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Accelerating Assessment with Self-Optimizing Devices
Self-optimizing devices are able to adapt themselves to meet their user’s needs. This paper presents the Keyboard Optimizer, a self-optimizer for keyboards, and examines its potential within the professional a...
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Capabilities: Describing What Services Can Do
The ability of agents and services to automatically locate and interact with unknown partners is a goal for both the semantic web and web services. This, “serendipitous interoperability”, is hindered by the la...
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Ontology Map** in Pervasive Computing Environment
Ontology provides a formal, explicit specification of a shared conceptualization of a domain. It enables knowledge sharing in open and dynamic distributed systems. Using ontology, devices can understand the me...
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An Agent-Based Compositional Framework
Web services requirements for means of automating the coordination of distributed heterogeneous applications have been addressed by a two-pronged initiative. One has been driven by process management technolog...
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Semantic Sensor Net: An Extensible Framework
Existing approaches for sensor networks suffer from a number of critical drawbacks. First, homogeneous deployments have been commonly assumed, but in practice multiple deployments of sensor nets and heterogene...
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Hand Geometry Based Recognition with a MLP Classifier
This paper presents a biometric recognition system based on hand geometry. We describe a database specially collected for research purposes, which consists of 50 people and 10 different acquisitions of the rig...
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Generic Construction of (Identity-Based) Perfect Concurrent Signatures
The notion of concurrent signatures was recently introduced by Chen, Kudla and Paterson. In concurrent signature schemes, two entities can produce two signatures that are not binding, until an extra piece of info...
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Short Linkable Ring Signatures Revisited
Ring signature is a group-oriented signature in which the signer can spontaneously form a group and generate a signature such that the verifier is convinced the signature was generated by one member of the gro...
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A Classification, Based on ICF, for Modelling Human Computer Interaction
The present paper describes a study on the use of the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health (ICF) of the World Health Organization (WHO) for modelling the interaction between humans...
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Identity-Based Strong Multi-Designated Verifiers Signatures
Designated verifier signatures are privacy-oriented signatures that provide message authenticity only to a specified verifier but nobody else. We consider strong multi-designated verifiers such that knowledge ...
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Context-Aware Dynamic Personalised Service Re-composition in a Pervasive Service Environment
A pervasive environment needs to take account of a user’s context and preferences in determining which services to provide to the user. Moreover, one of the important features of a pervasive service environmen...
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A Dictionary-Based Approach to Fast and Accurate Name Matching in Large Law Enforcement Databases
In the presence of dirty data, a search for specific information by a standard query (e.g., search for a name that is misspelled or mistyped) does not return all needed information. This is an issue of grave i...
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Batch Pairing Delegation
Pairing-based cryptography (PBC) has enabled the construction of many cryptographic protocols. However, there are scenarios when PBC is too heavyweight to use, such as when the computing devices are resource-c...
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Yours, Mine and Ours? Sharing and Use of Technology in Domestic Environments
Domestic technologies have been a popular area of study for ubiquitous computing researchers, however there is relatively little recent data on how families currently use and share technologies in domestic env...
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Design for All in the Ambient Intelligence Environment
An Information Society described by the Ambient Intelligence (AmI) paradigm is emerging, due to the ongoing technological developments. The paper aims to show that a designed for all AmI environment can have a...
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Measuring and Comparing the Adoption of Software Process Practices in the Software Product Industry
Compatibility of agile methods and CMMI have been of interest for the software engineering community, but empirical evidence beyond case studies is scarce, which be attributed to the lack of validated measurem...
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Penetration Testing of OPC as Part of Process Control Systems
We have performed penetration testing on OPC, which is a central component in process control systems on oil installations. We have shown how a malicious user with different privileges – outside the network, a...
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Noise Detection in Agent Reputation Models Using IMM Filtering
Inferring Trust in dynamic and subjective environments is a key interesting issue in the way to obtain a complete delegation of human-like decisions in autonomous agents. With this final intention several trus...
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University and Primary Schools Cooperation for Small Robots Programming
In July 2007, in the Italian northwest region named Piedmont, a number of teachers and school headmasters created a School-Net for k-12 "Educational use of robotics". The School-Net aims at promoting Papert’s ...
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The Impact of Positive Electronic Word-of-Mouth on Consumer Online Purchasing Decision
Despite the extensive use of online reputational mechanism such as products reviews forum to promote trust and purchase decisions, there has been little empirical evidence to support the notion that positive w...
