{"id":"https://openalex.org/W2899324080","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3236024.3236056","title":"Do the dependency conflicts in my project matter?","display_name":"Do the dependency conflicts in my project matter?","publication_year":2018,"publication_date":"2018-10-26","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W2899324080","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3236024.3236056","mag":"2899324080"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1145/3236024.3236056","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3236024.3236056","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Proceedings of the 2018 26th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering","raw_type":"proceedings-article"},"type":"conference-paper","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5102706599","display_name":"Ying Wang","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9073-9842"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I9224756","display_name":"Northeastern University","ror":"https://ror.org/03awzbc87","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I9224756"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Ying Wang","raw_affiliation_strings":["Northeastern University, China"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Northeastern University, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I9224756"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5003031253","display_name":"Ming Wen","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5588-9618"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I200769079","display_name":"Hong Kong University of Science and Technology","ror":"https://ror.org/00q4vv597","country_code":"HK","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I200769079"]}],"countries":["HK"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Ming Wen","raw_affiliation_strings":["Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I200769079"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5043985247","display_name":"Zhenwei Liu","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1223-3218"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I9224756","display_name":"Northeastern University","ror":"https://ror.org/03awzbc87","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I9224756"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Zhenwei Liu","raw_affiliation_strings":["Northeastern University, China"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Northeastern University, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I9224756"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5054822682","display_name":"Rongxin Wu","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4648-3795"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I200769079","display_name":"Hong Kong University of Science and Technology","ror":"https://ror.org/00q4vv597","country_code":"HK","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I200769079"]}],"countries":["HK"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Rongxin Wu","raw_affiliation_strings":["Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I200769079"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5100431163","display_name":"Rui Wang","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9048-2979"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I9224756","display_name":"Northeastern University","ror":"https://ror.org/03awzbc87","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I9224756"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Rui Wang","raw_affiliation_strings":["Northeastern University, China"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Northeastern University, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I9224756"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5065763579","display_name":"Bo Yang","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1928-7526"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I9224756","display_name":"Northeastern University","ror":"https://ror.org/03awzbc87","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I9224756"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Bo Yang","raw_affiliation_strings":["Northeastern University, China"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Northeastern University, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I9224756"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5080895253","display_name":"Hai Yu","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8024-1781"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I9224756","display_name":"Northeastern University","ror":"https://ror.org/03awzbc87","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I9224756"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Hai Yu","raw_affiliation_strings":["Northeastern University, China"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Northeastern University, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I9224756"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5040140553","display_name":"Zhiliang Zhu","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3450-1711"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I9224756","display_name":"Northeastern University","ror":"https://ror.org/03awzbc87","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I9224756"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Zhiliang Zhu","raw_affiliation_strings":["Northeastern University, China"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Northeastern University, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I9224756"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5034057959","display_name":"Shing-Chi Cheung","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3508-7172"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I200769079","display_name":"Hong Kong University of Science and Technology","ror":"https://ror.org/00q4vv597","country_code":"HK","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I200769079"]}],"countries":["HK"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Shing-Chi Cheung","raw_affiliation_strings":["Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I200769079"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":2,"institutions_distinct_count":2,"corresponding_author_ids":[],"corresponding_institution_ids":[],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":6.6367,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":83,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.97508035,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":true},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":94,"max":100},"biblio":{"volume":null,"issue":null,"first_page":"319","last_page":"330"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10260","display_name":"Software Engineering Research","score":0.9998999834060669,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1710","display_name":"Information Systems"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10260","display_name":"Software Engineering Research","score":0.9998999834060669,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1710","display_name":"Information Systems"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12423","display_name":"Software Reliability and Analysis Research","score":0.9950000047683716,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1712","display_name":"Software"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12127","display_name":"Software System Performance and Reliability","score":0.9919000267982483,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1705","display_name":"Computer Networks and Communications"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/dependency","display_name":"Dependency (UML)","score":0.8145326375961304},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/java","display_name":"Java","score":0.7610771656036377},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-science","display_name":"Computer science","score":0.736756443977356},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/feature","display_name":"Feature (linguistics)","score":0.5707886219024658},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/class","display_name":"Class (philosophy)","score":0.5546273589134216},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/precision-and-recall","display_name":"Precision and recall","score":0.545031726360321},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/open-source-software","display_name":"Open source software","score":0.44882023334503174},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/open-source","display_name":"Open source","score":0.447553426027298},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/cover","display_name":"Cover (algebra)","score":0.44746124744415283},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/software-engineering","display_name":"Software engineering","score":0.4424993395805359},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/programming-language","display_name":"Programming language","score":0.347432017326355},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/software","display_name":"Software","score":0.3264209032058716},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/information-retrieval","display_name":"Information retrieval","score":0.25502392649650574},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/artificial-intelligence","display_name":"Artificial intelligence","score":0.17200499773025513},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/engineering","display_name":"Engineering","score":0.10422831773757935}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C19768560","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q320727","display_name":"Dependency (UML)","level":2,"score":0.8145326375961304},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C548217200","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q251","display_name":"Java","level":2,"score":0.7610771656036377},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.736756443977356},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2776401178","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12050496","display_name":"Feature (linguistics)","level":2,"score":0.5707886219024658},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2777212361","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5127848","display_name":"Class (philosophy)","level":2,"score":0.5546273589134216},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C81669768","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2359161","display_name":"Precision and recall","level":2,"score":0.545031726360321},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2988343187","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1130645","display_name":"Open source software","level":3,"score":0.44882023334503174},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C3018397939","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3644502","display_name":"Open source","level":3,"score":0.447553426027298},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2780428219","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16952335","display_name":"Cover (algebra)","level":2,"score":0.44746124744415283},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C115903868","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80993","display_name":"Software engineering","level":1,"score":0.4424993395805359},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C199360897","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9143","display_name":"Programming language","level":1,"score":0.347432017326355},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2777904410","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7397","display_name":"Software","level":2,"score":0.3264209032058716},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C23123220","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q816826","display_name":"Information retrieval","level":1,"score":0.25502392649650574},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C154945302","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11660","display_name":"Artificial intelligence","level":1,"score":0.17200499773025513},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C127413603","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11023","display_name":"Engineering","level":0,"score":0.10422831773757935},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41895202","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8162","display_name":"Linguistics","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C78519656","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101333","display_name":"Mechanical engineering","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C138885662","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5891","display_name":"Philosophy","level":0,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":2,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1145/3236024.3236056","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3236024.3236056","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Proceedings of the 2018 26th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering","raw_type":"proceedings-article"},{"id":"pmh:oai:repository.hkust.edu.hk:1783.1-95294","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://repository.hkust.edu.hk/ir/Record/1783.1-95294","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306401796","display_name":"Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I200769079","host_organization_name":"Hong Kong University of Science and Technology","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I200769079"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":"Conference paper"}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[{"display_name":"Partnerships for the goals","id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/17","score":0.47999998927116394}],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"pdf":false,"grobid_xml":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":37,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W269292178","https://openalex.org/W575458834","https://openalex.org/W1644882639","https://openalex.org/W1962482270","https://openalex.org/W1965891547","https://openalex.org/W1969622507","https://openalex.org/W1976079268","https://openalex.org/W1986711365","https://openalex.org/W1989385531","https://openalex.org/W2007005238","https://openalex.org/W2022429945","https://openalex.org/W2034908824","https://openalex.org/W2065314038","https://openalex.org/W2068430427","https://openalex.org/W2078410218","https://openalex.org/W2080571599","https://openalex.org/W2083803628","https://openalex.org/W2095839586","https://openalex.org/W2100406974","https://openalex.org/W2105993157","https://openalex.org/W2107294940","https://openalex.org/W2109800865","https://openalex.org/W2130416619","https://openalex.org/W2133339195","https://openalex.org/W2133753838","https://openalex.org/W2151187574","https://openalex.org/W2160517961","https://openalex.org/W2163048279","https://openalex.org/W2513201734","https://openalex.org/W2515360277","https://openalex.org/W2559566240","https://openalex.org/W2733373979","https://openalex.org/W2759207282","https://openalex.org/W2762481683","https://openalex.org/W2795030435","https://openalex.org/W2996758583","https://openalex.org/W3001317749"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W3196043647","https://openalex.org/W3172515123","https://openalex.org/W4376877853","https://openalex.org/W4287163809","https://openalex.org/W1964405022","https://openalex.org/W4250928611","https://openalex.org/W4232280318","https://openalex.org/W2063332991","https://openalex.org/W167327709","https://openalex.org/W4387839566"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"Intensive":[0],"dependencies":[1],"of":[2,15,64,84,122,159,163,188],"a":[3,48,157],"Java":[4],"project":[5],"on":[6,21,105,126,150],"third-party":[7],"libraries":[8,68],"can":[9,77],"easily":[10],"lead":[11],"to":[12,46],"the":[13,34,42,55,62,117,144],"presence":[14],"multiple":[16],"library":[17],"or":[18,67],"class":[19],"versions":[20],"its":[22],"classpath.":[23],"When":[24],"this":[25,98],"happens,":[26],"JVM":[27],"will":[28,86],"load":[29],"one":[30],"version":[31,44],"and":[32,90,119,141,161,186],"shadows":[33],"others.":[35],"Dependency":[36],"conflict":[37],"(DC)":[38],"issues":[39,108,175],"occur":[40],"when":[41],"loaded":[43],"fails":[45],"cover":[47],"required":[49],"feature":[50],"(e.g.,":[51],"method)":[52],"referenced":[53],"by":[54,70,95,192],"project,":[56],"thus":[57],"causing":[58],"runtime":[59,88],"exceptions.":[60],"However,":[61],"warnings":[63],"duplicate":[65],"classes":[66],"detected":[69,172],"existing":[71],"build":[72],"tools":[73],"such":[74],"as":[75],"Maven":[76],"be":[78],"benign":[79,145],"since":[80],"not":[81],"all":[82],"instances":[83],"duplication":[85],"induce":[87],"exceptions,":[89],"hence":[91],"are":[92],"often":[93],"ignored":[94],"developers.":[96,193],"In":[97],"paper,":[99],"we":[100,129],"conducted":[101],"an":[102,132],"empirical":[103],"study":[104],"real-world":[106],"DC":[107,123,138,168,174,181],"collected":[109],"from":[110],"large":[111],"open":[112],"source":[113],"projects.":[114,178],"We":[115],"studied":[116],"manifestation":[118],"fixing":[120],"patterns":[121],"issues.":[124,169],"Based":[125],"our":[127,201],"findings,":[128],"designed":[130],"Decca,":[131],"automated":[133],"detection":[134],"tool":[135],"that":[136,154],"assesses":[137],"issues'":[139],"severity":[140],"filters":[142],"out":[143],"ones.":[146],"Our":[147],"evaluation":[148],"results":[149],"30":[151],"projects":[152],"show":[153],"Decca":[155,170],"achieves":[156],"precision":[158],"0.923":[160],"recall":[162],"0.766":[164],"in":[165,176,195],"detecting":[166],"high-severity":[167],"also":[171],"new":[173],"these":[177],"Subsequently,":[179],"20":[180],"bug":[182],"reports":[183,197],"were":[184,190,198],"filed,":[185],"11":[187],"them":[189],"confirmed":[191],"Issues":[194],"6":[196],"fixed":[199],"with":[200],"suggested":[202],"patches.":[203]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2026,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2025,"cited_by_count":13},{"year":2024,"cited_by_count":15},{"year":2023,"cited_by_count":13},{"year":2022,"cited_by_count":9},{"year":2021,"cited_by_count":17},{"year":2020,"cited_by_count":9},{"year":2019,"cited_by_count":6}],"updated_date":"2026-08-12T21:12:35.861297","created_date":"2025-10-10T00:00:00"}