The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the interconnection of smart devices to collect data and
make intelligent decisions. However, a lack of intrinsic security measures makes IoT …

Trading based on distributed optimization is becoming a world-wide trend in energy
markets. Without proper trading mechanism design, however, participants might act …

One of the most innovative aspects of blockchain technology consists in the introduction of
an incentive layer to regulate the behavior of distributed protocols. The designer of a …

Decentralized training of large language models has emerged as an effective way to
democratize this technology. However, the potential threats associated with this approach …

The Internet of Things (IoT) became widely utilized during last years, due to the large
number of object that are connected to it-not only computers, but also humans, sensors and …

Baryshnikov presented a remarkable algebraic topology proof of Arrow's impossibility
theorem trying to understand the underlying reason behind the numerous proofs of this …

Many applications, such as content moderation and recommendation, require reviewing and
scoring a large number of alternatives. Doing so robustly is however very challenging …

This paper investigates the multi-valued fault-tolerant distributed consensus problem that
pursues exact output. To this end, the voting validity, which requires the consensus output of …

In Byzantine Agreement (BA), there is a set of $ n $ parties, from which up to $ t $ can act
byzantine. All honest parties must eventually decide on a common value (agreement), which …

Much discussion exists about what is computation, but less about is a computational
problem. Turing's definition of computation was based on computing functions. When we …