A continuous parameter and frequency domain based Markov model. - Ettore Merlo; Renato De Mori; Mathew Palakal; Guy Mercier (ICASSP, 1986)

Use of Procedural Knowledge for Automatic Speech Recognition. - Renato de Mori; Ettore Merlo; Mathew J. Palakal; Jean Rouat (IJCAI, 1987)

A network of actions for automatic speech recognition. - Renato De Mori; Régis Cardin; Ettore Merlo; Mathew Palakal; Jean Rouat (Speech Commun., 1988)

Speech coding with multilayer networks. - Yoshua Bengio; Régis Cardin; Piero Cosi; Renato De Mori; Ettore Merlo (NATO Neurocomputing, 1989)

Programmable Execution of Multi-Layered Networks for Automatic Speech Recognition. - Yoshua Bengio; Régis Cardin; Renato de Mori; Ettore Merlo (Commun. ACM, 1989)

The development of a partial design recovery environment for legacy systems. - Kostas Kontogiannis; Morris Bernstein; Ettore Merlo; Renato de Mori (CASCON, 1993)

Multi-Valued Constant Propagation for the Reengineering of User Interfaces. - Ettore Merlo; Jean-Francois Girard; Laurie J. Hendren; Renato de Mori (ICSM, 1993)

Source Code Informal Information Analysis Using Connectionist Models. - Ettore Merlo; Ian McAdam; Renato de Mori (IJCAI, 1993)

A process algebra based program and system representation for reverse engineering. - Ettore Merlo; Renato DeMori; Kostas Kontogiannis (WPC, 1993)

Reverse Engineering of User Interfaces. - Ettore Merlo; Jean-Francois Girard; Kostas Kontogiannis; Prakash Panangaden; Renato de Mori (WCRE, 1993)

Towards an integrated toolset for program understanding. - John Mylopoulos; Martin Stanley; Kenny Wong; Morris Bernstein; Renato de Mori; Graham W. Ewart; Kostas Kontogiannis; Ettore Merlo; Hausi A. Müller; Scott R. Tilley; Marijana Tomic (CASCON, 1994)

Localization of Design Concepts in Legacy Systems. - Kostas Kontogiannis; Renato de Mori; Morris Bernstein; Ettore Merlo (ICSM, 1994)

Inference of Graphical AUIDL Specifications for the Reverse Engineering of User Interfaces. - Ettore Merlo; Pierre-Yves Gagné; Alain Thiboutôt (ICSM, 1994)

Investigating Reverse Engineering Technologies for the CAS Program Understanding Project. - Erich B. Buss; Renato de Mori; W. Morven Gentleman; John Henshaw; J. Howard Johnson; Kostas Kontogiannis; Ettore Merlo; Hausi A. Müller; John Mylopoulos; Santanu Paul; Atul Prakash 001; Martin Stanley; et al. (IBM Syst. J., 1994)

Using an integrated toolset for program understanding. - Michael J. Whitney; Morris Bernstein; Renato de Mori; Kostas Kontogiannis; Brian Corrie; Hausi A. Müller; Scott R. Tilley; Ettore Merlo; John Mylopoulos; Kenny Wong; J. Howard Johnson; James McDaniel; et al. (CASCON, 1995)

Application and user interface migration from BASIC to Visual C++. - Giuliano Antoniol; Roberto Fiutem; Ettore Merlo; Paolo Tonella (ICSM, 1995)

Pattern Matching for Design Concept Localization. - Kostas Kontogiannis; Renato de Mori; Morris Bernstein; Michael Galler; Ettore Merlo (WCRE, 1995)

Multi-Valued Constant Propagation Analysis for User Interface Reengineering. - Ettore Merlo; Jean-Francois Girard; Laurie J. Hendren; Renato de Mori (Int. J. Softw. Eng. Knowl. Eng., 1995)

Reengineering User Interfaces. - Ettore Merlo; Pierre-Yves Gagné; Jean-Francois Girard; Kostas Kontogiannis; Laurie J. Hendren; Prakash Panangaden; Renato de Mori (IEEE Softw., 1995)

Experiment on the Automatic Detection of Function Clones in a Software System Using Metrics. - Jean Mayrand; Claude Leblanc; Ettore Merlo (ICSM, 1996)

Understanding the architecture of software systems. - Roberto Fiutem; Ettore Merlo; Giuliano Antoniol; Paolo Tonella (WPC, 1996)

Inheritance Graph Assessment Using Metrics. - Jean Mayrand; Francois Guay; Ettore Merlo (IEEE METRICS, 1996)

A Cliche-Based Environment to Support Architectural Reverse Engineering. - Roberto Fiutem; Paolo Tonella; Giuliano Antoniol; Ettore Merlo (WCRE, 1996)

Augmenting Pattern-Based Architectural Recovery with Flow Analysis: Mosaic -A Case Study. - Paolo Tonella; Roberto Fiutem; Giuliano Antoniol; Ettore Merlo (WCRE, 1996)

Pattern Matching for Clone and Concept Detection. - Kostas Kontogiannis; Renato de Mori; Ettore Merlo; Michael Galler; Morris Bernstein (Autom. Softw. Eng., 1996)

Variable Precision Reaching Definitions Analysis for Software Maintenance. - Paolo Tonella; Giuliano Antoniol; Roberto Fiutem; Ettore Merlo (CSMR, 1997)

Flow Insensitive C++ Pointers and Polymorphism Analysis and its Application to Slicing. - Paolo Tonella; Giuliano Antoniol; Roberto Fiutem; Ettore Merlo (ICSE, 1997)

Program Understanding and Maintenance with the CANTO Environment. - Giuliano Antoniol; Roberto Fiutem; G. Lutteri; Paolo Tonella; S. Zanfei; Ettore Merlo (ICSM, 1997)

Assessing the Benefits of Incorporating Function Clone Detection in a Development Process. - Bruno Laguë; Daniel Proulx; Jean Mayrand; Ettore Merlo; John P. Hudepohl (ICSM, 1997)

A Reverse Engineering Approach to Evaluate Function Point Rules. - Alain April; Ettore Merlo; Alain Abran (WCRE, 1997)

Clones occurence in large object oriented software packages. - Michel R. Dagenais; Ettore Merlo; Bruno Laguë; Daniel Proulx (CASCON, 1998)

Process Assurance Audits: Lessons Learned. - Alain April; Alain Abran; Ettore Merlo (ICSE, 1998)

An Analysis Framework for Understanding Layered Software Architectures. - Bruno Laguë; Charles Leduc; André Le Bon; Ettore Merlo; Michel R. Dagenais (IWPC, 1998)

A static measure of a subset of intra-procedural data flow testing coverage based on node coverage. - Ettore Merlo; Giuliano Antoniol (CASCON, 1999)

Automatic Unit Test Data Generation Using Mixed-Integer Linear Programming and Execution Trees. - Sébastien Lapierre; Ettore Merlo; Gilles Savard; Giuliano Antoniol; Roberto Fiutem; Paolo Tonella (ICSM, 1999)

Parsing C++ Despite Missing Declarations. - Gregory Knapen; Bruno Laguë; Michel R. Dagenais; Ettore Merlo (IWPC, 1999)

Extending Software Quality Assessment Techniques to Java Systems. - Jean-François Patenaude; Ettore Merlo; Michel R. Dagenais; Bruno Laguë (IWPC, 1999)

Measuring Clone Based Reengineering Opportunities. - Magdalena Balazinska; Ettore Merlo; Michel R. Dagenais; Bruno Laguë; Kostas Kontogiannis (IEEE METRICS, 1999)

Recovering Code to Documentation Links in OO Systems. - Giuliano Antoniol; Gerardo Canfora; Andrea De Lucia; Ettore Merlo (WCRE, 1999)

Partial Redesign of Java Software Systems Based on Clone Analysis. - Magdalena Balazinska; Ettore Merlo; Michel R. Dagenais; Bruno Laguë; Kostas Kontogiannis (WCRE, 1999)

Points-to analysis for program understanding. - Roberto Fiutem; Paolo Tonella; Giuliano Antoniol; Ettore Merlo (J. Syst. Softw., 1999)

ART: an architectural reverse engineering environment. - Roberto Fiutem; Giuliano Antoniol; Paolo Tonella; Ettore Merlo (J. Softw. Maintenance Res. Pract., 1999)

Variable-precision reaching definitions analysis. - Paolo Tonella; Giuliano Antoniol; Roberto Fiutem; Ettore Merlo (J. Softw. Maintenance Res. Pract., 1999)

C/C++ Conditional Compilation Analysis using Symbolic Execution. - Ying Hu; Ettore Merlo; Michel R. Dagenais; Bruno Laguë (ICSM, 2000)

Tracing Object-Oriented Code into Functional Requirements. - Giuliano Antoniol; Gerardo Canfora; Andrea De Lucia; Gerardo Casazza; Ettore Merlo (IWPC, 2000)

Identification of Lower-Level Artifacts. - Giuliano Antoniol; Gerardo Casazza; Ettore Merlo (IWPC, 2000)

Advanced Clone-Analysis to Support Object-Oriented System Refactoring. - Magdalena Balazinska; Ettore Merlo; Michel R. Dagenais; Bruno Laguë; Kostas Kontogiannis (WCRE, 2000)

Software assessment using metrics: A comparison across large C++ and Java systems. - Jean Mayrand; Jean-François Patenaude; Ettore Merlo; Michel R. Dagenais; Bruno Laguë (Ann. Softw. Eng., 2000)

Modeling Web Maintenance Centers through Queue Models. - Massimiliano Di Penta; Gerardo Casazza; Giuliano Antoniol; Ettore Merlo (CSMR, 2001)

Modeling Clones Evolution through Time Series. - Giuliano Antoniol; Gerardo Casazza; Massimiliano Di Penta; Ettore Merlo (ICSM, 2001)

Flow Analysis to Detect Blocked Statements. - Bruno Malenfant; Giuliano Antoniol; Ettore Merlo; Michel R. Dagenais (ICSM, 2001)

A Method to Re-Organize Legacy Systems via Concept Analysis. - Giuliano Antoniol; Massimiliano Di Penta; Gerardo Casazza; Ettore Merlo (IWPC, 2001)

Identifying Clones in the Linux Kernel. - Giuliano Antoniol; Umberto Villano; Massimiliano Di Penta; Gerardo Casazza; Ettore Merlo (SCAM, 2001)

Predicting Web Site Access: An Application of Time Series. - Giuliano Antoniol; Gerardo Casazza; Giuseppe A. Di Lucca; Massimiliano Di Penta; Ettore Merlo (WSE, 2001)

Investigating Large Software System Evolution: The Linux Kernel. - Ettore Merlo; Michel R. Dagenais; P. Bachand; J. S. Sormani; Sara Gradara; Giuliano Antoniol (COMPSAC, 2002)

Knowledge-Based Library Re-Factoring for an Open Source Project. - Massimiliano Di Penta; Markus Neteler; Giuliano Antoniol; Ettore Merlo (WCRE, 2002)

Analyzing cloning evolution in the Linux kernel. - Giuliano Antoniol; Umberto Villano; Ettore Merlo; Massimiliano Di Penta (Inf. Softw. Technol., 2002)

Recovering Traceability Links between Code and Documentation. - Giuliano Antoniol; Gerardo Canfora; Gerardo Casazza; Andrea De Lucia; Ettore Merlo (IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2002)

Fast Flow Analysis to Compute Fuzzy Estimates of Risk Levels. - Ettore Merlo; Giuliano Antoniol; Pierre-Luc Brunelle (CSMR, 2003)

Investigating Java Type Analyses for the Receiver-Classes Testing Criterion. - Pierre-Luc Brunelle; Ettore Merlo; Giuliano Antoniol (ISSRE, 2003)

YAAB (Yet Another AST Browser): Using OCL to Navigate ASTs. - Giuliano Antoniol; Massimiliano Di Penta; Ettore Merlo (IWPC, 2003)

Feed-forward and recurrent neural networks for source code informal information analysis. - Ettore Merlo; Ian McAdam; Renato de Mori (J. Softw. Maintenance Res. Pract., 2003)

Linear Complexity Object-Oriented Similarity for Clone Detection and Software Evolution Analyses. - Ettore Merlo; Giuliano Antoniol; Massimiliano Di Penta; Vincenzo Fabio Rollo (ICSM, 2004)

An Automatic Approach to identify Class Evolution Discontinuities. - Giuliano Antoniol; Massimiliano Di Penta; Ettore Merlo (IWPSE, 2004)

Improving network applications security: a new heuristic to generate stress testing data. - Concettina Del Grosso; Giuliano Antoniol; Massimiliano Di Penta; Philippe Galinier; Ettore Merlo (GECCO, 2005)

On feature traceability in object oriented programs. - Giuliano Antoniol; Ettore Merlo; Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc; Houari A. Sahraoui (TEFSE@ASE, 2005)

A language-independent software renovation framework. - Massimiliano Di Penta; Markus Neteler; Giuliano Antoniol; Ettore Merlo (J. Syst. Softw., 2005)

06301 Abstracts Collection – Duplication, Redundancy, and Similarity in Software. - Rainer Koschke; Andrew Walenstein; Ettore Merlo (Duplication, Redundancy, and Similarity in Software, 2006)

Detection of Plagiarism in University Projects Using Metrics-based Spectral Similarity. - Ettore Merlo (Duplication, Redundancy, and Similarity in Software, 2006)

06301 Working Session Summary: Presentation and Visualization of Redundant Code. - Andrew Walenstein; James R. Cordy; William S. Evans; Ahmed E. Hassan; Toshihiro Kamiya; Cory Kapser; Ettore Merlo (Duplication, Redundancy, and Similarity in Software, 2006)

06301 Summary – Duplication, Redundancy, and Similarity in Software. - Andrew Walenstein; Rainer Koschke; Ettore Merlo (Duplication, Redundancy, and Similarity in Software, 2006)

A novel approach to optimize clone refactoring activity. - Salah Bouktif; Giuliano Antoniol; Ettore Merlo; Markus Neteler (GECCO, 2006)

A Feedback Based Quality Assessment to Support Open Source Software Evolution: the GRASS Case Study. - Salah Bouktif; Giuliano Antoniol; Ettore Merlo (ICSM, 2006)

Insider and Ousider Threat-Sensitive SQL Injection Vulnerability Analysis in PHP. - Ettore Merlo; Dominic Letarte; Giuliano Antoniol (WCRE, 2006)

Automated Protection of PHP Applications Against SQL-injection Attacks. - Ettore Merlo; Dominic Letarte; Giuliano Antoniol (CSMR, 2007)

Mining the Lexicon Used by Programmers during Sofware Evolution. - Giuliano Antoniol; Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc; Ettore Merlo; Paolo Tonella (ICSM, 2007)

SQL-Injection Security Evolution Analysis in PHP. - Ettore Merlo; Dominic Letarte; Giuliano Antoniol (WSE, 2007)

Comparison and Evaluation of Clone Detection Tools. - Stefan Bellon; Rainer Koschke; Giuliano Antoniol; Jens Krinke; Ettore Merlo (IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2007)

Detecting buffer overflow via automatic test input data generation. - Concettina Del Grosso; Giuliano Antoniol; Ettore Merlo; Philippe Galinier (Comput. Oper. Res., 2008)

Extraction of Inter-procedural Simple Role Privilege Models from PHP Code. - Dominic Letarte; Ettore Merlo (WCRE, 2009)

Computing Structural Types of Clone Syntactic Blocks. - Ettore Merlo; Thierry Lavoie (WCRE, 2009)

Challenging cloning related problems with GPU-based algorithms. - Thierry Lavoie; Michael Eilers-Smith; Ettore Merlo (IWSC, 2010)

Security Model Evolution of PHP Web Applications. - Dominic Letarte; François Gauthier 001; Ettore Merlo (ICST, 2011)

Automated type-3 clone oracle using levenshtein metric. - Thierry Lavoie; Ettore Merlo (IWSC, 2011)

Extraction and comprehension of moodle's access control model: A case study. - François Gauthier 001; Dominic Letarte; Thierry Lavoie; Ettore Merlo (PST, 2011)

Investigation of Access Control Models with Formal Concept Analysis: A Case Study. - François Gauthier 001; Ettore Merlo (CSMR, 2012)

Locating features in dynamically configured avionics software. - Maxime Ouellet; Ettore Merlo; Neset Sozen; Martin Gagnon (ICSE, 2012)

Adapting software product lines for complex certifiable avionics software. - Neset Sozen; Ettore Merlo (PLEASE@ICSE, 2012)

An accurate estimation of the Levenshtein distance using metric trees and Manhattan distance. - Thierry Lavoie; Ettore Merlo (IWSC, 2012)

Alias-Aware Propagation of Simple Pattern-Based Properties in PHP Applications. - François Gauthier 001; Ettore Merlo (SCAM, 2012)

Targeted genetic test SQL generation for the DB2 database. - Dominic Letarte; François Gauthier 001; Ettore Merlo; Nattavut Sutyanyong; Calisto Zuzarte (DBTest, 2012)

Fast Detection of Access Control Vulnerabilities in PHP Applications. - François Gauthier 001; Ettore Merlo (WCRE, 2012)

Inferring Repository File Structure Modifications Using Nearest-Neighbor Clone Detection. - Thierry Lavoie; Foutse Khomh; Ettore Merlo; Ying Zou 001 (WCRE, 2012)

Uncovering access control weaknesses and flaws with security-discordant software clones. - François Gauthier 001; Thierry Lavoie; Ettore Merlo (ACSAC, 2013)

Semantic smells and errors in access control models: a case study in PHP. - François Gauthier 001; Ettore Merlo (ICSE, 2013)

How much really changes? A case study of firefox version evolution using a clone detector. - Thierry Lavoie; Ettore Merlo (IWSC, 2013)

Large scale multi-language clone analysis in a telecommunication industrial setting. - Ettore Merlo; Thierry Lavoie; Pascal Potvin; Pierre Busnel (IWSC, 2013)

Soot class loading in the rootbeer GPU compiler. - Philip C. Pratt-Szeliga; Marc-André Laverdière; Ettore Merlo; James W. Fawcett; Roy D. Welch (SOAP@PLDI, 2013)

Supporting Maintenance and Evolution of Access Control Models in Web Applications. - François Gauthier 001; Ettore Merlo; Eleni Stroulia; David Turner (ICSME, 2014)

About Metrics for Clone Detection. - Thierry Lavoie; Ettore Merlo (Electron. Commun. Eur. Assoc. Softw. Sci. Technol., 2014)

Evolutionary analysis of access control models: a formal concept analysis method. - Zhuobing Han; Mathieu Mérineau; François Gauthier 001; Ettore Merlo; Xiaohong Li 001; Eleni Stroulia (CASCON, 2015)

Workshop on the application of security and testing to rich internet applications. - Guy-Vincent Jourdan; Gregor von Bochmann; Ettore Merlo; James Miller 001; Vio Onut; Lin Tan 001 (CASCON, 2015)

Performance impact of lazy deletion in metric trees for incremental clone analysis. - Thierry Lavoie; Ettore Merlo (IWSC, 2015)

Taint analysis of manual service compositions using Cross-Application Call Graphs. - Marc-André Laverdière; Bernhard J. Berger; Ettore Merlo (SANER, 2015)

Classification and Distribution of RBAC Privilege Protection Changes in Wordpress Evolution (Short Paper). - Marc-André Laverdière; Ettore Merlo (PST, 2017)

Computing counter-examples for privilege protection losses using security models. - Marc-André Laverdière; Ettore Merlo (SANER, 2017)

A case study of TTCN-3 test scripts clone analysis in an industrial telecommunication setting. - Thierry Lavoie; Mathieu Mérineau; Ettore Merlo; Pascal Potvin (Inf. Softw. Technol., 2017)

Just-in-time detection of protection-impacting changes on WordPress and MediaWiki. - Amine Barrak; Marc-André Laverdière; Foutse Khomh; Le An; Ettore Merlo (CASCON, 2018)

A DevOps framework for quality-driven self-protection in web software systems. - Nasim Beigi Mohammadi; Marin Litoiu; Mahsa Emami-Taba; Ladan Tahvildari; Marios Fokaefs; Ettore Merlo; Iosif-Viorel Onut (CASCON, 2018)

Engineering safety in swarm robotics. - Giovanni Beltrame; Ettore Merlo; Jacopo Panerati; Carlo Pinciroli (RoSE@ICSE, 2018)

Detection of protection-impacting changes during software evolution. - Marc-André Laverdière; Ettore Merlo (SANER, 2018)

An Effective Evolutionary Analysis Scheme for Industrial Software Access Control Models. - Zhuobing Han; Xiaohong Li 001; Guangquan Xu; Naixue Xiong; Ettore Merlo; Eleni Stroulia (IEEE Trans. Ind. Informatics, 2020)

Models of Computational Profiles to Study the Likelihood of DNN Metamorphic Test Cases. - Ettore Merlo; Mira Marhaba; Foutse Khomh; Houssem Ben Braiek; Giuliano Antoniol (CoRR, 2021)

RBAC protection-impacting changes identification: A case study of the security evolution of two PHP applications. - Marc-André Laverdière; Karl Julien; Ettore Merlo (Inf. Softw. Technol., 2021)

Identification of out-of-distribution cases of CNN using class-based surprise adequacy. - Mira Marhaba; Ettore Merlo; Foutse Khomh; Giuliano Antoniol (CAIN, 2022)

Automated extraction and checking of property models from source code for robot swarms. - Ettore Merlo; Carlo Pinciroli; Jacopo Panerati; Michalis Famelis; Giovanni Beltrame (RoSE@ICSE, 2022)

Phishing Kits Source Code Similarity Distribution: A Case Study. - Ettore Merlo; Mathieu Margier; Guy-Vincent Jourdan; Iosif-Viorel Onut (SANER, 2022)

How to certify machine learning based safety-critical systems? A systematic literature review. - Florian Tambon; Gabriel Laberge; Le An; Amin Nikanjam; Paulina Stevia Nouwou Mindom; Yann Pequignot; Foutse Khomh; Giulio Antoniol; Ettore Merlo; François Laviolette (Autom. Softw. Eng., 2022)

Unsupervised Graph Neural Networks for Source Code Similarity Detection. - Julien Cassagne; Ettore Merlo; Paula Branco; Guy-Vincent Jourdan; Iosif-Viorel Onut (DS, 2023)

Following the Obfuscation Trail: Identifying and Exploiting Obfuscation Signatures in Malicious Code. - Julien Cassagne; Ettore Merlo; Guy-Vincent Jourdan; Iosif-Viorel Onut (FPS (1), 2023)

Wrangling Data Issues to be Wrangled: Literature Review, Taxonomy, and Industry Case Study. - Qiaolin Qin; Heng Li; Ettore Merlo (CoRR, 2024)

Preprocessing is All You Need: Boosting the Performance of Log Parsers With a General Preprocessing Framework. - Qiaolin Qin; Roozbeh Aghili; Heng Li; Ettore Merlo (CoRR, 2024)

Automated, Unsupervised, and Auto-Parameterized Inference of Data Patterns and Anomaly Detection. - Qiaolin Qin; Heng Li 007; Ettore Merlo; Maxime Lamothe (ICSE, 2025)

Preprocessing is All You Need: Boosting the Performance of Log Parsers with a General Preprocessing Framework. - Qiaolin Qin; Roozbeh Aghili; Heng Li 007; Ettore Merlo (SANER, 2025)

Logging requirement for continuous auditing of responsible machine learning-based applications. - Patrick Loic Foalem; Léuson M. P. da Silva; Foutse Khomh; Heng Li 007; Ettore Merlo (Empir. Softw. Eng., 2025)

Plug it and Play on Logs: A Configuration-Free Statistic-Based Log Parser. - Qiaolin Qin; Xingfang Wu; Heng Li; Ettore Merlo (CoRR, 2025)