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Empirical Evaluation of AI-Assisted Software Package Selection: A Knowledge Graph Approach
Siamak Farshidi, Amir Saberhabibi, Behbod Eskafi, Niloofar Nikfarjam, Sadegh Eskandari, Slinger Jansen, Michel Chaudron, Bedir Tekinerdogan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05693

Empirical Evaluation of AI-Assisted Software Package Selection: A Knowledge Graph Approach
Selecting third-party software packages in open-source ecosystems like Python is challenging due to the large number of alternatives and limited transparent evidence for comparison. Generative AI tools are increasingly used in development workflows, but their suggestions often overlook dependency evaluation, emphasize popularity over suitability, and lack reproducibility. This creates risks for projects that require transparency, long-term reliability, maintainability, and informed architectura…