A-Mobile 2019

The 2nd International Workshop on Advances in Mobile App Analysis

11 November 2019, San Diego, California, United States

held in conjunction with the 34rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2019)

Introduction

The international workshop on advances in mobile app analysis (A-Mobile) aims at bringing together international researchers and practitioners in the field of mobile app analysis to present and discuss emerging advanced techniques. To this end, we will welcome original articles on every aspect related to mobile apps analysis such as static and dynamic analysis.

Areas of interest include but are not restricted to:

  • Security and Privacy analysis of Mobile Apps
  • Energy and Performance Analysis of Mobile Apps
  • Evolution and Trend Analysis of Mobile Apps
  • Variants Analysis of Mobile Apps
  • Quality Analysis of Mobile Apps
  • Mobile Malware Analysis
  • Mobile Ads Analysis
  • Mobile App Developments
  • Automated Testing Technologies and Approaches
  • Mining App Repositories
  • AI-based Mobile App Analysis

Important dates

Paper submissions: Aug 7, 2019
Paper notifications: Sept 2, 2019
Paper camera ready: Sept 16, 2019
Workshop date: November 11, 2019

Submission details

Authors are invited to submit original articles presenting emerging results on advanced mobile app analysis. The articles must not exceed 6 pages including figures, appendices and references. Authors are also invited to submit short papers covering new ideas, visions (of the future), reflections (on the past), and tool demonstrations that must not exceed 4 pages including figures, appendices and references. Alternatively, authors interested to attend this workshop with short-talks are also invited to submit an extended abstract within 2 pages including figures, appendices and references, or a talk abstract within 500 words, describing their results on advances in mobile app analysis.

All the submissions must not have been published elsewhere or under review elsewhere when being considered for A-Mobile 2019.

Submissions must conform to the ASE 2019 formatting and submission instructions: The submissions must come in PDF format and conform, at time of submission, to the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting Guidelines (title in 24pt font and full text in 10pt font, LaTEX users must use \\documentclass[10pt,conference]\{IEEEtran\} without including the compsoc or compsocconf option). Note: all the submissions will be under double-blind review process.

Please submit your papers through the following EasyChair link:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=amobile2019

For accepted papers (except for talk abstracts), authors are required to prepare their final submissions for the workshop proceedings based on the suggestions provided by reviewers.

Organizers

  • Li Li, Monash University, Australia
  • Guozhu Meng, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  • Jacques Klein, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  • Sam Malek, University of California, Irvine

Publicity Chairs

  • Mingming Zha, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Technical Program Committee

  • Alexandre Bartel, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  • Haipeng Cai, Washington State University, USA
  • Hamid Bagheri, University of California, Irvine, USA
  • Haoyu Wang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
  • Lili Wei, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
  • Kevin Moran, College of William & Mary
  • Olga Gadyatskaya, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  • Romain Rouvoy, Univ. Lille / Inria / IUF, France
  • Ting Su, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  • Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • Yepang Liu, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
  • Yulei Sui, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Program

Session
OPENING & KEYNOTE

09:00

Workshop: Opening & Introductions

09:30

Keynote Speech

Grammar-based UI Testing

Andreas Zeller, Professor at Saarland University, Germany

 
SESSION I

11:00

Enforcing Green Code With Android Lint

Olivier Le Goaer

11:30

BenchPress: Analyzing Android App Vulnerability Benchmark Suites

Joydeep Mitra, Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath and Aditya Narkar

12:00

Android App Merging for Benchmark Speed-Up and Analysis Lift-Up

Felix Pauck and Shikun Zhang

SESSION II

14:00

Invited Talk

Automated Support for Testing and Maintenance of Mobile Applications

Mattia Fazzini, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, USA

14:30

Automatic Components Separation of Obfuscated Android Applications: An Empirical Study of Design Based Features

Amit Kumar Mondal, Chanchal K. Roy, Banani Roy and Kevin A. Schneider

15:00

SeMA: A Design Methodology for Building Secure Android Apps

Joydeep Mitra and Venkatesh-Prasad Ranganath

16:00

Panel Discussion

16:30

Closing

Contact

For further inquiries, please drop an email to a.mobile.organizer@gmail.com or tweet to us @A_Mobile_WP. We also welcome all suggestions and comments to this workshop.