• Moving object tracking in clinical scenarios: application to cardiac surgery and cerebral aneurysm clipping 

  Amira, Abbes; Dakua, S.P.; Abinahed, J.; Zakaria, A.; Balakrishnan, S.; Younes, G.; Navkar, N.; Al-Ansari, A.; Zhai, X.; Bensaali, F. (Article)

  Surgical procedures such as laparoscopic and robotic surgeries are popular since they are invasive in nature and use miniaturized surgical instruments for small incisions. Tracking of the instruments (graspers, needle ...

• Evolutionary dynamic constrained optimization: Test suite construction and algorithm comparisons 

  Wang, Yong; Yu, Jian; Yang, Shengxiang; Jiang, Shouyong; Zhao, Shuang (Article)

  Many real-world applications can be modelled as dynamic constrained optimization problems (DCOPs). Due to the fact that objective function and/or constraints change over time, solving DCOPs is a challenging task. Although ...

• A comprehensive meta-analysis of cryptographic security mechanisms for cloud computing 

  Kiraz, Mehmet Sabir (Article)

  The concept of cloud computing offers measurable computational or information resources as a service over the Internet. The major motivation behind the cloud setup is economic benefits, because it assures the reduction in ...

• k-strong privacy for radio frequency identification authentication protocols based on physically unclonable functions 

  Celik, Serkan; Kiraz, Mehmet Sabir; Levi, Albert; Bingol, M.A.; Demirci, H.; Kardas, S. (Article)

  This paper examines Vaudenay’s privacy model, which is one of the first and most complete privacy models that featured the notion of different privacy classes. We enhance this model by introducing two new generic adversary ...

• Cloud Computing in the Quantum Era 

  Kaiiali, Mustafa; Sezer, Sakir; Khalid, Ayesha (Conference)

  Cloud computing has become the prominent technology of this era. Its elasticity, dynamicity, availability, heterogeneity, and pay as you go pricing model has attracted several companies to migrate their businesses' services ...

• A Cloud-based Architecture for Mitigating Privacy Issues in Online Social Networks 

  Kaiiali, Mustafa; Iliyasu, Auwal; Wazan, Ahmad; Habbal, Adib; Muhammad, Yusuf (Article)

  Online social media networks have revolutionized the way information is shared across our societies and around the world. Information is now delivered for free to a large audience within a short period of time. Anyone can ...

• Trust Management for Public Key Infrastructures: Implementing the X.509 Trust Broker 

  Wazan, Ahmad Samer; Laborde, Romain; Chadwick, David W.; Barrere, Francois; Benzekri, Abdelmalek; Kaiiali, Mustafa; Habbal, Adib (Article)

  A Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is considered one of the most important techniques used to propagate trust in authentication over the Internet. This technology is based on a trust model defined by the original X.509 ...

• A Multi-Classifier Network-Based Crypto Ransomware Detection System: A Case Study of Locky Ransomware 

  O. Almashhadani, Ahmad; Kaiiali, Mustafa; Sezer, Sakir; O’Kane, Philip (Article)

  Ransomware is a type of advanced malware that has spread rapidly in recent years, causing significant financial losses for a wide range of victims, including organizations, healthcare facilities, and individuals. Modern ...

• Designing a Secure Exam Management System (SEMS) for M-Learning Environments 

  Kaiiali, Mustafa; Ozkaya, Armagan; Altun, Halis; Haddad, Hatem; Alier, Marc (Article)

  M-learning has enhanced the e-learning by making the learning process learner-centered. However, enforcing exam security in open environments where each student has his/her own mobile/tablet device connected to a Wi-Fi ...

• Designing a VM-level vertical scalability service in current cloud platforms: A new hope for wearable computers 

  Kaiiali, Mustafa (Article)

  Public clouds are becoming ripe for enterprise adoption. Many companies, including large enterprises, are increasingly relying on public clouds as a substitute for, or a supplement to, their own computing infrastructures. ...

• A secure data outsourcing scheme based on Asmuth – Bloom secret sharing 

  I. M., Yusuf; Kaiiali, Mustafa; Habbal, Adib; Wazan, A. S.; S. I., Auwal (Article)

  Data outsourcing is an emerging paradigm for data management in which a database is provided as a service by third-party service providers. One of the major benefits of offering database as a service is to provide ...

• Supervision of Postgraduate Independent Study in a Distance Learning Environment 

  Carter, Jenny; Appel, Orestes; Salomoni, Massimo; Vourgidis, Ioannis (Book chapter)

  This chapter is written in collaboration with one past and two present Computer Science doctorate students who all studied a UK Master’s programme by distance learning and whilst living overseas; all three went on to study ...

• Stochastic logistic fuzzy maps for the construction of integrated multirates scenarios in the financing of infrastructure projects 

  Gonzalez-Ruiz, Juan David; Peña, Alejandro; Duque, Eduardo Alexander; Patiño, Alejandro; Chiclana, Francisco; Gongora, Mario Augusto (Article)

  In general, the development of economic infrastructure systems requires a behavioural comprehensive analysis of different financial variables or rates to establish its long-term success with regards to the Equity Internal ...

• Cosine Similarity Measures of Bipolar Neutrosophic Set for Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder Diseases 

  Abdel-Basset, Mohamed; Mohamed, Mai; Elhoseny, Mohamed; Son, Le Hoang; Chiclana, Francisco; Zaied, Abd El-Nasser H (Article)

  Similarity plays a significant implicit or explicit role in various fields. In some real applications in decision making, similarity may bring counterintuitive outcomes from the decision maker’s standpoint. Therefore, in ...

• A product-centric data mining algorithm for targeted promotions 

  Moodley, Raymond; Chiclana, Francisco; Caraffini, Fabio; Carter, Jenny (Article)

  Targeted promotions in retail are becoming increasingly popular, particularly in the UK grocery retail sector where competition is stiff and consumers remain price sensitive. Given this, a targeted promotion algorithm is ...

• Revising ICT Programmes Through Learning Outcome Alignment: A Practical Exercise in Belarusian Universities 

  Moemeni, Armaghan; Gatward, Richard; Kankeviciene, Lina; Pyko, Alexander (Book chapter)

  EU-Funded ERASMUS Capacity Building in Higher Education project called ‘Innovative ICT Education for Socio-Economic Development (IESED 2017–2019)’ has been established in the consortium of five Belarusian (BY) Higher ...

• Collaborative research and sharing data ahead of paper publication: A case study of De Montfort University’s Dr. Fabio Caraffini 

  Caraffini, Fabio; Hardeman, M. (Other)

  • By sharing his high-resolution, multispectral images prior to a paper publication on DMU Figshare, Fabio and his colleagues are building public engagement with their research. • Storing large amounts of data in DMU ...

• Quantitative Analysis of Opacity in Cloud Computing Systems 

  Wen, Zeng; Maciej, Koutny (Article)

  Federated cloud systems increase the reliability and reduce the cost of the computational support. The resulting combination of secure private clouds and less secure public clouds, together with the fact that resources ...

• Modelling and Analysis of Corporate Efficiency and Productivity Loss Associated with Enterprise Information Security Technologies 

  Wen, Zeng; Maciej, Koutny (Article)

  By providing effective access control mechanisms, enterprise information security technologies have been proven successful in protecting the sensitive information in business organizations. However, such security mechanisms ...

• Synergizing Roadway Infrastructure Investment with Digital Infrastructure for Infrastructure-Based Connected Vehicle Applications: Review of Current Status and Future Directions 

  Khan, Sakib Mahmud; Chowdhury, Mashrur; Morris, Eric A.; Deka, Lipika (Article)

  The safety, mobility, environmental and economic benefits of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) are potentially dramatic. However, realization of these benefits largely hinges on the timely upgrading of the existing ...

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