Network worms are malicious programs that spread automatically across networks by exploiting vulnerabilities that affect a large number of hosts. Because of the speed at which worms spread to large computer populations, countermeasures based on human reaction time are not feasible. Therefore, recent research has focused on devising new techniques to detect and contain network worms without the ...

The advances in healthcare and information technology are shifting more and more the ownership of data from medical institutions and doctors to individual citizens. However, since the medical information of an individual is confidential, the only basis for sharing it, is through prior informed consent which will regulate access to his private healthcare data. This paper highlights challenges in...

Automatic control systems have been operating in many machines and devices at different periods of the human civilization. The control of windmills using centrifugal governors, dating back to the 17th century, is an early example. However, the rise and development of Control Science as an independent discipline has taken place in the 20th century only. After some initial decades of specific dev...

Large embedded systems like manufacturing halls or complex machines usually employ quite a number of embedded control units. These control units work together either implicitly or explicitly in order to achieve an overall task e.g. manufacturing or transporting some good. In addition, the system of embedded controllers might collaborate with usual personal computers or hosts running e.g. a prod...

OF THE THESIS Dynamic Context Aware Access Control for Grid Applications by Guangsen Zhang Thesis Director: Professor Manish Parashar While the primary objective of Grid Computing is to facilitate the sharing of resource and service spanning across largely distributed and heterogeneous system, the success deployment of Grid infrastructure will make lots of applications possible. The application...

Fuji Electric is providing “SPS” as a software PLC (programmable controller) for the “MICREX-SX” series of integrated controllers. The SPS is a PLC operated on Windows NT*1, a general-purpose OS (operating system) for the PC (personal computer), and is well received because it shares the same programming language and development environment as the hardware PLC for the MICREX-SX. Realization of ...

Nowadays, the lifelong learning is a key issue in our life. Learners have their personal learning data scattered on different platforms and websites without any control on them and without any defined access duration. In this paper, we propose to explore the feasibility of Personal information manager systems in the Open Learner Model context that allows the control of personal learning data by...

OBJECTIVE This study examines the relationship between reports of childhood abuse and self-rated health in adulthood, and the potential of personal control to serve as a mediator. METHOD Regression models were estimated using data from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS). RESULTS Reported emotional abuse was associated with lower personal control. In addi...