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Static data-flow analysis has proven its effectiveness in assessing security of applications. One major challenge it faces is scalability to large software. This issue is even exacerbated when additional limitations on computing and storage…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Mohamed Nassim Seghir

Autonomous systems must sustain justified confidence in their correctness and safety across their operational lifecycle-from design and deployment through post-deployment evolution. Traditional assurance methods often separate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Dhaminda B. Abeywickrama , Michael Fisher , Frederic Wheeler , Louise Dennis

Proof-carrying-code was proposed as a solution to ensure a trust relationship between two parties: a (heavyweight) analyzer and a (lightweight) checker. The analyzer verifies the conformance of a given application to a specified property…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Mohamed Nassim Seghir

We present a safety verification framework for design-time and run-time assurance of learning-based components in aviation systems. Our proposed framework integrates two novel methodologies. From the design-time assurance perspective, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-17 Ali Baheri , Hao Ren , Benjamin Johnson , Pouria Razzaghi , Peng Wei

Subverting the flow of instructions (e.g., by use of code-reuse attacks) still poses a serious threat to the security of today's systems. Various control flow integrity (CFI) schemes have been proposed as a powerful technique to detect and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Mario Telesklav , Stefan Tauner

The increasing integration of Artificial Intelligence across multiple industry sectors necessitates robust mechanisms for ensuring transparency, trust, and auditability of its development and deployment. This topic is particularly important…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Kar Balan , Robert Learney , Tim Wood

Benchmarks are important measures to evaluate safety and compliance of AI models at scale. However, they typically do not offer verifiable results and lack confidentiality for model IP and benchmark datasets. We propose Attestable Audits,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Christoph Schnabl , Daniel Hugenroth , Bill Marino , Alastair R. Beresford

Cheating is a real problem in the Internet of Things. The fundamental question that needs to be answered is how we can trust the validity of the data being generated in the first place. The problem, however, isn't inherent in whether or not…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Yunpeng Zhang , Xuqing Wu

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

This paper deals with analysis, simultaneous detection of faults and attacks, fault-tolerant control and attack-resilient of cyber-physical control systems. In our recent work, it has been observed that an attack detector driven by an input…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-14 Linlin Li , Steven X. Ding , Maiying Zhong , Dong Zhao , Yang Shi

Safety is of utmost importance for perception in automated driving (AD). However, a prime safety concern in state-of-the art object detection is that standard evaluation schemes utilize safety-agnostic metrics to argue sufficient detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Maria Lyssenko , Christoph Gladisch , Christian Heinzemann , Matthias Woehrle , Rudolph Triebel

Protecting programs against control-flow hijacking attacks recently has become an arms race between defenders and attackers. While certain defenses, e.g., \textit{Control Flow Integrity} (CFI), restrict the targets of indirect control-flow…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Paul Muntean

GraphFlow is a visual workflow system designed to improve the reliability of agentic AI automation in multi-step, mission-critical processes. In these workflows, small errors compound rapidly: under an idealized model of independent steps,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Drewry H. Morris , Luis Valles , Reza Hosseini Ghomi

The design of tiny trust anchors has received significant attention over the past decade, to secure low-end MCU-s that cannot afford expensive security mechanisms. In particular, hardware/software (hybrid) co-designs offer low hardware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Ivan De Oliveira Nunes , Sashidhar Jakkamsetti , Gene Tsudik

This article describes a fully automated, credible autocoding chain for control systems. The framework generates code, along with guarantees of high level functional properties which can be independently verified. It relies on domain…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-08-27 Timothy Wang , Romain Jobredeaux , Heber Herencia , Pierre-Loic Garoche , Arnaud Dieumegard , Eric Feron , Marc Pantel

A widespread design approach in distributed applications based on the service-oriented paradigm, such as web-services, consists of clearly separating the enforcement of authorization policies and the workflow of the applications, so that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-06-26 Michele Barletta , Silvio Ranise , Luca Viganò

Within process mining, a relevant activity is conformance checking. Such activity consists of establishing the extent to which actual executions of a process conform the expected behavior of a reference model. Current techniques focus on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Andrea Burattin

At the edge of modern cyber-physical systems, Micro-Controller Units (MCUs) are responsible for safety-critical sensing/actuation. However, MCU cost constraints rule out the usual security mechanisms of general-purpose computers. Thus,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Adam Caulfield , Liam Tyler , Ivan De Oliveira Nunes

This paper is the first to review the scene flow estimation field, which analyzes and compares methods, technical challenges, evaluation methodologies and performance of scene flow estimation. Existing algorithms are categorized in terms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Zike Yan , Xuezhi Xiang

We introduce a tool that supports continuous flow analysis in order to detect security problems as the user edits. The tool uses abstract interpretation over both byte codes and abstract syntax trees to trace the flow of both type…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Steven P. Reiss