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Telerobotics is a key foundation in autonomous Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS), enabling remote operations across various domains. However, conventional cloud-based telerobotics suffers from latency, reliability, scalability, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Thien Tran , Jonathan Kua , Minh Tran , Honghao Lyu , Thuong Hoang , Jiong Jin

According to a recent survey with more than 4000 software developers, less than half of developers can spot security holes. As a result, software products present a low-security quality expressed by vulnerabilities that can be exploited by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Tiago Espinha Gasiba , Ulrike Lechner , Maria Pinto-Albuquerque , Alae Zouitni

The assessment of cybersecurity Capture-The-Flag (CTF) exercises involves participants finding text strings or ``flags'' by exploiting system vulnerabilities. Large Language Models (LLMs) are natural-language models trained on vast amounts…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Wesley Tann , Yuancheng Liu , Jun Heng Sim , Choon Meng Seah , Ee-Chien Chang

GitOps is a foundational approach for modernizing infrastructure by leveraging Git as the single source of truth for declarative configurations. The poster explores how GitOps transforms traditional control system infrastructure, services…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-11 M. Gonzalez , M. Acosta

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been used in cybersecurity such as autonomous security analysis or penetration testing. Capture the Flag (CTF) challenges serve as benchmarks to assess automated task-planning abilities of LLM agents for…

As a promising distributed machine learning paradigm that enables collaborative training without compromising data privacy, Federated Learning (FL) has been increasingly used in AIoT (Artificial Intelligence of Things) design. However, due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Ming Hu , Zeke Xia , Zhihao Yue , Jun Xia , Yihao Huang , Yang Liu , Mingsong Chen

GitOps has emerged as a foundational paradigm for managing cloud-native infrastructures by enabling declarative configuration, version-controlled state, and automated reconciliation between intents and runtime deployments. Despite its…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Saptarshi Ghosh , Ioannis Mavromatis , Konstantinos Antonakoglou , Konstantinos Katsaros

Large language models are rapidly changing how learners acquire and demonstrate cybersecurity skills. However, when human--AI collaboration is allowed, educators still lack validated competition designs and evaluation practices that remain…

Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) are critical to defending enterprise and industrial control environments, yet evaluating their effectiveness under realistic conditions remains an open challenge. Existing benchmarks rely on synthetic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Manuel Kern , Dominik Steffan , Felix Schuster , Florian Skopik , Max Landauer , David Allison , Simon Freudenthaler , Edgar Weippl

Unix competence is the ability to use shell and operating-system primitives as first-class tools, not merely to write programs through a terminal. Current terminal benchmarks tend to blur this distinction: a solver fluent in Python but weak…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Geoffrey Bradway , Roger Creus Castanyer , Lorenz Wolf , Maxwill Lin , Matthew James Sargent , Augustine N. Mavor-Parker

Programming projects are essential in computer science education for bridging theory with practice and introducing students to tools like Git, IDEs, and debuggers. However, designing and evaluating these projects (especially in MOOCs)can be…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Pierre Schaus , Guillaume Derval , Augustin Delecluse

Existing benchmarks for LLM-based offensive security agents use isolated, single-target setups with a known vulnerable service and fixed objective. They measure exploitation effectively, but miss how real Capture-the-Flag (CTF) participants…

Crowdsourced investigations shore up democratic institutions by debunking misinformation and uncovering human rights abuses. However, current crowdsourcing approaches rely on simplistic collaborative or competitive models and lack…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Sukrit Venkatagiri , Anirban Mukhopadhyay , David Hicks , Aaron Brantly , Kurt Luther

Testing and validating Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) in the aerospace domain, such as field testing of drone rescue missions, poses challenges due to volatile mission environments, such as weather conditions. While testing processes and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Michael Vierhauser , Kristof Meixner , Stefan Biffl

Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized machine learning paradigm where models are trained on distributed devices and are aggregated at a central server. Existing FL frameworks assume simple two-tier network topologies where end devices…

The increased demand of cyber security professionals has also increased the development of new platforms and tools that help those professionals to improve their offensive skills. One of these platforms is HackTheBox, an online cyber…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Ariel R. Ril , Daniel Dalalana Bertoglio , Avelino F. Zorzo

We present our framework DKVF that enables one to quickly prototype and evaluate new protocols for key-value stores and compare them with existing protocols based on selected benchmarks. Due to limitations of CAP theorem, new protocols must…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Mohammad Roohitavaf , Sandeep Kulkarni

We introduce FnF-BFT, a parallel-leader byzantine fault-tolerant state-machine replication protocol for the partially synchronous model with theoretical performance bounds during synchrony. By allowing all replicas to act as leaders and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Zeta Avarikioti , Lioba Heimbach , Roland Schmid , Laurent Vanbever , Roger Wattenhofer , Patrick Wintermeyer

Capture-the-Flag (CTF) competitions serve as gateways into offensive cybersecurity, yet they often present steep barriers for novices due to complex toolchains and opaque workflows. Recently, agentic AI frameworks for cybersecurity promise…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Cathrin Schachner , Jasmin Wachter

This paper presents a modular, extensible and highly efficient open source framework for registration based tracking called Modular Tracking Framework (MTF). Targeted at robotics applications, it is implemented entirely in C++ and designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Abhineet Singh , Martin Jagersand