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Software Engineering: Security Characterization For Evaluation Of Software Architectures Using Atam, Asad Raza, Haider Abbas, Louise Yngstrom, Ahmed Hemani Aug 2009

Software Engineering: Security Characterization For Evaluation Of Software Architectures Using Atam, Asad Raza, Haider Abbas, Louise Yngstrom, Ahmed Hemani

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

Significant technological advancement in the current electronic era has influenced the work processes of private and government business entities. E-Government is one such area where almost every country is emphasizing and automating their work processes. Software architecture is the integral constituent of any software system with not only cumbersome modeling and development but require heedful evaluation. Considering this aspect we have highlighted in this paper, security evaluation of an ongoing e-society project ESAM using Architectural Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM). ESAM is a Web based system intended to provide e-services to the Swedish community residents. ATAM is primarily used for architectural …


Wireless Networks: Certificateless Id-Based Authentication Using Threshold Signature For P2p Manets, Aasia Samreen, Seema Ansari Aug 2009

Wireless Networks: Certificateless Id-Based Authentication Using Threshold Signature For P2p Manets, Aasia Samreen, Seema Ansari

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

As far as the security of MANET (mobile and ad hoc network) is concerned, it depends upon the secure authentication especially for P2P MANETs. Identity based encryption was introduced to construct Public Key without requiring a certificate. Therefore, certificateless authentication combined with threshold digital signature and efficient key generation using identities such as IP address, are the challenging issues in front of researchers. In this paper we have addressed the problem of identity based secure authentication employing well-known RSA algorithm and secret sharing to generate threshold signature on a message.


Software Engineering: An Open Source Service Oriented Mobile Business Intelligence Tool (Mbit), Bushra Sajjad, A. Mir, A. Khawar, F. Bashir, A. Tariq Aug 2009

Software Engineering: An Open Source Service Oriented Mobile Business Intelligence Tool (Mbit), Bushra Sajjad, A. Mir, A. Khawar, F. Bashir, A. Tariq

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

Corporate executives require relevant and intelligent business information in real-time to take strategic decisions. They require the freedom to access this information anywhere and anytime. There is a need to extend this functionality beyond the office and on the fingertips of the decision makers. Mobile Business Intelligence Tool (MBIT) aims to provide these features in a flexible and cost-efficient manner. This paper describes the detailed architecture of MBIT to overcome the limitations of existing mobile business intelligence tools. Further, a detailed implementation framework is presented to realize the design. This research highlights the benefits of using service oriented architecture to …


Application Of Ict Ii: Analytic Network Process Applied To R&D Project Selection, Murad Habib, Raza Khan, Javaid L. Piracha Aug 2009

Application Of Ict Ii: Analytic Network Process Applied To R&D Project Selection, Murad Habib, Raza Khan, Javaid L. Piracha

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

Research and development (R&D) project selection is a complex decision-making process. Risks and uncertainties are also associated with the investments and returns of R&D projects. This research paper illustrates an application of ANP (analytic network process). The analytic network process (ANP) is presented as a potentially valuable method to support the selection of projects in a research and development (R&D) environment. The AHP (analytic hierarchy process) is employed to break down large unstructured decision problems into manageable and measurable components. The ANP, as the general form of AHP, is powerful to deal with complex decisions where interdependence exists in a …


Wireless Networks: Automated Frequency Distribution, Management & Assignment (Afdma) In Ieee 802.16, Khurram Shehzad, A. Ali, F. Rasool, R. M. Hashmi, A. Zubair, R. L. Ali Aug 2009

Wireless Networks: Automated Frequency Distribution, Management & Assignment (Afdma) In Ieee 802.16, Khurram Shehzad, A. Ali, F. Rasool, R. M. Hashmi, A. Zubair, R. L. Ali

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

Frequency is amongst the most exclusive and most costly resources in wireless communication networks, especially, while considering the demands of broadband wireless access (BWA). In BWA, the management of frequency distribution and its effective utilization is of utmost importance. This research explores possible ways to ensure the most effective allocation of bandwidth resources and their best possible utilization on need basis. The model for static frequency allocation has been optimized and the dynamic frequency management has been calculated while dividing the users in different user classes on the basis of their needs and requirements. The effect of ping-pong handovers has …


Application Of Ict Iii: Use Of Information And Mobile Computing Technologies In Healthcare Facilities Of Saudi Arabia, Abdul Ahad Siddiqi, Munir Ahmed, Yasser M. Alginahi, Abdulrahman Alharby Aug 2009

Application Of Ict Iii: Use Of Information And Mobile Computing Technologies In Healthcare Facilities Of Saudi Arabia, Abdul Ahad Siddiqi, Munir Ahmed, Yasser M. Alginahi, Abdulrahman Alharby

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

Information technology forms an important part of the healthcare solution. Accurate and up-to-date information is essential to continuous quality improvement in any organization, and particularly so in an area as complex as healthcare. Therefore, diverse information systems must be integrated across the healthcare enterprise. The knowledge base in the medical field is large, complex, and growing rapidly. It includes scientific knowledge, as well as familiarity with the day-to-day business of providing healthcare. It is crucial to identify the processes in the healthcare sector that would most benefit from the support of information technology. This study is focused on the analysis …


Networks - I: Networks-On-Chip: Challenges, Trends And Mechanisms For Enhancements, Omer Tayan Aug 2009

Networks - I: Networks-On-Chip: Challenges, Trends And Mechanisms For Enhancements, Omer Tayan

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

The rate of increase of silicon capacity in integrated circuits (IC) will enable system integration of several billion transistors to reside on a single chip in the near future. Future system-on-chip (SoC) systems must therefore integrate up to several hundreds of cores within a single chip, and SoC designs will employ on-chip communication networks (NoCs) as a result. This paper discusses the problems with many current SoC systems, surveys the challenges and trends facing future SoC designs and proposes a mechanism for enhancing NoC strategies of the future by enhancing memory management and utilization techniques within an NoC.


Artificial Intelligence – I: Subjective Decision Making Using Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Advisor, Owais Malik Aug 2009

Artificial Intelligence – I: Subjective Decision Making Using Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Advisor, Owais Malik

International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies

In this paper, we present and compare two-stage type-2 fuzzy logic advisor (FLA) for subjective decision making in the domain of students' performance evaluation. We test our proposed model for evaluating students' performance in our computer science and engineering department at HBCC/KFUPM in two domains namely cooperating training and capstone/senior project assessment where we find these FLAs very useful and promising. In our proposed model, the assessment criteria for different components of cooperative training and senior project are transformed into linguistic labels and evaluation information is extracted into the form of IF-THEN rules from the experts. These rules are modeled …


Back Matter Of Volume 4 Number 1, Tufail A. Qureshi Jan 2009

Back Matter Of Volume 4 Number 1, Tufail A. Qureshi

Business Review

Call for Papers: the Third International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (ICICT'09) August 15-16, 2009, A word about the IBA, About our Authors, Back Matter