Conference Papers

Transit-Gym: A Simulation and Evaluation Engine for Analysis of Bus Transit Systems

Public-transit systems face a number of operational challenges: (a) changing ridership patterns requiring optimization of fixed line services, (b) optimizing vehicle-to-trip …

Ruixiao Sun
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Efficient Data Management for Intelligent Urban Mobility Systems

Modern intelligent urban mobility applications are underpinned by large-scale, multivariate, spatiotemporal data streams. Working with this data presents unique challenges of data …

Michael Wilbur
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Selfish Mining Attacks Exacerbated by Elastic Hash Supply

Several attacks have been proposed against Proof-of-Work blockchains, which may increase the attacker’s share of mining rewards (e.g., selfish mining, block withholding). A further …

Yoko Shibuya
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Minimizing Energy Use of Mixed-Fleet Public Transit for Fixed-Route Service

Affordable public transit services are crucial for communities since they enable residents to access employment, education, and other services. Unfortunately, transit services that …

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Amutheezan Sivagnanam
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Adversarial Deep Reinforcement Learning based Adaptive Moving Target Defense

Moving target defense (MTD) is a proactive defense approach that aims to thwart attacks by continuously changing the attack surface of a system (e.g., changing host or network …

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Taha Eghtesad
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Vyper: A Security Comparison with Solidity Based on Common Vulnerabilities

Vyper has been proposed as a new high-level language for Ethereum smart contract development due to numerous security vulnerabilities and attacks witnessed on contracts written in …

Mudabbir Kaleem
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Equilibrium of Blockchain Miners with Dynamic Asset Allocation

We model and analyze blockchain miners who seek to maximize the compound return of their mining businesses. The analysis of the optimal strategies finds a new equilibrium point …

Go Yamamoto
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Data-Driven Prediction of Route-Level Energy Use for Mixed-Vehicle Transit Fleets

Due to increasing concerns about environmental impact, operating costs, and energy security, public transit agencies are seeking to reduce their fuel use by employing electric …

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Afiya Ayman
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Mechanisms for Outsourcing Computation via a Decentralized Market

As the number of personal computing and IoT devices grows rapidly, so does the amount of computational power that is available at the edge. Since many of these devices are often …

Scott Eisele
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Cyber-Attacks and Mitigation in Blockchain Based Transactive Energy Systems

Power grids are undergoing major changes due to the rapid adoption of intermittent renewable energy resources and the increased availability of energy storage devices. These trends …

Carlos Barreto
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