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The privacy aspect of state estimation algorithms has been drawing high research attention due to the necessity for a trustworthy private environment in cyber-physical systems. These systems usually engage cloud-computing platforms to…
Quantum systems are inherently sensitive to environmental noise and imperfections in external control fields, posing a significant challenge for the practical implementation of quantum technologies. These noise sources degrade the fidelity…
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Sensitive applications running on the cloud often require data to be stored in an encrypted domain. To run data mining algorithms on such data, partially homomorphic encryption schemes (allowing certain operations in the ciphertext domain)…
The security of networked control systems (NCS) is receiving increasing attention from both cyber-security and system-theoretic perspectives. The former focuses on classical IT security goals such as confidentiality, integrity, and…
Transparency is one of the most important principles of modern privacy regulations, such as the GDPR or CCPA. To be compliant with such regulatory frameworks, data controllers must provide data subjects with precise information about the…
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Energy storage provides an effective way of shifting temporal energy demands and supplies, which enables significant cost reduction under time-of-use energy pricing plans. Despite its promising benefits, the cost of present energy storage…