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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being increasingly used to develop systems that produce intelligent solutions. However, there is a major concern that whether the systems built will be trusted by humans. In order to establish trust in AI…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Quratul-ain Mahesar , Simon Parsons

Event logs are invaluable for conducting process mining projects, offering insights into process improvement and data-driven decision-making. However, data quality issues affect the correctness and trustworthiness of these insights, making…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Ying Liu , Vinicius Stein Dani , Iris Beerepoot , Xixi Lu

Mechanistic interpretability is the program of explaining what AI systems are doing in terms of their internal mechanisms. I analyze some aspects of the program, along with setting out some concrete challenges and assessing progress to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-28 David J. Chalmers

Although artificial intelligence (AI) is solving real-world challenges and transforming industries, there are serious concerns about its ability to behave and make decisions in a responsible way. Many AI ethics principles and guidelines for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Qinghua Lu , Liming Zhu , Xiwei Xu , Jon Whittle , David Douglas , Conrad Sanderson

In the last decade, an impressive increase in software adaptions has led to a surge in log data production, making manual log analysis impractical and establishing the necessity for automated methods. Conversely, most automated analysis…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Shayan Hashemi , Mika Mäntylä

In this paper we discuss how systems with Artificial Intelligence (AI) can undergo safety assessment. This is relevant, if AI is used in safety related applications. Taking a deeper look into AI models, we show, that many models of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Jens Braband , Hendrik Schäbe

Log parsing, the process of converting raw log messages into structured formats, is an important initial step for automated analysis of logs of large-scale software systems. Traditional log parsers often rely on heuristics or handcrafted…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Yi Xiao , Van-Hoang Le , Hongyu Zhang

The development of user-friendly embedded prototyping systems like Arduino has made creating interactive devices more accessible. However, debugging these systems is challenging due to the intertwined nature of software and hardware issues.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Andrea Bianchi , Zhi Lin Yap , Punn Lertjaturaphat , Austin Z. Henley , Kongpyung Justin Moon , Yoonji Kim

Modern organizations increasingly rely on log data and monitoring signals to protect products against account takeovers and abuse, yet integrating security analytics into fast-moving Agile workflows remains challenging. While it is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Arpit Thool , Chris Brown

The rapid growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) models and applications has led to an increasingly complex security landscape. Developers of AI projects must contend not only with traditional software supply chain issues but also with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-12 The Anh Nguyen , Triet Huynh Minh Le , M. Ali Babar

The VST Telescope Control Software logs continuously detailed information about the telescope and instrument operations. Commands, telemetries, errors, weather conditions and anything may be relevant for the instrument maintenance and the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-05 Salvatore Savarese , Pietro Schipani , Giulio Capasso , Mirko Colapietro , Sergio D'Orsi , Laurent Marty , Francesco Perrotta

We study the problem of troubleshooting machine learning systems that rely on analytical pipelines of distinct components. Understanding and fixing errors that arise in such integrative systems is difficult as failures can occur at multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Besmira Nushi , Ece Kamar , Eric Horvitz , Donald Kossmann

AI-enabled features built on LLMs and agentic workflows are difficult to test, debug, and reproduce, especially for product-focused software engineers without a machine learning background. We present the AI Toolkit plugin for JetBrains…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yaroslav Sokolov , Yury Khudyakov , Lenar Sharipov , Andrei Gasparian , Parth Tiwary , Artem Trofimov

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a technology to develop software bots that automate repetitive sequences of interactions between users and software applications (a.k.a. routines). To take full advantage of this technology, organizations…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-28 V. Leno , A. Augusto , M. Dumas , M. La Rosa , F. Maggi , A. Polyvyanyy

AI systems rest on software with low integrity mechanisms, leaving AI systems exposed across every stage from data acquisition to final inference. This paper makes the AI supply chain a first-class object of analysis, decomposing it across…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Carmine Cesarano , Martin Monperrus

Logging code is written by developers to capture system runtime behavior and plays a vital role in debugging, performance analysis, and system monitoring. However, defects in logging code can undermine the usefulness of logs and lead to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Xin Wang , Zhenhao Li , Zishuo Ding

Logs are ubiquitous digital footprints, playing an indispensable role in system diagnostics, security analysis, and performance optimization. The extraction of actionable insights from logs is critically dependent on the log parsing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Aoxiao Zhong , Dengyao Mo , Guiyang Liu , Jinbu Liu , Qingda Lu , Qi Zhou , Jiesheng Wu , Quanzheng Li , Qingsong Wen

There is a growing proliferation of AI systems designed to mimic people's behavior, work, abilities, likenesses, or humanness -- systems we dub AI automatons. Individuals, groups, or generic humans are being simulated to produce creative…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Alexandra Olteanu , Solon Barocas , Su Lin Blodgett , Lisa Egede , Alicia DeVrio , Myra Cheng

Network log data analysis plays a critical role in detecting security threats and operational anomalies. Traditional log analysis methods for anomaly detection and root cause analysis rely heavily on expert knowledge or fully supervised…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Xuanhao Luo , Shivesh Madan Nath Jha , Akruti Sinha , Zhizhen Li , Yuchen Liu

Context: Artificial intelligence (AI) has made its way into everyday activities, particularly through new techniques such as machine learning (ML). These techniques are implementable with little domain knowledge. This, combined with the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Lalli Myllyaho , Mikko Raatikainen , Tomi Männistö , Tommi Mikkonen , Jukka K. Nurminen