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We present examples where the use of belief functions provided sound and elegant solutions to real life problems. These are essentially characterized by ?missing' information. The examples deal with 1) discriminant analysis using a learning…

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Software watermarking allows for embedding a mark into a piece of code, such that any attempt to remove the mark will render the code useless. Provably secure watermarking schemes currently seems limited to programs computing various…

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We analyze different types of simulations that applied researchers can use to assess whether their inference methods reliably control false-positive rates. We show that different assessments involve trade-offs, varying in the types of…

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Many researchers have studied the behaviour of successful developers while debugging desktop software. In this paper, we investigate the embedded-software debugging by intermediate programmers through an exploratory study. The bugs are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Pansy Arafa , Daniel Solomon , Samaneh Navabpour , Sebastian Fischmeister

Benchmarks are a useful tool for empirical performance comparisons. However, one of the main shortcomings of existing benchmarks is that it remains largely unclear how they relate to real-world problems. What does an algorithm's performance…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Koen van der Blom , Timo M. Deist , Tea Tušar , Mariapia Marchi , Yusuke Nojima , Akira Oyama , Vanessa Volz , Boris Naujoks

We present OpenComputer, a verifier-grounded framework for constructing verifiable software worlds for computer-use agents. OpenComputer integrates four components: (1) app-specific state verifiers that expose structured inspection…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Jinbiao Wei , Qianran Ma , Yilun Zhao , Xiao Zhou , Kangqi Ni , Guo Gan , Arman Cohan

Passive operating system fingerprinting reveals valuable information to the defenders of heterogeneous private networks; at the same time, attackers can use fingerprinting to reconnoiter networks, so defenders need obfuscation techniques to…

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Many programming frameworks have been introduced to support the development of differentially private software applications. In this chapter, we survey some of the conceptual ideas underlying these frameworks in a way that we hope will be…

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This work compares the performance of software implementations of different Gabidulin decoders. The parameter sets used within the comparison stem from their applications in recently proposed cryptographic schemes. The complexity analysis…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Johannes Kunz , Julian Renner , Georg Maringer , Thomas Schamberger , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

Architectures for quantum computing can only be scaled up when they are accompanied by suitable benchmarking techniques. The document provides a comprehensive overview of the state and recommendations for systematic benchmarking of quantum…

In this paper, we seek to better understand Android obfuscation and depict a holistic view of the usage of obfuscation through a large-scale investigation in the wild. In particular, we focus on four popular obfuscation approaches:…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Shuaike Dong , Menghao Li , Wenrui Diao , Xiangyu Liu , Jian Liu , Zhou Li , Fenghao Xu , Kai Chen , Xiaofeng Wang , Kehuan Zhang

The performance of AI models on safety benchmarks does not indicate their real-world performance after deployment. This opaqueness of AI models impedes existing regulatory frameworks constituted on benchmark performance, leaving them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Gabriel Stanovsky , Renana Keydar , Gadi Perl , Eliya Habba

We argue that quantifying software reliability is important in demonstrating that system-level risks are As Low As Reasonably Practicable (ALARP). Furthermore, we demonstrate that such quantification is possible in at least one meaningful…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-05-09 Rob Ashmore

In this work we present work in progress on functionality duplication detection in logic programs. Eliminating duplicated functionality recently became prominent in context of refactoring. We describe a quantitative approach that allows to…

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Fuzzing is utilized for testing software and systems for cybersecurity risk via the automated adaptation of inputs. It facilitates the identification of software bugs and misconfigurations that may create vulnerabilities, cause abnormal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Jack Hance , Jeremy Straub

This paper investigates the ability of large language models (LLMs) to recognise and solve tasks which have been obfuscated beyond recognition. Focusing on competitive programming and benchmark tasks (LeetCode and MATH), we compare…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Radzim Sendyka , Christian Cabrera , Andrei Paleyes , Diana Robinson , Neil Lawrence

In recent years, visual forgery has reached a level of sophistication that humans cannot identify fraud, which poses a significant threat to information security. A wide range of malicious applications have emerged, such as fake news,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Minh Tam Pham , Thanh Trung Huynh , Van Vinh Tong , Thanh Tam Nguyen , Thanh Thi Nguyen , Hongzhi Yin , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen

Malware authors have seen obfuscation as the mean to bypass malware detectors based on static analysis features. For Android, several studies have confirmed that many anti-malware products are easily evaded with simple program…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Borja Molina-Coronado , Antonio Ruggia , Usue Mori , Alessio Merlo , Alexander Mendiburu , Jose Miguel-Alonso

Novel reinforcement learning algorithms, or improvements on existing ones, are commonly justified by evaluating their performance on benchmark environments and are compared to an ever-changing set of standard algorithms. However, despite…

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www.processmining-software.com is a dedicated website for process mining software comparison and was developed to give practitioners and researchers an overview of commercial tools available on the market. Based on literature review and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Daniel Viner , Matthias Stierle , Martin Matzner