Access card authentication used to specify the authorized persons and maintains the static information about them. It provides access to their authorizers in various governments, commercial and banking locations. By exchanging the information among the access card and its clients, access card plays a vital role to fight against stolen, loss and duplications of the access cards. In the proposed ...

Over the past decade, smartphones have become the point of convergence for many applications and services. There is a growing trend in which traditional smart-card based services like banking, transport and access control are being provisioned through smartphones. Smartphones with Near Field Communication (NFC) capability can emulate a contactless smart card; popular examples of such services i...

Only 25% of bank customers currently use online banking in Australia. The banks want more people to use their online services, not just for transaction histories and transfers, but also for other services such as loan and credit card applications. This paper discusses the use of actor-network theory as a lens to view online banking practices in Australia. We explore the heterogeneous user group...

Design by Contract (DbC) is a programming methodology in which the meaning of program entities, such as methods and classes, is made explicit by the use of programming predicates named assertions. A false assertion is always a manifestation of an incorrect program. This simple founding idea, when properly applied, give programmers a tool able to specify, test, debug, document programs, as well ...

Pyrogenic carbon, also called black carbon (BC), is an important component in the global carbon cycle. BC produced by biomass burning or fossil fuel combustion is transported to oceans by the atmosphere or rivers. However, environmental dynamics (i.e., major sources and sinks) of BC in marine environments have not been well-documented. In this study, dissolved BC (DBC) collected from surface wa...

As the Internet becoming popular, many sectors such as banking and other financial institutions are adopting e-services and improving their Internet services. However, the e-service requirements are also opening up new opportunity to commit financial fraud. Internet banking fraud is one of the most serious electronic crimes (e-crimes) and mostly committed by unauthorised users. This paper prese...

The Distributed Batch Controller DBC supports scienti c batch data processing The DBC dis tributes batch jobs to one or more pools of workstations and monitors and controls their execution The pools themselves may be geographically distributed and need not be dedicated to process ing batch jobs We describe the use of the DBC in a large scienti c data processing application namely the generation...

Tania Simoncelli Over the past fifteen years, the United States has witnessed an extraordinary expansion in the banking and mining of DNA for law enforcement purposes. While the earliest state laws governing forensic DNA limited collection and retention of DNA samples to sexual offenders – on the theory that these persons were especially prone to recidivism and most likely to leave behind biolo...