Achieving accuracy and scalability simultaneously in detecting application clones on Android markets

By Kai Chen, Peng Liu, Yingjun Zhang. 2014

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Subfields: Information Systems, Software, Signal Processing

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subgraph2vec: Learning Distributed Representations of Rooted Sub-graphs from Large Graphs (2016, methodology): “We acquired a dataset of 260 apps collected from the authors of a recent clone detection work, 3D-CFG [17].”
Towards a Big Data Curated Benchmark of Inter-project Code Clones (2014, unknown): “For example, big data clone detection and clone search is used to find similar mobile applications [2], intelligently tag code snippets [3], find code examples [4], and so on.”
Static analysis of android apps: A systematic literature review (2017, background): “[108], ClickRelease [113], CMA [116], Cortesi et al.”
SourcererCC: Scaling Code Clone Detection to Big-Code (2015, methodology): “Large-scale clone detection can be used for mining library candidates [15], detecting similar mobile applications [6], license violation detection [20, 9], reverse engineering product lines [12, 9], ﬁnding the provenance of a component [8], and code search [19, 18].”
DeepSim: deep learning code functional similarity (2018, background): “However, they either do not scale due to the complexity of graph isomorphism [13], or are imprecise due to the approximations made for improving scalability (e.g., mapping the subgraphs in PDG back to AST forest and comparing syntactical feature vectors extracted from AST [17]).”
Guided, stochastic model-based GUI testing of Android apps (2017, background): “The key idea is to compute the “centroid” [11] of these N sequences, and take the sum of their Euclidean distances with the “centroid" as the diversity value of T .”
Following Devil's Footprints: Cross-Platform Analysis of Potentially Harmful Libraries on Android and iOS (2016, methodology): “To compare two packages at the method level, LibFinder utilizes the centroid-based approach [5], which computes the geometric center (centroid) of a model derived from a method’s CFG (see Section II) to represent the method: two methods are considered to match each other if their centroids come…”
Reliable Third-Party Library Detection in Android and its Security Applications (2016, methodology): “, by employing the concept of whitelisting package names to detect libraries within app code [14, 4, 5].”
Stack Overflow Considered Harmful? The Impact of Copy&Paste on Android Application Security (2017, methodology): “[51] use Control Flow Graphs (CFG) in combination with opcodes to detect code clones in Android applications.”