Clonepedia: Summarizing Code Clones By Common Syntactic Context For Software Maintenance,
2014
Singapore Management University
Clonepedia: Summarizing Code Clones By Common Syntactic Context For Software Maintenance, Yun Lin, Zhenchang Xing, Xin Peng, Yang Liu, Jun Sun, Wenyun Zhao, Jin Song Dong
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Code clones have to be made explicit and be managed in software maintenance. Researchers have developed many clone detection tools to detect and analyze code clones in software systems. These tools report code clones as similar code fragments in source files. However, clone-related maintenance tasks (e.g., refactorings) often involve a group of code clones appearing in larger syntactic context (e.g., code clones in sibling classes or code clones calling similar methods). Given a list of low-level code-fragment clones, developers have to manually summarize from bottom up low-level code clones that are relevant to the syntactic context of a maintenance task. …
Extending Ocl To Better Express Uml Qualified Associations,
2014
The University of Texas at El Paso
Extending Ocl To Better Express Uml Qualified Associations, Alla Dove, Aditi Barua, Yoonsik Cheon
Departmental Technical Reports (CS)
A qualified association in the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is an association that allows one to restrict the objects referred in an association using a key called a qualifier. A qualified association can appear in a constraint written in the Object Constraint Language (OCL) to specify a precise UML model. However, the OCL notation fails to provide appropriate support for expressing certain types of constraints written using qualified associations. In this paper we first describe a deficiency of OCL in expressing qualified associations and then propose a small extension to OCL to make it more expressive. The key idea of …
Addressing User Requirements In Open Source Software: The Role Of Online Forums,
2014
National University of Science and Technology
Addressing User Requirements In Open Source Software: The Role Of Online Forums, Arif Raza, Luiz Fernando Capretz
Electrical and Computer Engineering Publications
User satisfaction has always been important in the success of software, regardless of whether it is closed and proprietary or open source software (OSS). OSS users are geographically distributed and include technical as well as novice users. However, it is generally believed that if OSS was more usable, its popularity would increase tremendously. Hence, users and their requirements need to be addressed in the priorities of an OSS environment. Online public forums are a major medium of communication for the OSS community. The research model of this work studies the relationship between user requirements in open source software and online …
A Comparative Study On The Effectiveness Of Part-Of-Speech Tagging Techniques On Bug Reports,
2014
Singapore Management University
A Comparative Study On The Effectiveness Of Part-Of-Speech Tagging Techniques On Bug Reports, Yuan Tian, David Lo
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Many software artifacts are written in natural language or contain substantial amount of natural language contents. Thus these artifacts could be analyzed using text analysis techniques from the natural language processing (NLP) community, e.g., the part-of-speech (POS) tagging technique that assigns POS tags (e.g., verb, noun, etc.) to words in a sentence. In the literature, several studies have already applied POS tagging technique on software artifacts to recover important words in them, which are then used for automating various tasks, e.g., locating buggy files for a given bug report, etc. There are many POS tagging techniques proposed and they are …
Midiflapper: A Leap Motion Midi Controller,
2014
California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
Midiflapper: A Leap Motion Midi Controller, Mark M. Henry
Computer Science and Software Engineering
An application called MIDIFlapper was developed that translates data from the Leap Motion, an NUI device, into MIDI data suitable for use by a contemporary digital audio workstation. This allows electronic musicians to use the Leap Motion for musical creation and live performance.
An Active Resource Orchestration Framework For Pan-Scale Sensor-Rich Environments,
2014
Singapore Management University
An Active Resource Orchestration Framework For Pan-Scale Sensor-Rich Environments, Youngki Lee, Chulhong Min, Younghyun Ju, Seungwoo Kang, Yunseok Rhee, Junehwa Song
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
In this paper, we present Orchestrator, an active resource orchestration framework for a PAN-scale sensor-rich mobile computing platform. Incorporating diverse sensing devices connected to a mobile phone, the platform will serve as a common base to accommodate personal context-aware applications. A major challenge for the platform is to simultaneously support concurrent applications requiring continuous and complex context processing, with highly scarce and dynamic resources. To address the challenge, we build Orchestrator, which actively coordinates applications' resource uses over the distributed mobile and sensor devices. As a key approach, it adopts an active resource use orchestration, which prepares multiple alternative plans …
Theorems About Quadrilaterals And Conics,
2014
Singapore Management University
Theorems About Quadrilaterals And Conics, Dorde Baralic, Branko Grbic, Dorde Zikelic
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
We study quadrilaterals inscribed and circumscribed about conics and prove interesting theorems. Theorems are discovered by experimenting with dynamical geometry software. The Poncelet theorem for quadrilaterals is proved by elementary means together with Poncelet's grid property.
Livelabs: Building An In-Situ Real-Time Mobile Experimentation Testbed,
2014
Singapore Management University
Livelabs: Building An In-Situ Real-Time Mobile Experimentation Testbed, Rajesh Krishna Balan, Archan Misra, Youngki Lee
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
We present LiveLabs, a mobile experimentation testbed that is currently deployed across our university campus with further deployments at a large shopping mall, a commercial airport, and a resort island soon to follow. The key goal of LiveLabs is to allow in-situ real-time experimentation of mobile applications and services that require context-specific triggers with real participants on their actual smart phones. We describe how LiveLabs works, and then explain the novel R&D required to realise it. We end with a descriptionof the current LiveLabs status (> 700 active participants to date) as well as present some key lessons learned.
Sinabro: Opportunistic And Unobtrusive Mobile Ecg Monitoring System,
2014
Singapore Management University
Sinabro: Opportunistic And Unobtrusive Mobile Ecg Monitoring System, Seungwoo Kang, Sungjun Kwon, Sangwon Seo, Chungkuk Yoo, Kwangsuk Park, Junehwa Song, Youngki Lee
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
In this paper, we propose Sinabro, an opportunistic and unobtrusive mobile electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring system that monitors the user’s ECG opportunistically during daily smartphone use. Daily ECG monitoring will open up an unprecedented opportunity for pervasive healthcare applications. It will enable the daily detection and prevention of heart problems and also allow inferences about stress, emotion, and even sleep quality. Despite its huge potential, daily ECG monitoring still has not become reality due to its obtrusiveness. In this paper, we first study the potential opportunity to capture ECGs from daily use of smartphones, without requiring the user’s explicit attention. Based …
Towards More Accurate Multi-Label Software Behavior Learning,
2014
Singapore Management University
Towards More Accurate Multi-Label Software Behavior Learning, Xin Xia, Feng Yang, David Lo, Zhenyu Chen, Xinyu Wang
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
In a modern software system, when a program fails, a crash report which contains an execution trace would be sent to the software vendor for diagnosis. A crash report which corresponds to a failure could be caused by multiple types of faults simultaneously. Many large companies such as Baidu organize a team to analyze these failures, and classify them into multiple labels (i.e., multiple types of faults). However, it would be time-consuming and difficult for developers to manually analyze these failures and come out with appropriate fault labels. In this paper, we automatically classify a failure into multiple types of …
Automated Construction Of A Software-Specific Word Similarity Database,
2014
Singapore Management University
Automated Construction Of A Software-Specific Word Similarity Database, Yuan Tian, David Lo, Julia Lawall
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Many automated software engineering approaches, including code search, bug report categorization, and duplicate bug report detection, measure similarities between two documents by analyzing natural language contents. Often different words are used to express the same meaning and thus measuring similarities using exact matching of words is insufficient. To solve this problem, past studies have shown the need to measure the similarities between pairs of words. To meet this need, the natural language processing community has built WordNet which is a manually constructed lexical database that records semantic relations among words and can be used to measure how similar two words …
Los And Nlos Classification For Underwater Acoustic Localization,
2014
Singapore Management University
Los And Nlos Classification For Underwater Acoustic Localization, Roee Diamant, Hwee-Pink Tan, Lutz Lampe
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
The low sound speed in water makes propagation delay (PD)-based range estimation attractive for underwater acoustic localization (UWAL). However, due to the long channel impulse response and the existence of reflectors, PD-based UWAL suffers from significant degradation when PD measurements of nonline-of-sight (NLOS) communication links are falsely identified as line-of-sight (LOS). In this paper, we utilize expected variation of PD measurements due to mobility of nodes and present an algorithm to classify the former into LOS and NLOS links. First, by comparing signal strength-based and PD-based range measurements, we identify object-related NLOS (ONLOS) links, where signals are reflected from objects …
Extended Comprehensive Study Of Association Measures For Fault Localization,
2014
Singapore Management University
Extended Comprehensive Study Of Association Measures For Fault Localization, Lucia Lucia, David Lo, Lingxiao Jiang, Ferdian Thung, Aditya Budi
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Spectrum-based fault localization is a promising approach to automatically locate root causes of failures quickly. Two well-known spectrum-based fault localization techniques, Tarantula and Ochiai, measure how likely a program element is a root cause of failures based on profiles of correct and failed program executions. These techniques are conceptually similar to association measures that have been proposed in statistics, data mining, and have been utilized to quantify the relationship strength between two variables of interest (e.g., the use of a medicine and the cure rate of a disease). In this paper, we view fault localization as a measurement of the …
An Empirical Study Of Bug Report Field Reassignment,
2014
Singapore Management University
An Empirical Study Of Bug Report Field Reassignment, Xin Xia, David Lo, Ming Wen, Shihab Emad, Bo Zhou
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
A bug report contains many fields, such as product, component, severity, priority, fixer, operating system (OS), platform, etc., which provide important information for the bug triaging and fixing process. It is important to make sure that bug information is correct since previous studies showed that the wrong assignment of bug report fields could increase the bug fixing time, and even delay the delivery of the software. In this paper, we perform an empirical study on bug report field reassignments in open-source software projects. To better understand why bug report fields are reassigned, we manually collect 99 recent bug reports that …
Barometric Phone Sensors: More Hype Than Hope!,
2014
Singapore Management University
Barometric Phone Sensors: More Hype Than Hope!, Kartik Muralidharan, Azeem Javed Khan, Archan Misra, Rajesh Krishna Balan, Sharad Agarwal
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
The inclusion of the barometer sensor in smartphones signaled an opportunity for aiding indoor localization efforts. In this paper, we therefore investigate a possible use of the barometer sensor for detecting vertically oriented activities. We start by showing the accuracies of various commodity measurement devices and the challenges they bring forth. We then show how to use the barometer values to build a predictor that can detect floor changes and the mode (elevator, escalator, or stairs) used to change floors with nearly 100% accuracy. We validate these properties with data collected using 3 different measurement devices from 7 different buildings. …
Parameter Synthesis For Hierarchical Concurrent Real-Time Systems,
2014
Singapore Management University
Parameter Synthesis For Hierarchical Concurrent Real-Time Systems, Étienne André, Yang Liu, Jun Sun, Jin Song Dong
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Modeling and verifying complex real-time systems, involving timing delays, are notoriously difficult problems. Checking the correctness of a system for one particular value for each delay does not give any information for other values. It is thus interesting to reason parametrically, by considering that the delays are parameters (unknown constants) and synthesizing a constraint guaranteeing a correct behavior. We present here Parametric Stateful Timed Communicating Sequential Processes, a language capable of specifying and verifying parametric hierarchical real-time systems with complex data structures. Although we prove that the synthesis is undecidable in general, we present several semi-algorithms for efficient parameter synthesis, …
Towards Verification Of Computation Orchestration,
2014
Singapore Management University
Towards Verification Of Computation Orchestration, Jin Song Dong, Yang Liu, Jun Sun, Xian Zhang
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Recently, a promising programming model called Orc has been proposed to support a structured way of orchestrating distributed Web Services. Orc is intuitive because it offers concise constructors to manage concurrent communication, time-outs, priorities, failure of Web Services or communication and so forth. The semantics of Orc is precisely defined. However, there is no automatic verification tool available to verify critical properties against Orc programs. Our goal is to verify the orchestration programs (written in Orc language) which invoke web services to achieve certain goals. To investigate this problem and build useful tools, we explore in two directions. Firstly, we …
Model Checking Approach To Automated Planning,
2014
Singapore Management University
Model Checking Approach To Automated Planning, Yi Li, Jin Song Dong, Jing Sun, Yang Liu, Jun Sun
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Model checking provides a way to automatically explore the state space of a finite state system based on desired properties, whereas planning is to produce a sequence of actions that leads from the initial state to the target goal states. Previous research in this field proposed a number of approaches for connecting model checking with planning problem solving. In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of using an established model checking framework, Process Analysis Toolkit (PAT), as a planning solution provider for upper layer applications. To achieve this, we first carry out a number of experiments on different model checking …
Towards Formal Modelling And Verification Of Pervasive Computing Systems,
2014
Singapore Management University
Towards Formal Modelling And Verification Of Pervasive Computing Systems, Yan Liu, Xian Zhang, Yang Liu, Jin Song Dong, Jun Sun, Jit Biswas, Mounir Mokhtari
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Smart systems equipped with emerging pervasive computing technologies enable people with limitations to live in their homes independently. However, lack of guarantees for correctness prevent such system to be widely used. Analysing the system with regard to correctness requirements is a challenging task due to the complexity of the system and its various unpredictable faults. In this work, we propose to use formal methods to analyse pervasive computing (PvC) systems. Firstly, a formal modelling framework is proposed to cover the main characteristics of such systems (e.g., context-awareness, concurrent communications, layered architectures). Secondly, we identify the safety requirements (e.g., free of …
Learning Assumptions For Compositional Verification Of Timed Systems,
2014
Singapore Management University
Learning Assumptions For Compositional Verification Of Timed Systems, Shang-Wei Lin Lin, Yang Liu, Jun Sun, Jun Sun
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Compositional techniques such as assume-guarantee reasoning (AGR) can help to alleviate the state space explosion problem associated with model checking. However, compositional verification is difficult to be automated, especially for timed systems, because constructing appropriate assumptions for AGR usually requires human creativity and experience. To automate compositional verification of timed systems, we propose a compositional verification framework using a learning algorithm for automatic construction of timed assumptions for AGR. We prove the correctness and termination of the proposed learning-based framework, and experimental results show that our method performs significantly better than traditional monolithic timed model checking.
