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The robustness of critical infrastructure systems is contingent upon the integrity and transparency of their software supply chains. A Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is pivotal in this regard, offering an exhaustive inventory of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Boming Xia , Dawen Zhang , Yue Liu , Qinghua Lu , Zhenchang Xing , Liming Zhu

A Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) provides transparency by documenting software component metadata and dependencies. However, SBOM adoption depends on tool ecosystems. With two dominant formats: SPDX and CycloneDX - the ecosystems vary…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Abdul Ali Bangash , Tongxu Ge , Zhimin Zhao , Arshdeep Singh , Zitao Wang , Bram Adams

A Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is a key component for the transparency of software supply chain; it is a structured inventory of the components, dependencies, and associated metadata of a software artifact. However, an SBOM often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Gianpietro Castiglione , Shahriar Ebrahimi , Narges Khakpour

Current software development takes advantage of many external libraries, but it entails security and copyright risks. While the use of the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) has been encouraged to cope with this problem, its adoption is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Wataru Otoda , Tetsuya Kanda , Yuki Manabe , Katsuro Inoue , Yoshiki Higo

A Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is becoming an increasingly important tool in regulatory and technical spaces to introduce more transparency and security into a project's software supply chain. Artificial intelligence (AI) projects face…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Karen Bennet , Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur , Arthit Suriyawongkul , Kate Stewart

The software bill of materials (SBOM) concept aims to include more information about a software build such as copyrights, dependencies and security references. But SBOM lacks visibility into the process for building a package. Efforts such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Dennis Volpano , Drew Malzahn , Andrew Pareles , Mark Thober

Modern digital ecosystems, spanning software, hardware, learning models, datasets, and cryptographic products, continue to grow in complexity, making it difficult for organizations to understand and manage component dependencies. Bills of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shuai Zhang , Minzhao Lyu , Hassan Habibi Gharakheili

Modern networked systems rely on complex software stacks, which often conceal vulnerabilities arising from intricate interdependencies. A Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is effective for identifying dependencies and mitigating security…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Vadim Safronov , Ionut Bostan , Nicholas Allott , Andrew Martin

A Software Bill of Materials (SBoM) is a detailed inventory of all components, libraries, and modules in a software artifact, providing traceability throughout the software supply chain. With the increasing popularity of JavaScript in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Leo Song , Steven H. H. Ding , Yuan Tian , Li Tao Li , Philippe Charland , Andrew Walenstein

Ensuring the security of software supply chains requires reliable identification of upstream dependencies. We present the Automatic Bill of Materials, or ABOM, a technique for embedding dependency metadata in binaries at compile time.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Nicholas Boucher , Ross Anderson

The growing integration of open-source software and AI-driven technologies has introduced new layers of complexity into the software supply chain, challenging existing methods for dependency management and system assurance. While Software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Vadim Safronov , Anthony McCaigue , Nicholas Allott , Andrew Martin

Most of the current software security analysis tools assess vulnerabilities in isolation. However, sophisticated software supply chain security threats often stem from cascaded vulnerability and security weakness chains that span dependent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Laura Baird , Armin Moin

The rapid adoption of complex AI systems has outpaced the development of tools to ensure their transparency, security, and regulatory compliance. In this paper, the AI Bill of Materials (AIBOM), an extension of the Software Bill of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Wiebe Vandendriessche , Jordi Thijsman , Laurens D'hooge , Bruno Volckaert , Merlijn Sebrechts

Software supply chain security compromises often stem from cascaded interactions of vulnerabilities, for example, between multiple vulnerable components. Yet, Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)-based pipelines for security analysis typically…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Laura Baird , Armin Moin

Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) have become a regulatory requirement for improving software supply chain security and trust by means of transparency regarding components that make up software artifacts. However, enterprise and regulated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Eman Abu Ishgair , Chinenye Okafor , Marcela S. Melara , Santiago Torres-Arias

Bills of materials (BOMs) are quickly becoming an effective tool for managing supply chain risk. As more BOMs enter circulation, the ability to compare them will be crucial to understanding how products differ and in managing BOMs from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Lucas Tate , Rebecca Jones , Doug Dennis , Tatyana Benko , Jody Askren

Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly dependent on complex, multi-layered software supply chains that introduce challenges for reproducibility, transparency, and security assurance. This study presents an Artificial…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Petar Radanliev , Omar Santos , Carsten Maple , Kay Atefi

Software debloating tools seek to improve program security and performance by removing unnecessary code, called bloat. While many techniques have been proposed, several barriers to their adoption have emerged. Namely, debloating tools are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Michael D. Brown , Adam Meily , Brian Fairservice , Akshay Sood , Jonathan Dorn , Eric Kilmer , Ronald Eytchison

Software repositories are an essential source of information for software engineering research on topics such as project evolution and developer collaboration. Appropriate mining tools and analysis pipelines are therefore an indispensable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Nicole Hoess , Carlos Paradis , Rick Kazman , Wolfgang Mauerer

Neural networks have become integral to many fields due to their exceptional performance. The open-source community has witnessed a rapid influx of neural network (NN) repositories with fast-paced iterations, making it crucial for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Xiaoning Ren , Yuhang Ye , Xiongfei Wu , Yueming Wu , Yinxing Xue