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Conferences – Full Papers<\/h3>\n

Yuqi Huai, Yuntianyi Chen, Ziwen Wan, Qi Alfred Chen, and Joshua Garcia. DeFT: Maintaining Determinism and Extracting Unit Tests for Autonomous Driving Planning<\/a>. 48th IEEE\/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2026), Research Track, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 12\u201318, 2026.<\/p>\n

Yirui He, Yongbo Chen, Jessy Ayala, Yecheng Zhou, Qiran Wang, and Joshua Garcia. Breaking Strong Encapsulation: A Comprehensive Study of Java Module Abuse<\/a>. 48th IEEE\/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2026), Research Track, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2026 (To Appear).<\/p>\n

Luca Di Bartolomeo, Philipp Mao, Yu-Jye Tung, Jessy Ayala, Paolo Celada, Samuele Doria, Marcel Busch, Joshua Garcia, Eleonora Losiouk, and Mathias Payer. Hercules Droidot and the murder on the JNI Express<\/a>. 34th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 2025), Seattle, Washington, August 2025.<\/p>\n

Jessy Ayala, Yu-Jye Tung, and Joshua Garcia. A Mixed-Methods Study of Open-Source Software Maintainers On Vulnerability Management and Platform Security Features<\/a>. 34th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 2025), Seattle, Washington, August 2025.<\/p>\n

Yuntianyi Chen, Yuqi Huai, Yirui He, Shilong Li, Changnam Hong, Alfred Chen, and Joshua Garcia. A Comprehensive Study of Bug-Fix Patterns in Autonomous Driving Systems<\/a>. ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), Trondheim, Norway, June 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jessy Ayala, Steven Ngo, and Joshua Garcia. A Deep Dive Into How Open-Source Project Maintainers Review and Resolve Bug Bounty Reports<\/a>. 46th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland 2025), San Francisco, California, May 2025.<\/p>\n

Yuntianyi Chen, Yuqi Huai, Shilong Li, Changnam Hong, and Joshua Garcia. Misconfiguration Software Testing for Failure Emergence in Autonomous Driving Systems<\/a>. 32nd ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), Ipojuca (Pernambuco), Brazil, July 2024.<\/p>\n

Yoonha Cha, Isabela Figueira, Jessy Ayala, Emory James Edwards, Joshua Garcia, Andr\u00e9 van der Hoek, and Stacy Marie Branham. Do You Want Me to Participate or Not?: Investigating the Accessibility of Software Development Meetings for Blind and Low Vision Professionals<\/a>. Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Honolulu, Hawaii, May 2024.<\/p>\n

Esmerald Aliaj, Alberto Krone-Martins, Joshua Garcia, and Sang-Woo Jun. 2023. FarSlayer: Turnkey Acceleration of Legacy Software on Commodity FPGA Cards<\/a>. In the IEEE 34th International Conference on Application-Specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP 2023), July 2023.<\/p>\n

Yuqi Huai, Yuntianyi Chen, Sumaya Almanee, Tuan Ngo, Xiang Liao, Ziwen Wan, Alfred Qi Chen, and Joshua Garcia. Doppelg\u00e4nger Test Generation for Revealing Bugs in Autonomous Driving Software<\/a>.<\/em> In the 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2023), May 2023.<\/p>\n

Ziwen Wan, Junjie Shen, Jalen Chuang, Xin Xia, Joshua Garcia, Jiaqi Ma, and Qi Alfred Chen. Too Afraid to Drive: Systematic Discovery of Semantic DoS Vulnerability in Autonomous Driving Planning under Physical-World Attacks<\/a>. In Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS) Symposium, April 2022.<\/p>\n

Sumaya Almanee, Arda Unal, Mathias Payer, and Joshua Garcia. Too Quiet in the Library: An Empirical Study of Security Updates in Android Apps\u2019 Native Code<\/a>. In the 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2021), May 2021.<\/p>\n

Joshua Garcia, Mehdi Mirakhorli, Lu Xiao, Yutong Zhao, Ibrahim Mujhid, Khoi Pham, Ahmet Okutan, Sam Malek, Rick Kazman, Yuanfang Cai, and Nenad Medvidovi\u0107. Constructing a Shared Infrastructure for Software Architecture Analysis and Maintenance<\/a>. In the 18th IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA 2021), March 2021.<\/p>\n

Joshua Garcia, Yang Feng, Junjie Shen, Sumaya Almanee, Yuan Xia, and Qi Alfred Chen. A Comprehensive Study of Autonomous Vehicle Bugs<\/a>. In the 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2020), May 2020.<\/p>\n

Negar Ghorbani, Joshua Garcia, and Sam Malek. Detection and Repair of Architectural Inconsistencies in Java<\/a>. In the 41st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2019), May 2019.<\/p>\n

Mahmoud Hammad, Joshua Garcia, and Sam Malek. SALMA: Self-Protection of Android Systems from Inter-Component Communication Attacks<\/a>. In the Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE\/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2018.<\/p>\n

Mahmoud Hammad, Joshua Garcia, and Sam Malek. A Large-Scale Empirical Study on the Effects of Code Obfuscations on Android Apps and Anti-Malware Products<\/a>. In the Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2018.<\/p>\n

Jun-Wei Lin, Reyhaneh Jabbarvand, Joshua Garcia, and Sam Malek. Nemo: Multi-Criteria Test-Suite Minimization with Integer Nonlinear Programming<\/a>. In the Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2018.<\/p>\n

Joshua Garcia, Mahmoud Hammad, Negar Ghorbani,\u00a0and Sam Malek. Automatic Generation of Inter-Component Communication Exploits for Android Applications<\/a>. In the Proceedings of the 11th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC\/FSE), 2017.<\/p>\n

Nariman Mirzaei, Joshua Garcia, Hamid Bagheri, Alireza Sadeghi,\u00a0and Sam Malek. Reducing Combinatorics in GUI Testing of Android Applications<\/a>. In the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering\u00a0(ICSE), 2016.<\/p>\n

Duc Le, Pooyan Behnamghader, Joshua Garcia, Daniel Link, Arman Shahbazian, and Nenad Medvidovi\u0107. An Empirical Study of Architectural Change in Open-Source Software Systems<\/a>. In the 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2015.<\/p>\n

Thibaud Lutellier, Devin Chollack, Joshua Garcia, Lin Tan, Derek Rayside, Nenad Medvidovi\u0107, and Robert Kroeger. Comparing Software Architecture Recovery Techniques Using Accurate Dependencies<\/a>. In the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Software Engineering in Practice Track, 2015.<\/p>\n

Joshua Garcia, Igor Ivkovic, and Nenad Medvidovi\u0107. A Comparative Analysis of Software Architecture Recovery Techniques<\/a>. Techniques. In the Proceedings of the 28th IEEE\/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2013.<\/p>\n

Joshua Garcia, Daniel Popescu, Gholamreza Safi, William G.J. Halfond, and Nenad Medvidovi\u0107. Identifying Message Flow in Distributed Event-Based Systems<\/a>. In the Proceedings of the 9th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC\/FSE), 2013.<\/p>\n

Joshua Garcia, Ivo Krka, Chris Mattmann, and Nenad Medvidovi\u0107. Obtaining Ground-Truth Software Architectures<\/a>. In the Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Software Engineering in Practice Track, 2013.<\/p>\n

Daniel Popescu, Joshua Garcia, Kevin Bierhoff, and Nenad Medvidovi\u0107. Impact analysis for distributed event-based systems<\/a>. In the Proceedings of the Sixth ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS), 2012.<\/p>\n

Isela Macia Bertran, Joshua Garcia, Daniel Popescu, Alessandro Garcia, Nenad Medvidovi\u0107, and Arndt von Staa. Are automatically-detected code anomalies relevant to architectural modularity?: an exploratory analysis of evolving systems<\/a>. In the Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Conference on Aspect-oriented Software Development (AOSD), 2012.<\/p>\n

Isela Macia, Alessandro Garcia, Arndt von Staa, Joshua Garcia, and Nenad Medvidovi\u0107. On the Impact of Aspect-Oriented Code Smells on Architecture Modularity: An Exploratory Study. In the Proceedings of the 5th Brazilian Symposium on Software Components, Architectures and Reuse (SBCARS), 2011.<\/p>\n

Hossein Tajalli, Joshua Garcia, George Edwards, and Nenad Medvidovi\u0107. PLASMA: A Plan-based Layered Architecture for Software Model-driven adaptation<\/a>. In the Proceedings of the 25th IEEE\/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2010.<\/p>\n

Joshua Garcia, Daniel Popescu, George Edwards, and Nenad Medvidovi\u0107. Toward a Catalogue of Architectural Bad Smells<\/a>. In the Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures (QOSA), 2009.<\/p>\n

Journals<\/h1>\n

Negar Ghorbani, Joshua Garcia, and Sam Malek. Bringing Architecture-Based Adaption to the Mainstream<\/a>. Information and Software Technology (IST), August 2024 (Accepted).<\/p>\n

Negar Ghorbani, Tarandeep Singh, Joshua Garcia, and Sam Malek. Darcy: Automatic Architectural Inconsistency Resolution in Java<\/a>. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), June 2024.<\/p>\n

Yuqi Huai, Sumaya Almanee, Yuntianyi Chen, Xiafa Wu, Qi Alfred Chen, and Joshua Garcia. scenoRITA: Generating Diverse, Fully Mutable, Test Scenarios for Autonomous Vehicle Planning<\/a>. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), October 2023.<\/p>\n

Negar Ghorbani, Reyhaneh Jabbarvand, Navid Salehnamadi, Joshua Garcia, and Sam Malek. DeltaDroid: Dynamic Delivery Testing in Android.<\/a> ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), May 2023.<\/p>\n

Joshua Garcia, Ehsan Kouroshfar, Negar Ghorbani, and Sam Malek. Forecasting Architectural Decay from Evolutionary History<\/a>. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), July 2022.<\/p>\n

Joshua Garcia, Mahmoud Hammad, and Sam Malek. Lightweight, Obfuscation-Resilient Detection and Family Identification of Android Malware<\/a>. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), July 2017.<\/p>\n

Thibaud Lutellier, Devin Chollak, Joshua Garcia, Lin Tan, Derek Rayside, Nenad Medvidovic, and Robert Kroeger. Measuring the Impact of Code Dependencies on Software Architecture Recovery Techniques<\/a>. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017.<\/p>\n

Alireza Sadhegi, Hamid Bagheri, Joshua Garcia, and Sam Malek. A Taxonomy and Qualitative Comparison of Program Analysis Techniques for Security Assessment of Android Software<\/a>. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2016.<\/p>\n

Pooyan Behnamghader, Duc Le, Joshua Garcia, Daniel Link, Arman Shahbazian, and Nenad Medvidovi\u0107. A Large-Scale Study of Architectural Evolution in Open-Source Software Systems<\/a>. Empirical Software Engineering, 2016.<\/p>\n

Hamid Bagheri, Joshua Garcia, Alireza Sadeghi, Sam Malek, Nenad Medvidovic. Software Architectural Principles in Contemporary Mobile Software: From Conception to Practice<\/a>. Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), 2016.<\/p>\n

Hamid Bagheri, Alireza Sadeghi, Joshua Garcia, and Sam Malek. COVERT: Compositional Analysis of Android Inter-App Permission Leakage<\/a>. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2015.<\/p>\n

Chris A. Mattmann, Joshua Garcia, Ivo Krka, Daniel Popescu, and Nenad Medvidovi\u0107. Revisiting the Anatomy and Physiology of the Grid<\/a>. Journal of Grid Computing, 2015.<\/p>\n

Nenad Medvidovi\u0107, Hossein Tajalli, Joshua Garcia, Yuriy Brun, Ivo Krka, and George Edwards. Engineering heterogeneous robotics systems: A software architecture-based approach<\/a>, IEEE Computer, 2011.<\/p>\n

Sam Malek, George Edwards<\/a>, Yuriy Brun, Hossein Tajalli, Joshua Garcia, Ivo Krka, Nenad Medvidovi\u0107, Marija Mikic-Rakic, Gaurav Sukhatme. An Architecture-Driven Software Mobility Framework<\/a>. Journal of Systems and Software, 2010.<\/p>\n

Workshops and Short Conference Papers<\/h1>\n

Marcelo Schmitt Laser, Duc Minh Le, Joshua Garcia, and Nenad Medvidovi\u0107. Architectural Archipelagos: Technical Debt in Long-Lived Software Research Platforms<\/a>. In the Proceedings of the IEEE\/ACM International Conference on Technical Debt (TechDebt), 2020.<\/p>\n

Marcelo Schmitt Laser, Nenad Medvidovic \u0301, Duc Minh Le, and Joshua Garcia. ARCADE: An Extensible Workbench for Architecture Recovery, Change, and Decay Evaluation<\/a>. In the Proceedings of the ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC\/FSE), 2020.<\/p>\n

Reyhaneh Jabbarvand, Alireza Sadeghi, Joshua Garcia, Sam Malek, and Paul Ammann. EcoDroid: An Approach for Energy-Based Ranking of Android Apps<\/a>. In the 4th International Workshop on Green and Sustainable Software in Conjunction with ICSE, 2015.<\/p>\n

Ran Mo, Joshua Garcia, Yuanfang Cai, Nenad Medvidovi\u0107. Mapping Architectural Smells into Dependency Models<\/a>, In the Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt in Conjunction with ICSE, 2013.<\/p>\n

Youn Kyu Lee, Jae young Bang, Joshua Garcia, and Nenad Medvidovi\u0107. ViVA: A Visualization and Analysis Tool for Distributed Event-Based Systems.<\/a> In the Formal Demonstrations track of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2014. (Demo video<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Joshua Garcia, Ivo Krka, Nenad Medvidovi\u0107, and Chris Douglas. A Framework for Obtaining the Ground-Truth in Architectural Recovery<\/a>. In WICSA\/ECSA 2012.<\/p>\n

Joshua Garcia, Daniel Popescu, Chris Mattmann, Nenad Medvidovi\u0107, and Yuanfang Cai. Enhancing architectural recovery using concerns<\/a>. In the Proceedings of the 26th IEEE\/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2011.<\/p>\n

Ivo Krka, Yuriy Brun, Daniel Popescu, Joshua Garcia, and Nenad Medvidovi\u0107, Using Dynamic Execution Traces and Program Invariants to Enhance Behavioral Model Inference<\/a>. New Ideas and Emerging Results Track of the 32nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE NIER), Cape Town, South Africa, May 2010.<\/p>\n

Chris A. Mattmann, Joshua Garcia, Ivo Krka, Daniel Popescu, Nenad Medvidovi\u0107, The Anatomy and Physiology of the Grid Revisited.<\/a> Joint Working IEEE\/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture & European Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA\/ECSA09), 2009.<\/p>\n

Daniel Popescu, Joshua Garcia, and Nenad Medvidovi\u0107. Enabling more precise dependency analysis in event-based systems<\/a>. In the 17th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2009.<\/p>\n

Joshua Garcia, Daniel Popescu, George Edwards, and Nenad Medvidovi\u0107, Identifying Architectural Bad Smells<\/a>. In the Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR), 2009.<\/p>\n

George Edwards, Joshua Garcia, Hossein Tajalli, Daniel Popescu, Nenad Medvidovi\u0107, Gaurav Sukhatme, and Brad Petrus, Architecture-Driven Self-Adaptation and Self-Management in Robotics Systems<\/a>. In the Proceedings of the Workshop on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS), 2009.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n

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