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The era of big data has promoted the vigorous development of many industries, boosting the full potential of holistic data-driven analysis. Hadoop has become the primary choice for mainstream platforms used by stakeholders to process big…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Min Yang

Enabling coordination between products from different vendors is a key characteristic of the design philosophy behind future wireless communication networks. As an example, different devices may have different implementations, leading to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-02-05 Piotr Wiecek , Majed Haddad , Oussama Habachi , Yezekael Hayel

Although blockchain-based smart contracts promise a ``trustless'' way of enforcing agreements even with monetary consequences, they suffer from multiple security issues. Many of these issues could be mitigated via an effective access…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Bowen Liu , Siwei Sun , Pawel Szalachowski

The emergence of artificial intelligence and digitization of the power grid introduced numerous effective application scenarios for AI-based services for the smart grid. Nevertheless, adopting AI in critical infrastructures presents…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Anna Volkova , Mahdieh Hatamian , Alina Anapyanova , Hermann de Meer

Collaboration is a fundamental and essential characteristic of many complex systems, ranging from ant colonies to human societies. Each component within a complex system interacts with others, even at a distance, to accomplish a given task.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Mehdi Bakhshipoor , Yousef Azizi , Seyed Ehsan Nedaaee Oskoee

With the continuous increase of the spectrum and antennas, endogenous sensing is now possible in the fifth generation and future wireless communication systems. However, sensing is a highly complex task for a heterogeneous communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Jie Yang , Xi Yang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin

Activation functions and attention mechanisms are typically treated as having different purposes and have evolved differently. However, both concepts can be formulated as a non-linear gating function. Inspired by their similarity, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Yimian Dai , Stefan Oehmcke , Fabian Gieseke , Yiquan Wu , Kobus Barnard

In this paper we present a computational modeling account of an active self in artificial agents. In particular we focus on how an agent can be equipped with a sense of control and how it arises in autonomous situated action and, in turn,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Sebastian Kahl , Sebastian Wiese , Nele Russwinkel , Stefan Kopp

For AI technology to fulfill its full promises, we must have effective means to ensure Responsible AI behavior and curtail potential irresponsible use, e.g., in areas of privacy protection, human autonomy, robustness, and prevention of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Wenjing Chu

Nowadays, different types of context information are integrated into mobile messaging to increase expressiveness and awareness, including mobile device setting, location, activity, and heart rate. Due to low recognition accuracy, sometimes…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Ling Chen , Miaomiao Dong

We present a system for concurrent activity recognition. To extract features associated with different activities, we propose a feature-to-activity attention that maps the extracted global features to sub-features associated with individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Yanyi Zhang , Xinyu Li , Kaixiang Huang , Yehan Wang , Shuhong Chen , Ivan Marsic

This paper offers several contributions for separation of duty (SoD) administration in role-based access control (RBAC) systems. We first introduce a new formal framework, based on business perspective, where SoD constraints are analyzed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-10-31 Alessandro Colantonio , Roberto Di Pietro , Alberto Ocello

As future tasks in networked systems are increasingly relying on collaborative execution among distributed devices, trust has become an essential tool for securing both reliable collaborators and task-specific resources. However, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Botao Zhu , Xianbin Wang

In our connected world, services are expected to be delivered at speed through multiple means with seamless communication. To put it in day to day conversational terms, 'there is an app for it' attitude prevails. Several technologies are…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Aladdin Ayesh

Future intelligent system will involve very various types of artificial agents, such as mobile robots, smart home infrastructure or personal devices, which share data and collaborate with each other to execute certain tasks.Designing an…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Chao Wang , Stephan Hasler , Manuel Muehlig , Frank Joublin , Antonello Ceravola , Joerg Deigmoeller , Lydia Fischer

Active sensing refers to the process of choosing or tuning a set of sensors in order to track an underlying system in an efficient and accurate way. In a wireless environment, among the several kinds of features extracted by traditional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-30 Alessandro Biason , Urbashi Mitra , Michele Zorzi

Device activity detection in the emerging cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems has been recognized as a crucial task in machine-type communications, in which multiple access points (APs) jointly identify the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Yang Li , Qingfeng Lin , Ya-Feng Liu , Bo Ai , Yik-Chung Wu

This paper addresses the critical challenge of access control in modern supply chains, which operate across multiple independent and competing organizations. Existing access control is static and centralized, unable to adapt to insider…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Sadegh Sohani , Salar Ghazi , Farnaz Kamranfar , Sahar Pilehvar Moakhar , Mohammad Allahbakhsh , Haleh Amintoosi , Kaiwen Zhang

Active Inference is a closed-loop computational theoretical basis for understanding behaviour, based on agents with internal probabilistic generative models that encode their beliefs about how hidden states in their environment cause their…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Roderick Murray-Smith , John H. Williamson , Sebastian Stein

Collaborative agentic AI is projected to transform entire industries by enabling AI-powered agents to autonomously perceive, plan, and act within digital environments. Yet, current solutions in this field are all built in isolation, and we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Rishi Sharma , Martijn de Vos , Pradyumna Chari , Ramesh Raskar , Anne-Marie Kermarrec