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In recent years, there has been significant progress in the development and industrial adoption of static analyzers. Such analyzers typically provide a large, if not huge, number of configurable options controlling the precision and…

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The Android operating system has been the most popular for smartphones and tablets since 2012. This popularity has led to a rapid raise of Android malware in recent years. The sophistication of Android malware obfuscation and detection…

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Tizen is a new Linux-based open source platform for consumer devices including smartphones, televisions, vehicles, and wearables. While Tizen provides kernel-level mandatory policy enforcement, it has a large collection of libraries,…

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As the dominant mobile operating system, Android continues to attract a substantial influx of new applications each year. However, this growth is accompanied by increased attention from malicious actors, resulting in a significant rise in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Dewen Suo , Lei Xue , Weihao Huang , Runze Tan , Guozi Sun

Android is the most used Operating System worldwide for mobile devices, with hundreds of thousands of apps downloaded daily. Although these apps are primarily written in Java and Kotlin, advanced functionalities such as graphics or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Silvia Lucia Sanna , Diego Soi , Davide Maiorca , Giorgio Fumera , Giorgio Giacinto

Automatic test generation can help verify and develop the behavior of mobile applications. Test reuse based on semantic similarities between applications of the same category has been utilized to reduce the manual effort of Graphical User…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Shuqi Liu , Yu Zhou , Tingting Han , Taolue Chen

Technical debt describes situations where developers write less-than-optimal code to meet project milestones. However, this debt accumulation often results in future developer effort to live with or fix these quality issues. To better…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Gregory Wilder , Riley Miyamoto , Samuel Watson , Rick Kazman , Anthony Peruma

Dynamism is common in AI computation, e.g., the dynamic tensor shapes and the dynamic control flows in models. Due to the long compilation time, existing runtime compilation damages the model efficiency, while the offline compilers either…

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The Android operating system has become the most popular operating system for smartphones and tablets leading to a rapid rise in malware. Sophisticated Android malware employ detection avoidance techniques in order to hide their malicious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Mohammed K. Alzaylaee , Suleiman Y. Yerima , Sakir Sezer

This work investigates how to monitor access to Android zero-permission sensors which could cause privacy leakage to users. Moreover, monitoring such sensitive access allows security researchers to characterize potential sensor abuse…

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We introduce Composer's Assistant 2, a system for interactive human-computer composition in the REAPER digital audio workstation. Our work upgrades the Composer's Assistant system (which performs multi-track infilling of symbolic music at…

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Android operating system (OS) is often updated, where each new version may involve API deprecation. Usages of deprecated APIs in Android apps need to be updated to ensure the apps' compatibility with the old and new versions of Android OS.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Stefanus Agus Haryono , Ferdian Thung , David Lo , Lingxiao Jiang , Julia Lawall , Hong Jin Kang , Lucas Serrano , Gilles Muller

The increasing complexity of systems-on-a-chip requires the continuous development of electronic design automation tools. Nowadays, the simulation of systems-on-a-chip using virtual platforms is common. Virtual platforms enable…

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With the popularity of smartphones, users are heavily dependent on mobile applications for daily work and entertainments. However, mobile apps are becoming more and more complicated with more features and increasing size, part of which may…

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Authorship identification is the process of identifying and classifying authors through given codes. Authorship identification can be used in a wide range of software domains, e.g., code authorship disputes, plagiarism detection, exposure…

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Text presented in augmented reality provides in-situ, real-time information for users. However, this content can be challenging to apprehend quickly when engaging in cognitively demanding AR tasks, especially when it is presented on a…

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Reactive software calls for instrumentation methods that uphold the reactive attributes of systems. Runtime verification imposes another demand on the instrumentation, namely that the trace event sequences it reports to monitors are sound…

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Mobile application security has been one of the major areas of security research in the last decade. Numerous application analysis tools have been proposed in response to malicious, curious, or vulnerable apps. However, existing tools, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Richard Bonett , Kaushal Kafle , Kevin Moran , Adwait Nadkarni , Denys Poshyvanyk

The Android ecosystem relies on either TrustZone (e.g., OP-TEE, QTEE, Trusty) or trusted hypervisors (pKVM, Gunyah) to isolate security-sensitive services from malicious apps and Android bugs. TrustZone allows any secure world code to…

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With their high information density and intuitive readability, charts have become the de facto medium for data analysis and communication across disciplines. Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made notable progress in…

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