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In this paper, we design secure multi-party computation (MPC) protocols in the asynchronous communication setting with optimal resilience. Our protocols are secure against a computationally-unbounded malicious adversary, characterized by an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Ananya Appan , Anirudh Chandramouli , Ashish Choudhury

We present a composably secure protocol allowing $n$ parties to test an entanglement generation resource controlled by a possibly dishonest party. The test consists only in local quantum operations and authenticated classical communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Raja Yehia , Eleni Diamanti , Iordanis Kerenidis

Distributed model predictive control (MPC) has been proven a successful method in regulating the operation of large-scale networks of constrained dynamical systems. This paper is concerned with cooperative distributed MPC in which the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Georgios Darivianakis , Angelos Georghiou , John Lygeros

Robust optimization is a framework for modeling optimization problems involving data uncertainty and during the last decades has been an area of active research. If we focus on linear programming (LP) problems with i) uncertain data, ii)…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-02-15 Roberto Mínguez , Víctor Casero-Alonso

Algorithms for the synchronisation of clocks across networks are both common and important within distributed systems. We here address not only the formal modelling of these algorithms, but also the formal verification of their behaviour.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Paul Gainer , Sven Linker , Clare Dixon , Ullrich Hustadt , Michael Fisher

We propose a multi party quantum clock synchronization protocol that makes optimal use of the maximal multipartite entanglement of GHZ-type states. To realize the protocol, different versions of maximally entangled eigenstates of collective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Changliang Ren , Holger F. Hofmann

Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) are stochastic optimization problems that model situations where a decision maker controls a system based on its state. Partially observed Markov decision processes (POMDPs) are generalizations of MDPs where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Victor Cohen , Axel Parmentier

Session types are types for specifying protocols that processes must follow when communicating with each other. Session types are in a propositions-as-types correspondence with linear logic. Previous work has shown that a multiparty session…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Marco Carbone , Sonia Marin , Carsten Schürmann

Secure multi-party computation (MPC) allows a set of parties to compute a function jointly while keeping their inputs private. Compared with the MPC based on garbled circuits,some recent research results show that MPC based on secret…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Satsuya Ohata , Koji Nuida

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has been proposed as a unifying standard for connecting large language models (LLMs) with external tools and resources, promising the same role for AI integration that HTTP and USB played for the Web and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Hechuan Guo , Yongle Hao , Yue Zhang , Minghui Xu , Peizhuo Lv , Jiezhi Chen , Xiuzhen Cheng

AI assistants can decompose multi-step workflows, but they do not natively speak industrial protocols such as Modbus, MQTT/Sparkplug B, or OPC UA, so this paper presents INDUSTRICONNECT, a prototype suite of Model Context Protocol (MCP)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Melwin Xavier , Melveena Jolly , Vaisakh M A , Midhun Xavier

Gaussian processes (GPs) offer a flexible, uncertainty-aware framework for modeling complex signals, but scale cubically with data, assume static targets, and are brittle to outliers, limiting their applicability in large-scale problems…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-23 Fernando Llorente , Daniel Waxman , Sanket Jantre , Nathan M. Urban , Susan E. Minkoff

While formal models of concurrency tend to focus on synchronous communication, asynchronous communication is relevant in practice. In this paper, we will discuss asynchronous communication in the context of session-based concurrency, the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Bas van den Heuvel , Jorge A. Pérez

Decentralized data markets gather data from many contributors to create a joint data cooperative governed by market stakeholders. The ability to perform secure computation on decentralized data markets would allow for useful insights to be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Fattaneh Bayatbabolghani , Bharath Ramsundar

This paper considers a practical mobile edge computing (MEC) system, where edge server does not pre-install the program required to perform user offloaded computing tasks. A partial program offloading (PPO) scheme is proposed, which can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Taizhou Yi , Guopeng Zhang , Kezhi Wang , Kun Yang

Many real-world control systems, such as the smart grid and human sensorimotor control systems, have decentralized components that react quickly using local information and centralized components that react slowly using a more global view.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Gautam Goel , Niangjun Chen , Adam Wierman

Ensuring the correctness of software for communication centric programs is important but challenging. Previous approaches, based on session types, have been intensively investigated over the past decade. They provide a concise way to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Andreea Costea , Wei-Ngan Chin , Florin Craciun , Shengchao Qin

We present initial results on a comprehensive model of structured communications, in which self- adaptation and security concerns are jointly addressed. More specifically, we propose a model of self-adaptive, multiparty communications with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Ilaria Castellani , Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini , Jorge A. Pérez

Lockstep processing is a recognized technique for helping to secure functional-safety relevant processing against, for instance, single upset errors that might cause faulty execution of code. Lockstepping processors does however bind…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Hans Dermot Doran , Timo Lang

We propose some protocols to implement various classes of bipartite unitary operations on two remote parties with the help of repeater nodes in-between. We also present a protocol to implement a single-qubit unitary with parameters…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Li Yu , Kae Nemoto