Publications.

Large deviations for linear regressions

Silvia Bartolucci, Fabio Caccioli, Francesco Caravelli, Pierpaolo Vivo

Cryptocurrencies on the Balance Sheet: Insights from Strategy—Bitcoin Interactions

Sabrina Aufiero, Antonio Briola, Tesfaye Salarin, Silvia Bartolucci, Fabio Caccioli, Tomaso Aste

A Markov Chain Approach to Model Tourist Mobility Using Empirical Origin–Destination Survey Data

Francesca Atzori, Pierpaolo Vivo, Silvia Bartolucci, Giulia Contu, Marco Ortu

Queue & AI: When Faster Tasks Slow Down the Workflow

Silvia Bartolucci, Pierpaolo Vivo

DebtStreamness: an ecological approach to credit flows in interfirm networks

Anahí Rodríguez-Martínez, Silvia Bartolucci, Francesco Caravelli, Victoria Landaberry, Pierpaolo Vivo, Fabio Caccioli

Scale, Concentration, and Entry Timing in the Shopify App Ecosystem: A Longitudinal Study of Platform Governance and Application Survival

Fabrizio Assabese, Peter-Jan Celis, Giuseppe Destefanis

When Agents Coordinate: Measuring Coordination in Multi-Agent AI Coding

Giuseppe Destefanis, Tomaso Aste

Authoring Agent Skills: A Software-Engineering Approach

Giuseppe Destefanis

The Replication Assessment Problem in Software Engineering

Giuseppe Destefanis, Martin Shepperd, Leila Yousefi

Building Production Software and Professional Competence: A Collaborative Model for AI-Integrated Software Engineering Practice

Rumyana Neykova, Cigdem Sengul, Zear Ibrahim, Isabel Sassoon, Giuseppe Destefanis, Alan Serrano

LLM Use, Cheating, and Academic Integrity in Software Engineering Education

Ronnie de Souza Santos, Italo Santos, Mariana Bento, Giuseppe Destefanis, Cleyton Magalhães, Mairieli Wessel

Engineering Claude Code for Long-Lived, Multi-Session Projects

Giuseppe Destefanis

An Audit of Machine Learning Experiments on Software Defect Prediction

Giuseppe Destefanis, Leila Yousefi, Martin Shepperd, Allan Tucker, Stephen Swift, Steve Counsell, Mahir Arzoky

A Critical Discourse Analysis of Gender Representation in Software Engineering Education Videos on YouTube

Isabella Graßl, Alexander Serebrenik, Giuseppe Destefanis

Historic Software Engineering: Insights from Deluxe Paint for the Amiga

Giuseppe Destefanis, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Fabio Calefato

Academic Integrity and Emotional Responses to Inappropriate LLM Use in Software Engineering Education

Ronnie de Souza Santos, Italo Santos, Giuseppe Destefanis, Cleyton Magalhaes, Mairieli Wessel

Comparing Smart Contract Paradigms: A Preliminary Study of Security and Developer Experience

Matteo Vaccargiu, Andrea Pinna, Maria Ilaria Lunesu, Giuseppe Destefanis

Evolving Kubernetes: A Technical Debt Perspective

Jesse Maarleveld, Giuseppe Destefanis, Daniel Feitosa

Mining Kubernetes Repositories: The Cloud was Not Built in a Day

Giuseppe Destefanis, Silvia Bartolucci, Daniel Feitosa

Teaching Empathy in Software Engineering Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Ronnie de Souza Santos, Cleyton Magalhães, Giuseppe Destefanis, Mairieli Wessel, Ann Barcomb, Sherlock Licorish, Brody Stuart-Verner, Italo Santos

Efficiency for Experts, Visibility for Newcomers: A Case Study of Label-Code Alignment in Kubernetes

Matteo Vaccargiu, Sabrina Aufiero, Silvia Bartolucci, Ronnie de Souza Santos, Roberto Tonelli, Giuseppe Destefanis

How Fair is Software Fairness Testing?

Ann Barcomb, Mariana Pinheiro Bento, Giuseppe Destefanis, Sherlock Licorish, Cleyton Magalhães, Ronnie de Souza Santos, Mairieli Wessel

Developer Engagement in Open-Source Software’s Green Transition

Matteo Vaccargiu, Sabrina Aufiero, Silvia Bartolucci, Rumyana Neykova, Roberto Tonelli, Giuseppe Destefanis

The DePIN Phenomenon: Characteristics, Reward Architecture, and Practical Implementations

Azmat Ullah, Andrea Pinna, Maria Ilaria Lunesu, Giuseppe Destefanis, Roberto Tonelli

Measuring the Decentralisation of DeFi Development: An Empirical Analysis of Contributor Distribution in Lido

Giuseppe Destefanis, Jiahua Xu, Silvia Bartolucci

Operationalising DAO Sustainability KPIs: A Multi-Chain Dashboard for Governance Analytics

Silvio Meneguzzo, Claudio Schifanella, Valentina Gatteschi, Giuseppe Destefanis

The Dose Makes the Agent: Therapeutic Index Analysis of AI Coding Contributions

Giuseppe Destefanis, Ronnie de Souza Santos, Marco Ortu, Mairieli Wessel

Coordination at Scale in Large Distributed Development: The Case of Kubernetes

Sabrina Aufiero, Matteo Vaccargiu, Silvia Bartolucci, Fabio Caccioli, Giuseppe Destefanis

Separation of Concerns for Privacy-Preserving LLM Adoption: A Banking Architecture Framework

Yu Kong, Silvia Bartolucci, Fabio Caccioli, Giuseppe Destefanis

Patterns of Bot Participation and Emotional Influence in Open-Source Development

Matteo Vaccargiu, Riccardo Lai, Maria Ilaria Lunesu, Andrea Pinna, Giuseppe Destefanis

Web3BlockSet: A Dataset for Empirical Research in Blockchain-Oriented Software Engineering

Pamella Soares, Giuseppe Destefanis, Allan CN dos Santos, Allysson Allex Araújo, Raphael Saraiva, Jerffeson Souza

Scale, Concentration, and Entry Timing in the Shopify App Ecosystem

Fabrizio Assabese, Giuseppe Destefanis

Emotional Expression in Open-Source: How Project Function Shapes Communication

Matteo Vaccargiu, Silvia Bartolucci, Nicole Novielli, Marco Ortu, Roberto Tonelli, Giuseppe Destefanis

Published online in December 2025; journal issue dated 2026.

A calibrated model of debt recycling with interest costs and tax shields: viability under different fiscal regimes and jurisdictions

Carlo von der Osten, Sabrina Aufiero, Pierpaolo Vivo, Fabio Caccioli, Silvia Bartolucci

Deep Graph-Learning Methods for Stock Price Prediction: A Multi-Modal Graph Approach

Jiuyu Zhang, Silvia Bartolucci

Mapping Microscopic and Systemic Risks in TradFi and DeFi: a literature review

Sabrina Aufiero, Silvia Bartolucci, Fabio Caccioli, Pierpaolo Vivo

Top eigenpair statistics of diluted Wishart matrices

Barak Budnick, Preben Forer, Pierpaolo Vivo, Sabrina Aufiero, Silvia Bartolucci, Fabio Caccioli

Deep limit order book forecasting: a microstructural guide

Antonio Briola, Silvia Bartolucci, Tomaso Aste

Correlation between upstreamness and downstreamness in random global value chains

Silvia Bartolucci, Fabio Caccioli, Francesco Caravelli, Pierpaolo Vivo

HLOB–Information persistence and structure in limit order books

Antonio Briola, Silvia Bartolucci, Tomaso Aste

Published online in 2024; journal issue dated 2025.

Phase transitions in debt recycling

Sabrina Aufiero, Preben Forer, Pierpaolo Vivo, Fabio Caccioli, Silvia Bartolucci

Financial instability transition under heterogeneous investments and portfolio diversification

Preben Forer, Barak Budnick, Pierpaolo Vivo, Sabrina Aufiero, Silvia Bartolucci, Fabio Caccioli

Upstreamness and downstreamness in input–output analysis from local and aggregate information

Silvia Bartolucci, Fabio Caccioli, Francesco Caravelli, Pierpaolo Vivo

Shill Bidding Prevention in Decentralized Auctions Using Smart Contracts

Mohamed Abdelhai Bouaicha, Giuseppe Destefanis, Teodoro Montanaro, Noureddine Lasla, Luigi Patrono

A Machine Learning Approach to Vulnerability Detection Combining Software Metrics and Topic Modelling: Evidence from Smart Contracts

Giacomo Ibba, Rumyana Neykova, Marco Ortu, Roberto Tonelli, Steve Counsell, Giuseppe Destefanis

LLM-Based Translation of Ethereum Solidity Contracts to Algorand Python

Nawaz Abdullah Malla, Rumyana Neykova, Giuseppe Destefanis, Francesco Tiezzi

Micro-Patterns in Solidity Code

Luca Ruschioni, Robert Shuttleworth, Rumyana Neykova, Barbara Re, Giuseppe Destefanis

There’s Nothing to See Here: A Study of Deaf and Hearing Developer Use of Stack Overflow

Steve Counsell, Giuseppe Destefanis, Rumyana Neykova, Alina Miron, Nadine Aburumman, Thomas Shippey

Evaluating DAO Sustainability and Longevity Through On-Chain Governance Metrics

Silvio Meneguzzo, Claudio Schifanella, Valentina Gatteschi, Giuseppe Destefanis

Introducing Repository Stability

Giuseppe Destefanis, Silvia Bartolucci, Daniel Graziotin, Rumyana Neykova, Marco Ortu

Mining a Decade of Event Impacts on Contributor Dynamics in Ethereum: A Longitudinal Study

Matteo Vaccargiu, Sabrina Aufiero, Cheick Ba, Silvia Bartolucci, Richard Clegg, Daniel Graziotin, Rumyana Neykova, Roberto Tonelli, Giuseppe Destefanis

Blockchain Developer Experience: A Multivocal Literature Review

Pamella Soares, Allysson Allex Araújo, Giuseppe Destefanis, Rumyana Neykova, Raphael Saraiva, Jerffeson Souza

Sustainability Assessment of Ethereum Developers Issues and Comments: Topic and Network Analysis

Matteo Vaccargiu, Sabrina Aufiero, Silvia Bartolucci, Rumyana Neykova, Roberto Tonelli, Giuseppe Destefanis

Large Language Models for Synthetic Dataset Generation: A Case Study on Ethereum Smart Contract DoS Vulnerabilities

Giacomo Ibba, Gavina Baralla, Giuseppe Destefanis

More Than Code: Technical and Emotional Dynamics in Solidity’s Development

Matteo Vaccargiu, Rumyana Neykova, Nicole Novielli, Marco Ortu, Giuseppe Destefanis

A Move Sui Library for Secure, Certified and Trusted Supply Chain Ownership Management

Simone Giuffrida, Shahid Salim, Azmat Ullah, Matteo Vaccargiu

Distribution of centrality measures on undirected random networks via the cavity method

Silvia Bartolucci, Fabio Caccioli, Francesco Caravelli, Pierpaolo Vivo

Homological Convolutional Neural Networks

Antonio Briola, Yuanrong Wang, Silvia Bartolucci, Tomaso Aste

Cryptocurrency co-investment network: token returns reflect investment patterns

Luca Mungo, Silvia Bartolucci, Laura Alessandretti

Taxonomic Insights into Ethereum Smart Contracts by Linking Application Categories to Security Vulnerabilities

Marco Ortu, Giacomo Ibba, Giuseppe Destefanis, Claudio Conversano, Roberto Tonelli

DApps Ecosystems: Mapping the Network Structure of Smart Contract Interactions

Sabrina Aufiero, Giacomo Ibba, Silvia Bartolucci, Giuseppe Destefanis, Rumyana Neykova, Marco Ortu

Software Engineering Education in the Era of Conversational AI: Current Trends and Future Directions

Cigdem Sengul, Rumyana Neykova, Giuseppe Destefanis

A Curated Solidity Smart Contracts Repository of Metrics and Vulnerability

Giacomo Ibba, Sabrina Aufiero, Rumyana Neykova, Silvia Bartolucci, Marco Ortu, Roberto Tonelli, Giuseppe Destefanis

Blockchain Financial Statements: Innovating Financial Reporting, Accounting, and Liquidity Management

Natalia Dashkevich, Steve Counsell, Giuseppe Destefanis

Sustainability in Blockchain Development: A BERT-Based Analysis of Ethereum Developer Discussions

Matteo Vaccargiu, Sabrina Aufiero, Silvia Bartolucci, Rumyana Neykova, Roberto Tonelli, Giuseppe Destefanis

Message from the Chairs CHASE 2024

Daniel Graziotin, Birgit Penzenstadler, Klaas Jan Stol, Giuseppe Destefanis, Adriana Meza Soria, Alexander Nolte, Silvia Abrahao, Cristina Martinez Montes, Marvin Munoz Baron

BRAIN 2024: Fifth Workshop on Blockchain theoRy and ApplicatIoNs — Welcome and Committees

Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, Laura Emilia Maria Ricci, Nishanth Sastry, Georgia Avarikioti, Alessandro Brighente, Mauro Conti, Angelo De Caro, Andrea De Salve, Giuseppe Destefanis, Tooba Faisal, Sabrina Gaito, Alessia Galdeman, Salil S. Kanhere, Matteo Loporchio, Andrea Marino, Paolo Mori, Remo Pareschi, Andrea Pinna, Sabina Rossi, Nishant Saurabh, Claudio Schifanella, Luca Spalazzi, Domenico Tortola, Andrea Vitaletti

Keynote: Complex Systems Oriented Approach for dApps Analysis

Giuseppe Destefanis

DAI: A Dependencies Analyzer and Installer For Solidity Smart Contracts

Giacomo Ibba, Giuseppe Destefanis, Rumyana Neykova, Marco Ortu, Sabrina Aufiero, Silvia Bartolucci

MindTheDApp: A Toolchain for Complex Network-Driven Structural Analysis of Ethereum-Based Decentralized Applications

Giacomo Ibba, Sabrina Aufiero, Silvia Bartolucci, Rumyana Neykova, Marco Ortu, Roberto Tonelli, Giuseppe Destefanis

Complex Systems Oriented Approach for dApps Analysis

Giuseppe Destefanis