Bug triage is an essential task in the software maintenance phase. It is the process of assigning a developer (fixer) to a bug report. A personnel (triager) has to analyze the developers' profiles and bug reports for the purpose of making a suitable assignment. Manual bug triage consumes time and effort, so automating this process is a necessity. The previous research studies addressed the triage problem as an information retrieval problem, where the new bug report is the query. Other researchers tackled this problem as a classification problem and utilized traditional machine learning or deep learning techniques. A handful of research studies handled this problem as an optimization problem and utilized optimization algorithms such as Hungarian. 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