Can automated pull requests encourage software developers to upgrade out-of-date dependencies?

Samim Mirhosseini, Chris Parnin. Can automated pull requests encourage software developers to upgrade out-of-date dependencies?. In Grigore Rosu, Massimiliano Di Penta, Tien N. Nguyen, editors, Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2017, Urbana, IL, USA, October 30 - November 03, 2017. pages 84-94, ACM, 2017. [doi]

@inproceedings{MirhosseiniP17,
  title = {Can automated pull requests encourage software developers to upgrade out-of-date dependencies?},
  author = {Samim Mirhosseini and Chris Parnin},
  year = {2017},
  url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3155577},
  researchr = {https://researchr.org/publication/MirhosseiniP17},
  cites = {0},
  citedby = {0},
  pages = {84-94},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2017, Urbana, IL, USA, October 30 - November 03, 2017},
  editor = {Grigore Rosu and Massimiliano Di Penta and Tien N. Nguyen},
  publisher = {ACM},
  isbn = {978-1-5386-2684-9},
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