App Store Analysis studies information about applications obtained from app stores. App
stores provide a wealth of information derived from users that would not exist had the …

Context Static analysis exploits techniques that parse program source code or bytecode,
often traversing program paths to check some program properties. Static analysis …

Security threats are escalating exponentially posing a serious challenge to mobile platforms,
specifically Android. In recent years the number of attacks has not only increased but each …

Java reflection has been widely used in a variety of applications and frameworks. It allows a
software system to inspect and change the behaviour of its classes, interfaces, methods, and …

When analyzing programs, large libraries pose significant challenges to static points-to
analysis. A popular solution is to have a human analyst provide points-to specifications that …

Mobile phones have become important daily companions for millions of people which help
to organize both their private and their professional lives. Having access to data such as the …

Modern mobile malware tend to conduct their malicious exploits through sophisticated
patterns of interactions that involve multiple entities, eg, the mobile platform, human users …

Mobile platforms are rapidly and continuously changing, with support for new sensors, APIs,
and programming abstractions. Static analysis is gaining a growing interest, allowing …

Compared to the Web where each web page has a global URL for external access, a
specific'page'inside a mobile app cannot be easily accessed unless the user performs …

The understanding of the behavioral aspects of a software system is an essential enabler for
many software engineering activities, such as adaptation. This involves collecting runtime …