Engineering Digital Systems for Humanity: a Research Roadmap
This program is tentative and subject to change.
As testified by new regulations like the European AI Act, worries about the human and societal impact of (autonomous) software technologies are becoming of public concern. Human, societal, and environmental values, alongside traditional software quality, are increasingly recognized as essential for sustainability and long-term well-being. Traditionally, systems are engineered taking into account business goals and technology drivers. Considering the growing awareness in the community, in this paper, we argue that engineering of systems should also consider human, societal, and environmental drivers. Then, we identify the macro and technological challenges by focusing on humans and their role while co-existing with digital systems. The first challenge considers humans in a proactive role when interacting with digital systems, i.e., taking initiative in making things happen instead of reacting to events. The second concerns humans having a reactive role in interacting with digital systems, i.e., humans interacting with digital systems as a reaction to events. The third challenge focuses on humans with a passive role, i.e., they experience, enjoy or even suffer the decisions and/or actions of digital systems. The fourth challenge concerns the duality of trust and trustworthiness, with humans playing any role. Building on the new human, societal, and environmental drivers and the macro and technological challenges, we identify a research roadmap of digital systems for humanity. The research roadmap is concretized in a number of research directions organized into four groups: development process, requirements engineering, software architecture and design, and verification and validation.
This program is tentative and subject to change.
Mon 17 NovDisplayed time zone: Seoul change
14:00 - 15:30 | |||
14:00 10mTalk | Why AI Agents Still Need You: Findings from Developer-Agent Collaborations in the Wild Research Papers Aayush Kumar Microsoft, Yasharth Bajpai Microsoft, Sumit Gulwani Microsoft, Gustavo Soares Microsoft, Emerson Murphy-Hill Microsoft | ||
14:10 10mTalk | The Cost of Downgrading Build Systems: A Case Study of Kubernetes Research Papers Gareema Ranjan University of Waterloo, Mahmoud Alfadel University of Calgary, Gengyi Sun University of Waterloo, Shane McIntosh University of Waterloo Pre-print | ||
14:20 10mTalk | Democratizing the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem by Just-In-Time Transformation of Mining Programs Research Papers Wei Liu Nanjing University, Zhenhua Li Tsinghua University, Feng Qian University of Southern California, Feiyu Jin Tsinghua University, Hao Lin Tsinghua University, Yannan Zheng Ant Group, Bo Xiao Ant Group, Xiaokang Qin Ant Group, Tianyin Xu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | ||
14:30 10mTalk | Advancing Automated Ethical Profiling in SE: a Zero-Shot Evaluation of LLM Reasoning Research Papers Patrizio Migliarini University of L'Aquila, Italy, Mashal Afzal Memon University of L’Aquila, Italy, Marco Autili University of L'Aquila, Italy, Paola Inverardi Gran Sasso Science Institute Pre-print | ||
14:40 10mTalk | The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Women’s Contribution to Public Code Journal-First Track Annalí Casanueva Ifo Institute, Big Data Junior Research Group, Munich, Germany, Davide Rossi University of Bologna, Théo Zimmermann Télécom Paris, Polytechnic Institute of Paris, Stefano Zacchiroli LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France Link to publication DOI Pre-print | ||
14:50 10mTalk | Understanding Feature Request Practice on GitHub via a Large-Scale Empirical Study Research Papers Jiajun Li Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Wenhua Yang Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Minxue Pan Nanjing University, Yu Zhou Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics | ||
15:00 10mTalk | Interaction2Code: Benchmarking MLLM-based Interactive Webpage Code Generation from Interactive Prototyping Research Papers Jingyu Xiao The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Yuxuan Wan The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Yintong Huo Singapore Management University, Singapore, Zixin Wang The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Xinyi Xu The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Wenxuan Wang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Zhiyao Xu Tsinghua University, Yuhang Wang Southwest University, Michael Lyu The Chinese University of Hong Kong | ||
15:10 10mTalk | Engineering Digital Systems for Humanity: a Research Roadmap Journal-First Track Marco Autili University of L'Aquila, Italy, Martina De Sanctis Gran Sasso Science Institute, Paola Inverardi Gran Sasso Science Institute, Patrizio Pelliccione Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila, Italy | ||
15:20 10mTalk | Multi-dimensional Assessment of CrowdSourced Testing Reports via LLMs Research Papers Yue Wang NanJing University, Yuan Zhao Laboratory of Data Intelligence and Interdisciplinary Innovation, Nanjing University, Shengcheng Yu Technical University of Munich, Zhenyu Chen Nanjing University | ||