Developers often wonder how to implement a certain functionality (eg, how to parse XML
files) using APIs. Obtaining an API usage sequence based on an API-related natural …

The application of information retrieval techniques to search tasks in software engineering is
made difficult by the lexical gap between search queries, usually expressed in natural …

Besides traditional problems such as potential bugs,(smartphone) application clones on
Android markets bring new threats. That is, attackers clone the code from legitimate Android …

Assessing the similarity between code components plays a pivotal role in a number of
Software Engineering (SE) tasks, such as clone detection, impact analysis, refactoring, etc …

Repackaged Android applications (app clones) have been found in many third-party
markets, which not only compromise the copyright of original authors, but also pose threats …

The mobile apps market is one of the fastest growing areas in the information technology. In
digging their market share, developers must pay attention to building robust and reliable …

Copying and pasting of source code is a common activity in software engineering. Often, the
code is not copied as it is and it may be modified for various purposes; eg refactoring, bug …

In empirical studies on processes, practices, and techniques of software engineering,
automation and machine learning are gaining popularity. In order to extract knowledge from …

Software vulnerabilities still constitute a high security risk and there is an ongoing race to
patch known bugs. However, especially in closed-source software, there is no …

The knowledge of a deep learning model may be transferred to a student model, leading to
intellectual property infringement or vulnerability propagation. Detecting such knowledge …