2009 Sixth International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations, 2009
Information sharing within or cross enterprise is the core need of each enterprise to fully benef... more Information sharing within or cross enterprise is the core need of each enterprise to fully benefit from the state of the art technologies. On one hand, it allows utilizing the resources efficiently, and on the other hand, it expedites the processes of enterprise. Healthcare information is more complex and has diverse dimensions. Sharing this information by integrating various healthcare information systems is a great challenge. HL7 is renowned healthcare standard that provides specification for standardization of information exchanged among healthcare applications. To make these systems truly interoperable, it provides transportation specification for message exchanges named as web service profiles. This paper discusses the technical details including architecture, design and implementation of web service component that implement HL7 Web Service Basic Profile (HL7 WS-BP).
2013 IEEE Eleventh International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS), 2013
Cyber Civilization has become an important source of information sharing and professional activit... more Cyber Civilization has become an important source of information sharing and professional activities like business, banking transactions, shopping, services and advertisement. With the exponentially increase in usage of cyberspace, cybercriminal actives are also increase exponentially. The basic reasons is that with the inception of world wide web, the web applications were also getting popularity for data storing and data sharing, irrespective of the user. With the passage of time web applications were getting more complex with rapid increase in their design faults, creating the surfing of internet totally unsafe. More than 90 percent web applications have some kind of design or development fault which can be easily exploited by the cyber criminals. These faults in web application can help criminals in getting the illegal access to trade secrets of any business. Sometime the web application may not be posing threat but the technology used in these applications become the root cause and put the application to the risk of illegal access. Presently the social networks, Internet connected mobile devices, individual privacy, and the online connectivity of entities such as banks are the most enticing targets for cyber criminals. In this survey we highlight the common cyber threats and detailed analysis of existing system and methodology used for its industrial solutions. Some important some industrial application also analyzed this paper.
2009 Sixth International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations, 2009
Abstract-Web application security is the hottest issue in the present scenario of e-business envi... more Abstract-Web application security is the hottest issue in the present scenario of e-business environment. Web application attacks can play havoc with the system within no time. More than 80% attacks are at application layer and almost 90% applications are vulnerable to these ...
2011 Tenth International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems, 2011
Abstract The exponentially increasing cyber threats with the expansion of web applications have b... more Abstract The exponentially increasing cyber threats with the expansion of web applications have become the biggest security concern for e-business and information sharing communities. Current survey shows that application layer is more prone to web attacks. Recent survey carried ...
This paper highlights the Hybrid agent construction model being developed that allows the descrip... more This paper highlights the Hybrid agent construction model being developed that allows the description and development of autonomous agents in SAGE (Scalable, fault Tolerant Agent Grooming Environment)???a second generation FIPA-Compliant Multi-Agent system. We ...
In healthcare domain there is a plethora of health information but no mechanism of satisfying cus... more In healthcare domain there is a plethora of health information but no mechanism of satisfying customized users' requirements and providing demand oriented information. Healthcare domain is facing challenge of finding healthcare information that meets user requirements. Semantics can provide interoperable, automated and seamlessly meaningful communication for healthcare domain. Healthcare information is increasing with the increase of medical databases over the internet. In this matter provision of right information to appropriate users over the web is a great challenge. Semantic web technologies can address this issue by ensuring extensible, flexible and efficient information discovery related to diseases and clinical processes. We implemented a semantic registry that is a service registry as well as metadata registry. It manages and secures healthcare information and processes in a consistent way in compliance with emerging international standards and technical specifications. We evaluated our system through Patient Registration Scenario implemented semantically in our OWLS framework.
2013 IEEE Eleventh International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS), 2013
ABSTRACT Web Applications security has become progressively more important these days. Enormous n... more ABSTRACT Web Applications security has become progressively more important these days. Enormous numbers of attacks are being deployed on the web application layer. Due to dramatic increase in Web applications, security gets vulnerable to variety of threats. Most of these attacks are targeted towards the web application layer and network firewall alone cannot prevent these kinds of attacks. The basic reason behind success of these attacks is the ignorance of application developers while writing the web applications and the vulnerabilities in the existing technologies. Web application attacks are the latest trend and hackers are trying to exploit the web application using different techniques. Various solutions are available as open source and in commercial market. But the selection of suitable solution for the security of the organizational systems is a major issue. This survey paper compared the Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions with important features necessary for the security at application layer. Critical analysis on WAF solutions is helpful for the users to select the most suitable solution to their environments.
The flourishing idea of Semantic Web is realized as extension of the World Wide Web infrastructur... more The flourishing idea of Semantic Web is realized as extension of the World Wide Web infrastructure. The WWW has rehabilitated interest in semantic interoperability between various semantic languages. Semantic languages like OWL, WSML and FIPA SL formalize WWW ...
Cyber Civilization has become an important source of information sharing and professional ac... more Cyber Civilization has become an important source of information sharing and professional activities like business, banking transactions, shopping, services and advertisement. With the exponentially increase in usage of cyberspace, cybercriminal actives are also increase exponentially. The basic reasons is that with the inception of world wide web, the web applications were also getting popularity for data storing and data sharing, irrespective of the user. With the passage of time web applications were getting more complex with rapid increase in their design faults, creating the surfing of internet totally unsafe. More than 90 percent web applications have some kind of design or development fault which can be easily exploited by the cyber criminals. These faults in web application can help criminals in getting the illegal access to trade secrets of any business. Sometime the web application may not be posing threat but the technology used in these applications become the root cause and put the application to the risk of illegal access. Presently the social networks, Internet connected mobile devices, individual privacy, and the online connectivity of entities such as banks are the most enticing targets for cyber criminals. In this survey we highlight the common cyber threats and detailed analysis of existing system and methodology used for its industrial solutions. Some important some industrial application also analyzed this paper.
Earthquake is a natural phenomenon which has resisted the major efforts to tackle it. The major p... more Earthquake is a natural phenomenon which has resisted the major efforts to tackle it. The major problems in earthquake management are inefficient communication, complex interaction as well as lack of coordination and prompt service delivery in advent of earthquake. Software agent based systems are more suitable alternative to the available technologies. In this paper, a formal approach is used in the designing and modeling of an agent-based earthquake management system using pi-calculus. Pi-calculus is justified for this work because of its capability to model concurrent and parallel systems. This approach facilitates in removing redundancy in information flow, low chances of errors in system development as well as understanding the execution paths for generating test cases. The services from the system are expected to be more reliable, autonomous, and adaptive in performing timely relief operations.
Policy based ontology work is gaining wide attention in semantics related research community. Mob... more Policy based ontology work is gaining wide attention in semantics related research community. Mobile agents using policy based framework exhibit more adaptive and flexible behavior. Policies which are rule based statements consisting of conditions and actions have some limitations such as interoperability, policy definitions, as well as representation. We have presented the policy based ontology infrastructure for efficient runtime operations of mobile agents and policy related issues. The proposed architecture is illustrated with example scenario in domain of earthquake management system.
The Semantic Grid is an extension of the current Grid in which information will be given well-def... more The Semantic Grid is an extension of the current Grid in which information will be given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and resources to work in cooperation and coordination. The architecture of Semantic Grid adopts a service-oriented perspective in which distinct entities are represented as software agents, provide services to one another. Traditionally Grid management frameworks are based upon fixed management functionality and fixed interaction interfaces that cannot satisfy the flexibility and complexity that the dynamic Semantic Resource Grid demands. Agent technology is promising in this domain since it facilitates automatic negotiation of services contracts a dynamic configuration of those services, thus enhancing the provisioning for semantic grid services. In this paper we propose an infrastructure for resource monitoring and management in Semantic resource Grid. Our architecture unifies sharing and managing of heterogeneous resources across the Grid. The resources will be able to actively find and advertise services. The resources will be arranged into groups which will enable the resource to have common understanding. We used agents in our architecture which enable the resources to have effective negotiation, support dynamic services and services utilization and advertisement. In this way we can achieve self-controllability and self-coordinability among Grid resource. We argue that semantics is a key to autonomy of the operation and management in emerging complex dynamic systems, such as Semantic Grid. Our architecture could be a part of resource monitoring and management middleware in the Semantic Resource Grid.
2009 Sixth International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations, 2009
Information sharing within or cross enterprise is the core need of each enterprise to fully benef... more Information sharing within or cross enterprise is the core need of each enterprise to fully benefit from the state of the art technologies. On one hand, it allows utilizing the resources efficiently, and on the other hand, it expedites the processes of enterprise. Healthcare information is more complex and has diverse dimensions. Sharing this information by integrating various healthcare information systems is a great challenge. HL7 is renowned healthcare standard that provides specification for standardization of information exchanged among healthcare applications. To make these systems truly interoperable, it provides transportation specification for message exchanges named as web service profiles. This paper discusses the technical details including architecture, design and implementation of web service component that implement HL7 Web Service Basic Profile (HL7 WS-BP).
2013 IEEE Eleventh International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS), 2013
Cyber Civilization has become an important source of information sharing and professional activit... more Cyber Civilization has become an important source of information sharing and professional activities like business, banking transactions, shopping, services and advertisement. With the exponentially increase in usage of cyberspace, cybercriminal actives are also increase exponentially. The basic reasons is that with the inception of world wide web, the web applications were also getting popularity for data storing and data sharing, irrespective of the user. With the passage of time web applications were getting more complex with rapid increase in their design faults, creating the surfing of internet totally unsafe. More than 90 percent web applications have some kind of design or development fault which can be easily exploited by the cyber criminals. These faults in web application can help criminals in getting the illegal access to trade secrets of any business. Sometime the web application may not be posing threat but the technology used in these applications become the root cause and put the application to the risk of illegal access. Presently the social networks, Internet connected mobile devices, individual privacy, and the online connectivity of entities such as banks are the most enticing targets for cyber criminals. In this survey we highlight the common cyber threats and detailed analysis of existing system and methodology used for its industrial solutions. Some important some industrial application also analyzed this paper.
2009 Sixth International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations, 2009
Abstract-Web application security is the hottest issue in the present scenario of e-business envi... more Abstract-Web application security is the hottest issue in the present scenario of e-business environment. Web application attacks can play havoc with the system within no time. More than 80% attacks are at application layer and almost 90% applications are vulnerable to these ...
2011 Tenth International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems, 2011
Abstract The exponentially increasing cyber threats with the expansion of web applications have b... more Abstract The exponentially increasing cyber threats with the expansion of web applications have become the biggest security concern for e-business and information sharing communities. Current survey shows that application layer is more prone to web attacks. Recent survey carried ...
This paper highlights the Hybrid agent construction model being developed that allows the descrip... more This paper highlights the Hybrid agent construction model being developed that allows the description and development of autonomous agents in SAGE (Scalable, fault Tolerant Agent Grooming Environment)???a second generation FIPA-Compliant Multi-Agent system. We ...
In healthcare domain there is a plethora of health information but no mechanism of satisfying cus... more In healthcare domain there is a plethora of health information but no mechanism of satisfying customized users' requirements and providing demand oriented information. Healthcare domain is facing challenge of finding healthcare information that meets user requirements. Semantics can provide interoperable, automated and seamlessly meaningful communication for healthcare domain. Healthcare information is increasing with the increase of medical databases over the internet. In this matter provision of right information to appropriate users over the web is a great challenge. Semantic web technologies can address this issue by ensuring extensible, flexible and efficient information discovery related to diseases and clinical processes. We implemented a semantic registry that is a service registry as well as metadata registry. It manages and secures healthcare information and processes in a consistent way in compliance with emerging international standards and technical specifications. We evaluated our system through Patient Registration Scenario implemented semantically in our OWLS framework.
2013 IEEE Eleventh International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS), 2013
ABSTRACT Web Applications security has become progressively more important these days. Enormous n... more ABSTRACT Web Applications security has become progressively more important these days. Enormous numbers of attacks are being deployed on the web application layer. Due to dramatic increase in Web applications, security gets vulnerable to variety of threats. Most of these attacks are targeted towards the web application layer and network firewall alone cannot prevent these kinds of attacks. The basic reason behind success of these attacks is the ignorance of application developers while writing the web applications and the vulnerabilities in the existing technologies. Web application attacks are the latest trend and hackers are trying to exploit the web application using different techniques. Various solutions are available as open source and in commercial market. But the selection of suitable solution for the security of the organizational systems is a major issue. This survey paper compared the Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions with important features necessary for the security at application layer. Critical analysis on WAF solutions is helpful for the users to select the most suitable solution to their environments.
The flourishing idea of Semantic Web is realized as extension of the World Wide Web infrastructur... more The flourishing idea of Semantic Web is realized as extension of the World Wide Web infrastructure. The WWW has rehabilitated interest in semantic interoperability between various semantic languages. Semantic languages like OWL, WSML and FIPA SL formalize WWW ...
Cyber Civilization has become an important source of information sharing and professional ac... more Cyber Civilization has become an important source of information sharing and professional activities like business, banking transactions, shopping, services and advertisement. With the exponentially increase in usage of cyberspace, cybercriminal actives are also increase exponentially. The basic reasons is that with the inception of world wide web, the web applications were also getting popularity for data storing and data sharing, irrespective of the user. With the passage of time web applications were getting more complex with rapid increase in their design faults, creating the surfing of internet totally unsafe. More than 90 percent web applications have some kind of design or development fault which can be easily exploited by the cyber criminals. These faults in web application can help criminals in getting the illegal access to trade secrets of any business. Sometime the web application may not be posing threat but the technology used in these applications become the root cause and put the application to the risk of illegal access. Presently the social networks, Internet connected mobile devices, individual privacy, and the online connectivity of entities such as banks are the most enticing targets for cyber criminals. In this survey we highlight the common cyber threats and detailed analysis of existing system and methodology used for its industrial solutions. Some important some industrial application also analyzed this paper.
Earthquake is a natural phenomenon which has resisted the major efforts to tackle it. The major p... more Earthquake is a natural phenomenon which has resisted the major efforts to tackle it. The major problems in earthquake management are inefficient communication, complex interaction as well as lack of coordination and prompt service delivery in advent of earthquake. Software agent based systems are more suitable alternative to the available technologies. In this paper, a formal approach is used in the designing and modeling of an agent-based earthquake management system using pi-calculus. Pi-calculus is justified for this work because of its capability to model concurrent and parallel systems. This approach facilitates in removing redundancy in information flow, low chances of errors in system development as well as understanding the execution paths for generating test cases. The services from the system are expected to be more reliable, autonomous, and adaptive in performing timely relief operations.
Policy based ontology work is gaining wide attention in semantics related research community. Mob... more Policy based ontology work is gaining wide attention in semantics related research community. Mobile agents using policy based framework exhibit more adaptive and flexible behavior. Policies which are rule based statements consisting of conditions and actions have some limitations such as interoperability, policy definitions, as well as representation. We have presented the policy based ontology infrastructure for efficient runtime operations of mobile agents and policy related issues. The proposed architecture is illustrated with example scenario in domain of earthquake management system.
The Semantic Grid is an extension of the current Grid in which information will be given well-def... more The Semantic Grid is an extension of the current Grid in which information will be given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and resources to work in cooperation and coordination. The architecture of Semantic Grid adopts a service-oriented perspective in which distinct entities are represented as software agents, provide services to one another. Traditionally Grid management frameworks are based upon fixed management functionality and fixed interaction interfaces that cannot satisfy the flexibility and complexity that the dynamic Semantic Resource Grid demands. Agent technology is promising in this domain since it facilitates automatic negotiation of services contracts a dynamic configuration of those services, thus enhancing the provisioning for semantic grid services. In this paper we propose an infrastructure for resource monitoring and management in Semantic resource Grid. Our architecture unifies sharing and managing of heterogeneous resources across the Grid. The resources will be able to actively find and advertise services. The resources will be arranged into groups which will enable the resource to have common understanding. We used agents in our architecture which enable the resources to have effective negotiation, support dynamic services and services utilization and advertisement. In this way we can achieve self-controllability and self-coordinability among Grid resource. We argue that semantics is a key to autonomy of the operation and management in emerging complex dynamic systems, such as Semantic Grid. Our architecture could be a part of resource monitoring and management middleware in the Semantic Resource Grid.
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banking transactions, shopping, services and advertisement. With the exponentially increase in usage of cyberspace, cybercriminal actives are also increase exponentially. The basic reasons is that with the inception of world wide web, the web applications were also getting popularity for data storing and data sharing, irrespective of the user. With the passage of time web applications were getting more complex with rapid increase in their design faults, creating the surfing of internet totally unsafe. More than 90 percent web applications have some kind of design or development fault which can be easily exploited by the cyber criminals. These faults in web application can help criminals in getting the illegal access to trade secrets of any business. Sometime the web application may not be posing threat but the technology used in these applications become the root cause and put the application to the risk of illegal access. Presently the social networks, Internet connected mobile devices, individual privacy, and the online connectivity of entities such as banks are the most enticing targets for cyber criminals. In this survey we highlight the common cyber threats and detailed analysis of existing system and methodology used for its industrial solutions. Some important some industrial application also analyzed this
paper.
banking transactions, shopping, services and advertisement. With the exponentially increase in usage of cyberspace, cybercriminal actives are also increase exponentially. The basic reasons is that with the inception of world wide web, the web applications were also getting popularity for data storing and data sharing, irrespective of the user. With the passage of time web applications were getting more complex with rapid increase in their design faults, creating the surfing of internet totally unsafe. More than 90 percent web applications have some kind of design or development fault which can be easily exploited by the cyber criminals. These faults in web application can help criminals in getting the illegal access to trade secrets of any business. Sometime the web application may not be posing threat but the technology used in these applications become the root cause and put the application to the risk of illegal access. Presently the social networks, Internet connected mobile devices, individual privacy, and the online connectivity of entities such as banks are the most enticing targets for cyber criminals. In this survey we highlight the common cyber threats and detailed analysis of existing system and methodology used for its industrial solutions. Some important some industrial application also analyzed this
paper.