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Merlo, Ettore

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Journal articles (31)
- 2025
  - Antoniol, G., Canfora, G., Casazza, G., Lucia, A. D., & Merlo, E. (2025). Recovering Traceability Links Between Code and Documentation: a Retrospective. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 1-8.
- 2022
  - Tambon, F., Laberge, G., An, L., Nikanjam, A., Mindom, P. S. N., Pequignot, Y., Khomh, F., Antoniol, G., Merlo, E., & Laviolette, F. (2022). How to certify machine learning based safety-critical systems? A systematic literature review. Automated Software Engineering, 29(2).
- 2021
  - Laverdière, M.-A., Julien, K., & Merlo, E. (2021). RBAC protection-impacting changes identification: A case study of the security evolution of two PHP applications. Information and Software Technology, 139, 21 pages.
- 2020
  - Han, Z., Li, X., Xu, G., Xiong, N., Merlo, E., & Stroulia, E. (2020). An Effective Evolutionary Analysis Scheme for Industrial Software Access Control Models. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 16(2), 1024-1034.
- 2017
  - Lavoie, T., Mérineau, M., Merlo, E., & Potvin, P. (2017). A Case Study of TTCN-3 Test Scripts Clone Analysis in an Industrial Telecommunication Setting. Information and Software Technology, 87, 32-45.
- 2013
  - Arenas, I. A., Tremblay, J., Deslauriers, B., Sandoval, J., Šeda, O., Gaudet, D., Merlo, E., Kotchen, T., Cowley, A. W., & Hamet, P. (2013). Dynamic Genetic Linkage of Intermediate Blood Pressure Phenotypes During Postural Adaptations in a Founder Population. Physiological Genomics, 45(4), 138-150.
- 2011
  - Arenas, I., Deslauriers, B., Sandoval, J., Seda, O., Merlo, E., Gaudet, D., Tremblay, J., Kotchen, T., Cowley, A., & Hamet, P. (2011). Dynamic Genetic Linkage of Blood Pressure Phenotypes. Journal of Hypertension, 29, e42-e43.
- 2009
  - Nikpay, M., Šeda, O., Tremblay, J., Gaudet, D., Merlo, E., Kotchen, T. A., Cowley, A. W., & Hamet, P. (2009). Pathway-Based Genetic Analysis of Habitual Substance Use and Response to Psychological and Physical Stress in French-Canadian Families Reveals Common Pathways of Synaptic Plasticity at Glutamatergic Synapses. Circulation, 119(10), E328-E328.
- 2008
  - Del Grosso, C., Antoniol, G., Merlo, E., & Galinier, P. (2008). Detecting Buffer Overflow Via Automatic Test Input Data Generation. Computers & Operations Research, 35(10), 3125-3143.
  - Šeda, O., Tremblay, J., Gaudet, D., Brunelle, P.-L., Gurau, A., Merlo, E., Pilote, L., Orlov, S. N., Boulva, F., Petrovich, M., Kotchen, T. A., Cowley, A. W., & Hamet, P. (2008). Systematic, Genome-Wide, Sex-Specific Linkage of Cardiovascular Traits in French Canadians. Hypertension, 51(4), 1156-1162.
- 2007
  - Bellon, S., Koschke, R., Antoniol, G., Krinke, J., & Merlo, E. (2007). Comparison and Evaluation of Clone Detection Tools. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 33(9), 577-591.
  - Hamet, P., Šeda, O., Tremblay, J., Gaudet, D., Brunelle, P.-L., Gurau, A., Merlo, E., Gossard, F., Bouchard, G., & Cowley, A. (2007). Genomic Features of Hypertension With and Without Obesity. International Journal of Obesity, 31(S1), S34-S34.
- 2005
  - Di Penta, M., Neteler, M., Antoniol, G., & Merlo, E. (2005). A Language-Independent Software Renovation Framework. Journal of Systems and Software, 77(3), 225-240.
  - Hamet, P., Seda, O., Merlo, E., Tremblay, J., Broeckel, U., Gaudet, D., Bouchard, G., Gagnon, F., Antoniol, G., Wan, R., Pausova, Z., Gossard, F., Kotchen, T. A., Pintos, J., & Cowley, A. W. (2005). Partitioning of Extra/Intracellular Body Water Plays a Role in Specific Subsets of Hypertension Featuring Metabolic Syndrome and Premature Death. Journal of Hypertension, 23, S264-S264.
  - Hamet, P., Merlo, E., Šeda, O., Broeckel, U., Tremblay, J., Kaldunski, M., Gaudet, D., Bouchard, G., Deslauriers, B., Gagnon, F., Antoniol, G., Pausová, Z., Labuda, M., Jomphe, M., Gossard, F., Tremblay, G., Kirova, R., Tonellato, P., Orlov, S. N., ... Cowley, A. W. (2005). Quantitative founder effect analysis of French-Canadian families identifies specific loci contributing to metabolic phenotypes of hypertension. American Journal on Human Genetics, 76(5), 815-832.
  - Šeda, O., Tremblay, J., Merlo, E., Gaudet, D., Broeckel, U., Bouchard, G., Antoniol, G., Brunelle, P.-L., Gurau, A., Gossard, F., Pintos, J., Kotchen, T. A., Cowley, A. W., & Hamet, P. (2005). The Genomic Signatures of Hypertension. Hypertension, 46(5), 884-884.
- 2004
  - Hamet, P., Merlo, E., Šeda, O., Broeckel, U., Kaldunski, M. L., Gaudet, D., Bouchard, G., Deslauriers, B., Gagnon, F., Antoniol, G., Kotchen, T. A., Tremblay, J., Pausova, Z., Labuda, M., Jomphe, M., Gossard, F., Kirova, R., Tonellato, P., Orlov, S. N., ... Cowley, A. W. (2004). Quantitative Founder Effect Analysis in French-Canadian Families Identifies Specific Alleles Contributing to Intermediate Phenotypes of Hypertension. Hypertension, 44(4), 510-510.
  - Hamet, P., Seda, O., Merlo, E., Gaudet, D., Broeckel, U., Gagnon, F., Antoniol, G., Bouchard, G., Kotchen, T. A., & Cowley, A. W. (2004). Resolution of Complex Trait of Hypertension by Linkage, Systematic Allelic Contribution Analysis and Ancestral Data in French-Canadian Families. Journal of Hypertension, 22, S5-S5.
- 2003
  - Merlo, E., Seda, O., Antoniol, G., Gaudet, D., Deslauriers, B., Tremblay, J., Cowley, A. W., Bouchard, G., & Hamet, P. (2003). Differential Genetic Contribution Density of Separable Layered Founders in Saguenay (Québec) Population. Journal of Hypertension, 21, S305-S305.
  - Deslauriers, B., Antoniol, G., Merlo, E., Gossard, F., Pausova, Z., Gaudet, D., Tremblay, J., Kotchen, T., Cowley, A., & Hamet, P. (2003). Dynamic Linkage of the Angiotensin II Type I Receptor Gene Locus in Essential Hypertension: a Study of Hypertensive Families of French-Canadian Origin. American Journal of Hypertension, 16(5), A16-A16.
  - Merlo, E., McAdam, I., & De Mori, R. (2003). Feed-forward and recurrent neural networks for source code informal information analysis. Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice, 15(4), 205-244.
  - Hamet, P., Gaudet, D., Tremblay, J., Pausova, Z., Šeda, O., Bernard, M., Gossard, F., Wang, R., Broeckel, U., Orlov, S. N., Labuda, M., Tonellato, P. J., Kirova, R., Cheng, Q., Kaldunski, M. L., Rioux, J. D., Platko, J., Kotchen, T. A., Merlo, E., ... Cowley, A. W. (2003). Partition of Dyslipidemic and Hypertensive French- Canadians Families Into Distinct Sub-Syndromes May Assist in the Detection of Specific Genomic Determinants. Hypertension, 42(3), 443-443.
- 2002
  - Antoniol, G., Villano, U., Merlo, E., & Di Penta, M. (2002). Analyzing Cloning Evolution in the Linux Kernel. Information and Software Technology, 44(13), 755-765.
  - Antoniol, G., Canfora, G., Casazza, G., Lucia, A. D., & Merlo, E. (2002). Recovering Traceability Links between Code and Documentation. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 28(10), 970-983.
- 2000
  - Mayrand, J., Patenaude, J. F., Merlo, E., Dagenais, M., & Lague, B. (2000). Software Assessment Using Metrics: a Comparison across Large C++ and Java Systems. Annals of Software Engineering, 9(1-4), 117-141.
- 1999
  - Fiutem, R., Antoniol, G., Tonella, P., & Merlo, E. (1999). Art: an Architectural Reverse Engineering Environment. Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice, 11(5), 339-364.
  - Fiutem, R., Tonella, P., Antoniol, G., & Merlo, E. (1999). Points-to Analysis for Program Understanding. Journal of Systems and Software, 44(3), 213-227.
  - Tonella, P., Antoniol, G., Fiutem, R., & Merlo, E. (1999). Variable-Precision Reaching Definitions Analysis. Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice, 11(2), 117-142.
- 1995
  - Merlo, E., Girard, J.-F., Hendren, L., & De Mori, R. (1995). Multi-valued constant propagation analysis for user interface reengineering. International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, 5(1), 5-23.
  - Merlo, E., Gagné, P.-Y., Girard, J.-F., Kontogiannis, K., Hendren, L., Panangaden, P., & De Mori, R. (1995). Reengineering user interfaces. IEEE Software, 12(1), 64-73.
- 1994
  - Buss, E., De Mori, R., Gentreman, W. M., Henshaw, J., Johnson, H., Kontogiannis, K., Merlo, E., Mueller, H. A., Mylopoulos, J., Paul, S., Prakash, A., Stanley, M., Tilley, S. R., Troster, J., & Wong, K. (1994). Investigating reverse engineering technologies for the CAS program understanding project. IBM Systems Journal, 33(3), 477-500.
Conference papers (83)
- 2024
  - Djian, B. P. P., Merlo, E., Gambs, S., & Ngueveu, R. C. (2024, May). Assess and quantify DNN classifier bias using likelihood prediction [Poster]. 5e Forum Mobilit.AI, Montréal, Qc, Canada (1 page).
  - Merlo, E., Djian, B., & Gambs, S. (2024, May). Robustness, bias assessment and bias removal in neural networks predictions [Poster]. Journée de l'intelligence artificielle de confiance, Montréal, Qc, Canada (1 page).
- 2023
  - Cassagne, J., Merlo, E., Jourdan, G.-V., & Onut, I.-V. (2023, December). Following the Obfuscation Trail: Identifying and Exploiting Obfuscation Signatures in Malicious Code [Paper]. 16th International Symposium on Foundations and Practice of Security (FPS 2023), Bordeaux, France.
  - Cassagne, J., Merlo, E., Branco, P., Jourdan, G.-V., & Onut, I.-V. (2023, October). Unsupervised Graph Neural Networks for Source Code Similarity Detection [Paper]. 26th International Conference on Discovery Science (DS 2023), Porto, Portugal.
- 2022
  - Merlo, E., Pinciroli, C., Panerati, J., Famelis, M., & Beltrame, G. (2022, May). Automated extraction and checking of property models from source code for robot swarms [Paper]. 4th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering (RoSE 2022), Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
  - Marhaba, M., Merlo, E., Khomh, F., & Antoniol, G. (2022, May). Identification of out-of-distribution cases of CNN using class-based surprise adequacy [Paper]. IEEE/ACM 1st International Conference on AI Engineering - Software Engineering for AI (CAIN 2022), Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
  - Merlo, E., Margier, M., Jourdan, G.-V., & Onut, I.-V. (2022, March). Phishing kits source code similarity distribution: A case study [Paper]. IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2022), Honolulu, HI, USA.
- 2018
  - Beigi-Mohammadi, N., Litoiu, M., Emami-Taba, M., Tahvildari, L., Fokaefs, M.-E., Merlo, E., & Viorel Onut, I. (2018, October). A DevOps framework for quality-driven self-protection in web software systems [Paper]. 28th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering, Markham, Ontario.
  - Laverdière, M.-A., & Merlo, E. (2018, March). Detection of protection-impacting changes during software evolution [Paper]. 25th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2018), Campobasso, Italy.
  - Beltrame, G., Merlo, E., Panerati, J., & Pinciroli, C. (2018, May). Engineering safety in swarm robotics [Paper]. 1st ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Robotics Software Engineering (RoSE 2018) and 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2018), Gothenburg, Sweden.
  - Barrak, A., Laverdière, M.-A., Khomh, F., An, L., & Merlo, E. (2018, October). Just-in-time Detection of Protection-Impacting Changes on WordPress and MediaWiki [Paper]. 28th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (CASCON 2018), Toronto, Canada.
- 2017
  - Laverdiere, M.-A., & Merlo, E. (2017, August). Classification and distribution of RBAC privilege protection changes in WordPress evolution (short paper) [Paper]. 15th Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST 2017), Calgary, Alb..
  - Laverdiere, M. A., & Merlo, E. (2017, February). Computing counter-examples for privilege protection losses using security models [Paper]. 24th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER 2017), Klagenfurt, Austria.
- 2015
  - Lavoie, T., & Merlo, E. (2015, March). Performance impact of lazy deletion in metric trees for incremental clone analysis [Paper]. 9th IEEE International Workshop on Software Clones (IWSC 2015), Montréal, Québec.
  - Laverdiere, M. A., Berger, B. J., & Merlo, E. (2015, March). Taint analysis of manual service compositions using cross-application call graphs [Paper]. 22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2015), Montréal, Québec.
- 2014
  - Lavoie, T., & Merlo, E. (2014, February). About metrics for clone detection [Paper]. 8th International Workshop on Software Clones (IWSC 2014), Antwerp, Belgium (5 pages). Published in Electronic Communications of the EASST, 63.
  - Gauthier, F., Merlo, E., Stroulia, E., & Turner, D. (2014, September). Supporting maintenance and evolution of access control models in web applications [Paper]. 30th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2014), Victoria, BC, Canada.
- 2013
  - Lavoie, T., & Merlo, E. (2013, May). How much really changes? A case study of firefox version evolution using a clone detector [Paper]. 7th International Workshop on Software Clones (IWSC 2013), San Francisco, CA, USA.
  - Merlo, E., Lavoie, T., Potvin, P., & Busnel, P. (2013, May). Large scale multi-language clone analysis in a telecommunication industrial setting [Paper]. 7th International Workshop on Software Clones (IWSC 2013), San Francisco, CA, USA.
- 2012
  - Sozen, N., & Merlo, E. (2012, June). Adapting Software Product Lines for complex certifiable avionics software [Paper]. 3rd International Workshop on Product LinE Approaches in Software Engineering (PLEASE 2012), Zurich, Switzerland.
  - Gauthier, F., & Merlo, E. (2012, September). Alias-aware propagation of simple pattern-based properties in PHP applications [Paper]. 12th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2012), Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy.
  - Lavoie, T., & Merlo, E. (2012, June). An accurate estimation of the Levenshtein distance using metric trees and Manhattan distance [Paper]. 6th International Workshop on Software Clones (IWSC 2012), Zurich, Switzerland.
  - Gauthier, F., & Merlo, E. (2012, October). Fast detection of access control vulnerabilities in PHP applications [Paper]. 19th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2012), Kingston, ON, Canada.
  - Lavoie, T., Khomh, F., Merlo, E., & Zou, Y. (2012, October). Inferring repository file structure modifications using nearest-neighbor clone detection [Paper]. 19th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2012), Kingston, ON, Canada.
  - Gauthier, F., & Merlo, E. (2012, March). Investigation of access control models with formal concept analysis: A case study [Paper]. 16th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR 2012), Szeged, Hungary.
  - Ouellet, M., Merlo, E., Sozen, N., & Gagnon, M. (2012, June). Locating features in dynamically configured avionics software [Paper]. 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2012), Zurich, Switzerland.
  - Letarte, D., Gauthier, F., Merlo, E., Sutyanyong, N., & Zuzarte, C. (2012, May). Targeted genetic test SQL generation for the DB2 database [Paper]. 5th International Workshop on Testing Database Systems (DBTest 2012), Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.
- 2011
  - Lavoie, T., & Merlo, E. (2011, May). Automated type-3 clone oracle using Levenshtein metric [Paper]. 5th International Workshop on Software Clones (IWSC 2011), in conjunction with the 33rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2011), Waikiki, Honolulu, HI, United states.
  - Gauthier, F., Letarte, D., Lavoie, T., & Merlo, E. (2011, July). Extraction and comprehension of moodle's access control model: A case study [Paper]. 9th Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, Montréal, Québec.
  - Letarte, D., Gauthier, F., & Merlo, E. (2011, March). Security model evolution of PHP web applications [Paper]. 4th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation (ICST 2011), Berlin, Germany.
- 2010
  - Balazinska, M., Merlo, E., Dagenais, M., Lague, B., & Kontogiannis, K. (2010, October). Advanced clone-analysis to support object-oriented system refactoring [Paper]. 17th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2010), Beverly, Massachusetts, USA.
  - Lavoie, T., Eilers-Smith, M., & Merlo, E. (2010, May). Challenging cloning related problems with GPU-based algorithms [Paper]. 4th International Workshop on Software Clones (IWSC 2010), in conjunction with the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2010), Cape Town, South africa.
- 2009
  - Merlo, E., & Lavoie, T. (2009, October). Computing structural types of clone syntactic blocks [Paper]. 16th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Lille, France.
  - Letarte, D., & Merlo, E. (2009, October). Extraction of inter-procedural simple role privilege models from PHP code [Paper]. 16th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Lille, France.
- 2007
  - Merlo, E., Letarte, D., & Antoniol, G. (2007, March). Automated protection of php applications against SQL-injection attacks [Paper]. 11th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR 2007), Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  - Antoniol, G., Guéhéneuc, Y.-G., Merlo, E., & Tonella, P. (2007, October). Mining the lexicon used by programmers during software evolution [Paper]. IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2007), Paris, France.
  - Merlo, E., Letarte, D., & Antoniol, G. (2007, October). SQL-injection security evolution analysis in PHP [Paper]. 9th IEEE International Symposium on Web Site Evolution (WSE 2007), Paris, France.
- 2006
  - Bouktif, S., Antoniol, G., Merlo, E., & Neteler, M. (2006, September). A feedback based quality assessment to support open source software evolution: the GRASS case study [Paper]. 22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2006), Philadelphia, PA, USA.
  - Bouktif, S., Antoniol, G., Merlo, E., & Neteler, M. (2006, July). A novel approach to optimize clone refactoring activity [Paper]. 8th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2006), Seattle, WA, United States.
  - Merlo, E. (2006, July). Detection of Plagiarism in University Projects Using Metrics-based Spectral Similarity [Paper]. Duplication, Redundancy, and Similarity in Software, Wadern, Germany (10 pages).
  - Arenas, I. A., Deslauriers, B., Tremblay, J., Brunelle, P.-L., Gossard, F., Gurau, A., Šeda, O., Hamet, P., Kotchen, T. A., Cowley, A. W. J., Gaudet, D., Antoniol, G., & Merlo, E. Dynamic linkage of 192 candidate genes for blood pressure during orthostatic stress in sibpairs from french-canadian familes ascertained by hypertension. [Paper]. 21st Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Hypertension.
  - Šeda, O., Tremblay, J., Brunelle, P.-L., Gurau, A., Gossard, F., Hamet, P., Merlo, E., Gaudet, D., Bouchard, G., Jomphe, M., Cowley, A. W., Broeckel, U., Kotchen, T. A., Gagnon, F., & Antoniol, G. Global haplotype signatures reveal gamma-glutamyl transferase as a genomic marker of hypertension with metalobic syndrome [Paper]. 21st Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Hypertension.
  - Merlo, E., Letarte, D., & Antoniol, G. (2006, October). Insider and outsider threat-sensitive SQL injection vulnerability analysis in PHP [Paper]. 13th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2006), Benevento, Italy.
- 2005
  - Seda, O., Merlo, E., Tremblay, J., Broeckel, U., Kaldunski, M., Gaudet, D., Bouchard, G., Gagnon, F., Antoniol, G., Brunelle, P. L., Gurau, A., Gossard, F., Kotchen, T. A., Pausova, Z., Orlov, S. N., Wan, R., Jomphe, M., Pintos, J., Cowley, A. W., & Hamet, P. (2005, May). Hypertension with and without metabolic syndrome presents as distinct clinical and genetic entities in French-Canadians [Abstract]. European Human Genetics Conference, Prague, Czech Republic. Published in European Journal of Human Genetics, 13(S1).
  - Del Grosso, C., Antoniol, G., Di Penta, M., Galinier, P., & Merlo, E. (2005, June). Improving network applications security : a new heuristic to generate stress testing data [Paper]. 2005 Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2005), Washington, D.C..
  - Antoniol, G., Merlo, E., Guéhéneuc, Y.-G., & Sahraoui, H. (2005, November). On feature traceability in object oriented programs [Paper]. 3rd international workshop on Traceability in emerging forms of software engineering (TEFSE 2005), Long Beach, California, USA.
- 2004
  - Antoniol, G., Penta, M. D., & Merlo, E. (2004, September). An Automatic Approach to identify Class Evolution Discontinuities [Paper]. 7th International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution (IWPSE 2004), Kyoto, Japan.
  - Merlo, E., Antoniol, G., Penta, M. D., & Rollo, V. F. (2004, September). Linear complexity object-oriented similarity for clone detection and software evolution analyses [Paper]. 20th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2004), Chicago, IL, USA.
- 2003
  - Merlo, E., Antoniol, G., & Brunelle, P.-L. (2003, March). Fast flow analysis to compute fuzzy estimates of risk levels [Paper]. 7th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR 2003), Benevento, Italy.
  - Brunelle, P.-L., Merlo, E., & Antoniol, G. (2003, November). Investigating Java Type Analyses for the Receiver-Classes Testing Criterion [Paper]. 14th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2003), Denver, CO, USA.
  - Antoniol, G., Penta, M. D., & Merlo, E. (2003, May). YAAB (Yet Another AST Browser): Using OCL to Navigate ASTs [Paper]. 11th IEEE International Workshop on Program Comprehension (IWPC 2003), Portland, Oregon.
- 2002
  - Penta, M. D., Neteler, M., Antoniol, G., & Merlo, E. (2002, October). Knowledge-Based Library Re-Factoring for an Open Source Project [Paper]. 9th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2002), Richmond, Virginia.
- 2001
  - Antoniol, G., Penta, M. D., Casazza, G., & Merlo, E. (2001, May). A Method to Re-Organize Legacy Systems via Concept Analysis [Paper]. 9th International Workshop on Program Comprehension (IWPC 2001), Toronto, Ontario.
  - Malenfant, B., Antoniol, G., Merlo, E., & Dagenais, M. (2001, November). Flow analysis to detect blocked statements [Paper]. IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2001), Florence, Italy.
  - Antoniol, G., Villano, U., Penta, M. D., Casazza, G., & Merlo, E. (2001, November). Identifying Clones in the Linux Kernel [Paper]. 1st IEEE International Workshop on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2001), Florence, Italy.
  - Antoniol, G., Casazza, G., Penta, M. D., & Merlo, E. (2001, November). Modeling clones evolution through time series [Paper]. IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2001), Florence, Italy.
  - Penta, M. D., Casazza, G., Antoniol, G., & Merlo, E. (2001, March). Modeling Web Maintenance Centers through Queue Models [Paper]. 5th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR 2001), Lisbon, Portugal.
  - Antoniol, G., Casazza, G., Lucca, G. A. D., Penta, M. D., & Merlo, E. (2001, November). Predicting Web Site Access: An Application of Time Series [Paper]. 3rd International Workshop on Web Site Evolution (WSE 2001), Florence, Italy.
- 2000
  - Balazinska, M., Merlo, E., Dagenais, M., Lague, B., & Kontogiannis, K. (2000, November). Advanced clone-analysis to support object-oriented system refactoring [Paper]. 7th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Brisbane, Qld., Australia.
  - Hu, Y., Merlo, E., Dagenais, M., & Lague, B. (2000, October). C/C++ conditional compilation analysis using symbolic execution [Paper]. International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2000), San Jose, CA, USA.
  - Antoniol, G., Canfora, G., Lucia, A. D., Casazza, G., & Merlo, E. (2000, June). Tracing Object-Oriented Code into Functional Requirements [Paper]. 8th International Workshop on Program Comprehension (IWPC 2000), Limerick, Ireland.
- 1999
  - Merlo, E., & Antoniol, G. (1999, November). A static measure of a subset of intra-procedural data flow testing coverage based on node coverage [Paper]. Conference on the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research (CASCON 1999), Toronto, Ontario (7 pages).
  - Lapierre, S., Merlo, E., Savard, G., Antoniol, G., Fiutem, R., & Tonella, P. (1999, August). Automatic Unit Test Data Generation Using Mixed-Integer Linear Programming and Execution Trees [Paper]. IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 1999), Oxford, England.
  - Patenaude, J.-F., Merlo, E., Dagenais, M., & Lague, B. (1999, May). Extending software quality assessment techniques to Java systems [Paper]. 7th International Workshop on Program Comprehension (IWPC 1999), Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
  - Balazinska, M., Merlo, E., Dagenais, M., Lague, B., & Kontogiannis, K. Measuring clone based reengineering opportunities [Paper]. 6th International Software Metrics Symposium, Boca Raton, Florida.
  - Knapen, G., Lague, B., Dagenais, M., & Merlo, E. (1999, May). Parsing C++ despite missing declarations [Paper]. 7th International Workshop on Program Comprehension (IWPC 1999), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
  - Balazinska, M., Merlo, E., Dagenais, M., Lague, B., & Kontogiannis, K. Partial redesign of Java software systems based on clone analysis [Paper]. 6th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Atlanta, Georgia.
  - Antoniol, G., Canfora, G., Lucia, A. D., & Merlo, E. (1999, October). Recovering Code to Documentation Links in OO Systems [Paper]. 6th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (wcre 1999), Atlanta, GA.
- 1998
  - Dagenais, M., Merlo, E., Laguë, B., & Proulx, D. (1998, January). Clones occurrence in large object oriented software packages [Paper]. Conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research (CASCON 1998), Toronto, Canada.
  - April, A., Abran, A., & Merlo, E. (1998, April). Process assurance audits: lessons learned [Paper]. 20th International Conference on Software Engineering, Kyoto, Japan. Published in Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering.
- 1997
  - Tonella, P., Antoniol, G., Fiutem, R., & Merlo, E. (1997, May). Flow Insensitive C++ Pointers and Polymorphism Analysis and its Application to Slicing [Paper]. 19th international conference on Software engineering (ICSE 1997), Boston, Massachusetts.
  - Laguë, B., Leduc, C., Merlo, E., & Dagenais, M. (1997, January). Framework for the analysis of layered software architectures [Paper]. International Workshop on Empirical Studies of Software Maintenance (WESS 1997), Bari, Italy.
  - Tonella, P., Antoniol, G., Fiutem, R., & Merlo, E. (1997, March). Points-to Analysis for Program Understanding [Paper]. 5th International Workshop on Program Comprehension (IWPC 1997), Dearborn, MI.
  - Antoniol, G., Fiutem, R., Lutteri, G., Tonella, P., Zanfei, S., & Merlo, E. (1997, October). Program Understanding and Maintenance with the CANTO Environment [Paper]. IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 1997), Bari, Italy.
  - Tonella, P., Antoniol, G., Fiutem, R., & Merlo, E. (1997, March). Variable precision reaching definitions analysis for software maintenance [Paper]. 1st Euromicro Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (EUROMICRO 1997), Berlin, Germany.
- 1996
  - Fiutem, R., Tonella, P., Antoniol, G., & Merlo, E. (1996, November). A Cliche-Based Environment to Support Architectural Reverse Engineering [Paper]. 4th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 1996), Monterey, CA.
  - Fiutem, R., Tonella, P., Antoniol, G., & Merlo, E. (1996, November). A Cliché-Based Environment to Support Architectural Reverse Engineering [Paper]. International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 1996), Monterey, CA.
  - Tonella, P., Fiutem, R., Antoniol, G., & Merlo, E. (1996, November). Augmenting Pattern-Based Architectural Recovery with Flow Analysis: Mosaic -A Case Study [Paper]. 3rd Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 1996), Monterey, CA.
  - Fiutem, R., Merlo, E., Antoniol, G., & Tonella, P. (1996, March). Understanding the architecture of software systems [Paper]. 4th Workshop on Program Comprehension (WPC 1996), Berlin, Germany.
- 1995
  - Antoniol, G., Fiutem, R., Merlo, E., & Tonella, P. (1995, October). Application and user interface migration from basic to visual C++ [Paper]. International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 1995), Nice, France.
  - Elwahidi, A. R., & Merlo, E. (1995, July). Generating user interfaces from specifications produced by a reverse engineering process [Paper]. 7th International Workshop on Computer-Aided Software Engineering, Toronto, Ont, CAN.
- 1994
  - Merlo, E., & De Mori, R. (1994, May). Artificial neural networks for source code informal information analysis [Paper]. International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Sorrento, Italy.
  - Merlo, E., Gagné, P.-Y., & Thiboutot, A. (1994, September). Inference of graphical AUIDL specifications for the reverse engineering of user interfaces [Paper]. International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 1994), Victoria, Can.
Book chapters (2)
- 2002
  - Dagenais, M., Patenaude, J.-F., Merlo, E., & Laguë, B. (2002). Clones Occurrence in Java and Modula-3 Software Systems. In Erdogmus, H., & Tanir, O. (eds.), Advances in software engineering (pp. 95-110).
- 2001
  - Knapen, G., Laguë, B., Dagenais, M., & Merlo, E. (2001). Parsing C++ code despite missing declarations (chp. 17). In Advances in Software engineering .
Reports (10)
- 2012
  - Ouellet, M., Gauthier, F., Merlo, E., Sozen, N., & Gagnon, M. (2012). Mapping features to source code in dynamically configured avionics software. (Technical Report n° EPM-RT-2012-02).
- 2011
  - Lavoie, T. M., & Merlo, E. (2011). Levenshtein edit distance-based type III clone detection using metric trees. (Technical Report n° EPM-RT-2011-01).
- 2009
  - Merlo, E., & Lavoie, T. M. (2009). Detection of redundant clone relations based on clone subsumption. (Technical Report n° EPM-RT-2009-05).
- 2006
  - Merlo, E., Letarte, D., & Antoniol, G. (2006). Insider threat resistant SQL-injection prevention in PHP. (Technical Report n° EPM-RT-2006-04).
- 2004
  - Merlo, E., Deslauriers, B., Antoniol, G., Brunelle, P.-L., Jomphe, M., Bouchard, G., Tremblay, J., & Hamet, P. (2004). Layered founders : a novel approach to investigate the ancestral transmission of complex traits. (Technical Report n° EPM-RT-2004-05).
- 1999
  - Balazinska, M., & Merlo, E. (1999). Redesigning software systems using clone information : technical report. (Technical Report n° EPM-RT-99-13).
- 1997
  - Merlo, E., & Antoniol, G. (1997). Dynamic pointers analysis. (Technical Report n° EPM-RT-97-07).
- 1996
  - Mayrand, J., & Merlo, E. (1996). Évaluation de la qualité des logiciels. (Technical Report n° EPM-RT-96-12).
- 1994
  - Merlo, E. (1994). Analysis, representation, and structural and behavioural abstraction for the reverse engineering of user interfaces. (Technical Report n° EPM-RT-94-06).
- 1993
  - Merlo, E., McAdam, I., & De Mori, R. (1993). Feed-forward and recurrent neural networks for source code informal information analysis. (Technical Report n° EPM-RT-93-35).
Datasets (1)
- 2025
  - Qin, Q., Li, H., Merlo, E., & Lamothe, M. (2025). Automated, Unsupervised, and Auto-parameterized Inference of Data Patterns and Anomaly Detection [Dataset].

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