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Traditional game-theoretic research for security applications primarily focuses on the allocation of external protection resources to defend targets. This work puts forward the study of a new class of games centered around strategically…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Niclas Boehmer , Minbiao Han , Haifeng Xu , Milind Tambe

Long-horizon tabletop games pose a distinct systems challenge for robotics: small perceptual or execution errors can invalidate accumulated task state, propagate across decision-making modules, and ultimately derail interaction. This paper…

Participatory sensing (PS) is a novel and promising sensing network paradigm for achieving a flexible and scalable sensing coverage with a low deploying cost, by encouraging mobile users to participate and contribute their smartphones as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Xiaoyan Mo , Zhang Li , Lin Gao , Bin Cao , Tingting Zhang , Tong Wang

Gamification and Serious Games are progressively being used over a host of fields, particularly to support education. Such games provide a new way to engage students with content and can complement more traditional approaches to learning.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Alice Jaffray , Conor Finn , Jason R. C. Nurse

Traditional cybersecurity tabletop exercises (TTXs) provide valuable training but are often scripted, resource-intensive, and difficult to scale. We introduce AgentBnB, a browser-based re-imagining of the Backdoors & Breaches game that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Arman Anwar , Zefang Liu

For undergraduate students of computing, learning to solve complex practical problems in a team is an essential skill for their future careers. This skill is needed in various fields, such as in cybersecurity and IT governance. Tabletop…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Valdemar Švábenský , Jan Vykopal , Martin Horák , Martin Hofbauer , Pavel Čeleda

Tabletop exercises are used to train personnel in the efficient mitigation and resolution of incidents. They are applied in practice to support the preparedness of organizations and to highlight inefficient processes. Since tabletop…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Jan Vykopal , Pavel Čeleda , Valdemar Švábenský , Martin Hofbauer , Martin Horák

Our systematisation of knowledge on Social Engineering Attacks (SEAs), identifies the human, organisational, and adversarial dimensions of cyber threats. It addresses the growing risks posed by SEAs, highly relevant in the context physical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Scott Thomson , Michael Bewong , Arash Mahboubi , Tanveer Zia

Organizations rely on phishing interventions to enhance employees' vigilance and safe responses to phishing emails that bypass technical solutions. While various resources are available to counteract phishing, studies emphasize the need for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Xiaowei Chen , Margault Sacré , Gabriele Lenzini , Samuel Greiff , Verena Distler , Anastasia Sergeeva

Teaching software testing and debugging is a critical yet challenging task in computer science education, often hindered by low student engagement and the perceived monotony of these activities. Sojourner under Sabotage, a browser-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Philipp Straubinger , Tim Greller , Gordon Fraser

This paper presents a game based on storytelling, in which the players are faced with ethical dilemmas related to software engineering specific issues. The players' choices have consequences on how the story unfolds and could lead to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Michalis Xenos , Vasiliki Velli

The most valuable asset of any cloud-based organization is data, which is increasingly exposed to sophisticated cyberattacks. Until recently, the implementation of security measures in DevOps environments was often considered optional by…

Many of our critical infrastructure systems and personal computing systems have a distributed computing systems structure. The incentives to attack them have been growing rapidly as has their attack surface due to increasing levels of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Mustafa Abdallah , Saurabh Bagchi , Shaunak D. Bopardikar , Kevin Chan , Xing Gao , Murat Kantarcioglu , Congmiao Li , Peng Liu , Quanyan Zhu

Social engineering (SE) attacks remain a significant threat to both individuals and organizations. The advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI), including diffusion models and large language models (LLMs), has potentially intensified…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Jingru Yu , Yi Yu , Xuhong Wang , Yilun Lin , Manzhi Yang , Yu Qiao , Fei-Yue Wang

Significant progress has been made in scene understanding which seeks to build 3D, metric and object-oriented representations of the world. Concurrently, reinforcement learning has made impressive strides largely enabled by advances in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Zachary Ravichandran , J. Daniel Griffith , Benjamin Smith , Costas Frost

As cyber threats grow in complexity and scale, many security incidents remain poorly managed due to the lack of proper training among C-level executives. Thus, there is a need for targeted cybersecurity education to enhance executive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Diego Cabuya-Padilla , Daniel Díaz-López , Carlos Castaneda-Marroquín

As data becomes increasingly vital, a company would be very cautious about releasing data, because the competitors could use it to train high-performance models, thereby posing a tremendous threat to the company's commercial competence. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Sizhe Chen , Geng Yuan , Xinwen Cheng , Yifan Gong , Minghai Qin , Yanzhi Wang , Xiaolin Huang

Self-adaptive systems (SAS) can reconfigure at run time in response to changing situations to express acceptable behaviors in the face of uncertainty. With respect to game design, such situations may include user input, emergent behaviors,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Erik M. Fredericks , Byron DeVries , Jared M. Moore

In federated learning, benign participants aim to optimize a global model collaboratively. However, the risk of \textit{privacy leakage} cannot be ignored in the presence of \textit{semi-honest} adversaries. Existing research has focused…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Xiaojin Zhang , Lixin Fan , Siwei Wang , Wenjie Li , Kai Chen , Qiang Yang

This paper explores the threat detection for general Social Engineering (SE) attack using Machine Learning (ML) techniques, rather than focusing on or limited to a specific SE attack type, e.g. email phishing. Firstly, this paper processes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Zuoguang Wang , Yimo Ren , Hongsong Zhu , Limin Sun