IDA - Department of Computer and Information Science

Ulf Kargén's publications

Journal papers

• Ulf Kargén, Noah Mauthe and Nahid Shahmehri, Android decompiler performance on benign and malicious apps: an empirical study, Empirical Software Engineering 28 (2023), article 48.
• Ulf Kargén, Ivar Härnqvist, Johannes Wilson, Gustav Eriksson, Evelina Holmgren and Nahid Shahmehri, desync-cc: A Research Tool for Automatically Applying Disassembly Desynchronization during Compilation, Science of Computer Programming (2023). Accepted, pending publication.

Conference papers

• Noah Mauthe, Ulf Kargén and Nahid Shahmehri, A Large-Scale Empirical Study of Android App Decompilation, In Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2021. (CORE Rank A. Acceptance rate: 25%. Best paper award.) [preprint]
• Alireza Mohammadinodooshan, Ulf Kargén and Nahid Shahmehri, Robust Detection of Obfuscated Strings in Android Apps, In Proceedings of the 12th ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security (AISec), 2019. (Acceptance rate: 24%)
• Ulf Kargén and Nahid Shahmehri, Speeding Up Bug Finding using Focused Fuzzing, in Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, article 7, 2018. (CORE Rank B. Acceptance rate: 22%)
• Ulf Kargén and Nahid Shahmehri, Towards Robust Instruction-Level Trace Alignment of Binary Code, in Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, pp. 342-352, 2017. (CORE Rank A. Acceptance rate: 21%) [preprint]
• Ulf Kargén and Nahid Shahmehri, Towards Accurate Binary Correspondence Using Runtime-Observed Values, in Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, pp. 438-442, October 2016. (CORE Rank A. ERA paper, acceptance rate: 35%)
• Ulf Kargén and Nahid Shahmehri, Turning Programs against Each Other: High Coverage Fuzz-Testing using Binary-Code Mutation and Dynamic Slicing, in Proceedings of the 2015 10th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering, pp. 782-792, September 2015. (CORE Rank A. Acceptance rate: 25%) [preprint]
• Ulf Kargén and Nahid Shahmehri, Efficient Utilization of Secondary Storage for Scalable Dynamic Slicing, in Proceedings of the 14th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, pp. 155-164, September 2014. (CORE Rank C. Acceptance rate: 35%)
• Ulf Kargén and Nahid Shahmehri, InputTracer: A Data-Flow Analysis Tool for Manual Program Comprehension of x86 Binaries, in Proceedings of the 12th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, pp. 138-143, September 2012. (CORE Rank C. Tool paper, acceptance rate: 56%)

PhD Thesis

• Ulf Kargén, Scalable Dynamic Analysis of Binary Code, Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Linköping, 2019.

Master's thesis

• Ulf Kargén, Development of a prototype taint tracing tool for security and other purposes, LIU-IDA/LITH-EX-A--12/005--SE, Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Linköping, 2012.

Publications in other fields

• C. Asker, U. Kargén, L. Dubrovinsky and I.A. Abrikosov, Equation of state and elastic properties of face-centered-cubic Fe-Mg alloy at ultrahigh pressures from first-principles, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, volume 293, number 1-2, pp. 130-134, 2010

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Last updated: 2023-03-09