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Anonymous And Authenticated Key Exchange For Roaming Networks, Guomin Yang, Duncan S. Wong, Xiaotie Deng Sep 2007

Anonymous And Authenticated Key Exchange For Roaming Networks, Guomin Yang, Duncan S. Wong, Xiaotie Deng

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

User privacy is a notable security issue in wireless communications. It concerns about user identities from being exposed and user movements and whereabouts from being tracked. The concern of user privacy is particularly signified in systems which support roaming when users are able to hop across networks administered by different operators. In this paper, we propose a novel construction approach of anonymous and authenticated key exchange protocols for a roaming user and a visiting server to establish a random session key in such a way that the visiting server authenticates the user's home server without knowing exactly who the user …


Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization For Recursive Supervised Learning With Clustering, Kiruthika Ramanathan, Sheng Uei Guan Sep 2007

Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization For Recursive Supervised Learning With Clustering, Kiruthika Ramanathan, Sheng Uei Guan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The idea of using a team of weak learners to learn a dataset is a successful one in literature. In this paper, we explore a recursive incremental approach to ensemble learning. In this paper, patterns are clustered according to the output space of the problem, i.e., natural clusters are formed based on patterns belonging to each class. A combinatorial optimization problem is therefore formed, which is solved using evolutionary algorithms. The evolutionary algorithms identify the "easy" and the "difficult" clusters in the system. The removal of the easy patterns then gives way to the focused learning of the more complicated …


Toward Automating Ea Configuration: The Parent Selection Stage, Ekaterina Smorodkina, Daniel R. Tauritz Sep 2007

Toward Automating Ea Configuration: The Parent Selection Stage, Ekaterina Smorodkina, Daniel R. Tauritz

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

One of the obstacles to Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) fulfilling their promise as easy to use general-purpose problem solvers, is the difficulty of correctly configuring them for specific problems such as to obtain satisfactory performance. Having a mechanism for automatically configuring parameters and operators of every stage of the evolutionary life-cycle would give EAs a more widely spread popularity in the non-expert community. This paper investigates automatic configuration of one of the stages of the evolutionary life-cycle, the parent selection, via a new concept of semi-autonomous parent selection, where mate selection operators are encoded and evolved as in Genetic Programming. We …


Ontology-Enriched Semantic Space For Video Search, Xiao-Yong Wei, Chong-Wah Ngo Sep 2007

Ontology-Enriched Semantic Space For Video Search, Xiao-Yong Wei, Chong-Wah Ngo

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Multimedia-based ontology construction and reasoning have recently been recognized as two important issues in video search, particularly for bridging semantic gap. The lack of coincidence between low-level features and user expectation makes concept-based ontology reasoning an attractive midlevel framework for interpreting high-level semantics. In this paper, we propose a novel model, namely ontology-enriched semantic space (OSS), to provide a computable platform for modeling and reasoning concepts in a linear space. OSS enlightens the possibility of answering conceptual questions such as a high coverage of semantic space with minimal set of concepts, and the set of concepts to be developed for …


Deception In Cyberspace: A Comparison Of Text-Only Vs. Avatar-Supported Medium, Holtjona Galanxhi, Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah Sep 2007

Deception In Cyberspace: A Comparison Of Text-Only Vs. Avatar-Supported Medium, Holtjona Galanxhi, Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The use of anthropomorphic avatars provides Internet users the opportunity and freedom to manipulate their identity. As cyberspace becomes a haven for deceptive behavior, human–computer interaction research will need to be carried out to study and understand these deceptive behaviors. The objective of this research is to investigate the behavior of deceivers and non-deceivers (or truth-tellers) in the cyberspace environment. We examine if the intention to deceive others influences one's choice of avatars in the online chat environment. We also investigate if communication medium (text-only vs. avatar-supported chat) influences one's perception of trustworthiness of the communication partner. A lab experiment …


The Future Of Information Systems Engineering, Keng Siau Sep 2007

The Future Of Information Systems Engineering, Keng Siau

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

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Temporal Factors To Evaluate Trustworthiness Of Virtual Identities, Luca Longo, Pierpaolo Dondio, Stephen Barrett Sep 2007

Temporal Factors To Evaluate Trustworthiness Of Virtual Identities, Luca Longo, Pierpaolo Dondio, Stephen Barrett

Conference papers

In this paper we investigate how temporal factors (i.e. factors computed by considering only the time-distribution of interactions) can be used as an evidence of an entity’s trustworthiness. While reputation and direct experience are the two most widely used sources of trust in applications, we believe that new sources of evidence and new applications should be investigated [1]. Moreover, while these two classical techniques are based on evaluating the outcomes of interactions (direct or indirect), temporal factors are based on quantitative analysis, representing an alternative way of assessing trust. Our presumption is that, even with this limited information, temporal factors …


Cross-Language And Cross-Media Image Retrieval: An Empirical Study At Imageclef2007, Steven C. H. Hoi Sep 2007

Cross-Language And Cross-Media Image Retrieval: An Empirical Study At Imageclef2007, Steven C. H. Hoi

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This paper summarizes our empirical study of cross-language and cross-media image retrieval at the CLEF image retrieval track (ImageCLEF2007). In this year, we participated in the ImageCLEF photo retrieval task, in which the goal of the retrieval task is to search natural photos by some query with both textual and visual information. In this paper, we study the empirical evaluations of our solutions for the image retrieval tasks in three aspects. First of all, we study the application of language models and smoothing strategies for text-based image retrieval, particularly addressing the short text query issue. Secondly, we study the cross-media …


Reliability Modeling For The Advanced Electric Power Grid, Ayman Z. Faza, Sahra Sedigh, Bruce M. Mcmillin Sep 2007

Reliability Modeling For The Advanced Electric Power Grid, Ayman Z. Faza, Sahra Sedigh, Bruce M. Mcmillin

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The advanced electric power grid promises a self-healing infrastructure using distributed, coordinated, power electronics control. One promising power electronics device, the Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS), can modify power flow locally within a grid. Embedded computers within the FACTS devices, along with the links connecting them, form a communication and control network that can dynamically change the power grid to achieve higher dependability. The goal is to reroute power in the event of transmission line failure. Such a system, over a widespread area, is a cyber-physical system. The overall reliability of the grid is a function of the respective reliabilities …


Practical Elimination Of Near-Duplicates From Web Video Search, Xiao Wu, Alexander G. Hauptmann, Chong-Wah Ngo Sep 2007

Practical Elimination Of Near-Duplicates From Web Video Search, Xiao Wu, Alexander G. Hauptmann, Chong-Wah Ngo

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Current web video search results rely exclusively on text keywords or user-supplied tags. A search on typical popular video often returns many duplicate and near-duplicate videos in the top results. This paper outlines ways to cluster and filter out the nearduplicate video using a hierarchical approach. Initial triage is performed using fast signatures derived from color histograms. Only when a video cannot be clearly classified as novel or nearduplicate using global signatures, we apply a more expensive local feature based near-duplicate detection which provides very accurate duplicate analysis through more costly computation. The results of 24 queries in a data …


Rushes Video Summarization By Object And Event Understanding, Feng Wang, Chong-Wah Ngo Sep 2007

Rushes Video Summarization By Object And Event Understanding, Feng Wang, Chong-Wah Ngo

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This paper explores a variety of visual and audio analysis techniques in selecting the most representative video clips for rushes summarization at TRECVID 2007. These techniques include object detection, camera motion estimation, keypoint matching and tracking, audio classification and speech recognition. Our system is composed of two major steps. First, based on video structuring, we filter undesirable shots and minimize the inter-shot redundancy by repetitive shot detection. Second, a representability measure is proposed to model the presence of objects and four audio-visual events: motion activity of objects, camera motion, scene changes, and speech content, in a video clip. The video …


Context-Based Detection Of Clone-Related Bugs, Lingxiao Jiang, Zhendong Su, Edwin Chiu Sep 2007

Context-Based Detection Of Clone-Related Bugs, Lingxiao Jiang, Zhendong Su, Edwin Chiu

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Studies show that programs contain much similar code, commonly known as clones. One of the main reasons for introducing clones is programmers' tendency to copy and paste code to quickly duplicate functionality. We commonly believe that clones can make programs difficult to maintain and introduce subtle bugs. Although much research has proposed techniques for detecting and removing clones to improve software maintainability, little has considered how to detect latent bugs introduced by clones. In this paper, we introduce a general notion of context-based inconsistencies among clones and develop an efficient algorithm to detect such inconsistencies for locating bugs. We have …


Column Heterogeneity As A Measure Of Data Quality, Bing Tian Dai, Nick Koudas, Beng Chin Ooi, Divesh Srivastava, Suresh Venkatasubramanian Sep 2007

Column Heterogeneity As A Measure Of Data Quality, Bing Tian Dai, Nick Koudas, Beng Chin Ooi, Divesh Srivastava, Suresh Venkatasubramanian

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Data quality is a serious concern in every data management application, and a variety of quality measures have been proposed, including accuracy, freshness and completeness, to capture the common sources of data quality degradation. We identify and focus attention on a novel measure, column heterogeneity, that seeks to quantify the data quality problems that can arise when merging data from different sources. We identify desiderata that a column heterogeneity measure should intuitively satisfy, and discuss a promising direction of research to quantify database column heterogeneity based on using a novel combination of cluster entropy and soft clustering. Finally, we present …


Taking Stock Of The Creative Commons Experiment: Monitoring The Use Of Creative Commons Licenses And Evaluating Its Implications For The Future Of Creative Commons And For Copyright Law, Giorgos Cheliotis, Kam Wai, Warren Bartholomew Chik, Ankit Guglani, Giri Kumar Tayi Sep 2007

Taking Stock Of The Creative Commons Experiment: Monitoring The Use Of Creative Commons Licenses And Evaluating Its Implications For The Future Of Creative Commons And For Copyright Law, Giorgos Cheliotis, Kam Wai, Warren Bartholomew Chik, Ankit Guglani, Giri Kumar Tayi

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

We provide an analysis of the use of Creative Commons (CC) licenses, an approach to licensing creative works which has become very popular among authors who wish to promote more liberal sharing and use of their work. We provide data demonstrating the popularity of CC, examine which specific license types within the CC framework are most popular, and then identify contributing factors for the relative popularity of some of the license types.


Robust Local Search And Its Application To Generating Robust Schedules, Hoong Chuin Lau, Fei Xiao, Thomas Ou Sep 2007

Robust Local Search And Its Application To Generating Robust Schedules, Hoong Chuin Lau, Fei Xiao, Thomas Ou

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In this paper, we propose an extended local search framework to solve combinatorial optimization problems with data uncertainty. Our approach represents a major departure from scenario-based or stochastic programming approaches often used to tackle uncertainty. Given a value 0 < ? 1, we are interested to know what the robust objective value is, i.e. the optimal value if we allow an chance of not meeting it, assuming that certain data values are defined on bounded random variables. We show how a standard local search or metaheuristic routine can be extended to efficiently construct a decision rule with such guarantee, albeit heuristically. We demonstrate its practical applicability on the Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem with minimal and maximal time lags (RCPSP/max) taking into consideration activity duration uncertainty. Experiments show that, partial order schedules can be constructed that are robust in our sense without the need for a large planned horizon (due date), which improves upon the work proposed by Policella et al. 2004.


Globally Distributed Software Development Project Performance: An Empirical Analysis, Narayanasamy Ramasubbu, Rajesh Krishna Balan Sep 2007

Globally Distributed Software Development Project Performance: An Empirical Analysis, Narayanasamy Ramasubbu, Rajesh Krishna Balan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Software firms are increasingly distributing their software development effort across multiple locations. In this paper we present the results of a two year field study that investigated the effects of dispersion on the productivity and quality of distributed software development. We first develop a model of distributed software development. We then use the model, along with our empirically observed data, to understand the consequences of dispersion on software project performance. Our analysis reveals that, even in high process maturity environments, a) dispersion significantly reduces development productivity and has effects on conformance quality, and b) these negative effects of dispersion can …


Who’S Creating?, M. Thulasidas Sep 2007

Who’S Creating?, M. Thulasidas

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

We don’t read to retain information or knowledge any more. We search, scan, locate keywords, browse and bookmark. The Internet is doing to our reading habits what the calculator did to our arithmetic abilities. Knowledge is not cheap, although our easy access to it through the Internet may indicate otherwise. When we all become users of information, our knowledge will stop at its current level because nobody will be creating it any more.


Overview Of The Imageclef 2007 Object Retrieval Task, Thomas Deselaers, Steven C. H. Hoi Sep 2007

Overview Of The Imageclef 2007 Object Retrieval Task, Thomas Deselaers, Steven C. H. Hoi

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

We describe the object retrieval task of ImageCLEF 2007, give an overview of the methods of the participating groups, and present and discuss the results. The task was based on the widely used PASCAL object recognition data to train object recognition methods and on the IAPR TC-12 benchmark dataset from which images of objects of the ten different classes bicycles, buses, cars, motorbikes, cats, cows, dogs, horses, sheep, and persons had to be retrieved. Seven international groups participated using a wide variety of methods. The results of the evaluation show that the task was very challenging and that different methods …


Ntu: Solution For The Object Retrieval Task Of The Imageclef2007, Steven C. H. Hoi Sep 2007

Ntu: Solution For The Object Retrieval Task Of The Imageclef2007, Steven C. H. Hoi

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Object retrieval is an interdisciplinary research problem between object recognition and content-based image retrieval (CBIR). It is commonly expected that object retrieval can be solved more effectively with the joint maximization of CBIR and object recognition techniques. We study a typical CBIR solution with application to the object retrieval tasks [26,27]. We expect that the empirical study in this work will serve as a baseline for future research when using CBIR techniques for object recognition.


Mobile Information Communication Technology For Crisis Management : Understanding User Behavior, Response And Training, Elizabeth Avery Gomez Aug 2007

Mobile Information Communication Technology For Crisis Management : Understanding User Behavior, Response And Training, Elizabeth Avery Gomez

Dissertations

SMS text-messaging is an interoperable communication vehicle known to be dependable for mass media alert notifications in crisis management. SMS text-messaging also offers potential as one viable two-way communication alternative for field responders in crisis response. Both continuously changing mobile information communication technologies and the importance of precise information exchange constitute a need for communication protocol training and practice. This study introduces a technology-mediated training technique based on speech act and communicative action theories. These theories are used to inform the design of a baseline measure for task performance improvement and to suggest a model to predict communication readiness. Because …


Distributing Real Time Data From A Multi-Node Large Scale Contact Center Using Corba, Joe Goggins Aug 2007

Distributing Real Time Data From A Multi-Node Large Scale Contact Center Using Corba, Joe Goggins

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

This thesis researches and evaluates the current technologies available for developing a system for propagation of Real-Time Data from a large scale Enterprise Server to large numbers of registered clients on the network. The large scale Enterprise Server being implemented is a Contact Centre Server, which can be a standalone system or part of a multi-nodal system. This paper makes three contributions to the study of scalable real-time notification services. Firstly, it defines the research of the different technologies and their implementation for distributed objects in today's world of computing. Secondly, the paper explains how we have addressed key design …


Proceedings Of The 18th Irish Conference On Artificial Intelligence And Cognitive Science, Sarah Jane Delany, Michael Madden Aug 2007

Proceedings Of The 18th Irish Conference On Artificial Intelligence And Cognitive Science, Sarah Jane Delany, Michael Madden

Books/Book Chapters

These proceedings contain the papers that were accepted for publication at AICS-2007, the 18th Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, which was held in the Technological University Dublin; Dublin, Ireland; on the 29th to the 31st August 2007. AICS is the annual conference of the Artificial Intelligence Association of Ireland (AIAI).


Application Packaging Tracking System, Cormac Quillinan Aug 2007

Application Packaging Tracking System, Cormac Quillinan

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

In the business world it is very difficult to manage and track user application installations and licensing. The primary problem with this area is currently there is no single solution that encapsulates the entire process. The current commercially available tracking systems, such as SMS, DevTrack and Installshield Tracking system, do not provide a complete solution. These products provide partial solutions. However, they do not address the entire problem. In this thesis we proposed an Application Packaging Tracking System. This system tracks application installations throughout the entire process, from submission to deployment.


Using Fuzzy-Word Correlation Factors To Compute Document Similarity Based On Phrase Matching, Jun Won Lee, Yiu-Kai D. Ng Aug 2007

Using Fuzzy-Word Correlation Factors To Compute Document Similarity Based On Phrase Matching, Jun Won Lee, Yiu-Kai D. Ng

Faculty Publications

One of the Web information Retrieval (IR) problems these days is to identify redundant information that exist in (replicated) Web documents. These documents can easily be found in several forms, such as documents in different versions, small documents combined with others to form a larger document, etc. As the Web is becoming more and more popular, the number of documents on the Web is increasing on a daily basis, and filtering redundant ones among this huge number of documents becomes a more difficult and an urgent task. As one of the solutions to this problem, we present a new method …


Risk Assessment In Early Software Design Based On The Software Function-Failure Design Method, Jayson P. Vucovich, Robert B. Stone, Xiaoqing Frank Liu, Irem Y. Tumer Aug 2007

Risk Assessment In Early Software Design Based On The Software Function-Failure Design Method, Jayson P. Vucovich, Robert B. Stone, Xiaoqing Frank Liu, Irem Y. Tumer

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Potential software failures present a sizable risk element in the design and development of many systems. In this paper, we augment the Software Function-Failure Design method, which is capable of predicting potential software failures in the very early stages of design, with the Risk in Early Design technique. This synergistic combination allows a risk assessment to be conducted at an early time in the software development process when traditional techniques are not applicable. The results are concise risk statements regarding the potential failure of functionalities with likelihood and consequence quantifications that can be used as part of a risk management …


Design Of A Web-Based Project Tracking System, Robert F. Tschiemer Aug 2007

Design Of A Web-Based Project Tracking System, Robert F. Tschiemer

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

This paper explores the design of a prototype Web-based database application that will support a professional project tracking system for students and Advisers. Specifically, this paper combines a relational database and web-based applications that are integrated into NET framework and PHP code technologies. The initial database-driven web application is designed for 200-300 student usage and is scalable to a 1500 student project usage. The methodology that governs the application design was determined by review of waterfall methodology approach. The chosen development methodology provides the application design and prototype construction. The actual database design and web page implementation will conclude the …


A Supply Chain Design Model With Unreliable Supply, Lian Qi, Zuo-Jun Max Shen Aug 2007

A Supply Chain Design Model With Unreliable Supply, Lian Qi, Zuo-Jun Max Shen

Business and Information Technology Faculty Research & Creative Works

Uncertainties abound within a supply chain and have big impacts on its performance. We propose an integrated model for a three-tiered supply chain network with one supplier, one or more facilities and retailers. This model takes into consideration the unreliable aspects of a supply chain. the properties of the optimal solution to the model are analyzed to reveal the impacts of supply uncertainty on supply chain design decisions. We also propose a general solution algorithm for this model. Computational experience is presented and discussed.


Ontology Aware Software Service Agents: Meeting Ordinary User Needs On The Semantic Web, Muhammed Jassem Al Muhammed Aug 2007

Ontology Aware Software Service Agents: Meeting Ordinary User Needs On The Semantic Web, Muhammed Jassem Al Muhammed

Theses and Dissertations

To achieve the dream of the semantic web, it must be possible for ordinary users to invoke services. It is clear that users need simple-to-invoke-and-use services. This dissertation offers an ontological approach to declaratively create services that users can invoke using free-form, natural-language-like specifications. Our approach uses task ontologies as foundational knowledge. A task ontology consists of a domain ontology and a process ontology. The domain ontology encodes domain information such as possible constraints and instances in terms of object sets, relationship sets among these object sets, and operations over values in object sets and relationship sets. The process ontology …


An Implementation Of A Cross-Platform Wireless Router Operating System, David Hunt Aug 2007

An Implementation Of A Cross-Platform Wireless Router Operating System, David Hunt

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

The aim of this project was to develop an open-source wireless router platform on several Single Board Computers (SBCs) of different architectures. It is a Linux distribution that is common to all supported boards, with Ethernet drivers, Wireless drivers, web-interface, persistent storage of settings, and remote upgrade capability.


An Efficient Asynchronous Peer To Peer Auction Using Yao Oblivious Transfer, Charles Lobo Aug 2007

An Efficient Asynchronous Peer To Peer Auction Using Yao Oblivious Transfer, Charles Lobo

All Theses

Distributed electronic auctions are increasingly preferred over centralized electronic auctions today. The success of peer-to-peer file sharing networks has made distributed electronic auctions a possibility. Due to trust and conflict of interest issues with centralized auctioneer systems, multiple auctioneers in distributed roles are preferred. However, there is a possibility of auctioneer node collusion [16] and auctioneer-bidder collusion and auctioneer-seller collusion in such mechanisms.
To overcome these problems, a new peer-to-peer auction protocol [17] with auctioneers forming auctioneer groups has been proposed. This protocol keeps the auctioneers honest by ensuring that no single auctioneer in the group has absolute control over …