Commitment schemes represent foundational cryptographic primitives enabling secure verification protocols across diverse applications, from blockchain systems to zero-knowledge proofs. This paper presents a systematic survey of vector, polynomial, an...
Many public key cryptosystems in use today run the risk of being broken as quantum computing develops, affecting the security of popular commercial applications. Although there are possible defenses against quantum assaults, their complexity and inef...
Research on quantum computers has advanced significantly in recent years. If humanity ever creates an effective quantum computer, many of the present public key cryptosystems can be compromised. These cryptosystems are currently found in many commerc...
An aggregatable subvector commitment scheme extends a vector commitment scheme by enabling the aggregation of multiple proofs into a single compact subvector proof. However, the existing schemes have to recompute proofs for each position when inserti...
Nowadays, quantum computing is developing at an unprecedented speed. This will pose a serious threat to the security of widely used public-key cryptosystems in the near future. Scientists are actively looking for ways to protect against quantum attac...
Polynomial commitment schemes (PCS) enable a prover to commit to a polynomial and later reveal evaluations with succinct, verifiable proofs. As critical components of modern cryptographic systems like Verkle trees and zk-SNARKs, these methods are exp...
The rapid development of quantum computing poses challenges to the foundations of traditional cryptography. The threats are significant in terms of both asymmetric cryptography (which exposes schemes like RSA and ECC to efficient attacks) and symmetr...
IoT sensor deployments increasingly export measurement streams to edge gateways and content-addressed storage such as IPFS, but access control decisions must be enforced without disclosing sensor owner policies, requester attributes, or stale data ve...
Software evolution is driven by changes made during software development and maintenance. While source control systems effectively manage these changes at the commit level, the intent behind them are often inadequately documented, making understandin...
An implementation that passes internal round-trip tests may still produce artifacts that another library cannot consume. We present an auditable workflow for selected-vector conformance and raw-artifact interoperability testing of ML-KEM and ML-DSA i...
Modern SNARKs are constructed using polynomial Interactive Oracle Proofs (IOPs) and polynomial commitments. In this work, we introduce a novel polynomial holographic IOP for the
As mobile internet and Internet of Things technologies rapidly advance, the amount of spatio-temporal big data have surged, and efficient and secure management solutions are urgently needed. Although cloud storage provides convenience, it also brings...
As AI systems approach and surpass human ability across more and more tasks, we ask a deliberately pessimistic question: if a far more capable AI turned adversarial, are there still games a human could win, and how? We give a game-theoretic answer. T...
In the realm of software development, quality reigns supreme, but the ever-present danger of vulnerabilities threatens to undermine this fundamental principle. Insufficient early vulnerability identification is a key factor in releasing numerous apps...
This paper resists the virality of contemporary paranoia by turning to “French epistemology”, a philosophical ethos that embraces uncertainty and complexity by registering the transformative impact of scientific knowledge on thought. Desp...
Electric load forecasting is an important issue for a power utility, associated with the management of daily operations such as energy transfer scheduling, unit commitment, and load dispatch. Inspired by strong non-linear learning capability of suppo...
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Vector-borne diseases (VBDs) account for more than 17% of all infectious diseases, causing over 700,000 deaths annually, particularly among the poorest populations in tropical and subtropical areas. Climate change, particularly global warming, and ce...
This article analyses the Polish banking sector’s involvement with sustainable development through a multidimensional evaluation applying the technique for order preference by similarity ideal solution (TOPSIS) method with different weight vect...
Chagas disease, caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, remains a significant public health challenge, particularly in Latin America, where it is one of the most neglected diseases and is primarily transmitted by triatomine insects. The disease exhibits complex...
Rabies is an acute, fatal viral disease that infects domestic and wild animals and is transmissible to humans. Worldwide, rabies kills over 55,000 people every year. The domestic dog plays a pivotal role in rabies transmission. Domestic dogs are not...
Machine learning (ML) is efficiently disrupting and modernizing cities in terms of service quality for mobility, security, robotics, healthcare, electricity, finance, etc. Despite their undeniable success, ML algorithms need crucial computational eff...
This study aims to analyze the nexus between CO2 emissions, urbanization, and economic activity, as well as identify whether the pollution haven hypothesis is proven in Indonesia. It utilized time series data of Indonesia during the 1971–2019 p...
Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) presents a significant challenge to the fairness and efficiency of decentralized finance (DeFi). This paper provides a game-theoretic analysis of the strategic interactions within the MEV supply chain, involving search...
Unit Commitment (UC) is a complicated integrational optimization method used in power systems. There is previous knowledge about the generation that has to be committed among the available ones to satisfy the load demand, reduce the generation cost a...
Sleep-deprived fatigued person is likely to commit more errors that may even prove to be fatal. Thus, it is necessary to recognize this fatigue. The novelty of the proposed research work for the detection of this fatigue is that it is nonintrusive an...
Financial inclusion is a fundamental and multidimensional matter that has acquired importance on the global agenda in recent years. In addition, it is still a source of great interest and concern for lawmakers, international organizations, scholars,...
Electric load forecasting is an important issue for a power utility, associated with the management of daily operations such as energy transfer scheduling, unit commitment, and load dispatch. Inspired by strong non-linear learning capability of suppo...
We present a trusted-dealer Learning with Errors (LWE)-based threshold key-management framework that separates the public-key layer from threshold-share maintenance. The coordinator generates one LWE public key
Ground, as a body incised by natural and human actions (European Landscape Convention), carries “stories”, going beyond quantitative values. As in a text, it holds the keys to understand what it covers or hides. In its thickness, it shelt...
This study examines the rapid growth of energy demand in Paraguay, primarily driven by intensive air conditioning use and reduced hydroelectric output due to adverse Paraná River conditions. Employing a Vector Autoregressive (VAR) model, we qu...
The European Union has committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 and green hydrogen has been chosen as a priority vector for reaching that goal. Accordingly, Portugal has drafted a National Hydrogen Strategy laying out the various steps for th...
Mission-oriented UAV networks operate in nonsecure, complex environments with time-varying network partitioning and node trustworthiness. UAV networks are thus essentially asynchronous distributed systems with the Byzantine General problem, whose ava...
Psychiatric illnesses are estimated to account for over 15% of the burden of disease, which is more than all kinds of cancer together. Since mental disease is often preceded by issues in emotion processing, a method to objectively measure emotions in...
At the present time, power-system planning and management is facing the major challenge of integrating renewable energy resources (RESs) due to their intermittent nature. To address this problem, a highly accurate renewable energy generation forecast...
Human adipose-derived stem cells (hADSCs) are multipotent mesenchymal cells that can differentiate into adipocytes, chondrocytes, and osteocytes. During osteoblastogenesis, the osteoprogenitor cells differentiate into mature osteoblasts and synthesiz...
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is the common hope for HIV/AIDS-treated patients. Total commitments from individuals and the entire community are the major challenges faced during treatment. This study investigated the progress of ART in the Federal Tea...
Online frauds have pernicious impacts on different system domains, including waste management systems. Fraudsters illegally obtain rewards for their recycling activities or avoid penalties for those who are required to recycle their own waste. Althou...
Bovine babesiosis is a reportable transboundary animal disease caused by Babesia bovis and Babesiabigemina in the Americas where these apicomplexan protozoa are transmitted by the invasive cattle fever ticks Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus and Rh...
The importance of a sound and stable financial system and by extension economic stability was brought to the fore by the global financial crisis (GFC). The economic and social costs of the GFC have renewed the commitment of stakeholders in the financ...
This article reports an OMNeT++ 6.3.0/INET 4.5.4 implementation of the TA-BI (trust-aware behavioral intelligence) observation-to-decision contract. Typed records separate current node Behavioral Information (BI), reported NeighborBI, historical node...
Understanding the molecular and physiological processes underlying biting behavior in vector mosquitoes has important implications for developing novel strategies to suppress disease transmission. Here, we conduct small-RNA sequencing and qRT-PCR to...
Implementing the Circular Economy (CE) is largely a mirage. There are some political decisions translated into penalties and/or incentives to try to adjust the “optimal” level of circularity. The consumer’s desire to purchase circul...
In recent years, the escalating environmental challenges have contributed to a rising incidence of cancer. The precise anticipation of cancer incidence and mortality rates has emerged as a pivotal focus in scientific inquiry, exerting a profound impa...
Indonesia’s dependence on fossil fuel exports, particularly coal and crude oil, presents a dual challenge: sustaining economic growth while addressing rising CO2 emissions. Despite significant attention to domestic energy consumption, the envir...
Recent developments have emphasized the global impacts of climate change and have renewed commitments in renewable energy and energy meteorology. Wind energy depends largely on prevailing meteorological conditions on both local and large scales, thus...
Active medical devices rely on a source of energy that is applied to the human body for specific purposes such as electrosurgery, ultrasounds for breaking up kidney stones (lithotripsy), laser irradiation, and other medical techniques and procedures...
The Prague Circle, under the leadership of Max Brod (1884–1968), was a prominent literary group that flourished from 1900 to 1939. This era witnessed a struggle between emancipation and assimilation for German-speaking Jews within the Habsburg...
The efficient development and widespread utilization of clean energy hold global significance, particularly for developing countries like China, which has committed to carbon peak and neutrality targets. In this context, the financial sector plays a...
This paper explores the relative stock market performance of well-diversified gender equality equity indices in comparison with the overall market, taking both a cross-sectoral and a financial sector approach, for the period January 2017 to March 202...
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Given its associated burden of disease, climate change in South Africa could be reframed as predominately a health issue, one necessitating an urgent health-sector response. The growing impact of climate change has major implications for South Africa...
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