VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Alejandro de la Cruz
dblp:362/2281
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2023
0009-0003-1313-821XORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper |
Software maintenance and evolution · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Software maintenance and evolution › software ecosystems
dependency management |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | LibKit: Detecting Third-Party Libraries in iOS Apps · ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE 2023 |
Software maintenance and evolution
software dependencies |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | LibKit: Detecting Third-Party Libraries in iOS Apps · ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE 2023 |
Software maintenance and evolution
software ecosystems |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | LibKit: Detecting Third-Party Libraries in iOS Apps · ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE 2023 |
Software maintenance and evolution › software dependencies
third-party library detection |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | LibKit: Detecting Third-Party Libraries in iOS Apps · ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE 2023 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
static analysis · 0.7fingerprinting · 0.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | LibKit: Detecting Third-Party Libraries in iOS AppsabstractWe present LibKit, the first approach and tool for detecting the name and version of third-party libraries (TPLs) present in iOS apps. LibKit automatically builds fingerprints for 86K library versions available through the CocoaPods dependency manager and matches them on the decrypted app executables to identify the TPLs (name and version) an iOS app uses. LibKit supports apps written in Swift and Objective-C, detects statically and dynamically linked libraries, and addresses challenges such as partially included libraries and different compiler versions and configurations producing variants of the same library version. On a ground truth of 95 open-source apps, LibKit identifies libraries with a precision of 0.911 and a recall of 0.839. LibKit also significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art CRiOS tool for identifying TPL boundaries. When applied to 1,500 apps from the iTunes Store, LibKit detects 47,015 library versions, identifying popular apps that contain old library versions. Daniel Domínguez-Álvarez, Alejandro de la Cruz, Alessandra Gorla, Juan Caballero |
ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE | 2 |