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Secure Interface Design Leveraging Hardware/Software Support

Computer systems rely heavily on abstraction to manage the exponential growth of complexity across hardware and software. Due to practical considerations of compatibility between components of these complex systems across generations, developers have favou ...

EPFL2024

Creating Trust by Abolishing Hierarchies

Adrien Ghosn, Edouard Bugnion, Evangelos Marios Kogias, Mathias Josef Payer, Charly Nicolas Lucien Castes, Yuchen Qian, Neelu Shivprakash Kalani

Software is going through a trust crisis. Privileged code is no longer trusted and processes insufficiently protect user code from unverified libraries. While usually treated separately, confidential computing and program compartmentalization are both symp ...

Association for Computing Machinery2023

Sustainability and Ethicality are Peripheral to Students’ Software Design

Pierluca Borsò, Siara Ruth Isaac, Bryan Alexander Ford, Aditi Kothiyal

The conceptual design phase is a fascinating moment to observe how a design task is interpreted, as the (often implicit) relative importance students accord to the various requirements and constraints offers a window into the thinking underpinning their de ...

Tempus Publications2023

The Theory, Practice, and Ethical Challenges of Designing a Diversity-Aware Platform for Social Relations

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Lakmal Buddika Meegahapola

Diversity-aware platform design is a paradigm that responds to the ethical challenges of existing social media platforms. Available platforms have been criticized for minimizing users' autonomy, marginalizing minorities, and exploiting users' data for prof ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

Chirok: a post-refinement tool to analyse absolute structure

Philip Pattison

Chirok is software for a post-refinement test of the absolute structure. The software allows a user to calculate a distribution of the measure of chirality based on intensity quotients and linked to the Flack parameter. The distribution is fitted by a set ...

2020

Protecting Mobile Food Diaries from Getting too Personal

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Lakmal Buddika Meegahapola

Smartphone applications that use passive sensing to support human health and well-being primarily rely on: (a) generating low-dimensional representations from high-dimensional data streams; (b) making inferences regarding user behavior; and (c) using those ...

Association for Computing Machinery2020

BioLocker: A Practical Biometric Authentication Mechanism based on 3D Fingervein

Serge Vaudenay, Loïs Evan Huguenin-Dumittan, Fatma Betül Durak

We design a consecution of protocols which allows organizations to have secure strong access control of their users to their desktop machines based on biometry. It provides both strong secure authentication and privacy. Moreover, our mechanism allows the s ...

Springer, Cham2020

Soft haptic device to render the sensation of flying like a drone

Dario Floreano, Carine Rognon

Haptic feedback located on the torso is proposed to enhance the state awareness of a user in virtual reality or during teleoperation while leaving the hands free for manipulation and communication. We provide haptic feedback on the torso by compressing a s ...

2019

Scaling Functional Synthesis and Repair

Emmanouil Koukoutos

Program synthesis was first proposed a few decades ago, but in the last decade it has gained increased momentum in the research community. The increasing complexity of software has dictated the urgent need for improved supporting tools that verify the soft ...

EPFL2019

Spherical Clustering of Users Navigating 360° Content

Pascal Frossard, Francesca De Simone, Laura Toni

In Virtual Reality (VR) applications, understanding how users explore the omnidirectional content is important to optimize content creation, to develop user-centric services, or even to detect disorders in medical applications. Clustering users based on th ...

IEEE2019

Placement of Virtual Containers on NUMA systems: A Practical and Comprehensive Model

Baptiste Joseph Eustache Lepers

Our work addresses the problem of placement of threads, or virtual cores, onto physical cores in a multicore NUMA system. Different placements result in varying degrees of contention for shared resources, so choosing the right placement can have a large ef ...

USENIX ASSOC2018

NeuroMorph: A Software Toolset for 3D Analysis of Neurite Morphology and Connectivity

Graham Knott, Jérôme Blanc, Anne Alison Jorstad

The geometries of axons, dendrites and their synaptic connections provide important information about their functional properties. These can be collected directly from measurements made on serial electron microscopy images. However, manual and automated se ...

2018

Towards a Solution to the Red Wedding Problem

Heather Christine Klug

Edge computing promises lower latency interactions for clients operating at the edge by shifting computation away from Data Centers to Points of Presence which are more abundant and located geographically closer to end users. However, most commercially ava ...

2018

Topics in Educational Cyber-Physical Labs : Configurations, Data Collection and Analysis

Wissam Halimi

Recent advances in remote sensing and actuation technologies, coupled with the large reach of the internet, allowed for the emergence of applications such as cyber-physical labs. Cyber-physical labs are the digital and remotely-accessible equivalent of the ...

EPFL2018

360-Degree Video Head Movement Dataset

Francesca De Simone, Xavier Corbillon

While Virtual Reality applications attract the attention of developers and business analysts, the behavior of users watching 360-degree videos with Head-Mounted Display (HMD) has still to be understood. This paper introduces a dataset of the head movements ...

2017

IntegrCiTy - D2.3 Report - Enabling and integrating a common IT structure: Definition of a back-end layer architecture

Luc Girardin, François Maréchal, Jessen Page, Gillian Jean Bernard Basso

The concept of the IntegrCiTy platform is built around the development of a single application as a suite of independent software: project partners will mutualize a certain number of tools that shall be integrated in the IntegrCiTy platform. Therefore, a r ...

IPESE-EPFL2017

Exogenous Coordination of Concurrent Software Components with JavaBIP

Radoslaw Szymanek, Simon Bliudze, Alina Zolotukhina, Anastasia Mavridou

A strong separation of concerns is necessary in order to make the design of domain-specific functional components independent from cross-cutting concerns, such as concurrent access to the shared resources of the execution platform. Native coordination mech ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

"If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them'': A Usability Approach to Interdependent Privacy in Cloud Apps

Karl Aberer, Hamza Harkous

Cloud storage services, like Dropbox and Google Drive, have growing ecosystems of 3rd party apps that are designed to work with users’ cloud files. Such apps often request full access to users’ files, including files shared with collaborators. Hence, whene ...

2017

Data-Driven Privacy Indicators

Karl Aberer, Hamza Harkous, Rameez Rahman

Third party applications work on top of existing platforms that host users’ data. Although these apps access this data to provide users with specific services, they can also use it for monetization or profiling purposes. In practice, there is a significant ...

2016

A roadmap for implementing new manufacturing technology based on STEP-NC

Ian Anthony Stroud

Manufacturing is changing. New ideas of control, the maturity of CAM techniques and computer technology have enabled the definition of an advanced machine tool control standard, STEP-NC. STEP-NC is one part of a larger manufacturing picture with links to d ...

Springer2016

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