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Network nonlocality extends Bell nonlocality to settings with multiple independent sources and parties. Certifying it in quantum information processing tasks requires suitable witnesses. However, in contrast to local correlations, the set…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Salome Hayes-Shuptar , Daniel Bhatti , Ana Belen Sainz , David Elkouss

This paper investigates the algorithmic safety verification problem of infinite-state parameterized concurrent programs over a rich set of communication topologies. The goal is to automatically produce a proof of correctness in the form of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ruotong Cheng , Azadeh Farzan

Let $G$ be a digraph where every node has preferences over its incoming edges. The preferences of a node extend naturally to preferences over branchings, i.e., directed forests; a branching $B$ is popular if $B$ does not lose a head-to-head…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Telikepalli Kavitha , Tamás Király , Jannik Matuschke , Ildikó Schlotter , Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin

Achieving highly reliable networks is essential for network operators to ensure proper packet delivery in the event of software errors or hardware failures. Networks must ensure reachability and routing correctness, such as subnet isolation…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Shenshen Chen , Geng Li , Dennis Duan , Kerim Gokarslan , Bin Li , Qiao Xiang , Haitao Yu , Franck Le , Richard Yang , Ying Zhang

Federated Learning has rapidly expanded from its original inception to now have a large body of research, several frameworks, and sold in a variety of commercial offerings. Thus, its security and robustness is of significant importance.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Simone Bottoni , Giulio Zizzo , Stefano Braghin , Alberto Trombetta

Besides the complexity in time or in number of messages, a common approach for analyzing distributed algorithms is to look at the assumptions they make on the underlying network. We investigate this question from the perspective of network…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-05-02 Arnaud Casteigts , Serge Chaumette , Afonso Ferreira

A networked system can be made resilient against adversaries and attacks if the underlying network graph is structurally robust. For instance, to achieve distributed consensus in the presence of adversaries, the underlying network graph…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-26 Faiq Ghawash , Waseem Abbas

While online services emerge in all areas of life, the voting procedure in many democracies remains paper-based as the security of current online voting technology is highly disputed. We address the issue of trustworthy online voting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-05-15 Robert Riemann , Stéphane Grumbach

We study the power of \textit{local information algorithms} for optimization problems on social networks. We focus on sequential algorithms for which the network topology is initially unknown and is revealed only within a local neighborhood…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-10-15 Christian Borgs , Michael Brautbar , Jennifer Chayes , Sanjeev Khanna , Brendan Lucier

Transparency protocols are protocols whose actions can be publicly monitored by observers (such observers may include regulators, rights advocacy groups, or the general public). The observed actions are typically usages of private keys such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Vincent Cheval , José Moreira , Mark Ryan

Local certification consists in assigning labels to the nodes of a network to certify that some given property is satisfied, in such a way that the labels can be checked locally. In the last few years, certification of graph classes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Nicolas Bousquet , Laurent Feuilloley , Théo Pierron

Delegated quantum computation enables a client with limited quantum capabilities to outsource computations to a more powerful quantum server while preserving correctness and privacy. Verification is crucial in this setting to ensure that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Fabian Wiesner , Anna Pappa

Distributed certification is a set of mechanisms that allows an all-knowing prover to convince the units of a communication network that the network's state has some desired property, such as being 3-colorable or triangle-free. Classical…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Alex B. Grilo , Ami Paz , Mor Perry

No community detection algorithm can be optimal for all possible networks, thus it is important to identify whether the algorithm is suitable for a given network. We propose a multi-step algorithmic solution scheme for overlapping community…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Tianyi Li , Pan Zhang

How to achieve differential privacy in the distributed setting, where the dataset is distributed among the distrustful parties, is an important problem. We consider in what condition can a protocol inherit the differential privacy property…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Genqiang Wu , Yeping He , Jingzheng Wu , Xianyao Xia

Secure long-distance communication in quantum key distribution (QKD) networks depends on trusted repeater nodes along the entire transmission path. Consequently, these nodes will be subject to strict auditing and certification in future…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Stephan Krenn , Omid Mir , Thomas Lorünser , Sebastian Ramacher , Florian Wohner

Ubiquitous computing allows to make data and services within the reach of users anytime and anywhere. This makes ubiquitous networks vulnerable to attacks coming from either inside or outside the network. To ensure and enhance networks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-07-30 Lynda Sellami , Djilali Idoughi , Abderahmane Baadache

Recently, several claims have been made that certain fundamental problems of distributed computing, including Leader Election and Distributed Consensus, begin to admit feasible and efficient solutions when the model of distributed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-09 Cyril Gavoille , Adrian Kosowski , Marcin Markiewicz

We consider the parameterized verification problem for distributed algorithms where the goal is to develop techniques to prove the correctness of a given algorithm regardless of the number of participating processes. Motivated by an…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Nathalie Bertrand , Nicolas Markey , Ocan Sankur , Nicolas Waldburger

In distributed interactive proofs, the nodes of a graph G interact with a powerful but untrustable prover who tries to convince them, in a small number of rounds and through short messages, that G satisfies some property. This series of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Pedro Montealegre , Diego Ramírez-Romero , Ivan Rapaport