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The same-origin policy is a fundamental part of the Web. Despite the restrictions imposed by the policy, embedding of third-party JavaScript code is allowed and commonly used. Nothing is guaranteed about the integrity of such code. To…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Jukka Ruohonen , Joonas Salovaara , Ville Leppänen

In this research paper we are briefly presenting current major web problems and introducing semantic web technologies with the claim of solving existing web's problems. Furthermore we are describing Ontology as the main building block of…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-08-10 Zeeshan Ahmed , Detlef Gerhard

With the emergence of the Node.js ecosystem, JavaScript has become a widely-used programming language for implementing server-side web applications. In this paper, we present the first empirical study of static code analysis tools for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Tiago Brito , Mafalda Ferreira , Miguel Monteiro , Pedro Lopes , Miguel Barros , José Fragoso Santos , Nuno Santos

JavaScript is a popular attack vector for releasing malicious payloads on unsuspecting Internet users. Authors of this malicious JavaScript often employ numerous obfuscation techniques in order to prevent the automatic detection by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Adrian Herrera

Modern web browsers are incredibly complex, with millions of lines of code and over one thousand JavaScript functions and properties available to website authors. This work investigates how these browser features are used on the modern,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Peter Snyder , Lara Ansari , Cynthia Taylor , Chris Kanich

In recent years, Semantic web has become a topic of active research in several fields of computer science and has applied in a wide range of domains such as bioinformatics, life sciences, and knowledge management. The two fast-developing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-08-06 Hamed Hassanzadeh , Mohammad Reza Keyvanpour

Given that semantic Web realization is based on the critical mass of metadata accessibility and the representation of data with formal knowledge, it needs to generate metadata that is specific, easy to understand and well-defined. However,…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2013-12-18 Thabet Slimani

We present an executable, proven-safe, faithful, and future-proof Coq mechanization of JavaScript regular expression (regex) matching, as specified by the latest published edition of ECMA-262 section 22.2. This is, to our knowledge, the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Noé De Santo , Aurèle Barrière , Clément Pit-Claudel

For building question answering systems and natural language interfaces, semantic parsing has emerged as an important and powerful paradigm. Semantic parsers map natural language into logical forms, the classic representation for many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Percy Liang

Researchers have proposed numerous methods to detect vulnerabilities in JavaScript, especially those assisted by Large Language Models (LLMs). However, the actual capability of LLMs in JavaScript vulnerability detection remains…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Qingyuan Fei , Xin Liu , Song Li , Shujiang Wu , Jianwei Hou , Ping Chen , Zifeng Kang

Semantic communication aims to facilitate purposeful information exchange among diverse intelligent entities, including humans, machines, and organisms. It emphasizes precise semantic transmission over data fidelity, striving for meaningful…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Yuntao Wang

JavaScript's widespread adoption has made it an attractive target for malicious attackers who employ sophisticated obfuscation techniques to conceal harmful code. Current deobfuscation tools suffer from critical limitations that severely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Dongchao Zhou , Lingyun Ying , Huajun Chai , Dongbin Wang

A significant portion of the web is powered by ECMAScript. As a web technology, it is ubiquitous and available on most platforms natively or through a web browser. ECMAScript is the dominant language of the web, but at the same time, it was…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Juho Vepsäläinen

With the growth of natural language processing techniques and demand for improved software engineering efficiency, there is an emerging interest in translating intention from human languages to programming languages. In this survey paper,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Celine Lee , Justin Gottschlich , Dan Roth

With the recent explosion in the size and complexity of source codebases and software projects, the need for efficient source code search engines has increased dramatically. Unfortunately, existing information retrieval-based methods fail…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Muhammad Khalifa

The semantic mapping problem is probably the main obstacle to computer-to-computer communication. If computer A knows that its concept X is the same as computer B's concept Y, then the two machines can communicate. They will in effect be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-03-05 Kieran Greer

Smart contracts are programs running on cryptocurrency (e.g., Ethereum) blockchains, whose popularity stem from the possibility to perform financial transactions, such as payments and auctions, in a distributed environment without need for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Ilya Grishchenko , Matteo Maffei , Clara Schneidewind

Language models for code (CodeLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for code-related tasks, outperforming traditional methods and standard machine learning approaches. However, these models are susceptible to security vulnerabilities, drawing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yuchen Chen , Weisong Sun , Chunrong Fang , Zhenpeng Chen , Yifei Ge , Tingxu Han , Quanjun Zhang , Yang Liu , Zhenyu Chen , Baowen Xu

JavaScript obfuscators are widely deployed to protect intellectual property and resist reverse engineering, yet their correctness has been largely overlooked compared to performance and resilience. Existing evaluations typically measure…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Shan Jiang , Chenguang Zhu , Sarfraz Khurshid

Semantic properties are domain-specific specification constructs used to augment an existing language with richer semantics. These properties are taken advantage of in system analysis, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance…

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