Dr. Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer
University of Michigan-Flint, USA

Email: [email protected] 

Qualifications
2016  Ph.D., University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
2010  M.Sc., University of Tunisia, Tunis
2007  B.Sc., University of Tunisia, Tunis

Publications (Selected)

1. Ben Mrad, A., Thiombiano, A. M. O., Mkaouer, M. W., et al. (2026). On the effectiveness of large language models in predicting new method names after code modifications. Information and Software Technology, 197, Article 108179.
2. Alomar, E. A., Ashkenas, J., Feliciano, R., et al. (2026). ANTICOPYPASTER 3.0: Just-in-Time Clone Refactoring. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 35(5), Article 132.
3. Bessghaier, N., Ouni, A., Sayagh, M., et al. (2026). A search-based file recommendation approach for infrastructure-as-code evolution. Journal of Systems and Software, 234, Article 112746.
4. Ben Messaoud, M., Nour, A., Ben Khalifa, I., et al. (2025). Detecting Software Defects With Hierarchical Multilabel Classification: Insights From an Industrial Case Study. IT Professional, 27(5), 31-37.
5. Ben Messaoud, M., Nour, A., Ben Khalifa, I., et al. (2026). Hierarchical multi-label classification for concrete defects: An industrial case study at Vermeg. Journal of Systems and Software, 231, Article 102896.
6. Newman, C. D., Peruma, A., Alomar, E. A., et al. (2025). On the structure and semantics of identifier names containing closed syntactic category words. Empirical Software Engineering, 30(5), Article 148.
7. Bessghaier, N., Ouni, A., Sayagh, M., et al. (2025). Towards understanding code review practices for infrastructure-as-code: An empirical study on OpenStack projects. Empirical Software Engineering, 30(3), Article 106.
8. Chouchen, M., Ouni, A., & Mkaouer, M. W. (2024). MULTICR: Predicting Merged and Abandoned Code Changes in Modern Code Review Using Multi-Objective Search. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 33(8), Article 213.
9. AlOmar, E. A., Mkaouer, M. W., & Ouni, A. (2024). Behind the Intent of Extract Method Refactoring: A Systematic Literature Review. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 50(4), 668-694.
10. Bessghaier, N., Sayagh, M., Ouni, A., et al. (2024). What Constitutes the Deployment and Runtime Configuration System? An Empirical Study on OpenStack Projects. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 33(1), Article 5.
11. Deshpande, N., Mkaouer, M. W., Ouni, A., et al. (2024). Third-party software library migration at the method-level using multi-objective evolutionary search. Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 84, Article 101444.
12. Ouni, A., AlOmar, E. A., Hamdi, O., et al. (2023). On the impact of single and co-occurrent refactorings on quality attributes in android applications. Journal of Systems and Software, 205, Article 111817.
13. Chouchen, M., Ouni, A., Olongo, J., et al. (2023). Learning to Predict Code Review Completion Time In Modern Code Review. Empirical Software Engineering, 28(4), Article 82.
14. Daaji, M., Ouni, A., Gammoudi, M. M., et al. (2023). BPEL process defects prediction using multi-objective evolutionary search. Journal of Systems and Software, 204, Article 111767.
15. AlOmar, E. A., Ivanov, A., Kurbatova, Z., et al. (2023). Just-in-time code duplicates extraction. Information and Software Technology, 158, Article 107169.
16. Saidani, I., Ouni, A., & Mkaouer, M. W. (2022). Detecting Continuous Integration Skip Commits Using Multi-Objective Evolutionary Search. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 48(12), 4873-4891.
17. Almarimi, N., Ouni, A., Chouchen, M., et al. (2023). Improving the detection of community smells through socio-technical and sentiment analysis. Journal of Software-Evolution and Process, 35(6), Article e2505.
18. Newman, C. D., Decker, M. J., Alsuhaibani, R. S., et al. (2022). An Ensemble Approach for Annotating Source Code Identifiers With Part-of-Speech Tags. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 48(9), 3506-3522.
19. Ben Messaoud, M., Miladi, A., Jenhani, I., et al. (2023). Duplicate Bug Report Detection Using an Attention-Based Neural Language Model. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 72(2), 846-858.
20. Sellami, K., Ouni, A., Saied, M. A., et al. (2022). Improving microservices extraction using evolutionary search. Information and Software Technology, 151, Article 106996.
21. Saidani, I., Ouni, A., Ahasanuzzaman, M., et al. (2022). Tracking bad updates in mobile apps: a search-based approach. Empirical Software Engineering, 27(4), Article 81.

Profile Details
https://directory.umflint.edu/computer-science-engineering-and-physics/mmkaouer
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=UoHgCukAAAAJ&hl=en
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohamed-Wiem-Mkaouer-2

WOS ResearcherID: N-7476-2017