MSR 2026
Mon 13 - Tue 14 April 2026 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
co-located with ICSE 2026

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Tue 14 Apr 2026 14:20 - 14:30 at Oceania V - Session 2-A: Ecosystems & Methods

Throughout the history of software, evolution has occurred in cycles of rise and fall driven by competition, and open-source software (OSS) is no exception. This cycle is accelerating, particularly in rapidly evolving domains such as web development and deep learning. However, the impact of competitive relationships among OSS projects on their survival remains unclear, and there are risks of losing a competitive edge to rivals. To address this, this study proposes a new automated method called ``Mutual Impact Analysis of OSS (MIAO)'' to quantify these competitive relationships. The proposed method employs a structural vector autoregressive model and impulse response functions, normally used in macroeconomic analysis, to analyze the interactions among OSS projects. In an empirical analysis involving mining and analyzing 187 OSS project groups, MIAO identified projects that were forced to cease development owing to competitive influences with up to 81% accuracy, and the resulting features supported predictive experiments that anticipate cessation one year ahead with up to 77% accuracy. This suggests that MIAO could be a valuable tool for OSS project maintainers to understand the dynamics of OSS ecosystems and predict the rise and fall of OSS projects.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Tue 14 Apr

Displayed time zone: Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil change

14:00 - 15:30
14:00
10m
Talk
Analyzing GitHub Issues and Pull Requests in nf-core Pipelines: Insights into nf-core Pipeline Repositories
Technical Papers
Khairul Alam University of Saskatchewan, Banani Roy University of Saskatchewan
14:10
10m
Talk
Modeling Sampling Workflows for Code Repositories
Technical Papers
Romain Lefeuvre University of Rennes, Maiwenn Le Goasteller University of Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, Jessie Galasso-Carbonnel McGill University, Benoit Combemale Inria, Univ Rennes, CNRS, IRISA, Quentin Perez INSA Rennes, Houari Sahraoui DIRO, Université de Montréal
Pre-print
14:20
10m
Talk
Quantifying Competitive Relationships Among Open-Source Software Projects
Technical Papers
Yuki Takei Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Toshiaki Aoki JAIST, Chaiyong Rakhitwetsagul Mahidol University, Thailand
Pre-print
14:30
10m
Talk
Role of CI Adoption in Mobile App Success: An Empirical Study of Open-Source Android Projects
Technical Papers
xiaoxin zhou University of Toronto, Taher A. Ghaleb Trent University, Safwat Hassan University of Toronto
Pre-print
14:40
10m
Talk
ML in a Box: Analyzing Containerization Practices in Open Source ML Projects
Technical Papers
Faten Jebari Grand Valley State University, Emna Ksontini University of North Carolina Wilmington, Amine Barrak Oakland University, USA, Wael Kessentini DePaul University
14:50
10m
Talk
An Empirical Study of Policy as Code: Adoption, Purpose, and Maintenance
Technical Papers
Ruben Opdebeeck Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Mahmoud Alfadel University of Calgary, Akond Rahman Auburn University, Yutaro Kashiwa Nara Institute of Science and Technology, João F. Ferreira Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto & INESC-ID, Raula Gaikovina Kula The University of Osaka, Coen De Roover Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Pre-print
15:00
10m
Talk
Tracing Stereotypes in Pre-trained Transformers: From Biased Neurons to Fairer Models
Technical Papers
Gianmario Voria University of Salerno, Moses Openja Polytechnique Montreal, Foutse Khomh Polytechnique Montréal, Gemma Catolino University of Salerno, Fabio Palomba University of Salerno
Pre-print
15:10
5m
Industry talk
Can Data Mining Help to Survive the Annual Compiler Upgrade?
Industry Track
Gunnar Kudrjavets Amazon Web Services, USA, Aditya Kumar Google, Piotr Przymus Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
Pre-print
15:15
5m
Talk
Underutilization in Research GPU Clusters: SE Challenges
Industry Track
Krzysztof Kaczmarski Warsaw University of Technology, Jakub Narębski Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Piotr Przymus Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
15:20
10m
Talk
LILA: Decentralized Build Reproducibility Monitoring for the Functional Package Management Model
Data and Tool Showcase Track
Julien Malka LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France, Arnout Engelen Independent