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This paper addresses the challenge of fault root cause identification in cloud computing environments. The difficulty arises from complex system structures, dense service coupling, and limited fault information. To solve this problem, an…

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The latest breakthroughs in large language models (LLM) have empowered software development tools, such as ChatGPT, to aid developers in complex tasks. Developers use ChatGPT to write code, review code changes, and even debug their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Rachna Raj , Diego Elias Costa

Deep learning powers critical applications such as autonomous driving, healthcare, and finance, where the correctness of underlying libraries is essential. Bugs in widely used deep learning APIs can propagate to downstream systems, causing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Bin Duan , Ruican Dong , Naipeng Dong , Dan Dongseong Kim , Guowei Yang

Training machine learning approaches for vulnerability identification and producing reliable tools to assist developers in implementing quality software -- free of vulnerabilities -- is challenging due to the lack of large datasets and real…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Sofia Reis , Rui Abreu

Static analysis tools are widely used for vulnerability detection as they understand programs with complex behavior and millions of lines of code. Despite their popularity, static analysis tools are known to generate an excess of false…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Yunhui Zheng , Saurabh Pujar , Burn Lewis , Luca Buratti , Edward Epstein , Bo Yang , Jim Laredo , Alessandro Morari , Zhong Su

Open-source software vulnerability patch detection is a critical component for maintaining software security and ensuring software supply chain integrity. Traditional manual detection methods face significant scalability challenges when…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Haoran Xu , Chen Zhi , Junxiao Han , Xinkui Zhao , Jianwei Yin , Shuiguang Deng

Accurate identification of software vulnerabilities is crucial for system integrity. Vulnerability datasets, often derived from the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) or directly from GitHub, are essential for training machine learning…

Incident management for large cloud services is a complex and tedious process and requires significant amount of manual efforts from on-call engineers (OCEs). OCEs typically leverage data from different stages of the software development…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Drishti Goel , Fiza Husain , Aditya Singh , Supriyo Ghosh , Anjaly Parayil , Chetan Bansal , Xuchao Zhang , Saravan Rajmohan

Attacks against computer systems exploiting software vulnerabilities can cause substantial damage to the cyber-infrastructure of our modern society and economy. To minimize the consequences, it is vital to detect and fix vulnerabilities as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Son Nguyen , Thu-Trang Nguyen , Thanh Trong Vu , Thanh-Dat Do , Kien-Tuan Ngo , Hieu Dinh Vo

Library migration is the process of replacing one library with another library that provides similar functionality. Manual library migration is time consuming and error prone, as it requires developers to understand the APIs of both…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Md Mohayeminul Islam , Ajay Kumar Jha , May Mahmoud , Ildar Akhmetov , Sarah Nadi

The paper presents a traceability analysis of how over 84 thousand vulnerabilities have propagated across 28 open source software ecosystems. According to the results, the propagation sequences have been complex in general, although GitHub,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Jukka Ruohonen , Qusai Ramadan

The existence of a security vulnerability in a system does not necessarily mean that it can be exploited. In this research, we introduce Autosploit -- an automated framework for evaluating the exploitability of vulnerabilities. Given a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Noam Moscovich , Ron Bitton , Yakov Mallah , Masaki Inokuchi , Tomohiko Yagyu , Meir Kalech , Yuval Elovici , Asaf Shabtai

Each year, software vulnerabilities are discovered, which pose significant risks of exploitation and system compromise. We present a convolutional neural network model that can successfully identify bugs in C code. We trained our model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-27 C. Seas , G. Fitzpatrick , J. A. Hamilton , M. C. Carlisle

Relying on dependency packages accelerates software development, but it also increases the exposure to security vulnerabilities that may be present in dependencies. While developers have full control over which dependency packages (and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Abbas Javan Jafari , Diego Elias Costa , Ahmad Abdellatif , Emad Shihab

With the rapid evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) and their large-scale experimentation in cloud-computing spaces, the challenge of guaranteeing their security and efficiency in a failure scenario has become a main issue. To ensure…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yihong Jin , Ze Yang , Xinhe Xu , Yihan Zhang , Shuyang Ji

Developing automated and smart software vulnerability detection models has been receiving great attention from both research and development communities. One of the biggest challenges in this area is the lack of code samples for all…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Khadija Hanifi , Ramin F Fouladi , Basak Gencer Unsalver , Goksu Karadag

Accompanying the successes of learning-based defensive software vulnerability analyses is the lack of large and quality sets of labeled vulnerable program samples, which impedes further advancement of those defenses. Existing automated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Yu Nong , Richard Fang , Guangbei Yi , Kunsong Zhao , Xiapu Luo , Feng Chen , Haipeng Cai

Security vulnerabilities introduced by applications using third-party dependencies are on the increase, caused by the emergence of large ecosystems of libraries such as the NPM packages for JavaScript. Nowadays, libraries depend on each…

In this paper we introduce, MigrationMiner, an automated tool that detects code migrations performed between Java third-party library. Given a list of open source projects, the tool detects potential library migration code changes and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Hussein Alrubaye , Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer , Ali Ouni

Code pre-trained models have shown promising effectiveness in various software engineering tasks. Among these tasks, many tasks are related to software evolution and/or code editing. However, existing code pre-trained models often overlook…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Qingyuan Liang , Zeyu Sun , Qihao Zhu , Junhao Hu , Yifan Zhao , Yizhou Chen , Mingxuan Zhu , Guoqing Wang , Lu Zhang