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Papers for Software Engineers

A curated list of papers that may be of interest to Software Engineering students or professionals. See the sources and selection criteria below.

Von Neumann's First Computer Program. Knuth (1970) . Computer History; Early Programming

• The Education of a Computer. Hopper (1952) .
• Recursive Programming. Dijkstra (1960) .
• Programming Considered as a Human Activity. Dijkstra (1965) .
• Goto Statement Considered Harmful. Dijkstra (1968) .
• Program development by stepwise refinement. Wirth (1971) .
• The Humble Programmer. Dijkstra (1972) .
• Computer Programming as an Art. Knuth (1974) .
• The paradigms of programming. Floyd (1979) .
• Literate Programming. Knuth (1984) .

Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Turing (1950) . Early Artificial Intelligence

• Some Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation. Wiener (1960) .
• Steps towards Artificial Intelligence. Minsky (1960) .
• ELIZA—a computer program for the study of natural language communication between man and machine. Weizenbaum (1966) .
• A Theory of the Learnable. Valiant (1984) .

A Method for the Construction of Minimum-Redundancy Codes. Huffman (1952) . Information Theory

• A Universal Algorithm for Sequential Data Compression. Ziv, Lempel (1977) .
• Fifty Years of Shannon Theory. Verdú (1998) .

Engineering a Sort Function. Bentley, McIlroy (1993) . Data Structures; Algorithms

• On the Shortest Spanning Subtree of a Graph and the Traveling Salesman Problem. Kruskal (1956) .
• A Note on Two Problems in Connexion with Graphs. Dijkstra (1959) .
• Quicksort. Hoare (1962) .
• Space/Time Trade-offs in Hash Coding with Allowable Errors. Bloom (1970) .
• The Ubiquitous B-Tree. Comer (1979) .
• Programming pearls: Algorithm design techniques. Bentley (1984) .
• Programming pearls: The back of the envelope. Bentley (1984) .
• Making data structures persistent. Driscoll et al (1986) .

A Design Methodology for Reliable Software Systems. Liskov (1972) . Software Design

• On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules. Parnas (1971) .
• Information Distribution Aspects of Design Methodology. Parnas (1972) .
• Designing Software for Ease of Extension and Contraction. Parnas (1979) .
• Programming as Theory Building. Naur (1985) .
• Software Aging. Parnas (1994) .
• Towards a Theory of Conceptual Design for Software. Jackson (2015) .

Programming with Abstract Data Types. Liskov, Zilles (1974) . Abstract Data Types; Object-Oriented Programming

• The Smalltalk-76 Programming System Design and Implementation. Ingalls (1978) .
• A Theory of Type Polymorphism in Programming. Milner (1978) .
• On understanding types, data abstraction, and polymorphism. Cardelli, Wegner (1985) .
• SELF: The Power of Simplicity. Ungar, Smith (1991) .

Why Functional Programming Matters. Hughes (1990) . Functional Programming

• Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine. McCarthy (1960) .
• The Semantics of Predicate Logic as a Programming Language. Van Emden, Kowalski (1976) .
• Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? Backus (1978) .
• The Semantic Elegance of Applicative Languages. Turner (1981) .
• The essence of functional programming. Wadler (1992) .
• QuickCheck: A Lightweight Tool for Random Testing of Haskell Programs. Claessen, Hughes (2000) .
• Church's Thesis and Functional Programming. Turner (2006) .

An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction. Ghuloum (2006) . Language Design; Compilers

• The Next 700 Programming Languages. Landin (1966) .
• Programming pearls: little languages. Bentley (1986) .
• The Essence of Compiling with Continuations. Flanagan et al (1993) .
• A Brief History of Just-In-Time. Aycock (2003) .
• LLVM: A Compilation Framework for Lifelong Program Analysis & Transformation. Lattner, Adve (2004) .
• A Unified Theory of Garbage Collection. Bacon, Cheng, Rajan (2004) .
• A Nanopass Framework for Compiler Education. Sarkar, Waddell, Dybvig (2005) .
• Bringing the Web up to Speed with WebAssembly. Haas (2017) .

No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering. Brooks (1987) . Software Engineering; Project Management

• How do committees invent? Conway (1968) .
• Managing the Development of Large Software Systems. Royce (1970) .
• The Mythical Man Month. Brooks (1975) .
• On Building Systems That Will Fail. Corbató (1991) .
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar. Raymond (1998) .
• Out of the Tar Pit. Moseley, Marks (2006) .

Communicating sequential processes. Hoare (1978) . Concurrency

• Solution Of a Problem in Concurrent Program Control. Dijkstra (1965) .
• Monitors: An operating system structuring concept. Hoare (1974) .
• On the Duality of Operating System Structures. Lauer, Needham (1978) .
• Software Transactional Memory. Shavit, Touitou (1997) .

The UNIX Time- Sharing System. Ritchie, Thompson (1974) . Operating Systems

• An Experimental Time-Sharing System. Corbató, Merwin Daggett, Daley (1962) .
• The Structure of the "THE"-Multiprogramming System. Dijkstra (1968) .
• The nucleus of a multiprogramming system. Hansen (1970) .
• Reflections on Trusting Trust. Thompson (1984) .
• The Design and Implementation of a Log-Structured File System. Rosenblum, Ousterhout (1991) .

A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks. Codd (1970) . Databases

• Granularity of Locks and Degrees of Consistency in a Shared Data Base. Gray et al (1975) .
• Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System. Selinger et al (1979) .
• The Transaction Concept: Virtues and Limitations. Gray (1981) .
• The design of POSTGRES. Stonebraker, Rowe (1986) .
• Rules of Thumb in Data Engineering. Gray, Shenay (1999) .

A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication. Cerf, Kahn (1974) . Networking

• Ethernet: Distributed packet switching for local computer networks. Metcalfe, Boggs (1978) .
• End-To-End Arguments in System Design. Saltzer, Reed, Clark (1984) .
• An algorithm for distributed computation of a Spanning Tree in an Extended LAN. Perlman (1985) .
• The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols. Clark (1988) .
• TOR: The second generation onion router. Dingledine et al (2004) .
• Why the Internet only just works. Handley (2006) .
• The Network is Reliable. Bailis, Kingsbury (2014) .

New Directions in Cryptography. Diffie, Hellman (1976) . Cryptography

• A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-Key Cryptosystems. Rivest, Shamir, Adleman (1978) .
• How To Share A Secret. Shamir (1979) .
• A Digital Signature Based on a Conventional Encryption Function. Merkle (1987) .
• The Salsa20 family of stream ciphers. Bernstein (2007) .

Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System. Lamport (1978) . Distributed Systems

• Self-stabilizing systems in spite of distributed control. Dijkstra (1974) .
• The Byzantine Generals Problem. Lamport, Shostak, Pease (1982) .
• Impossibility of Distributed Consensus With One Faulty Process. Fisher, Lynch, Patterson (1985) .
• Implementing Fault-Tolerant Services Using the State Machine Approach: A Tutorial. Schneider (1990) .
• Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance. Castro, Liskov (1999) .
• Paxos made simple. Lamport (2001) .
• Paxos made live - An Engineering Perspective. Chandra, Griesemer, Redstone (2007) .
• In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm. Ongaro, Ousterhout (2014) .

Designing for Usability: Key Principles and What Designers Think. Gould, Lewis (1985) . Human-Computer Interaction; User Interfaces

• As We May Think. Bush (1945) .
• Man-Computer symbiosis. Licklider (1958) .
• Some Thoughts About the Social Implications of Accessible Computing. David, Fano (1965) .
• Tutorials for the First-Time Computer User. Al-Awar, Chapanis, Ford (1981) .
• The star user interface: an overview. Smith, Irby, Kimball (1982) .
• Design Principles for Human-Computer Interfaces. Norman (1983) .
• Human-Computer Interaction: Psychology as a Science of Design. Carroll (1997) .

The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine. Brin, Page (1998) . Information Retrieval; World-Wide Web

• A Statistical Interpretation of Term Specificity in Retrieval. Spärck Jones (1972) .
• World-Wide Web: Information Universe. Berners-Lee et al (1992) .
• The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web. Page, Brin, Motwani (1998) .

Dynamo, Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value store. DeCandia et al (2007) . Internet Scale Data Systems

• The Google File System. Ghemawat, Gobioff, Leung (2003) .
• MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters. Dean, Ghemawat (2004) .
• Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data. Chang et al (2006) .
• ZooKeeper: wait-free coordination for internet scale systems. Hunt et al (2010) .
• The Hadoop Distributed File System. Shvachko et al (2010) .
• Kafka: a Distributed Messaging System for Log Processing. Kreps, Narkhede, Rao (2011) .
• CAP Twelve Years Later: How the "Rules" Have Changed. Brewer (2012) .
• Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases. Verbitski et al (2017) .

On Designing and Deploying Internet Scale Services. Hamilton (2007) . Operations; Reliability; Fault-tolerance

• Ironies of Automation. Bainbridge (1983) .
• Why do computers stop and what can be done about it? Gray (1985) .
• Recovery Oriented Computing (ROC): Motivation, Definition, Techniques, and Case Studies. Patterson et al (2002) .
• Crash-Only Software. Candea, Fox (2003) .
• Building on Quicksand. Helland, Campbell (2009) .

Thinking Methodically about Performance. Gregg (2012) . Performance

• Performance Anti-Patterns. Smaalders (2006) .
• Thinking Clearly about Performance. Millsap (2010) .

Bitcoin, A peer-to-peer electronic cash system. Nakamoto (2008) . Crytpocurrencies

• Ethereum: A Next-Generation Smart Contract and Decentralized Application Platform. Buterin (2014) .

A Few Useful Things to Know About Machine Learning. Domingos (2012) . Machine Learning

• Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures. Breiman (2001) .
• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data. Halevy, Norvig, Pereira (2009) .
• ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks. Krizhevsky, Sutskever, Hinton (2012) .
• Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning. Mnih et al (2013) .
• Generative Adversarial Nets. Goodfellow et al (2014) .
• Deep Learning. LeCun, Bengio, Hinton (2015) .
• Attention Is All You Need. Vaswani et al (2017) .
• Von Neumann's First Computer Program. Knuth (1970) .
• Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Turing (1950) .
• A Method for the Construction of Minimum-Redundancy Codes. Huffman (1952) .
• Engineering a Sort Function. Bentley, McIlroy (1993) .
• A Design Methodology for Reliable Software Systems. Liskov (1972) .
• Programming with Abstract Data Types. Liskov, Zilles (1974) .
• Why Functional Programming Matters. Hughes (1990) .
• An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction. Ghuloum (2006) .
• No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering. Brooks (1987) .
• Communicating sequential processes. Hoare (1978) .
• The UNIX Time- Sharing System. Ritchie, Thompson (1974) .
• A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks. Codd (1970) .
• A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication. Cerf, Kahn (1974) .
• New Directions in Cryptography. Diffie, Hellman (1976) .
• Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System. Lamport (1978) .
• Designing for Usability: Key Principles and What Designers Think. Gould, Lewis (1985) .
• The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine. Brin, Page (1998) .
• Dynamo, Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value store. DeCandia et al (2007) .
• On Designing and Deploying Internet Scale Services. Hamilton (2007) .
• Thinking Methodically about Performance. Gregg (2012) .
• Bitcoin, A peer-to-peer electronic cash system. Nakamoto (2008) .
• A Few Useful Things to Know About Machine Learning. Domingos (2012) .

This list was inspired by (and draws from) several books and paper collections:

• Papers We Love
• Ideas That Created the Future
• The Innovators
• The morning paper
• Distributed systems for fun and profit
• Readings in Database Systems (the Red Book)
• Fermat's Library
• Classics in Human-Computer Interaction
• Awesome Compilers
• Distributed Consensus Reading List
• The Decade of Deep Learning

A few interesting resources about reading papers from Papers We Love and elsewhere:

• Should I read papers?
• How to Read an Academic Article
• How to Read a Paper. Keshav (2007) .
• Efficient Reading of Papers in Science and Technology. Hanson (1999) .
• On ICSE’s “Most Influential Papers”. Parnas (1995) .

Selection criteria

• The idea is not to include every interesting paper that I come across but rather to keep a representative list that's possible to read from start to finish with a similar level of effort as reading a technical book from cover to cover.
• I tried to include one paper per each major topic and author. Since in the process I found a lot of noteworthy alternatives, related or follow-up papers and I wanted to keep track of those as well, I included them as sublist items.
• The papers shouldn't be too long. For the same reasons as the previous item, I try to avoid papers longer than 20 or 30 pages.
• They should be self-contained and readable enough to be approachable by the casual technical reader.
• They should be freely available online.
• Examples of this are classic works by Von Neumann, Turing and Shannon.
• That being said, where possible I preferred the original paper on each subject over modern updates or survey papers.
• Similarly, I tended to skip more theoretical papers, those focusing on mathematical foundations for Computer Science, electronic aspects of hardware, etc.
• I sorted the list by a mix of relatedness of topics and a vague chronological relevance, such that it makes sense to read it in the suggested order. For example, historical and seminal topics go first, contemporary internet-era developments last, networking precedes distributed systems, etc.

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Identifying Non-Technical Skill Gaps in Software Engineering Education: What Experts Expect But Students Don’t Learn

As the importance of non-technical skills in the software engineering industry increases, the skill sets of graduates match less and less with industry expectations. A growing body of research exists that attempts to identify this skill gap. However, only few so far explicitly compare opinions of the industry with what is currently being taught in academia. By aggregating data from three previous works, we identify the three biggest non-technical skill gaps between industry and academia for the field of software engineering: devoting oneself to continuous learning , being creative by approaching a problem from different angles , and thinking in a solution-oriented way by favoring outcome over ego . Eight follow-up interviews were conducted to further explore how the industry perceives these skill gaps, yielding 26 sub-themes grouped into six bigger themes: stimulating continuous learning , stimulating creativity , creative techniques , addressing the gap in education , skill requirements in industry , and the industry selection process . With this work, we hope to inspire educators to give the necessary attention to the uncovered skills, further mitigating the gap between the industry and the academic world.

Opportunities and Challenges in Code Search Tools

Code search is a core software engineering task. Effective code search tools can help developers substantially improve their software development efficiency and effectiveness. In recent years, many code search studies have leveraged different techniques, such as deep learning and information retrieval approaches, to retrieve expected code from a large-scale codebase. However, there is a lack of a comprehensive comparative summary of existing code search approaches. To understand the research trends in existing code search studies, we systematically reviewed 81 relevant studies. We investigated the publication trends of code search studies, analyzed key components, such as codebase, query, and modeling technique used to build code search tools, and classified existing tools into focusing on supporting seven different search tasks. Based on our findings, we identified a set of outstanding challenges in existing studies and a research roadmap for future code search research.

Psychometrics in Behavioral Software Engineering: A Methodological Introduction with Guidelines

A meaningful and deep understanding of the human aspects of software engineering (SE) requires psychological constructs to be considered. Psychology theory can facilitate the systematic and sound development as well as the adoption of instruments (e.g., psychological tests, questionnaires) to assess these constructs. In particular, to ensure high quality, the psychometric properties of instruments need evaluation. In this article, we provide an introduction to psychometric theory for the evaluation of measurement instruments for SE researchers. We present guidelines that enable using existing instruments and developing new ones adequately. We conducted a comprehensive review of the psychology literature framed by the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing. We detail activities used when operationalizing new psychological constructs, such as item pooling, item review, pilot testing, item analysis, factor analysis, statistical property of items, reliability, validity, and fairness in testing and test bias. We provide an openly available example of a psychometric evaluation based on our guideline. We hope to encourage a culture change in SE research towards the adoption of established methods from psychology. To improve the quality of behavioral research in SE, studies focusing on introducing, validating, and then using psychometric instruments need to be more common.

Towards an Anatomy of Software Craftsmanship

Context: The concept of software craftsmanship has early roots in computing, and in 2009, the Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship was formulated as a reaction to how the Agile methods were practiced and taught. But software craftsmanship has seldom been studied from a software engineering perspective. Objective: The objective of this article is to systematize an anatomy of software craftsmanship through literature studies and a longitudinal case study. Method: We performed a snowballing literature review based on an initial set of nine papers, resulting in 18 papers and 11 books. We also performed a case study following seven years of software development of a product for the financial market, eliciting qualitative, and quantitative results. We used thematic coding to synthesize the results into categories. Results: The resulting anatomy is centered around four themes, containing 17 principles and 47 hierarchical practices connected to the principles. We present the identified practices based on the experiences gathered from the case study, triangulating with the literature results. Conclusion: We provide our systematically derived anatomy of software craftsmanship with the goal of inspiring more research into the principles and practices of software craftsmanship and how these relate to other principles within software engineering in general.

On the Reproducibility and Replicability of Deep Learning in Software Engineering

Context: Deep learning (DL) techniques have gained significant popularity among software engineering (SE) researchers in recent years. This is because they can often solve many SE challenges without enormous manual feature engineering effort and complex domain knowledge. Objective: Although many DL studies have reported substantial advantages over other state-of-the-art models on effectiveness, they often ignore two factors: (1) reproducibility —whether the reported experimental results can be obtained by other researchers using authors’ artifacts (i.e., source code and datasets) with the same experimental setup; and (2) replicability —whether the reported experimental result can be obtained by other researchers using their re-implemented artifacts with a different experimental setup. We observed that DL studies commonly overlook these two factors and declare them as minor threats or leave them for future work. This is mainly due to high model complexity with many manually set parameters and the time-consuming optimization process, unlike classical supervised machine learning (ML) methods (e.g., random forest). This study aims to investigate the urgency and importance of reproducibility and replicability for DL studies on SE tasks. Method: In this study, we conducted a literature review on 147 DL studies recently published in 20 SE venues and 20 AI (Artificial Intelligence) venues to investigate these issues. We also re-ran four representative DL models in SE to investigate important factors that may strongly affect the reproducibility and replicability of a study. Results: Our statistics show the urgency of investigating these two factors in SE, where only 10.2% of the studies investigate any research question to show that their models can address at least one issue of replicability and/or reproducibility. More than 62.6% of the studies do not even share high-quality source code or complete data to support the reproducibility of their complex models. Meanwhile, our experimental results show the importance of reproducibility and replicability, where the reported performance of a DL model could not be reproduced for an unstable optimization process. Replicability could be substantially compromised if the model training is not convergent, or if performance is sensitive to the size of vocabulary and testing data. Conclusion: It is urgent for the SE community to provide a long-lasting link to a high-quality reproduction package, enhance DL-based solution stability and convergence, and avoid performance sensitivity on different sampled data.

Predictive Software Engineering: Transform Custom Software Development into Effective Business Solutions

The paper examines the principles of the Predictive Software Engineering (PSE) framework. The authors examine how PSE enables custom software development companies to offer transparent services and products while staying within the intended budget and a guaranteed budget. The paper will cover all 7 principles of PSE: (1) Meaningful Customer Care, (2) Transparent End-to-End Control, (3) Proven Productivity, (4) Efficient Distributed Teams, (5) Disciplined Agile Delivery Process, (6) Measurable Quality Management and Technical Debt Reduction, and (7) Sound Human Development.

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Improving bioinformatics software quality through incorporation of software engineering practices

Background Bioinformatics software is developed for collecting, analyzing, integrating, and interpreting life science datasets that are often enormous. Bioinformatics engineers often lack the software engineering skills necessary for developing robust, maintainable, reusable software. This study presents review and discussion of the findings and efforts made to improve the quality of bioinformatics software. Methodology A systematic review was conducted of related literature that identifies core software engineering concepts for improving bioinformatics software development: requirements gathering, documentation, testing, and integration. The findings are presented with the aim of illuminating trends within the research that could lead to viable solutions to the struggles faced by bioinformatics engineers when developing scientific software. Results The findings suggest that bioinformatics engineers could significantly benefit from the incorporation of software engineering principles into their development efforts. This leads to suggestion of both cultural changes within bioinformatics research communities as well as adoption of software engineering disciplines into the formal education of bioinformatics engineers. Open management of scientific bioinformatics development projects can result in improved software quality through collaboration amongst both bioinformatics engineers and software engineers. Conclusions While strides have been made both in identification and solution of issues of particular import to bioinformatics software development, there is still room for improvement in terms of shifts in both the formal education of bioinformatics engineers as well as the culture and approaches of managing scientific bioinformatics research and development efforts.

Inter-team communication in large-scale co-located software engineering: a case study

AbstractLarge-scale software engineering is a collaborative effort where teams need to communicate to develop software products. Managers face the challenge of how to organise work to facilitate necessary communication between teams and individuals. This includes a range of decisions from distributing work over teams located in multiple buildings and sites, through work processes and tools for coordinating work, to softer issues including ensuring well-functioning teams. In this case study, we focus on inter-team communication by considering geographical, cognitive and psychological distances between teams, and factors and strategies that can affect this communication. Data was collected for ten test teams within a large development organisation, in two main phases: (1) measuring cognitive and psychological distance between teams using interactive posters, and (2) five focus group sessions where the obtained distance measurements were discussed. We present ten factors and five strategies, and how these relate to inter-team communication. We see three types of arenas that facilitate inter-team communication, namely physical, virtual and organisational arenas. Our findings can support managers in assessing and improving communication within large development organisations. In addition, the findings can provide insights into factors that may explain the challenges of scaling development organisations, in particular agile organisations that place a large emphasis on direct communication over written documentation.

Aligning Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence With Transdisciplinary

Study examined AI and SE transdisciplinarity to find ways of aligning them to enable development of AI-SE transdisciplinary theory. Literature review and analysis method was used. The findings are AI and SE transdisciplinarity is tacit with islands within and between them that can be linked to accelerate their transdisciplinary orientation by codification, internally developing and externally borrowing and adapting transdisciplinary theories. Lack of theory has been identified as the major barrier toward towards maturing the two disciplines as engineering disciplines. Creating AI and SE transdisciplinary theory would contribute to maturing AI and SE engineering disciplines.  Implications of study are transdisciplinary theory can support mode 2 and 3 AI and SE innovations; provide an alternative for maturing two disciplines as engineering disciplines. Study’s originality it’s first in SE, AI or their intersections.

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FROM QUALITY ASSURANCE TO QUALITY ENGINEERING FOR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Kiran Kumaar CNK, Capgemini India Private Limited, India

Defects are one of the seven prominent wastes in lean process that arises out of the failure of a product or functionality from meeting customer expectations. These defects, in turn, can cause rework and redeployment of that product or functionality again, which costs valuable time, effort, and money. As per the survey, most of the clients invest much time, energy, and money in fixing production defects. This paper provides information about ways to move into quality engineering from quality assurance mode for digital transformation by diagnostic, Predictive & Prescriptive approaches, it also outlines the overall increase in quality observations, given QA shift left and continuous delivery through Agile with the integration of analytics and toolbox.

Diagnostic, Predictive & Prescriptive approaches, continuous delivery through Agile.

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DESIGN OF SOFTWARE TRUSTED TOOL BASED ON SEMANTIC ANALYSIS

Guofengli, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China

IAt present, the research on software trustworthiness mainly focuses on two parts: behavioral trustworthiness and trusted computing. The research status of trusted computing is in the stage of active immune of trusted 3.0. Behavioral trustworthiness mainly focuses on the detection and monitoring of software behavior trajectory. Abnormal behaviors are found through scene and hierarchical monitoring program call sequence, Restrict sensitive and dangerous software behavior.

At present, the research of behavior trust mainly uses XML language to configure behavior statement, which constrains sensitive and dangerous software behaviors. These researches are mainly applied to software trust testing methods. The research of XML behavior statement file mainly uses the method of obtaining sensitive behavior set and defining behavior path to manually configure. It mainly focuses on the formulation of behavior statements and the generation of behavior statement test cases. There are few researches on behavior semantics trustworthiness. Behavior statements are all based on behavior set configuration XML format declaration files. There are complicated and time-consuming problems in manual configuration, including incomplete behavior sets. This paper uses the trusted tool of semantic analysis technology to solve the problem of behavior set integrity And can generate credible statement file efficiently.

The main idea of this paper is to use semantic analysis technology to model requirements, including dynamic semantic analysis and static semantic analysis. This paper uses UML model to automatically generate XML language code, behavioral semantic analysis and modeling, and formal modeling of non functional requirements, so as to ensure the credibility of the developed software trusted tools and the automatically generated XML files. It is mainly based on the formal construction of non functional requirements Model research, semantic analysis of the state diagram and function layer in the research process, generation of XML language trusted behavior declaration file by activity diagram established by model driven method, and finally generation of functional semantic set and functional semantic tree set by semantic analysis to ensure the integrity of the software. Behavior set generates behavior declaration file in XML format by the design of trusted tools Trusted computing is used to verify the credibility of trusted tools.

Behavior declaration, behavior semantic analysis, trusted tool design, functional semantic set.

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DOCPRO: A FRAMEWORK FOR BUILDING DOCUMENT PROCESSING SYSTEMS

Ming-Jen Huang, Chun-Fang Huang, Chiching Wei Foxit Software Inc., Albrae Street, Fremont, USA

With the recent advance of the deep neural network, we observe new applications of natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV) technologies. Especaully, when applying them to document processing, NLP and CV tasks are usually treated individually in research work and open source libraries. However, designing a real-world document processing system needs to weave NLP and CV tasks and their generated information together. There is a need to have a unified approach for processing documents containing textual and graphical elements with rich formats, diverse layout arrangement, and distinct semantics. This paper introduces a framework to fulfil this need. The framework includes a representation model definition for holding the generated information and specifications defining the coordination between the NLP and CV tasks.

Document Processing, Framework, Formal definition, Machine Learning.

For More Details : https://aircconline.com/csit/csit1009.pdf

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MODERATION EFFECT OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERS’ EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE (EQ) BETWEEN THEIR WORK ETHICS AND THEIR WORK PERFORMANCE

Shafia Khatun and Norsaremah Salleh International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

In today’s world, software is being used in every sector, be it education, healthcare, security, transportation, finance and so on. As software engineers are affecting society greatly, if they do not behave ethically, it could cause widespread damage, such as the Facebook-CambridgeAnalytica scandal in 2018. Therefore, investigating the ethics of software engineers and the relationships it has with other interpersonal variables such as work performance is important for understanding what could be done to improve the situation. Software engineers work in rapidly-changing business environments which lead to a lot of stress. Their emotions are important for dealing with this, and can impact their ethical decision-making. In this quantitative study, the researcher aims to investigate whether Emotional Intelligence (EQ) moderates the relationship between work ethics of software engineers and their work performance using hierarchical multiple regression analysis in SPSS. The findings have found that EQ does significantly moderate the relationship between work ethics and work performance. These findings provide valuable information for improving the ethical behavior of software engineers.

Software engineers, emotional intelligence, work ethics, work performance, quantitative study .

For More Details : https://aircconline.com/csit/csit1014.pdf

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UNIQUE SOFTWARE ENGINEERING TECHNIQUES: PANACEA FOR THREAT COMPLEXITIES IN SECURE MULTIPARTY COMPUTATION (MPC) WITH BIG DATA

Uchechukwu Emejeamara 1 , Udochukwu Nwoduh 2 and Andrew Madu 2 1 IEEE Computer Society, Connecticut Section, USA 2 Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Nigeria.

Most large corporations with big data have adopted more privacy measures in handling their sensitive/private data and as a result, employing the use of analytic tools to run across multiple sources has become ineffective. Joint computation across multiple parties is allowed through the use of secure multi-party computations (MPC). The practicality of MPC is impaired when dealing with large datasets as more of its algorithms are poorly scaled with data sizes. Despite its limitations, MPC continues to attract increasing attention from industry players who have viewed it as a better approach to exploiting big data. Secure MPC is however, faced with complexities that most times overwhelm its handlers, so the need for special software engineering techniques for resolving these threat complexities. This research presents cryptographic data security measures, garbed circuits protocol, optimizing circuits, and protocol execution techniques as some of the special techniques for resolving threat complexities associated with MPC’s. Honest majority, asymmetric trust, covert security, and trading off leakage are some of the experimental outcomes of implementing these special techniques. This paper also reveals that an essential approach in developing suitable mitigation strategies is having knowledge of the adversary type.

Cryptographic Data Security, Garbed Circuits, Optimizing Circuits, Protocol Execution, Honest Majority, Asymmetric Trust, Covert Security, Trading Off Leakage.

NETWORK DEFENSE IN AN END-TO-END PARADIGM

William R. Simpson and Kevin E. Foltz The Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), Alexandria, Virginia, USA

Network defense implies a comprehensive set of software tools to preclude malicious entities from conducting nefarious activities. For most enterprises at this time, that defense builds upon a clear concept of the fortress approach. Many of the requirements are based on inspection and reporting prior to delivery of the communication to the intended target. These inspections require decryption of packets when encrypted. This decryption implies that the defensive suite has access to the private keys of the servers that are the target of communication. This is in contrast to an end-to-end paradigm where known good entities can communicate directly with each other. In an end-to-end paradigm, maintaining confidentiality through unbroken end-toend encryption, the private key resides only with the holder-of-key in the communication and on a distributed computation of inspection and reporting. This paper examines a formulation that is pertinent to the Enterprise Level Security (ELS) framework. .

Appliance, end-to-end security model, ELS, network defenses, web server handlers.

QUALITY MODEL BASED ON PLAYABILITY FOR THE UNDERSTANDABILITY AND USABILITY COMPONENTS IN SERIOUS VIDEO GAMES

Iván Humberto Fuentes Chab, Damián Uriel Rosado Castellanos, Olivia Graciela Fragoso Diaz and Ivette Stephany Pacheco Farfán Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Escárcega (ITSE), Escárcega, México

A serious video game is an easy and practical way to get the player to learn about a complex subject, such as performing integrals, applying first aid, or even getting children to learn to read and write in their native language or another language. Therefore, to develop a serious video game, you must have a guide containing the basic or necessary elements of its software components to be considered. This research presents a quality model to evaluate the playability, taking the attributes of usability and understandability at the level of software components. This model can serve as parameters to measure the quality of the software product of the serious video games before and during its development, providing a margin with the primordial elements that a serious video game must have so that the players reach the desired objective of learning while playing. The experimental results show that 88.045% is obtained concerning for to the quality model proposed for the serious video game used in the test case, margin that can vary according to the needs of the implemented video game. .

Quality Model, Serious Video Games, Playability Metrics.

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