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Overview

Sam Malek is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Computer Science, with a focus on various subfields including Information Systems, Software, Artificial Intelligence, Signal Processing, and Computer Networks and Communications. The breadth of their work covers a range of topics such as Software Testing and Debugging Techniques, Advanced Malware Detection Techniques, Software Engineering Research, Software System Performance and Reliability, Digital Accessibility for Disabilities, Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies, and Software Reliability and Analysis Research.

Malek has contributed to multiple publications in venues that include:

  • Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering
  • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
  • Information and Software Technology
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Their recent publications illustrate their involvement in software engineering and security, highlighting specific areas of study:

  • Deep GUI: Black-box GUI Input Generation with Deep Learning, 2021, 2021 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)
  • Forecasting Architectural Decay From Evolutionary History, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • Flair: Efficient Analysis of Android Inter-Component Vulnerabilities in Response to Incremental Changes, 2021, Empirical Software Engineering
  • AccessiText: Automated Detection of Text Accessibility Issues in Android Apps, 2022, Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering
  • <scp>Route</scp>: Roads Not Taken in UI Testing, 2022, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Frequent coauthors working alongside Malek include:

  • Negar Ghorbani
  • Joshua Garcia
  • Navid Salehnamadi
  • Benyamin Beyzaei
  • Saghar Talebipour

This collaboration network reflects ongoing work in software engineering domains. Their research contributions emphasize identifying vulnerabilities, architectural challenges, and accessibility in software systems, often through empirical and methodological approaches.

Best Publications

  • Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems : A Second Research Roadmap

    Rogério de Lemos;Holger Giese;Hausi A. Müller;Mary Shaw

  • Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems: A Research Roadmap

    Betty H. Cheng;Rogério Lemos;Holger Giese;Paola Inverardi

  • On Patterns for Decentralized Control in Self-Adaptive Systems

    Danny Weyns;Bradley R. Schmerl;Vincenzo Grassi;Sam Malek

  • EvoDroid: segmented evolutionary testing of Android apps

    Riyadh Mahmood;Nariman Mirzaei;Sam Malek

  • Uncertainty in Self-Adaptive Software Systems

    Naeem Esfahani;Sam Malek

  • FUSION: a framework for engineering self-tuning self-adaptive software systems

    Ahmed Elkhodary;Naeem Esfahani;Sam Malek

  • FORMS: Unifying reference model for formal specification of distributed self-adaptive systems

    Danny Weyns;Sam Malek;Jesper Andersson

  • Modeling Dimensions of Self-Adaptive Software Systems

    Jesper Andersson;Rogério Lemos;Sam Malek;Danny Weyns

  • Testing android apps through symbolic execution

    Nariman Mirzaei;Sam Malek;Corina S. Păsăreanu;Naeem Esfahani

  • Taming uncertainty in self-adaptive software

    Naeem Esfahani;Ehsan Kouroshfar;Sam Malek

  • Lightweight, Obfuscation-Resilient Detection and Family Identification of Android Malware

    Joshua Garcia;Mahmoud Hammad;Sam Malek

  • A style-aware architectural middleware for resource-constrained, distributed systems

    S. Malek;M. Mikic-Rakic;N. Medvidovic

  • A Systematic Survey of Self-Protecting Software Systems

    Eric Yuan;Naeem Esfahani;Sam Malek

  • Reducing combinatorics in GUI testing of android applications

    Nariman Mirzaei;Joshua Garcia;Hamid Bagheri;Alireza Sadeghi

  • SASSY: A Framework for Self-Architecting Service-Oriented Systems

    D. Menasce;H. Gomaa;S. Malek;J. Sousa

  • COVERT: Compositional Analysis of Android Inter-App Permission Leakage

    Hamid Bagheri;Alireza Sadeghi;Joshua Garcia;Sam Malek

  • A Taxonomy and Qualitative Comparison of Program Analysis Techniques for Security Assessment of Android Software

    Alireza Sadeghi;Hamid Bagheri;Joshua Garcia;Sam Malek

  • A whitebox approach for automated security testing of Android applications on the cloud

    Riyadh Mahmood;Naeem Esfahani;Thabet Kacem;Nariman Mirzaei

  • A Learning-Based Framework for Engineering Feature-Oriented Self-Adaptive Software Systems

    Naeem Esfahani;Ahmed Elkhodary;Sam Malek

  • On interacting control loops in self-adaptive systems

    Pieter Vromant;Danny Weyns;Sam Malek;Jesper Andersson

  • Lightweight, obfuscation-resilient detection and family identification of Android malware

    Joshua Garcia;Mahmoud Hammad;Sam Malek

Frequent Co-Authors

Nenad Medvidovic
Nenad Medvidovic University of Southern California
Danny Weyns
Danny Weyns KU Leuven
Bradley Schmerl
Bradley Schmerl Carnegie Mellon University
Raffaela Mirandola
Raffaela Mirandola Polytechnic University of Milan
Nelly Bencomo
Nelly Bencomo Durham University
Hassan Gomaa
Hassan Gomaa George Mason University
Holger Giese
Holger Giese Hasso Plattner Institute
Daniel A. Menascé
Daniel A. Menascé George Mason University
Marin Litoiu
Marin Litoiu York University
Yuriy Brun
Yuriy Brun University of Massachusetts Amherst

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