| 2026 | MSR | Why Are Agentic Pull Requests Merged or Rejected? An Empirical Study. | Sien Reeve Ordonez Peralta, Fumika Hoshi, Hironori Washizaki, Naoyasu Ubayashi, Inase Kondo, Yoshiki Higo, Hiroki Mukai, Norihiro Yoshida, Kazuki Kusama, Hidetake Tanaka, Youmei Fan |
| 2026 | SANER | Leveraging Mutation Analysis for LLM-Based Repair of Quantum Programs. | Chihiro Yoshida, Yuta Ishimoto, Olivier Nourry, Masanari Kondo, Makoto Matsushita, Yasutaka Kamei, Yoshiki Higo |
| 2025 | MSR | A Dataset of Software Bill of Materials for Evaluating SBOM Consumption Tools. | Rio Kishimoto, Tetsuya Kanda, Yuki Manabe, Katsuro Inoue, Shi Qiu, Yoshiki Higo |
| 2025 | PROFES | Coverage Isn't Enough: SBFL-Driven Insights into Manually Created vs. Automatically Generated Tests. | Sasara Shimizu, Yoshiki Higo |
| 2024 | APSEC | Challenges in Adopting LLaMA: An Empirical Study of Discussions on Stack Overflow. | Ramita Deeprom, Shiyu Yang, Yoshiki Higo, Morakot Choetkiertikul, Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul |
| 2024 | APSEC | Autorepairability of ChatGPT and Gemini: A Comparative Study. | Chutweeraya Sriwilailak, Yoshiki Higo, Pongpop Lapvikai, Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul, Morakot Choetkiertikul |
| 2024 | PROFES | The Effects of Semantic Information on LLM-Based Program Repair. | Shota Hori, Shinsuke Matsumoto, Yoshiki Higo, Shinji Kusumoto, Kazuya Yasuda, Shinji Itoh, Phan Thi Thanh Huyen |
| 2024 | SERA | Improving Accuracy of LLM-based Code Clone Detection U sing Functionally Equivalent Methods. | Ryutaro Inoue, Yoshiki Higo |
| 2024 | SERA | Revisiting Program Suitability for Fault Localization with Large Dataset and Various Mutation Operators. | Hikaru Kubo, Yoshiki Higo, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2024 | SERA | SBOM Challenges for Developers: From Analysis of Stack Overflow Questions. | Wataru Otoda, Tetsuya Kanda, Yuki Manabe, Katsuro Inoue, Yoshiki Higo |
| 2024 | SERA | Estimating the Difficulty of Programming Problems Using Fine-tuned LLM. | Chihiro Yoshida, Makoto Matsushita, Yoshiki Higo |
| 2023 | APSEC | Cost-Benefit Analysis for Modernizing a Large-Scale Industrial System. | Kazuki Yokoi, Eunjong Choi, Norihiro Yoshida, Joji Okada, Yoshiki Higo |
| 2023 | PROFES | Impacts of Program Structures on Code Coverage of Generated Test Suites. | Ryoga Watanabe, Yoshiki Higo, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2023 | PROFES | Do Exceptional Behavior Tests Matter on Spectrum-Based Fault Localization? | Haruka Yoshioka, Yoshiki Higo, Shinsuke Matsumoto, Shinji Kusumoto, Shinji Itoh, Phan Thi Thanh Huyen |
| 2022 | MSR | Constructing Dataset of Functionally Equivalent Java Methods Using Automated Test Generation Techniques. | Yoshiki Higo, Shinsuke Matsumoto, Shinji Kusumoto, Kazuya Yasuda |
| 2022 | PROFES | Classification of Changes Based on API. | Masashi Iriyama, Yoshiki Higo, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2022 | PROFES | Are NLP Metrics Suitable for Evaluating Generated Code? | Riku Takaichi, Yoshiki Higo, Shinsuke Matsumoto, Shinji Kusumoto, Toshiyuki Kurabayashi, Hiroyuki Kirinuki, Haruto Tanno |
| 2022 | SCAM | Improving Weighted-SBFL by Blocking Spectrum. | Haruka Yoshioka, Yoshiki Higo, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2021 | APSEC | Towards Accurate File Tracking Based on AST Differences. | Akira Fujimoto, Yoshiki Higo, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2021 | APSEC | Tree-based Mining of Fine-grained Code Changes to Detect Unknown Change Patterns. | Yoshiki Higo, Junnosuke Matsumoto, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2021 | APSEC | Applying Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm for Efficient Selection on Program Generation. | Hiroto Watanabe, Shinsuke Matsumoto, Yoshiki Higo, Shinji Kusumoto, Toshiyuki Kurabayashi, Hiroyuki Kirinuki, Haruto Tanno |
| 2020 | APSEC | How Weak Reference is Used in Java Projects? | Yoshiki Higo, Shinsuke Matsumoto, Taeyoung Kim, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2020 | APSEC | CLIONE: Clone Modification Support for Pull Request Based Development. | Tasuku Nakagawa, Yoshiki Higo, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2020 | COMPSAC | Does This Code Change Affect Program Behavior? Identifying Nonbehavioral Changes with Bytecode. | Aoi Maejima, Yoshiki Higo, Junnosuke Matsumoto, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2020 | ICSE | Program Repairing History as Git Repository. | Ryoko Izuta, Shinsuke Matsumoto, Yoshiki Higo, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2019 | APSEC | A Code Clone Curation - Towards Scalable and Incremental Clone Detection -. | Masayuki Doi, Yoshiki Higo, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2019 | APSEC | How Compact Will My System Be? A Fully-Automated Way to Calculate LoC Reduced by Clone Refactoring. | Tasuku Nakagawa, Yoshiki Higo, Junnosuke Matsumoto, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2019 | COMPSAC | Achievements Visualization in Programming Education. | Kaisei Hanayama, Shinsuke Matsumoto, Yoshiki Higo, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2019 | MSR | Impacts of daylight saving time on software development. | Junichi Hayashi, Yoshiki Higo, Shinsuke Matsumoto, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2019 | MSR | Beyond GumTree: a hybrid approach to generate edit scripts. | Junnosuke Matsumoto, Yoshiki Higo, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2019 | VISSOFT | Visualizing Code Genealogy: How Code is Evolutionarily Fixed in Program Repair? | Yuya Tomida, Yoshiki Higo, Shinsuke Matsumoto, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2018 | APSEC | kGenProg: A High-Performance, High-Extensibility and High-Portability APR System. | Yoshiki Higo, Shinsuke Matsumoto, Ryo Arima, Akito Tanikado, Keigo Naitou, Junnosuke Matsumoto, Yuya Tomida, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2018 | MSR | A study on inappropriately partitioned commits: how much and what kinds of IP commits in Java projects? | Ryo Arima, Yoshiki Higo, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2017 | COMPSAC | Investigation and Detection of Split Commit. | Ryo Arima, Yoshiki Higo, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2017 | COMPSAC | Finding Extract Method Refactoring Opportunities by Analyzing Development History. | Ayaka Imazato, Yoshiki Higo, Keisuke Hotta, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2017 | COMPSAC | New Strategies for Selecting Reuse Candidates on Automated Program Repair. | Akito Tanikado, Haruki Yokoyama, Masahiro Yamamoto, Soichi Sumi, Yoshiki Higo, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2016 | APSEC | Splitting Commits via Past Code Changes. | Hiroyuki Kirinuki, Yoshiki Higo, Keisuke Hotta, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2016 | APSEC | Toward Developer-like Automated Program Repair - Modification Comparisons between GenProg and Developers. | Hiroki Nakajima, Yoshiki Higo, Haruki Yokoyama, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2016 | SAC | Toward improving ability to repair bugs automatically: a patch candidate location mechanism using code similarity. | Haruki Yokoyama, Yoshiki Higo, Keisuke Hotta, Takafumi Ohta, Kozo Okano, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2015 | ICSR | How Often Is Necessary Code Missing? - A Controlled Experiment -. | Tomoya Ishihara, Yoshiki Higo, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2015 | ICSR | Revealing Purity and Side Effects on Functions for Reusing Java Libraries. | Jiachen Yang, Keisuke Hotta, Yoshiki Higo, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2015 | MSR | Toward Reusing Code Changes. | Yoshiki Higo, Akio Ohtani, Shinpei Hayashi, Hideaki Hata, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2014 | APSEC | Predicting Next Changes at the Fine-Grained Level. | Hiroaki Murakami, Keisuke Hotta, Yoshiki Higo, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2014 | MSR | A dataset of clone references with gaps. | Hiroaki Murakami, Yoshiki Higo, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2014 | PROFES | Predicting Risky Clones Based on Machine Learning. | Ayaka Imazato, Keisuke Hotta, Yoshiki Higo, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2013 | APSEC | How Much Do Code Repositories Include Peripheral Modifications? | Noa Kusunoki, Keisuke Hotta, Yoshiki Higo, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2013 | APSEC | Seamless Code Reuse with Source Code Corpus. | Tetsuo Yamamoto, Norihiro Yoshida, Yoshiki Higo |
| 2013 | PROFES | Improving Process of Source Code Modification Focusing on Repeated Code. | Ayaka Imazato, Yui Sasaki, Yoshiki Higo, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2012 | APSEC | Preprocessing of Metrics Measurement Based on Simplifying Program Structures. | Yui Sasaki, Tomoya Ishihara, Keisuke Hotta, Hideaki Hata, Yoshiki Higo, Hiroshi Igaki, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2012 | APSEC | An Experience Report on Analyzing Industrial Software Systems Using Code Clone Detection Techniques. | Norihiro Yoshida, Yoshiki Higo, Shinji Kusumoto, Katsuro Inoue |
| 2012 | SNPD | A Study of Student Experience Metrics for Software Development PBL. | Umekawa Kohichi, Hiroshi Igaki, Yoshiki Higo, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2012 | SCAM | Folding Repeated Instructions for Improving Token-Based Code Clone Detection. | Hiroaki Murakami, Keisuke Hotta, Yoshiki Higo, Hiroshi Igaki, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2011 | ICSE | A visualization method of program dependency graph for identifying extract method opportunity. | Tomoko Kanemitsu, Yoshiki Higo, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2009 | APSEC | Problematic Code Clones Identification Using Multiple Detection Results. | Yoshiki Higo, Ken-ichi Sawa, Shinji Kusumoto |
| 2008 | ICSE | A metric-based approach for reconstructing methods in object-oriented systems. | Tatsuya Miyake, Yoshiki Higo, Katsuro Inoue |
| 2008 | ISSTA | Predicting fault-prone modules based on metrics transitions. | Yoshiki Higo, Kenji Murao, Shinji Kusumoto, Katsuro Inoue |
| 2007 | APSEC | Simultaneous Modification Support based on Code Clone Analysis. | Yoshiki Higo, Yasushi Ueda, Shinji Kusumoto, Katsuro Inoue |
| 2007 | ICSE | Very-Large Scale Code Clone Analysis and Visualization of Open Source Programs Using Distributed CCFinder: D-CCFinder. | Simone Livieri, Yoshiki Higo, Makoto Matsushita, Katsuro Inoue |
| 2007 | MSR | Analysis of the Linux Kernel Evolution Using Code Clone Coverage. | Simone Livieri, Yoshiki Higo, Makoto Matsushita, Katsuro Inoue |
| 2006 | ICSE | Effects of software industry structure on a research framework for empirical software engineering. | Yoshiki Mitani, Nahomi Kikuchi, Tomoko Matsumura, Satoshi Iwamura, Yoshiki Higo, Katsuro Inoue, Mike Barker, Ken-ichi Matsumoto |
| 2005 | ICSE | ARIES: refactoring support tool for code clone. | Yoshiki Higo, Toshihiro Kamiya, Shinji Kusumoto, Katsuro Inoue |
| 2004 | PROFES | Refactoring Support Based on Code Clone Analysis. | Yoshiki Higo, Toshihiro Kamiya, Shinji Kusumoto, Katsuro Inoue |
| 2002 | PROFES | On Software Maintenance Process Improvement Based on Code Clone Analysis. | Yoshiki Higo, Yasushi Ueda, Toshihiro Kamiya, Shinji Kusumoto, Katsuro Inoue |