Tom Mens
tom-mens.bsky.social
Tom Mens
@tom-mens.bsky.social
Professor in Software Engineering at University of Mons, Belgium
Natarajan Chadambaram successfully depended his PhD on bot identification in GitHub.
natarajan-chidambaram.github.io
The thesis can be found here
orbi.umons.ac.be/handle/20.50...
(click on the Request Acess button if you want to obtain it)
May 31, 2025 at 7:04 AM
We did a preliminary analysis of the presence of bots in the NumFocus ecosystem, and how their activities are differing from human activities
Presented this week during the ICSE 2025 BotSE workshop by Natarajan Chidambaram
April 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This week during the ICSE 2025 workshop on bots in software engineering (BotSE), Natarajan Chidambaram presented our dataset, BIMBAS classification model and RABBIT open source tool for detecting bot accounts in GitHub repositories. All material is available online.
April 30, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Award of the MSR2025 Distinguished Dataset to Youness Hourri, Alexandre Decan and yours truly.
2025.msrconf.org/details/msr-...
April 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Our dataset on contributor activities in the NumFocus ecosystem on GitHub will be presented today by Youness Hourri @MSR2025 in Ottawa. It receided the distinguished dataset award, so come and check it out! All details here: orbi.umons.ac.be/bitstream/20...
orbi.umons.ac.be
April 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The UMONS Software Engineering Lab wishes you a wonderful holiday season filled with happiness, love and health !
December 18, 2024 at 11:23 AM
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December 13, 2024 at 4:07 PM
Reposted by Tom Mens
On Nov 22 in 1995 GIMP was released. GIMP is special for me since together with Tom Mens, Maëlick Claes and Philippe Grosjean we have studied its evolution during my sabbatical in Mons (2012): (a) a page of our chapter, (b) me in Mons by Tom Mens, (c) the Pentagone building of CS.

#computerhistory
November 22, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Reposted by Tom Mens
SE researchers try advanced ML for "everything" (and conferences encourage it by demanding "novelty") but few investigate that complexity-vs-accuracy ROI for practitioners.
December 6, 2024 at 8:32 AM
90 second video teaser of our @JSSoftware
article "A bot identification model and tool based on GitHub activity sequences" co-authored by Natarajan Chidambaram, @alexandredecan.bsky.social and myself:
t.co/ukGuvfPSqz
https://youtu.be/wrrqJBgDqkM
t.co
December 11, 2024 at 3:14 PM
@aserebrenik.bsky.social hallo, ik ben net client geworden van bluesky, hipelijk een stuk beter dan twitter. Ben jij er tevreden van? Groetjes, Tom
December 10, 2024 at 1:52 PM