James Dooley

34 papers A* 1B 16Journal 8Unranked 8
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Netw. Sci. Eng.
Adrian Ratwatte, Samitha Somathilaka, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Megan Taggart, Keerthi M. Nair, Alan O'Riordan, James Dooley
2021 J jnl
EAI Endorsed Trans. Creative Technol.
Matthew D. F. Evans, Simon Hall, James Dooley
2021 conf
ICSE (SEIP)
Paul Luo Li, Xiaoyu Chai, Frederick Campbell, Jilong Liao, Neeraja Abburu, Minsuk Kang, Irina Niculescu, Greg Brake, Siddharth Patil, James Dooley, Brandon Paddock
2021 J jnl
Remote. Sens.
Robert Mzungu Runya, Chris McGonigle, Rory Quinn, John Howe, Jenny Collier, Clive Fox, James Dooley, Rory O'Loughlin, Jay Calvert, Louise Scott, Colin D. Abernethy, Will Evans
2019 conf
NIME
Joe Wright, James Dooley
2019 conf
NIME
Niccolò Granieri, James Dooley
2018 J jnl
Digit. Creativity
Tychonas Michailidis, James Dooley, Niccolò Granieri, Balandino Di Donato
2017 conf
ICMC
Balandino Di Donato, James Dooley, Jason Hockman, Jamie Bullock, Simon Hall
2016 B conf
Intelligent Environments (Workshops)
James Dooley
2013 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Syst.
Teresa García-Valverde, Alberto García-Sola, Hani Hagras, James Dooley, Vic Callaghan, Juan A. Botía
2013 B conf
FUZZ-IEEE
Betul Bostanci, Hani Hagras, James Dooley
2013 J jnl
J. Ambient Intell. Smart Environ.
Víctor Zamudio, James Dooley, Jesús Favela, Hans W. Guesgen
2013 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Software Eng.
Andrea Zisman, George Spanoudakis, James Dooley, Igor Siveroni
2013 ch.
Internet of Things and Inter-cooperative Computational Technologies for Collective Intelligence
James Dooley, Hani Hagras, Vic Callaghan, Martin Henson
2013 J jnl
Comput.
Luke Whittington, James Dooley, Martin Henson, Abdullah Al-Malaise Al-Ghamdi
2013 B conf
FUZZ-IEEE
Alessandro Ghelli, Hani Hagras, James Dooley
2012 B conf
FUZZ-IEEE
Teresa García-Valverde, Alberto García-Sola, Antonio Fernandez Gómez-Skarmeta, Juan A. Botía, Hani Hagras, James Dooley, Victor Callaghan
2012 B conf
Intelligent Environments (Workshops)
James Dooley, Matthew Ball, Mohammed R. Al-Mulla
2012 B conf
FUZZ-IEEE
Aysenur Bilgin, James Dooley, Luke Whittington, Hani Hagras, Martin Henson, Christian Wagner, Areej Malibari, Abdullah Al-Malaise Al-Ghamdi, Mohammed J. Alhaddad, Daniyal M. Al-Ghazzawi
2012 B conf
Intelligent Environments (Workshops)
Martin Henson, James Dooley, Luke Whittington, Abdullah Al-Malaise Al-Ghamdi
2012 B conf
Intelligent Environments (Workshops)
James Dooley, Matthew Ball, Mohammed R. Al-Mulla, Víctor González, Rolando Menchaca-Méndez
2012 B conf
Intelligent Environments (Workshops)
Luke Whittington, James Dooley, Martin Henson, Abdullah Al-Malaise Al-Ghamdi
2012 B conf
Intelligent Environments
Martin Henson, James Dooley, Abdullah Al-Malaise Al-Ghamdi, Luke Whittington
2012 B ed.
Intelligent Environments (Workshops)
Juan A. Botía, Hedda Rahel Schmidtke, Tatsuo Nakashima, Mohammed R. Al-Mulla, Juan Carlos Augusto, Asier Aztiria, Matthew Ball, Victor Callaghan, Diane J. Cook, James Dooley, John O'Donoghue, Simon Egerton, Pablo A. Haya, Miguel J. Hornos, Eduardo Morales, Juan Carlos Orozco, Otniel Portillo-Rodríguez, Alejandro Rodríguez González, Oscar Sandoval, Paolo Tripicchio, Minjuan Wang, Víctor Zamudio
2011 B conf
Intelligent Environments
James Dooley, Martin Henson, Vic Callaghan, Hani Hagras, Daniyal M. Al-Ghazzawi, Areej Malibari, Mohammed Al-Haddad, Abdullah Al-Malaise Al-Ghamdi
2011 conf
PARELEC
James Dooley, Christian Wagner, Hani Hagras, Gaëtan Pruvost
2011 B conf
Intelligent Environments (Workshops)
James Dooley, Vic Callaghan, Hani Hagras, Michael Gardner, Mohammed Ghanbari, Daniyal M. Al-Ghazzawi
2010 B conf
Intelligent Environments
James Dooley, Marc Davies, Matthew Ball, Vic Callaghan, Hani Hagras, Martin J. Colley, Michael Gardner
2010 B conf
Intelligent Environments
James Dooley, Vic Callaghan, Hani Hagras, Phil Bull
2009 conf
ICSOFT (1)
Andrea Zisman, George Spanoudakis, James Dooley
2009 B conf
Intelligent Environments
James Dooley, Victor Callaghan, Hani Hagras, Phil Bull
2008 A* conf
ASE
Andrea Zisman, George Spanoudakis, James Dooley
2008 conf
IEEE SCC (1)
Andrea Zisman, James Dooley, George Spanoudakis
1998 conf
HICSS (7)
Jonathan Aldrich, James Dooley, Scott Mandelsohn, Adam Rifkin
redb/extractors/decompiler/bninja/analysis/cfg_features.py
← Index redb/extractors/decompiler/bninja/analysis/cfg_features.py python
import struct
from collections import deque
from typing import Optional

import blake3
import mmh3


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Task 1.1: Core Graph Utilities
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

def bfs_order(successors: list[list[int]], n: int) -> list[int]:
    """
    BFS traversal from node 0 (entry block), returns node indices in visit order.
    Unreachable nodes appended at the end.
    """
    if n == 0:
        return []

    visited = set()
    order = []
    queue = deque([0])
    visited.add(0)

    while queue:
        idx = queue.popleft()
        order.append(idx)
        for target in successors[idx]:
            if target not in visited:
                visited.add(target)
                queue.append(target)

    # Append unreachable blocks (dead code)
    for i in range(n):
        if i not in visited:
            order.append(i)

    return order


def bfs_max_depth(successors: list[list[int]], n: int) -> int:
    """
    Maximum BFS depth from entry block (node 0).
    Replaces the per-block depth column with a single scalar.
    """
    if n == 0:
        return 0

    depth = {0: 0}
    max_d = 0
    queue = deque([0])

    while queue:
        node = queue.popleft()
        for s in successors[node]:
            if s not in depth:
                depth[s] = depth[node] + 1
                if depth[s] > max_d:
                    max_d = depth[s]
                queue.append(s)

    return max_d


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Task 1.2: Back-Edge Detection (Iterative DFS)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

def count_back_edges(successors: list[list[int]], n: int) -> int:
    """
    Count natural loops via iterative DFS back-edge detection.
    A back edge is an edge to a GRAY (in-stack) node.

    Iterative to avoid stack overflow on functions with 1000+ blocks
    (common in obfuscated malware, VM dispatchers, unrolled loops).
    """
    if n == 0:
        return 0

    WHITE, GRAY, BLACK = 0, 1, 2
    color = [WHITE] * n
    back_edges = 0

    stack = [(0, iter(successors[0]))]
    color[0] = GRAY

    while stack:
        u, children = stack[-1]
        try:
            v = next(children)
            if color[v] == GRAY:
                back_edges += 1
            elif color[v] == WHITE:
                color[v] = GRAY
                stack.append((v, iter(successors[v])))
        except StopIteration:
            color[u] = BLACK
            stack.pop()

    return back_edges


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Task 1.3: Topology Hash
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

def compute_topology_hash(
    successors: list[list[int]],
    bfs: list[int],
    n: int,
) -> bytes:
    """
    BLAKE3 hash of BFS-ordered canonical adjacency.
    Pure graph shape — ignores all block content.
    Two functions with identical control flow structure produce identical hashes.

    Returns 16 bytes (128-bit).
    """
    if n == 0:
        return b'\x00' * 16

    # Remap: original index -> BFS position
    remap = {original: position for position, original in enumerate(bfs)}

    canonical = bytearray()
    for position in range(n):
        original_idx = bfs[position]
        remapped_succs = sorted(
            remap[s] for s in successors[original_idx] if s in remap
        )
        # Pack: node_index (2 bytes) + num_successors (1 byte) + successor indices (2 bytes each)
        canonical.extend(struct.pack('<HB', position, len(remapped_succs)))
        for s in remapped_succs:
            canonical.extend(struct.pack('<H', s))

    return blake3.blake3(bytes(canonical)).digest(length=16)


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Task 1.4: MD-Index (Top-Down and Bottom-Up)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

def compute_md_index_topdown(
    successors: list[list[int]],
    predecessors: list[list[int]],
    bfs: list[int],
) -> int:
    """
    BinDiff-style top-down MD-index.
    Hash of (in_degree, out_degree) sequence in BFS order from entry.
    Returns UInt64.
    """
    if not bfs:
        return 0

    degree_bytes = bytearray()
    for idx in bfs:
        in_deg = min(len(predecessors[idx]), 255)
        out_deg = min(len(successors[idx]), 255)
        degree_bytes.extend(struct.pack('<BB', in_deg, out_deg))

    h = blake3.blake3(bytes(degree_bytes)).digest(length=8)
    return struct.unpack('<Q', h)[0]


def compute_md_index_bottomup(
    successors: list[list[int]],
    predecessors: list[list[int]],
    n: int,
) -> int:
    """
    Bottom-up MD-index: BFS from exit blocks (no successors),
    traversing edges in reverse.
    Returns UInt64.
    """
    if n == 0:
        return 0

    exits = [i for i in range(n) if len(successors[i]) == 0]
    if not exits:
        exits = [n - 1]  # Fallback: use last block

    visited = set(exits)
    order = []
    queue = deque(exits)

    while queue:
        idx = queue.popleft()
        order.append(idx)
        for pred in predecessors[idx]:
            if pred not in visited:
                visited.add(pred)
                queue.append(pred)

    # Append unreachable blocks
    for i in range(n):
        if i not in visited:
            order.append(i)

    degree_bytes = bytearray()
    for idx in order:
        in_deg = min(len(predecessors[idx]), 255)
        out_deg = min(len(successors[idx]), 255)
        degree_bytes.extend(struct.pack('<BB', in_deg, out_deg))

    h = blake3.blake3(bytes(degree_bytes)).digest(length=8)
    return struct.unpack('<Q', h)[0]


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Task 1.5: Prime Product
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Small primes assigned to LLIL opcode categories.
# Keys are the integer values of binaryninja.LowLevelILOperation enum members.
# We use integer keys so this module doesn't import binaryninja.
#
# Mapping rationale: same operation class -> same prime.
# Using LLIL (not native asm) makes this architecture-independent.
#
# Populated at import time by cfg.py using the real LowLevelILOperation enum values.
# Unknown ops map to prime 1 (identity element) in compute_prime_product().
LLIL_OP_PRIMES: dict[int, int] = {}


def compute_prime_product(llil_operations: list[int]) -> int:
    """
    Product of small primes assigned to each LLIL opcode.
    Position-independent: block reordering doesn't change the result.
    Mod 2^64 for fixed-size storage.

    Args:
        llil_operations: flat list of LLIL operation enum integer values
                         for all instructions in the function.
    Returns:
        UInt64 prime product, or 0 if no instructions.
    """
    if not llil_operations:
        return 0

    product = 1
    for op in llil_operations:
        prime = LLIL_OP_PRIMES.get(op, 1)
        product = (product * prime) % (2**64)

    return product


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Task 1.6: ACFG Block Features
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Instruction category indices for ACFG feature vectors
CAT_ARITHMETIC = 0
CAT_LOGIC = 1
CAT_TRANSFER = 2
CAT_CALL = 3
CAT_COMPARISON = 4
CAT_MEMORY = 5
CAT_OTHER = 6

# Maps LLIL operation integer values to category indices.
# Populated at import time by cfg.py using the real LowLevelILOperation enum.
LLIL_OP_CATEGORIES: dict[int, int] = {}


def build_block_features(
    block_llil_ops: list[list[int]],
    successors: list[list[int]],
    n: int,
) -> list[list[int]]:
    """
    Extract Gemini-style ACFG features per block.

    Args:
        block_llil_ops: per-block list of LLIL operation integer values.
                        block_llil_ops[i] is the list of ops for block i.
                        Empty list if LLIL unavailable for that block.
        successors: index-based adjacency list.
        n: number of blocks.

    Returns:
        List of [instr_count, arithmetic, logic, transfer, call, comparison,
                 memory, successor_count] per block. All values capped at 65535.
    """
    features = []
    for i in range(n):
        cats = [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
        ops = block_llil_ops[i] if i < len(block_llil_ops) else []
        for op in ops:
            cat = LLIL_OP_CATEGORIES.get(op, CAT_OTHER)
            cats[cat] += 1

        instr_count = len(ops)
        features.append([
            min(instr_count, 65535),
            min(cats[CAT_ARITHMETIC], 65535),
            min(cats[CAT_LOGIC], 65535),
            min(cats[CAT_TRANSFER], 65535),
            min(cats[CAT_CALL], 65535),
            min(cats[CAT_COMPARISON], 65535),
            min(cats[CAT_MEMORY], 65535),
            min(len(successors[i]), 65535),
        ])

    return features


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Task 1.7: CFG Feature TLSH
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

def compute_cfg_feature_tlsh(
    bb_features: list[list[int]],
    bfs: list[int],
) -> Optional[str]:
    """
    TLSH hash of BFS-ordered per-block feature vectors.
    Captures both structure (BFS ordering) and instruction distribution.

    Returns TLSH hex string or None if too few bytes for TLSH (< 50).
    """
    import tlsh as _tlsh

    feature_bytes = bytearray()
    for idx in bfs:
        feats = bb_features[idx]
        feature_bytes.extend(struct.pack(
            '<HBBBBBBB',
            min(feats[0], 65535),
            min(feats[1], 255),
            min(feats[2], 255),
            min(feats[3], 255),
            min(feats[4], 255),
            min(feats[5], 255),
            min(feats[6], 255),
            min(feats[7], 255),
        ))

    if len(feature_bytes) < 50:
        return None

    try:
        h = _tlsh.hash(bytes(feature_bytes))
        return h if h and h != 'TNULL' else None
    except Exception:
        return None


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Task 1.8: WL-MinHash
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Pre-computed seeds for MinHash permutations.
NUM_WL_MINHASH_PERMS = 128
_WL_MINHASH_SEEDS = list(range(NUM_WL_MINHASH_PERMS))  # Seeds 0..127


def compute_wl_minhash(
    successors: list[list[int]],
    predecessors: list[list[int]],
    bb_features: list[list[int]],
    n: int,
    iterations: int = 3,
) -> list[int]:
    """
    Weisfeiler-Leman MinHash for fuzzy topology similarity.

    Initial labels: mmh3 hash of per-block ACFG feature tuple (content-aware).
    WL refinement: incorporate sorted neighbor labels at each iteration.
    MinHash: 128-permutation signature over shingle set.

    Returns list of 128 uint8 values, or [255]*128 sentinel for empty functions.
    """
    if n == 0:
        return [255] * NUM_WL_MINHASH_PERMS

    # Initial labels: hash of instruction category tuple per block
    labels = []
    for i in range(n):
        feats = bb_features[i] if i < len(bb_features) else [0] * 8
        # mmh3 with seed=0 for initial labels
        label = mmh3.hash(str(tuple(feats)), 0) & 0xFFFFFFFF
        labels.append(label)

    # Collect shingles: (iteration, label) pairs as strings for mmh3
    shingles: set[str] = set()

    # Iteration 0: individual block labels
    for label in labels:
        shingles.add(f"0:{label}")

    # WL iterations: refine labels by neighborhood aggregation
    for iteration in range(1, iterations + 1):
        new_labels = []
        for i in range(n):
            succ_labels = tuple(sorted(labels[s] for s in successors[i]))
            pred_labels = tuple(sorted(labels[p] for p in predecessors[i]))
            composite = f"{labels[i]}|{succ_labels}|{pred_labels}"
            new_label = mmh3.hash(composite, 0) & 0xFFFFFFFF
            new_labels.append(new_label)
            shingles.add(f"{iteration}:{new_label}")
        labels = new_labels

    if not shingles:
        return [255] * NUM_WL_MINHASH_PERMS

    # Compute MinHash signature using mmh3 with different seeds
    shingle_list = list(shingles)
    signature = []
    for seed in _WL_MINHASH_SEEDS:
        min_val = 0xFFFFFFFF
        for s in shingle_list:
            h = mmh3.hash(s, seed) & 0xFFFFFFFF
            if h < min_val:
                min_val = h
        # Compress to uint8 for storage
        signature.append(min_val & 0xFF)

    return signature


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Task 1.9: Packed Adjacency
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

def pack_adjacency(successors: list[list[int]]) -> list[int]:
    """
    Pack CFG edges as Array(UInt32).
    Each UInt32 = (source_index << 16) | target_index.
    Supports up to 65,535 blocks per function.
    """
    edges = []
    for src, targets in enumerate(successors):
        for tgt in targets:
            if src < 65536 and tgt < 65536:
                edges.append((src << 16) | tgt)
    return edges