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Overview

Yuanfang Cai is affiliated with Drexel University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of Computer Science. Their work spans various subfields including Information Systems, Software, Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence, and Infectious Diseases.

The focus of their research includes multiple topics related to software engineering, particularly Software Engineering Research, Software Reliability and Analysis Research, and Software System Performance and Reliability. Additional areas of interest involve Software Engineering Techniques and Practices, Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data, Topic Modeling, and Software-Defined Networks and 5G.

Yuanfang Cai has published academic papers in a range of venues. Prominent frequent publication venues include arXiv (Cornell University), IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Information and Software Technology, SSRN Electronic Journal, and High-Confidence Computing.

  • A survey on large language model (LLM) security and privacy: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (2024, High-Confidence Computing)
  • An Interactive and Dynamic Search-Based Approach to Software Refactoring Recommendations (2020, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering)
  • A Survey on Large Language Model (LLM) Security and Privacy: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (2023, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • Detecting the Locations and Predicting the Maintenance Costs of Compound Architectural Debts (2021, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering)
  • Evaluating the Impact of Possible Dependencies on Architecture-Level Maintainability (2022, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering)

Frequent co-authorships highlight collaborations with several researchers, most notably Rick Kazman, with whom they have published nine papers, followed by Jason Lefever with five coauthored papers. Other notable coauthors include Hongzhou Fang, Yifan Yao, and Jinhao Duan.

Best Publications

  • Managing technical debt in software-reliant systems

    Nanette Brown;Yuanfang Cai;Yuepu Guo;Rick Kazman

  • The structure and value of modularity in software design

    Kevin J. Sullivan;William G. Griswold;Yuanfang Cai;Ben Hallen

  • Modular software design with crosscutting interfaces

    W.G. Griswold;M. Shonle;K. Sullivan;Y. Song

  • Information hiding interfaces for aspect-oriented design

    Kevin Sullivan;William G. Griswold;Yuanyuan Song;Yuanfang Cai

  • Comparing four approaches for technical debt identification

    Nico Zazworka;Antonio Vetro;Clemente Izurieta;Sunny Wong

  • Detecting software modularity violations

    Sunny Wong;Yuanfang Cai;Miryung Kim;Michael Dalton

  • Hotspot Patterns: The Formal Definition and Automatic Detection of Architecture Smells

    Ran Mo;Yuanfang Cai;Rick Kazman;Lu Xiao

  • Enhancing architectural recovery using concerns

    Joshua Garcia;Daniel Popescu;Chris Mattmann;Nenad Medvidovic

  • A case study in locating the architectural roots of technical debt

    Rick Kazman;Yuanfang Cai;Ran Mo;Qiong Feng

  • Identifying and quantifying architectural debt

    Lu Xiao;Yuanfang Cai;Rick Kazman;Ran Mo

  • Service Candidate Identification from Monolithic Systems Based on Execution Traces

    Wuxia Jin;Ting Liu;Yuanfang Cai;Rick Kazman

  • Design rule spaces: a new form of architecture insight

    Lu Xiao;Yuanfang Cai;Rick Kazman

  • Coordination implications of software architecture in a global software development project

    Alberto Avritzer;Daniel Paulish;Yuanfang Cai;Kanwarpreet Sethi

  • Interactive and guided architectural refactoring with search-based recommendation

    Yun Lin;Xin Peng;Yuanfang Cai;Danny Dig

  • Decoupling level: a new metric for architectural maintenance complexity

    Ran Mo;Yuanfang Cai;Rick Kazman;Lu Xiao

  • Design Rule Hierarchies and Parallelism in Software Development Tasks

    Sunny Wong;Yuanfang Cai;Giuseppe Valetto;Georgi Simeonov

  • Analyzing the Evolution of Large-Scale Software Systems Using Design Structure Matrices and Design Rule Theory: Two Exploratory Cases

    M.J. LaMantia;Yuanfang Cai;A.D. MacCormack;J. Rusnak

  • Organizing the technical debt landscape

    Clemente Izurieta;Antonio Vetro;Nico Zazworka;Yuanfang Cai

  • Modularity Analysis of Logical Design Models

    Yuanfang Cai;K.J. Sullivan

  • Titan: a toolset that connects software architecture with quality analysis

    Lu Xiao;Yuanfang Cai;Rick Kazman

Frequent Co-Authors

Rick Kazman
Rick Kazman University of Hawaii at Manoa
Kevin Sullivan
Kevin Sullivan University of Virginia
Alessandro Garcia
Alessandro Garcia Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Qinghua Zheng
Qinghua Zheng Xi'an Jiaotong University
Carolyn Seaman
Carolyn Seaman University of Maryland, Baltimore County
William G. Griswold
William G. Griswold University of California, San Diego
Nenad Medvidovic
Nenad Medvidovic University of Southern California
Tao Xie
Tao Xie Peking University
Daniel Mosse
Daniel Mosse University of Pittsburgh
Forrest Shull
Forrest Shull Carnegie Mellon University

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