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Security Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are crucial for ensuring software security. However, their misuse introduces vulnerabilities, potentially leading to severe data breaches and substantial financial loss. Complex API design,…

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Ubiquitous technologies such as mobile software applications (mobile apps) have a tremendous influence on the evolution of the social, cultural, economic, and political facets of life in society. Mobile apps fulfil many practical purposes…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Humphrey O. Obie , Waqar Hussain , Xin Xia , John Grundy , Li Li , Burak Turhan , Jon Whittle , Mojtaba Shahin

When a phone-use agent avoids harm, does that show safety, or simply inability to act? Existing evaluations often cannot tell. A harmful outcome may be avoided because the agent recognized the risk and chose the safe action, or because it…

Millions of mobile apps have been available through various app markets. Although most app markets have enforced a number of automated or even manual mechanisms to vet each app before it is released to the market, thousands of low-quality…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Yangyu Hu , Haoyu Wang , Tiantong Ji , Xusheng Xiao , Xiapu Luo , Peng Gao , Yao Guo

Increasing number of cyber-attacks demotivate people to use Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for industrial as well as day to day work. A main reason for the increasing number of cyber-attacks is mistakes that programmers make…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Chamila Wijayarathna , Nalin Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage

Mobile applications, mobile apps for short, have proven their usefulness in enhancing service provisioning across a multitude of domains that range from smart healthcare, to mobile commerce, and areas of context sensitive computing. In…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Bakheet Aljedaani , Aakash Ahmad , Mansooreh Zahedi , M. Ali Babar

Android is among the popular platforms running on millions of smart devices, like smartphones and tablets, whose widespread adoption is seen as an opportunity for spreading malware. Adding malicious payloads to cracked applications, often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Konstantinos-Panagiotis Grammatikakis , Angela Ioannou , Stavros Shiaeles , Nicholas Kolokotronis

In recent years, mobile applications have become indispensable tools for managing various aspects of life. From enhancing productivity to providing personalized entertainment, mobile apps have revolutionized people's daily routines. Despite…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Shashiwadana Nirmania , Garima Sharma , Hourieh Khalajzadeh , Mojtaba Shahin

Human values such as integrity, privacy, curiosity, security, and honesty are guiding principles for what people consider important in life. Such human values may be violated by mobile software applications (apps), and the negative effects…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Humphrey O. Obie , Idowu Ilekura , Hung Du , Mojtaba Shahin , John Grundy , Li Li , Jon Whittle , Burak Turhan

Application markets provide a communication channel between app developers and their end-users in form of app reviews, which allow users to provide feedback about the apps. Although security and privacy in mobile apps are one of the biggest…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Debjyoti Mukherjee , Alireza Ahmadi , Maryam Vahdat Pour , Joel Reardon

With the continuous growth in the usage of Android apps, ensuring their security has become critically important. An increasing number of malicious apps adopt anti-analysis techniques to evade security measures. Although some research has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Dewen Suo , Lei Xue , Runze Tan , Weihao Huang , Guozi Sun

Disaster mobile apps play an increasingly important role in disseminating hazard information and supporting communities during emergency situations. This study presents a comprehensive analysis of these mobile applications, focusing on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Muhamad Syukron , Anuradha Madugalla , Mojtaba Shahin , John Grundy

App stores include an increasing amount of user feedback in form of app ratings and reviews. Research and recently also tool vendors have proposed analytics and data mining solutions to leverage this feedback to developers and analysts,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Daniel Martens , Walid Maalej

The complex nature of intelligent systems motivates work on supporting users during interaction, for example through explanations. However, as of yet, there is little empirical evidence in regard to specific problems users face when…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Malin Eiband , Sarah Theres Völkel , Daniel Buschek , Sophia Cook , Heinrich Hussmann

Intense competition in the mobile apps market means it is important to maintain high levels of app reliability to avoid losing users. Yet despite its importance, app reliability is underexplored in the research literature. To address this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Chathrie Wimalasooriya , Sherlock A. Licorish , Daniel Alencar da Costa , Stephen G. MacDonell

Many mobile apps are inaccessible, thereby excluding people from their potential benefits. Existing rule-based accessibility checkers aim to mitigate these failures by identifying errors early during development but are constrained in the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Mingyuan Zhong , Ruolin Chen , Xia Chen , James Fogarty , Jacob O. Wobbrock

With the digital breakthrough, smart phones have become very essential component. Mobile devices are very attractive attack surface for cyber thieves as they hold personal details (accounts, locations, contacts, photos) and have potential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Shweta Bhandari , Wafa Ben Jaballah , Vineeta Jain , Vijay Laxmi , Akka Zemmari , Manoj Singh Gaur , Mohamed Mosbah , Mauro Conti

As the popularity of Smart Televisions (TVs) and interactive Smart TV applications (apps) has recently grown, the usability of these apps has become an important quality characteristic. Previous studies examined Smart TV apps from a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Miroslav Bures , Miroslav Macik , Bestoun S. Ahmed , Vaclav Rechtberger , Pavel Slavik

The age of technology has created a huge market for smartphones and Apps usage and a new generation has been created based on knowledge sharing. Now knowledge has been made easily accessible by Apps but; are users even aware of the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Akosua Boakyewaa Teye , Ezer Osei Yeboah-Boateng

In this paper, we propose to identify compromised mobile devices from a network administrator's point of view. Intuitively, inadvertent users (and thus their devices) who download apps through untrustworthy markets are often allured to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Euijin Choo , Mohamed Nabeel , Mashael Alsabah , Issa Khalil , Ting Yu , Wei Wang