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Development of a Secure Mobile GPS Tracking and Management System
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Liu, Anyi – ProQuest LLC, 2012
With increasing demand of mobile devices and cloud computing, it becomes increasingly important to develop efficient mobile application and its secured backend, such as web applications and virtualization environment. This dissertation reports a systematic study of mobile application development and the security issues of its related backend. …
Descriptors: Management Systems, Telecommunications, Internet, Databases
The Insider Threat Security Architecture: An Integrated, Inseparable, and Uninterrupted Self-Protection Autonomic Framework
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Jabbour, Ghassan – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The increasing proliferation of globally interconnected complex information systems has elevated the magnitude of attacks and the level of damage that they inflict on such systems. This open environment of intertwined financial, medical, defense, and other systems has attracted hackers to increase their malicious activities to cause harm or to…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Information Systems, Computers, Databases
Facilitating Trust in Privacy-Preserving E-Learning Environments
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Anwar, M.; Greer, J. – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2012
This research explores a new model for facilitating trust in online e-learning activities. We begin by protecting the privacy of learners through identity management (IM), where personal information can be protected through some degree of participant anonymity or pseudonymity. In order to expect learners to trust other pseudonymous participants,…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Discussion, Client Server Architecture, Online Courses
Who Goes There? Staying Anonymous on the Internet
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Descy, Don E. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2009
Privacy is a thing of the past. Monitoring is everywhere. If one is looking at this online, the author is sure that lots of information has been stored and linked to anyone about that action. Nevertheless, at least people can try to play with "their" minds and surf the web anonymously. In this article, the author discusses ways to try to hide…
Descriptors: Internet, Computer Mediated Communication, Privacy, Computer Security
Privacy-Preserving Location-Based Services
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Chow, Chi Yin – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Location-based services (LBS for short) providers require users' current locations to answer their location-based queries, e.g., range and nearest-neighbor queries. Revealing personal location information to potentially untrusted service providers could create privacy risks for users. To this end, our objective is to design a privacy-preserving…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Privacy, Geographic Information Systems, Geographic Location
Proceedings of the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA) (Madrid, Spain, October 19-21, 2012)
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International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers