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Quantumeyes: Towards Better Interpretability Of Quantum Circuits, Shaolun RUAN, Qiang GUAN, Paul GRIFFIN, Ying MAO, Yong WANG 2023 Singapore Management University

Quantumeyes: Towards Better Interpretability Of Quantum Circuits, Shaolun Ruan, Qiang Guan, Paul Griffin, Ying Mao, Yong Wang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Quantum computing offers significant speedup compared to classical computing, which has led to a growing interest among users in learning and applying quantum computing across various applications. However, quantum circuits, which are fundamental for implementing quantum algorithms, can be challenging for users to understand due to their underlying logic, such as the temporal evolution of quantum states and the effect of quantum amplitudes on the probability of basis quantum states. To fill this research gap, we propose QuantumEyes, an interactive visual analytics system to enhance the interpretability of quantum circuits through both global and local levels. For the global-level analysis, …


An Idealist’S Approach For Smart Contract Correctness, Duy Tai NGUYEN, Hong Long PHAM, Jun SUN, Quang Loc LE 2023 Singapore Management University

An Idealist’S Approach For Smart Contract Correctness, Duy Tai Nguyen, Hong Long Pham, Jun Sun, Quang Loc Le

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In this work, we experiment an idealistic approach for smart contract correctness verification and enforcement, based on the assumption that developers are either desired or required to provide a correctness specification due to the importance of smart contracts and the fact that they are immutable after deployment. We design a static verification system with a specification language which supports fully compositional verification (with the help of function specifications, contract invariants, loop invariants and call invariants). Our approach has been implemented in a tool named iContract which automatically proves the correctness of a smart contract statically or checks the unverified part …


Towards Llm-Based Fact Verification On News Claims With A Hierarchical Step-By-Step Prompting Method, Xuan ZHANG, Wei GAO 2023 Singapore Management University

Towards Llm-Based Fact Verification On News Claims With A Hierarchical Step-By-Step Prompting Method, Xuan Zhang, Wei Gao

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

While large pre-trained language models (LLMs) have shown their impressive capabilities in various NLP tasks, they are still underexplored in the misinformation domain. In this paper, we examine LLMs with in-context learning (ICL) for news claim verification, and find that only with 4-shot demonstration examples, the performance of several prompting methods can be comparable with previous supervised models. To further boost performance, we introduce a Hierarchical Step-by-Step (HiSS) prompting method which directs LLMs to separate a claim into several subclaims and then verify each of them via multiple questionsanswering steps progressively. Experiment results on two public misinformation datasets show that …


A Novel Multidimensional Reference Model For Heterogeneous Textual Datasets Using Context, Semantic And Syntactic Clues, Ganesh Kumar, Shuib Basri, Abdullahi Abubakar Imam, Abdullateef Abdullateef Oluwagbemiga Balogun, Hussaini Mamman, Luiz Fernando Capretz 2023 Universiti Teknologi Petronas

A Novel Multidimensional Reference Model For Heterogeneous Textual Datasets Using Context, Semantic And Syntactic Clues, Ganesh Kumar, Shuib Basri, Abdullahi Abubakar Imam, Abdullateef Abdullateef Oluwagbemiga Balogun, Hussaini Mamman, Luiz Fernando Capretz

Electrical and Computer Engineering Publications

With the advent of technology and use of latest devices, they produces voluminous data. Out of it, 80% of the data are unstructured and remaining 20% are structured and semi-structured. The produced data are in heterogeneous format and without following any standards. Among heterogeneous (structured, semi-structured and unstructured) data, textual data are nowadays used by industries for prediction and visualization of future challenges. Extracting useful information from it is really challenging for stakeholders due to lexical and semantic matching. Few studies have been solving this issue by using ontologies and semantic tools, but the main limitations of proposed work were …


Habit-Tracking Application For Individuals With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (Adhd), Hannah Wishon 2023 Harrisburg University of Science and Technology

Habit-Tracking Application For Individuals With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (Adhd), Hannah Wishon

Harrisburg University Research Symposium: Highlighting Research, Innovation, & Creativity

This project aims to create a habit-tracking app that would cater to the needs of those with ADHD while being accessible enough to be used by the general, neurotypical public.


Service-Oriented Framework For Developing Interoperable E-Health Systems In A Low-Income Country, Bonface Abima, Agnes Nakakawa, Geoffrey Mayoka Kituyi 2023 Makerere University Business School

Service-Oriented Framework For Developing Interoperable E-Health Systems In A Low-Income Country, Bonface Abima, Agnes Nakakawa, Geoffrey Mayoka Kituyi

The African Journal of Information Systems

e-Health solutions in low-income countries are fragmented, address institution-specific needs, and do little to address the strategic need for inter-institutional exchange of health data. Although various e-health interoperability frameworks exist, contextual factors often hinder their effective adoption in low-income countries. This underlines the need to investigate such factors and to use findings to adapt existing e-health interoperability models. Following a design science approach, this research involved conducting an exploratory survey among 90 medical and Information Technology personnel from 67 health facilities in Uganda. Findings were used to derive requirements for e-health interoperability, and to orchestrate elements of a service oriented …


Peatmoss: Mining Pre-Trained Models In Open-Source Software, Wenxin Jiang, Jason Jones, Jerin Yasmin, Nicholas Synovic, Rajiv Sashti, Sophie Chen, George K. Thiruvathukal, Yuan Tian, James C. Davis 2023 Purdue University

Peatmoss: Mining Pre-Trained Models In Open-Source Software, Wenxin Jiang, Jason Jones, Jerin Yasmin, Nicholas Synovic, Rajiv Sashti, Sophie Chen, George K. Thiruvathukal, Yuan Tian, James C. Davis

Computer Science: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Developing and training deep learning models is expensive, so software engineers have begun to reuse pre-trained deep learning models (PTMs) and fine-tune them for downstream tasks. Despite the widespread use of PTMs, we know little about the corresponding software engineering behaviors and challenges. To enable the study of software engineering with PTMs, we present the PeaTMOSS dataset: Pre-Trained Models in Open-Source Software. PeaTMOSS has three parts: a snapshot of (1) 281,638 PTMs, (2) 27,270 open-source software repositories that use PTMs, and (3) a mapping between PTMs and the projects that use them. We challenge PeaTMOSS miners to discover software engineering …


Development Of User Interface And Testing Harness, Jacob Amezquita, William Albertini 2023 California State Polytechnic University - San Luis Obispo

Development Of User Interface And Testing Harness, Jacob Amezquita, William Albertini

College of Engineering Summer Undergraduate Research Program

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Exploring Approaches To Engage K-12 Students In Learning Computational Thinking Using Collaborative Robots, Zoila Anuri Kanu 2023 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Exploring Approaches To Engage K-12 Students In Learning Computational Thinking Using Collaborative Robots, Zoila Anuri Kanu

College of Engineering Summer Undergraduate Research Program

Minority students are largely underrepresented in the STEM field. The goal for this project was to develop a program which promotes the inclusion of computation skills among students and help them work collaboratively with the use of human – robot interaction. Robots are such a strong tool that can be used to enhance computational thinking and engage students towards a technical field. Through workshops and readings about computational thinking we worked on building a block-based program that introduces the uses of robots as teaching tool for computational thinking.


Enhancing Autism Education: Exploring Interactive Videos And Ai Integration For Effective Teaching, Fatima Ahmed Alraeesi 2023 United Arab Emirates University

Enhancing Autism Education: Exploring Interactive Videos And Ai Integration For Effective Teaching, Fatima Ahmed Alraeesi

Theses

This research focuses on enhancing autism education by integrating interactive videos and AI solutions to improve teacher training. As the number of autistic students rises, it becomes crucial for special education teachers to employ effective teaching strategies tailored to individual needs. The most effective teaching methods for autistic students involve understanding the condition and incorporating customized instruction strategies, such as adapting assignments to suit the student's needs, assisting those with difficulty speaking, and employing visual aids for better organization. The proposed solution involves utilizing interactive video technology to train teachers, bridging the gap between research and practical implementation of educational …


Supporting Artefact Awareness In Partially-Replicated Workspaces, Emran POH, Anthony TANG, Jenanie S. LEE, Zhao SHENGDONG 2023 Singapore Management University

Supporting Artefact Awareness In Partially-Replicated Workspaces, Emran Poh, Anthony Tang, Jenanie S. Lee, Zhao Shengdong

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Using Cross Reality (CR) approaches for remote collaboration will often result in partially-replicated workspaces. Here, workspace artefacts are not equally accessible - i.e. a physical artefact may only be manipulated by one collaborator - and in general, the artefacts become desynchronised over time. In this paper, we introduce a framework for artefact awareness that can help collaborators maintain an understanding of each others' manipulations with workspace artefacts. We illustrate our design explorations through sketches, and outline how we aim to study the effectiveness and utility of artefact awareness in cross reality remote collaboration. In our work, we expect to show …


Software Testing And Code Refactoring: A Survey With Practitioners, Danilo Leandro Lima, Ronnie Souza Santos, Guilherme Pires Garcia, Sildemir S. Silva, Cesar Franca, Luiz Fernando Capretz 2023 Accenture

Software Testing And Code Refactoring: A Survey With Practitioners, Danilo Leandro Lima, Ronnie Souza Santos, Guilherme Pires Garcia, Sildemir S. Silva, Cesar Franca, Luiz Fernando Capretz

Electrical and Computer Engineering Publications

Nowadays, software testing professionals are commonly required to develop coding skills to work on test automation. One essential skill required from those who code is the ability to implement code refactoring, a valued quality aspect of software development; however, software developers usually encounter obstacles in successfully applying this practice. In this scenario, the present study aims to explore how software testing professionals (e.g., software testers, test engineers, test analysts, and software QAs) deal with code refactoring to understand the benefits and limitations of this practice in the context of software testing. We followed the guidelines to conduct surveys in software …


Designing A Human-Centered Intelligent System To Monitor & Explain Abnormal Patterns Of Older Adults, Min Hun LEE, Daniel P. Siewiorek, Alexandre Bernardino 2023 Singapore Management University

Designing A Human-Centered Intelligent System To Monitor & Explain Abnormal Patterns Of Older Adults, Min Hun Lee, Daniel P. Siewiorek, Alexandre Bernardino

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Older adult care technologies are increasingly explored to support the independent living of older adults by monitoring their abnormal activities and informing caregivers to provide intervention if necessary. However, the adoption of these technologies remains challenging due to several factors (e.g. lack of usability). In this work, we present a human-centered, intelligent system for older adult care. Our proposed designs of the system were created based on the findings from a focus group session with caregivers. This system monitors the abnormal activities of an older adult using wireless motion sensors and machine learning models. In addition, unlike previous work that …


Ubisurface: A Robotic Touch Surface For Supporting Mid-Air Planar Interactions In Room-Scale Vr, Ryota GOMI, Kazuki TAKASHIMA, Yuki ONISHI, Kazuyuki FUJITA, Yoshifumi KITAMURA 2023 Singapore Management University

Ubisurface: A Robotic Touch Surface For Supporting Mid-Air Planar Interactions In Room-Scale Vr, Ryota Gomi, Kazuki Takashima, Yuki Onishi, Kazuyuki Fujita, Yoshifumi Kitamura

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Room-scale VR has been considered an alternative to physical office workspaces. For office activities, users frequently require planar input methods, such as typing or handwriting, to quickly record annotations to virtual content. However, current off-The-shelf VR HMD setups rely on mid-Air interactions, which can cause arm fatigue and decrease input accuracy. To address this issue, we propose UbiSurface, a robotic touch surface that can automatically reposition itself to physically present a virtual planar input surface (VR whiteboard, VR canvas, etc.) to users and to permit them to achieve accurate and fatigue-less input while walking around a virtual room. We design …


Constructing Cyber-Physical System Testing Suites Using Active Sensor Fuzzing, Fan. ZHANG, Qianmei. WU, Bohan. XUAN, Yuqi. CHEN, Wei. LIN, Christopher M. POSKITT, Jun SUN, Binbin. CHEN 2023 Singapore Management University

Constructing Cyber-Physical System Testing Suites Using Active Sensor Fuzzing, Fan. Zhang, Qianmei. Wu, Bohan. Xuan, Yuqi. Chen, Wei. Lin, Christopher M. Poskitt, Jun Sun, Binbin. Chen

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) automating critical public infrastructure face a pervasive threat of attack, motivating research into different types of countermeasures. Assessing the effectiveness of these countermeasures is challenging, however, as benchmarks are difficult to construct manually, existing automated testing solutions often make unrealistic assumptions, and blindly fuzzing is ineffective at finding attacks due to the enormous search spaces and resource requirements. In this work, we propose active sensor fuzzing , a fully automated approach for building test suites without requiring any a prior knowledge about a CPS. Our approach employs active learning techniques. Applied to a real-world water treatment system, …


Boosting Adversarial Training In Safety-Critical Systems Through Boundary Data Selection, Yifan JIA, Christopher M. POSKITT, Peixin ZHANG, Jingyi WANG, Jun SUN, Sudipta CHATTOPADHYAY 2023 Singapore Management University

Boosting Adversarial Training In Safety-Critical Systems Through Boundary Data Selection, Yifan Jia, Christopher M. Poskitt, Peixin Zhang, Jingyi Wang, Jun Sun, Sudipta Chattopadhyay

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

AI-enabled collaborative robots are designed to be used in close collaboration with humans, thus requiring stringent safety standards and quick response times. Adversarial attacks pose a significant threat to the deep learning models of these systems, making it crucial to develop methods to improve the models' robustness against them. Adversarial training is one approach to improve their robustness: it works by augmenting the training data with adversarial examples. This, unfortunately, comes with the cost of increased computational overhead and extended training times. In this work, we balance the need for additional adversarial data with the goal of minimizing the training …


Dexbert: Effective, Task-Agnostic And Fine-Grained Representation Learning Of Android Bytecode, Tiezhu SUN, Kevin ALLIX, Kisub KIM, Xin ZHOU, Dongsun KIM, David LO, Tegawendé F. BISSYANDE, Jacques KLEIN 2023 Singapore Management University

Dexbert: Effective, Task-Agnostic And Fine-Grained Representation Learning Of Android Bytecode, Tiezhu Sun, Kevin Allix, Kisub Kim, Xin Zhou, Dongsun Kim, David Lo, Tegawendé F. Bissyande, Jacques Klein

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The automation of an increasingly large number of software engineering tasks is becoming possible thanks to Machine Learning (ML). One foundational building block in the application of ML to software artifacts is the representation of these artifacts ( e.g. , source code or executable code) into a form that is suitable for learning. Traditionally, researchers and practitioners have relied on manually selected features, based on expert knowledge, for the task at hand. Such knowledge is sometimes imprecise and generally incomplete. To overcome this limitation, many studies have leveraged representation learning, delegating to ML itself the job of automatically devising suitable …


Visilience: An Interactive Visualization Framework For Resilience Analysis Using Control-Flow Graph, Hailong JIANG, Shaolun RUAN, Bo FANG, Yong WANG, Qiang GUAN 2023 Singapore Management University

Visilience: An Interactive Visualization Framework For Resilience Analysis Using Control-Flow Graph, Hailong Jiang, Shaolun Ruan, Bo Fang, Yong Wang, Qiang Guan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Soft errors have become one of the main concerns for the resilience of HPC applications, as these errors can cause HPC applications to generate serious outcomes such as silent data corruption (SDC). Many approaches have been proposed to analyze the resilience of HPC applications. However, existing studies rarely address the challenges of analysis result perception. Specifically, resilience analysis techniques often produce a massive volume of unstructured data, making it difficult for programmers to perform resilience analysis due to non-intuitive raw data. Furthermore, different analysis models produce diverse results with multiple levels of detail, which can create obstacles to compare and …


The Future Can't Help Fix The Past: Assessing Program Repair In The Wild, Vinay KABADI, Dezhen KONG, Siyu XIE, Lingfeng BAO, Gede Artha Azriadi PRANA, Tien Duy B. LE, Xuan Bach D. LE, David LO 2023 Singapore Management University

The Future Can't Help Fix The Past: Assessing Program Repair In The Wild, Vinay Kabadi, Dezhen Kong, Siyu Xie, Lingfeng Bao, Gede Artha Azriadi Prana, Tien Duy B. Le, Xuan Bach D. Le, David Lo

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Automated program repair (APR) has been gaining ground with substantial effort devoted to the area, opening up many challenges and opportunities. One such challenge is that the state-of-the-art repair techniques often resort to incomplete specifications, e.g., test cases that witness buggy behavior, to generate repairs. In practice, bug-exposing test cases are often available when: (1) developers, at the same time of (or after) submitting bug fixes, create the tests to assure the correctness of the fixes, or (2) regression errors occur. The former case – a scenario commonly used for creating popular bug datasets – however, may not be suitable …


Towards An Effective And Interpretable Refinement Approach For Dnn Verification, Jiaying LI, Guangdong BAI, Long H. PHAM, Jun SUN 2023 Singapore Management University

Towards An Effective And Interpretable Refinement Approach For Dnn Verification, Jiaying Li, Guangdong Bai, Long H. Pham, Jun Sun

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Recently, several abstraction refinement techniques have been proposed to improve the verification precision for deep neural networks (DNNs). However, these techniques usually take many refinement steps to verify a property and the refinement decision in each step is hard to interpret, thus hindering their analysis, reasoning and optimization.In this work, we propose SURGEON, a novel DNN verification refinement approach that is both effective and interpretable, allowing analyst to understand why and how each refinement decision is made. The main insight is to leverage the ‘interpretable’ nature of debugging processes and formulate the verification refinement problem as a debugging problem. Given …


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