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The migration process between different third-party libraries is hard, complex and error-prone. Typically, during a library migration, developers need to find methods in the new library that are most adequate in replacing the old methods of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Hussein Alrubaye , Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer , Ali Ouni

Third-Party Library (TPL) detection, which identifies reused libraries in binary code, is critical for software security analysis. At its core, TPL detection depends on binary decomposition-the process of partitioning a monolithic binary…

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Modern software systems are increasingly dependent on third-party libraries. It is widely recognized that using mature and well-tested third-party libraries can improve developers' productivity, reduce time-to-market, and produce more…

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Software vulnerabilities are major risks to software systems. Recently, researchers have proposed many deep learning approaches to detect software vulnerabilities. However, their accuracy is limited in practice. One of the main causes is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Zeru Cheng , Yanjing Yang , He Zhang , Lanxin Yang , Jinghao Hu , Jinwei Xu , Bohan Liu , Haifeng Shen

During the development of a software project, developers often need to upgrade third-party libraries (TPLs), aiming to keep their code up-to-date with the newest functionalities offered by the used libraries. In most cases, upgrading used…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Riccardo Rubei , Davide Di Ruscio , Claudio Di Sipio , Juri Di Rocco , Phuong T. Nguyen

As a mixed result of intensive dependency on third-party libraries, flexible mechanism to declare dependencies, and increased number of modules in a project, multiple versions of the same third-party library are directly depended in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Kaifeng Huang , Bihuan Chen , Bowen Shi , Ying Wang , Congying Xu , Xin Peng

Python third-party libraries (TPLs) are essential in modern software development, but upgrades often cause compatibility issues, leading to system failures. These issues fall into two categories: version compatibility issues (VCIs) and code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Huashan Lei , Guanping Xiao , Yepang Liu , Zheng Zheng

Modern software design practice implies widespread use in the development of ready-made components, usually designed as external libraries. The undoubted advantages of reusing third-party code can be offset by integration errors that appear…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Vladislav Feofilaktov , Vladimir Itsykson

Software libraries play a critical role in the functionality, efficiency, and maintainability of software systems. As developers increasingly rely on Large Language Models (LLMs) to streamline their coding processes, the effectiveness of…

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Recent advancements in code completion models have primarily focused on local file contexts. However, these studies do not fully capture the complexity of real-world software development, which often requires the use of rapidly-evolving…

The classification problem's complexity assessment is an essential element of many topics in the supervised learning domain. It plays a significant role in meta-learning -- becoming the basis for determining meta-attributes or…

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Serverless computing abstracts away server management, enabling automatic scaling and efficient resource utilization. However, cold-start latency remains a significant challenge, affecting end-to-end performance. Our preliminary study…

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Software libraries are central to the functionality, security, and maintainability of modern code. As developers increasingly turn to Large Language Models (LLMs) to assist with programming tasks, understanding how these models recommend…

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Large language models (LLMs) are now largely involved in software development workflows, and the code they generate routinely includes third-party library (TPL) imports annotated with specific version identifiers. These version choices can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Chengjie Wang , Jingzheng Wu , Xiang Ling , Tianyue Luo , Chen Zhao

Python applications depend on third-party native libraries that may be vendored within package distributions or installed on the host system. When vulnerabilities are discovered in these native libraries, determining which Python packages…

State of the art analyzers in the Logic Programming (LP) paradigm are nowadays mature and sophisticated. They allow inferring a wide variety of global properties including termination, bounds on resource consumption, etc. The aim of this…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2010-11-22 Elvira Albert , Miguel Gómez-Zamalloa , Laurent Hubert , German Puebla

In the current software development environment, third-party libraries play a crucial role. They provide developers with rich functionality and convenient solutions, speeding up the pace and efficiency of software development. However, with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Jia Zeng , Dan Han , Yaling Zhu , Yangzhong Wang , Fangchen Weng

Outlier detection and cleaning are essential steps in data preprocessing to ensure the integrity and validity of data analyses. This paper focuses on outlier points within individual trajectories, i.e., points that deviate significantly…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Mariana M Garcez Duarte , Mahmoud Sakr

Outlier detection (OD), also known as anomaly detection, is a critical machine learning (ML) task with applications in fraud detection, network intrusion detection, clickstream analysis, recommendation systems, and social network…