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I describe the challenges involved in designing and evaluating high assurance, verifiable voting systems. I describe the Pret a Voter scheme that provides voterverifiablity with minimal trust in officials, software etc. I also describe a number of threats against voting schemes and the extent to which they apply to the basic Pret a Voter scheme. Some enhancements to the scheme designed to count...

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Building trustworthy (dependable) systems is a major challenge faced by software developers. To this end, various fault tolerance mechanisms have been developed by researchers and used in industry. Unfortunately, more often than not these solutions ignore earlier development phases most importantly, the architecture design to exclusively focus on the implementation instead. This creates a dange...

Computational Criminology

In this report, we present our work done in spring 2011 on the UK crimes dataset. This dataset was first released in December 2010, and contains reports of crimes committed in England and Wales, with their type and location. We first perform some exploratory analysis on this data, by looking at the correlation of crime rates with some independent variables, such as the population density or the...

Biological Perspectives in Criminology

For several decades, mainstream criminology has been dominated by sociological and political perspectives. Although findings from these fields must not be discarded or underplayed, considered alone, they do not offer a complete assessment of the contributions to criminal behavior. Data currently being generated from numerous behavioral sciences, such as behavioral genetics, physiological psycho...

Psychiatry and Criminology