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In digital knowledge work, flow promises not just productivity; it offers a pathway to well-being. Yet despite decades of flow research in HCI, we know little about how to design digital interventions that support it. In this work, we…

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Static analysis is a powerful tool for detecting security vulnerabilities and other programming problems. Global taint tracking, in particular, can spot vulnerabilities arising from complicated data flow across multiple functions. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Yiu Wai Chow , Max Schäfer , Michael Pradel

We introduce knowledge flow analysis, a simple and flexible formalism for checking cryptographic protocols. Knowledge flows provide a uniform language for expressing the actions of principals, assump- tions about intruders, and the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Marten van Dijk , Emina Torlak , Blaise Gassend , Srinivas Devadas

We consider the problem of quantifying information flow in interactive systems, modelled as finite-state transducers in the style of Goguen and Meseguer. Our main result is that if the system is deterministic then the information flow is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-05-14 David Mestel

Dynamically scheduled high-level synthesis (HLS) achieves higher throughput than static HLS for codes with unpredictable memory accesses and control flow. However, excessive dataflow scheduling results in circuits that use more resources…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Robert Szafarczyk , Syed Waqar Nabi , Wim Vanderbauwhede

We introduce a new, systematic framework for visualizing information flow in deep networks. Specifically, given any trained deep convolutional network model and a given test image, our method produces a compact support in the image domain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-17 Aditya Balu , Thanh V. Nguyen , Apurva Kokate , Chinmay Hegde , Soumik Sarkar

In this paper, we present a hybrid approach for buffer overflow detection in C code. The approach makes use of static and dynamic analysis of the application under investigation. The static part consists in calculating taint dependency…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-05-17 Sanjay Rawat , Dumitru Ceara , Laurent Mounier , Marie-Laure Potet

Since decade understanding of programs has become a compulsory task for the students as well as for others who are involved in the process of developing software and providing solutions to open problems. In that aspect showing the problem…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Safeeullah Soomro , Zainab Alansari , Mohammad Riyaz Belgaum

Collecting flow records is a common practice of network operators and researchers for monitoring, diagnosing and understanding a network. Traditional tools like NetFlow face great challenges when both the speed and the complexity of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Zongyi Zhao , Xingang Shi , Xia Yin , Zhiliang Wang

Multivariate time series forecasting is critical in many real-world systems, and thus modeling cross-channel dependencies is essential. Although existing methods improve overall accuracy by enhancing representations and cross-channel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Fan Zhang , Shiming Fan , Hua Wang

This work presents mixed variational flows (MixFlows), a new variational family that consists of a mixture of repeated applications of a map to an initial reference distribution. First, we provide efficient algorithms for i.i.d. sampling,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-03 Zuheng Xu , Naitong Chen , Trevor Campbell

As AI agents become increasingly autonomous and capable, ensuring their security against vulnerabilities such as prompt injection becomes critical. This paper explores the use of information-flow control (IFC) to provide security guarantees…

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are stealthy customized attacks by intelligent adversaries. This paper deals with the detection of APTs that infiltrate cyber systems and compromise specifically targeted data and/or infrastructures.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Shana Moothedath , Dinuka Sahabandu , Joey Allen , Andrew Clark , Linda Bushnell , Wenke Lee , Radha Poovendran

Finding image correspondences remains a challenging problem in the presence of intra-class variations and large changes in scene layout.~Semantic flow methods are designed to handle images depicting different instances of the same object or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-11 Bumsub Ham , Minsu Cho , Cordelia Schmid , Jean Ponce

The responses generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) can include sensitive information from individuals and organizations, leading to potential privacy leakage. This work implements Influence Functions (IFs) to trace privacy leakage back…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Jinxin Liu , Zao Yang

Preventing implicit information flows by dynamic program analysis requires coarse approximations that result in false positives, because a dynamic monitor sees only the executed trace of the program. One widely deployed method is the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Abhishek Bichhawat , Vineet Rajani , Deepak Garg , Christian Hammer

Modern programmable network switches can implement custom applications using efficient packet processing hardware, and the programming language P4 provides high-level constructs to program such switches. The increase in speed and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Karuna Grewal , Loris D'Antoni , Justin Hsu

Flow control aims at modifying a natural flow state to reach an other flow state considered as advantageous. In this paper, active feedback flow separation control is investigated with two different closed-loop control strategies, involving…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-22 T. Arnoult , G. Acher , V. Nowinski , P. Vuillemin , C. Briat , P. Pernod , C. Ghouila-Houri , A. Talbi , E. Garnier , C. Poussot-Vassal

In today's data-driven world, the proliferation of publicly available information raises security concerns due to the information leakage (IL) problem. IL involves unintentionally exposing sensitive information to unauthorized parties via…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-02 Pritha Gupta , Marcel Wever , Eyke Hüllermeier

Cybersecurity has been a concern for quite a while now. In the latest years, cyberattacks have been increasing in size and complexity, fueled by significant advances in technology. Nowadays, there is an unavoidable necessity of protecting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Tiago Dias , Nuno Oliveira , Norberto Sousa , Isabel Praça , Orlando Sousa