Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Laurent, Thomas, Arcaini, Paolo, Ishikawa, Fuyuki, Search-Based Testing for an Autonomous Delivery Robots Scheduler, 2026 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), IEEE, 2026, pp333-343
Ashong M., Laurent T., Ventresque A., A Multi-Perspective Evaluation of Static Mutant Selection Techniques, 21st International Workshop on Mutation Analysis, Co-located with ICST (International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation), Daejeon, Korea, 2026, pp236 - 247, pp236-247
Ní Dheoráin, Caoilfhionn and Holmes, Ruth and Evans, Nicholas and Laurent, Thomas and Ventresque, Anthony and Rushe, Ellen, Doing More with Less: Determining Optimal Pre-training Model for Irish Automatic Speech Recognition through Multi-step Fine-tuning, Proceedings of Speech Language Models in Low-Resource Settings: Performance, Evaluation, and Bias Analysis (SPEAKABLE) @ LREC 2026, Palma, Mallorca, Spain, edited by Hosseini-Kivanani, Nina and Brutti, Alessio and Matassoni, Marco and Dowerah, Sandipana and Liga, Davide and Schommer, Christoph , European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2026, pp162--173
Khelejan S.H., Laurent T., Ventresque A., Clustering First-Order Mutants by Behavioural Similarity: A Graph-Based Approach to Higher-Order Mutant Generation, International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation, ICST, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of, 17 June 2026, 2026, pp248 - 258, pp248-258
Laurent, Thomas and Arcaini, Paolo and Ishikawa, Fuyuki, 2026 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2026 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2026, pp333-343
Masson, Margot and Laurent, Thomas and Ventresque, Anthony, 2026 IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), 2026 IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), Daejeon, Korea, Republic of, 18 May 2026, 2026, pp706-716
Usandizaga, Eñaut Mendiluze, Laurent, Thomas, Arcaini, Paolo, Ali, Shaukat, Quantum Circuit Repair by Gate Prioritisation, 2026 IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), IEEE, 2026, pp744-748
Kathryn Dane, Ellen Rushe, Will Connors, Stephen West, Sharief Hendricks, Thomas Laurent, Ciaran Simms, Fiona Wilson, Anthony Ventresque, Decoding the Tackle: Using a Machine Learning Approach to Understand Direct Head Contact Events in Elite Women's Rugby, European Journal of Sport Science, 25, (8), 2025
Matias Duran, Will Connors, Thomas Laurent, Ellen Rushe, Anthony Ventresque, Applying Metamorphic Testing for Pose Estimation in the Context of Rugby Analysis: Lessons Learned and Findings, Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems, 2025, pp5248 - 5255
Chin-Hsuan Sun, Thomas Laurent, Paolo Arcaini, Fuyuki Ishikawa, Alternating between Surrogate Model Construction and Search for Configurations of an Autonomous Delivery System (Hot off the Press at GECCO 2025), Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, 2025, p75 - 76, p75-76
Matías Duran, Thomas Laurent, Ellen Rushe, and Anthony Ventresque, Metamorphic Testing for Pose Estimation Systems, Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), Napoli, Italy, edited by IEEE , 2025
Ashong, Magdalene and Laurent, Thomas and Ventresque, Anthony, Evaluating Static Mutant Selection Techniques for Accurate Mutation Score Approximation, 2025 25th International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS), IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS), 2025, pp359-369
Sajjad Hesamipour Khelejan, Thomas Laurent, and Anthony Ventresque, MediumDarwin: LittleDarwin Grows with Performance and Research-oriented Extensions, International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), Auckland, New Zealand, edited by IEEE , 2025
Doyle, Jordan, Laurent, Thomas, Ventresque, Anthony, PADRAIG: Precise Android Automated Input Generation, International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS), Cambridge, UK, 03/07/2024, IEEE, 2024
Deyun Lyu, Zhenya Zhang, Paolo Arcaini, Fuyuki Ishikawa, Thomas Laurent, Jianjun Zhao, Search-Based Repair of DNN Controllers of AI-Enabled Cyber-Physical Systems Guided by System-Level Specifications, Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2024, p1435 - 1444, p1435-1444
Laurent, Thomas, Klikovits, Stefan, Arcaini, Paolo, Ishikawa, Fuyuki, Ventresque, Anthony, Parameter Coverage for Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems under Uncertainty, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 32, (3), 2023, p1-31
Doyle, Jordan, Laurent, Thomas, Ventresque, Anthony, Modelling Android applications through static analysis and systematic exploratory testing, International Conference on Dependable Systems and Their Applications (DSA), Tokyo, Japan, 10/08/2023, IEEE, 2023
Thomas Laurent, Paolo Arcaini, Catia Trubiani, Anthony Ventresque, Mutation-based analysis of queueing network performance models, Journal of Systems and Software, 191, 2022, p111385
Birhane A., Ruane E., Laurent T., S. Brown M., Flowers J., Ventresque A., L. Dancy C., The Forgotten Margins of AI Ethics, FAccT '22: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, 2022, pp948 - 958, pp948-958
Laurent, T., Arcaini, P., Ishikawa, F., Ventresque, A., Achieving Weight Coverage for an Autonomous Driving System with Search-based Test Generation, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, ICECCS, 2020-October, 2020, pp93-102
Laurent, T., Papadakis, M., Kintis, M., Henard, C., Traon, Y.L., Ventresque, A., Assessing and Improving the Mutation Testing Practice of PIT, 2017, pp430-435
Research Expertise
Recognition
Awards and Honours
SFI Lero Director's Prize for PhD/Postdoc Researcher contribution
Best Paper Award at International Workshop on Mutation Analysis Co-located with ICST
IEEE TCSE Distinguished Paper Award, ICSME 2020