@conference{InTrust2012,
author = "G. Dini and F. Martinelli and I. Matteucci and M. Petrocchi and A. Saracino and D. Sgandurra",
abstract = "Android users can face the risk of downloading and installing bad
applications on their devices. In fact, many applications may either hide malware,
or their expected behavior do not fully follow the user’s expectation. This happens
because, at install-time, even if the user is warned with the potential security
threat of the application, she often skips this alert message. On Android this is
due to the complexity of the permission system, which may be tricky to fully
understand.
We propose a multi-criteria evaluation of Android applications, to help the user
to easily understand the trustworthiness degree of an application, both from a
security and a functional side. We validate our approach by testing it on more
than 180 real applications found either on official and unofficial markets.
",
booktitle = "Proceedings of 4th Intl. Conference on Trusted Systems (InTrust2012)",
month = "December",
note = "partners: CNR; projects: Nessos, Aniketos; no tier; citations 2",
publisher = "Springer",
series = "LNCS -- to appear",
title = " {A} {M}ulti-{C}riteria {B}ased {E}valuation of {A}ndroid {A}pplications",
url = "http://www.iit.cnr.it/node/16634",
year = "2012",
}