Ben A. Kybartas

13 papers C 5Misc 2Journal 4Unranked 2

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2020	—	`conf`	A Sketch-Based Tool for Authoring and Analyzing Emergent Narratives. AIIDE Ben A. Kybartas, Clark Verbrugge, Jonathan Lessard
2020	J	`jnl`	Tension Space Analysis for Emergent Narrative. CoRR Ben A. Kybartas, Clark Verbrugge, Jonathan Lessard
2018	C	`conf`	Expressive Range Analysis of a Possible Worlds Driven Emergent Narrative System. ICIDS Ben A. Kybartas, Clark Verbrugge, Jonathan Lessard
2017	J	`jnl`	A Survey on Story Generation Techniques for Authoring Computational Narratives. IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games Ben A. Kybartas, Rafael Bidarra
2017	J	`jnl`	A Therapy System for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Using a Virtual Agent and Virtual Storytelling to Reconstruct Traumatic Memories. J. Medical Syst. Myrthe Tielman, Mark A. Neerincx, Rafael Bidarra, Ben A. Kybartas, Willem-Paul Brinkman
2017	C	`conf`	Subject and Subjectivity: A Conversational Game Using Possible Worlds. ICIDS Ben A. Kybartas, Clark Verbrugge, Jonathan Lessard
2015	C	`conf`	A Semantic Foundation for Mixed-Initiative Computational Storytelling. ICIDS Ben A. Kybartas, Rafael Bidarra
2015	—	`conf`	An audio game for training navigation skills of blind children. SIVE@VR Kevin Allain, Bas Dado, Mick Van Gelderen, Olivier Hokke, Miguel Oliveira, Rafael Bidarra, Nikolay D. Gaubitch, Richard C. Hendriks, Ben A. Kybartas
2015	C	`conf`	Tracery: An Author-Focused Generative Text Tool. ICIDS Kate Compton, Ben A. Kybartas, Michael Mateas
2014	J	`jnl`	Analysis of ReGEN as a Graph-Rewriting System for Quest Generation. IEEE Trans. Comput. Intell. AI Games Ben A. Kybartas, Clark Verbrugge
2014	Misc	`conf`	BloxAR: augment your social life! CHI PLAY Niels C. Bakker, Jehan R. S. da Camara, Maarten van Elsas, Leon J. Helsloot, Gert Spek, Isha J. van Baar, Rafael Bidarra, Ben A. Kybartas
2014	C	`conf`	Integrating semantics and narrative world generation. FDG Ben A. Kybartas, Rafael Bidarra, Elmar Eisemann
2014	Misc	`conf`	Taxi trouble: communication is key. CHI PLAY Rob van Bekkum, Thijs L. M. Brands, Soheil S. Jahanshahi, Aidan C. A. Mauricio, Joost J. E. Oorschot van, Fanny Lie, Ben A. Kybartas, Rafael Bidarra

Nicolò Altamura is a security engineer and computer science researcher specializing in software protection, reverse engineering, program analysis, and binary deobfuscation. He holds a master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Verona, graduating with honors, and works at emproof, focusing on software protection and the challenges of analyzing and understanding compiled software.

His research explores the relationship between program analysis and code obfuscation, with particular emphasis on how software transformations affect the ability of automated tools to recover program behavior. His interests span static analysis, binary analysis, decompilation, reverse engineering, and techniques for analyzing and simplifying obfuscated code.

Beyond academic research, Nicolò develops and contributes to tools for reverse engineering and software analysis. His projects include obfuscation_analysis, a Binary Ninja plugin for analyzing and simplifying obfuscated code; Pocket, an obfuscator for mixed Boolean-arithmetic expressions; and ptxNinja, a tool for reverse engineering NVIDIA GPU code represented in the PTX virtual instruction set.

His research also extends to binary datasets and software evolution. In 2026, he co-authored ASSEMBLAGE-DEEPHISTORY: A Cross-Build Binary Dataset with Temporal Coverage, a research work addressing the availability of binary data across multiple software builds and points in time, supporting research into binary analysis and changes between program versions.

Across his research, engineering work, and open-source contributions, Nicolò focuses on advancing the understanding, analysis, and protection of software against increasingly sophisticated obfuscation and reverse-engineering challenges.

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