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A well-known approach for identifying defect-prone parts of software in order to focus testing is to use different kinds of product metrics such as size or complexity. Although this approach has been evaluated in many contexts, the question…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Frank Elberzhager , Stephan Kremer , Jürgen Münch , Danilo Assmann

A popular metric to evaluate the performance of fuzzers is branch coverage. However, we argue that focusing solely on covering many different branches (i.e., the richness) is not sufficient since the majority of the covered branches may…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Hoang Lam Nguyen , Lars Grunske

In the modern era where software plays a pivotal role, software security and vulnerability analysis are essential for secure software development. Fuzzing test, as an efficient and traditional software testing method, has been widely…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Linghan Huang , Peizhou Zhao , Huaming Chen , Lei Ma

Fuzzing has proven to be a highly effective approach to uncover software bugs over the past decade. After AFL popularized the groundbreaking concept of lightweight coverage feedback, the field of fuzzing has seen a vast amount of scientific…

Fuzzing has been incredibly successful in uncovering bugs and vulnerabilities across diverse software systems. JSON parsers play a vital role in modern software development, and ensuring their reliability is of great importance. This…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Zhiyuan Zhong , Zhezhen Cao , Zhanwei Zhang

Software fuzzing has become a cornerstone in automated vulnerability discovery, yet existing mutation strategies often lack semantic awareness, leading to redundant test cases and slow exploration of deep program states. In this work, I…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Shiyin Lin

In this paper we introduce a fuzzy constraint linear discriminant analysis (FC-LDA). The FC-LDA tries to minimize misclassification error based on modified perceptron criterion that benefits handling the uncertainty near the decision…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-02 Hamid Reza Hassanzadeh , Hadi Sadoghi Yazdi , Abedin Vahedian

We re-examine a practical aspect of combinatorial fuzzy problems of various types, including search, counting, optimization, and decision problems. We are focused only on those fuzzy problems that take series of fuzzy input objects and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Tomoyuki Yamakami

Simulations and bisimulations are well-established notions in crisp/fuzzy automata theory and are widely used to compare the behaviors of automata. Their main drawback is that they compare the behaviors of fuzzy automata in a crisp manner.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Linh Anh Nguyen , Ivana Micić , Stefan Stanimirović

Python's native serialization protocol, pickle, is a powerful but insecure format for transferring untrusted data. It is frequently used, especially for saving machine learning models, despite known security challenges. While developers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Justin Applegate , Andreas Kellas

Software project estimation is crucial aspect in delivering software on time and on budget. Software size is an important metric in determining the effort, cost, and productivity. Today, source lines of code and function point are the most…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-08-26 Justin Wong , Danny Ho , Luiz Fernando Capretz

With the rapid growth in language processing applications, fairness has emerged as an important consideration in data-driven solutions. Although various fairness definitions have been explored in the recent literature, there is lack of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Satyapriya Krishna , Rahul Gupta , Apurv Verma , Jwala Dhamala , Yada Pruksachatkun , Kai-Wei Chang

Fuzz testing to find semantic control vulnerabilities is an essential activity to evaluate the robustness of autonomous driving (AD) software. Whilst there is a preponderance of disparate fuzzing tools that target different parts of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Andrew Roberts , Lorenz Teply , Mert D. Pese , Olaf Maennel , Mohammad Hamad , Sebastian Steinhorst

Side-channel attacks allow an adversary to uncover secret program data by observing the behavior of a program with respect to a resource, such as execution time, consumed memory or response size. Side-channel vulnerabilities are difficult…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Shirin Nilizadeh , Yannic Noller , Corina S. Pasareanu

Fuzz Testing is a largely automated testing technique that provides random and unexpected input to a program in attempt to trigger failure conditions. Much of the research conducted thus far into Fuzz Testing has focused on developing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Matthew Kelly , Christoph Treude , Alex Murray

We give a geometrically motivated measure of skewness, define a mean value triangle number, and dispersion (in that order) of a fuzzy number without reference or seeking analogy to the namesake but parallel concepts in probability theory.…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2020-11-03 Jan Schneider

Fuzzing has shown great success in evaluating the robustness of intelligent natural language processing (NLP) software. As large language model (LLM)-based NLP software is widely deployed in critical industries, existing methods still face…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Mingxuan Xiao , Yan Xiao , Shunhui Ji , Jiahe Tu , Pengcheng Zhang

Several research initiatives have been proposed for computing similarity between two Fuzzy Sets in analysis through Fuzzy Rough Sets. These techniques yield two measures viz. lower similarity and upper similarity. While in most applications…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Nidhika Yadav

Probabilistic programming provides the means to represent and reason about complex probabilistic models using programming language constructs. Even simple probabilistic programs can produce models with infinitely many variables. Factored…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-09-14 Avi Pfeffer , Brian Ruttenberg , Amy Sliva , Michael Howard , Glenn Takata

Fuzz testing of software libraries relies on fuzz drivers to invoke library APIs. Traditionally, these drivers are written manually by developers - a process that is time-consuming and often inadequate for exercising complex program…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xingyu Liu , Zengqin Huang , Xiang Gao , Hailong Sun