Giuseppe Persiano - Böcker

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Cyber Security, Cryptology, and Machine Learning, CSCML 2024, held in Be'er Sheva, Israel, during December 19–20, 2024. The 16 full papers and 11 short papers presented here were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security, CANS 2016, held in Milan, Italy, in November 2016. The 30 full papers presented together with 18 short papers and 8 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 116 submissions.

The Third International Conference on Security in Communication Networks 2002 (SCN 2002) was held in the Salone Morelli of the Civic Museum of Amal?, Italy, September 11-13, 2002. The conference takes place every three years (p- vious ones were held in 1996 and 1999 in Amal? too) and aims to bring together researchers in the ?eld of security in communication networks to foster coop- ation and the exchange of ideas. The main topics included all technical aspects of data security including: anonymity implementation, authentication, key distribution, block ciphers, - erating systems security, complexity-based cryptography, privacy, cryptanalysis, protocols, digital signatures, public key encryption, electronic money, public key infrastructure, hash functions, secret sharing, identi?cation, surveys, and the state of the art. The program committee received 90 submissions in electronic format from 5 continents of which 24 were selected for presentation in 8 sessions.We had two invited talks, one by Eyal Kushilevitz from the Technion, Israel on "Some ApplicationsofPolynomialsfortheDesignofCryptographicProtocols,"andthe other by Ueli Maurer from ETH, Zurich, on "Secure Multi-Party Computation Made Simple." Due to the high number of submissions, the reviewing phase was a very challenging process, and many good submissions had to be rejected. We are very grateful to all the program committee members, assisted by their colleagues, who devoted much e?ort and valuable time to read and select the papers.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms, WAOA 2004, held in Bergen, Norway in September 2004.The 21 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from 47 submissions. WAOA is devoted to the design and analysis of algorithms for online and computationally hard problems. Among the topics addressed are applications to game theory, approximation classes, coloring and partitioning, competitive analysis, computational finance, cuts and connectivity, geometric computations, inapproximability results, mechanism design, network design, routing, packing and covering, paradigms, randomization techniques, and scheduling problems.

The third Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms (WAOA 2005) focused on the design and analysis of algorithms for online and computationally hard problems. Both kinds of problems have a large number of applications from a variety of ?elds. WAOA 2005 took place in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on 6–7 October 2005. The workshop was part of the ALGO 2005 event that also hosted ESA, WABI, and ATMOS. The two previous WAOA workshops were held in Budapest (2003) and Rome (2004). Topics of interest for WAOA 2005 were: algorithmic game theory, appro- mation classes, coloring and partitioning, competitive analysis, computational ?nance, cuts and connectivity, geometric problems, inapproximability results, mechanism design, network design, packing and covering, paradigms, rand- izationtechniques,real-worldapplications,andschedulingproblems.Inresponse to the call for papers we received 68 submissions. Each submission was reviewed by at least three referees, and the vast majority by at least four referees. The submissions were mainly judged on originality, technical quality, and relevance to the topics of the conference. Based on the reviews, the Program Committee selected 26 papers. We are grateful to Andrei Voronkov for providing the EasyChair conference system,whichwasusedtomanagetheelectronicsubmissions,thereviewprocess, and the electronic PC meeting. It made our task much easier. We would also like to thank all the authors who submitted papers to WAOA 2005 as well as the local organizers of ALGO 2005.

The papers in this volume were presented at the 5th Italian Conference on AlgorithmsandComplexity(CIAC2003). Theconferencetookplaceduring May 28-30, 2003, in Rome, Italy, at the Conference Centre of the University of Rome "La Sapienza. " CIAC started in 1990 as a national meeting to be held every three years for Italian researchers in algorithms, data structures, complexity theory, and parallelanddistributedcomputing. Duetoasigni?cantparticipationofforeign researchers, starting from the second edition, CIAC evolved into an international conference. However,alltheeditionsofCIAChavebeenheldinRome. The proceedings of CIAC were published by World Scienti?c for the ?rst edition and by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (volumes 778,1203and1767)forthesubsequenteditions. Aselectionofthepapersofthe fourth edition was published in a special issue of Theoretical Computer Science Vol. 285(1),2002. Thisyearweexpecttopublishanextendedversionofselected papers presented at the conference in a special issue of the journal Theory of Computing Systems.In response to the call for papers for CIAC 2003, 57 papers were subm- ted, from which the Program Committee selected 23 papers for presentation at theconferencefrom18countries. Eachpaperwasevaluatedbyatleastthree Program Committee members with the help of 63 external reviewers. In addition to the selected papers, the Organizing Committee invited CharlesE. Leiserson(Cambridge),DavidPeleg(Rehovot),MichaelO. Rabin (CambridgeandJerusalem),JohnE. Savage(Providence),andLucaTrevisan (Berkeley)togiveplenarylecturesattheconference. Moreover,threetutorials byDavidPeleg,JaymeL. Szwarc?ter(RiodeJaneiro)andLucaTrevisanwere o?ered in the days preceding the conference. We wish to express our appreciation to all the authors of the submitted - pers, to the Program Committee members and the referees, to the Organizing Committee, and to the plenary and tutorial lecturers who accepted our in- tation.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory, SAGT 2011, held in Amalfi, Italy, in October 2011. The 26 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on auctions and advertising, quality of solutions, externalities, mechanism design, complexity, network games, pricing, as well as routing games.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms, WAOA 2011, held in Saarbrücken, Germany, in September 2011. The 21 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. The volume also contains an extended abstract of the invited talk of Prof. Klaus Jansen. The Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms focuses on the design and analysis of algorithms for online and computationally hard problems. Both kinds of problems have a large number of applicationsin a wide variety of fields. Topics of interest for WAOA 2011 were: algorithmic game theory, approximation classes, coloring and partitioning, competitive analysis, computational finance, cuts and connectivity, geometric problems, inapproximability results, mechanism design, network design, packing and covering, paradigms for design and analysis of approximation and online algorithms, parameterized complexity, randomization techniques and scheduling problems.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post workshop proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms, WAOA 2012, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in September 2012 as part of the ALGO 2012 conference event.The 22 revised full papers presented together with invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The workshop covered areas such as geometric problems, online algorithms, scheduling, algorithmic game theory, and approximation algorithms.

Thetwo-volume set LNCS 9614 and 9615 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19thIACR International Conference on the Practiceand Theory in Public-Key Cryptography, PKC 2016, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in March2016.The34 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 143submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: CCA security,functional encryption, identity-based encryption, signatures, cryptanalysis,leakage-resilient and circularly secure encryption, protocols, and primitives.