Abstract

Rigorous approaches for software supply chain management have gained paramount importance in recent years, given the need for governmental organizations to ensure transparency in software projects. With the increasing pervasiveness of AI-intensive systems and the growing use of generative AI in software development, the requirements and challenges for managing such supply chains become increasingly complex. This keynote will discuss, on the one hand, the current state of practice in AI supply chains with regard to transparency challenges and requirements for AI-intensive systems. On the other hand, it discusses process-related challenges associated with incorporating generative AI in software development, along with the consequent legal, security, and maintainability implications.

Bio

Massimiliano Di Penta is a full professor at the University of Sannio, Italy. His research interests include software maintenance and evolution, mining software repositories, empirical software engineering, search-based software engineering, and software testing. He authored over 350 papers that appeared in international journals, conferences, and workshops. He has received several awards for his research and service, including a SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award (2004), six ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished paper awards, and five most influential paper awards. According to articles in the Journal of Systems and Software, he was considered the second-most productive expert researcher in the software engineering area for the period 2010-2017 and 2017-2020. He serves and has served in the organizing and program committees of more than 120 conferences, including the three most important conferences in the research area of software engineering (ICSE, ESEC/FSE, ASE). He has been program co-chair of ICSE 2023, ESEC/FSE 2021, ASE 2017, and other software engineering conferences. He is associate editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, co-editor in chief of the Journal of Software: Evolution and Processes edited by Wiley, editorial board member of Empirical Software Engineering Journal edited by Springer. He has served the editorial board of the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. He is vice chair of SIGSOFT for the period 2024-2027.