# @name Michael John Decker, Ph.D. # @office Hayes 242 # @email mdecke@bgsu.edu # @position Associate Professor # @university Bowling Green State University

Activities

• Program Committee for the 42nd IEEE International Conference of Software Maintenance and Evolution ICMSE'26
• Conference publication: "How Much Can a Behavior-Preserving Changeset Be Decomposed into Refactoring Operations?" at 41st IEEE International Conference of Software Maintenance and Evolution ICMSE'25, September, 2025, DOI 10.1109/ICSME64153.2025.00084
• Conference publication: "ソースコード置換・変換の実施頻度の調査 (An Investigation into the Frequency and Consequences of Code Replacement and Conversion)" at 電子情報通信学会技術研究報告, July, 2025, ISSN 0913-5685
• Journal Publication: "On the Structure and Semantics of Identifier Names Containing Closed Syntactic Category Words" in Journal of Empirical Software Engineering, July, 2025, DOI 10.1007/s10664-025-10699-x
• Conference publication: "Scalar: A Part-of-Speech Tagger for Identifiers" in at IEEE/ACM 33rd International Conference on Program Comprehension ICPC'25, April 2025, DOI 10.1109/ICPC66645.2025.00045
• Conference publication: "Stereocode: A Tool for Automatic Identification of Method and Class Stereotypes for Software Systems" at 40th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution ICSME'24, October 2024, DOI 10.1109/ICSME58944.2024.00099
• Keynote: "srcML & srcDiff: Infrastructures to support the Software Evolution Community" at IPSJ/SIGSE Software Engineering Symposium SES2024
• Sabbatical in Tokyo, working with Shinpei Hayashi (林 晋平) from the Institute of Science Tokyo (東京科学大学)
• Session chair for the Human Aspects, Testing, and Logs of 31st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension ICPC'23
• Awarded $750K NSF grant: Collaborative Research: CCRI: New: Syntactic Differencing Infrastructure for Software Evolution Research
• Tenure & Promotion to Associate Professor at BGSU
• Tool track co-chair for 31st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension ICPC'23
• Session chair for the Program Comprehension III of 29th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering SANER'22
• Awarded Most Influential Paper (MIP) at the 21st IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM'21) to Michael L. Collard, Michael J. Decker and Jonathan I. Maletic for the SCAM 2011 paper "Lightweight Transformation and Fact Extraction with the srcML Toolkit".
• Journal Publication: "An Ensemble Approach for Annotating Source Code Identifiers with Part-of-speech Tags" in Transactions on Software Engineering, July, 2021 in Transaction on Software Engineering, December, 2020, DOI 10.1109/TSE.2021.3098242
• Journal Publication: "An Ensemble Approach for Annotating Source Code Identifiers with Part-of-speech Tags" in Transactions on Software Engineering, July, 2021 in Transaction on Software Engineering, December, 2020, DOI 10.1109/TSE.2021.3098242
• Journal Publication: "On the Generation, Structure, and Semantics of Grammar Patterns in Source Code Identifiers" in Journal of Systems and Software, December, 2020, DOI 10.1016/j.jss.2020.110740
• Journal Publication: "Contextualizing Rename Decisions using Refactorings, Commit Messages, and Data Types" in Journal of Systems and Software, November, 2020 DOI 10.1016/j.jss.2020.110704
• Presented Journal First Paper: "srcDiff: A Syntactic Differencing Approach to Improve the Understandability of Deltas" at ICSME'20
• Session chair for the Dependency Session of 20th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation SCAM'20
• Journal Publication: "srcDiff: A Syntactic Differencing Approach to Improve the Understandability of Deltas" in Journal of Software Evolution and Process, Oct 21, 2019, DOI 10.1002/smr.2226
• Awarded Best Challenge Entry at DysDoc3 for "Automatically Redocumenting Source Code with Method and Class Stereotypes"