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Recent attacks exploiting errors in smart contract code had devastating consequences thereby questioning the benefits of this technology. It is currently highly challenging to fix errors and deploy a patched contract in time. Instant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Michael Rodler , Wenting Li , Ghassan O. Karame , Lucas Davi

Non-volatile memory (NVM) based compute-in-memory (CIM) accelerators have emerged as a sustainable solution to significantly boost energy efficiency and minimize latency for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) inference due to their in-situ data…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yifan Qin , Zheyu Yan , Wujie Wen , Xiaobo Sharon Hu , Yiyu Shi

The Text-to-Video (T2V) model aims to generate dynamic and expressive videos from textual prompts. The generation pipeline typically involves multiple modules, such as language encoder, Diffusion Transformer (DiT), and Variational…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Heyang Huang , Cunchen Hu , Jiaqi Zhu , Ziyuan Gao , Liangliang Xu , Yizhou Shan , Yungang Bao , Sun Ninghui , Tianwei Zhang , Sa Wang

Currently, blockchain proposals are being adopted to solve security issues, such as data integrity, resilience, and non-repudiation. To improve certain aspects, e.g., energy consumption and latency, of traditional blockchains, different…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Henry C. Nunes , Roben C. Lunardi , Avelin F. Zorzo , Regio A. Michelin , Salil S. Kanhere

The Move Prover (MVP) is a formal verifier for smart contracts written in the Move programming language. MVP has an expressive specification language, and is fast and reliable enough that it can be run routinely by developers and in…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-02-15 David Dill , Wolfgang Grieskamp , Junkil Park , Shaz Qadeer , Meng Xu , Emma Zhong

Blockchain technology (BT) Ethereum Smart Contracts allows programmable transactions that involve the transfer of monetary assets among peers on a BT network independent of a central authorizing agency. Ethereum Smart Contracts are programs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Noama Fatima Samreen , Manar H. Alalfi

The performance of existing permissionless smart contract platforms such as Ethereum is limited by the consensus layer. Prism is a new proof-of-work consensus protocol that provably achieves throughput and latency up to physical limits…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Gerui Wang , Shuo Wang , Vivek Bagaria , David Tse , Pramod Viswanath

Most blockchain platforms from Ethereum onwards render smart contracts as stateful reactive objects that update their state and transfer crypto-assets in response to transactions. A drawback of this design is that when users submit a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Massimo Bartoletti , Riccardo Marchesin , Roberto Zunino

This paper presents a multi-contract blockchain framework for inter-provider agreements in 6G networks, emphasizing performance analysis under a realistic Proof-of-Stake (PoS) setting on Ethereum's Sepolia testnet. We begin by quantifying…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Farhana Javed , Josep Mangues-Bafalluy

Human-robot interactive decision-making is increasingly becoming ubiquitous, and trust is an influential factor in determining the reliance on autonomy. However, it is not reasonable to trust systems that are beyond our comprehension, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Daoming Lyu , Fangkai Yang , Hugh Kwon , Wen Dong , Levent Yilmaz , Bo Liu

Ethereum is a distributed blockchain that can execute smart contracts, which inter-communicate and perform transactions automatically. The execution of smart contracts is paid in the form of gas, which is a monetary unit used in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Kirk Baird , Seongho Jeong , Yeonsoo Kim , Bernd Burgstaller , Bernhard Scholz

The rise of decentralized applications (dApps) has made smart contracts imperative components of blockchain technology. As many smart contracts process financial transactions, their security is paramount. Moreover, the immutability of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Khalid Hassan , Saeed Moradi , Shaiful Chowdhury , Sara Rouhani

We propose a novel framework for off-chain execution and verification of computationally-intensive smart contracts. Our framework is the first solution that avoids duplication of computing effort across multiple contractors, does not…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Emrah Sariboz , Kartick Kolachala , Gaurav Panwar , Roopa Vishwanathan , Satyajayant Misra

This paper presents MindTheDApp, a toolchain designed specifically for the structural analysis of Ethereum-based Decentralized Applications (DApps), with a distinct focus on a complex network-driven approach. Unlike existing tools, our…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Giacomo Ibba , Sabrina Aufiero , Silvia Bartolucci , Rumyana Neykova , Marco Ortu , Roberto Tonelli , Giuseppe Destefanis

As 6G networks evolve, inter-provider agreements become crucial for dynamic resource sharing and network slicing across multiple domains, requiring on-demand capacity provisioning while enabling trustworthy interaction among diverse…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Farhana Javed , Josep Mangues-Bafalluy

Deep video models, for example, 3D CNNs or video transformers, have achieved promising performance on sparse video tasks, i.e., predicting one result per video. However, challenges arise when adapting existing deep video models to dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Guanxiong Sun , Yang Hua , Guosheng Hu , Neil Robertson

Achieving both safety guarantees and real-time performance in cooperative vehicle coordination remains a fundamental challenge, particularly in dynamic and uncertain environments. Existing methods often suffer from insufficient uncertainty…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Haojie Bai , Tingting Zhang , Cong Guo , Yang Wang , Xiongwei Zhao , Hai Zhu

Smart contracts are blockchain programs that often handle valuable assets. Writing secure smart contracts is far from trivial, and any vulnerability may lead to significant financial losses. To support developers in identifying and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Monika di Angelo , Thomas Durieux , João F. Ferreira , Gernot Salzer

Streamlining the deployment of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on heterogeneous edge platforms, coupling within the same micro-controller unit (MCU) instruction processors and hardware accelerators for tensor computations, is becoming one of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Mohamed Amine Hamdi , Francesco Daghero , Giuseppe Maria Sarda , Josse Van Delm , Arne Symons , Luca Benini , Marian Verhelst , Daniele Jahier Pagliari , Alessio Burrello

Software stacks embedded on microcontroller-based hardware typically provide rudimentary APIs programmed in C/C++, basic connectivity and, sometimes, a firmware update mechanism. Such coarse mechanisms contrast with widely used APIs and…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Antoine Lavandier , Bastien Buil , Chrystel Gaber , Emmanuel Baccelli