{"id":"https://openalex.org/W4401353378","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3643991.3644896","title":"Comparing Apples to Androids: Discovery, Retrieval, and Matching of iOS and Android Apps for Cross-Platform Analyses","display_name":"Comparing Apples to Androids: Discovery, Retrieval, and Matching of iOS and Android Apps for Cross-Platform Analyses","publication_year":2024,"publication_date":"2024-04-15","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W4401353378","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3643991.3644896"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1145/3643991.3644896","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3643991.3644896","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories","raw_type":"proceedings-article"},"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":true,"oa_status":"gold","oa_url":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3643991.3644896","any_repository_has_fulltext":null},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5106328523","display_name":"Magdalena Steinb\u00f6ck","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0009-0002-5159-901X"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I145847075","display_name":"TU Wien","ror":"https://ror.org/04d836q62","country_code":"AT","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I145847075"]}],"countries":["AT"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Magdalena Steinb\u00f6ck","raw_affiliation_strings":["TU Wien, Vienna, Austria"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0009-0002-5159-901X","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"TU Wien, Vienna, Austria","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I145847075"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5082318926","display_name":"Jakob Bleier","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0009-0003-5927-7119"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I145847075","display_name":"TU Wien","ror":"https://ror.org/04d836q62","country_code":"AT","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I145847075"]}],"countries":["AT"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Jakob Bleier","raw_affiliation_strings":["TU Wien, Vienna, Austria"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0009-0003-5927-7119","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"TU Wien, Vienna, Austria","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I145847075"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5106328524","display_name":"Mikka Rainer","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0009-0004-7606-2328"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210128801","display_name":"Helmholtz Center for Information Security","ror":"https://ror.org/02njgxr09","country_code":"DE","type":"facility","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I1305996414","https://openalex.org/I4210128801"]}],"countries":["DE"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Mikka Rainer","raw_affiliation_strings":["CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Saarbr\u00fccken, Germany"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0009-0004-7606-2328","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Saarbr\u00fccken, Germany","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210128801"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5089427676","display_name":"Tobias Urban","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0908-0038"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I1317578790","display_name":"Federal Office for Information Security","ror":"https://ror.org/03v7mmm26","country_code":"DE","type":"other","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I1317578790"]}],"countries":["DE"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Tobias Urban","raw_affiliation_strings":["Institute for Internet Security & secunet Security Networks AG, Gelsenkirchen, Germany"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0908-0038","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Institute for Internet Security & secunet Security Networks AG, Gelsenkirchen, Germany","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I1317578790"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5025891820","display_name":"Christine Utz","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4346-6911"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210128801","display_name":"Helmholtz Center for Information Security","ror":"https://ror.org/02njgxr09","country_code":"DE","type":"facility","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I1305996414","https://openalex.org/I4210128801"]}],"countries":["DE"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Christine Utz","raw_affiliation_strings":["CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Saarbr\u00fccken, Germany"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4346-6911","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Saarbr\u00fccken, Germany","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210128801"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5009694552","display_name":"Martina Lindorfer","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7001-4481"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I145847075","display_name":"TU Wien","ror":"https://ror.org/04d836q62","country_code":"AT","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I145847075"]}],"countries":["AT"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Martina Lindorfer","raw_affiliation_strings":["TU Wien, Vienna, Austria"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7001-4481","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"TU Wien, Vienna, Austria","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I145847075"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":2,"institutions_distinct_count":6,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5106328523"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I145847075"],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":2.6206,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":8,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.90702852,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":true},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":90,"max":99},"biblio":{"volume":null,"issue":null,"first_page":"348","last_page":"360"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11241","display_name":"Advanced Malware Detection Techniques","score":0.9994999766349792,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1711","display_name":"Signal Processing"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11241","display_name":"Advanced Malware Detection Techniques","score":0.9994999766349792,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1711","display_name":"Signal Processing"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12016","display_name":"Web Data Mining and Analysis","score":0.9937000274658203,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1710","display_name":"Information Systems"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11181","display_name":"Advanced Data Storage Technologies","score":0.9724000096321106,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1705","display_name":"Computer Networks and Communications"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-science","display_name":"Computer science","score":0.74527907371521},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/android","display_name":"Android (operating system)","score":0.6369425654411316},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/matching","display_name":"Matching (statistics)","score":0.4876960217952728},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/world-wide-web","display_name":"World Wide Web","score":0.4766469895839691},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/cross-platform","display_name":"Cross-platform","score":0.4689837098121643},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/information-retrieval","display_name":"Information retrieval","score":0.4658108055591583},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/operating-system","display_name":"Operating system","score":0.3559233546257019}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.74527907371521},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C557433098","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q94","display_name":"Android (operating system)","level":2,"score":0.6369425654411316},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C165064840","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1321061","display_name":"Matching (statistics)","level":2,"score":0.4876960217952728},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C136764020","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q466","display_name":"World Wide Web","level":1,"score":0.4766469895839691},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C92400490","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q174666","display_name":"Cross-platform","level":2,"score":0.4689837098121643},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C23123220","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q816826","display_name":"Information retrieval","level":1,"score":0.4658108055591583},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C111919701","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9135","display_name":"Operating system","level":1,"score":0.3559233546257019},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C33923547","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q395","display_name":"Mathematics","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C105795698","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12483","display_name":"Statistics","level":1,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1145/3643991.3644896","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3643991.3644896","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories","raw_type":"proceedings-article"}],"best_oa_location":{"id":"doi:10.1145/3643991.3644896","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3643991.3644896","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories","raw_type":"proceedings-article"},"sustainable_development_goals":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"grobid_xml":false,"pdf":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":55,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W34283345","https://openalex.org/W781283046","https://openalex.org/W2004429690","https://openalex.org/W2008502641","https://openalex.org/W2027943416","https://openalex.org/W2035359360","https://openalex.org/W2069442545","https://openalex.org/W2086893284","https://openalex.org/W2101234009","https://openalex.org/W2141554582","https://openalex.org/W2208157769","https://openalex.org/W2256558198","https://openalex.org/W2407313496","https://openalex.org/W2497336354","https://openalex.org/W2510008933","https://openalex.org/W2538989657","https://openalex.org/W2547170582","https://openalex.org/W2560413681","https://openalex.org/W2605037362","https://openalex.org/W2612622960","https://openalex.org/W2734633251","https://openalex.org/W2787735108","https://openalex.org/W2790262412","https://openalex.org/W2793175118","https://openalex.org/W2796115009","https://openalex.org/W2883146311","https://openalex.org/W2884126302","https://openalex.org/W2889033228","https://openalex.org/W2897615540","https://openalex.org/W2899398528","https://openalex.org/W2913090618","https://openalex.org/W2914751159","https://openalex.org/W2945542863","https://openalex.org/W2964240723","https://openalex.org/W2964378348","https://openalex.org/W2967913238","https://openalex.org/W2969657790","https://openalex.org/W2987064932","https://openalex.org/W3091580460","https://openalex.org/W3097394933","https://openalex.org/W3100514082","https://openalex.org/W3162893202","https://openalex.org/W3177181460","https://openalex.org/W4221005961","https://openalex.org/W4284692010","https://openalex.org/W4286255340","https://openalex.org/W4307020397","https://openalex.org/W4308643689","https://openalex.org/W4315750589","https://openalex.org/W4385412223","https://openalex.org/W4385692238","https://openalex.org/W4389315165","https://openalex.org/W6633254993","https://openalex.org/W6675354045","https://openalex.org/W6946337660"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W1565885216","https://openalex.org/W2475354318","https://openalex.org/W3034779515","https://openalex.org/W4300372128","https://openalex.org/W3025624072","https://openalex.org/W4297788995","https://openalex.org/W2595417293","https://openalex.org/W2931960591","https://openalex.org/W4322620564","https://openalex.org/W2378036374"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"For":[0],"years,":[1],"researchers":[2],"have":[3,35],"been":[4,36],"analyzing":[5],"mobile":[6],"Android":[7,46],"apps":[8,47,84,104,113,141],"to":[9,42,65,79,98,105],"investigate":[10],"diverse":[11],"properties":[12,145],"such":[13,102],"as":[14,24,26],"software":[15],"engineering":[16],"practices,":[17],"business":[18],"models,":[19],"security,":[20],"privacy,":[21],"or":[22,125],"usability,":[23],"well":[25],"differences":[27],"between":[28],"marketplaces.":[29],"While":[30],"similar":[31],"studies":[32],"on":[33,127,131],"iOS":[34,86],"limited,":[37],"recent":[38],"work":[39,94],"has":[40,95],"started":[41],"analyze":[43],"and":[44,69,87,100,133,144,151],"compare":[45,66],"with":[48],"those":[49],"for":[50,71,85,91],"iOS.":[51],"To":[52],"obtain":[53],"the":[54,61,72,153],"most":[55],"representative":[56],"analysis":[57],"results":[58,137],"across":[59],"platforms,":[60],"ideal":[62],"approach":[63],"is":[64],"their":[67,88],"characteristics":[68],"behavior":[70,143],"same":[73],"set":[74,82],"of":[75,83,112,123,155,161],"apps,":[76,124],"e.":[77],"g.,":[78],"study":[80],"a":[81,106,158],"respective":[89],"counterparts":[90],"Android.":[92],"Previous":[93],"only":[96,157],"attempted":[97],"identify":[99],"evaluate":[101],"cross-platform":[103],"limited":[107,149],"degree,":[108],"mostly":[109],"comparing":[110,140],"sets":[111,122],"independently":[114],"drawn":[115],"from":[116],"app":[117,132],"stores,":[118],"manually":[119],"matching":[120,156],"small":[121,159],"relying":[126],"brittle":[128],"matches":[129],"based":[130],"developer":[134],"names.":[135],"This":[136],"in":[138],"(1)":[139],"whose":[142],"significantly":[146],"differ,":[147],"(2)":[148],"scalability,":[150],"(3)":[152],"risk":[154],"fraction":[160],"apps.":[162]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2026,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2025,"cited_by_count":5},{"year":2024,"cited_by_count":1}],"updated_date":"2026-04-28T14:05:53.105641","created_date":"2025-10-10T00:00:00"}