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Conference Papers (Refereed) 
  1. Latifa Guerrouj, Olga Baysal, David Lo, and Foutse Khomh. Software Analytics: Challenges and Opportunities, Technical Briefing, in Proceedings of the 38th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2016), Austin, Texas. [slides (bug-report-analytics)]
  2. Tien-Duy B. Le, Richard J. Oentaryo, and David Lo. Information Retrieval and Spectrum Based Bug Localization: Better Together, in Proceedings of the 10th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC-FSE 2015), Bergamo, Italy. [pdf]
  3. David Lo, Nachiappan Nagappan, and Thomas Zimmermann. How Practitioners Perceive the Relevance of Software Engineering Research, in Proceedings of the 10th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC-FSE 2015), Bergamo, Italy. [pdf]
  4. Tien-Duy B. Le, Xuan-Bach D. Le, David Lo, and Ivan Beschastnikh. Synergizing Specification Miners through Model Fissions and Fusions, in Proceedings of the 30th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2015), Lincoln, USA. [pdf]
  5. Ming Gao, Ee-Peng Lim, David Lo, Feida Zhu, Philips Kokoh Prasetyo, and Aoying Zhou. Collective Network Linkage across Heterogeneous Social Platforms, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2015), Atlantic City, United States. [pdf]
  6. Xin Xia, David Lo, Xinyu Wang, and Xiaohu Yang. Who Should Review This Change? Putting Text and File Location Analyses Together for More Accurate Recommendations, in Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2015), Bremen, Germany. [pdf]
  7. Yuan Tian, Meiyappan Nagappan, David Lo, and Ahmed E. Hassan. What Are the Characteristics of High-Rated Apps? A Case Study on Free Android Applications, in Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2015), Bremen, Germany. [pdf]
  8. Tien-Duy B. Le, David Lo, and Ming Li. Constrained Feature Selection for Localizing Faults, in Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2015), Bremen, Germany. [pdf]
  9. Abhishek Sharma, Yuan Tian, and David Lo, What's Hot in Software Engineering Twitter Space?, in Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2015), Bremen, Germany. [pdf]
  10. Xin Xia, David Lo, Pavneet S. Kochhar, Zhenchang Xing, Xinyu Wang, and Shanping Li. An Industrial Experience Report on Test Outsourcing Practices, in Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2015), Gaithersburg, USA. [pdf]
  11. Xuan-Bach D. Le, Tien-Duy B. Le, and David Lo. Should Fixing These Failures be Delegated to Automated Program Repair?, in Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2015), Gaithersburg, USA. [pdf]
  12. Pavneet S. Kochhar, Ferdian Thung, Nachiappan Nagappan, Thomas Zimmermann, and David Lo. Understanding the Test Automation Culture of App Developers, in Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation (ICST 2015), Graz, Austria. [pdf]
  13. Alan Charpentier, Jean-Rémy Falleri, David Lo, and Laurent Réveillère. An Empirical Assessment of Bellon's Clone Benchmark, in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2015), Nanjing, China. [pdf]
  14. Xin Xia, David Lo, Jingfan Tang, and Shanping Li. Understanding Customer Satisfaction Feedback in an IT Outsourcing Company: A Case Study on the Insigma Hengtian Company, in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2015), Nanjing, China. [pdf]
  15. Tien-Duy B. Le, Mario Linares Vasquez, David Lo, Denys Poshyvanyk. RCLinker: Automated Linking of Issue Reports and Commits Leveraging Rich Contextual Information, in Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2015), Florence, Italy. [pdf]
  16. Ferdian Thung, Le Dinh Xuan Bach, David Lo. Active Semi-Supervised Defect Categorization, in Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2015), Florence, Italy. [pdf]
  17. Xinli Yang, David Lo, Xin Xia, Yun Zhang and Jianling Sun. Deep Learning for Just-In-Time Defect Prediction, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security (QRS 2015), Vancouver, Canada. [pdf]
  18. Yun Zhang, David Lo, Xin Xia, Bowen Xu, Jianling Sun and Shanping Li. Combining Software Metrics and Text Features for Vulnerable File Prediction, in Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2015), Gold Coast, Australia. [pdf] 
  19. Siqi Ma, Shaowei Wang, David Lo, Robert H. Deng, and Cong Sun. Active Semi-Supervised Approach for Checking App Behavior Against Its Description, in Proceedings of the 39th Annual International Computers, Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2015), Taichung, Taiwan. [pdf]
  20. Weiqin Zou, Xin Xia, Weiqiang Zhang, Zhenyu Chen, and David Lo. An Empirical Study of Bug Fixing Rate, in Proceedings of the 39th Annual International Computers, Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2015), Taichung, Taiwan. [pdf]
  21. Yun Zhang, David Lo, Xin Xia, and Jianling Sun. An Empirical Study of Classifier Combination on Cross-Project Defect Prediction, in Proceedings of the 39th Annual International Computers, Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2015), Taichung, Taiwan. [pdf]
  22. Jianjun Hu, Xiaobing Sun, David Lo, and Bin Li. Modeling the Evolution of Development Topics Using Dynamic Topic Models, in Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2015), Monteral, Canada. [pdf]
  23. Abhishek Sharma, Tian Yuan, and David Lo. NIRMAL: Automatic Identification of Software Relevant Tweets Leveraging Language Model, in Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2015), Montreal, Canada. [pdf]
  24. Xin Xia, David Lo, Shane McIntosh, Emad Shihab, and Ahmed Hassan. Cross-Project Build Co-Change Prediction, in Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2015), Montreal, Canada. [pdf]
  25. Tien-Duy B. Le and David Lo. Beyond Support and Confidence: Exploring Interestingness Measures for Specification Mining, in Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2015), Montreal, Canada. [pdf]
  26. Pavneet S. Kochhar, Ferdian Thung, and David Lo. Code Coverage and Test Suite Effectiveness: Empirical Study with Real Bugs in Large Systems, in Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2015), Montreal, Canada. [pdf]
  27. Yuan Tian and David Lo. A Comparative Study on the Effectiveness of Part-of-Speech Tagging, in Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2015), Montreal, Canada. [pdf]
  28. Meili Lu, Xiaobing Sun, Shaowei Wang, David Lo, and Yucong Duan. Query Expansion via Wordnet for Effective Code Search, in Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2015), Montreal, Canada. [pdf]
  29. Xiao Xuan, David Lo, Xin Xia, and Tian Yuan. Evaluating Defect Prediction Using a Massive Set of Metrics, in Proceedings of the 30th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2015), Salamance, Spain. [pdf]
  30. Pavneet S. Kochhar, Ferdian Thung, David Lo, and Julia Lawall. An Empirical Study on the Adequacy of Testing in Open Source Projects, in Proceedings of the 21st Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC), Jeju, Korea. [pdf]
  31. Tien-Duy B. Le, Ferdian Thung, and David Lo. Predicting Effectiveness of IR-Based Bug Localization Techniques, in Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2014), Naples, Italy. [pdf]
  32. Ferdian Thung, Tien-Duy B. Le, Pavneet S. Kochhar, and David Lo. BugLocalizer: Integrated Tool Support for Bug Localization, in Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2014), Hong Kong, China. [pdf]
  33. Shaowei Wang, David Lo, and Julia Lawall. Compositional Vector Space Models for Improved Bug Localization, in Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2014), Victoria, Canada. [pdf]
  34. Shaowei Wang, David Lo, Bogdan Vasilescu, and Alexander Serebrenik. EnTagRec: An Enhanced Tag Recommendation System for Software Information Sites, in Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2014), Victoria, Canada. [pdf]
  35. Tien-Duy B. Le, Jooyong Yi, David Lo, Ferdian Thung, and Abhik Roychoudhury. Dynamic Inference of Change Contracts, in Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2014), Victoria, Canada. [pdf]
  36. Lucia, David Lo, and Xin Xia. Fusing Fault Localizers, in Proceedings of the 29th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2014), Vasteras, Sweden. [pdf]
  37. Shaowei Wang, David Lo, and Lingxiao Jiang. Active Code Search: Incorporating User Feedback to Improve Code Search Relevance, in Proceedings of the 29th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2014), Vasteras, Sweden. [pdf]
  38. Ferdian Thung, Pavneet S. Kochhar, and David Lo. DupFinder: Integrated Tool Support for Duplicate Bug Report Detection, in Proceedings of the 29th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2014), Vasteras, Sweden. [pdf]
  39. Xin Xia, David Lo, Xinyu Wang, and Bo Zhou. Automatic Defect Categorization Based on Fault Triggering Conditions, in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2014), Tianjin, China. [pdf]
  40. Pavneet S. Kochhar, Ferdian Thung, and David Lo. Automatic Fine-Grained Issue Report Reclassification, in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2014), Tianjin, China. [pdf]
  41. Bo Zhou, Xia Xin, David Lo, and Xinyu Wang. Build Predictor: More Accurate Missed Dependency Prediction in Build Configuration Files, in Proceedings of 38th IEEE Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2014), Vasteras, Sweden. [pdf]
  42. Xin Xia, David Lo, Weiwei Qiu, Wang Xingen, and Bo Zhou. Automated Configuration Bug Report Predicting Using Text Mining, in Proceedings of the 38th IEEE Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2014), Vasteras, Sweden. [pdf]
  43. Richard J. Oentaryo, Ee-Peng Lim, David Jia Wei Low, David Lo, and Michael Finegold. Predicting Response in Mobile Advertising with Hierarchical Importance-Aware Factorization Machine, in Proceedings of ACM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2014), New York, USA. [pdf]
  44. Xinyu Wang, David Lo, Xin Xia, Xingen Wang, Pavneet S. Kochhar, Tian Yuan, Xiaohu Yang, Shanping Li, Jianling Sun, and Bo Zhou. BOAT: An Experimental Platform for Researchers to Comparatively and Reproducibly Evaluate Bug Localization Techniques, in Proceedings of the 36th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014), Hyderabad, India. [pdf]
  45. Yuan Tian, David Lo, and Julia Lawall. SEWordSim:: Software-Specific Word Similarity Database, in Proceedings of the 36th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2014), Hyderabad, India. [pdf]
  46. Shaowei Wang and David Lo. Version History, Similar Report, and Structure: Putting Them Together for Improved Bug Localization, in Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), Hyderabad, India. [pdf]
  47. Bo Zhou, Xin Xia, David Lo, Cong Tian, and Xinyu Wang. Towards More Accurage Content Categorization of API Discussions, in Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), Hyderabad, India. [pdf]
  48. Ferdian Thung, David Lo, Mohd Hafeez Osman, and Michel R.V. Chaudron. Condensing Class Diagrams by Analyzing Design and Network Metrics using Optimistic Classification", in Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), Hyderabad, India. [pdf]
  49. Xin Xia, David Lo, Xingen Wang, Chenyi Zhang, and Xinyu Wang. Cross-Language Bug Localization, in Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), Hyderabad, India. [pdf]
  50. Pavneet Singh Kochhar, Tien-Duy B. Le, and David Lo. It's Not a Bug, It's a Feature: Does Misclassification Affect Bug Localization?, in Proceedings of the 11th Working Conference on Mining Software Repository (MSR 2014), Hyderabad, India. [pdf]
  51. Wei Gong, Ee-Peng Lim, Feida Zhu, Palakorn Achananuparp, and David Lo. On Finding the Point Where There is No Return: Turning Point Mining on Game Data, in Proceedings of SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2014), Philadelphia, USA. [pdf]
  52. Xiaoqiong Zhao, Xin Xia, Pavneet Singh Kochhar, David Lo, and Shanping Li. An Empirical Study of Bugs in Build Process, in Proceedings of the 29th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2014), Geongju, Korea. [pdf]
  53. Xin Xia, David Lo, Xinyu Wwang, and Bo Zhou. Build System Analysis with Link Prediction, in Proceedings of the 29th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2014), Geongju, Korea. [pdf]
  54. Xin Xia, David Lo, Ming Wen, Emad Shihab, and Bo Zhou. An Empirical Study of Bug Report Field Reassignment, in Procedings of  theJoint Meeting of the 18th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering and the 21st Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (CSMR-WCRE 2014), Antwerp, Belgium. [pdf]
  55. Xin Xia, Feng Yang, David Lo, Zhenyu Chen, and Xinyu Wang. Towards More Accurate Multi-Label Software Behavior Learning, in Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the 18th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering and the 21st Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (CSMR-WCRE 2014), Antwerp, Belgium. [pdf]
  56. Tian Yuan, David Lo, and Julia Lawall. Automated Construction of a Software-Specific Word Similarity Database, in Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the 18th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering and the 21st Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (CSMR-WCRE 2014), Antwerp, Belgium. [pdf]
  57. Dirk Fahland, Shahar Maoz, and David Lo. Mining Branching-Time Scenarios, in Proceedings of the 28th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2013), Palo Alto, USA. [pdf]
  58. Ferdian Thung, David Lo, and Julia Lawall. Automatic Recommendation of API Methods from Feature Requests, in Proceedings of the 28th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2013), Palo Alto, USA. [pdf]
  59. Tegawende F. Bissyande, David Lo, Lingxiao Jiang, Laurent Reveillere, Jacques Klein and Yves Le Traon. Got Issues? Who Cares About It? A Large Scale Investigation of Issue Trackers from GitHub, in Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2013), Pasadena, USA. [pdf]
  60. Xin Xia, David Lo, Xinyu Wang, and Bo Zhou. Accurate Developer Recommendation for Bug Resolution, in Proceedings of the 20th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2013), Koblenz, Germany. [pdf]
  61. Ferdian Thung, David Lo, and Lingxiao Jiang. Automatic Recovery of Root Causes from Bug Fixing Changes, in Proceedings of the 20th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2013), Koblenz, Germany. [pdf]
  62. Ferdian Thung, David Lo, and Julia Lawall. Automated Library Recommendation, in Proceedings of the 20th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2013), Koblenz, Germany. [pdf]
  63. Yuan Tian, David Lo, and Chengnian Sun. DRONE: Predicting Priority of Reported Bugs by Multi-Factor Analysis, in Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2013), Eindhoven, Netherlands. [pdf]
  64. Tien-Duy B. Le, and David Lo. Will Fault Localization Work for These Failures? An Automated Approach to Predict Effectiveness of Fault Localization Tools, in Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2013), Eindhoven, Netherlands. [pdf]
  65. Tien-Duy B. Le, Shaowei Wang, and David Lo. Multi-Abstraction Concern Localization, in Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2013), Eindhoven, Netherlands. [pdf]
  66. Tien-Duy B. Le, Ferdian Thung, and David Lo. Theory and Practice, Do They Match? A Case with Spectrum-Based Fault Localization, in Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2013), Eindhoven, Netherlands. [pdf]
  67. Chun Yew Cheong, Huynh Phung Huynh, David Lo, and Rick Siow Mong Goh. Hierarchical Parallel Algorithm for Modularity-Based Community Detection using GPUs, in Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Parallel Processing (EuroPar 2013), Aachen, Germany. [pdf]
  68. Tegawende F. Bissyande, Ferdian Thung, David Lo, Lingxiao Jiang, and Laurent Reveillere. Popularity, Interoperability, and Impact of Programming Languages in 100,000 Open Source Projects, in Proceedings of the 37th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2013), Kyoto, Japan. [pdf]
  69. Ee-Peng Lim, Denzil Correa, David Lo, Michael Finegold, and Feida Zhu. Reviving Dormant Ties in an Online Social Network Experiment, in Proceedings of the 7th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2013), Boston, USA. [pdf]
  70. Xin Xia, David Lo, Feng Zhu, Xinyu Wang, and Bo Zhou. Software Internationalization and Localization: An Industrial Experience, in Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2013), Singapore. [pdf]
  71. Tegawende F. Bissyande, Ferdian Thung, David Lo, Lingxiao Jiang, and Laurent Reveillere. Orion: A Software Project Search Engine with Integrated Diverse Software Artifacts, in Proceedings ofthe 18th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2013), Singapore. [pdf].
  72. Pavneet S. Kochhar, Tegawende F. Bissyande, David Lo, and Lingxiao Jiang. An Empirical Study of Adoption of Software Testing in Open Source Projects, in Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Software Quality (QSIC 2013), Nanjing, China. [pdf]
  73. Xin Xia, Xiaozhen Zhou, David Lo, and Xiaoqiong Zhao. An Empirical Study of Bugs in Software Build Systems, in Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Software Quality (QSIC 2013), Nanjing, China. [pdf]
  74. Ming Gao, Ee-Peng Lim, and David Lo. R-Energy for Evaluating Robustness of Dynamic Networks, in Proceedings of the 5th ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci 2013), Paris, France. [pdf]
  75. Xin Xia, David Lo, Xinyu Wang, and Bo Zhou. Tag Recommendation in Software Information Sites, in Proceedings of the 10th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2013), San Francisco, USA. [pdf]
  76. Yasuko Matsubara, Evangelos Papalexakis, Lei Li, David Lo, Yasushi Sakurai, and Christos Faloutsos. F-Trail: Finding Patterns in Taxi Trajectories, in Proceedings of the 17th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2013), Gold Coast, Australia. [pdf]
  77. Didi Surian, Yuan Tian, David Lo, Hong Cheng, and Ee-Peng Lim. Predicting Project Outcome Leverating Socio-Technical Network Patterns, in Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR 2013), Genova, Italy. [pdf]
  78. Tegawende F. Bissyande, Ferdian Thung, Shaowei Wang, David Lo, Lingxiao Jiang, and Laurent Reveillere. Empirical Evaluation on Bug Linking, in Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR 2013), Genova, Italy. [pdf]
  79. Shaowei Wang, David Lo, and Lingxiao Jiang. Understanding Widespread Changes: A Taxonomic Study, in Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR 2013), Genova, Italy. [pdf]
  80. Pavneet Singh Kochhar, Tegawended F. Bissyande, David Lo, and Lingxiao Jiang. Adoption of Software Testing in Open Source Projects - A Preliminary Study on 50,000 Projects, in Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR 2013), Genova, Italy. [pdf]
  81. Ferdian Thung, David Lo, and Lingxiao Jiang. Network Structure of Social Coding in GitHub, in Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR 2013),  Genova, Italy. [pdf]
  82. Xin Xia, David Lo, Xinyu Wang, Xiaohu Yang, Shanping Li, and Jianling Sun. A Comparative Study of Supervised Learning Algorithms for Re-Opened Bug Prediction, in Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR 2013),  Genova, Italy. [pdf]
  83. Shaowei Wang, David Lo, and Lingxiao Jiang. An Empirical Study on Developer Interactions in StackOverflow, in Proceedings of the 28th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2013), Coimbra, Portugal. [pdf]
  84. Ferdian Thung, David Lo, and Lingxiao Jiang. Diffusion of Software Features: An Exploratory Study, in Proceedings of the 19th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2012), Hong Kong, China. [pdf]
  85. Wing-Kwan Chan, Hong Cheng, and David Lo. Searching Connected API Subgraph via Text Phrases, in Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2012), Cary, USA. [pdf]
  86. Ferdian Thung, Shaowei Wang, David Lo, and Lingxiao Jiang. An Empirical Study of Bugs in Machine Learning Systems, in Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2012), Dallas, Texas, USA. [pdf]
  87. Wei Gong, Ee-Peng Lim, Feida Zhu, Achananuparp Palakorn, David Lo, and Chong Tat Freddy Chua. In-Game Action List Segmentation and Labeling in Real-Time Strategy Games, in Proceedings of the 8th IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG 2012), Granada, Spain. [pdf]
  88. Liang Gong, David Lo, Lingxiao Jiang, and Hongyu Zhang. Diversity Maximization Speedup for Fault Localization, in Proceedings of the 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2012), Essen, Germany. [pdf]
  89. Ferdian Thung, Lucia, David Lo, Lingxiao Jiang, Premkumar Devanbu, and Foyzur Rahman. To What Extent Could We Detect Field Defects? An Empirical Study of False Negatives in Static Bug Finding Tools, in Proceedings of the 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2012), Essen, Germany. [pdf]
  90. Anh Tuan Nguyen, Tung Nguyen, Tien Nguyen, David Lo, and Chengnian Sun. Duplicate Bug Report Detection with a Combination of Information Retrieval and Topic Modeling, in Proceedings of the 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2012), Essen, Germany. [pdf]
  91. Lucia, David Lo, Lingxiao Jiang, and Aditya Budi. kbe-anonymity: Test Data Anonymization for Evolving Programs, in Proceedings of the 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2012), Essen, Germany. [pdf]
  92. Achananuparp Palakorn, Nelman Lubis Ibrahim, Yuan Tian, David Lo, and Ee-Peng Lim. Observatory of Trends in Software Related Microblogs, in Proceedings of the 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2012), Essen, Germany. [pdf]
  93. Jesper Andersen, Anh Cuong Nguyen, David Lo, Julia Lawall, and Siau-Cheng Khoo. Semantic Patch Inference, in Proceedings of the 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2012), Essen, Germany. [pdf]
  94. Liang Gong, David Lo, Lingxiao Jiang, and Hongyu Zhang. Interactive Fault Localization Leveraging Simple User Feedbacks, in Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2012), Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy. [pdf]
  95. Ferdian Thung, David Lo, Lingxiao Jiang, Lucia, Foyzur Rahman, and Premkumar Devanbu. When Would This Bug Get Reported?, in Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2012), Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy. [pdf
  96. Philips Kokoh Prasetyo, David Lo, Achananuparp Palakorn, Tian Yuan, and Ee-Peng Lim. Automatic Classification of Software Related Microblogs, in Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2012), Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy. [pdf
  97. Ferdian Thung, David Lo, and Lingxiao Jiang. Detecting Similar Applications with Collaborative Tagging, in Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2012), Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy. [pdf
  98. Shaowei Wang, David Lo, and Lingxiao Jiang. Inferring Semantically Related Software Terms and Their Taxonomy by Leveraging Collaborative Tagging, in Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2012), Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy. [pdf
  99. Ferdian Thung, David Lo and Lingxiao Jiang. Automatic Defect Categorization, in Proceedings of the 19th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2012), Kingston, Canada. [pdf]
  100. Yuan Tian, David Lo, and Chengnian Sun. Information Retrieval Based Nearest Neighbor Classification for Fine-Grained Bug Severity Prediction, in Proceedings of the 19th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2012), Kingston, Canada. [pdf]
  101. Richard Jayadi Oentaryo, Ee-Peng Lim, David Lo, Feida Zhu, and Philip Kokoh Prasetyo. Collective Churn Prediction in Social Network, in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2012), Istanbul, Turkey. [pdf]
  102. Tian Yuan, Julia Lawall, and David Lo. Identifying Linux Bug Fixing Patches, in Proceedings of the 34th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2012), Zurich, Switzerland. June 2-9, 2012. [pdf]
  103. Lucia, David Lo, and Lingxiao Jiang. Active Refinement of Clone Anomaly Reports, in Proceedings of the 34th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2012), Zurich, Switzerland. June 2-9, 2012. [pdf]
  104. Jian Zhou, Hongyu Zhang, and David Lo. Where Should the Bugs be Fixed? - More Accurate Information-Retrieval-Based Bug Localization based on Bug Reports, in Proceedings of the 34th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2012), Zurich, Switzerland. June 2-9, 2012. [pdf]
  105. Sandeep Kumar, Siau-Cheng Khoo, Abhik Roychoudhury, and David Lo. Inferring Class Level Specifications for Distributed Systems, in Proceedings of the 34th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2012), Zurich, Switzerland. June 2-9, 2012. [pdf]
  106. Lucia, Ferdian Thung, David Lo, and Lingxiao Jiang. Are Faults Localizable?, in Proceedings of the 9th Working Conference on Mining Software Repository (MSR 2012), Zurich, Switzerland. June 2-3, 2012. [pdf]
  107. Yuan Tian, Palakorn Achananuparp, Ibrahim Nelman Lubis, David Lo, and Ee-Peng Lim. What Does Software Engineering Community Microblog About?, in Proceedings of the 9th Working Conference on Mining Software Repository (MSR 2012), Zurich, Switzerland. June 2-3, 2012. [pdf]
  108. Gengxin Miao, Shu Tao, Winnie Cheng, Randy Moulic, Louise E. Moser, David Lo, and Xifeng Yan. Understanding Task-Driven Information Flow in Collaborative Networks, in Proceedings of the 21st  World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2012), Lyon, France, April 16-20, 2012. [pdf]
  109. Tian Yuan, Chengnian Sun, and David Lo. Improved Duplicate Bug Report Identification, in Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR 2012), Szeged, Hungary. March 27-30, 2012. [pdf
  110. Payas Gupta, Tan Kiat Wee, Narayan Ramasubbu, David Lo, Debin Gao, and Rajesh Krishna Balan. HuMan: Creating Memorable Fingerprints of Mobile Users, in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2012), Lugano, Switzerland. March 19-23, 2012. [pdf]
  111. David Lo, Hong Cheng, and Xiaoyin Wang. Bug Signature Minimization and Fusion, in Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International High Assurance Systems Engineering Symposium (HASE 2011), Boca Raton, USA. November, 2011. [pdf]
  112. Chengnian Sun, David Lo, Siau-Cheng Khoo, Jing Jiang. Towards More Accurate Retrieval of Duplicate Bug Reports, in Proceedings of the 26th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2011). Lawrence, USA. November, 2011. [pdf]
  113. Swapna Gottipati, David Lo, and Jing Jiang. Finding Relevant Answers in Software Forums, in Proceedings of the 26th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2011). Lawrence, USA. November, 2011. [pdf]
  114. Shaowei Wang, David Lo, Lingxiao Jiang, Lucia, and Hoong Chuin Lau. Search-Based Fault Localization, in Proceedings of the 26th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2011). Lawrence, USA. November, 2011. [pdf]
  115. David Lo, Didi Surian, Kuan Zhang and Ee-Peng Lim. Mining Direct Antagonistic Communities in Explicit Trust Networks, in Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2011). Glasgow, United Kingdom. October 24-38, 2011. [pdf]
  116. Shaowei Wang, David Lo, and Lingxiao Jiang. Code Search via Topic-Enriched Dependence Graph Matching, in proceedings of the 18th IEEE Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE'11). Limerick, Ireland. October 17-21, 2011.[pdf]
  117. Shaowei Wang, David Lo, Zhenchang Xing, and Lingxiao Jiang. Concern Localization using Information Retrieval: An Empirical Study on Linux Kernel, in proceedings ofthe 18th IEEE Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE'11). Limerick, Ireland. October 17-21, 2011. [pdf]
  118. Didi Surian, Nian Liu, David Lo, Hanghang Tong, Ee-Peng Lim, and Christos Faloutsos. Recommending People in Developers' Collaboration Network, in proceedings of the 18th IEEE Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE’11). Limerick, Ireland. October 17-21, 2011. [pdf]
  119. Narcisa A. Milea, Siau-Cheng Khoo, David Lo, and Cristi Pop. NORT: Runtime Anomaly-based Monitoring of Malicious Behavior for Windows, in proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Runtime Verification (RV 2011). San Francisco, USA. September 27-30, 2011. [pdf]
  120. Aditya Budi, Lucia, David Lo, Lingxiao Jiang, and Shaowei Wang. Automated Detection of Likely Design Flaws in Layered Architectures, in proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2011). Miami, USA. July 7-9, 2011. [pdf]
  121. Feida Zhu, Qiang Qu, David Lo, Xifeng Yan, Jiawei Han, and Philip S. Yu. Mining Top-K Large Structural Patterns in a Massive Network, in proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2011). Seattle, USA. August 29- September 3, 2011. [pdf]
  122. Aditya Budi, David Lo, Lingxiao Jiang, and Lucia.kb-anonymity: A Model for Anonymized Behavior-Preserving Test and Debugging Data, in Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI 2011). [Acceptance Rate: 23%] San Jose, USA. June 4-8, 2010. [pdf]
  123. Sandeep Kumar, Siau-Cheng Khoo, Abhik Roychoudhury, and David Lo. Mining Message Sequence Graphs, in Proceedings of the 33rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2011). Hawaii, USA. May, 2011 [pdf]
  124. David Lo and Shahar Maoz. Towards Succinctness in Mining Scenario-Based Specifications, in Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2011). Las Vegas, USA. April, 2011. [pdf]
  125. David Lo, Bolin Ding, Lucia, and Jiawei Han. Bidirectional Mining of Non-Redundant Recurrent Rules from a Sequence Database, in Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2011). Hannover, Germany. April 11-16, 2010. [pdf]
  126. David Lo, Hong Cheng, and Lucia. Mining Closed Discriminative Dyadic Sequential Patterns, in Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2011). Uppsala, Sweden. March 21-25, 2011. [pdf]
  127. Lindawati, Hoong Chuin Lau, and David Lo. Instance-based Parameter Tuning via Search Trajectory Similarity Clustering, in Proceedings of Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference (LION 2011). Rome, Italy. January, 2011. [pdf]
  128. Cane Wing-ki Leung, Ee-Peng Lim, David Lo and Jianshu Weng. Mining Interesting Link Formation Rules in Social Networks, in Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2010). Toronto, Canada. October 26-30, 2010. [pdf
  129. Didi Surian, David Lo, and Ee-Peng Lim. Mining Collaboration Patterns from a Large Developer Network, in proceedings of the 17th IEEE Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2010). Boston, USA. October 13-16, 2010. [pdf]
  130. Xiaoyin Wang, David Lo, Jiefeng Cheng, Lu Zhang, Hong Mei, and Jeffrey Xu Yu. Matching dependence-related queries in the system dependence graph, in proceedings of the 25th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2010). Antwerp, Belgium. September 20-24, 2010. [pdf
  131. David Lo and Shahar Maoz. Scenario-based and value-based specification mining: better together, in proceedings of the 25th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2010). Antwerp, Belgium. September 20-24, 2010. [pdf
  132. Julia L. Lawall and David Lo. An automated approach for finding variable-constant pairing bugs, in proceedings of the 25th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2010). Antwerp, Belgium. September 20-24, 2010. [pdf
  133. Lucia, David Lo, Lingxiao Jiang, and Aditya Budi. Comprehensive Evaluation of Association Measures for Fault-Localization, in proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2010). Timisoara, Romania. September 12-18, 2010. [pdf
  134. Kuan Zhang, David Lo, and Ee-Peng Lim. Mining Antagonistic Communities from Social Networks, in proceedings of the 14th Pacific-Asia Conference on Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2010). Hyderabad, India. June 21-24, 2010. [pdf
  135. Tuan-Anh Doan, David Lo, Shahar Maoz, and Siau-Cheng Khoo. LM: a miner for scenario-based specifications, in proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2010). Cape Town, South Africa. May 1-8, 2010. [pdf]
  136. Chengnian Sun, David Lo, Xiaoyin Wang, Jing Jiang, and Siau-Cheng Khoo. A discriminative model approach for accurate duplicate bug report retrieval, in proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2010). Cape Town, South Africa. May 1-8, 2010. [pdf
  137. David Lo and Shahar Maoz. Mining Hierarchical Scenario-Based Specifications, in proceedings of the 24th IEEE/SIGSOFT International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2009). Auckland, New Zealand. Nov 16-20, 2009. [pdf
  138. David Lo, Ganesan Ramalingam, Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath, and Kapil Vaswani. Mining Quantified Temporal Rules: Formalism, Algorithms, and Evaluation, in Proceedings of the 16th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2009), Lille, France. Oct 13-16, 2009 [pdf
  139. David Lo, Leonardo Mariani, and Mauro Pezze. Automatic Steering of Behavioral Model Inference, in Proceedings of the 7th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC-FSE 2009), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Aug 24-28, 2009 [pdf
  140. Xiaoyin Wang, David Lo, Jiang Jing, Lu Zhang, and Hong Mei. Extracting Paraphrases of Technical Terms from Noisy Parallel Software Corpora. In Proceedings of the Joint conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNALP 2009), Singapore. Aug 2-7, 2009 [pdf
  141. Hong Cheng, David Lo, Yang Zhou, Xiaoyin Wang, and Xifeng Yan. Identifying Bug Signatures using Discriminative Graph Mining. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2009), Chicago, USA. July 20-24, 2009 [pdf
  142. David Lo, Hong Cheng, Jiawei Han, Siau-Cheng Khoo, and Chengnian Sun. Classification of Software Behaviors for Failure Detection: A Discriminative Pattern Mining Approach. In Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2009), Paris, France. June 28-July 1, 2009 [pdf
  143. Bolin Ding, David Lo, Jiawei Han and Siau-Cheng Khoo. Efficient Mining of Closed Repetitive Gapped Subsequences from a Sequence Database. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2009), Shanghai, China. March 29-April 4, 2009 [pdf
  144. David Lo and Shahar Maoz. Mining Scenario-Based Triggers and Effects. In proceedings of the 23rd IEEE/SIGSOFT International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2008). L'Aquila, Italy. September 15-19, 2008. [pdf
  145. David Lo, Siau-Cheng Khoo and Chao Liu. Efficient Mining of Recurrent Rules from a Sequence Database. In proceedings of the 13rd International Conference on Database Systems for Advance Applications (DASFAA 2008). New Delhi, India. March 19-21, 2008. [pdf
  146. David Lo, Siau-Cheng Khoo and Jinyan Li. Mining and Ranking Generators of Sequential Patterns. In proceedings of the 8th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2008). Atlanta, USA. April 24-26, 2008. [pdf
  147. David Lo, Shahar Maoz and Siau-Cheng Khoo. Mining Modal Scenario-based Specifications from Execution Traces of Reactive Systems. In proceedings of the 22nd IEEE/SIGSOFT International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2007). Atlanta, Georgia. Nov 5-9, 2007. [pdf
  148. David Lo, Siau-Cheng Khoo and Chao Liu. Efficient Mining of Iterative Patterns for Software Specification Discovery. In proceedings of the 13th SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2007). San Jose, California. Aug 12-15, 2007. [pdf
  149. David Lo and Siau-Cheng Khoo. SMArTIC: Towards Building an Accurate, Robust and Scalable Specification Miner. In proceedings of the 14th SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundation of Software Engineering (FSE 2006). Portland, Oregon. Nov 5-11, 2006. [pdf
  150. David Lo and Siau-Cheng Khoo. QUARK: Empirical Assessment of Automaton-based Specification Miners. In proceedings of the 13th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2006). Benevento, Italy. Oct 23-27, 2006. [pdf
Journal Papers (Refereed)
  1. Xin Xia, David Lo, Emad Shihab, and Xinyu Wang. Automated Bug Report Field Reassignment and Refinement Prediction. IEEE Transactions on Reliability. Accepted. [pdf]
  2. Ferdian Thung, Lucia, David Lo, Lingxiao Jiang, Foyzur Rahman, and Premkumar Devanbu. To What Extent Could We Detect Field Defects? An Extended Empirical Study of False Negatives in Static Bug Finding Tools. Automated Software Engineering. Accepted. [pdf]
  3. Xin Xia, David Lo, Emad Shihab, Xinyu Wang, Bo Zhou. Automatic, High Accuracy Prediction of Reopened Bugs. Automated Software Engineering.
    Accepted. [pdf]
  4. Xin Xia, Liang Gong, Tien-Duy B. Le , David Lo, Lingxiao Jiang, Hongyu Zhang. Diversity Maximization Speedup for Localizing Faults in Single-Fault and Multi-Faults Programs. Automated Software Engineering. Accepted. [pdf]
  5. Shaowei Wang, David Lo, and Lingxiao Jiang. AutoQuery: Automatic Construction of Dependency Queries for Code Search. Automated Software Engineering. Accepted. [pdf]
  6. Ming Gao, Ee-Peng Lim, David Lo, Philips K. Prasetyo. On Detecting Maximal Quasi Antagonistic Communities in Signed Graphs. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. [pdf].
  7. Xiaobing Sun, Qiang Geng, David Lo, Yucong Duan, Xiangyue Liu, and Bin Li. Code Comment Quality Analysis and Improvement Recommendation: An Automated Approach. International Journal on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. Accepted.
  8. Yun Zhang, David Lo, Xin Xia, Jianling Sun. Multi-Factor Duplicate Question Detection in Stack Overflow. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 30(5), pp. 981–997, 2015. [pdf]
  9. Xinyu Wang, Xin Xia, David Lo. TagCombine: Recommending Tags to Contents in Software Information Sites. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 30(5), pp. 1017–1035, 2015. [pdf]
  10. Tien-Duy B. Le, David Lo, and Ferdian Thung. Should I Follow This Fault Localization Tool's Output? Automated Prediction of Fault Localization Effectiveness. Empirical Software Engineering, 20(5), pp. 1237-1274, 2015. [pdf]
  11. Yuan Tian, David Lo, Xin Xia, Chengnian Sun. Automated Prediction of Bug Report Priority using Multi-Factor Analysis. Empirical Software Engineering, 20(5), pp. 1354-1383, 2015. [pdf]
  12. Xin Xia, David Lo, Emad Shihab, Xinyu Wang, and Bo Zhou. Automatic, High Accuracy Prediction of Reopened Bugs. Automated Software Engineering, 22(1), pp. 75-109, 2015. [pdf]
  13. Xin Xia, David Lo, Emad Shihab, Xinyu Wang, and Xiahu Yang. ELBlocker: Predicting Blocking Bugs with Ensemble Imbalance Learning. Information and Software Technology, 64, pp. 102-112, 2015. [pdf]
  14. Matthieu Foucault, Cédric Teyton, David Lo, Xavier Blanc, Jean-Rémy Falleri. On the Usefulness of Ownership Metrics in Open-Source Software Projects. Information and Software Technology, 64, pp. 102-112, 2015. [pdf]
  15. Xin Xia, David Lo, Xinyu Wang, Bo Zhou. Dual Analysis for Recommending Developers to Resolve Bugs. Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, 27(3), pp. 195-220, 2015. [pdf]
  16. Xin Xia, Xiaozhen Zhou, David Lo, Xiaoqiong Zhao, Ye Wang. An Empirical Study of Bugs in Software Build System. IEICE Transactions, 97-D(7), pp. 1769-1780, 2014. [pdf]
  17. Richard Jayadi Oentaryo, Ee-Peng Lim, Michael Finegold, David Lo, Feida Zhu, Clifton Phua, Eng-Yeow Cheu, Ghim-Eng Yap, Kelvin Sim, Minh Nhut Nguyen, Kasun S. Perera, Bijay Neupane, Mustafa Amir Faisal, Zeyar Aung, Wei Lee Woon, Wei Chen, Dhaval Patel, Daniel Berrar. Detecting Click Fraud in Online Advertising: A Data Mining Approach. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 15(1), pp. 99-140, 2014. [pdf]
  18. Lucia, David Lo, Lingxiao Jiang, Ferdian Thung, Aditya Budi: Extended comprehensive study of association measures for fault localization. Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, 26(2), pp. 172-219, 2014. [pdf]
  19. David Lo, Didi Surian, Philips Kokoh Prasetyo, Kuan Zhang, Ee-Peng Lim. Mining Direct Antagonistic Communities in Signed Social Networks. Information Processing Management, 49(4), pp. 773-791, 2013. [pdf]
  20. Lindawati, Hoong Chuin Lau, David Lo: Clustering of Search Trajectory and Its Application to Parameter Tuning. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 64(12), pp. 1742-1752, 2013. [pdf]
  21. Kuan Zhang, David Lo, Ee-Peng Lim, and Philips Kokoh Prasetyo. Mining Indirect Antagonistic Communities from Social Interactions. Knowledge and Information Systems, 35(3), pp. 553-583, 2013. [pdf]
  22. David Lo and Shahar Maoz. Scenario-Based and Value-Based Specification Mining: Better Together. Automated Software Engineering, 19(4), pp. 423-458, 2012. [pdf]
  23. David Lo, Leonardo Mariani, and Mauro Santoro. Learning Extended FSA from Software: An Empirical Assessment. Journal of Systems and Software, 85(9), pp. 2063-2076, 2012. [pdf]
  24. David Lo, Ganesan Ramalingam, Venkatesh Prasad Ranganath, and Kapil Vaswani. Mining quantified temporal rules: Formalism, algorithms, and evaluation. Science of Computer Programming, 77(6), pp. 743-759, 2012. [pdf]
  25. David Lo, Jinyan Li, Limsoon Wong, and Siau-Cheng Khoo. Mining Iterative Generators and Representative Rules for Software Specification Discovery. IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 23(2), pp. 282-296, 2011. [pdf]
  26. Tao Xie, Suresh Thummalapenta, David Lo, and Chao Liu. Data Mining for Software Engineering. IEEE Computer, 42(8), pp. 35-42, 2009. [pdf]
  27. David Lo, Siau-Cheng Khoo, and Limsoon Wong. Non-Redundant Sequential Rules - Theory and Algorithms, Information Systems, 34 (4-5), pp. 438–453, 2009 [pdf]
  28. David Lo, Siau-Cheng Khoo, and Chao Liu. Mining Temporal Rules for Software Maintenance, Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice, 20 (4), pp. 227–247, 2008 [pdf]
Book Chapters (Refereed)
  1. Shaowei Wang, David Lo, Lingxiao Jiang, and Shahar Maoz. Scalable Parallelization of Specification Mining, in The Art and Science of Analyzing Software Data, edited by Christian Bird, Tim Menzies, and Thomas Zimmermann, Morgan Kaufmann, 2015. [pdf]
  2. Yuan Tian and David Lo. Leveraging Web 2.0 for Software Evolution, in Evolving Software Systems, edited by Tom Mens, Alexander Serebrenik, and Anthony Cleve, Springer, 2014. [pdf]
  3. Didi Surian, David Lo, Ee-Peng Lim. Collaboration Patterns in Software Developer Network, in Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining, edited by Reda Alhajj and Jon Rokne, Springer, 2014.
  4. David Lo, Siau-Cheng Khoo, and Chao Liu. Mining Past-Time Temporal Rules: A Dynamic Analysis Approach, in Artificial Intelligence Applications for Improved Software Engineering Development: New Prospects, edited by Farid Meziane and Sunil Vadera, IGI Global, 2009. 
  5. David Lo, and Siau-Cheng Khoo. Mining Software Specifications, in Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining, edited by John Wang, IGI Global, 2008. 
Workshop Papers (Refereed) 
  1. Yuan Tian and David Lo. An Exploratory Study on Software Microblogger Behaviors, in Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Mining Unstructured Data (MUD 2014), Victoria, Canada. [pdf]
  2. Yuan Tian, Pavneet Singh Kochhar, Ee-Peng Lim, Feida Zhu, and David Lo. Predicting Best Answerers for New Questions: An Approach Leveraging Topic Modeling and Collaborative Voting, in Proceedings of Workshop of Quality, Motivation and Coordination of Open Collaboration (QMC 2013), Kyoto, Japan. [pdf]
  3. Peter Senna Tschudin, Laurent Reveillere, Lingxiao Jiang, David Lo, and Julia Lawall. Understanding the Genetic Makeup of Linux Device Drivers, in Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems (PLOS 2013), Farmington, USA. [pdf]
  4. David Lo and Shahar Maoz. Specification Mining of Symbolic Scenario-Based Models. In proceedings of the 8th SIGSOFT-SIGPLAN International Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering (PASTE 2008). Atlanta, USA. November 9-10, 2008. [pdf]
  5. David Lo, Siau-Cheng Khoo and Chao Liu. Mining Past-Time Temporal Rules from Execution Traces. In proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Dynamic Analysis (WODA 2008). Seattle, USA. November 9-10, 2008. [pdf
  6. David Lo, Siau-Cheng Khoo, and Chao Liu. Mining Temporal Rules from Program Execution Traces. In proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Program Comprehension though Dynamic Analysis (PCODA 2007). Vancouver, Canada, Oct 29, 2007. [pdf]
Doctoral Symposiums (Refereed) 
  1. David Lo and Siau-Cheng Khoo. Mining Patterns and Rules for Software Specification Discovery. In proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2008), Auckland, New Zealand, Aug 23-28, 2008.
  2. David Lo. Mining Specifications in Diversified Formats from Execution Traces. In proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2008), Beijing, China, Sept 28 - Oct 4, 2008.
Books and Proceedings
  1. David Lo, Siau-Cheng Khoo, Chao Liu, and Jiawei Han. Mining Software Specifications: Methodologies and Applications, CRC Press, 2011.
  2. Ming Li, Hongyu Zhang, and David Lo. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Software Mining.
  3. Ming Li, Hongyu Zhang, and David Lo. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Software Mining.
  4. Ming Li, Hongyu Zhang, and David Lo. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Software Mining.
  5. Lucia, David Lo, Giuseppe Scanniello, Alessandro Marchetto, Nasir Ali, and Colin McMillan. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Machine Learning and Information Retrieval for Software Evolution.