| 2026 | SANER | A Story About Cohesion and Separation: Label-Free Metric for Log Parser Evaluation. | Qiaolin Qin, Jianchen Zhao, Heng Li, Weiyi Shang, Ettore Merlo |
| 2025 | ICSE | Automated, Unsupervised, and Auto-Parameterized Inference of Data Patterns and Anomaly Detection. | Qiaolin Qin, Heng Li, Ettore Merlo, Maxime Lamothe |
| 2025 | ISSRE | Effective, Efficient, and Environmentally Friendly Out-of-Model-Scope Detection Methodology. | Zhenyu Yang, Ettore Merlo, Clment Benesse, Lina Marsso |
| 2025 | SANER | Preprocessing is All You Need: Boosting the Performance of Log Parsers with a General Preprocessing Framework. | Qiaolin Qin, Roozbeh Aghili, Heng Li, Ettore Merlo |
| 2023 | DIS | Unsupervised Graph Neural Networks for Source Code Similarity Detection. | Julien Cassagne, Ettore Merlo, Paula Branco, Guy-Vincent Jourdan, Iosif-Viorel Onut |
| 2022 | CAIN | Identification of out-of-distribution cases of CNN using class-based surprise adequacy. | Mira Marhaba, Ettore Merlo, Foutse Khomh, Giuliano Antoniol |
| 2018 | ICSE | Engineering safety in swarm robotics. | Giovanni Beltrame, Ettore Merlo, Jacopo Panerati, Carlo Pinciroli |
| 2017 | PST | Classification and Distribution of RBAC Privilege Protection Changes in Wordpress Evolution (Short Paper). | Marc-Andr Laverdire, Ettore Merlo |
| 2013 | ACSAC | Uncovering access control weaknesses and flaws with security-discordant software clones. | Franois Gauthier, Thierry Lavoie, Ettore Merlo |
| 2013 | ICSE | Semantic smells and errors in access control models: a case study in PHP. | Franois Gauthier, Ettore Merlo |
| 2013 | PLDI | Soot class loading in the rootbeer GPU compiler. | Philip C. Pratt-Szeliga, Marc-Andr Laverdire, Ettore Merlo, James W. Fawcett, Roy D. Welch |
| 2012 | ICSE | Locating features in dynamically configured avionics software. | Maxime Ouellet, Ettore Merlo, Neset Sozen, Martin Gagnon |
| 2012 | ICSE | Adapting software product lines for complex certifiable avionics software. | Neset Sozen, Ettore Merlo |
| 2012 | SIGMOD | Targeted genetic test SQL generation for the DB2 database. | Dominic Letarte, Franois Gauthier, Ettore Merlo, Nattavut Sutyanyong, Calisto Zuzarte |
| 2012 | SCAM | Alias-Aware Propagation of Simple Pattern-Based Properties in PHP Applications. | Franois Gauthier, Ettore Merlo |
| 2011 | ICST | Security Model Evolution of PHP Web Applications. | Dominic Letarte, Franois Gauthier, Ettore Merlo |
| 2011 | PST | Extraction and comprehension of moodle's access control model: A case study. | Franois Gauthier, Dominic Letarte, Thierry Lavoie, Ettore Merlo |
| 2006 | GECCO | A novel approach to optimize clone refactoring activity. | Salah Bouktif, Giuliano Antoniol, Ettore Merlo, Markus Neteler |
| 2005 | GECCO | Improving network applications security: a new heuristic to generate stress testing data. | Concettina Del Grosso, Giuliano Antoniol, Massimiliano Di Penta, Philippe Galinier, Ettore Merlo |
| 2003 | ISSRE | Investigating Java Type Analyses for the Receiver-Classes Testing Criterion. | Pierre-Luc Brunelle, Ettore Merlo, Giuliano Antoniol |
| 2002 | COMPSAC | Investigating Large Software System Evolution: The Linux Kernel. | Ettore Merlo, Michel R. Dagenais, P. Bachand, J. S. Sormani, Sara Gradara, Giuliano Antoniol |
| 2001 | SCAM | Identifying Clones in the Linux Kernel. | Giuliano Antoniol, Umberto Villano, Massimiliano Di Penta, Gerardo Casazza, Ettore Merlo |
| 1998 | ICSE | Process Assurance Audits: Lessons Learned. | Alain April, Alain Abran, Ettore Merlo |
| 1997 | ICSE | Flow Insensitive C++ Pointers and Polymorphism Analysis and its Application to Slicing. | Paolo Tonella, Giuliano Antoniol, Roberto Fiutem, Ettore Merlo |
| 1993 | IJCAI | Source Code Informal Information Analysis Using Connectionist Models. | Ettore Merlo, Ian McAdam, Renato de Mori |
| 1987 | IJCAI | Use of Procedural Knowledge for Automatic Speech Recognition. | Renato de Mori, Ettore Merlo, Mathew J. Palakal, Jean Rouat |
| 1986 | ICASSP | A continuous parameter and frequency domain based Markov model. | Ettore Merlo, Renato De Mori, Mathew Palakal, Guy Mercier |