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most citedResearch on Third-Party Libraries in AndroidApps: A Taxonomy and Systematic LiteratureReview

14 citations · 28 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.SE2025

Fairness Is Not Just Ethical: Performance Trade-Off via Data Correlation Tuning to Mitigate Bias in ML Software

Ying Xiao, Shangwen Wang, Sicen Liu +4

Traditional software fairness research typically emphasizes ethical and social imperatives, neglecting that fairness fundamentally represents a core software quality issue arising…

cs.SE2024

PPT4J: Patch Presence Test for Java Binaries

Zhiyuan Pan, Xing Hu, Xin Xia +3

The number of vulnerabilities reported in open source software has increased substantially in recent years. Security patches provide the necessary measures to protect software from…

cs.LG2023

FITNESS: A Causal De-correlation Approach for Mitigating Bias in Machine Learning Software

Ying Xiao, Shangwen Wang, Sicen Liu +3

Software built on top of machine learning algorithms is becoming increasingly prevalent in a variety of fields, including college admissions, healthcare, insurance, and justice. Th…

cs.SE2023★ 3 cited

Demystifying Privacy Policy of Third-Party Libraries in Mobile Apps

Kaifa Zhao, Xian Zhan, Le Yu +5

The privacy of personal information has received significant attention in mobile software. Although previous researchers have designed some methods to identify the conflict between…

cs.SE2022

Accessible or Not? An Empirical Investigation of Android App Accessibility

Sen Chen, Chunyang Chen, Lingling Fan +3

Mobile apps provide new opportunities to people with disabilities to act independently in the world. Motivated by this trend, researchers have conducted empirical studies by using…

cs.SE2022★ 1 cited

Aper: Evolution-Aware Runtime Permission Misuse Detection for Android Apps

Sinan Wang, Yibo Wang, Xian Zhan +4

The Android platform introduces the runtime permission model in version 6.0. The new model greatly improves data privacy and user experience, but brings new challenges for app deve…

cs.SE2021★ 14 cited

Research on Third-Party Libraries in AndroidApps: A Taxonomy and Systematic LiteratureReview

Xian Zhan, Tianming Liu, Lingling Fan +4

Third-party libraries (TPLs) have been widely used in mobile apps, which play an essential part in the entire Android ecosystem. However, TPL is a double-edged sword. On the one ha…

cs.SE2021★ 2 cited

A Systematic Assessment on Android Third-party Library Detection Tools

Xian Zhan, Tianming Liu, Yepang Liu +4

Third-party libraries (TPLs) have become a significant part of the Android ecosystem. Developers can employ various TPLs to facilitate their app development. Unfortunately, the pop…

cs.SE2021★ 1 cited

A Systematical Study on Application Performance Management Libraries for Apps

Yutian Tang, Haoyu Wang, Xian Zhan +6

Being able to automatically detect the performance issues in apps can significantly improve apps' quality as well as having a positive influence on user satisfaction. Application P…

cs.SE2021★ 7 cited

ATVHunter: Reliable Version Detection of Third-Party Libraries for Vulnerability Identification in Android Applications

Xian Zhan, Lingling Fan, Sen Chen +4

We propose a system, named ATVHunter, which can pinpoint the precise vulnerable in-app TPL versions and provide detailed information about the vulnerabilities and TPLs. We propose…