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Software vulnerabilities enable exploitation by malicious hackers, compromising systems and data security. This paper examines bug bounty programs (BBPs) that incentivize ethical hackers to discover and responsibly disclose vulnerabilities…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Esther Gal-Or , Muhammad Zia Hydari , Rahul Telang

We propose an improved algorithm by identifying and encouraging cooperative behavior in multi-agent environments. First, we analyze the shortcomings of existing algorithms in addressing multi-agent reinforcement learning problems. Then,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Junjie Qi , Siqi Mao , Tianyi Tan

In the coming years, AI agents will be used for making more complex decisions, including in situations involving many different groups of people. One big challenge is that AI agent tends to act in its own interest, unlike humans who often…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Shunichi Akatsuka , Yaemi Teramoto , Aaron Courville

We study reinforcement learning of chatbots with recurrent neural network architectures when the rewards are noisy and expensive to obtain. For instance, a chatbot used in automated customer service support can be scored by quality…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-14 Kirthevasan Kandasamy , Yoram Bachrach , Ryota Tomioka , Daniel Tarlow , David Carter

We study a cost sharing problem derived from bug bounty programs, where agents gain utility by the amount of time they get to enjoy the cost shared information. Once the information is provided to an agent, it cannot be retracted. The goal,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Mingyu Guo , Yong Yang , Muhammad Ali Babar

Searching in a denied environment is challenging for swarm robots as no assistance from GNSS, mapping, data sharing, and central processing is allowed. However, using olfactory and auditory signals to cooperate like animals could be an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Siqi Tan , Xiaoya Zhang , Jingyao Li , Ruitao Jing , Mufan Zhao , Yang Liu , Quan Quan

The rapid integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based systems offers benefits for various domains of the economy and society but simultaneously raises concerns due to emerging scandals. These scandals have led to the increasing…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-28 L. H. Nguyen , S. Lins , G. Du , A. Sunyaev

Algorithm audits have increased in recent years due to a growing need to independently assess the performance of automatically curated services that process, filter, and rank the large and dynamic amount of information available on the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Roberto Ulloa , Mykola Makhortykh , Aleksandra Urman

Bug bounty platforms (e.g., HackerOne, BugCrowd) leverage crowd-sourced vulnerability discovery to improve continuous coverage, reduce the cost of discovery, and serve as an integral complement to internal red teams. With the rise of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jiangrui Zheng , Yingming Zhou , Ali Abdullah Ahmad , Hanqing Yao , Xueqing Liu

Online information ecosystems are now central to our everyday social interactions. Of the many opportunities and challenges this presents, the capacity for artificial agents to shape individual and collective human decision-making in such…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-07 Theodor Cimpeanu , Alexander J. Stewart

We introduce Bug-Injector, a system that automatically creates benchmarks for customized evaluation of static analysis tools. We share a benchmark generated using Bug-Injector and illustrate its efficacy by using it to evaluate the recall…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Vineeth Kashyap , Jason Ruchti , Lucja Kot , Emma Turetsky , Rebecca Swords , Shih An Pan , Julien Henry , David Melski , Eric Schulte

Understanding bidding behavior in multi-unit auctions remains an ongoing challenge for researchers. Despite their widespread use, theoretical insights into the bidding behavior, revenue ranking, and efficiency of commonly used multi-unit…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Peyman Khezr , Kendall Taylor

Auto-bidding has become one of the main options for bidding in online advertisements, in which advertisers only need to specify high-level objectives and leave the complex task of bidding to auto-bidders. In this paper, we propose a family…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Yuan Deng , Jieming Mao , Vahab Mirrokni , Song Zuo

Researchers have investigated the bug bounty ecosystem from the lens of platforms, programs, and bug hunters. Understanding the perspectives of bug bounty report reviewers, especially those who historically lack a security background and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Jessy Ayala , Steven Ngo , Joshua Garcia

Software bugs cost technology providers (e.g., AT&T) billions annually and cause developers to spend roughly 50% of their time on bug resolution. Traditional methods for bug localization often analyze the suspiciousness of code components…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Asif Mohammed Samir , Mohammad Masudur Rahman

We investigate the design of mechanisms to incentivize high quality in crowdsourcing environments with strategic agents, when entry is an endogenous, strategic choice. Modeling endogenous entry in crowdsourcing is important because there is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Arpita Ghosh , Preston McAfee

Online questionnaires that use crowd-sourcing platforms to recruit participants have become commonplace, due to their ease of use and low costs. Artificial Intelligence (AI) based Large Language Models (LLM) have made it easy for bad actors…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Benjamin Lebrun , Sharon Temtsin , Andrew Vonasch , Christoph Bartneck

Automated Bug Detection (ABD) in video games is composed of two distinct but complementary problems: automated game exploration and bug identification. Automated game exploration has received much recent attention, spurred on by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Benedict Wilkins , Kostas Stathis

Software bugs cost the global economy billions of dollars annually and claim ~50\% of the programming time from software developers. Locating these bugs is crucial for their resolution but challenging. It is even more challenging in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Sigma Jahan , Mehil B. Shah , Mohammad Masudur Rahman

In the context of rapid discoveries by leaders in AI, governments must consider how to design regulation that matches the increasing pace of new AI capabilities. Regulatory Markets for AI is a proposal designed with adaptability in mind. It…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Paolo Bova , Alessandro Di Stefano , The Anh Han