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most citedTowards Understanding Third-party Library Dependency in C/C++ Ecosystem

70 citations · 71 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.SE2026

Effective Construction of Feature Database of Fingerprinting Functions for Code-Clone SCA

Zhiling Zhu, Tieming Chen, Chengwei Liu +5

In contemporary software development, the extensive adoption of third-party libraries has become standard practice to avoid reinventing the wheel. This trend is particularly eviden…

cs.SE2026

ATLAS: Agentic Taxonomy of Large-Scale Software Ecosystems

Junyi Lu, Mengyao Lyu, Jiahui Wu +6

The open-source ecosystem on GitHub lacks a systematic hierarchical taxonomy of software repositories. GitHub Topics, the dominant organizational mechanism, is flat, inconsistent,…

cs.CR2026

Cutting the Gordian Knot: Detecting Malicious PyPI Packages via a Knowledge-Mining Framework

Wenbo Guo, Chengwei Liu, Ming Kang +5

The Python Package Index (PyPI) has become a target for malicious actors, yet existing detection tools generate false positive rates of 15-30%, incorrectly flagging one-third of le…

cs.SE2025

JC-Finder: Detecting Java Clone-based Third-Party Library by Class-level Tree Analysis

Lida Zhao, Chaofan Li, Yueming Wu +10

While reusing third-party libraries (TPL) facilitates software development, its chaotic management has brought great threats to software maintenance and the unauthorized use of sou…

cs.SE2025

VFArchē: A Dual-Mode Framework for Locating Vulnerable Functions in Open-Source Software

Lyuye Zhang, Jian Zhang, Kaixuan Li +6

Software Composition Analysis (SCA) has become pivotal in addressing vulnerabilities inherent in software project dependencies. In particular, reachability analysis is increasingly…

cs.SE2025

Fixing Outside the Box: Uncovering Tactics for Open-Source Security Issue Management

Lyuye Zhang, Jiahui Wu, Chengwei Liu +5

In the rapidly evolving landscape of software development, addressing security vulnerabilities in open-source software (OSS) has become critically important. However, existing rese…

cs.SE2025

Drop the Golden Apples: Identifying Third-Party Reuse by DB-Less Software Composition Analysis

Lyuye Zhang, Chengwei Liu, Jiahui Wu +5

The prevalent use of third-party libraries (TPLs) in modern software development introduces significant security and compliance risks, necessitating the implementation of Software…

cs.SE2025

Detecting Essence Code Clones via Information Theoretic Analysis

Lida Zhao, Shihan Dou, Yutao Hu +8

Code cloning, a widespread practice in software development, involves replicating code fragments to save time but often at the expense of software maintainability and quality. In t…

cs.SE2024

IntelliRadar: A Comprehensive Platform to Pinpoint Malicious Package Information from Cyber Intelligence

Wenbo Guo, Chengwei Liu, Limin Wang +4

Malicious packages in public registries pose serious threats to software supply chain security. While current software component analysis (SCA) tools rely on databases like OSV and…

cs.SE2023★ 1 cited

Compatible Remediation on Vulnerabilities from Third-Party Libraries for Java Projects

Lyuye Zhang, Chengwei Liu, Zhengzi Xu +5

With the increasing disclosure of vulnerabilities in open-source software, software composition analysis (SCA) has been widely applied to reveal third-party libraries and the assoc…

cs.SE2022★ 70 cited

Towards Understanding Third-party Library Dependency in C/C++ Ecosystem

Wei Tang, Zhengzi Xu, Chengwei Liu +5

Third-party libraries (TPLs) are frequently reused in software to reduce development cost and the time to market. However, external library dependencies may introduce vulnerabiliti…