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Alan Barnett
dblp:211/3712
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4ranked-venue papers
3as first author
4since 2021 · last 2025
0000-0001-9658-2380ORCID · corroborated
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Computer networks · 2 · 2 first-author · 2 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 2 · 1 first-author · 2 since 2021Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Network and information security
2 papers |
Blockchain and cryptocurrency security · 47% Cryptographic primitives and cryptanalysis · 41% Privacy and data protection · 12% | |
| Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
2 papers |
Distributed systems · 77% Cloud and datacenter computing · 23% |
Topics — the 5 heaviest of 6, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Cryptographic primitives and cryptanalysis
obfuscation |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Architecture for Confidential Digital Asset Transfer on Blockchain Through Obfuscation · ICNP 2023 |
Distributed systems
blockchain |
0.4 | 2 | 2024 | Safeguarding Blockchain and Dlts From Arbitrary and Malicious Content · ICNP 2024 Architecture for Confidential Digital Asset Transfer on Blockchain Through Obfuscation · ICNP 2023 |
Distributed systems › distributed database
distributed ledger |
0.2 | 1 | 2024 | Safeguarding Blockchain and Dlts From Arbitrary and Malicious Content · ICNP 2024 |
Privacy and data protection
anonymization |
0.2 | 1 | 2023 | Architecture for Confidential Digital Asset Transfer on Blockchain Through Obfuscation · ICNP 2023 |
Cloud and datacenter computing
data market |
0.2 | 1 | 2023 | Architecture for Confidential Digital Asset Transfer on Blockchain Through Obfuscation · ICNP 2023 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
resource description framework · 1.5natural language processing · 1.5time-delays · 1.3one-time users · 1.3batch requests · 1.3anonymization · 1.3
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Graph-Based Filtering to Prevent Prompt-Engineered LLM Training Data LeaksabstractMachine-learning generative Artificial Intelligence tools, specifically large-language models, provide varied functionality, like content generation, user-facing chatbots, and code generation. The LLM typically works with a decision engine, such as a neural network. LLMs suffer issues with training data poisoning, copyright of generated content, and this paper's focus; prompt engineering attacks and training data leaks. The authors propose an architecture to co-locate a filtering mechanism with the LLM chatbot to identify and preventing disclosure of leaked LLM training data before communication to the end-user. Implementation of a resource description framework (RDF) based filtering mechanism compares LLM outputs against a bank of training data using three approaches; the first uses a bank of hash-codes generated from training data artifacts, the second uses a bank of training data stored as plaintext, and the third couples natural language processing (NLP) with the plaintext training data bank. Accuracy, overhead and acceleration results are detailed, and observed anomalies in LLM responses to testing including plausible leaks are also discussed. Alan Barnett, Sean Ahearne, Paul Barry, Merry Globin, Colin Duggan |
SMARTCOMP | 1 |
| 2024 | Safeguarding Blockchain and Dlts From Arbitrary and Malicious ContentabstractPublic blockchains and distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) provide reliable distributed, decentralized datasharing, with consensus mechanisms and cryptographic security, data integrity, transparency and trust. Though this transparency and open access allows malicious actors to record arbitrary information to the DLT by exploiting free-form editable text fields in request headers or transaction bodies. The authors propose an architecture that runs external agents interfaced with blockchains, capable of filtering unwanted content to mitigate this threat. Implementation of a resource description framework (RDF) based verification mechanism for blockchain input fields, and an alternate approach using natural language processing (NLP) are then described. Finally, the efficiency and effectiveness of the solution is demonstrated on a blockchain deployment. Alan Barnett, Merry Globin, Tarek Zaarour, Sean Ahearne, Ahmed Khalid |
ICNP | 1 |
| 2023 | Architecture for Confidential Digital Asset Transfer on Blockchain Through ObfuscationabstractBlockchains and related applications continue to grow as an area of technology that can provide advantages over traditional approaches in certain use cases. One such area are data markets. Data market use cases include secure asset transactions, data lineage and data governance between multiple parties and involves data security, immutability, transparency. Data markets require strong privacy guarantees for digital asset procurement. The inherent properties of a blockchain can provide significant benefits in the data-market use case. In fact, there are many commercial platforms currently leveraging blockchain technologies for blockchain-based data markets. Leveraging blockchain for data market use cases creates the opportunity for new logical architectures to preserve privacy in the blockchain ecosystem. This publication proposes a multi-faceted solution for stronger privacy guarantees for digital asset procurement on blockchain-based data markets. An architecture will be detailed which provides better guarantees of privacy to those acquiring digital asserts from blockchain-based data markets by leveraging time-delays, batch requests, anonymization, and virtual “one-time” users to form a layer of obfuscation around requests. Alan Barnett, Matthew Keating, Sean Ahearne |
ICNP | 1 |
| 2022 | A Systematic Review of Data Management Platforms
Michael Boch, Stefan Gindl, Alan Barnett, George Margetis, Véctor Mireles, Emmanouil Adamakis, Petr Knoth |
WorldCIST (2) | 3 |