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Tom Mens

@tom-mens.bsky.social

Professor in Software Engineering at University of Mons, Belgium

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Natarajan Chadambaram successfully depended his PhD on bot identification in GitHub.
natarajan-chidambaram.github.io
The thesis can be found here
orbi.umons.ac.be/handle/20.50...
(click on the Request Acess button if you want to obtain it)

31.05.2025 07:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We did a preliminary analysis of the presence of bots in the NumFocus ecosystem, and how their activities are differing from human activities
Presented this week during the ICSE 2025 BotSE workshop by Natarajan Chidambaram

30.04.2025 12:11 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This week during the ICSE 2025 workshop on bots in software engineering (BotSE), Natarajan Chidambaram presented our dataset, BIMBAS classification model and RABBIT open source tool for detecting bot accounts in GitHub repositories. All material is available online.

30.04.2025 12:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Award of the MSR2025 Distinguished Dataset to Youness Hourri, Alexandre Decan and yours truly.
2025.msrconf.org/details/msr-...

29.04.2025 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Our dataset on contributor activities in the NumFocus ecosystem on GitHub will be presented today by Youness Hourri @MSR2025 in Ottawa. It receided the distinguished dataset award, so come and check it out! All details here: orbi.umons.ac.be/bitstream/20...

29.04.2025 12:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations Bogdan, well deserved!

28.01.2025 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Seasons greetings wishes from the UMONS software engineering lab. From left to right: Youness, Tom, Pooya, Hassan, Are, Alexandre, Natarajan and Guillaume.

Seasons greetings wishes from the UMONS software engineering lab. From left to right: Youness, Tom, Pooya, Hassan, Are, Alexandre, Natarajan and Guillaume.

The UMONS Software Engineering Lab wishes you a wonderful holiday season filled with happiness, love and health !

18.12.2024 11:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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13.12.2024 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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On Nov 22 in 1995 GIMP was released. GIMP is special for me since together with Tom Mens, MaΓ«lick Claes and Philippe Grosjean we have studied its evolution during my sabbatical in Mons (2012): (a) a page of our chapter, (b) me in Mons by Tom Mens, (c) the Pentagone building of CS.

#computerhistory

22.11.2024 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

SE researchers try advanced ML for "everything" (and conferences encourage it by demanding "novelty") but few investigate that complexity-vs-accuracy ROI for practitioners.

06.12.2024 08:32 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A freely downloadable version of the article is available until January 18 on authors.elsevier.com/c/1kBB0bKHpG...

12.12.2024 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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If you want to learn more about this article, here are some links:
Article: doi.org/10.1016/j.js...
Tool: github.com/natarajan-ch...

11.12.2024 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
https://youtu.be/wrrqJBgDqkM

90 second video teaser of our @JSSoftware
article "A bot identification model and tool based on GitHub activity sequences" co-authored by Natarajan Chidambaram, @alexandredecan.bsky.social and myself:
t.co/ukGuvfPSqz

11.12.2024 15:14 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

@aserebrenik.bsky.social hallo, ik ben net client geworden van bluesky, hipelijk een stuk beter dan twitter. Ben jij er tevreden van? Groetjes, Tom

10.12.2024 13:52 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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