Fabio Calefato

	Fabio Calefato, Ph.D. Associate professor CEO & co-founder of PeoplewareAI academic spin-off Dipartimento di Informatica University of Bari “A. Moro” Via E. Orabona, 4 70125 Bari, Italy Phone: +39 080 571 2213 Email: PGP key:

Curriculum Vitae
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Background

• Experience:
  • Associate Professor at the Dipartimento di Informatica, University of Bari (2022 – present), holding the national habilitation as Full Professor in the academic disciplines (SSD) 01/B1 and 09/H1.
  • CEO & co-founder of PeoplewareAI academic spin-off (2021 – present)
  • Rector’s delegate of GARR network (May 2023 – Sept. 2025)
  • Director’s delegate for student traineeships (2023 – present)
  • Assistant professor at the Dept. of Computer Science, University of Bari (2019-22)
  • Assistant professor at the Jonian Dept., Taranto, University of Bari (2015-19)
  • Post-doc at the Dept. of Computer Science, University of Bari (2007-08; 2010-14)
  • Ph.D. (2004-2007) in Computer Science received in May 2007 from the University of Bari. Thesis: “Supporting Synchronous Communication in Distributed Software Teams,” listed on SIGSOFT Selected Ph.D. Dissertations in the Area of Software Engineering and published by VDM Publishing, ISBN 978-3-639-17562-2
  • MSc in Computer Science received in October 2002 from the University of Bari
• Events organization (recent): MSR Registered Reports co-chair (2026), ICPC ERA Track co-chair (2026), ICSME Program co-chair (2024), CHASE Program co-chair (2023)
• Journal Editorial Boards Memberships: EMSE, JSS , ASE
• Steering Committees Memberships: ICGSE Steering Board Committee (2019-21).
• Reviews: A partial list of my recent activity as a reviewer is publicly available on Web of Science Clarivate
• Visiting:
  • STRUDEL, Carnegie Mellon University, USA (Jul. – Oct. 2017)
  • CHISEL, University of Victoria, Canada (Nov. – Dic. 2016)
  • SEGAL, University of Victoria, Canada (Jan. – Apr. 2006)
  • Distributed Systems Group, TU Wien, Austria (May – Jun. 2004)

Research Interests

• Collaborative & Social software engineering
• Mining software repositories and technical Q&A sites
• SE4AI
• Psychometric and sentiment analyses from communication channels in the social programmer ecosystem
• Collaboration in online, creative communities
• Community-driven knowledge sharing
• Computer-mediated communication theories and tools

Ph.D. Students (co-) supervision

• Kelly Azevedo Borges Leal (current, w/ Prof. M. Kalinowski @PUC-Rio Universtity)
  • Topic: AutoML for Software Engineering
• Luigi Quaranta (XXXV cycle, graduated in 2022)
  • Thesis: Collaboration Around Computational Notebooks To Build AI-enabled Systems
• Giuseppe Iaffaldano (XXXII cycle, graduated in 2020)
  • Thesis: Investigating the Dynamics of Online Collaborative Communities
    

Events

• • Program co-chair of the 40 Int’l Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME’24)
  • Program co-chair of the 16th Int’l Conference on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE’23)
  • Workshops & Tutorials co-chair of the 23rd International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES’22)
  • Open-science co-chair of the 15th Int’l Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM’21)
  • SCORE track co-chair of the 43rd Int’l Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’21)
  • Open-science co-chair of the 14th Int’l Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM’20)
  • Publicity and Social Media Chair of the 21st Int’l Conference on Agile Software Development (XP’20)
  • General Chair of the 14th Int’l Conf. on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE’19)
  • Publicity chair of the 13th Int’l Conf. on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE’18)
  • Co-organizer of the Workshop on Social Software Engineering (SSE’16) @ FSE 2016
  • Workshops co-chair of 10th Int’l Conf. on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE’15)
  • Co-organizer of the Workshop on Trust in Virtual Teams @ CSCW 2013
  • Invited Keynote Speaker at the 1st Int’l Workshop on Virtual Teams: Experiences in Global Software Engineering (VirtuES’13)
  • Proceedings chair of the 8th Int’l Conf. on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE’13)

Guest Editor (special issues)

• • 2026: Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), rank: SJR Q1. Special Issue on “MLOps Advancements: Improving Development, Management, and Interpretability in AI and Machine Learning,” Vol. 183, 2026. Co-editors: Antonella Carbonaro (University of Bologna, Italy), Luigi Quaranta (University of Bari, Italy), Giulio Mallardi (University of Bari, Italy).
  • 2024: Springer Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), rank: SJR Q1. Special Issue on “Software Maintenance and Evolution.” Co-editor: Sarah Nadi (New York University, Abu Dhabi).
  • 2023: Springer Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), rank: SJR Q1. Special Issue on “Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering.” Co-editors: Hourieh Khalajzadeh (Deakin University, Australia) and Igor Steinmacher (NAU, USA).
  • 2021: Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), rank: SJR Q1. Special Issue on “Global Software Engineering: Challenges and Solutions,” Vol. 174, Apr. 2021. Co-editors: Alpana Dubey (Accenture Labs, India), Christof Ebert (Vector Consulting, Germany), Paolo Tell (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark).

Software

• All active COLLAB Projects (hosted on GitHub)
  • Under the spotlight
    • Apache-Big5 – A personality profiler for developers working in the ASF ecosystem
    • mini-IPIP test – A Python implementation for taking online the 20-item version of the Big Five personality test
    • EMTk – A generic toolkit for training your own emotion and polarity classifiers on any textual corpus. The toolkit is also available as a Docker image
    • pySOreputation – An API for computing an approximate reputation score of Stack Overflow users at any time (demo)
• Discontinued projects
  • SocialCDE (formerly SocialTFS)
  • eConference over ECF
  • P2PConference
  • IBIS: Internet-Based Inspection System

Experimental datasets

If you intend to use any of these datasets for your own research, please make sure to cite the related paper:

• • An Empirical Assessment of Best-Answer Prediction Models in Technical Q&A Sites (EMSE’18)
  • How to Ask for Technical Help? Evidence-based Guidelines for Writing Questions on Stack Overflow (IST’18)
  • Apache developers’ personalities (Big 5 model) from email archives (ICGSE’18)
  • A Gold Standard for Emotion Annotation in Stack Overflow (MSR’18)
  • Senti4SD: A classifier specifically trained to support sentiment analysis in developers’ communication channels (EMSE’17)
  • Q&A Best-Answer Prediction (ESEM’16)

Publications

• Listed on Google Scholar
• Listed on Research Gate
• Listed on DBLP

Journals and Magazines

2026

• G. Destefanis, Y-G. Guéhéneuc, F. Calefato (2026). “Historic Software Engineering: Insights from Deluxe Paint for the Amiga.” Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), under review.
• P. Burelli, F. Calefato, D. Grassi, M. Y. Hristova, N. Novielli, A. A. Romano, and P. Tell (2026). “Using Biometrics to Understand AI-Assisted Coding Performance and its Perception.” Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), under review.
• B. Trinkenreich, F. Calefato,  K. Blincoe, V. Wivestad, A.P. Santos Alves, J. Araújo Condé; M. Araújo Condé, P. Tell, M. Kalinowski, T; Zimmermann, M-A. Storey (2026). “Taking a Pulse on How Generative AI is Reshaping the Software Engineering Research Landscape.” ACM Transactions on Software Engineering (TOSEM), under review.
• F. Calefato, A. Pajonk, V. Jackson, G. V. Pereira, R. Prikladnicki, F. Lanubile (2026). “From Early Adoption to Sustained Use: Understanding GenAI Usage Among Software Developers in Italian SMEs.” ACM Transactions on Software Engineering (TOSEM), under review.
• S. Baltes, F. Angermeir, C. Arora, M. M. Barón, C. Chen, L. Böhme, F. Calefato, N. Ernst, D. Falessi, B. Fitzgerald, D. Fucci, M. Kalinowski, S. Lambiase, D. Russo, M. Lungu, L. Prechelt, P. Ralph, C. Treude, and S. Wagner (2026). “Guidelines for Empirical Studies in Software Engineering involving Large Language Models.” Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), DOI: .
• T. Xiao, Y. Fan, F. Calefato, C. Treude, R. Gaikovina Kula, H. Hata, S. Baltes (2026). “Self-Admitted GenAI Usage in Open-Source Software.” IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2026.3681886.
• D. Smite, N.B. Moe, M.T. Baldassarre, F. Calefato, G.H. Travassos, M. Floryan, M. Kalinowski, D. Mendez, G.B. Pereira, M.A. Storey, R. Prikladnicki (2026). “Who ‘Controls’ Where Work Shall Be Done? State-of-Practice in Post-Pandemic Remote Work Regulation.” Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2026.112848.
• G. Mallardi, F. Calefato, L. Quaranta, F. Lanubile (2026). “Integrating AI into healthcare systems: A Multivocal Literature Review.” Smart Health, DOI: 10.1016/j.smhl.2025.100631.

2025

• G. Mallardi, F. Calefato, F. Lanubile. G. Logroscino, B. Tafuri (2025). “Diffusion Models for Neuroimaging Data Augmentation: Assessing Realism and Clinical Relevance.” Journal of Medical Systems, DOI: 10.1007/s10916-025-02300-1.
• L. Quaranta, K. Azevedo, F. Calefato, and M. Kalinowski (2025). “A Multivocal Literature Review on the Benefits and Limitations of Automated Machine Learning Tools.” Information and Software Technology (IST), Vol 178, No. 107608, DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107608.

2024

• L. Quaranta, F. Calefato, and F. Lanubile (2024). “Pynblint: A Quality Assurance Tool to Improve the Quality of Python Jupyter Notebooks.” SoftwareX, Vol 28, No. 101959, DOI: 10.1016/j.softx.2024.101959.
• F. Calefato, L. Quaranta, and F. Lanubile (2024). “A Lot of Talk and a Badge: An Exploratory Analysis of Personal Achievements in GitHub.” Information and Software Technology (IST), Vol. 176,  No. 107561, DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107561.
• D. Russo et al. (2024). “Generative AI in Software Engineering Must Be Human-Centered: The Copenhagen Manifesto.” Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), Vol. 216, No. 112115, DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2024.112115.

2022

• F. Calefato, G. Iaffaldano, L. Trisonlini, and F. Lanubile (2022). “An in-depth Analysis of Occasional and Recurring Collaborations in Online Music Co-creation.” ACM Trans. on Social Computing (TSC), 4(4), Article No. 14, pp: 1-40, Jan. 2022. DOI: 10.1145/3493800.
• L. Quaranta, F. Calefato and F. Lanubile (2022). “Eliciting Best Practices for Collaboration with Computational Notebooks.” ACM: Human-Computer Interaction (PACM HCI) journal, 6(1), CSCW1, Article 87, Apr. 2022. DOI: 10.1145/3512934.
• F. Calefato and F. Lanubile (2022). “Using Personality Detection Tools for Software Engineering Research: How Far Can We Go?“ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. (TOSEM), Vol. 1, No. 1, Jul. 2022, DOI: 10.1145/3491039
• M. Kuhrmann et al. (2022) “What Makes Agile Software Development Agile?” IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), vol. 48, no. 9, pp. 3523-3539, Sep. 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2021.3099532.

2021

• F. Calefato, M.A. Gerosa, G. Iaffaldano, F. Lanubile, and I. Steinmacher (2021) “Will You Come Back to Contribute? Investigating the Inactivity of OSS Core Developers in GitHub.” Empirical Software Engineering Journal (EMSE), 27(3), DOI: 10.1007/s10664-021-10012-6 – ICSE 2023 Journal First.
• N. Novielli, F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, and A. Serebrenik (2021) “Assessment of Off-the-Shelf SE-specific Sentiment Analysis Tools: An Extended Replication Study.” Empirical Software Engineering Journal (EMSE), 26(77), Mar. 2021, DOI: 10.1007/s10664-021-09960-w.
• F. Calefato, A. Dubey, C. Ebert, P. Tell (2021) “Global Software Engineering: Challenges and solutions.” The Journal of Systems & Software (JSS), Vol. 174, Apr. 2021, DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2020.110887.

2020

• N. Novielli, F. Calefato, F. Lanubile (2020) “Love, Joy, Anger, Sadness, Fear, and Surprise: SE Needs Special Kinds of AI: A Case Study on Text Mining and SE.” IEEE Software, May/Jun. 2020, 37(3), pp. 86 – 91, May-June 2020 DOI: 10.1109/MS.2020.2968557

2019

• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, and B. Vasilescu (2019) “A large-scale, in-depth analysis of developers’ personalities in the Apache ecosystem.” Information and Software Technology (IST), Vol. 114, Oct., pp. 1-20, DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2019.05.012.
• F. Calefato, G. Castellano, and V. Rossano (2019) “RECODE: Revision Control for Digital Images.”  Multimedia Tools and Applications, DOI: 10.1007/s11042-019-7735-9
• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, and N. Novielli (2018) “An Empirical Assessment of Best-Answer Prediction Models in Technical Q&A Sites.” Empirical Software Engineering Journal (EMSE), 24(2), pp. 854–901, DOI: 10.1007/s10664-018-9642-5.
• F. Calefato, and C. Ebert (2019) “Agile Collaboration for Distributed Teams.” IEEE Software, Jan./Feb. 2019, 36(1), pp. 72-78, DOI: 10.1109/MS.2018.2874668.

2018

• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, and N. Novielli (2018) “How to Ask for Technical Help? Evidence-based Guidelines for Writing Questions on Stack Overflow.” Information and Software Technology, Vol. 94, pp. 186-207, DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2017.10.009 – SANER 2019 Journal First.

2017

• F. Calefato and F. Lanubile (2017) “Establishing Personal Trust-based Connections in Distributed Teams.” Internet Technology Letters, 2017;e6, DOI: 10.1002/itl2.6.
• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, F. Maiorano, and N. Novielli (2017) “Sentiment Polarity Detection for Software Development.” Empirical Software Engineering Journal, 23(3), pp:1352-1382, DOI: 10.1007/s10664-017-9546-9 – ICSE 2018 Journal First.

2016

• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, T. Conte, and R. Prikladnicki (2016) “Assessing the Impact of Real-Time Machine Translation on Multilingual Meetings in Global Software Projects.” Empirical Software Engineering Journal, Vol. 21, Issue 3, Jun. 2016, pp. 1002-1034, DOI: 10.1007/s10664-015-9372-x.
• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, R. De Nicolò, and F. Lippolis (2016) “University-NGO Partnership to Sustain Assistive Technology Projects.” ACM Interactions, Universal Interactions Forum, ACM, Issue Mar./April 2016, pp. 74-77, ISSN: 1072-5520/2016, DOI: 10.1145/2883619.

2015

• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, and N. Novielli (2015) “The Role of Social Media in Affective Trust Building in Customer-Supplier Relationships.” Electronic Commerce Research, Vol. 15, Issue 4, 2015, pp. 453-482, DOI: 10.1007/s10660-015-9194-3.
• D. Šmite, F. Calefato, and C. Wohlin (2015) “Cost Savings in Global Software Engineering. Where is the Evidence?” IEEE Software, Vol. 32, Issue 4, Jul./Aug. 2015, pp. 26-32, DOI: 10.1109/MS.2015.102.

2014

• T. Duarte, R. Prikladnicki, F. Calefato, and F. Lanubile (2014) “Speech Recognition for Voice-Based Machine Translation.” IEEE Software, Vol. 31, Issue 1, Jan./Feb. 2014, pp. 26-31, DOI: 10.1109/MS.2014.14.

2013

• F. Lanubile, F. Calefato, and C. Ebert (2013) “Group Awareness in Global Software Engineering.” IEEE Software, Vol. 30, Issue 2, Mar./Apr. 2013, pp. 18-23, DOI: 10.1109/MS.2013.30.

2004-2012

• F. Calefato, D. Damian, and F. Lanubile (2012) “Computer-Mediated Communication to Support Distributed Requirements Elicitations and Negotiations Tasks.” Empirical Software Engineering Journal, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 6, pp. 640-674, ISSN: 1573-7616, DOI: 10.1007/s10664-011-9179-3.
• F. Calefato and F. Lanubile (2009) “Using Frameworks to Develop a Distributed Conferencing System: An Experience Report.” Software: Practice and Experience, vol. 39, no. 15, 2009, pp. 1293–1311, ISSN: 1097-024X, DOI: 10.1002/spe.937.
• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, and T. Mallardo (2004) “Function Clone Detection in Web Applications: A Semiautomated Approach.” Journal of Web Engineering, vol.3, no.1, May 2004, pp. 3-21, Rinton Press, ISSN: 1540-9589.
• F. Lanubile, T. Mallardo, and F. Calefato (2004) “Tool Support for Geographically Dispersed Inspection Teams.” Software Process: Improvement and Practice, 2004 vol.8, no.4, Oct./Dec. 2003, pp. 217-231, Wiley InterScience, ISSN: 1099-1670, DOI: 10.1002/spip.184.

International Conferences and Workshops

2026

• D. Amoroso D’Aragona, F. Calefato, D. Taibi (2026) “Balancing Personality and Technical Expertise in Microservice Teams: An Algorithmic Approach” 20th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA’26), Bolzano, Italy, 7 -11 Sep. 2026
• M. De Carolis, F. Calefato, F. Lanubile (2026) “Towards LLM-Driven State Machines for RuntimeRobot Behavior in ROS 2.” 8th Int’l Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering (RoSE’26) – co-located with ICRA’06, Vienna, Austria, Jun. 1, 2026.
• A. Bottalico, F. Calefato, F. Lanubile (2026) “Towards Online Anomaly Monitoring in ROS 2.” 8th Int’l Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering (RoSE’26) – co-located with ICRA’06, Vienna, Austria, Jun. 1, 2026.
• R.G. Kula et al. (2026). “Forecasting Developer Environments with GenAI: A Research Perspective.” In Proc. 3rd International Workshop on Integrated Development Environments (IDE 2026). Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 18, 2026.

2025

2024

• G. Mallardi, F. Calefato, L. Quaranta, F. Lanubile (2024). “An MLOps Approach for Deploying Machine Learning Models in Healthcare Systems.” In Proc. of Int’l Conf. on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM’24), Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 6832-6837, DOI: 10.1109/BIBM62325.2024.10822603.
• X. Li, F. Calefato, V. Lenarduzzi, and D. Taibi (2024) “Toward a Collaboration Optimization in Microservice Projects based on Developer Personalities.” In Proc. of  21st IEEE Int’l Conf. on Software Architecture – New and Emerging Ideas track (ICSA-NEMI’24),  Hyderabad, India, 4-8 June 2024.
• G. Araujo, M. Kalinowski, M. Endler, and F. Calefato (2024). “Professional Insights into Benefits and Limitations of Implementing MLOps Principles.” In Proc. of Int’l Conf. on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS’24), Apr. 28-30, 2024, Angers, France, DOI: 10.5220/0012741100003690.

2023

• F. Calefato, L. Quaranta, F. Lanubile, and M. Kalinowski (2023) “Assessing the Use of AutoML for Data-Driven Software Engineering.” In Proc. of 17th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM’23), Oct. 26-27, 2023, New Orleans, USA, pp. 1-12, DOI:10.1109/ESEM56168.2023.10304796.

2022

• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, L. Quaranta (2022) “A Preliminary Investigation of MLOps Practices in GitHub“, In Proc. of 16th ACM / IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM’22), Sept. 22-23, 2022, Helsinki, Finland, DOI: 3544902.3546636.
• L. Quaranta, F. Calefato, and F. Lanubile (2022) “Pynblint: a Static Analyzer for Python Jupyter Notebooks.” In Proc. of  1st International Conference on AI Engineering – Software Engineering for AI (CAIN’22), May 16-17, 2022, Pittsburgh, DOI: 3522664.3528612.

2021

• F. Lanubile, F. Calefato, L. Quaranta, M. Amoruso, F. Fumarola, and M. Filannino (2021) “Towards Productizing AI/ML Models: An Industry Perspective from Data Scientists.” In Proc. of 1st Workshop on AI Engineering – Software Engineering for AI (WAIN ’21), May 30-21, 2021, DOI: 10.1109/WAIN52551.2021.00027.
• L. Quaranta, F. Calefato, and F. Lanubile (2021) “KGTorrent: A Dataset of Python Jupyter Notebooks from Kaggle.” In Proc. of  IEEE/ACM 18th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR ’21), May 2021, DOI:10.1109/MSR52588.2021.00072.
• N. Novielli, F. Calefato, F. De Laurentis, L. Minervini, and F. Lanubile (2021) “A Virtual Mentor to Support Question-Writing on Stack Overflow” In Proc. IEEE/ACM 13th Int’l Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE’21), pp 125-126, DOI: 10.1109/CHASE52884.2021.00027.

2020

• N. Novielli, F. Calefato, D. Dongiovanni, D. Girardi, and F. Lanubile (2020) “Can We Use SE-specific Sentiment Analysis Tools in a Cross-Platform Setting?“ In Proc. of  IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR ‘20), Oct. 5–6, 2020, Seoul, Republic of Korea, DOI: 10.1145/3379597.3387446.
• I. Nunes, C. Treude, and F. Calefato (2020) “The Impact of Dynamics of Collaborative Software Engineering on Introverts: A Study Protocol.” In Proc. of Proc. of  IEEE/ACM 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR ‘20), October 5–6, 2020, Seoul, Republic of Korea, DOI: 10.1145/3379597.3387505 , OSF: osf.io/kfu9t.
• F. Calefato, A. Giove, M- Losavio, and F. Lanubile (2020) “A Case Study on Tool Support for Collaboration in Agile Development.” In Proc. of IEEE/ACM 15th Int’l Conf. on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE ’20), Oct. 5–6, 2020, Seoul, Republic of Korea, DOI: 10.1145/3372787.3390436.

2019

• F. Calefato, P. Tell, and A. Dubey (2019). “Summary of the 14th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE).” SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes Vol. 44, No. 3, Nov. 2019, pp. 30–33. DOI: 10.1145/3356773.3356802
• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, N. Novielli, and L. Quaranta (2019) “EMTk – The Emotion Mining Toolkit.” In Proc. of 4th Int’l Workshop on Emotion Awareness in Software Engineering (SEmotion’19), Montreal, Canada, May 28th, 2019, pp- 34-37. DOI: 10.1109/SEmotion.2019.00014.
• G. Iaffaldano, I. Steinmacher, F. Calefato, M. Gerosa, and F. Lanubile (2019) “Why do developers take breaks from contributing to OSS projects? A preliminary analysis.” In Proc. of 2nd Int’l Workshop on Software Health (SoHeal’19), Montreal, Canada, May 28th, 2019, pp-9-16. DOI: 10.1109/SoHeal.2019.00009.

2018

• F. Calefato, G. Iaffaldano, F. Lanubile, F. Maiorano (2018) “Investigating Crowd Creativity in Online Music Communities.” In Proc. of ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW’18), Nov. 3-7, Jersey City, NY, USA, DOI: 10.1145/327429.
• F. Calefato, G. Castellano, and V. Rossano (2018) “A Revision Control System for Image Editing in Collaborative Multimedia Design.” In Proc. 22nd Int’l Conf. on Information Visualisation (iV2018), Salerno, Italy, 10-13 July 2018, pp. 512-517, DOI: 10.1109/iV.2018.00095.
• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, F. Maiorano, and N. Novielli (2018) “Sentiment Polarity Detection for Software Development.” In Proc. Int’l Conf. on Software Engineering – Journal First (ICSE’18), Gothenburg, Sweden, May 30 – Jun 1, 2018.
• M.V. Mäntylä, F. Calefato, M. Claes (2018). “Natural Language or Not (NLoN) – A Package for Software Engineering Text Analysis Pipeline.” In Proc. Int’l Conf. on Mining Software Repositories (MSR’18), Gothenburg, Sweden, May 28-29, 2018, DOI: 10.1145/3196398.3196444.
• N. Novielli, F. Calefato, F. Lanubile (2018). “A Gold Standard for Emotion Annotation in Stack Overflow.” In Proc. Int’l Conf. on Mining Software Repositories (MSR’18), Gothenburg, Sweden, May 28-29, 2018, DOI: 10.1145/3196398.3196453.
• F. Calefato, G. Iaffaldano, F. Lanubile, B. Vasilescu (2018). “On Developers’ Personality in Large-scale Distributed Projects: The Case of the Apache Ecosystem.” In Proc. Int’l Conf. on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE’18), Gothenburg, Sweden, May 28-29, 2018, DOI:10.1145/3196369.3196372 – Best Paper Award.
• F. Calefato, G. Iaffaldano, F. Lanubile (2018). “Collaboration Success Factors in an Online Music Community.” In Proc. ACM Int’l Conf. on Supporting Group Work (GROUP’18), Sanibel Island, FL, USA, Jan. 7-10, 2018, DOI: 10.1145/3148330.3148346.

2017

• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, N. Novielli. “EmoTxt: A Toolkit for Emotion Recognition from Text.” In Proc. 7th Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII’17), San Antonio, TX, USA, Oct. 23-26, 2017.
• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, N. Novielli. “A Preliminary Analysis on the Effects of Propensity to Trust in Distributed Software Development.” In Proc. 12th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE’17), Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 22-23, 2017, pp.56-60, DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2017.1.

2016

• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, N. Novielli. “Moving to Stack Overflow: Best-Answer Prediction in Legacy Developer Forums.” In Proc. 10th Int’l Symposium on Empirical Softw. Eng. and Measurement (ESEM’16), Ciudad Real, Spain, Sept. 8-9, 2016, DOI:10.1145/2961111.2962585.
• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile. “A Hub-and-Spoke Model for Tool Integration in Distributed Development.” In Proc. 11th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE’16), Orange County, CA, USA, Aug. 2-5, 2016.
• N. Novielli, F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, G. Mininni, and A. Taronna. “The EmoQuest Project: Emotions in Q&A Sites.” In Proc. of the Int’l Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI’16), Bari, Italy, Jun. 7-10, 2016, pp. 334-335, DOI:10.1145/2909132.2926062.
• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile. “Affective Trust as a Predictor of Successful Collaboration in Distributed Software Projects.” In Proc. 1st Int’l ICSE Workshop on Emotion Awareness in Software Engineering (SEmotion’16), Austin, TX, USA, May 17, 2016.

2015

• N. Novielli, F. Calefato, F. Lanubile. “The Challenges of Sentiment Detection in the Social Programmer Ecosystem.” In Proc. 7th Int’l Workshop on Social Software Engineering (SSE’15), Sep. 1, 2015, Bergamo, Italy.
• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, M.R. Merolla, N. Novielli. “Success Factors for Effective Knowledge Sharing in Community-based Question-Answering.” In Proc. 10th International Forum on Knowledge Asset Dynamics (IFKAD’15), Bari, Italy, Jun. 10-12, 2015.
• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, M.C. Marasciulo, N. Novielli. “Mining Successful Answers in Stack Overflow.” In Proc. 12th IEEE Working Conf. on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2015), Florence, Italy, May 16-17, 2015.
• F. Calefato, R. De Nicolò, F. Lanubile, F. Lippolis. “Product Line Engineering for NGO Projects.” In Proc. 5th Int’l ICSE Workshop on Product Line Approaches in Software Engineering (PLEASE’15), Florence, Italy, May 19, 2015.

2014

• N. Novielli, F. Calefato, F. Lanubile. “Towards Discovering the Role of Emotions in Stack Overflow.” In Proc. 6th Int’l Workshop on Social Software Engineering (SSE’14), Nov. 16, 2014, Hong Kong, China, pp. 33-36, ISBN: 978-1-4503-3227-9, DOI:10.1145/2661685.2661689 .
• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, R. Prikladnicki, J.H.S. Pinto. “An Empirical Simulation-based Study of Real-Time Speech Translation for Multilingual Global Project Teams.” In Proc. 8th Int’l Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM’14), Turin, Italy, Sep. 18-19, 2014, ISBN: 978-1-4503-2774-9, DOI:10.1145/2652524.2652537.
• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, D. Romita, R. Prikladnicki, J.H.S. Pinto. “Mobile Speech Translation for Multilingual Requirements Meetings: A Preliminary Study.” In Proc. of 9th Int’l Conf. on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE’14), Shanghai, China, Aug. 18-21, 2014.
• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, and N. Novielli, “Investigating the Effect of Social Media on Trust Building in Customer-Supplier Relationships.” In Proc. of 16th Int’l Conf. on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS’14), Lisbon, Portugal, Apr. 27-30, 2014, pp. 635-642, DOI:10.5220/0004905606350642.

2013

• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, N. Novielli. “A Preliminary Investigation of the Effect of Social Media on Affective Trust in Customer-Supplier Relationships.” In Proc. of Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2013), Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 2-5, 2013.
• R. Prikladnicki, T. Duarte, T. Conte, F. Calefato and F. Lanubile, “Real-Time Machine Translation for Software Development Teams.” Workshop on Software Engineering Innovation Foundation (SEIF’13), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Nov. 25–26, 2013.
• F. Calefato and F. Lanubile, “SocialCDE: A Social Awareness Tool for Global Software Teams.” In Proc. of 9th Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE’13), St. Petersburg, Russia, 18-26 Aug. 2013, pp. 587-590, ISBN: 978-1-4503-2237-9, DOI:10.1145/2491411.2494592.
• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, and F. Sportelli, “Can Social Awareness Foster Trust Building in Global Software Teams?” 5th International Workshop on Social Software Engineering (SSE’13), St. Petersburg, Russia, 18 Aug. 2013, ISBN: 978-1-4503-2313-0, DOI:10.1145/2501535.2501538.
• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, and N. Novielli, “Social Media and Trust Building in Virtual Teams: The Design of a Replicated Experiment.” 1st Int’l Workshop on Trust in Virtual Teams: Theory and Tools, San Antonio, TX, USA, 23 Feb. 2013.
• B. Al-Ani, D. Redmiles, C.R.B. de Souza, R. Prikladnicki, S. Marczak, F. Lanubile, and F. Calefato, “Trust in Virtual Teams: Theory and Tools.” In Proc. of Conf. on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work companion (CSCW’13), San Antonio, TX, USA, 23 Feb. 2013, pp. 301-306, ISBN: 978-1-4503-1332-2, DOI:10.1145/2441955.2442029.

2012-2004

• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, T. Conte and R. Prikladnicki, “Assessing the Impact of Real-Time Machine Translation on Requirements Meetings: A Replicated Experiment.” 6th Int’l Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM’12), Lund, Sweden, Sep. 19–20, 2012, ISBN: 978-1-4503-1056-7, DOI:10.1145/2372251.2372299.
• F. Calefato and F. Lanubile, “Social Awareness for Global Software Teams.” 7th Int’l Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE’12), Porto Alegre, Brazil, Aug. 27-30, 2012, pp.183, ISBN: 978-1-4673-2357-4, DOI:10.1109/ICGSE.2012.31.
• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, and N. Novielli, “A Social Aggregator for SMEs.” 1st Int’l Workshop on Online Social Networks: Challenges and Perspectives (IWOSN’12), Patras, Greece, June 15, 2012.
• F. Calefato and F. Lanubile, “Augmenting Social Awareness in a Collaborative Development Environment.” 5th Int’l Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE’12), Zurich, Switzerland, 2 Jun. 2012, pp. 12-14, ISBN: 978-1-4673-1823-5, DOI:10.1109/CHASE.2012.6223009.
• F. Calefato and F. Lanubile. “Social Awareness as a Trust Building Mechanism in Global Software Teams.” The Future of Collaborative Software Development @ CSCW 2012, Seattle, WA, USA, February 12, 2012.
• F. Calefato and F. Lanubile, “A Planning Poker Tool for Supporting Collaborative Estimation in Distributed Agile Development.” 6th Int’l Conf. on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA ’11), Barcelona, Spain, Oct. 23-28, 2011, pp. 14-19, ISBN: 9781612081656.
• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, N. Sanitate, and G. Santoro, “Augmenting Social Awareness in a Collaborative Development Environment.” 4th. Int’l Workshop on Social Software Engineering (SSE’11), Seged, Hungary, Sep. 5, 2011, ISBN: 978-1-4503-0850-2, DOI:10.1145/2024645.2024656.
• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, and R. Prikladnicki, “A Controlled Experiment on the Effects of Machine Translation in Multilingual Requirements Meetings.” Proc. 6th Int’l Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE’11), Helsinki, Finland, August 15-18, 2011, ISBN: 978-1-4577-1140-4, DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2011.14.
• F. Calefato, D. Gendarmi, and F. Lanubile, “Investigating the Use of Tags in Collaborative Development Environments: A Replicated Study.” Proc. Int’l Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM’10), Bozen, Italy, Sept. 16-17, 2010, pp. 24:1-24:9, ISBN: 978-1-4503-0039-1, DOI: 10.1145/1852786.1852818.
• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, and P. Minervini, “Can Real-Time Machine Translation Overcome Language Barriers in Distributed Requirements Engineering?” Proc. 5th Int’l Conf. on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE’10), Princeton, NJ, USA, August 23-26, 2010, pp. 257-264, ISBN: 978-0-7695-4122-8, DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2010.37.
• F. Calefato, D. Gendarmi, F. Lanubile, “Embedding Social Networking Information into Jazz to Foster Group Awareness within Distributed Teams.” Proc. of the Second Int’l Workshop on Social Software Engineering and Applications (SoSEA ’09), ACM, ISBN: 978-1-60558-682-3, pp. 23-28, Amsterdam, The Netherlands — August 24, 2009, doi: 10.1145/1595836.1595842.
• F. Abbattista, F. Calefato, A. De Lucia, R. Francese, F. Lanubile, I. Passero, G. Tortora, “Virtual Worlds: do we really need the third dimension to support collaborative learning?“, Proc. of the ICWL Workshop on Virtual Worlds for academic, organizational, and life-long learning (ViWo’09). Aachen, Germany, Aug. 19-21, 2009.
• F. Abbattista, F. Calefato, D. Gendarmi, and F. Lanubile, “Incorporating Social Software into Agile Distributed Development Environments.” Proc. 1st ASE Workshop on Social Sofware Engineering and Applications (SOSEA 2008), L’Aquila, Italy, 15 September 2008, doi: 10.1109/ASEW.2008.4686310.
• P. Basile, F. Calefato, M. de Gemmis, P. Lops, G. Semeraro, M. Bux, C. Musto, and F. Narducci, “Augmenting a Content-based Recommender System with Tags for Cultural Heritage Personalization.” Proc. AH Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2008), Hannover, Germany, 29 July – 1 August 2008.
• F. Calefato, D. Gendarmi, F. Lanubile and G. Semeraro, “Towards Social Semantic Suggestive Tagging in a Digital Repository of Bookmarks.” Proc. of the 2nd DELOS Conference on Digital Libraries, Tirrenia, Italy, 5-7 December 2007.
• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, and M. Scalas, “Evolving a Text-Based Conferencing System: An Experience Report.” Proc. 3rd Int’l Conf. on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2007), New York, USA, November 12-15, 2007, ISBN: 978-1-4244-1318-8, doi: 10.1109/COLCOM.2007.4553869.
• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, and M. Scalas, “Porting a Distributed Meeting System to the Eclipse Communication Framework.” Proc. OOPSLA Workshop on Eclipse Technology eXchange (ETX 2007), Montréal, Canada, October 21-22, 2007, doi: 10.1145/1328279.1328289.
• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, and M. Scalas, “The Evolution of the eConference Project.” Proc. Int’l Conf. on Eclipse Technologies (Eclipse-IT 2007), Naples, Italy, 4-5 October, 2007.
• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, and T. Mallardo, “A Controlled Experiment on the Effects of Synchronicity in Remote Inspection Meetings.” Proc. of the Int’l Conf. on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2007), Madrid, Spain, September 2007, ISBN: 0-7695-2886-4, DOI: 10.1109/ESEM.2007.6.
• T. Mallardo, F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, and D. Damian, “The Effects of Communication Mode on Distributed Requirements Negotiations.” Proc. of the ICGSE Workshop on Global Requirements Engineering (GREW 2007), Munich, Germany, August 2007.
• F. Abbattista, F. Calefato, D. Gendarmi, and F. Lanubile, “Shaping Personal Information Spaces from Collaborative Tagging Systems.” In PB. Apolloni et al. (Eds.): KES 2007/ WIRN 2007, Part III, LNAI 4694, pp. 728–735, 2007. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007, ISBN: 978-3-540-74828-1, DOI:10.1007/978-3-540-74829-8_89.
• F. Calefato, D. Damian, and F. Lanubile, “An Empirical Investigation on Text-Based Communication in Distributed Requirements Workshops.” Proc. 2nd Int’l Conf. Global Software Engineering (ICGSE ’07), Munich, Germany, 27-30 August 2007, ISBN: 0-7695-2920-8, DOI: 10.1109/ICGSE.2007.9.
• F. Calefato, A. Colagrossi, D. Gendarmi, F. Lanubile, G. Semeraro, “An Information Broker For Integrating Heterogeneous Hydrologic Data Sources: A Web Services Approach.” Proc. The IFIP TC8 International Conference on Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems (CONFENIS 2006), IFIP Series (Springer), Vol. 205 / 2006, ISBN: 978-0-387-34345-7, DOI:10.1007/0-387-34456-X_5.
• F. Calefato, and F. Lanubile, “Plugging Presence Awareness into Mozilla Thunderbird.” Proc. Int’l Conf. on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (EuroIMSA 2006), Innsbruck, Austria, February 13-15, 2006, ISBN:0-88986-564-7.
• F. Calefato, and F. Lanubile, “Using The Econference Tool For Synchronous Distributed Requirements Workshops.” Proc. 1st Int’l Workshop on Distributed Software Development (DiSD 2005), Paris, France, Austrian Computer Society, 29 August 2005, pp. 97-107.
• F. Lanubile, T. Mallardo, F. Calefato, C. Denger, and M. Ciolkowski, “Assessing the Impact of Active Guidance for Defect Detection: A Replicated Experiment.” Proc. 10th Int’l Software Metrics Symposium (METRICS 2004), Chicago, Illinois, USA, IEEE Computer Society, September 2004, pp. 269-279, ISBN: 0-7695-2129-0, DOI: 10.1109/METRIC.2004.1357909.
• F. Calefato, and F. Lanubile, “A Decentralized Conferencing Tool for Ad-hoc Distributed Workgroups.” Proc. ASE Workshop on Cooperative Support for Distributed Software Engineering Processes (CSSE 2004), Linz, Austria, Austrian Computer Society, 21 September 2004.
• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, and T. Mallardo, “Peer-to-Peer Remote Conferencing.” Proc. ICSE Workshop on Global Software Development (GSD 2004), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, IEE Publishing, 24 May 2004, ISBN: 0-86341-427-3, DOI: 10.1049/ic:20040310

Books and Book Chapters

• F. Calefato, G. Iaffaldano, F. Lanubile, A. Lategano, N. Novielli (2017). “Mining Communication Data in a Music Community: A Preliminary Analysis.” In: Garrigós I., Wimmer M. (eds) Current Trends in Web Engineering. ICWE 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10544, Springer, ISBN: 978-3-319-74432-2, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-74433-9_22.
• F. Calefato and F. Lanubile (2011). “Practice: Collaborative Development Environments.” In Global Software and IT: A Guide to Distributed Development, Outsourcing, and Supplier Management (C. Ebert ed.), IEEE, Wiley, ISBN: 978-0-470-63619-0.
• F. Calefato and F. Lanubile (2010). “Communication Media Selection for Remote Interaction of Ad Hoc Groups.” Advances in Computers – Computer performance issues (M. Zelkowitz ed.), Vol. 78, Chapter 6, Elsevier, pp. 271-313, Jan. 2010, ISBN: 978-0-12-381019-9, DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2458(10)78006-2.
• F. Calefato (2009), “Supporting Synchronous Communication in Distributed Software Teams.” VDM Verlag Publishing, ISBN: 978-3-639-17562-2.

National Conferences and Workshops

• A. Basile, F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, G. Logroscino, G. Mallardi, and B. Tafuri (2024). “A Preliminary Study on Augmenting Neuroimaging Data using a Diffusion Model.” 3rd AIxIA Workshop on Artificial Intelligence For Healthcare (HC@AIxIA 2024), 25-28 November 2024, Bozen, Italy.
• A. Basile, F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, G, Mallardi, and L. Quaranta (2024). “An MLOps Solution Framework for Transitioning MachineLearning Models into eHealth Systems.” Proc. of 4th National Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (Ital-IA 2024), May 29-30, 2024, Naples, Italy
• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, and L. Quaranta (2024). “Security Risks and Best Practices of MLOps: A Multivocal Literature Review.” Proc. of  Italian Conf. on Cybersecurity (ITASEC 2024), April 8-12, 2024, Salerno, Italy.
• L. Quaranta, F. Calefato, and F. Lanubile (2021). “A Taxonomy of Tools for Reproducible Machine Learning Experiments,” Proc. of AIxIA 2021 Discussion Papers Workshop (AIxIA DP 2021), 2021, pp. 65-76.
• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, N. Novielli (2013). “Investigating the Effect of Social Media on Trust Building in Customer-Supplier Relationships” 50° Congresso Nazionale AICA 2013, Fisciano, 18-20 Settembre, 2013.
• F. Calefato, D. Gendarmi, F. Lanubile (2009). “Adding Social Awareness to Jazz for Reducing Socio-Cultural Distance between Distributed Development Teams.” Proc. of the 4th Italian Workshop on Eclipse Technologies (Eclipse-IT 2009), Bergamo, Italy, September 28-29, 2009.
• F. Calefato, F. Lanubile, M. Scalas (2008). “Weaving Eclipse Applications.” Proc. of the 4th Italian Workshop on Eclipse Technologies (Eclipse-IT 2009), Bergamo, Italy, September 28-29, 2009.
• F. Calefato, M. Scalas (2008) “Adopting the Eclipse Communication Framework: The Case of eConference.” Proc. of the 3rd Italian Workshop on Eclipse Technologies (Eclipse-IT 2008), Bari, Italy, November 17-18, 2008, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073.
• F. Calefato, D. Gendarmi, F. Lanubile (2007). “Towards Social Semantic Suggestive Tagging.” Proc. of SWAP 2007, the 4th Italian Semantic Web Workshop, Bari, Italy, December 18-20, 2007, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073.
• F. Calefato, and F. Lanubile (2006) “eConference over ECF.” Eclipse Italian Community Meeting, Rome, Italy, 1 December, 2006.
• F. Calefato (2006). “Improving Collaboration in Ad Hoc Development Teams.” Terzo Workshop Italiano in Ingegneria del Software (GIIS 2006), Genova, Italy, October 2006.