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Automated fault localization requires connecting an observed test failure to the responsible method across thousands of candidates--a task that purely statistical approaches handle with limited precision and that LLMs cannot yet handle at…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Mahdi Farzandway , Fatemeh Ghassemi

Fault injection attacks (FIA) pose significant security threats to embedded systems as they exploit weaknesses across multiple layers, including system software, instruction set architecture (ISA), microarchitecture, and physical hardware.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Arsalan Ali Malik , Harshvadan Mihir , Aydin Aysu

Machine learning components are now central to AI-infused software systems, from recommendations and code assistants to clinical decision support. As regulations and governance frameworks increasingly require deleting sensitive data from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Anna Mazhar , Sainyam Galhotra

Growing code bases of modern applications have led to a steady increase in the number of vulnerabilities. Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) is one promising mitigation that is more and more widely deployed and prevents numerous exploits. CFI…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Claudio Canella , Sebastian Dorn , Daniel Gruss , Michael Schwarz

Accurate estimation such as cost estimation, quality estimation and risk analysis is a major issue in management. We propose a patent pending soft computing framework to tackle this challenging problem. Our generic framework is independent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-08-04 Danny Ho , Luiz Fernando Capretz , Xishi Huang , Jing Ren

Electromagnetic fault injection (EMFI) is a well known technique used to disturb the behaviour of a chip for weakening its security. These attacks are mostly done on simple microcontrollers. On these targets, the fault effects are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Thomas Trouchkine , Sébanjila Kevin Bukasa , Mathieu Escouteloup , Ronan Lashermes , Guillaume Bouffard

We present FINJ, a high-level fault injection tool for High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems, with a focus on the management of complex experiments. FINJ provides support for custom workloads and allows generation of anomalous conditions…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Alessio Netti , Zeynep Kiziltan , Ozalp Babaoglu , Alina Sirbu , Andrea Bartolini , Andrea Borghesi

Test-based automated program repair has been a prolific field of research in software engineering in the last decade. Many approaches have indeed been proposed, which leverage test suites as a weak, but affordable, approximation to program…

The proliferation of demanding applications and edge computing establishes the need for an efficient management of the underlying computing infrastructures, urging the providers to rethink their operational methods. In this paper, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Theodoros Theodoropoulos , John Violos , Stylianos Tsanakas , Aris Leivadeas , Konstantinos Tserpes , Theodora Varvarigou

The increasing complexity and diversity of hardware accelerators in modern computing systems demand flexible, low-overhead program analysis tools. We present PASTA, a low-overhead and modular Program AnalysiS Tool Framework for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Mao Lin , Hyeran Jeon , Keren Zhou

Instrumenting programs for performing run-time checking of properties, such as regular shapes, is a common and useful technique that helps programmers detect incorrect program behaviors. This is specially true in dynamic languages such as…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Maximiliano Klemen , Nataliia Stulova , Pedro Lopez-Garcia , José F. Morales , Manuel V. Hermenegildo

Today's distributed systems operate in complex environments that inevitably involve faults and even adversarial behaviors. Predicting their performance under such environments directly from formal designs remains a longstanding challenge.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Ziwei Zhou , Si Liu , Zhou Zhou , Peixin Wang , MIn Zhang

Mutation testing consists of generating test cases that detect faults injected into software (generating mutants) which its original test suite could not. By running such an augmented set of test cases, it may discover actual faults that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jaekwon Lee , Enrico Viganò , Fabrizio Pastore , Lionel Briand

Real-time high-accuracy optical flow estimation is critical for a variety of real-world robotic applications. However, current learning-based methods often struggle to balance accuracy and computational efficiency: methods that achieve high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zhiyong Zhang , Aniket Gupta , Huaizu Jiang , Hanumant Singh

When planning a survey for astronomical transients, many factors such as cadence, filter choice, sky coverage, and depth of observations need to be balanced in order to optimize the scientific gain of the survey. Here we present a software…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Ulrich Feindt , Jakob Nordin , Mickael Rigault , Valéry Brinnel , Suhail Dhawan , Ariel Goobar , Marek Kowalski

Discovering potential failures of an autonomous system is important prior to deployment. Falsification-based methods are often used to assess the safety of such systems, but the cost of running many accurate simulation can be high. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Marc R. Schlichting , Nina V. Boord , Anthony L. Corso , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Code coverage analysis plays an important role in the software testing process. More recently, the remarkable effectiveness of coverage feedback has triggered a broad interest in feedback-guided fuzzing. In this work, we introduce bcov, a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-11 M. Ammar Ben Khadra , Dominik Stoffel , Wolfgang Kunz

Insufficient steel quality in mass production can cause extremely costly damage to tooling, production downtimes and low quality products. Automatic, fast and cheap strategies to estimate essential material properties for quality control,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Michiel Straat , Kevin Koster , Nick Goet , Kerstin Bunte

As intelligent computing devices increasingly integrate into human life, ensuring the functional safety of the corresponding electronic chips becomes more critical. A key metric for functional safety is achieving a sufficient fault…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Jiaping Tang , Jianan Mu , Silin Liu , Zizhen Liu , Feng Gu , Xinyu Zhang , Leyan Wang , Shenwen Liang , Jing Ye , Huawei Li , Xiaowei Li

In this paper, we present a new fault injection tool (ProFIPy) for Python software. The tool is designed to be programmable, in order to enable users to specify their software fault model, using a domain-specific language (DSL) for fault…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Domenico Cotroneo , Luigi De Simone , Pietro Liguori , Roberto Natella