Publications

    2025
  1. Natarajan Chidambaram, Tom Mens, Observing bots in the wild: A quantitative analysis of a large open source ecosystem, 6th International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering (BotSE) 2025. PDF (updated), Slides
  2. Natarajan Chidambaram, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, A Bot Identification Model and Tool Based on GitHub Activity Sequences, Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 221, pp. 112287, 2025. PDF, Tool, Slides

    3. 2024
  3. Mohamed Benkedadra, Dany Rimez, Tiffanie Godelaine, Natarajan Chidambaram, Hamed Razavi Khosroshahi, Horacio Tellez, Matei Mancas, Benoit Macq, Sidi Ahmed Mahmoudi, CIA: Controllable Image Augmentation Framework based on Stable Diffusion, International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR), 2024. PDF, Framework
  4. Natarajan Chidambaram, Tom Mens, Alexandre Decan, RABBIT: A tool for identifying bot accounts based on their recent GitHub event history, 21th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) Data and Tools Showcase Track, 2024. PDF, Tool repository, Slides

    5. 2023
  5. Natarajan Chidambaram, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, Distinguishing Bot From Human Developers Based on Their GitHub Activity Types, Seminar on Advanced Techniques & Tools for Software Evolution (SATToSE), 2023. PDF, Slides
  6. Natarajan Chidambaram, Alexandre Decan, Tom Mens, A Dataset of Bot and Human Activities in GitHub, 20th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) Data and Tools Showcase Track, 2023. PDF, Slides, Dataset
  7. Laura Gálvez Jiménez, Lucile Dierckx, Maxime Amodei, Hamed Razavi Khosroshahi, Natarajan Chidambaram, Anh-Thu Phan Ho, Alberto Franzin, Computational Evaluation of the Combination of Semi-Supervised and Active Learning for Histopathology Image Segmentation with Missing Annotations, Computer Vision for Automated Medical Diagnosis (CVAMD), IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop (ICCV) 2023. PDF

    8. 2022
  8. Mehdi Golzadeh, Tom Mens, Alexandre Decan, Eleni Constantinou and Natarajan Chidambaram, Recognizing bot activity in collaborative software development, IEEE Software, vol. 39, no. 5, pp. 56-61. PDF
  9. Natarajan Chidambaram, Pooya Rostami Mazrae, Bot Detection in GitHub Repositories, 19th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), Hackathon, 2022. PDF, Slides, Presentation video
  10. Mehdi Golzadeh, Alexandre Decan, Natarajan Chidambaram, On the Accuracy of Bot Detection Techniques, 4th International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering (BotSE) 2022. PDF
  11. Natarajan Chidambaram, Alexandre Decan, Mehdi Golzadeh, Leveraging Predictions From Multiple Repositories to Improve Bot Detection, 4th International Workshop on Bots in Software Engineering (BotSE) 2022. PDF, Slides
  12. Natarajan Chidambaram, Predicting the Impact of Using Bots in Collaborative Software Development, 20th International Conference on Software and System Reuse (ICSR), Doctoral Symposium, 2022. PDF, Presentation video

    13. 2018
  13. Natarajan Chidambaram, Devi Vijayan, Detection of Exudates in Diabetic Retinopathy Using SVM Classifier, International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI), 2018. PDF