James J. Cochran

27 papers Journal 21
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
Manuf. Serv. Oper. Manag.
Nickolas K. Freeman, Gregory J. Bott, Burcu B. Keskin, Jason Parton, James J. Cochran
2025 J jnl
INFORMS J. Appl. Anal.
James J. Cochran, Nickolas K. Freeman, Alexandra M. Newman, Mesut Yavuz
2025 J jnl
INFORMS J. Appl. Anal.
James J. Cochran, Nickolas K. Freeman, Alexandra M. Newman, Mesut Yavuz
2025 J jnl
INFORMS J. Appl. Anal.
James J. Cochran, Arnold Greenland
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Nickolas K. Freeman, Gregory J. Bott, Burcu B. Keskin, Jason Parton, James J. Cochran
2024 J jnl
INFORMS J. Appl. Anal.
James J. Cochran, William J. Browning, Joseph H. Discenza, Arnie Greenland
2023 J jnl
INFORMS J. Appl. Anal.
Dwight Lewis, Nickolas K. Freeman, Irem Sengul Orgut, Thera Tyner, Ryan Tramp, Niranjan Biligowda, Matthew Hudnall, Xin Thomas Yang, Thomas M. English, Marilyn Whitman, Steven Samsel, James J. Cochran, Barry Cambron, Danny Rush, Kumari Seetala, Jason Parton
2020 J jnl
Int. Trans. Oper. Res.
James Andrew Kirtland III, Martin S. Levy, James J. Cochran, Saeed Golnabi
2019 J jnl
Int. Trans. Oper. Res.
Martin S. Levy, James J. Cochran, Saeed Golnabi, James Andrew Kirtland III
2015 J jnl
Interfaces
Jeffrey D. Camm, James J. Cochran, Michael F. Gorman
2015 J jnl
INFORMS Trans. Educ.
James J. Cochran
2014 J jnl
Ann. Oper. Res.
James J. Cochran, David J. Curry, Rajesh Radhakrishnan, Jon Pinnell
2012 J jnl
Eur. J. Oper. Res.
James J. Cochran
2011 ch.
International Encyclopedia of Statistical Science
James J. Cochran
2011 ch.
International Encyclopedia of Statistical Science
James J. Cochran
2010 J jnl
J. Comb. Optim.
James J. Cochran, Martin S. Levy, Jeffrey D. Camm
2010 J jnl
INFORMS Trans. Educ.
James J. Cochran
2010 J jnl
INFORMS Trans. Educ.
James J. Cochran
2010 J jnl
INFORMS Trans. Educ.
James J. Cochran
2009 J jnl
INFORMS Trans. Educ.
James J. Cochran
2008 J jnl
Mark. Sci.
Arvind Rangaswamy, James J. Cochran, Tülin Erdem, John R. Hauser, Robert J. Meyer
2006 J jnl
Manag. Sci.
Jeffrey D. Camm, James J. Cochran, David J. Curry, Sriram Kannan
2005 ch.
Anthology of Statistics in Sports
Jim Albert, Jay M. Bennett, James J. Cochran
2005 ch.
Anthology of Statistics in Sports
Jim Albert, James J. Cochran
2005 ch.
Anthology of Statistics in Sports
Jim Albert, James J. Cochran
2005 book
Jim Albert, Jay M. Bennett, James J. Cochran
2000 J jnl
J. Oper. Res. Soc.
James J. Cochran
redb/extractors/decompiler/apk/smali_normalization.py
← Index redb/extractors/decompiler/apk/smali_normalization.py python
"""Semantic normalization of Dalvik/smali instructions.

Analogous to Binary Ninja's LLIL normalization: strips register allocation
noise and instruction encoding variants while preserving semantic operations.

Three normalization levels (most aggressive to most detailed):
  - 'category':    semantic category only (MOV, ALU, CALL, ...)
  - 'opcode':      base opcode, width-invariant (add, sub, invoke, ...)
  - 'opcode_api':  opcode category + API method/field references for
                   invoke/field/alloc instructions (default for MinHash)

References:
  - Smali+ 12-category reduction (Canfora et al.)
  - MOSDroid opcode family grouping
  - DroidSIFT/DroidSim API-sensitive similarity
"""

import re
from typing import List

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Dalvik opcode -> semantic category mapping
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Prefix-matched against instruction opcodes. Order matters for overlapping
# prefixes (longer/more-specific prefixes should come first in iteration,
# but since we use startswith and break on first match, we order by
# specificity within the list).

OPCODE_CATEGORIES = {
    # Arithmetic/logic
    "add": "ALU", "sub": "ALU", "mul": "ALU", "div": "ALU",
    "rem": "ALU", "and": "ALU", "or": "ALU", "xor": "ALU",
    "shl": "ALU", "shr": "ALU", "ushr": "ALU", "neg": "ALU",
    "not": "ALU",
    # Data movement
    "move": "MOV", "const": "CONST",
    # Memory access (field/array)
    "iget": "LOAD", "sget": "LOAD", "aget": "LOAD",
    "iput": "STORE", "sput": "STORE", "aput": "STORE",
    # Invocations
    "invoke": "CALL",
    # Control flow
    "if": "BRANCH", "goto": "JMP",
    "switch": "SWITCH",
    "return": "RET",
    # Object/type
    "new": "ALLOC", "check": "TYPE", "instance": "TYPE",
    # Array
    "fill": "ARR", "array": "ARR",
    # Comparison
    "cmpl": "CMP", "cmpg": "CMP", "cmp": "CMP",
    # Exception / synchronization
    "throw": "EXC", "monitor": "SYNC",
    # Conversion (int-to-long, float-to-int, etc.)
    "int-to": "CONV", "long-to": "CONV", "float-to": "CONV",
    "double-to": "CONV",
}

# Pre-compiled regexes for operand extraction
_METHOD_REF_RE = re.compile(r"(L[\w/$]+;->[\w<>]+\(.*?\)[\w/$;\[]*)")
_FIELD_REF_RE = re.compile(r"(L[\w/$]+;->[\w]+:[\w/$;\[]+)")
_CLASS_REF_RE = re.compile(r"(L[\w/$]+;)")
_CONST_STRING_RE = re.compile(r'^const-string(?:/jumbo)?\s')


def categorize_opcode(opcode: str) -> str:
    """Map a Dalvik opcode to its semantic category.

    Prefix-matched: 'add-int/2addr' matches 'add' -> 'ALU'.
    Returns 'OTHER' for unrecognized opcodes.
    """
    for prefix, cat in OPCODE_CATEGORIES.items():
        if opcode.startswith(prefix):
            return cat
    return "OTHER"


# Mapping from semantic categories to the ACFG feature vector indices
# used by Binary Ninja's build_block_features (cfg_features.py).
# This enables cross-platform ACFG feature comparison.
CATEGORY_TO_ACFG_INDEX = {
    "ALU": 0,       # CAT_ARITHMETIC
    "CONV": 0,      # arithmetic-adjacent
    "CMP": 4,       # CAT_COMPARISON
    "MOV": 2,       # CAT_TRANSFER
    "CONST": 2,     # transfer-adjacent (loading constants)
    "LOAD": 5,      # CAT_MEMORY
    "STORE": 5,     # CAT_MEMORY
    "CALL": 3,      # CAT_CALL
    "BRANCH": 1,    # CAT_LOGIC (conditional logic)
    "JMP": 1,       # CAT_LOGIC
    "SWITCH": 1,    # CAT_LOGIC
    "RET": 2,       # CAT_TRANSFER
    "ALLOC": 5,     # CAT_MEMORY (heap allocation)
    "TYPE": 6,      # CAT_OTHER
    "ARR": 5,       # CAT_MEMORY
    "EXC": 6,       # CAT_OTHER
    "SYNC": 6,      # CAT_OTHER
    "OTHER": 6,     # CAT_OTHER
}


def normalize_instruction(line: str, level: str = "opcode_api") -> str:
    """Normalize a single smali instruction line.

    Args:
        line: A single smali instruction (whitespace-stripped).
        level: Normalization level:
            'category'   - most aggressive: just semantic category
            'opcode'     - base opcode only, width/addressing-mode invariant
            'opcode_api' - category + API references for invoke/field/alloc
                          (default, best for MinHash similarity)

    Returns:
        Normalized instruction string, or empty string for non-instructions.
    """
    stripped = line.strip()
    if not stripped:
        return ""

    parts = stripped.split(None, 1)
    opcode = parts[0]
    operands = parts[1] if len(parts) > 1 else ""

    if level == "category":
        return categorize_opcode(opcode)

    if level == "opcode":
        # Strip type/width suffixes for invariance:
        # add-int, add-long, add-float -> 'add'
        # add-int/2addr -> 'add'
        base = re.split(r"[-/]", opcode)[0]
        return base

    if level == "opcode_api":
        # const-string: preserve string content (encrypted strings are a
        # key malware indicator)
        if _CONST_STRING_RE.match(stripped):
            # Extract the string literal
            str_match = re.search(r'"(.*)"', operands)
            if str_match:
                return f"CONST_STR \"{str_match.group(1)}\""
            return "CONST_STR"

        # invoke-*: preserve method reference
        if opcode.startswith("invoke"):
            ref = _METHOD_REF_RE.search(operands)
            if ref:
                return f"CALL {ref.group(1)}"
            return "CALL"

        # Field access: preserve field reference
        if opcode.startswith(("iget", "iput", "sget", "sput")):
            ref = _FIELD_REF_RE.search(operands)
            if ref:
                cat = "LOAD" if "get" in opcode else "STORE"
                return f"{cat} {ref.group(1)}"
            # Fallback: try space-separated format from androguard
            # e.g. "iget v0, p0, Lcom/Foo;->field Ljava/lang/String;"
            space_ref = re.search(
                r"(L[\w/$]+;->[\w]+)\s+([\w/$;\[]+)", operands
            )
            if space_ref:
                cat = "LOAD" if "get" in opcode else "STORE"
                return f"{cat} {space_ref.group(1)}:{space_ref.group(2)}"
            cat = "LOAD" if "get" in opcode else "STORE"
            return cat

        # new-instance: preserve allocated type
        if opcode.startswith("new-instance") or opcode == "new-array":
            ref = _CLASS_REF_RE.search(operands)
            if ref:
                return f"ALLOC {ref.group(1)}"
            return "ALLOC"

        # Everything else: just the category
        return categorize_opcode(opcode)

    # Unknown level: return raw opcode
    return opcode


def normalize_method_body(
    body: str, level: str = "opcode_api"
) -> List[str]:
    """Normalize all instructions in a smali method body.

    Filters out directives (.), labels (:), comments (#), and blank lines.
    Returns a list of normalized instruction strings.

    Args:
        body: Raw smali method body text.
        level: Normalization level (see normalize_instruction).

    Returns:
        List of normalized instruction strings (no empty strings).
    """
    normalized = []
    for line in body.split("\n"):
        stripped = line.strip()
        # Skip non-instructions
        if not stripped:
            continue
        if stripped.startswith((".",":", "#")):
            continue
        result = normalize_instruction(stripped, level)
        if result:
            normalized.append(result)
    return normalized