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2021 journal article

A Survey of Defensive Deception: Approaches Using Game Theory and Machine Learning

IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SURVEYS AND TUTORIALS, 23(4), 2460–2493.

author keywords: Games; Tutorials; Taxonomy; Computer security; Planning; Monitoring; Measurement; Defensive deception; cybersecurity; game theory; machine learning
TL;DR: This survey focuses on defensive deception research centered on game theory and machine learning, since these are prominent families of artificial intelligence approaches that are widely employed in defensive deception. (via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: November 20, 2021

2021 article

Unifying Domain Adaptation and Domain Generalization for Robust Prediction Across Minority Racial Groups

MACHINE LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN DATABASES, Vol. 12975, pp. 521–537.

By: F. Khoshnevisan* & M. Chi n

author keywords: Domain adaptation; Domain generalization; Cross-racial transfer; Septic shock
TL;DR: A multi-source adversarial domain separation framework designed to address two types of discrepancies, covariate shift stemming from differences in patient populations, and systematic bias on account of data collection procedures across medical systems are presented. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
10. Reduced Inequalities (OpenAlex)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: November 15, 2021

2021 article

Deserv: Decentralized Serverless Computing

2021 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB SERVICES, ICWS 2021, pp. 51–60.

By: S. Christie*, A. Chopra* & M. Singh n

author keywords: multiagent systems; protocols; programming model
TL;DR: Deserv is contributed, the first protocol-based programming model for decentralized applications that is suited to the cloud and demonstrates how to leverage function-as-a-service (FaaS), a popular serverless programming model, to implement agents. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions (OpenAlex)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: November 12, 2021

2021 article

SQLRepair: Identifying and Repairing Mistakes in Student-Authored SQL Queries

2021 IEEE/ACM 43RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING: JOINT TRACK ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING EDUCATION AND TRAINING (ICSE-JSEET 2021), pp. 199–210.

TL;DR: The results show that students find repairs produced by the tool comparable in understandability to queries written by themselves or by other students, suggesting that SQL repair tools may be useful in an educational context. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
4. Quality Education (OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: November 8, 2021

2021 journal article

SOSRepair: Expressive Semantic Search for Real-World Program Repair

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, 47(10), 2162–2181.

author keywords: Maintenance engineering; Semantic search; Encoding; Benchmark testing; Computer bugs; Software; Automated program repair; semantic code search; patch quality; program repair quality; SOSRepair
TL;DR: SOSRepair is an automated program repair technique that uses semantic code search to replace candidate buggy code regions with behaviorally-similar (but not identical) code written by humans, and is the first such technique to scale to real-world defects in real- world systems. (via Semantic Scholar)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: November 1, 2021

2021 journal article

How to "DODGE" Complex Software Analytics

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, 47(10), 2182–2194.

By: A. Agrawal*, W. Fu, D. Chen*, X. Shen n & T. Menzies n

author keywords: Tuning; Text mining; Software; Task analysis; Optimization; Software engineering; Tools; Software analytics; hyperparameter optimization; defect prediction; text mining
TL;DR: By ignoring redundant tunings, ODGE, a tuning tool, runs orders of magnitude faster, while also generating learners with more accurate predictions than seen in prior state-of-the-art approaches. (via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID, NC State University Libraries
Added: November 1, 2021

2021 article

Program Comprehension and Code Complexity Metrics: A Replication Package of an fMRI Study

2021 IEEE/ACM 43RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING: COMPANION PROCEEDINGS (ICSE-COMPANION 2021), pp. 168–169.

By: N. Peitek*, S. Apel*, C. Parnin n, A. Brechmann* & J. Siegmund*

TL;DR: The data corroborate that complexity metrics can—to a limited degree—explain programmers' cognition in program comprehension and outline several follow-up experiments investigating fine-grained effects of code complexity and describe possible refinements to code complexity metrics. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
4. Quality Education (OpenAlex)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: November 1, 2021

2021 article

Vulnerability Detection is Just the Beginning

2021 IEEE/ACM 43RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING: COMPANION PROCEEDINGS (ICSE-COMPANION 2021), pp. 304–308.

By: S. Elder n

author keywords: Security Management; Computer Security; Software Testing
TL;DR: This research examines the relationships between the vulnerability detection technique used to find a vulnerability, the type of vulnerability found, the exploitability of the vulnerability, and the effort needed to fix a vulnerability on two projects where all vulnerabilities found have been fixed. (via Semantic Scholar)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: November 1, 2021

2021 article

Structuring a Comprehensive Software Security Course Around the OWASP Application Security Verification Standard

2021 IEEE/ACM 43RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING: JOINT TRACK ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING EDUCATION AND TRAINING (ICSE-JSEET 2021), pp. 95–104.

By: S. Elder n, N. Zahan n, V. Kozarev n, R. Shu n, T. Menzies n & L. Williams n

author keywords: Security and Protection; Computer and Information Science Education; Industry-Standards
TL;DR: A theme of the course assignments was to map vulnerability discovery to the security controls of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Application Security Verification Standard (ASVS), and this mapping may have increased students' depth of understanding of a wider range of security topics. (via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, ORCID
Added: November 1, 2021

2021 journal article

Visual Fatigue Alleviating in Stereo Imaging of Anaglyphs by Reducing Retinal Rivalry and Color Distortion Based on Mobile Virtual Reality Technology

WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS & MOBILE COMPUTING, 2021.

By: M. Qi*, S. Cui*, Q. Du*, Y. Xu* & D. McAllister n

TL;DR: A relatively complete framework to generate anaglyphs so that it is more controllable to adjust the parameters and choose the appropriate process and results show that the proposed algorithm has a good performance. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
Source: Web Of Science
Added: October 26, 2021

2021 article

Supporting Legacy Libraries on Non-Volatile Memory: A User-Transparent Approach

2021 ACM/IEEE 48TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE (ISCA 2021), pp. 443–455.

TL;DR: A new concept that allows programmers to reference a persistent object in the same way as reference a normal (volatile) object is presented, and compiler and simple architecture support for keeping performance overheads very low is described. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 26, 2021

2021 article

MASS Communication for Constrained Devices

30TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS (ICCCN 2021).

By: C. Huang*, Z. Tay* & K. Harfoush n

author keywords: Direct-Sequence Spread Spectrum; M-ary Spreading Code; Multiple Channel Access
TL;DR: MASS is uncoordinated in the sense that it does not need expensive coordination or complex hardware for the constrained sensors, and its multi-access solution leads to higher throughput and longer lifetimes for constrained IoT devices compared to typical contention-based media access protocols. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
Source: Web Of Science
Added: October 26, 2021

2021 article

Accurately Decoding MIMO Streams in VLC

30TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS (ICCCN 2021).

TL;DR: PCDM, a novel parallelogram - clustering based decoding method, which is fundamentally different from C MDM and achieves an order of magnitude lower bit error rate compared to CMDM is proposed. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
Source: Web Of Science
Added: October 26, 2021

2021 article

Characterizing the Performance of QUIC on Android and Wear OS Devices

30TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS (ICCCN 2021).

By: A. Ganji n & M. Shahzad n

TL;DR: A probabilistic framework is proposed, which is called Dynamic Transport Selection, that adaptively chooses the appropriate transport protocol for a given network environment that improves the overall request completion performance of the application by as much as 41.76% when compared to using either QUIC or TCP alone. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
Source: Web Of Science
Added: October 26, 2021

2021 article

Toward Semi-Automatic Misconception Discovery Using Code Embeddings

LAK21 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS: THE ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LEARNING ANALYTICS & KNOWLEDGE, pp. 606–612.

By: Y. Shi n, K. Shah n, W. Wang n, S. Marwan n, P. Penmetsa n & T. Price n

Contributors: Y. Shi n, K. Shah n, W. Wang n, S. Marwan n, P. Penmetsa n & T. Price n

author keywords: Neural Network; Code Analysis; Automatic Assessment; Learning Representation
TL;DR: This work presents a novel method for the semi-automated discovery of problem-specific misconceptions from students’ program code in computing courses, using a state-of-the-art code classification model. (via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, ORCID
Added: October 21, 2021

2021 journal article

Real-time quantum calculations of phase shifts using wave packet time delays

PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 104(5).

Source: Web Of Science
Added: October 18, 2021

2021 conference paper

Progression Trajectory-Based Student Modeling for Novice Block-Based Programming

Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization.

TL;DR: It is suggested that progression trajectory-based student models can accurately model students’ block-based programming problem solving and hold potential for informing adaptive support in block- based programming environments. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
4. Quality Education (OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: October 5, 2021

2021 article

Mining Workflows for Anomalous Data Transfers

2021 IEEE/ACM 18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MINING SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES (MSR 2021), pp. 1–12.

author keywords: Scientific Workflow; TCP Signatures; Anomaly Detection; Hyper-Parameter Tuning; Sequential Optimization
TL;DR: X-FLASH is developed, a network anomaly detection tool for faulty TCP workflow transfers that incorporates novel hyperparameter tuning and data mining approaches for improving the performance of the machine learning algorithms to accurately classify the anomalous TCP packets. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure (OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: October 4, 2021

2021 journal article

Hummingbird: efficient performance prediction for executing genomic applications in the cloud

BIOINFORMATICS, 37(17), 2537–2543.

By: A. Bahmani*, Z. Xing*, V. Krishnan*, U. Ray n, F. Mueller n, A. Alavi*, P. Tsao, M. Snyder*, C. Pan

TL;DR: Hummerbird is introduced, a tool for predicting performance of computing instances with varying memory and CPU on multiple cloud platforms and accurately predicted the fastest, the cheapest, and the most cost-efficient compute instances in an economic manner. (via Semantic Scholar)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: October 4, 2021

2021 article

Systemic Assessment of Node Failures in HPC Production Platforms

2021 IEEE 35TH INTERNATIONAL PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING SYMPOSIUM (IPDPS), pp. 267–276.

author keywords: Root Cause; Node Failures; Holistic Analysis
TL;DR: It is shown that external environmental influence is not strongly correlated with node failures in terms of the root cause, and lead time enhancements are feasible for nodes showing fail slow characteristics. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
Source: Web Of Science
Added: October 4, 2021

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