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AI is moving from domain-specific autonomy in closed, predictable settings to large-language-model-driven agents that plan and act in open, cross-organizational environments. As a result, the cybersecurity risk landscape is changing in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Alsharif Abuadbba , Nazatul Sultan , Surya Nepal , Sanjay Jha

An Intelligent Personal Agent (IPA) is an agent that has the purpose of helping the user to gain information through reliable resources with the help of knowledge navigation techniques and saving time to search the best content. The agent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Amit Kumar , Rahul Dutta , Harbhajan Rai

The need for autonomous and adaptive defense mechanisms has become paramount in the rapidly evolving landscape of cyber threats. Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning (MADRL) presents a promising approach to enhancing the efficacy and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Mingjun Wang , Remington Dechene

This letter addresses essential aspects of threat assessment by proposing intent-driven threat models that incorporate both capabilities and intents. We propose a holistic framework for cyber physical awareness (CPA) in space networks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Selen Gecgel Cetin , Tolga Ovatman , Gunes Karabulut Kurt

AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot are rapidly transforming software development, but their safety remains deeply uncertain-especially in high-stakes domains like cybersecurity. Current red-teaming tools often rely on fixed benchmarks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Xiangzhe Xu , Guangyu Shen , Zian Su , Siyuan Cheng , Hanxi Guo , Lu Yan , Xuan Chen , Jiasheng Jiang , Xiaolong Jin , Chengpeng Wang , Zhuo Zhang , Xiangyu Zhang

Problem: This paper addresses the design of an intelligent software system for the IC (incident commander) of a team in order to coordinate actions of agents (field units or robots) in the domain of emergency/crisis response operations.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2014-01-03 Reza Nourjou , Michinori Hatayama , Stephen F. Smith , Atabak Sadeghi , Pedro Szekely

In August 2024, the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA) came into force, marking the world's first large-scale regulatory framework for AI. Central to the AIA is a risk-based approach, aligning regulatory obligations with the potential…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Ronald Schnitzer , Maximilian Hoeving , Sonja Zillner

AI agent protocols -- including MCP, A2A, ANP, and ACP -- enable autonomous agents to discover capabilities, delegate tasks, and compose services across trust boundaries. Despite massive deployment (MCP alone has 97M+ monthly SDK…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Shenghan Zheng , Qifan Zhang

We empirically evaluate whether AI systems are more effective at attacking or defending in cybersecurity. Using CAI (Cybersecurity AI)'s parallel execution framework, we deployed autonomous agents in 23 Attack/Defense CTF battlegrounds.…

The performance of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms in practice depends on the realism and correctness of the data, models, and feedback (labels or rewards) provided to the algorithm. This paper discusses methods for improving the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Maxine Major , Brian Souza , Joseph DiVita , Kimberly Ferguson-Walter

Recent advances in deep learning research have shown remarkable achievements across many tasks in computer vision (CV) and natural language processing (NLP). At the intersection of CV and NLP is the problem of image captioning, where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Jiyao Li , Mingze Ni , Yifei Dong , Tianqing Zhu , Wei Liu

Cyber threat attribution is the process of identifying the actor of an attack incident in cyberspace. An accurate and timely threat attribution plays an important role in deterring future attacks by applying appropriate and timely defense…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Umara Noor , Sawera Shahid , Rimsha Kanwal , Zahid Rashid

A single agent represents a single system capable of ingesting local data, indexing, cataloging information, performing knowledge pattern discovery, and separating patterns and anomalies from data. Multiple agents work collaboratively in a…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Ying Zhao , Charles C. Zhou

Attackers utilize a plethora of adversarial techniques in cyberattacks to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the target organizations and systems. Information security standards such as NIST, ISO/IEC specify…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Md Rayhanur Rahman , Laurie Williams

Our computing ecosystem is being transformed by two emerging paradigms: the increased deployment of agentic AI systems and advancements in quantum computing. With respect to agentic AI systems, one of the most critical problems is creating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Sepideh Avizheh , Tushin Mallick , Alina Oprea , Cristina Nita-Rotaru , Reihaneh Safavi-Naini

The increasing complexity of Beyond 5G and 6G networks necessitates new paradigms for autonomy and assur- ance. Traditional O-RAN control loops rely heavily on RIC- based orchestration, which centralizes intelligence and exposes the system…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Sukhdeep Singh , Avinash Bhat , Shweta M , Subhash K Singh , Moonki Hong , Madhan Raj K , Kandeepan Sithamparanathan , Sunder A. Khowaja , Kapal Dev

The rapid development of the AI agent communication protocols, including the Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agent2Agent (A2A), Agora, and Agent Network Protocol (ANP), is reshaping how AI agents communicate with tools, services, and each…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Zeynab Anbiaee , Mahdi Rabbani , Mansur Mirani , Gunjan Piya , Igor Opushnyev , Ali Ghorbani , Sajjad Dadkhah

Adversarial artificial intelligence (AI) attacks pose a significant threat to autonomous transportation, such as maritime vessels, that rely on AI components. Malicious actors can exploit these systems to deceive and manipulate AI-driven…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Mathew J. Walter , Aaron Barrett , Kimberly Tam

In this paper we present AIDA, which is an active inference-based agent that iteratively designs a personalized audio processing algorithm through situated interactions with a human client. The target application of AIDA is to propose…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-09 Albert Podusenko , Bart van Erp , Magnus Koudahl , Bert de Vries

Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) serve as a fundamental auditing tool for evaluating training data leakage in machine learning models. However, existing methodologies predominantly rely on static, handcrafted heuristics that lack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Ruhao Liu , Weiqi Huang , Qi Li , Xinchao Wang