Towards automatic generation of security-centric descriptions for Android apps

• Main Authors: ZHANG, Mu, DUAN, Yue, FENG, Qian, YIN, Heng
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Android; Natural language generation; Program analysis; Subgraph mining; Textual description; Information Security
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8174; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9177/viewcontent/2015_zhang2015towards.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

To improve the security awareness of end users, Android markets directly present two classes of literal app information: 1) permission requests and 2) textual descriptions. Unfortunately, neither can serve the needs. A permission list is not only hard to understand but also inadequate; textual descr...