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Machine learning-based malware detection dominates current security defense approaches for Android apps. However, due to the evolution of Android platforms and malware, existing such techniques are widely limited by their need for constant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Haipeng Cai

The Android operating system has been the most popular for smartphones and tablets since 2012. This popularity has led to a rapid raise of Android malware in recent years. The sophistication of Android malware obfuscation and detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Mohammed K. Alzaylaee , Suleiman Y. Yerima , Sakir Sezer

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

Online contextual reasoning and association across consecutive video frames are critical to perceive instances in visual tracking. However, most current top-performing trackers persistently lean on sparse temporal relationships between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Yaozong Zheng , Bineng Zhong , Qihua Liang , Zhiyi Mo , Shengping Zhang , Xianxian Li

Objective: Health-related data being collected by smartphones offer a promising complementary approach to in-clinic assessments. Here we introduce the JTrack platform as a secure, reliable and extendable open-source solution for remote…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Mehran Sahandi Far , Michael Stolz , Jona M. Fischer , Simon B. Eickhoff , Juergen Dukart

Screen recordings of mobile applications are easy to obtain and capture a wealth of information pertinent to software developers (e.g., bugs or feature requests), making them a popular mechanism for crowdsourced app feedback. Thus, these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas , Nathan Cooper , Kevin Moran , Oscar Chaparro , Andrian Marcus , Denys Poshyvanyk

WebAssembly seeks to provide an alternative to running large and untrusted binaries within web browsers by implementing a portable, performant, and secure bytecode format for native web computation. However, WebAssembly is largely unstudied…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Aron Szanto , Timothy Tamm , Artidoro Pagnoni

The increasing complexity of systems-on-a-chip requires the continuous development of electronic design automation tools. Nowadays, the simulation of systems-on-a-chip using virtual platforms is common. Virtual platforms enable…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Nils Bosbach , Lukas Jünger , Jan Moritz Joseph , Rainer Leupers

Cross-device tracking has drawn growing attention from both commercial companies and the general public because of its privacy implications and applications for user profiling, personalized services, etc. One particular, wide-used type of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Binghui Wang , Tianchen Zhou , Song Li , Yinzhi Cao , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

The key innovation of our analytical method, CaRT, lies in establishing a new hierarchical, distributed architecture to guarantee the safety and robustness of a given learning-based motion planning policy. First, in a nominal setting, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Hiroyasu Tsukamoto , Benjamin Rivière , Changrak Choi , Amir Rahmani , Soon-Jo Chung

This paper presents our experience with TREBLE, a two-year initiative to build the modular base in Android, a Java-based mobile platform running on the Linux kernel. Our TREBLE architecture splits the hardware independent core framework…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Keun Soo Yim , Iliyan Malchev , Andrew Hsieh , Dave Burke

GUI testing is significant in the SE community. Most existing frameworks are intrusive and only support some specific platforms. With the development of distinct scenarios, diverse embedded systems or customized operating systems on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Shengcheng Yu , Chunrong Fang , Mingzhe Du , Yuchen Ling , Zhenyu Chen , Zhendong Su

The rapid evolution of mobile security protocols and limited availability of current datasets constrains research in app traffic analysis. This paper presents PARROT, a reproducible and portable traffic capture system for systematic app…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Andrea Jimenez-Berenguel , Celeste Campo , Marta Moure-Garrido , Carlos Garcia-Rubio , Daniel Díaz-Sanchez , Florina Almenares

Software maintainability critically depends on high-quality requirements descriptions and explicit traceability between requirements and code. Although automated code summarization (ACS) and requirements traceability (RT) techniques have…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Dongming Jin , Zhi Jin , Yiran Zhang , Zheng Fang , Linyu Li , Yuanpeng He , Xiaohong Chen , Weisong Sun

Performance antipatterns document bad design patterns that have negative influence on system performance. In our previous work we formalized such antipatterns as logical predicates that predicate on four views: (i) the static view that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-04-04 Antinisca Di Marco , Catia Trubiani

Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents increasingly rely on APIs to operate complex web applications, but rapid evolution often leads to incomplete or inconsistent API documentation. Existing work falls into two categories: (1) static,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Yanjing Yang , Chenxing Zhong , Ke Han , Zeru Cheng , Jinwei Xu , Xin Zhou , He Zhang , Bohan Liu

XSS is a security vulnerability that permits injecting malicious code into the client side of a web application. In the simplest situations, XSS vulnerabilities arise when a web application includes the user input in the web output without…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Antonín Steinhauser , Petr Tůma

Robot learning methods have recently made great strides, but generalization and robustness challenges still hinder their widespread deployment. Failing to detect and address potential failures renders state-of-the-art learning systems not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Huihan Liu , Shivin Dass , Roberto Martín-Martín , Yuke Zhu

We study causal discovery from a single observed sequence of discrete events generated by a stochastic process, as encountered in vehicle logs, manufacturing systems, or patient trajectories. This regime is particularly challenging due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Hugo Math , Rainer Lienhart

Over the last decade, machine learning has been extensively applied to identify malicious Android applications. However, such approaches remain vulnerable against adversarial examples, i.e., examples that are subtly manipulated to fool a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Daniel Pulido-Cortázar , Daniel Gibert , Felip Manyà