{"title":"Updating While Comparing: Dynamic User Feedback Prioritization enhanced by Knowledge Tracing","authors":"Haiyi Liu, Ying Jiang, Yaohan Ji, Zejiang Zhao","doi":"10.1109/tse.2026.3726191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.2026.3726191","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13324,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148806418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gianluca Filippone, Sara Pettinari, Patrizio Pelliccione
{"title":"Formalisms for Robotic Mission Specification and Execution: A Comparative Analysis","authors":"Gianluca Filippone, Sara Pettinari, Patrizio Pelliccione","doi":"10.1109/tse.2026.3725356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.2026.3725356","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13324,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148806420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Guodong Fan, Cuiyun Gao, Chun Yong Chong, Lu Zhang, Jing Li, Jinglin Zhang, Shizha Chen
{"title":"When Model Editing Meets Service Evolution: A Knowledge-Update Perspective for Service Recommendation","authors":"Guodong Fan, Cuiyun Gao, Chun Yong Chong, Lu Zhang, Jing Li, Jinglin Zhang, Shizha Chen","doi":"10.1109/tse.2026.3724627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.2026.3724627","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13324,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering","volume":"2 1 1","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148755975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Antonio Della Porta, Stefano Lambiase, Valeria Pontillo, Joao F. Ferreira, Akond A. Rahman, Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul, Fabio Palomba
{"title":"Understanding Prompt Quality and Its Relation to LLM-based Code Generation","authors":"Antonio Della Porta, Stefano Lambiase, Valeria Pontillo, Joao F. Ferreira, Akond A. Rahman, Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul, Fabio Palomba","doi":"10.1109/tse.2026.3719766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.2026.3719766","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13324,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering","volume":"275 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148682216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Qiong Feng, Xiaotian Ma, Jiayi Sheng, Huan Ji, Peng Liang
{"title":"An Empirical Study of Kotlin-Java Cross-Dependency Issues and Their Detection","authors":"Qiong Feng, Xiaotian Ma, Jiayi Sheng, Huan Ji, Peng Liang","doi":"10.1109/tse.2026.3719845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.2026.3719845","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13324,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering","volume":"31 5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148682230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EffiReasonTrans: RL-Optimized Reasoning for Code Translation","authors":"Yanlin Wang;Rongyi Ou;Yanli Wang;Mingwei Liu;Jiachi Chen;Ensheng Shi;Xilin Liu;Yuchi Ma;Zibin Zheng","doi":"10.1109/TSE.2026.3693795","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TSE.2026.3693795","url":null,"abstract":"Code translation is a crucial task in software development and maintenance. While recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have improved automated code translation accuracy, these gains often come at the cost of increased inference latency—hindering real-world development workflows that involve human-in-the-loop inspection. To address this trade-off, we propose EffiReasonTrans, a training framework designed to improve translation accuracy while balancing inference latency. We first construct a high-quality reasoning-augmented dataset by prompting a stronger language model DeepSeek-R1 to generate intermediate reasoning and target translations. Each (source code, reasoning, target code) triplet undergoes automated syntax and functionality checks to ensure reliability. Based on this dataset, we employ a two-stage training strategy: supervised fine-tuning on reasoning-augmented samples, followed by reinforcement learning to further enhance accuracy, which also helps balance inference latency. We evaluate EffiReasonTrans on six translation pairs. Experimental results show that EffiReasonTrans consistently improves translation accuracy (up to +49.2% CA and +27.8% CodeBLEU compared to the base model), while reducing the number of generated tokens (up to -19.3%) and lowering inference latency in most cases (up to -29.0%). Ablation studies further confirm the complementary benefits of the two-stage training framework. Additionally, EffiReasonTrans shows improvements of translation accuracy when integrated into agent-based frameworks. Our code and data are available at <uri>https://github.com/DeepSoftwareAnalytics/EffiReasonTrans</uri>.","PeriodicalId":13324,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering","volume":"52 8","pages":"2354-2366"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148291572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}