| 2026 | ICSA | Impact of Refactoring Architectural Smells on Quality, Security, and Performance Metrics. | Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Mattia Milanese, Francesco Refolli, Catia Trubiani |
| 2026 | SANER | Exploring the Impact of Architectural Smells Refactoring in Microservice Projects. | Alessandro Messa, Matteo Bochicchio, Francesca Arcelli Fontana |
| 2025 | ECSA | Exploring Architectural Smells Detection Through LLMs. | Claudio Tessa, Matteo Bochicchio, Francesca Arcelli Fontana |
| 2025 | ENASE | Lessons Learned from Implementing a Language-Agnostic Dependency Graph Parser. | Francesco Refolli, Darius Sas, Francesca Arcelli Fontana |
| 2025 | ICSA | An Exploratory Study on Architectural Smell Refactoring Using Large Languages Models. | Gabriele Pandini, Antonio Martini, Adela Nedisan Videsjorden, Francesca Arcelli Fontana |
| 2024 | ICSA | Refactoring of a Microservices Project Driven by Architectural Smell Detection. | Paolo Bacchiega, Davide Rusconi, Paolo Mereghetti, Francesca Arcelli Fontana |
| 2023 | EASE | Impact of Architectural Smells on Software Performance: an Exploratory Study. | Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Matteo Camilli, Davide Rendina, Andrei Gabriel Taraboi, Catia Trubiani |
| 2023 | ENASE | A New Approach for Software Quality Assessment Based on Automated Code Anomalies Detection. | Andrea Biaggi, Umberto Azadi, Francesca Arcelli Fontana |
| 2023 | ICSOC | Smelling Homemade Crypto Code in Microservices, with KubeHound. | Thomas Howard-Grubb, Jacopo Soldani, Giorgio Dell'Immagine, Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Antonio Brogi |
| 2022 | ICSE | PILOT: synergy between text processing and neural networks to detect self-admitted technical debt. | Amleto Di Salle, Alessandra Rota, Phuong T. Nguyen, Davide Di Ruscio, Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Irene Sala |
| 2021 | EASE | DebtHunter: A Machine Learning-based Approach for Detecting Self-Admitted Technical Debt. | Irene Sala, Antonela Tommasel, Francesca Arcelli Fontana |
| 2021 | ECSA | Two Different Facets of Architectural Smells Criticality: An Empirical Study. | Ilaria Pigazzini, Davide Foppiani, Francesca Arcelli Fontana |
| 2021 | ICSE | Impact of Opportunistic Reuse Practices to Technical Debt. | Rafael Capilla, Tommi Mikkonen, Carlos Carrillo, Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Ilaria Pigazzini, Valentina Lenarduzzi |
| 2020 | ENASE | SAS vs. NSAS: Analysis and Comparison of Self-Adaptive Systems and Non-Self-Adaptive Systems based on Smells and Patterns. | Claudia Raibulet, Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Simone Carettoni |
| 2020 | ENASE | Internal Software Quality Evaluation of Self-adaptive Systems Using Metrics, Patterns, and Smells. | Claudia Raibulet, Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Simone Carettoni |
| 2020 | ICSE | Towards microservice smells detection. | Ilaria Pigazzini, Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Valentina Lenarduzzi, Davide Taibi |
| 2019 | ECSA | PageRank and criticality of architectural smells. | Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Ilaria Pigazzini, Claudia Raibulet, Stefano Basciano, Riccardo Roveda |
| 2019 | ECSA | Tool Support for the Migration to Microservice Architecture: An Industrial Case Study. | Ilaria Pigazzini, Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Andrea Maggioni |
| 2019 | ICSE | Architectural smells detected by tools: a catalogue proposal. | Umberto Azadi, Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Davide Taibi |
| 2018 | ECSA | Identifying and Prioritizing Architectural Debt Through Architectural Smells: A Case Study in a Large Software Company. | Antonio Martini, Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Andrea Biaggi, Riccardo Roveda |
| 2018 | ICSE | Machine learning based code smell detection through WekaNose. | Umberto Azadi, Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Marco Zanoni |
| 2018 | ICSE | How do community smells influence code smells? | Fabio Palomba, Damian A. Tamburri, Alexander Serebrenik, Andy Zaidman, Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Rocco Oliveto |
| 2018 | SCAM | [Research Paper] Automatic Detection of Sources and Sinks in Arbitrary Java Libraries. | Darius Sas, Marco Bessi, Francesca Arcelli Fontana |
| 2017 | EASE | Change Prediction through Coding Rules Violations. | Irene Tollin, Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Marco Zanoni, Riccardo Roveda |
| 2017 | ECSA | Evaluation of self-adaptive systems: a women perspective. | Claudia Raibulet, Francesca Arcelli Fontana |
| 2017 | ENASE | Does the Migration to GitHub Relate to Internal Software Quality?. | Riccardo Roveda, Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Claudia Raibulet, Marco Zanoni, Federico Rampazzo |
| 2017 | ICSA | Arcan: A Tool for Architectural Smells Detection. | Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Ilaria Pigazzini, Riccardo Roveda, Damian A. Tamburri, Marco Zanoni, Elisabetta Di Nitto |
| 2017 | ITiCSE | Students' Feedback in Using GitHub in a Project Development for a Software Engineering Course. | Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Claudia Raibulet |
| 2016 | SAC | Tool support for evaluating architectural debt of an existing system: an experience report. | Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Riccardo Roveda, Marco Zanoni |
| 2015 | ICSE | A Context-Aware Style of Software Design. | Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Pietro Braione, Riccardo Roveda, Marco Zanoni |
| 2015 | ICSE | Towards Assessing Software Architecture Quality by Exploiting Code Smell Relations. | Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Vincenzo Ferme, Marco Zanoni |
| 2015 | ICSE | Poster: Filtering Code Smells Detection Results. | Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Vincenzo Ferme, Marco Zanoni |
| 2015 | ICSE | Automatic Metric Thresholds Derivation for Code Smell Detection. | Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Vincenzo Ferme, Marco Zanoni, Aiko Yamashita |
| 2014 | ESEM | Tracking line changes in source code repositories. | Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Marco Zanoni |
| 2014 | IC3K | Discover Knowledge on FLOSS Projects Through RepoFinder. | Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Riccardo Roveda, Marco Zanoni |
| 2014 | XP | Capturing Software Evolution and Change through Code Repository Smells. | Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Matteo Rolla, Marco Zanoni |
| 2012 | ICSE | Investigating the impact of code smells debt on quality code evaluation. | Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Vincenzo Ferme, Stefano Spinelli |
| 2011 | ICSE | Impact of refactoring on quality code evaluation. | Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Stefano Spinelli |
| 2011 | ICST | An Experience Report on Using Code Smells Detection Tools. | Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Elia Mariani, Andrea Morniroli, Raul Sormani, Alberto Tonello |
| 2011 | ICST | On Investigating Code Smells Correlations. | Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Marco Zanoni |
| 2011 | SEW | Metrics and Antipatterns for Software Quality Evaluation. | Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Stefano Maggioni |
| 2010 | IC3K | Ontologies and Communities Co-evolution in Information Systems . | Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Ferrante Formato, Remo Pareschi |
| 2010 | ICCCI | Information-Driven Collective Intelligences. | Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Ferrante Formato, Remo Pareschi |
| 2009 | ENASE | JADEPT: Dynamic Analysis for Behavioral Design Pattern Detection. | Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Fabrizio Perin, Claudia Raibulet, Stefano Ravani |
| 2009 | ICSE | Software aging assessment through a specialization of the SQuaRE quality model. | Michele Bombardieri, Francesca Arcelli Fontana |
| 2009 | ISDA | Equalizing the Structures of Web Communities in Ontology Development Tools. | Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Ferrante Formato, Remo Pareschi |
| 2006 | ECOOP | Evolution of an Adaptive Middleware Exploiting Architectural Reflection. | Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Claudia Raibulet |
| 2006 | SEW | An Eclipse Plug-in for the Java PathFinder Runtime Verification System. | Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Claudia Raibulet, Ivano Rigo, Luigi Ubezio |
| 2005 | CaiSE | Exploiting Reflection for Software Architectures. | Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Claudia Raibulet, Francesco Tisato |
| 2004 | SEKE | Architectural Reflection in Adaptive Systems. | Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Claudia Raibulet, Francesco Tisato, Marzia Adorni |
| 2003 | SEKE | A Distributed Document Management Approach for Workflow Support in the DBSA Architecture. | Andrea Trentini, Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Francesco Tisato |
| 2000 | SAC | User Adaptive Models Based on Similarity. | Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Ferrante Formato |
| 1999 | SAC | Likelog: A Logic Programming Language for Flexible Data Retrieval. | Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Ferrante Formato |
| 1997 | SAC | Using fuzzy grammars for the evaluation of SGML-based documents. | Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Ferrante Formato |