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Bias in computer vision systems can perpetuate or even amplify discrimination against certain populations. Considering that bias is often introduced by biased visual datasets, many recent research efforts focus on training fair models using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Ioannis Sarridis , Christos Koutlis , Symeon Papadopoulos , Christos Diou

This paper concerns the analysis of information leaks in security systems. We address the problem of specifying and analyzing large systems in the (standard) channel model used in quantitative information flow (QIF). We propose several…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Arthur Américo , Mário S. Alvim , Annabelle McIver

Recent Pwn2Own competitions have demonstrated the continued effectiveness of control hijacking attacks despite deployed countermeasures including stack canaries and ASLR. A powerful defense called Control flow Integrity (CFI) offers a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-08-08 Ali Jose Mashtizadeh , Andrea Bittau , David Mazieres , Dan Boneh

Quantitative information flow (QIF) is traditionally defined as the expected value of information leakage over all feasible program runs and it fails to identify vulnerable programs where only limited number of runs leak large amount of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Bao Trung Chu , Kenji Hashimoto , Hiroyuki Seki

Planning is a crucial task for agents in task oriented dialogs (TODs). Human agents typically resolve user issues by following predefined workflows, decomposing workflow steps into actionable items, and performing actions by executing APIs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Shamik Roy , Sailik Sengupta , Daniele Bonadiman , Saab Mansour , Arshit Gupta

Through the increasing interconnection between various systems, the need for confidential systems is increasing. Confidential systems share data only with authorized entities. However, estimating the confidentiality of a system is complex,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Felix Schwickerath , Nicolas Boltz , Sebastian Hahner , Maximilian Walter , Christopher Gerking , Robert Heinrich

Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) provides expressiveness and flexibility, making it a compelling model for enforcing fine-grained access control policies. To facilitate the transition to ABAC, extensive research has been conducted to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Thang Bui , Anthony Matricia , Emily Contreras , Ryan Mauvais , Luis Medina , Israel Serrano

Unauthorized access remains one of the critical security challenges in the realm of cybersecurity. With the increasing sophistication of attack techniques, the threat of unauthorized access is no longer confined to the conventional ones,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Eyasu Getahun Chekole , Howard Halim , Jianying Zhou

As coding agents gain access to shells, repositories, and user files, least-privilege authorization becomes a prerequisite for safe deployment: an agent should receive enough authority to complete the task, without unnecessary authority…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Zheng Yan , Jingxiang Weng , Charles Chen , Dengyun Peng , Ethan Qin , Jiannan Guan , Jinhao Liu , Qiming Yu , Yixin Yuan , Fanqing Meng , Carl Che , Mengkang Hu

Cloud Computing is a set of IT Services that are provided to a customer over a network and these services are delivered by third party provider who owns the infrastructure and reduce the burden at user's end. Nowadays researchers devoted…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-08-26 Gitanjali , Sukhjit Singh Sehra , Jaiteg Singh

In workflows and business processes, there are often security requirements on both the data, i.e. confidentiality and integrity, and the process, e.g. separation of duty. Graphical notations exist for specifying both workflows and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-04-09 Thomas Bauereiss , Dieter Hutter

We present efficient and practical algorithms for a large, distributed system of processors to achieve reliable computations in a secure manner. Specifically, we address the problem of computing a general function of several private inputs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Donald Rozinak Beaver

In response to the increasing volume and sensitivity of data, traditional centralized computing models face challenges, such as data security breaches and regulatory hurdles. Federated Computing (FC) addresses these concerns by enabling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-04 René Schwermer , Ruben Mayer , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

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

Authorizing Large Language Model (LLM)-driven agents to dynamically invoke tools and access protected resources introduces significant security risks, and the risks grow dramatically as agents engage in multi-turn conversations and scale…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Majed El Helou , Benjamin Ryder , Chiara Troiani , Jean Diaconu , Hervé Muyal , Marcelo Yannuzzi

Technology advances in areas such as sensors, IoT, and robotics, enable new collaborative applications (e.g., autonomous devices). A primary requirement for such collaborations is to have a secure system which enables information sharing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Amani Abu Jabal , Elisa Bertino , Jorge Lobo , Dinesh Verma , Seraphin Calo , Alessandra Russo

Authorizing Large Language Model driven agents to dynamically invoke tools and access protected resources introduces significant risks, since current methods for delegating authorization grant overly broad permissions and give access to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Majed El Helou , Chiara Troiani , Benjamin Ryder , Jean Diaconu , Hervé Muyal , Marcelo Yannuzzi

Elaborate protocols in Secure Multi-party Computation enable several participants to compute a public function of their own private inputs while ensuring that no undesired information leaks about the private inputs, and without resorting to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Patrick Ah-Fat , Michael Huth

In this paper we propose a formal framework for studying privacy in information systems. The proposal follows a two-axes schema where the first axis considers privacy as a taxonomy of rights and the second axis involves the ways an…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Dimitrios Kouzapas , Anna Philippou

A program is non-interferent if it leaks no secret information to an observable output. However, non-interference is too strict in many practical cases and quantitative information flow (QIF) has been proposed and studied in depth.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Bao Trung Chu , Kenji Hashimoto , Hiroyuki Seki