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Generation-based fuzzing is a software testing approach which is able to discover different types of bugs and vulnerabilities in software. It is, however, known to be very time consuming to design and fine tune classical fuzzers to achieve…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Martin Sablotny , Bjørn Sand Jensen , Chris W. Johnson

Fuzzing is one of the most effective technique to identify potential software vulnerabilities. Most of the fuzzers aim to improve the code coverage, and there is lack of directedness (e.g., fuzz the specified path in a software). In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Xiaogang Zhu , Shigang Liu , Xian Li , Sheng Wen , Jun Zhang , Camtepe Seyit , Yang Xiang

Fuzzing and symbolic execution are popular techniques for finding vulnerabilities and generating test-cases for programs. Fuzzing, a blackbox method that mutates seed input values, is generally incapable of generating diverse inputs that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Saahil Ognawala , Thomas Hutzelmann , Eirini Psallida , Alexander Pretschner

Fuzzing is widely used for detecting bugs and vulnerabilities, with various techniques proposed to enhance its effectiveness. To combine the advantages of multiple technologies, researchers proposed ensemble fuzzing, which integrates…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Yukai Zhao , Shaohua Wang , Jue Wang , Xing Hu , Xin Xia

As blockchain smart contracts become more widespread and carry more valuable digital assets, they become an increasingly attractive target for attackers. Over the past few years, smart contracts have been subject to a plethora of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Peng Qian , Hanjie Wu , Zeren Du , Turan Vural , Dazhong Rong , Zheng Cao , Lun Zhang , Yanbin Wang , Jianhai Chen , Qinming He

Software vulnerabilities are constantly being reported and exploited in software products, causing significant impacts on society. In recent years, the main approach to vulnerability detection, fuzzing, has been integrated into the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Tatsuya Shirai , Olivier Nourry , Yutaro Kashiwa , Kenji Fujiwara , Yasutaka Kamei , Hajimu Iida

Current theories about mechanisms promoting species co-existence in diverse communities assume that species only interact ecologically. Species are treated as discrete evolutionary entities, even though abundant empirical evidence indicates…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2013-11-13 Charles Cannon , Manuel Lerdau

Directed greybox fuzzing (DGF) can quickly discover or reproduce bugs in programs by seeking to reach a program location or explore some locations in order. However, due to their static stage division and coarse-grained energy scheduling,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Hongliang Liang , Xianglin Cheng , Jie Liu , Jin Li

Coverage-guided gray-box fuzzing (CGF) is an efficient software testing technique. There are usually multiple objectives to optimize in CGF. However, existing CGF methods cannot successfully find the optimal values for multiple objectives…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Gen Zhang , Pengfei Wang , Tai Yue , Xiangdong Kong , Shan Huang , Xu Zhou , Kai Lu

Understanding the neural basis of behavior is a fundamental goal in neuroscience. Current research in large-scale neuro-behavioral data analysis often relies on decoding models, which quantify behavioral information in neural data but lack…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-27 Yule Wang , Chengrui Li , Weihan Li , Anqi Wu

Since the advent of AFL, the use of mutational, feedback directed, grey-box fuzzers has become critical in the automated detection of security vulnerabilities. A great deal of research currently goes into their optimisation, including…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Daniel Blackwell , David Clark

Fuzzing has become a commonly used approach to identifying bugs in complex, real-world programs. However, interpreters are notoriously difficult to fuzz effectively, as they expect highly structured inputs, which are rarely produced by most…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Christopher Salls , Chani Jindal , Jake Corina , Christopher Kruegel , Giovanni Vigna

Program sensitivity measures the distance between the outputs of a program when run on two related inputs. This notion, which plays a key role in areas such as data privacy and optimization, has been the focus of several program analysis…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-02-03 june wunder , Arthur Azevedo de Amorim , Patrick Baillot , Marco Gaboardi

A novel procedure to perform fuzzy clustering of multivariate time series generated from different dependence models is proposed. Different amounts of dissimilarity between the generating models or changes on the dynamic behaviours over…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-09-09 Ángel López-Oriona , José A. Vilar , Pierpaolo-D'Urso

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

Grey-box fuzzing is the lightweight approach of choice for finding bugs in sequential programs. It provides a balance between efficiency and effectiveness by conducting a biased random search over the domain of program inputs using a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Ruijie Meng , George Pîrlea , Abhik Roychoudhury , Ilya Sergey

Database Management System (DBMS) fuzzing is an automated testing technique aimed at detecting errors and vulnerabilities in DBMSs by generating, mutating, and executing test cases. It not only reduces the time and cost of manual testing…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Xiyue Gao , Zhuang Liu , Jiangtao Cui , Hui Li , Hui Zhang , Kewei Wei , Kankan Zhao

Fuzzing is a security testing methodology effective in finding bugs. In a nutshell, a fuzzer sends multiple slightly malformed messages to the software under test, hoping for crashes or weird system behaviour. The methodology is relatively…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Cristian Daniele , Seyed Behnam Andarzian , Erik Poll

The integration of different learning paradigms has long been a focus of machine learning research, aimed at overcoming the inherent limitations of individual methods. Fuzzy rule-based models excel in interpretability and have seen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Jinbo Li , Peng Liu , Long Chen , Witold Pedrycz , Weiping Ding

A statistical, data-driven method is presented that quantifies influences between variables of a dynamical system. The method is based on finding a suitable representation of points by fuzzy affiliations with respect to landmark points…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-03-14 Niklas Wulkow