@article{Abdalkareem_IST2017,
  title={On code reuse from StackOverflow: An exploratory study on Android apps},
  author={Abdalkareem, Rabe and Shihab, Emad and Rilling, Juergen},
  journal={Information and Software Technology},
  year={2017}, 
  pages={148-158}, 
  publisher={Elsevier}
}

@article{Abdalkareem_SW2017,
  title={What Do Developers Use the Crowd For? A Study Using Stack Overflow},
  author={Abdalkareem, Rabe and Shihab, Emad and Rilling, Juergen},
  journal={IEEE Software: SI on Crowdsourcing for Software Engineering},
  year={2017}, 
  pages={1-6}, 
  publisher={IEEE}
}

@article{Huang_EMSE2017,
  title={Identifying self-admitted technical debt in open source projects using text mining},
  author={Huang, Qiao and Shihab, Emad and Xia, Xin and Lo, David and Li, Shanping},
  journal={Empirical Software Engineering},
  year={2017}, 
  pages={To Appear}, 
  publisher={Springer}
}

@article{Maldonado_TSE2017,
  title={Using Natural Language Processing to Automatically Detect Self-Admitted Technical Debt},
  author={Maldonado, Everton and Shihab, Emad and Tsantalis, Nikolaos},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)},
  year={2017}, 
year={2017}, 
volume={PP}, 
number={99}, 
pages={To Appear}, 
}

@incollection{maldonado_icsme2017,
  title={An Empirical Study On the Removal of Self-Admitted Technical Debt},
  author={Everton Maldonado and Rabe Abdalkareem and Emad Shihab and Alexander Serebrenik},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME’17)},
  year={2017},
  numpages = {To Appear},
  publisher={IEEE},
  data = {http://das.encs.concordia.ca/uploads/2017/07/maldonado_icsme2017.zip}
}

@incollection{Abdalkareem_FSE2017,
  title={Why Do Developers Use Trivial Packages? An Empirical Case Study on npm},
  author={Abdalkareem, Rabe and Nourry, Olivier and Wehaibi, Sultan and Mujahid, Suhaib and Shihab, Emad},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE'17)},
  year={2017},
  numpages = {To Appear}
  publisher={ACM},
  data = {http://das.encs.concordia.ca/publications/npm-survey-data}
}

@incollection{abdalkareem_fse_src_2017,
  title={Reasons and Drawbacks of using Trivial  npm  Packages: The Developers’ Perspective},
  author={Abdalkareem, Rabe},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE'17)},
  year={2017},
  numpages = {To Appear}
  publisher={ACM}
}

@incollection{Mujahid_FSE_SRC_2017,
  title={Detecting Wearable App Permission Mismatches: A Case Study on Android Wear},
  author={Mujahid, Suhaib},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE'17)},
  year={2017},
  numpages = {To Appear}
  publisher={ACM}
}

@incollection{mujahid_mobilesoft2017,
  title={Examining User Complaints of Wearable Apps: A Case Study on Android Wear},
  author={Mujahid, Suhaib and Sierra, Giancarlo and Abdalkareem, Rabe and Shihab, Emad and Shang, Weiyi},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems},
  year={2017},
  numpages = {4},
  publisher={IEEE}
}

@article{Rosen_EMSE2015,
  title={What are mobile developers asking about? A large scale study using stack overflow},
  author={Rosen, Christoffer and Shihab, Emad},
  journal=Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE),
  year=2016,
  volume=21,
  number=3,
  pages=1192--1223,
}

@article{Tosun_EMSE2016,
  title={Studying High Impact Fix-inducing Changes},
  author={Misirli, Ayse Tosun and Shihab, Emad and Kamei, Yasukata},
  journal={Empirical Software Engineering Journal (EMSE)},
  year=2016,
  volume=21,
  number=2,
  pages=605--641,
}

@article{Xia_ToR2015,
  title={Automated Bug Report Field Reassignment and Refinement Prediction},
  author={Xia, Xin and Lo, David and Shihab, Emad and Wang, Xinyu},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Reliability (ToR)},
  year={2016}, 
  volume={PP}, 
  number={99}, 
  pages={1-20}, 
  publisher={IEEE}
}

@inproceedings{Kamei_SANER2016,
  title={Defect Prediction: Accomplishments and Future Challenges},
  author={Kamei, Yasutaka and Shihab, Emad},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER'16)},
  year = {2016},
  location = {Osaka, Japan},
  numpages = {11}
}

@inproceedings{Kamei_TDA2016,
  title={Using Analytics to Quantify Interest of Self-Admitted Technical Debt},
  author={Kamei, Yasutaka and Maldonado, Everton and Shihab, Emad and Ubayashi, Naoyasu},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Technical Debt Analytics (TDA)},
  year = {2016},
  numpages = {4}
}

@inproceedings{Nagappan_SANER2016,
  title={Future Trends in Software Engineering Research for Mobile Apps},
  author={Nagappan, Meiyappan and Shihab, Emad},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER'16)},
  year = {2016},
  location = {Osaka, Japan},
  numpages = {11}
}

@inproceedings{Wehaibi_SANER2016,
  title={Examining the Impact of Self-admitted Technical Debt on Software Quality},
  author={Wehaibi, Sultan and Shihab, Emad and Guerrouj, Latifa},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER'16)},
  year = {2016},
  location = {Osaka, Japan},
  numpages = {11}
}

@inproceedings{Xia_COMPSAC2016,
  title={It Takes Two toTango: Deleted Stack Overflow Question Prediction with Text and Meta Features},
  author={Xia,Xin and Lo,David and Correa, Denzil and Sureka, Ashish and Shihab,Emad},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the The 40th Annual International Computers, Software & Applications Conference},
  year = {2016},
  numpages = {11}
}

@inproceedings{Xia_ESEM2016,
  title={Predicting Crashing Releases of Mobile Applications},
  author={Xia, Xin and Shihab, Emad and Kamei, Yasutaka and Lo, David and Wang, Xinyu},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM'16)},
  year = {2016},
  location = {Ciudad Real, Spain},
  numpages = {10}
}

@inproceedings{Zhao_ESEM2016,
  title={Are Discussions Associated with Bug Reworking? An Empirical Study on Open Source Projects},
  author={Zhao, Yu and Zhang, Feng and Shihab, Emad and Zou, Ying and Hassan, Ahmed E.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM'16)},
  year = {2016},
  location = {Ciudad Real, Spain},
  numpages = {10}
}

@article{khalid2014mobile,
  title={What do mobile app users complain about? A study on free iOS apps},
  author={Khalid, Hammad and Shihab, Emad and Nagappan, Meiyappan and Hassan, Ahmed E.},
  journal={IEEE Software}, 
  year={2015}, 
  volume={32}, 
  number={3}, 
  pages={70-77},
  publisher={IEEE}
}

@article{Xia_IST2015,
  title={ELBlocker: Predicting blocking bugs with ensemble imbalance learning},
  author={Xia, Xin and Lo, David and Shihab, Emad and Wang, Xinyu and Yang, Xiaohu},
  journal={Information and Software Technology Journal (IST)},
  volume={61},
  pages={93--106},
  year={2015},
  publisher={Elsevier}
}

@article{Krutz_SAC2015,
  title={Examining the Effectiveness of Using Concolic Analysis to Detect Code Clones},
  author={Krutz, Daniel E and Malachowsky, Samuel A and Shihab, Emad}
}

@inproceedings{Maldonado_MTD2015,
  title={Detecting and quantifying different types of self-admitted technical Debt},
  author={Maldonado, Everton and Shihab, Emad},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt (MTD'15)},
  pages={9--15},
  year={2015},
  data = {https://users.encs.concordia.ca/~eshihab/data/MTD2015/MTD_15_data.zip}
}

@inproceedings{Rosen_FSE2015Tool,
  title={Commit guru: analytics and risk prediction of software commits},
  author={Rosen, Christoffer and Grawi, Ben and Shihab, Emad},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the10th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE'15)},
  pages={966--969},
  year={2015},
  organization={ACM}
}

@inproceedings{Xia_SANER2015,
  title={Cross-project build co-change prediction},
  author={Xia, Xin and Lo, David and McIntosh, Shane and Shihab, Emad and Hassan, Ahmed E},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER'15)},
  pages={311--320},
  year={2015},
  organization={IEEE}
}

@article{Xia_ASE2014,
  title={Automatic, high accuracy prediction of reopened bugs},
  author={Xia, Xin and Lo, David and Shihab, Emad and Wang, Xinyu and Zhou, Bo},
  journal={Automated Software Engineering},
  volume={22},
  number={1},
  pages={75--109},
  year={2014},
  publisher={Springer}
}

@inproceedings{Chen_MSR2014,
  title={An Empirical Study of Dormant Bugs},
  author={Chen, Tse-Hsun and Nagappan, Meiyappan and Shihab, Emad and Hassan, Ahmed E},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR'14)},
  pages={82--91},
  year={2014},
}

@inproceedings{Khalid_FSE2014,
  title={Prioritizing Devices To Test Your App On: A Case Study Of Android Game Apps},
  author={Khalid, Hammad and Nagappan, Meiyappan and Shihab, Emad and Hassan, Ahmed E},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE'14)},
  pages={610--620},
  year={2014},
}

@inproceedings{Potdar_ICSME2014,
  title={An Exploratory Study on Self-Admitted Technical Debt},
  author={Potdar, Aniket and Shihab, Emad},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME'14)},
  pages={91--100},
  year={2014},
  data={http://das.encs.concordia.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Potdar_ICSME14_data.zip}
}

@inproceedings{Shihab_ICSME2014,
  title={Practical Software Quality Prediction},
  author={Shihab, Emad},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME'14)},
  pages={639--644},
  year={2014},
}

@inproceedings{Valdivia_MSR2014,
  title={Characterizing and Predicting Blocking Bugs in Open Source Projects},
  author={Valdivia Garcia, Harold and Shihab, Emad},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR'14)},
  pages={72--81},
  year={2014},
}

@inproceedings{Xia_CSMR2014,
  title={An Empirical Study of Bug Report Field Reassignment},
  author={Xia, Xin and Lo, Daniel and Wen, Ming and Shihab, Emad and Zhou, Bo},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2014 Software Evolution Week - IEEE Conference on Software Maintenance, Reengineering and Reverse Engineering (CSMR-WCRE)},
  pages={174--183},
  year={2014},
}

@article{Kamei_TSE2013,
  title={A large-scale empirical study of just-in-time quality assurance},
  author={Kamei, Yasutaka and Shihab, Emad and Adams, Bram and Hassan, Ahmed E and Mockus, Audris and Sinha, Aloka and Ubayashi, Naoyasu},
  journal={Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on},
  volume={39},
  number={6},
  pages={757--773},
  year={2013},
  publisher={IEEE}
}

@article{Shihab_IST2013,
  title={Is lines of code a good measure of effort in effort-aware models?},
  author={Shihab, Emad and Kamei, Yasutaka and Adams, Bram and Hassan, Ahmed E},
  journal={Information and Software Technology},
  volume={55},
  number={11},
  pages={1981--1993},
  year={2013},
  publisher={Elsevier},
  data={http://posl.ait.kyushu-u.ac.jp/%7Ekamei/publications/data/IST2013.zip}
}

@inproceedings{Krutz_WCRE2013,
  title={CCCD: Concolic code clone detection},
  author={Krutz, Daniel E and Shihab, Emad},
  booktitle={Reverse Engineering (WCRE), 2013 20th Working Conference on},
  pages={489--490},
  year={2013},
  organization={IEEE}
}

@inproceedings{Zhang_DeMobile2013,
  title={The evolution of mobile apps: An exploratory study},
  author={Zhang, Jack and Sagar, Shikhar and Shihab, Emad},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2013 International Workshop on Software Development Lifecycle for Mobile},
  pages={1--8},
  year={2013},
  organization={ACM}
}

@article{Shihab_EMSE2012,
  author    = {Emad Shihab and
               Akinori Ihara and
               Yasutaka Kamei and
               Walid M. Ibrahim and
               Masao Ohira and
               Bram Adams and
               Ahmed E. Hassan and
               Ken{-}ichi Matsumoto},
  title     = {Studying Re-opened Bugs in Open Source Software},
  journal   = {Empirical Software Engineering},
  volume    = {18},
  number    = {5},
  pages     = {1005--1042},
  year      = {2013},
  url       = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10664-012-9228-6},
  doi       = {10.1007/s10664-012-9228-6},
  timestamp = {Wed, 28 Aug 2013 17:10:04 +0200}
}

@inproceedings{Shihab_ESEM2012,
  title={The Effect of Branching Strategies on Software Quality},
  author={Shihab, Emad and Bird, Christian and Zimmermann, Thomas},
  booktitle={Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), 2012 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on},
  pages={301--310},
  year={2012},
  organization={IEEE},
  ar={25.2}
}

@inproceedings{Shihab_FSE2012,
  title={An Industrial Case Study on the Risk of Software Changes},
  author={Shihab, Emad and Hassan, Ahmed E and Adams, Bram and Jiang, Zhen Ming},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT 20th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering},
  pages={62},
  year={2012},
  organization={ACM},
  ar={17.4}
}

@article{Shihab_phd,
  title={An Exploration of Challenges Limiting Pragmatic Software Defect Prediction},
  author={Shihab, Emad},
  year={2012},
  journal={Queen’s University}
}

@article{Shihab_SPE2011,
  title={Prioritizing the Creation of Unit Tests in Legacy Software Systems},
  author={Shihab, Emad and Jiang, Zhen Ming and Adams, Bram and Hassan, Ahmed E and Bowerman, Robert},
  journal={Software: Practice and Experience},
  volume={41},
  number={10},
  pages={1027--1048},
  year={2011},
  publisher={Wiley OL}
}

@inproceedings{Herraiz_WCRE2011,
  title={Impact of Installation Counts on Perceived Quality: A Case Study on Debian},
  author={Herraiz, Israel and Shihab, Emad and Nguyen, Thanh HD and Hassan, Ahmed E},
  booktitle={Reverse Engineering (WCRE), 2011 18th Working Conference on},
  pages={219--228},
  year={2011},
  organization={IEEE},
  ar={25.9}
}

@inproceedings{Shihab_FSE2011_update,
  title={High-Impact Defects: A Study of Breakage and Surprise Defects},
  author={Shihab, Emad and Mockus, Audris and Kamei, Yasutaka and Adams, Bram and Hassan, Ahmed E},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSOFT symposium and the 13th European conference on Foundations of software engineering},
  pages={300--310},
  year={2011},
  organization={ACM},
  ar={16.7}
}

@inproceedings{Shihab_ICSE2011,
  title={Pragmatic Prioritization of Software Quality Assurance Efforts},
  author={Shihab, Emad},
  booktitle={Software Engineering (ICSE), 2011 33rd International Conference on},
  pages={1106--1109},
  year={2011},
  organization={IEEE},
  ar={22.6}
}

@article{Wan_IJCN2010,
  title={Admission Region of Triple-play Services in Wireless Home Networks},
  author={Wan, Fengdan and Cai, Lin and Shihab, Emad and Gulliver, Aaron},
  journal={Computer Communications},
  volume={33},
  number={7},
  pages={852--859},
  year={2010},
  publisher={Elsevier}
}

@inproceedings{Hindle_MSR2010,
  title={Mining Challenge 2010: FreeBSD, GNOME Desktop and Debian/Ubuntu},
  author={Hindle, Abram and Herraiz, Israel and Shihab, Emad and Jiang, Zhen Ming},
  booktitle={Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2010 7th IEEE Working Conference on},
  pages={82--85},
  year={2010},
  organization={IEEE},
}

@inproceedings{Ibrahim_MSR2010,
  title={Should I Contribute to This Discussion?},
  author={Ibrahim, Walid M and Bettenburg, Nicolas and Shihab, Emad and Adams, Bram and Hassan, Ahmed E},
  booktitle={Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2010 7th IEEE Working Conference on},
  pages={181--190},
  year={2010},
  organization={IEEE},
  ar={31.1}
}

@inproceedings{Jiang_SSIRI2010,
  title={An Industrial Case Study on Speeding up User Acceptance Testing by Mining Execution Logs},
  author={Jiang, Zhen Ming and Avritzer, Alberto and Shihab, Emad and Hassan, Ahmed E and Flora, Parminder},
  booktitle={Secure Software Integration and Reliability Improvement (SSIRI), 2010 Fourth International Conference on},
  pages={131--140},
  year={2010},
  organization={IEEE},
  ar={33.3}
}

@inproceedings{Shihab_ESEM2010,
  title={Understanding the Impact of Code and Process Metrics on Post-release Defects: A Case Study on the Eclipse Project},
  author={Shihab, Emad and Jiang, Zhen Ming and Ibrahim, Walid M and Adams, Bram and Hassan, Ahmed E},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2010 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement},
  pages={4},
  year={2010},
  organization={ACM},
  ar={29.4}
}

@inproceedings{Shihab_QSIC2010,
  title={Prioritizing Unit Test Creation for Test-Driven Maintenance of Legacy Systems},
  author={Shihab, Emad and Jiang, Zhen Ming and Adams, Bram and Hassan, Ahmed E and Bowerman, Robert},
  booktitle={Quality Software (QSIC), 2010 10th International Conference on},
  pages={132--141},
  year={2010},
  organization={IEEE},
  ar={16.5}
}

@inproceedings{Shihab_WCRE2010,
  title={Predicting Re-opened Bugs: A Case Study on the Eclipse Project},
  author={Shihab, Emad and Ihara, Akinori and Kamei, Yasutaka and Ibrahim, Walid M and Ohira, Masao and Adams, Bram and Hassan, Ahmed E and Matsumoto, Ken-ichi},
  booktitle={Reverse Engineering (WCRE), 2010 17th Working Conference on},
  pages={249--258},
  year={2010},
  organization={IEEE},
  ar={31.3},
  url={http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~eshihab/data/WCRE2010/Ecipse_reopened_all_dims.arff}
}

@article{Shihab_GC2008,
  title={A Distributed Directional-to-Directional MAC Protocol for Asynchronous Ad Hoc Networks},
  author={Shihab, Emad and Cai, Lin and Pan, Jianping},
  journal={Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on},
  volume={58},
  number={9},
  pages={5124--5134},
  year={2009},
  publisher={IEEE}
}

@inproceedings{Bettenburg_ICSM2009,
  title={An Empirical Study on the Risks of Using Off-the-Shelf Techniques for Processing Mailing List Data},
  author={Bettenburg, Nicolas and Shihab, Emad and Hassan, Ahmed E},
  booktitle={Software Maintenance, 2009. ICSM 2009. IEEE International Conference on},
  pages={539--542},
  year={2009},
  organization={IEEE}
}

@inproceedings{Shihab_ICSM2009,
  title={Studying the Use of Developer IRC Meetings in Open Source Projects},
  author={Shihab, Emad and Jiang, Zhen Ming and Hassan, Ahmed E},
  booktitle={Software Maintenance, 2009. ICSM 2009. IEEE International Conference on},
  pages={147--156},
  year={2009},
  organization={IEEE},
  ar={21.6}
}

@incollection{Shihab_KCSD2009,
  title={On the Central Role of Mailing Lists in Open Source Projects: An Exploratory
Study},
  author={Shihab, Emad and Bettenburg, Nicolas and Adams, Bram and Hassan, Ahmed E},
  booktitle={New frontiers in artificial intelligence},
  pages={91--103},
  year={2010},
  publisher={Springer}
}

@inproceedings{Shihab_MSR2009Challenge,
  title={On the use of Internet Relay Chat (IRC) meeting by developers of the GNOME GTK+ project},
  author={Shihab, Emad and Jiang, Zhen Ming and Hassan, Ahmed E},
  booktitle={Mining Software Repositories, 2009. MSR'09. 6th IEEE International Working Conference on},
  pages={107--110},
  year={2009},
  organization={IEEE}
}

@article{Shihab_NETWORK2008,
  title={Mesh Network for in-home IPTV Distribution},
  author={Shihab, Emad and Cai, Lin and Wan, Fengdan and Gulliver, Aaron and Tin, Noel},
  journal={Network, IEEE},
  volume={22},
  number={1},
  pages={52--57},
  year={2008},
  publisher={IEEE},
  ar={14}
}

@inproceedings{Shihab_GC2008,
  title={A distributed directional-to-directional MAC protocol for asynchronous ad hoc networks},
  author={Shihab, Emad and Cai, Lin and Pan, Jianping},
  booktitle={Global Telecommunications Conference, 2008. IEEE GLOBECOM 2008. IEEE},
  pages={1--5},
  year={2008},
  organization={IEEE},
  ar={36.8}
}

@phdthesis{shihab2008directional,
  title={A directional-to-directional (DtD) MAC protocol for ad hoc networks},
  author={Shihab, Emad},
  year={2008},
  school={University of Victoria}
}

@inproceedings{Shihab_CCECE2007,
  title={IPTV Distribution Technologies in Broadband Home Networks},
  author={Shihab, Emad and Cai, Lin},
  booktitle={Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2007. CCECE 2007. Canadian Conference on},
  pages={765--768},
  year={2007},
  organization={IEEE},
  ar={39.5}
}

@ARTICLE {emadshihab2006,
    author  = "Emad Shihab",
    title   = "Would you like some testing with that?",
    journal = "Blackberry Developers Journal",
    year    = "2006",
    volume  = "3",
    pages   = "46-47"
}