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08/11/2023
Decentralised Governance for Foundation Model based AI Systems: Exploring the Role of Blockchain in Responsible AI
Foundation models including large language models (LLMs) are increasingl...
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08/11/2023
Unveiling the Tricks: Automated Detection of Dark Patterns in Mobile Applications
Mobile apps bring us many conveniences, such as online shopping and comm...
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08/03/2023
VCTP: A Verifiable Credential-based Trust Propagation Protocol for Personal Issuers in Self-Sovereign Identity Platforms
Self Sovereign Identity (SSI) is an emerging identity system that facili...
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07/21/2023
Quantum Software Analytics: Opportunities and Challenges
Quantum computing systems depend on the principles of quantum mechanics ...
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07/19/2023
Test-takers have a say: understanding the implications of the use of AI in language tests
Language tests measure a person's ability to use a language in terms of ...
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07/05/2023
Trust in Software Supply Chains: Blockchain-Enabled SBOM and the AIBOM Future
Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) serves as a critical pillar in ensurin...
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06/21/2023
Prompt Sapper: A LLM-Empowered Production Tool for Building AI Chains
The emergence of foundation models, such as large language models (LLMs)...
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06/19/2023
Toward the Cure of Privacy Policy Reading Phobia: Automated Generation of Privacy Nutrition Labels From Privacy Policies
Software applications have become an omnipresent part of modern society....
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06/07/2023
Enhancing Virtual Assistant Intelligence: Precise Area Targeting for Instance-level User Intents beyond Metadata
Virtual assistants have been widely used by mobile phone users in recent...
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06/04/2023
Prompt Sapper: LLM-Empowered Software Engineering Infrastructure for AI-Native Services
Foundation models, such as GPT-4, DALL-E have brought unprecedented AI "...
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06/01/2023
AI Chain on Large Language Model for Unsupervised Control Flow Graph Generation for Statically-Typed Partial Code
Control Flow Graphs (CFGs) are essential for visualizing, understanding ...
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05/25/2023
Distributed Trust Through the Lens of Software Architecture
Distributed trust is a nebulous concept that has evolved from different ...
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05/16/2023
QB4AIRA: A Question Bank for AI Risk Assessment
The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI), exemplified by Ch...
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05/09/2023
A Framework for Designing Foundation Model based Systems
The recent release of large language model (LLM) based chatbots, such as...
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04/27/2023
Answering Uncertain, Under-Specified API Queries Assisted by Knowledge-Aware Human-AI Dialogue
Developers' API needs should be more pragmatic, such as seeking suggesti...
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04/26/2023
On the Way to SBOMs: Investigating Design Issues and Solutions in Practice
Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), offers improved transparency and supp...
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04/17/2023
Implementing Responsible AI: Tensions and Trade-Offs Between Ethics Aspects
Many sets of ethics principles for responsible AI have been proposed to ...
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04/13/2023
Towards Responsible AI in the Era of ChatGPT: A Reference Architecture for Designing Foundation Model-based AI Systems
The release of ChatGPT, Bard, and other large language model (LLM)-based...
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02/15/2023
Silent Vulnerable Dependency Alert Prediction with Vulnerability Key Aspect Explanation
Due to convenience, open-source software is widely used. For beneficial ...
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02/07/2023
To Be Forgotten or To Be Fair: Unveiling Fairness Implications of Machine Unlearning Methods
The right to be forgotten (RTBF) is motivated by the desire of people no...
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01/30/2023
Faster or Slower? Performance Mystery of Python Idioms Unveiled with Empirical Evidence
The usage of Python idioms is popular among Python developers in a forma...
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01/27/2023
A Survey on AI Risk Assessment Frameworks
The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) has led to increas...
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01/13/2023
An Empirical Study on Software Bill of Materials: Where We Stand and the Road Ahead
The rapid growth of software supply chain attacks has attracted consider...
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01/10/2023
API Entity and Relation Joint Extraction from Text via Dynamic Prompt-tuned Language Model
Extraction of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and their semant...
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01/03/2023
Operationalising Responsible AI Using a Pattern-Oriented Approach: A Case Study on Chatbots in Financial Services
Responsible AI is the practice of developing and using AI systems in a w...
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12/16/2022
SE Factual Knowledge in Frozen Giant Code Model: A Study on FQN and its Retrieval
Pre-trained giant code models (PCMs) start coming into the developers' d...
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11/23/2022
Federated Learning on Non-IID Graphs via Structural Knowledge Sharing
Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown their superiority in modeling gr...
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11/09/2022
BGRA: A Reference Architecture for Blockchain Governance
Blockchain technology has been integrated into diverse software applicat...
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09/12/2022
Responsible AI Pattern Catalogue: A Multivocal Literature Review
Responsible AI has been widely considered as one of the greatest scienti...
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08/10/2022
Prompt-tuned Code Language Model as a Neural Knowledge Base for Type Inference in Statically-Typed Partial Code
Partial code usually involves non-fully-qualified type names (non-FQNs) ...
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05/09/2022
Towards Operationalising Responsible AI: An Empirical Study
While artificial intelligence (AI) has great potential to transform many...
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04/28/2022
A Decision Model for Federated Learning Architecture Pattern Selection
Federated learning is growing fast in both academia and industry to reso...
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03/09/2022
Towards a Roadmap on Software Engineering for Responsible AI
Although AI is transforming the world, there are serious concerns about ...
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03/02/2022
Responsible-AI-by-Design: a Pattern Collection for Designing Responsible AI Systems
Although AI has significant potential to transform society, there are se...
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03/01/2022
A Pattern Collection for Blockchain Governance
Blockchain technology has been exploited to build next-generation applic...
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02/03/2022
Resource Management and Security Scheme of ICPSs and IoT Based on VNE Algorithm
The development of Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPSs) in virtual...
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12/29/2021
Feature-context driven Federated Meta-Learning for Rare Disease Prediction
Millions of patients suffer from rare diseases around the world. However...
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12/14/2021
AI Ethics Principles in Practice: Perspectives of Designers and Developers
As consensus across the various published AI ethics principles is approa...
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11/18/2021
Software Engineering for Responsible AI: An Empirical Study and Operationalised Patterns
Although artificial intelligence (AI) is solving real-world challenges a...
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10/26/2021
Defining Blockchain Governance Principles: A Comprehensive Framework
Blockchain eliminates the need for trusted third party intermediaries in...
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06/22/2021
FLRA: A Reference Architecture for Federated Learning Systems
Federated learning is an emerging machine learning paradigm that enables...
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05/19/2021
AI and Ethics – Operationalising Responsible AI
In the last few years, AI continues demonstrating its positive impact on...
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05/12/2021
A Systematic Literature Review on Blockchain Governance
Blockchain has been increasingly used as a software component to enable ...
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04/21/2021
A Survey on Federated Learning and its Applications for Accelerating Industrial Internet of Things
Federated learning (FL) brings collaborative intelligence into industrie...
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04/03/2021
Human-Centric Issues in eHealth App Development and Usage: A Preliminary Assessment
Health-related mobile applications are known as eHealth apps. These apps...
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03/22/2021
Checking App Behavior Against App Descriptions: What If There are No App Descriptions?
Classifying mobile apps based on their description is beneficial for sev...
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02/19/2021
Design Patterns for Blockchain-Based Payment Applications
As the killer application of blockchain technology, blockchain-based pay...
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11/02/2020
Cooperative Heterogeneous Deep Reinforcement Learning
Numerous deep reinforcement learning agents have been proposed, and each...
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09/22/2020
Dynamic Fusion based Federated Learning for COVID-19 Detection
Medical diagnostic image analysis (e.g., CT scan or X-Ray) using machine...
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09/07/2020