Business Analytics Lab

Welcome to the Business Analytics Laboratory, established at the Department of Management Science and Technology of the Athens University of Economics and Business, and headed by Diomidis Spinellis. Here we research, develop, and disseminate software, systems, methods, and practices associated with the following areas.

  • Software engineering and management science applications of business analytics
  • Business analytics software and systems
  • Data analytics approaches for IT security
  • Industrial adoption of business analytics applications and systems
  • Optimization methods in business analytics

    • Recent Publications

      • Diomidis Spinellis. Efficient graph processing. IEEE Software, 42(1):22–25, January 2025. doi:10.1109/ms.2024.3477013.

      • Diomidis Spinellis, Panos Louridas, Maria Kechagia, and Tushar Sharma. Broken windows: Exploring the applicability of a controversial theory on code quality. In ICSME '24: International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, 400–412. IEEE, October 2024.

      • Diomidis Spinellis. Unit tests for SQL. IEEE Software, 41(1):22–26, January 2024.

      • Diomidis Spinellis. Refactoring with regular expressions. IEEE Software, 41(6):29–33, November 2024. doi:10.1109/MS.2024.3439028.

      • Diomidis Spinellis. Pair programming with generative AI. IEEE Software, 41(3):16–18, May 2024.

      • Diomidis Spinellis. Modular data analytics. IEEE Software, September 2024.

      • Diomidis Spinellis. Engineering data processing workflows. IEEE Software, 41(4):25–29, July 2024.

      • Diomidis Spinellis. Automating a massive open online course's production. IEEE Software, 41(2):17–20, March 2024.

      • Eileen Kapel, Luis Cruz, Diomidis Spinellis, and Arie Van Deursen. On the difficulty of identifying incident-inducing changes. In Proceedings of the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice, ICSE-SEIP '24, 36–46. New York, NY, USA, 2024. Association for Computing Machinery.

      • Eileen Kapel, Luis Cruz, Diomidis Spinellis, and Arie van Deursen. Enhancing incident management: Insights from a case study at ING. In Proceedings of the 1st IEEE/ACM Workshop on Software Engineering Challenges in Financial Firms, FinanSE '24, 1–8. New York, NY, USA, 2024. Association for Computing Machinery.

      • Georgios-Petros Drosos, Thodoris Sotiropoulos, Diomidis Spinellis, and Dimitris Mitropoulos. Bloat beneath Python's scales: a fine-grained inter-project dependency analysis. In Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering, FSE '24. ACM, July 2024.

      • Georgios-Petros Drosos, Thodoris Sotiropoulos, Diomidis Spinellis, and Dimitris Mitropoulos. Bloat beneath python's scales: a fine-grained inter-project dependency analysis. July 2024.

      • Stefanos Chaliasos, Marcos Antonios Charalambous, Liyi Zhou, Rafaila Galanopoulou, Arthur Gervais, Dimitris Mitropoulos, and Ben Livshits. Smart contract and DeFi security tools: do they meet the needs of practitioners? In 45th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE '24. 2024. To appear.

      • Diomidis Spinellis, Alberto Bacchelli, and Eleni Constantinou, editors. MSR '24: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, New York, NY, USA, 2024. Association for Computing Machinery.