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Modern hardware systems, driven by demands for high performance and application-specific functionality, have grown increasingly complex, introducing large surfaces for bugs and security-critical vulnerabilities. Fuzzing has emerged as a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Lichao Wu , Mohamadreza Rostami , Huimin Li , Nikhilesh Singh , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Semantic-based test generators are widely used to produce failure-inducing inputs for Deep Learning (DL) systems. They typically generate challenging test inputs by applying random perturbations to input semantic concepts until a failure is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Xingcheng Chen , Matteo Biagiola , Vincenzo Riccio , Marcelo d'Amorim , Andrea Stocco

Active Learning Method (ALM) is a soft computing method which is used for modeling and control, based on fuzzy logic. Although ALM has shown that it acts well in dynamic environments, its operators cannot support it very well in complex…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Ali Akbar Kiaei , Saeed Bagheri Shouraki , Seyed Hossein Khasteh , Mahmoud Khademi , Alireza Ghatreh Samani

We introduce a modular prompting framework that supports safer and more adaptive use of large language models (LLMs) across dynamic, user-centered tasks. Grounded in human learning theory, particularly the Zone of Proximal Development…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Vanessa Figueiredo

Testing a program's capability to effectively handling errors is a significant challenge, given that program errors are relatively uncommon. To solve this, Software Fault Injection (SFI)-based fuzzing integrates SFI and traditional fuzzing,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Jin Wei , Ping Chen , Jun Dai , Xiaoyan Sun , Zhihao Zhang , Chang Xu , Yi Wanga

A new fuzzy method is developed using triangular/trapezoidal fuzzy numbers for evaluating a group's mean performance, when qualitative grades instead of numerical scores are used for assessing its members' individual performance. Also, a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Michael Voskoglou

Fuzzing network servers is a technical challenge, since the behavior of the target server depends on its state over a sequence of multiple messages. Existing solutions are costly and difficult to use, as they rely on manually-customized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Roberto Natella

Protocol fuzzing is a scalable and cost-effective technique for identifying security vulnerabilities in deployed Internet of Things devices. During their operational phase, IoT devices often run lightweight servers to handle user…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Priyanka Rushikesh Chaudhary , Rajib Ranjan Maiti

Mutation-based fuzzing has become one of the most common vulnerability discovery solutions over the last decade. Fuzzing can be optimized when targeting specific programs, and given that, some studies have employed online optimization…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Yuki Koike , Hiroyuki Katsura , Hiromu Yakura , Yuma Kurogome

This paper proposes a new fuzzy assessing procedure with application in management decision making. The proposed fuzzy approach build the membership functions for system characteristics of a standby repairable system. This method is used to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Shoele Jamali , Mehrdad J. Bani

The purpose of this paper is to point to the usefulness of applying a linear mathematical formulation of fuzzy multiple criteria objective decision methods in organising business activities. In this respect fuzzy parameters of linear…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Sonja Petrovic-Lazarevic , Ajith Abraham

Greybox protocol fuzzing is a random testing approach for stateful protocol implementations, where the input is protocol messages generated from mutations of seeds, and the search in the input space is driven by the feedback on coverage of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yu Wang , Yang Xiang , Chandra Thapa , Hajime Suzuki

Fuzzing has become a key search-based technique for software testing, but continuous fuzzing campaigns consume substantial computational resources and generate significant carbon footprints. Existing grey-box fuzzing approaches like AFL++…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Ayse Irmak Ercevik , Aidan Dakhama , Melane Navaratnarajah , Yazhuo Cao , Leo Fernandes

Coverage-guided fuzzing has been widely applied to address zero-day vulnerabilities in general-purpose software and operating systems. This approach relies on instrumenting the target code at compile time. However, applying it to industrial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Carmine Cesarano , Roberto Natella

Although fuzzy techniques promise fast meanwhile accurate modeling and control abilities for complicated systems, different difficulties have been re-vealed in real situation implementations. Usually there is no escape of it-erative…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-08 Iman Esmaili Paeen Afrakoti , Saeed Bagheri Shouraki , Farnood Merrikhbayat

Fuzz testing has enjoyed great success at discovering security critical bugs in real software. Recently, researchers have devoted significant effort to devising new fuzzing techniques, strategies, and algorithms. Such new ideas are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-22 George Klees , Andrew Ruef , Benji Cooper , Shiyi Wei , Michael Hicks

We present a novel gray-box fuzzing algorithm monitoring executions of instructions converting numerical values to Boolean ones. An important class of such instructions evaluate predicates, e.g., *cmp in LLVM. That alone allows us to infer…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Martin Jonáš , Jan Strejček , Marek Trtík , Lukáš Urban

Many state-of-the-art technologies developed in recent years have been influenced by machine learning to some extent. Most popular at the time of this writing are artificial intelligence methodologies that fall under the umbrella of deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Stanton R. Price , Steven R. Price , Derek T. Anderson

This paper presents a genetic stereo matching algorithm with fuzzy evaluation function. The proposed algorithm presents a new encoding scheme in which a chromosome is represented by a disparity matrix. Evolution is controlled by a fuzzy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-10-13 Haythem Ghazouani

Generative Models (GMs), particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), have garnered significant attention in machine learning and artificial intelligence for their ability to generate new data by learning the statistical properties of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Hailong Yang , Zhaohong Deng , Wei Zhang , Zhuangzhuang Zhao , Guanjin Wang , Kup-sze Choi