In an intrusion-resilient cryptosystem [10], two entities (a user and a base) jointly evolve a secret decryption key; this provides very strong protection against an active attacker who can break into the user and base repeatedly and even simultaneously. Recently, a construction of an intrusion-resilient public-key encryption scheme based on specific algebraic assumptions has been shown [6]. We...

Following Micali and Valiant [MV07.a], a mechanism is resilient if it achieves its objective without any problem of (1) equilibrium selection and (2) player collusion. To advance resilient mechanism design, • We put forward a new meaningful benchmark for the combined social welfare-revenue performance of any mechanism in truly combinatorial auctions. • We put forward a new notion of implementat...

Quorum-based mutual exclusion algorithms are resilient to node and communication line failures. In order to enter its critical section, a node must obtain permission from a quorum of nodes. A collection of quorums is called a coterie. The most resilient coteries are called nondominated coteries. Recently, k-coteries were proposed to be used in mutual exclusion algorithms that allow up to k entr...

This paper describes ongoing research to harden the lower part of the software stack, normally not covered by existing software-based fault-tolerance mechanisms. I discuss a combination of four techniques to harden the operating system kernel against hardware faults: resilient data structures, asynchronous checks, restartable OS services, and message protection. I present initial performance re...

In this paper we create indices of resilience to identify adolescents at risk of smoking, drinking alcohol, and using illegal drugs. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, three manifestations of resilience were identified: overall-resilience, self/family-resilience, and self-resilience. Our analysis reveals that the overall-resilient were less likely to engage in...

A common paradigm for a network service architecture is to provide a number of different services or applications in which all of them share resources; the routing framework provides the best path to all services. A simple twist to this basic notion is if we were to architect in a way to virtualize the network so that different services are clustered into different virtual, adaptive partitions ...

The challenge of providing a resilient and scalable computational and data management solution for massive scale research environments requires continuous exploration of new technologies and techniques. In this project the aim has been to design a scalable and resilient infrastructure for CERN HEP data analysis. The infrastructure is based on OpenStack components for structuring a private Cloud...

This paper reviews recent developments in the emerging field of resilient robots and the related robots that share common concerns with them, such as self-reconfigurable robots. This paper addresses the identity of the resilient robots by distinguishing the concept of resilience from other similar concepts and summarizes the strategies used by robots to recover their original function. By illus...

In Model-Driven Engineering, as in many engineering approaches, it is desireable to be able to assess the quality of a system or model as it evolves. A resilient engineering practice systematically assesses whether evolutions improve on the capabilities of a system. We argue that to achieve a systematic resilient model-driven engineering practice, resilience concepts should be first-class citiz...

Recent years have seen numerous examples when designs play an important role in the study of such topics in cryptography as secrecy and authentication codes, secret sharing schemes, correlation-immune and resilient functions. In this paper we give applications of some methods and results from the design theory, especially bounding the optimal size of the designs and codes, to cryptography. We g...