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Process mining provides methods to analyse event logs generated by information systems during the execution of processes. It thereby supports the design, validation, and execution of processes in domains ranging from healthcare, through…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Mehdi Acheli , Daniela Grigori , Matthias Weidlich

Data science libraries, such as scikit-learn and pandas, specialize in processing and manipulating data. The data-centric nature of these libraries makes the detection of API misuse in them more challenging. This paper introduces DSCHECKER,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Akalanka Galappaththi , Francisco Ribeiro , Sarah Nadi

Mobile applications (apps) often suffer from failure nowadays. Developers usually pay more attention to the failure that is perceived by users and compromises the user experience. Existing approaches focus on mining large volume logs to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Deyu Tian

Cryptographic API misuse represents a critical vulnerability class that undermines the security foundations of modern software. Yet, it remains largely unexplored in Go despite its dominance in security-critical infrastructure. This paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Vivi Andersson , Martin Monperrus

Data mining algorithms are now able to efficiently deal with huge amount of data. Various kinds of patterns may be discovered and may have some great impact on the general development of knowledge. In many domains, end users may want to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-02-09 Baptiste Jeudy , Christine Largeron , François Jacquenet

Many organisations manage service quality and monitor a large set devices and servers where each entity is associated with telemetry or physical sensor data series. Recently, various methods have been proposed to detect behavioural…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Len Feremans , Boris Cule , Bart Goethals

Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents increasingly rely on APIs to operate complex web applications, but rapid evolution often leads to incomplete or inconsistent API documentation. Existing work falls into two categories: (1) static,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Yanjing Yang , Chenxing Zhong , Ke Han , Zeru Cheng , Jinwei Xu , Xin Zhou , He Zhang , Bohan Liu

APIs are the primary mechanism for developers to gain access to externally defined services and tools. However, previous research has revealed API misuses that violate the contract of APIs to be prevalent. Such misuses can have harmful…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Rodrigo Bonifacio , Stefan Krüger , Krishna Narasimhan , Eric Bodden , Mira Mezini

Nowadays, it has become a basic need to reuse existing Application Programming Interface (API), Class Libraries, and frameworks for rapid software development. Software developers often reuse this by calling the respective APIs or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Ziaur Rahman

Developers prefer to utilize third-party libraries when they implement some functionalities and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are frequently used by them. Facing an unfamiliar API, developers tend to consult tutorials as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-03-07 He Jiang , Jingxuan Zhang , Xiaochen Li , Zhilei Ren , David Lo

Third-party libraries are a cornerstone of fast application development. To enable efficient use, libraries must provide a well-designed API. An obscure API instead slows down the learning process and can lead to erroneous use. The usual…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Lars Reimann , Günter Kniesel-Wünsche

Tools focused on cryptographic API misuse often detect the most basic expressions of the vulnerable use, and are unable to detect non-trivial variants. The question of whether tools should be designed to detect such variants can only be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Victor Olaiya , Adwait Nadkarni

Software development activity has reached a high degree of complexity, guided by the heterogeneity of the components, data sources, and tasks. The proliferation of open-source software (OSS) repositories has stressed the need to reuse…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Phuong T. Nguyen , Juri Di Rocco , Claudio Di Sipio , Davide Di Ruscio , Massimiliano Di Penta

Developers frequently use APIs to implement certain functionalities, such as parsing Excel Files, reading and writing text files line by line, etc. Developers can greatly benefit from automatic API usage sequence generation based on natural…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Mohammad Abdul Hadi , Imam Nur Bani Yusuf , Ferdian Thung , Kien Gia Luong , Jiang Lingxiao , Fatemeh H. Fard , David Lo

As software systems grow in scale, developers face increasing difficulty in selecting appropriate Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) from numerous options. Efficiently identifying APIs that satisfy functional requirements has become…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Shenglong Wu , Xunhui Zhang , Tao Wang

Contrast pattern mining (CPM) aims to discover patterns whose support increases significantly from a background dataset compared to a target dataset. CPM is particularly useful for characterising changes in evolving systems, e.g., in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Elaheh AlipourChavary , Sarah M. Erfani , Christopher Leckie

To implement important quality attributes of software such as architectural security tactics, developers incorporate API of software frameworks, as building blocks, to avoid re-inventing the wheel and improve their productivity. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Ali Shokri , Ibrahim Jameel Mujhid , Mehdi Mirakhorli

Despite being one of the largest and most popular projects, the official Android framework has only provided test cases for less than 30% of its APIs. Such a poor test case coverage rate has led to many compatibility issues that can cause…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Xiaoyu Sun , Xiao Chen , Yanjie Zhao , Pei Liu , John Grundy , Li Li

Building meaningful interoperation with external software units requires performing the conceptual interoperability analysis that starts with identifying the conceptual interoperability constraints of each software unit, then it compares…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Hadil Abukwaik , Mohammed Abufouda , Thejashree Nair , Dieter Rombach

Machine learning and data mining algorithms play important roles in designing intrusion detection systems. Based on their approaches toward the detection of attacks in a network, intrusion detection systems can be broadly categorized into…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Jaydip Sen , Sidra Mehtab