SIFT is awarded a 3-year research contract by the Office of Naval Research. The project is entitled "HACKAR: Helpful Advice and Coding Knowledge for Attack Resistance." The HACKAR project will be a new approach to proactive analysis, detection, and diagnosis of vulnerabilities in functions and modules at development time. HACKAR will help programmers by providing advice and coding knowledge for addressing potential vulnerabilities in their code, so that programmers can be aware of these threats and fix them before the code is deployed. HACKAR will use automated, proactive testing techniques to find inputs that lead to potential vulnerabilities and couple these techniques with models and algorithms for workflow generation and reasoning. For more information, please contact Ugur Kuter at ukutersift [dot] net.

SIFT Researcher Dr. Ugur Kuter has recently collaborated with University of Maryland, College Park and Naval Research Labs at Washington DC. in a total of three papers on novel AI planning formalisms and algorithms in classical and dynamic, multi-agent domains. These works will be published and presented at the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent System (AAMAS-12).