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Dr. Seonah Lee

Department of Software Engineering, Gyeongsang National University, 501 Jinjudaero, Jinju-si 52828, Republic of Korea
Interests: software evolution; documentation updates; requirement traceability; software architecture; data mining; machine learning; artificial intelligence; intelligent systems
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Dr. Kim Jindae

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Guest Editor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul 01811, Republic of Korea
Interests: automatic program repair; mining software repositories; software evolution

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

At present, AI, machine learning, and deep learning technologies are remarkably developed, and various intelligent systems are being accordingly developed. This Special Issue aims to present a collection of the various software engineering techniques, tools, and methodologies of such intelligent systems, in addition to AI, machine learning, and deep learning technologies, that can be utilized to support intelligent software engineering. We also welcome topics on AI-based systems, such as autonomous vehicles, autonomous flights, and medical AI. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Artificial intelligence for software engineering;
Software engineering for artificial intelligence;
Machine learning for requirement engineering;
Machine learning for design;
Machine learning for code generation;
Machine learning for code example generation;
Machine learning for code description;
Machine learning for testing;
Machine learning for code changes;
Machine learning for artifact changes;
CI, DevOps, and MLOps for intelligent software systems;
Issues on autonomous vehicles;
Issues on autonomous flights;
Issues on medical AIs.

Through this issue, we will reveal suitable machine learning techniques for supporting intelligent software engineering as well as software engineering methodologies for supporting emerging intelligent software systems. In addition, we would like to foster open discussion on the new horizon of intelligent software systems. Therefore, we welcome various new ideas and their verification in the development of intelligent software systems.

Dr. Seonah Lee
Dr. Kim Jindae
Guest Editors

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Open AccessArticle

Function-Level Compilation Provenance Identification with Multi-Faceted Neural Feature Distillation and Fusion

by Yang Gao, Lunjin Liang, Yifei Li, Rui Li and Yu Wang

Electronics 2024, 13(9), 1692; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13091692 - 27 Apr 2024

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Abstract

In the landscape of software development, the selection of compilation tools and settings plays a pivotal role in the creation of executable binaries. This diversity, while beneficial, introduces significant challenges for reverse engineers and security analysts in deciphering the compilation provenance of binary code. To this end, we present MulCPI, short for Multi-representation Fusion-based Compilation Provenance Identification, which integrates the features collected from multiple distinct intermediate representations of the binary code for better discernment of the fine-grained function-level compilation details. In particular, we devise a novel graph-oriented neural encoder improved upon the gated graph neural network by subtly introducing an attention mechanism into the neighborhood nodes’ information aggregation computation, in order to better distill the more informative features from the attributed control flow graph. By further integrating the features collected from the normalized assembly sequence with an advanced Transformer encoder, MulCPI is capable of capturing a more comprehensive set of features manifesting the multi-faceted lexical, syntactic, and structural insights of the binary code. Extensive evaluation on a public dataset comprising 854,858 unique functions demonstrates that MulCPI exceeds the performance of current leading methods in identifying the compiler family, optimization level, compiler version, and the combination of compilation settings. It achieves average accuracy rates of 99.3%, 96.4%, 90.7%, and 85.3% on these tasks, respectively. Additionally, an ablation study highlights the significance of MulCPI’s core designs, validating the efficiency of the proposed attention-enhanced gated graph neural network encoder and the advantages of incorporating multiple code representations. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning (ML) and Software Engineering, Volume II)

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