Code summarization plays a vital role in aiding developers with program comprehension by generating corresponding textual descriptions for code snippets. While recent approaches have concentrated on encoding the textual and structural characteristics...
Source code summarization focuses on generating qualified natural language descriptions of a code snippet (e.g., functionality, usage and version). In an actual development environment, descriptions of the code are missing or not consistent with the...
Software maintenance is one of the most expensive phases in software development, especially when complex source code is the only available artifact. Clustering software modules and generating a structured architectural model can significantly reduce...
As artificial intelligence advances, source code completion assistants are becoming more advanced and powerful. Existing traditional assistants are no longer up to all the developers’ challenges. Traditional assistants usually present proposals...
Software defect prediction (SDP) methodology could enhance software’s reliability through predicting any suspicious defects in its source code. However, developing defect prediction models is a difficult task, as has been demonstrated recently....
The comprehension of source code is very difficult, especially if the programmer is not familiar with the programming language. Pseudocode explains and describes code contents that are based on the semantic analysis and understanding of the source co...
Context: Code smells are associated to poor design and programming style, which often degrades code quality and hampers code comprehensibility and maintainability. Goal: identify published studies that provide evidence of the influence of code smells...
To address the limitation of existing static defect detection methods in capturing code semantics and structural relationships—which leads to incomplete feature representation—we propose a multimodal feature fusion approach for source cod...
Syntax Highlighting or Syntax Colouring, Plays a Vital Role in Programming Development Environments by Colour-Coding Various Code Elements Differently. The Supposition Is That This Syntax Highlighting Assists Programmers When Reading and Analysing Co...
This research highlights the importance of error-correcting codes in ensuring secure and efficient data transmission over noisy channels. This paper aims to address the issue of limited information regarding the factors that contribute to the effecti...
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), comprising a significant portion of the human transcriptome, serve as vital regulators of cellular processes and potential disease biomarkers. However, the function of most lncRNAs remains unknown, and furthermore, exi...
Maintaining traceability links of software systems is a crucial task for software management and development. Unfortunately, dealing with traceability links are typically taken as afterthought due to time pressure. Some studies attempt to use informa...
Network protocol implementations, as integral components of information communication, are critically important for security. Due to its efficiency and automation, fuzzing has become a popular method for protocol security detection. However, the exis...
Code comments are considered an efficient way to document the functionality of a particular block of code. Code commenting is a common practice among developers to explain the purpose of the code in order to improve code comprehension and readability...
Source code clone detection, which can identify code fragments with similar functions, plays a significant role in software development and quality assurance. Existing methods either extract single syntactic or semantic information, or ignore the ass...
The rapid evolution of video programming tutorials as a key educational resource has highlighted the need for effective code extraction methods. These tutorials, varying widely in video quality, present a challenge for accurately transcribing the emb...
The challenge of software vulnerabilities persists globally, despite the widespread availability of advanced security tools and comprehensive developer guidelines. This issue is not the result of professional negligence, but rather the complex and no...
Physical insight into a material can be first gained by its color, as the reflectance spectrum of an object reflects its microstructure and complex refractive indices. Here, we present a comprehensive overview of electrodynamics and optics related to...
Code vulnerability detection is a crucial approach to ensuring software security, aiming to automatically identify potential security vulnerabilities in source code. However, existing static vulnerability detection methods often face challenges such...
The utilization of software architectures and designs is widespread in software development, offering conceptual frameworks to address recurring challenges. A transpiler is a tool that automatically converts source code from one high-level programmin...
Analytical models describing the dynamics of lobed radio sources are essential for interpretation of the tens of millions of radio sources that will be observed by the Square Kilometre Array and pathfinder instruments. We propose that historical mode...
The expansion of wind power around the world poses a new challenge that network operators must overcome, namely the integration of this renewable energy source into the grid. Comprehensive analyses involving time-domain simulations must be carried ou...
Software testing is a crucial yet time-consuming aspect of software development. Writing comprehensive unit tests that accurately verify whether a function or an entire program behaves as intended requires considerable effort from developers, particu...
Since the seminal work of Roentgen, X-ray imaging mainly uses the same physical phenomenon: the absorption of light by matter. Thanks to third-generation synchrotrons that provide a high flux of quasi-coherent X-rays, we have seen in recent years new...
Since the current remote sensing pre-trained models trained on optical images are not as effective when applied to SAR image tasks, it is crucial to create sensor-specific SAR models with generalized feature representations and to demonstrate with ev...
Spectrum-based fault localization (SBFL), one of the typical types of software fault localization techniques, has been widely adopted to assist developers in identifying faulty program elements. However, conventional SBFL techniques rely solely on te...
Maximum Rank-Distance (MRD) codes are a class of optimal error-correcting codes that achieve the Singleton-like bound for rank metric, making them invaluable in applications such as network coding, cryptography, and distributed storage. While algebra...
Due to the Software Defined Network (SDN) technology, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are getting wider application prospects for sensor nodes that can get new functions after updating program codes. The issue of disseminating program codes to every...
The mRNAs and long non-coding RNAs axes are playing a vital role in the regulating of post-transcriptional gene expression. Thereby, elucidating the expression pattern of mRNAs and long non-coding RNAs underlying testis development is crucial. In thi...
This article aims to synthesize the current ecosystem of open-source tools for Integrated Circuit (IC) design, covering the entire digital design flow from Register-Transfer Level (RTL) description to fabricable layouts. The survey categorizes and an...
The widespread reuse of code in the open-source community has led to the proliferation of homologous vulnerabilities, which are security flaws propagated across diverse software systems through the reuse of vulnerable code. Such vulnerabilities pose...
The building construction industry accounts for 5% of global energy use and 10% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. A primary source of these emissions is the manufacture of building construction materials such as steel, cement, and glass. As a...
Software vulnerabilities pose significant risks to the security and reliability of modern systems, making automated vulnerability detection an essential research area. Traditional static and rule-based approaches are limited in scalability and adapta...
22 February 2022
Skin cancer rates are rising in the United States, yet screening rates remain low. Meanwhile, social media has evolved to become a primary source of health information, with 40% of daily users of Pinterest reporting the platform as a “go-to&rdq...
Singlish is a code-mixed creole formed from English and multiple Asian languages and dialects, predominantly spoken in Singapore. Translation of Singlish to standard UK English broadens comprehension of the creole and supports downstream analyses suc...
Existing smart contract honeypot detection approaches exhibit high false negatives and positives due to (i) their inability to generate transaction sequences triggering order-dependent traps and (ii) their limited code coverage from traditional fuzzi...
A major challenge in the historical study of female monasticism in Thailand is the paucity of texts written by or about Thai Buddhist female practitioners prior to 1950. Biographical and autobiographical texts and other substantial Buddhist texts aut...
Rust’s growing popularity in high-integrity systems requires automated vulnerability detection in order to maintain its strong safety guarantees. Although Rust’s ownership model and compile-time checks prevent many errors, sometimes unexp...
Code smells are early warning signs of potential issues in software quality. Various techniques are used in code smell detection, including the Bayesian approach, rule-based automatic antipattern detection, antipattern identification utilizing B-spli...
Background: Prostate cancer (PCa) diagnosis using MRI is often challenged by lesion variability. Methods: This study introduces Simplatab, an open-source automated machine learning (AutoML) framework designed for, but not limited to, automating the e...
Legacy software systems remain operational in many organizations because of their long-standing business value, yet structural degradation and outdated documentation make them increasingly difficult to understand and modernize. Existing reverse-engin...
Two-way relaying channel (TWRC) improves the throughput of one-way relaying channel through network coding at the relay. Time division broadcast (TDBC) is one typical protocol for TWRC, but with three time slots for one round information exchange lea...
This paper aims to develop a new continuous strength method (CSM) to more accurately predict the strain-hardening characteristics of high-strength aluminum alloy circular hollow sections (CHSs) under axial compression. A total of 11 stub column speci...
With the increasing prevalence of digital multimedia content, the need for reliable and accurate source camera identification has become crucial in applications such as digital forensics. While effective techniques exist for identifying the source ca...
29 August 2022
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a complex, lifelong disease. Its effects span across different areas of life and vary strongly. In Switzerland, there is an intense discussion on how to optimize quality of care and patient safety. Patients should be more i...
Absolute linear encoders have emerged as a core technical enabler in the fields of high-end manufacturing and precision displacement measurement, owing to their inherent advantages such as the elimination of the need for homing operations and the ret...
preCICE is an open-source library, that provides comprehensive functionality to couple independent parallelized solver codes to establish a partitioned multi-physics multi-code simulation environment. For data communication between the respective exe...
Volatility forecasting for financial institutions plays a pivotal role across a wide range of domains, such as risk management, option pricing, and market making. For instance, banks can incorporate volatility forecasts into stress testing frameworks...
There are numerous instabilities present in charged particle beams that undergo exponential growth and reach saturation. In various applications, such as free-electron lasers or micro-bunching light sources, achieving saturation is desirable. Convers...
The integration of distributed power plants that rely on renewable energy sources (RESs) is a major challenge for system operators (SOs) due to the variable nature of the input energy (e.g., wind and solar irradiation) to these power sources. A key s...
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