottil Krishnan, and Nikolaos Tsantalis, "Unification and Refactoring of Clones," pp. 104-113, IEEE Conference on Software Maintenance, Reengineering and Reverse Engineering (CSMR-WCRE'2014), 2014 Software Evolution Week, Antwerp, Belgium, February 3-7, 2014. (Acceptance rate: 31%, 27/87) [cited by ]

    Presentation/BibTeX

    

    @inproceedings{Krishnan:2014:6747160, 
    	author={Krishnan, Giri P. and Tsantalis, Nikolaos}, 
    	booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Software Maintenance, Reengineering and Reverse Engineering}, 
    	title={Unification and refactoring of clones}, 
    	year={2014}, 
    	pages={104-113}, 
    	doi={10.1109/CSMR-WCRE.2014.6747160},
    }

16. Nikolaos Tsantalis, Victor Guana, Eleni Stroulia, and Abram Hindle, "A Multidimensional Empirical Study on Refactoring Activity," pp. 132-146, 23rd Annual International Conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research (CASCON'2013), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, November 18-20, 2013. (Acceptance rate: 34.3%, 24/70) [cited by ] Most Influential Paper Award (CASCON 2023)

    Presentation/Data/BibTeX

    

    @inproceedings{Tsantalis:2013:MES:2555523.2555539,
    	author = {Tsantalis, Nikolaos and Guana, Victor and Stroulia, Eleni and Hindle, Abram},
    	title = {A Multidimensional Empirical Study on Refactoring Activity},
    	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research},
    	series = {CASCON '13},
    	year = {2013},
    	location = {Ontario, Canada},
    	pages = {132--146},
    	numpages = {15},
    	url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2555523.2555539},
    	acmid = {2555539},
    	doi = {doi.acm.org/10.1145/2555523.2555539},
    	publisher = {IBM Corp.},
    	address = {Riverton, NJ, USA},
    }

17. Natalia Negara, Nikolaos Tsantalis, and Eleni Stroulia, "Feature Detection in Ajax-enabled Web Applications," pp. 154-163, 17th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR'2013), Genova, Italy, March 5–8, 2013. (Acceptance rate: 36.2%, 29/80) [cited by ]

    Presentation/BibTeX

    

    @inproceedings{Negara:2013:6498464, 
    	author={Negara, N. and Tsantalis, N. and Stroulia, E.}, 
    	booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering}, 
    	title={Feature Detection in Ajax-Enabled Web Applications}, 
    	year={2013}, 
    	pages={154-163}, 
    	doi={10.1109/CSMR.2013.25}, 
    	ISSN={1534-5351}, 
    }

18. Marios Fokaefs, Rimon Mikhaiel, Nikolaos Tsantalis, Eleni Stroulia, and Alex Lau, "An Empirical Study on Web Service Evolution," pp. 49-56, 9th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'2011), Washington DC, USA, July 4-9, 2011. (Acceptance rate: 13.7%, 38/277) [cited by ]

    BibTeX

    

    @inproceedings{Fokaefs:2011:ESW:2058528.2059963,
    	author = {Fokaefs, Marios and Mikhaiel, Rimon and Tsantalis, Nikolaos and Stroulia, Eleni and Lau, Alex},
    	title = {An Empirical Study on Web Service Evolution},
    	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Web Services},
    	series = {ICWS '11},
    	year = {2011},
    	isbn = {978-0-7695-4463-2},
    	pages = {49--56},
    	numpages = {8},
    	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICWS.2011.114},
    	doi = {10.1109/ICWS.2011.114},
    	acmid = {2059963},
    	publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
    	address = {Washington, DC, USA},
    	keywords = {service evolution, tree-edit distance, WSDL, clustering},
    }

19. Nikolaos Tsantalis, and Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, "Ranking Refactoring Suggestions based on Historical Volatility," pp. 25-34, 15th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR'2011), Oldenburg, Germany, March 1-4, 2011. (Acceptance rate: 28.7%, 29/101) [cited by ]

    Presentation/BibTeX

    

    @inproceedings{Tsantalis:2011:5741256, 
    	author={Tsantalis, N. and Chatzigeorgiou, A.}, 
    	booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering}, 
    	title={Ranking Refactoring Suggestions Based on Historical Volatility}, 
    	year={2011}, 
    	pages={25-34}, 
    	doi={10.1109/CSMR.2011.7}, 
    	ISSN={1534-5351}, 
    }

20. Marios Fokaefs, Nikolaos Tsantalis, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, and Jörg Sander, "Decomposing Object-Oriented Class Modules Using an Agglomerative Clustering Technique," pp. 93-101, 25th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'2009), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, September 20-26, 2009. (Acceptance rate: 21.6%, 35/162) [cited by ]

    BibTeX

    

    @inproceedings{Fokaefs:2009:5306332, 
    	author={Fokaefs, M. and Tsantalis, N. and Chatzigeorgiou, A. and Sander, J.}, 
    	booktitle={Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance}, 
    	title={Decomposing object-oriented class modules using an agglomerative clustering technique}, 
    	year={2009}, 
    	pages={93-101}, 
    	doi={10.1109/ICSM.2009.5306332}, 
    	ISSN={1063-6773}, 
    }

21. Nikolaos Tsantalis, and Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, "Identification of Extract Method Refactoring Opportunities," pp. 119-128, 13th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR'2009), Kaiserslautern, Germany, March 24-27, 2009. (Acceptance rate: 31.4%, 22/70) [cited by ] IEEE Computer Society TCSE Most Influential Paper Award (SANER 2019)

    BibTeX

    

    @inproceedings{Tsantalis:2009:4812745, 
    	author={Tsantalis, N. and Chatzigeorgiou, A.}, 
    	booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering}, 
    	title={Identification of Extract Method Refactoring Opportunities}, 
    	year={2009}, 
    	pages={119-128}, 
    	doi={10.1109/CSMR.2009.23}, 
    	ISSN={1534-5351}, 
    }

22. Nikolaos Tsantalis, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, George Stephanides, and Ignatios Deligiannis, "Probabilistic Evaluation of Object-Oriented Systems," pp. 26-33, 10th IEEE International Symposium on Software Metrics (METRICS'2004), Chicago, IL, USA, September 14-16, 2004. (Acceptance rate: 50.7%, 36/71) [cited by ]
    
    
23. Panayotis Fouliras, Spiros Xanthos, Nikolaos Tsantalis, and Athanasios Manitsaris, "LEMP: Lightweight Efficient Multicast Protocol," pp. 1226-1231, 19th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'2004), Nicosia, Cyprus, March 14-17, 2004. (Acceptance rate: 35.6%, 280/787) [cited by ]
    
    

International Conferences (NIER / ERA / Short)

1. Giancarlo Sierra, Ahmad Tahmid, Emad Shihab, and Nikolaos Tsantalis, "Is Self-Admitted Technical Debt a Good Indicator of Architectural Divergences?," pp. 534-543, 26th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER'2019), Hangzhou, China, February 24-27, 2019. [cited by ]

   BibTeX

   

   @inproceedings{Sierra:SANER:2019, 
   	author={Giancarlo Sierra and Ahmad Tahmid and Emad Shihab and Nikolaos Tsantalis}, 
   	booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE 26th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering}, 
   	title={Is Self-Admitted Technical Debt a Good Indicator of Architectural Divergences?}, 
   	series = {SANER '19},
   	year={2019},  
   	pages={534-543}, 
   	doi={10.1109/SANER.2019.8667999}, 
   	ISSN={1534-5351}, 
   	month={Feb},
   }

2. Shahriar Rostami, Laleh Eshkevari, Davood Mazinanian, and Nikolaos Tsantalis, "Detecting Function Constructors in JavaScript," pp. 488-492, 32nd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME'2016), ERA Track, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, October 2-10, 2016. (Acceptance rate: 34.1%, 14/41) [cited by ]

   Data/BibTeX

   

   @inproceedings{Rostami:ICSME:2016,
   	author = {Rostami, Shahriar and Eshkevari, Laleh and Mazinanian, Davood and Tsantalis, Nikolaos},
   	title = {Detecting Function Constructors in JavaScript},
   	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution},
   	series = {ICSME '16},
   	year = {2016},
   	pages = {488-492},
   	doi = {10.1109/ICSME.2016.29},
   	location = {Raleigh, North Carolina, USA},
   }

3. Gabriele Bavota, Sebastiano Panichella, Nikolaos Tsantalis, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rocco Oliveto, and Gerardo Canfora, "Recommending Refactorings based on Team Co-Maintenance Patterns," pp. 337-342, 29th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE'2014), New Ideas Track, Västerås, Sweden, September 15-19, 2014. (Acceptance rate: 24.3%, 55+27/337) [cited by ]

   Presentation/BibTeX

   

   @inproceedings{Bavota:2014:RRB:2642937.2642948,
   	author = {Bavota, Gabriele and Panichella, Sebastiano and Tsantalis, Nikolaos and Di Penta, Massimiliano and
   	          Oliveto, Rocco and Canfora, Gerardo},
   	title = {Recommending Refactorings Based on Team Co-maintenance Patterns},
   	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 29th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering},
   	series = {ASE '14},
   	year = {2014},
   	isbn = {978-1-4503-3013-8},
   	location = {Vasteras, Sweden},
   	pages = {337--342},
   	numpages = {6},
   	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2642937.2642948},
   	doi = {10.1145/2642937.2642948},
   	acmid = {2642948},
   	publisher = {ACM},
   	address = {New York, NY, USA},
   	keywords = {developers, refactoring, teams},
   }

4. Giri Panamoottil Krishnan, and Nikolaos Tsantalis, "Refactoring Clones: An Optimization Problem," pp. 360-363, 29th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'2013), ERA Track, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, September 22-28, 2013. (Acceptance rate: 42.8%, 30/70) [cited by ]

   BibTeX

   

   @inproceedings{Krishnan:2013:RCO:2550526.2550590,
   	author = {Krishnan, Giri Panamoottil and Tsantalis, Nikolaos},
   	title = {Refactoring Clones: An Optimization Problem},
   	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance},
   	series = {ICSM '13},
   	year = {2013},
   	isbn = {978-0-7695-4981-1},
   	pages = {360--363},
   	numpages = {4},
   	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSM.2013.47},
   	doi = {10.1109/ICSM.2013.47},
   	acmid = {2550590},
   	publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
   	address = {Washington, DC, USA},
   }

5. Günter Kniesel, Alexander Binun, Péter Hegedűs, Lajos Jenő Fülöp, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Nikolaos Tsantalis, "DPDX - Towards a Common Result Exchange Format for Design Pattern Detection Tools," pp. 232-235, 14th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR'2010), Madrid, Spain, March 15-18, 2010. (Acceptance rate: 38.7%, 21+10/80, Short paper) [cited by ]

   BibTeX

   

   @inproceedings{5714440, 
   	author={Kniesel, G. and Binun, A. and Heged\H{u}s, P. and F\"{u}l\"{o}p, L.J. and Chatzigeorgiou, A. and
   	        Gu\'{e}h\'{e}neuc, Y. and Tsantalis, N.}, 
   	booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering}, 
   	title={DPDX--Towards a Common Result Exchange Format for Design Pattern Detection Tools}, 
   	year={2010}, 
   	pages={232-235}, 
   	doi={10.1109/CSMR.2010.40}, 
   	ISSN={1534-5351}, 
   }

Tool Demonstrations

1. Oleg Smirnov, Ameya Ketkar, Timofey Bryksin, Nikolaos Tsantalis, and Danny Dig, "IntelliTC: Automating Type Changes in IntelliJ IDEA," 44th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion (ICSE'2022 Companion), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, May 25–27, 2022. (Acceptance rate: 50%, 49/98) [cited by ]

   Presentation/Data/BibTeX

   

   @inproceedings{IntelliTC:ICSE:2022,
   	author = {Oleg Smirnov and Ameya Ketkar and Timofey Bryksin and Nikolaos Tsantalis and Danny Dig},
   	booktitle = {2022 IEEE/ACM 44th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings (ICSE-Companion)},
   	title = {IntelliTC: Automating Type Changes in IntelliJ IDEA},
   	year = {2022},
   	issn = {2574-1926},
   	pages = {115-119},
   	keywords = {java;codes;video on demand;inspection;user experience;software;history},
   	doi = {10.1109/ICSE-Companion55297.2022.9793766},
   	url = {https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICSE-Companion55297.2022.9793766},
   	publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
   	address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
   	month = {may}
   }

2. Hassan Atwi, Bin Lin, Nikolaos Tsantalis, Yutaro Kashiwa, Yasutaka Kamei, Naoyasu Ubayashi, Gabriele Bavota, and Michele Lanza, "PyRef: Refactoring Detection in Python Projects," 21st IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM'2021), Engineering Track, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, September 27-28, 2021. [cited by ]

   Presentation/Data/BibTeX

   

   @inproceedings{PyRef:SCAM:2021,
   	author = {Hassan Atwi and Bin Lin and Nikolaos Tsantalis and Yutaro Kashiwa and Yasutaka Kamei and Naoyasu Ubayashi and Gabriele Bavota and Michele Lanza},
   	booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE 21st International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation},
   	title = {PyRef: Refactoring Detection in Python Projects},
   	series = {SCAM '21},
   	year = {2021},
   	pages = {136-141},
   	keywords = {java;codes;conferences;tools;programming;maintenance engineering;software systems},
   	doi = {10.1109/SCAM52516.2021.00025},
   	url = {https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/SCAM52516.2021.00025},
   	publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
   	address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
   	month = {sep}
   }

3. Laleh Eshkevari, Davood Mazinanian, Shahriar Rostami, and Nikolaos Tsantalis, "JSDeodorant: Class-awareness for JavaScript programs," 39th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'2017), Tool Demonstration Track, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 20-28, 2017. (Acceptance rate: 31.6%, 18/57) [cited by ]

   Video/Presentation/BibTeX

   

   @inproceedings{Eshkevari:2017:JCJ:3098344.3098367,
   	author = {Eshkevari, Laleh and Mazinanian, Davood and Rostami, Shahriar and Tsantalis, Nikolaos},
   	title = {JSDeodorant: Class-awareness for JavaScript Programs},
   	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion},
   	series = {ICSE-C '17},
   	year = {2017},
   	isbn = {978-1-5386-1589-8},
   	location = {Buenos Aires, Argentina},
   	pages = {71--74},
   	numpages = {4},
   	url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-C.2017.6},
   	doi = {10.1109/ICSE-C.2017.6},
   	acmid = {3098367},
   	publisher = {IEEE Press},
   	address = {Piscataway, NJ, USA},
   }

4. Davood Mazinanian, and Nikolaos Tsantalis, "CSSDev: Refactoring duplication in Cascading Style Sheets," 39th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'2017), Tool Demonstration Track, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 20-28, 2017. (Acceptance rate: 31.6%, 18/57) [cited by ]

   Video/Presentation/BibTeX

   

   @inproceedings{Mazinanian:ICSE:2017:CSSDev,
   	author = {Mazinanian, Davood and Tsantalis, Nikolaos},
   	title = {CSSDev: Refactoring duplication in Cascading Style Sheets},
   	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion},
   	series = {ICSE-C '17},
   	year = {2017},
   	pages = {63--66},
   	numpages = {4},
   	doi = {10.1109/ICSE-C.2017.7},
   	month = {May},
   	location = {Buenos Aires, Argentina},
   }

5. Davood Mazinanian, Nikolaos Tsantalis, Raphael Stein, and Zackary Valenta, "JDeodorant: Clone Refactoring," pp. 613-616, 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'2016), Tool Demonstration Track, Austin, Texas, USA, May 14-22, 2016. (Acceptance rate: 32.1%, 18/56) [cited by ]

   Video/Presentation/BibTeX

   

   @inproceedings{Mazinanian:2016:JCR:2889160.2889168,
   	author = {Mazinanian, Davood and Tsantalis, Nikolaos and Stein, Raphael and Valenta, Zackary},
   	title = {JDeodorant: Clone Refactoring},
   	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion},
   	series = {ICSE '16},
   	year = {2016},
   	isbn = {978-1-4503-4205-6},
   	location = {Austin, Texas},
   	pages = {613--616},
   	numpages = {4},
   	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2889160.2889168},
   	doi = {10.1145/2889160.2889168},
   	acmid = {2889168},
   	publisher = {ACM},
   	address = {New York, NY, USA},
   	keywords = {code duplication, refactorability analysis, refactoring},
   }

6. Nikolaos Tsantalis, Natalia Negara, and Eleni Stroulia, "WebDiff: A Generic Differencing Service for Software Artifacts," pp. 586-589, 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'2011), Tool Demonstration Track, Williamsburg, VA, USA, September 25-30, 2011. [cited by ]

   BibTeX

   

   @inproceedings{Tsantalis:2011:WGD:2117694.2119680,
   	author = {Tsantalis, Nikolaos and Negara, Natalia and Stroulia, Eleni},
   	title = {Webdiff: A Generic Differencing Service for Software Artifacts},
   	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance},
   	series = {ICSM '11},
   	year = {2011},
   	isbn = {978-1-4577-0663-9},
   	pages = {586--589},
   	numpages = {4},
   	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSM.2011.6080836},
   	doi = {10.1109/ICSM.2011.6080836},
   	acmid = {2119680},
   	publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
   	address = {Washington, DC, USA},
   }

7. Marios Fokaefs, Nikolaos Tsantalis, Eleni Stroulia, and Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, "JDeodorant: Identification and Application of Extract Class Refactorings," pp. 1037-1039, 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'2011), Tool Demonstration Track, Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, May 21-28, 2011. (Acceptance rate: 36.7%, 22/60) [cited by ]

   Video/BibTeX

   

   @inproceedings{Fokaefs:2011:JIA:1985793.1985989,
   	author = {Fokaefs, Marios and Tsantalis, Nikolaos and Stroulia, Eleni and Chatzigeorgiou, Alexander},
   	title = {JDeodorant: Identification and Application of Extract Class Refactorings},
   	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering},
   	series = {ICSE '11},
   	year = {2011},
   	isbn = {978-1-4503-0445-0},
   	location = {Waikiki, Honolulu, HI, USA},
   	pages = {1037--1039},
   	numpages = {3},
   	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1985793.1985989},
   	doi = {10.1145/1985793.1985989},
   	acmid = {1985989},
   	publisher = {ACM},
   	address = {New York, NY, USA},
   	keywords = {clustering, object-oriented programming, refactoring, software reengineering},
   }

8. Nikolaos Tsantalis, Theodoros Chaikalis, and Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, "JDeodorant: Identification and Removal of Type-Checking Bad Smells," pp. 329-331, 12th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR'2008), Tool Demonstration Track, Athens, Greece, April 1-4, 2008. [cited by ] Most Influential Paper Award (SANER 2018)

   BibTeX

   

   @inproceedings{Tsantalis:2008:JIR:1545010.1545391,
   	author = {Tsantalis, Nikolaos and Chaikalis, Theodoros and Chatzigeorgiou, Alexander},
   	title = {JDeodorant: Identification and Removal of Type-Checking Bad Smells},
   	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering},
   	series = {CSMR '08},
   	year = {2008},
   	isbn = {978-1-4244-2157-2},
   	pages = {329--331},
   	numpages = {3},
   	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CSMR.2008.4493342},
   	doi = {10.1109/CSMR.2008.4493342},
   	acmid = {1545391},
   	publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
   	address = {Washington, DC, USA},
   }

9. Marios Fokaefs, Nikolaos Tsantalis, and Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, "JDeodorant: Identification and Removal of Feature Envy Bad Smells," pp. 519-520, 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'2007), Tool Demonstration Track, Paris, France, October 2-5, 2007. [cited by ]

   BibTeX

   

   @inproceedings{Fokaefs:2007:4362679, 
   	author={Fokaefs, M. and Tsantalis, N. and Chatzigeorgiou, A.}, 
   	booktitle={Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance}, 
   	title={JDeodorant: Identification and Removal of Feature Envy Bad Smells}, 
   	year={2007}, 
   	pages={519-520}, 
   	doi={10.1109/ICSM.2007.4362679}, 
   	ISSN={1063-6773}, 
   }

International Workshops

1. Nikolaos Tsantalis, and Giri Panamoottil Krishnan, "Refactoring Clones: A New Perspective" 7th International Workshop on Software Clones (IWSC'2013), San Francisco, California, USA, May 19, 2013. [cited by ]

   Presentation/BibTeX

   

   @inproceedings{Tsantalis:2013:RCN:2662708.2662712,
   	author = {Tsantalis, Nikolaos and Krishnan, Giri Panamoottil},
   	title = {Refactoring Clones: A New Perspective},
   	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Software Clones},
   	series = {IWSC '13},
   	year = {2013},
   	isbn = {978-1-4673-6445-4},
   	location = {San Francisco, California},
   	pages = {12--13},
   	numpages = {2},
   	url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2662708.2662712},
   	doi = {doi.acm.org/10.1145/2662708.2662712},
   	acmid = {2662712},
   	publisher = {IEEE Press},
   	address = {Piscataway, NJ, USA},
   }

2. Eleni Stroulia, Fabio Rocha, and Nikolaos Tsantalis, "A Framework for Collaborative Software Development Analytics," The Future of Collaborative Software Development Workshop @ CSCW 2012, Seattle, Washington, USA, February 12, 2012. [cited by ]
   
   
3. Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, Nikolaos Tsantalis, and George Stephanides, "Application of Graph Theory to OO Software Engineering," pp. 29-36, 2nd International Workshop on Interdisciplinary Software Engineering Research (WISER'2006), Shanghai, China, May 20, 2006. [cited by ]

   BibTeX

   

   @inproceedings{Chatzigeorgiou:2006:AGT:1137661.1137669,
   	author = {Chatzigeorgiou, Alexander and Tsantalis, Nikolaos and Stephanides, George},
   	title = {Application of Graph Theory to OO Software Engineering},
   	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2006 International Workshop on Workshop on Interdisciplinary Software Engineering Research},
   	series = {WISER '06},
   	year = {2006},
   	isbn = {1-59593-409-X},
   	location = {Shanghai, China},
   	pages = {29--36},
   	numpages = {8},
   	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1137661.1137669},
   	doi = {10.1145/1137661.1137669},
   	acmid = {1137669},
   	publisher = {ACM},
   	address = {New York, NY, USA},
   	keywords = {"God" classes, clustering, design pattern detection, graph theory, scale-free},
   }

Ph.D. Dissertation

1. Nikolaos Tsantalis, "Evaluation and Improvement of Software Architecture: Identification of Design Problems in Object-Oriented Systems and Resolution through Refactorings," Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Applied Informatics, University of Macedonia, Greece, August 2010. [cited by ]

   BibTeX

   

   @phdthesis{Tsantalis:2010,
   	author = {Nikolaos Tsantalis}, 
   	title = {Evaluation and Improvement of Software Architecture:
   	Identification of Design Problems in Object-Oriented Systems and Resolution through Refactorings},
   	school = {Department of Applied Informatics, University of Macedonia},
   	year = 2010,
   	address = {Thessaloniki, Greece},
   	month = aug,
   }

Technical Reports

1. Günter Kniesel, Alexander Binun, Péter Hegedűs, Lajos Jenő Fülöp, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, and Nikolaos Tsantalis, "DPDX - A Common Exchange Format for Design Pattern Detection Tools," Institut für Informatik III, Universität Bonn, Technical Report IAI-TR-2009-03, October 2009. [cited by ]
   
   

Presentations, Posters

1. Davood Mazinanian, and Nikolaos Tsantalis, "An Empirical Study on the Use of CSS Preprocessors," Consortium for Software Engineering Research (CSER), 2015 Spring Meeting, Montréal, QC, Canada, March 1, 2015.

   Presentation

   
   
   
2. Davood Mazinanian, and Nikolaos Tsantalis, "An Empirical Study of Duplication in Cascading Style Sheets," Consortium for Software Engineering Research (CSER), 2013 Fall Meeting, Markham, ON, Canada, November 17, 2013.

   Presentation

   
   
   
3. Kimberly Dextras-Romagnino, and Nikolaos Tsantalis, "Code Smell Visualization," Consortium for Software Engineering Research (CSER), 2013 Spring Meeting, Montréal, QC, Canada, June 17-18, 2013. [Best Poster Award]
   
   
4. Fabio Rocha, Nikolaos Tsantalis, and Eleni Stroulia, "Analyzing the Collaborative Software Process on Jazz," CASCON 2011 Technology Showcase, Software Development Platform and Tools, Markham, ON, Canada, November 7-10, 2011.
   
   
5. Fabio Rocha, Nikolaos Tsantalis, and Eleni Stroulia, "Analyzing the Collaborative Software Process on Jazz," Consortium for Software Engineering Research (CSER), 2011 Fall Meeting, Markham, ON, Canada, November 6, 2011.
   
   

Invited Talks

1. Nikolaos Tsantalis, "Code Smell Research: History and Future Directions," Second PLOW Installment, Montreal, QC, Canada, March 5, 2014.

   Presentation

   
   
   
2. Nikolaos Tsantalis, "Preventive Software Maintenance: The Past, the Present, the Future," CSER 2013 Spring Meeting, New Faculty Keynote, Montreal, QC, Canada, June 18, 2013.

   Presentation