A Perspective on Middleware-Oriented Context-Aware Pervasive Systems
Conference Proceeding
Jaroucheh, Z., Liu, X., & Smith, S. (2008)
A Perspective on Middleware-Oriented Context-Aware Pervasive Systems. In Proceedings - International Computer Software and Applications Conference, 249-254. doi:10.1109/compsac.2009.142
The evolving concepts of mobile computing, context-awareness, and ambient intelligence are increasingly influencing user's experience of services. Therefore, the goal of this ...
Programming Languages: A Usage-based Statistical Analysis and Visualization
Conference Proceeding
Orlowska, A., Chrysoulas, C., Jaroucheh, Z., & Liu, X. (2021)
Programming Languages: A Usage-based Statistical Analysis and Visualization. In ICISS 2021: 2021 The 4th International Conference on Information Science and Systems (143-148). https://doi.org/10.1145/3459955.3460614
Understanding the popularity, and its trend, of programming languages can be important to anticipate which languages are best studied for future use, which are widely supporte...
Apto: A MDD-Based Generic Framework for Context-Aware Deeply Adaptive Service-Based Processes
Conference Proceeding
Jaroucheh, Z., Liu, X., & Smith, S. (2010)
Apto: A MDD-Based Generic Framework for Context-Aware Deeply Adaptive Service-Based Processes. In Proceedings of The 8th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS’10), 219-226. doi:10.1109/icws.2010.16
Context-awareness and adaptability are important and desirable properties of service-based processes designed to provide personalized services. Most of the existing approaches...
Mapping Features to Context Information: Supporting Context Variability for Context-Aware Pervasive Applications
Conference Proceeding
Jaroucheh, Z., Liu, X., & Smith, S. (2010)
Mapping Features to Context Information: Supporting Context Variability for Context-Aware Pervasive Applications. In Proceedings of IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technologies (WI-IAT 2010), 611-614. doi:10.1109/wi-iat.2010.25
Context-aware computing is widely accepted as a promising paradigm to enable seamless computing. Several middlewares and ontology-based models for describing context informati...
Lightweight Software Product Line Based Privacy Protection Scheme for Pervasive Applications
Conference Proceeding
Jaroucheh, Z., Liu, X., Smith, S., & Zhao, H. (2011)
Lightweight Software Product Line Based Privacy Protection Scheme for Pervasive Applications. In 2011 IEEE 35th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference Workshops (COMPSACW),, 351-355. doi:10.1109/compsacw.2011.65
Protecting user's privacy is one of the main concerns for the deployment of pervasive computing systems in the real world. In pervasive environments, the user context informat...
CANDEL: Product Line Based Dynamic Context Management for Pervasive Applications
Conference Proceeding
Jaroucheh, Z., Liu, X., & Smith, S. (2010)
CANDEL: Product Line Based Dynamic Context Management for Pervasive Applications. In CICIS'10 Proceedings, (209-216). https://doi.org/10.1109/cisis.2010.21
In a pervasive environment, it is essential for computing applications to be context-aware. However, one of the major challenges is the establishment of a generic and dynamic ...
Blockchain-Based Authentication and Registration Mechanism for SIP-Based VoIP Systems
Conference Proceeding
Abubakar, M., Jaroucheh, Z., Al Dubai, A., & Buchanan, W. (2021)
Blockchain-Based Authentication and Registration Mechanism for SIP-Based VoIP Systems. In 2021 5th Cyber Security in Networking Conference (CSNet). https://doi.org/10.1109/csnet52717.2021.9614646
The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is the principal signalling protocol in Voice over IP (VoIP) systems, responsible for initialising, terminating, and maintaining sessions...
A Decentralised Authentication and Access Control Mechanism for Medical Wearable Sensors Data
Conference Proceeding
Abubakar, M., Jaroucheh, Z., Al Dubai, A., & Buchanan, W. J. (2021)
A Decentralised Authentication and Access Control Mechanism for Medical Wearable Sensors Data. In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Omni-Layer Intelligent Systems (COINS). https://doi.org/10.1109/coins51742.2021.9524172
Recent years have seen an increase in medical big data, which can be attributed to a paradigm shift experienced in medical data sharing induced by the growth of medical techno...
PoNW: A Secure and Scalable Proof-of-Notarized-Work-Based Consensus Mechanism
Conference Proceeding
Abubakar, M. A., Jaroucheh, Z., Al-Dubai, A., & Buchanan, B. (2020)
PoNW: A Secure and Scalable Proof-of-Notarized-Work-Based Consensus Mechanism. In ICVISP 2020: Proceedings of the 2020 4th International Conference on Vision, Image and Signal Processing (1-8). https://doi.org/10.1145/3448823.3448875
The original consensus algorithm - Proof of Work (PoW) has been widely utilized in the blockchain systems and is been adopted by many cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Eth...
Blockchain-based Platform for Secure Sharing and Validation of Vaccination Certificates
Conference Proceeding
Abubakar, M., McCarron, P., Jaroucheh, Z., Al Dubai, A., & Buchanan, B. (2022)
Blockchain-based Platform for Secure Sharing and Validation of Vaccination Certificates. In 2021 14th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN). https://doi.org/10.1109/SIN54109.2021.9699221
The COVID-19 pandemic has recently emerged as a worldwide health emergency that necessitates coordinated international measures. To contain the virus's spread, governments and...