The concept of smart public governance (SPG) is gaining attention among researchers, policymakers, and practitioners around the world, especially in response to modernisation administration through emerging technologies both local (smart city) national government) levels. Spurred by noticeable lack understanding SPG concept, paper aims comprehensively examine research considering characteristic...

Smart contracts are computer programs that are executed by a network of mutually distrusting agents, without the need of an external trusted authority. Smart contracts handle and transfer assets of considerable value (in the form of crypto-currency like Bitcoin). Hence, it is crucial that their implementation is bug-free. We identify the utility (or expected payoff) of interacting with such sma...

Smart City is taking the center stage as a solution to tackle the problems that are arising with rapid urbanization. However, the concept itself is too comprehensive and unclear, that it is hard to apply to the business promotions that have compatibility factors. Therefore, this research attempts to make a unified definition of the Smart City by analyzing previous studies on the Smart City. The...

Smart grid concept is introduced to modify the power grid by utilizing new information and communication technology. Smart grid needs live power consumption monitoring to provide required services and for this issue, bi-directional communication is essential. Security and privacy are the most important requirements that should be provided in the communication. Because of the complex design of s...

Power analysis on smart cards is widely used to obtain information about implemented cryptographic algorithms. We propose similar methodology for Java Card applets reverse engineering. Because power analysis alone does not provide enough information, we refine our methodology by involving additional information sources. Issues like distinguishing between bytecodes performing similar tasks and r...

The current digital revolution has ignited the evolution of communications grids and the development of new schemes for productive systems. Traditional technologic scenarios have been challenged, and Smart Cities have become the basis for urban competitiveness. The citizen is the one who has the power to set new scenarios, and that is why a definition of the way people interact with their citie...

Smart grid, smart metering, electromobility, and the regulation of the power network are keywords of the transition in energy politics. In the future, the power grid will be smart. Based on different works, this article presents a data collection, analyzing, and monitoring software for a reference smart grid. We discuss two possible architectures for collecting data from energy analyzers and an...

In this thesis we propose a design for a ubiquitous and interoperable device based on the smart card architecture to meet the challenges of privacy, trust, and security for traditional and emerging technologies like personal computers, smart phones and tablets. Such a device is referred a User Centric Tamper-Resistant Device (UCTD). To support the smart card architecture for the UCTD initiative...

We propose a set of privacy preserving requirements based on our analysis of the AMX TPControl app for the Honda Smart Home. The Honda Smart Home contains controls and monitors designed to optimize energy use. Our study seeks to define privacy for the smart home app user, identify privacy requirements, while highlighting privacy vulnerabilities and ways to mitigate them. We focus on leaks that ...