Research at the intersection of machine learning, programming languages, and software
engineering has recently taken important steps in proposing learnable probabilistic models …

Software security vulnerabilities are one of the critical issues in the realm of computer
security. Due to their potential high severity impacts, many different approaches have been …

The constantly increasing number of disclosed security vulnerabilities have become an
important concern in the software industry and in the field of cybersecurity, suggesting that …

Source code (Context) and its parsed abstract syntax tree (AST; Structure) are two
complementary representations of the same computer program. Traditionally, designers of …

Recently SVMs using spatial pyramid matching (SPM) kernel have been highly successful in
image classification. Despite its popularity, these nonlinear SVMs have a complexity O (n …

Programmers learning how to use an API or a programming language often rely on code
examples to support their learning activities. However, what makes for an effective ode …

n-gram statistical language model has been successfully applied to capture programming
patterns to support code completion and suggestion. However, the approaches using n …

Energy consumption of mobile applications is nowadays a hot topic, given the widespread
use of mobile devices. The high demand for features and improved user experience, given …

To improve software productivity, when constructing new software systems, programmers
often reuse existing libraries or frameworks by invoking methods provided in their APIs …

The interplay of multiple objects in object-oriented programming often follows specific
protocols, for example certain orders of method calls and/or control structure constraints …