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Bioont : Improving Knowledge Organization And Representation In The Domain Of Biometric Authentication, Stephen Bryan Buerle

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

This dissertation explores some of the fundamental challenges facing the information assurance community as it relates to knowledge categorization, organization and representation within the field of information security and more specifically within the domain of biometric authentication. A primary objective of this research is the development of a biometric authentication corpus and an empirically derived ontological prototype, which aids and promotes further research into the fundamental ontological structure of the field of biometric authentication. In doing so this research explores the use of automated and semi-supervised ontological engineering, corpus analysis and natural language processes techniques in the development of this …