ICSE 2025
Sat 26 April - Sun 4 May 2025 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Sat 3 May 2025 14:00 - 14:18 at 201 - SEIGS Session 3 Chair(s): Michel Chaudron

Access to financial data is challenging due to privacy and regulatory concerns. This paper introduces MoMTSimDP, a mobile money transaction simulator that integrates differential privacy (DP) into agent-based modeling (ABM) to provide formal privacy guarantees in simulations. MoMTSimDP not only replicates the statistical behaviors of transactional data but also ensures privacy through DP, a rigorous mathematical framework for privacy preservation. We calibrate MoMTSimDP using differentially private statistics derived from real transaction data, including details on client profiles and aggregated transaction metrics such as the count of transactions, total and average transaction amounts, and standard deviations. The validity of the synthetic data produced was assessed using the sum of squared errors method to evaluate its statistical closeness to real data. We report a low total error of 2.0070 between the real and synthetic data. This study demonstrates the application of DP in ABM for simulating financial transactions with formal privacy guarantees.

Sat 3 May

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14:00 - 15:30
SEIGS Session 3Symposium on Software Engineering in the Global South (SEiGS) at 201
Chair(s): Michel Chaudron Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
14:00
18m
Talk
MoMTSimDP: A Differentially Private Simulator for Mobile Money Transactions
Symposium on Software Engineering in the Global South (SEiGS)
Denish Azamuke Department of Computer Science, Makerere University, Marriette Katarahweire Department of Computer Science, Makerere University, Engineer Bainomugisha Makerere University
14:18
18m
Talk
Non-Western Perspectives on Web Inclusivity: A Study of Accessibility Practices in the Global South
Symposium on Software Engineering in the Global South (SEiGS)
Masudul Hasan Masud Bhuiyan CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Matteo Varvello Nokia, Cristian-Alexandru Staicu CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Yasir Zaki New York University Abu Dhabi
14:36
18m
Talk
Participatory design of a community AI intervention for scaling up adolescent access to SRHR education: Case of the TeenApp
Symposium on Software Engineering in the Global South (SEiGS)
Rahman Sanya School of Computing and Informatics Technology, Makerere University, Ben Wycliff Mugalu Makerere University, Gedi Night Biira Straight Talk Foundation, Stella Achen Makerere University
14:54
18m
Talk
Software Engineering Strategies and Innovations to Address Agricultural Challenges in the Global South: A Case Study of Indonesia
Symposium on Software Engineering in the Global South (SEiGS)
Wikan Danar Sunindyo Institut Teknologi Bandung, Robertus Theodore Agrari
15:12
18m
Talk
Towards a Federated AI Compute for Low-resource Settings: A Case for National Research and Education Networks in Africa.
Symposium on Software Engineering in the Global South (SEiGS)
Alex Mwotil Makerere University, Innocent Ndubuisi-Obi Jr University of Washington, Kurtis Heimerl Univ of Washington, Benjamin Kanagwa Makerere University, Engineer Bainomugisha Makerere University