Distributed Information Systems

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In our daily life, economic activities, and national security highly depend on stability, safely, and resilient cyberspace. A network brings communications and transports, power to our homes, run our economy, and provide government with various services.
However it is through the same cyber networks which intrude and attack our privacy, economy, social life in a way which is harmful. Some scholars have interestingly argued that, “in the Internet nobody knows you are a dog”.  This raises some legal issues and concerns.
This paper presents important issues on the Security, Prevention, and Detection of Cyber Crime. The paper consists of four parts in Romanic Numbers.
In Part I, the attempt here is simply to familiarize the reader with a careful understanding of the Cyber Crimes. The author will trace back the meaning, history, and types of Cyber Crimes
In Part II, one has to know the concept of Cyber Security; this will include meaning, background, types if any and important of Cyber Security.
Part III will explain on Cyber Prevention and Detection the same will include meaning and history, Cyber Prevention and Detection Methodologies and Legal Instruments.
And Part IV, Personal Assessment basically in Tanzanian Laws.
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With cybercrime’s yearly revenues estimated at $1 trillion and national security networks probed daily and often breached, cyber security is a vital concern for public and private organizations globally. This research ponders the problem of improving information security by looking at organizations under the lens of Socio-technical systems. The main objective of this study is to ascertain if Net Assessment, one of the principal frameworks for analyzing the United States’ national security strategy, can be used to improve an organization’s capabilities in the field of information and cyber security through its multidisciplinary and holistic approach. To reach this goal, the study identifies and analyzes the aspects Net Assessment offers which are not
included in current information security risk management and assessment methodologies.
The research follows an inductive process, designed using a qualitative approach which makes use of content analysis, comparative analysis and purposive sampling. The first step drafts
a list of current information security risk assessment and risk management methodologies, and then isolates a representative sample. The second step identifies and analyzes existing metaanalytical methods and models devoted to the appraisal, selection, and indexing of risk management and assessment methods. It then defines a categorization framework capable of
accurately capturing the different risk management and assessment method’s functionalities. A third step maps the coverage of the two selected methodologies (NIST and ISO) against the identified functionality categories. After a critical analysis of Net Assessment, and a reasoned estimate of its main differences and capabilities in the context of information security, Net Assessment’s features are mapped in the category list.
The comparison of the features of the three methodologies identifies Net Assessment as a very credible avenue for improving multiple aspects currently neglected by the International
Organization for Standardization (ISO) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) frameworks. The study results maintain that, if implemented as a companion to these standards, Net Assessment may improve an organization’s security strategy, its allocation of funding for security, provide more accurate estimates of risks and threats, better alignment between potential risks and countermeasures, and improve the inputs for real time and automatic tools.

Load balancing functionalities are crucial for best Grid performance and utilization. Accordingly,this paper presents a new meta-scheduling method called TunSys. It is inspired from the natural phenomenon of heat propagation and thermal equilibrium. TunSys is based on a Grid polyhedron model with a spherical like structure used to ensure load balancing through a local neighborhood propagation strategy. Furthermore, experimental results compared to FCFS, DGA and HGA show encouraging results in terms of system performance and scalability and in terms of load balancing efficiency.

In this paper we address the problem of generating a candidate role set for an RBAC configuration that enjoys the following two key features: it minimizes the admin-istration cost; and, it is a stable candidate role-set. To achieve these goals, we implement a three steps methodology: first, we associate a weight to roles; second, we identify and remove the user-permission assignments that can not belong to a role having a weight ex-ceeding a given threshold; third, we restrict the problem of finding a candidate role-set for the given system configuration using only the user-permission assignments that have not been removed in step two (that is, user-permission assignments that belong to roles having a weight exceeding the given threshold). We formally show —proof of our results are rooted in graph theory — that this methodol-ogy achieves the intended goals. Finally, we discuss practical applications of our approach to the role mining problem. 1

Distributed Satellite Systems (DSS) provide a promising solution in increasing the sustainability of both the space and terrestrial environment through responsive Earth Observation (EO) and Space Domain Awareness (SDA) operations. To exploit the advantages of DSS mission architectures, a technical evolution is required from the deliberative methodologies of traditional ground station operations to approaches that are more suited to autonomous, reactive space mission architectures. At its core, this transition is directly reflected in the design, and development of new, more autonomous Mission Planning Systems that adopt the Adaptive Multi-Agent System (AMAS) framework. With a view towards trusted autonomy, this paper explores the required evolution towards a more supervisory role of future ground station operations. In doing so, this paper provides an initial analysis of a conceptual goal-based distributed space-based SDA application within the Observe Orient Decide and Act (OODA) decision loop framework.

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The emergence of Voice-Over-IP (VoIP) technology is creating a major discontinuity in telecommunications. Illegal VoIP or gray call pays a great impact on Bangladesh's voice market. Recently, call centers in Bangladesh have started using low cost IP telephony services which minimize the overhead telecom expense. However, BTRC in Bangladesh permits to use IP telephony for both domestic and international call center operation. Thus there is always chance of performing illegal VoIP. This is elaborately discussed in this paper. The aim of this article is to find out some solutions to ensure that the call centers can be run smoothly without any risk. In this article, a number of proposition and methodology have been described both in legal and technical solutions, which include some new guidelines, measuring the technical security parameter for IP telephony, a real time monitoring system including the trunk, data/voice flow, packet filtering and call center architectural schemes. By adopting the proposed scheme the call center operators and governing authority can significantly reduce illegal VoIP if the domestic and international call center can operate from same premise, same server room, same call application cloud and even same IP Local area Network.

International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology (IJCSIT) is devoted to fields of Computer Science and Information Systems. The IJCSIT is a open access peer-reviewed scientific journal published in electronic form as well as print form. The mission of this journal is to publish original contributions in its field in order to propagate knowledge amongst its readers and to be a reference publication.

Problem statement: The needs of computer forensics investigators have been directly influenced by the increasing number of crimes performed using computers. It is the responsibility of the investigator to ascertain the authenticity of the collected digital evidence. Without proper
classification of digital evidence, the computer forensics investigator may ended up investigating using untrusted digital evidence and ultimately cannot be use to implicate the suspected criminal.
Approach: The historical methods of verifying the authenticity of a hadith were studied. The similarities between hadith authentication and digital evidence authentication were identified. Based on the similarities of the identified processes, a new method of authenticating digital evidence was proposed, together with the trust calculation algorithm and evidence classification.
Results: The new investigation processes and an algorithm to calculate the trust value of given digital evidence was proposed. Furthermore, a simple classification of evidence, based on the calculated trust values was also proposed.
Conclusion/Recommendations: We had successfully extracted the methods to authenticate hadith and mapped it into the digital evidence authentication processes. The trust values of digital evidence were able to be calculated and the evidence can be further classified based on the different level of trust values. The ability to classify evidence based on trust levels can offer great assistance to the computer forensics investigator to plan their works and focus on the evidence that would give them a better chance of catching the criminals.

A grid computing environment provides a type of distributed computation that is unique because it is not centrally managed and it has the capability to connect heterogeneous resources. A grid system provides location-independent access to the resources and services of geographically distributed machines. An essential ingredient for supporting location-independent computations is the ability to discover resources that have been requested by the users. Because the number of grid users can increase and the grid environment is continuously changing, a scheduler that can discover decentralized resources is needed. Grid resource scheduling is considered to be a complicated, NP-hard problem because of the distribution of resources, the changing conditions of resources, and the unreliability of infrastructure communication. Various artificial intelligence algorithms have been proposed for scheduling tasks in a computational grid. This paper uses the imperialist competition algorithm (ICA) to address the problem of independent task scheduling in a grid environment, with the aim of reducing the makespan. Experimental results compare ICA with other algorithms and illustrate that ICA finds a shorter makespan relative to the others.  Moreover, it converges quickly, finding its optimum solution in less time than the other algorithms.

“Human behaviour and lifestyle continue to change at a rapid pace, increasing over the past few years fuelled by the introduction of digital media and new technologies which have become embedded in the western culture to the degree that the average person now has a need to be able to understand and relate to them in order to function effectively at work, in the community and within intimate relationships”. Krawford, 2012

CYBER PSYCHOLOGY
Historical technology effects and consequences
Claude Steiner’s view of Psychological effects
Television
Effects on Mental Health
Memory & Brain
Cyber Bullying
Empathy
Internet Addiction
Passive/Active Ratio

CYBER SOCIOLOGY
Historical
Social Movements
Twitter
Walling off the Internet
Organisations
Apple
Power
Facebook
Net Neutrality
Politial control
Free speech
Website attacks
China
Web Filtering
Future of the Internet
Security
Transperancy
Virtual Reality
Nanotechnology
Nano ethics
Debates
Future Plans
Gamification

Amoeba adalah sistem operasi terdistribusi yang dikembangkan oleh Andrew S. Tanenbaum dan beberapa yang lain di Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Amoeba dirancang untuk mengambil koleksi mesin dan membuatnya dapat bekerja secara bersamaan dalam sebuah sistem yang terintegrasi. Amoeba ditujukan untuk komputasi terdistribusi, di mana beberapa pengguna secara independen, mampu bekerja pada proyek yang berbeda dan dengan melakukan komputasi secara paralel.

Today there are so much data being available from sources like sensors (RFIDs, Near Field Communication), web activities, transactions, social networks, etc. Making sense of this avalanche of data requires efficient and fast processing. Processing of high volume of events to derive higher-level information is a vital part of taking critical decisions, and Complex Event Processing (CEP) has become one of the most rapidly emerging fields in data processing. e-Science use-cases, business applications, financial trading applications, operational analytics applications and business activity monitoring applications are some use-cases that directly use CEP. This paper discusses different design decisions associated with CEP Engines, and proposes to improve CEP performance by using more stream processing style pipelines. Furthermore, the paper will discuss Siddhi, a CEP Engine that implements those suggestions. We present a performance study that exhibits that the resulting CEP Engine-Siddhi-has significantly improved performance. Primary contributions of this paper are performing a critical analysis of the CEP Engine design and identifying suggestions for improvements, implementing those improvements through Siddhi, and demonstrating the soundness of those suggestions through empirical evidence.

- Result of “the Onlife Initiative,” a one-year project funded by the European Commission to study the deployment of ICTs and its effects on the human condition
- Inspires reflection on the ways in which a hyperconnected world forces the rethinking of the conceptual frameworks on which policies are built
- Draws upon the work of a group of scholars from a wide range of disciplines including, anthropology, cognitive science, computer science, law, philosophy, political science

What is the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on the human condition? In order to address this question, in 2012 the European Commission organized a research project entitled The Onlife Initiative: concept reengineering for rethinking societal concerns in the digital transition. This volume collects the work of the Onlife Initiative. It explores how the development and widespread use of ICTs have a radical impact on the human condition.

ICTs are not mere tools but rather social forces that are increasingly affecting our self-conception (who we are), our mutual interactions (how we socialise); our conception of reality (our metaphysics); and our interactions with reality (our agency). In each case, ICTs have a huge ethical, legal, and political significance, yet one with which we have begun to come to terms only recently.

The impact exercised by ICTs is due to at least four major transformations: the blurring of the distinction between reality and virtuality; the blurring of the distinction between human, machine and nature; the reversal from information scarcity to information abundance; and the shift from the primacy of stand-alone things, properties, and binary relations, to the primacy of interactions, processes and networks.

Such transformations are testing the foundations of our conceptual frameworks. Our current conceptual toolbox is no longer fitted to address new ICT-related challenges. This is not only a problem in itself. It is also a risk, because the lack of a clear understanding of our present time may easily lead to negative projections about the future. The goal of The Manifesto, and of the whole book that contextualises, is therefore that of contributing to the update of our philosophy. It is a constructive goal. The book is meant to be a positive contribution to rethinking the philosophy on which policies are built in a hyperconnected world, so that we may have a better chance of understanding our ICT-related problems and solving them satisfactorily.

The Manifesto launches an open debate on the impacts of ICTs on public spaces, politics and societal expectations toward policymaking in the Digital Agenda for Europe’s remit. More broadly, it helps start a reflection on the way in which a hyperconnected world calls for rethinking the referential frameworks on which policies are built.

"In today’s information-driven business environment, enterprise systems and processes capture an ever-increasing amount of data. To derive meaningful and actionable information from this data, businesses are compelled to commit significant resources to perform the necessary analysis. While all business areas are impacted to varying degrees, few face a greater challenge than the information security department. To support its mission to protect critical information assets, the information security department must maintain an ongoing process to capture, analyze and subsequently act on log and alert information collected from a wide array of systems across the enterprise.
Typically, these data must be analyzed and actionable.... Joey Hernandez worked as a SME Reviewer for this ISACA effort"

This review focuses on instructional design literature for the MACE project. It shows the plenty of research in instructional design era for more than 20 years, and offers various approaches, concepts and models in this field. The findings relate to the following keywords: Instructional design in teaching, design architecture, and construction engineering. This report is divided in four sections: “Literature Reviews”, “Articles, Book Chapters and Studies”, “Books”, and “Web Resources”, and is organized in a schedular view. Each section implicates the information about literature reference or website title, keywords, abstract and URL/resource if available.

In this paper we propose Aleph, a leaderless, fully asynchronous,
Byzantine fault tolerant consensus protocol for ordering messages exchanged among processes. It is based on a distributed construction of a partially ordered set and the algorithm for reaching a consensus on its extension to a total order. To achieve the consensus, the processes perform computations based only on a local copy of the data structure, however, they are bound to end with the same results. Our algorithm uses a dual-threshold coin-tossing scheme as a randomization strategy and establishes the agreement in an expected constant number of rounds. In addition, we introduce a fast way of validating messages that can occur prior to determining the total ordering.

"It's a Microcontroller Based DIY Electronics Project. Named Wireless RF Module Using PIC Microcontroller. The RF module is a small electronic circuit used to transmit, receive, or transceive radio waves on one of a number of carrier frequencies. RF modules are widely used in consumer applications such as garage door openers, wireless alarm systems, industrial remote controls, smart sensor applications, weather monitoring system, RFID, wireless mouse technology and wireless home automation systems. They are often used instead of infrared remote controls as they have the advantage of not requiring line-of-sight operation. Thanxx.
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The components of what makes Lonero unique is split into four different parts: The HashBolt Master-node consensus, the DAO integrations, Cryptonote’s ring signature integration, and multipath layer security. In terms of the masternode consensus, we aren’t only allowing both ASIC and Non-ASIC systems to profitably mine our cryptocurreny. We are also granting large server inf rastructures and x86 computer systems an easier way to mine Lonero. The DAO integration that we are doing is less of an organization and more of an integrative, curated, and regressional artificial intelligence. We set parameters that prevent spamming or abusing of the system to curate within our network and provide a
non-redundant experience for our users. This allows us to be fully private, without running into compilations in our infrastructure or allow usage Lonero in crypto-jacking or distributed bot nets.

We aim to be one of the industry’s first privacy coins that is institutionally compliant while still allowing a libertarian like usage. We support an open free market for our users as Lonero truly is, as stated, the future of digital cash. The utilization of cryptonote’s ring signatures, while allowing multi-path layer security creates higher technological stability among the transactional usage of our cryptocurrency. Over time, we aim to be secure enough where financial institutions and FinCEN regulated entities would allow an integration of our system amongst theirs.

Our masternode consensus known as HashBolt allows for an extremely decentralized crypto. It wouldn’t just break traditional hardware mining barriers, but components such as difficulty targets don’t solely determine technological value. Some mathematical components of our crypto can also be solved by building recursive functions for analyzing polynomial time or integrating merkle tree proofs for certain transactions. The fact that we utilize the ability for segregated witnesses and the algorithmic capabilities of what we are creating, allows for easy scalability of the network over time.

Applications of the modern day are continuously evolving in the need for more computing resources and a need for 24x7 hours availability service. In light of this, different computing environments have been developed to match up the scaling requirements of today's applications.

The Research has been produced digital displacement field sensor system. This system can be applied on displacement level monitoring of building, bridge, dike and so forth. This developed system work serial digitally so that It can be connected to computer for many purpose. The field Displacement sensor use sliding potentiometer and a 10 bit Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) at microcontroller. The value of field displacement is sent digitally as multi byte serial data through UART serial communication protocol. The acquired data read to computer through COM1 with Borland Delphi 7.0 program. The research A system which can measure field displacement has been acquired from this research. The system has 1 mm resolution specification with the range of measurement up to 57 meters. From the sensor's output has been acquired the output of the system with has the equation y = 0,990x + 0,154 with the linear correlation 0,998.

The papers of this book comprise the proceedings of the conference mentioned on the title and the cover page. They reflect the authors' opinions and, with the purpose of timely disseminations, are published as presented and without change. Their inclusion in these proceedings does no necessarily constitute endorsement by the editors.

13th International Conference on Communications Security & Information Assurance (CSIA 2022) focuses on all technical and practical aspects of communications security & information assurance for wired and wireless networks. The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to focus on understanding modern security threats and countermeasures, and establishing new collaborations in these areas.
Authors are solicited to contribute to the conference by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the following areas, but are not limited to.

This study is an effort to draw attention to the characteristics of cyber café users in Bangladeshi perspective. Cyber café is one of the prevalent ways for people's access to the Internet in poor countries. Cyber cafés have become main centers for access to information in Dhaka City, the capital city of Bangladesh. The purposes of this study were to Find out the users usage pattern of cyber cafés in Dhaka city; frequency of use, explore various reasons for cybercafé dependency in Dhaka city and the problems they faced while using. The results showed that the majority of café users were students. It concludes that those who used the cafés mainly for down loading, reading news papers and less of them for academic purposes. The respondents mentioned problems of high cost, lower hardware facilities, and slow speed at cyber cafés.

Data exploration and visualization systems are of great importance in the Big Data era. Exploring and visualizing very large datasets has become a major research challenge, of which scalability is a vital requirement. In this survey, we describe the major prerequisites and challenges that should be addressed by the modern exploration and visualization systems. Considering these challenges, we present how state-of-the-art approaches from the Database and Information Visualization communities attempt to handle them. Finally , we survey the systems developed by Semantic Web community in the context of the Web of Linked Data, and discuss to which extent these satisfy the contemporary requirements.

Organizations are moving their workforce to guarantee matters of trade and profit where accounts are expected to be less expensive and provide better quality products with the accessibility of skilled labor. With the evident benefits, distributed teams often face challenges with reliable and efficient communication-coordination patterns that lead towards project failure. In the rapidly growing software industry, it becomes critical for any business to have better management activities to acquire right processes and practices. Agile methods are considered as a remedy for mitigating distributed teams' challenges, with their consistent focus on communication. Here, we intend to propose a tailored Scrum based solution for distributed teams that empowers anticipated communication and coordination throughout the development process. In the first phase of framework development we have evaluated the state of agile practices from both literature and industry; based on collected evidence and suggestive guidelines a scrum based agile framework was formulated. The Scrum is a project management method in Agile Methods family. Scrum is an iterative process that asks for incremental development of the product, includes cross functional development and testing teams. Evaluation results show that the proposed framework contributes positively to improve development process quality. We have performed theoretical as well as empirical evaluation to validate proposed framework. We have eight project managing rising aspects in DSD (Distributed Software Development) to evaluate the proposed framework.

Health information technology can save lives, cut costs, and expand access to care. But its full promise will only be realized if policymakers broker a "grand bargain" between providers, patients, and administrative agencies. In exchange for subsidizing systems designed to protect intellectual property and secure personally identifiable information, health regulators should have full access to key data those systems collect.

Trust is a critical factor when dealing with the distributed systems and Internet of Things (IoT). Therefore, in developing, enhancing, and modifying such systems trust has to be considered as a major factor in all stages of system development. On the other hand, trust-based design and development would need a framework to guide system developers into extracting set of comprehensive requirements and simultaneously preventing any possible conflicts. The diversity of users, devices, and systems along with the complexity of the interactions between the system components are demanding a framework capable of dynamically addressing trust and development issues. This work is an attempt to model such framework.