The allocation of risks among the contracting parties in a contract is an important decision affecting the project success. Some risks in a project are uncontrollable; these are imposed to a project by external factors. Since contracting parties can neither control nor affect the occurrence of such risks, their allocation to a party would be inequitable. Therefore the cost overrun related to un...

Learning from data owned by several parties, as in federated learning, raises challenges regarding the privacy guarantees provided to participants and correctness of computation presence malicious parties. We tackle these context distributed averaging, an essential building block learning algorithms. Our first contribution is a scalable protocol which exchange correlated Gaussian noise along ed...

At STOC ’87, Goldreich et al. presented two protocols for secure multi-party computation (MPC) among n parties: The first protocol provides passive security against t < n corrupted parties. The second protocol provides even active security, but only against t < n/2 corrupted parties. Although these protocols provide security against the provably highest possible number of corruptions, each of t...

At STOC ’87, Goldreich et al. presented two protocols for secure multi-party computation (MPC) among n parties: The first protocol provides passive security against t < n corrupted parties. The second protocol provides even active security, but only against t < n/2 corrupted parties. Although these protocols provide security against the provably highest possible number of corruptions, each of t...

?2.25 45s Philosophical discussions of responsibility , freedom of the will and such subjects seem often to stand at an enormous distance from the more immediate problems of psychiatry and the law. That they should stand at some distance is inevitable and no bad thing, but to keep them too far apart for too long has, among other bad effects, the rather paradoxical one of making both parties con...

Upcoming WiFi-based localization systems for indoor environments face a conflict of privacy interests: Server-side localization violates location privacy of the users, while localization on the user’s device forces the localization provider to disclose the details of the system, e.g., sophisticated classification models. We show how Secure Two-Party Computation can be used to reconcile privacy ...

Psychologists may struggle with what to do when counselling recalcitrant HIV-positive clients who refuse to disclose to third parties at risk. This paper revisits the legal and ethical quagmire that pits "dangerous patient exception" against client confidentiality rights. W i t h the notion that hope leads to more ethical behaviour, this paper further elucidates the significance of maintaining ...

The creative design process is often characterised by high task uncertainty and tight dependency on other functions both within a firm and with external parties. Coordination thus plays a key role in integrating different functions related to the design process in attaining a common objective of delivering products to end customers. This paper examines coordination mechanisms and their determin...

This is a personal perspective of the implementation of a distance learning project in a Kuwaiti organization. This paper reflects the involvement of the author in the project and explores the reasons behind the failure of the first phase of the project. The absence of a strong pedagogical reason for such a project, the erasure of faculty and students' voices, and the failure to recognize that ...