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Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
At the ATHENE Distinguished Lectures, we invite established national and international cybersecurity experts to give us insights into their latest research findings.
Distinguished Lectures are mostly held hybrid (on-site at Fraunhofer SIT in Darmstadt), so that there is also the possibility to meet and exchange with the key players in cybersecurity in person after the lecture with tasty snacks and drinks.
The language of the lecture is English.
ATHENE Distinguished Lecture Series are organized by Prof. Haya Shulman, ATHENE | Goethe University Frankfurt | Fraunhofer SIT.
On September 12, Konrad Rieck from TU Berlin will be our guest.
Title: When Papers Choose their Reviewers: Adversarial Machine Learning in Conference Management Systems
Abstract:
The number of papers submitted to scientific conferences is steadily rising in many disciplines. To handle this growth, systems for automatic paper-reviewer assignments are increasingly used during the reviewing process. These systems employ statistical topic models to characterize the papers' content and automate their assignment to reviewers. In this talk, we invesitgate the security of this automation and introduce a new attack that modifies a given paper so that it selects its own reviewers. Our attack is based on a novel optimization strategy that fools the topic model with unobtrusive changes to the paper's content. In an empirical evaluation with a (simulated) conference, our attack successfully selects and removes reviewers, while the tampered papers remain plausible and often indistinguishable from innocuous submissions.
Information on participating / attending:
Lectures are open to the public. Interested visitors are welcome to attend.
Please register at: www.athene-center.de/anmeldung-athene-lecture
Date:
09/12/2023 14:00 - 09/12/2023 15:00
Event venue:
hybrid: on-site at Fraunhofer SIT, Rheinstr. 75, Darmstadt / online via Zoom
64295 Darmstadt
Hessen
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars, Students
Email address:
Relevance:
transregional, national
Subject areas:
Information technology
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture
Entry:
04/11/2023
Sender/author:
Cornelia Reitz
Department:
Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event74052
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