A closer look at the security risks in the rust ecosystem

X Zheng, Z Wan, Y Zhang, R Chang, D Lo - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Rust is an emerging programming language designed for the development of systems
software. To facilitate the reuse of Rust code, crates. io, as a central package registry of the …

Stress-testing road networks and access to medical care

H Schuster, A Polleres, J Wachs - … research part A: policy and practice, 2024 - Elsevier
This research studies how populations depend on road networks for access to health care
during crises or natural disasters. So far, most researchers rather studied the accessibility of …

Locating community smells in software development processes using higher-order network centralities

C Gote, V Perri, C Zingg, G Casiraghi, C Arzig… - Social Network Analysis …, 2023 - Springer
Community smells are negative patterns in software development teams' interactions that
impede their ability to successfully create software. Examples are team members working in …

Remote Multi-Person Heart Rate Monitoring with Smart Speakers: Overcoming Separation Constraint

T Tran, D Ma, R Balan - Sensors, 2024 - mdpi.com
Heart rate is a key vital sign that can be used to understand an individual's health condition.
Recently, remote sensing techniques, especially acoustic-based sensing, have received …

The Dynamics of Innovation in Open Source Software Ecosystems

G Mészáros, J Wachs - arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.14894, 2024 - arxiv.org
Software libraries are the elementary building blocks of open source software ecosystems,
extending the capabilities of programming languages beyond their standard libraries …

4.5 Million (Suspected) Fake Stars in GitHub: A Growing Spiral of Popularity Contests, Scams, and Malware

H He, H Yang, P Burckhardt, A Kapravelos… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
GitHub, the de-facto platform for open-source software development, provides a set of social-
media-like features to signal high-quality repositories. Among them, the star count is the …

The dynamics of leadership and success in software development teams

L Betti, L Gallo, J Wachs, F Battiston - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.18833, 2024 - arxiv.org
From science to industry, teamwork plays a crucial role in knowledge production and
innovation. Most studies consider teams as static groups of individuals, thereby failing to …

Identifying Meaningful Vulnerability Report in Common Weakness Enumeration

G Li, W Zhao, L Zhao, H Li, S Guo… - 2024 14th International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The vulnerabilities in Open Source Software (OSS) code, particularly critical ones, offer
attackers numerous opportunities, leading to significant economic losses for users. This has …

[PDF][PDF] No Free Lunch For Programmers: Digital Supply Chains and the Economics of Software Dependency Management

S Boysel - 2023 - sboysel.github.io
Developers of software projects can leverage the functionality of existing open source
projects. This practice can potentially lower the cost of development albeit at the inherent …

[PDF][PDF] Usage of Unsupported Technologies in Websites Worldwide

PA Nugroho, RC Putra, RC Maulana… - Jurnal Ilmiah Teknik …, 2024 - eprints.uad.ac.id
Websites using unsupported 3rd party technologies (libraries, frameworks, plugins, etc) are
generally not recommended, especially due to security issues that are left unfixed. However …