In this paper, we research into the concept and facets of biometric recognition and accompanying usability issues. We will introduce the concept of biometric recognition and present an overview of popular types of biometrics that exist today. We will show that the usability issues from a user point of view are not to be overlooked or taken lightly, especially those that result from subjectivity...

This paper explores cultural issues with respect to web-based business systems and web design in electronic business over web sites. Studying the cultural issues of user interface design in implementing web-based electronic business will provide guidelines for the global use of electronic business. This paper summarises recent work on implementation issues for the improvement of graphic and tex...

This document addresses user interface design and cultural issues for the web based e-eommerce sites. Considering the cultural issues of web design in implementing web-based ecommerce will make available guidelines for the global use of electronic business. 'Ibis paper summarizes recent work on implementation issues for the improvementof graphic and text usage in different system environments a...

Honeypots and honeynets are popular tools in the area of network security and network forensics. The deployment and usage of these tools are influenced by a number of technical and legal issues, which need to be carefully considered. In this paper, we outline the privacy issues of honeypots and honeynets with respect to their technical aspects. The paper discusses the legal framework of privacy...

background: traditional cigarette advertising has existed in the us for over 200 years. studies suggest that advertising has an impact on the initiation and maintenance of smoking behaviors. in recent years, electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) emerged on the market as an alternative to the traditional tobacco cigarette. the purpose of this study was to describe advertisements in popular us mag...

Widespread availability of location aware devices (such as GPS receivers) promotes capture of detailed movement trajectories of people, animals, vehicles and other moving objects. We investigate spatio-temporal movement patterns in large tracking data sets, i.e. in large sets of polygonal paths. Specifically, we study so-called ‘popular places’, that is, regions that are visited by many entitie...

We study the problem of matching applicants to jobs under one-sided preferences; that is, each applicant ranks a non-empty subset of jobs under an order of preference, possibly involving ties. A matching M is said to be more popular than T if the applicants that prefer M to T outnumber those that prefer T to M . A matching is said to be popular if there is no matching more popular than it. Equi...

In the paper we study popular b-matchings, which in other words are popular many-to-many matchings. The problem can be best described in graph terms: We are given a bipartite graph G = (A ∪H,E), a capacity function on vertices b : A ∪H → N and a rank function on edges r : E → N . A stands for the set of agents and H for the set of houses. Each member of a set of agents a ∈ A has a preference li...

XML documents management is becoming an area of great research value and interest, since XML has become a popular standard for data communication and knowledge exchange over the Internet. Therefore, new issues have emerged in terms of storage and access control policies for XML documents. Concerning the storage issues, the majority of proposals rely on the usage of typical database management s...