Recently, a series of pioneer studies have shown the potency of pre-trained models in sequential recommendation, illuminating the path of building an omniscient unified pre-trained recommendation model for different downstream recommendation tasks. ...

Edge computing extends a traditional cloud data centre model often by using a micro data centre (mdc) at the network edge for computation and storage. As these edge devices are in proximity to users, this results in improved application response times ...

Tabletop systems are used primarily in meetings or other activities wherein information is shared. However, when confidential input is needed, for example when entering a password, privacy becomes an issue. In this study, we use the shadowed area nearby ...

This paper reviews and assesses the current coverage of security topics in the master's programs and proposes the best method for educating students in an Information Sciences and Technologies curriculum at Rochester Institute of Technology. We start by ...

Privilege Escalation is a common and serious type of security attack. Although experience shows that many applications are vulnerable to such attacks, attackers rarely succeed upon first trial. Their initial probing attempts often fail before a ...

We reflect upon the design of a paper-based tangible interactive space to support air traffic control. We have observed, studied, prototyped and discussed with controllers a new mixed interaction system based on Anoto, video projection, and tracking. ...

The owner and users of a sensor network may be different, which necessitates privacy-preserving access control. On the one hand, the network owner need enforce strict access control so that the sensed data are only accessible to users willing to pay. On ...

Secure multiparty protocols have been proposed to enable noncolluding parties to cooperate without a trusted server. Even though such protocols prevent information disclosure other than the objective function, they are quite costly in computation and ...

Cellular text messaging services are increasingly being relied upon to disseminate critical information during emergencies. Accordingly, a wide range of organizations including colleges and universities now partner with third-party providers that ...

The multihop routing in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) offers little protection against identity deception through replaying routing information. An adversary can exploit this defect to launch various harmful or even devastating attacks against the ...

The eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) is the de facto language to specify access control policies for web services. XACML has an RBAC profile (XACML-RBAC) to support role-based access control policies. We extend this profile with an ...

Utilizing the popular virtualization technology (VT), users can benefit from server consolidation on high-end systems and flexible programming interfaces on low-end systems. In these virtualization environments, the intensive memory multiplexing for I/O ...

Due to the unattended nature of wireless sensor networks, an adversary can capture and compromise sensor nodes, make replicas of them, and then mount a variety of attacks with these replicas. These replica node attacks are dangerous because they allow ...

A robust group key agreement protocol (GKA) allows a set of players to establish a shared secret key, regardless of network/node failures. Current constant-round GKA protocols are either efficient and nonrobust or robust but not efficient; assuming a ...

Channel assignment is a very important topic in wireless networks. In this paper, we study FDMA channel assignment in a noncooperative wireless network, where devices are selfish. Existing work on this problem has considered Nash Equilibrium (NE), which ...

With the popularity of voting systems in cyberspace, there is growing evidence that current voting systems can be manipulated by fake votes. This problem has attracted many researchers working on guarding voting systems in two areas: relieving the ...

Distributed networked storage systems provide the storage service on the Internet. We address the privacy issue of the distributed networked storage system. It is desired that data stored in the system remain private even if all storage servers in the ...

Cross-organization or cross-domain cooperation takes place from time to time in Electronic Health Record (EHR) system for necessary and high-quality patient treatment. Cautious design of delegation mechanism must be in place as a building block of cross-...

Secure distance-based localization in the presence of cheating beacon (or anchor) nodes is an important problem in mobile wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. Despite significant research efforts in this direction, some fundamental questions still ...

Internet threat monitoring (ITM) systems have been deployed to detect widespread attacks on the Internet in recent years. However, the effectiveness of ITM systems critically depends on the confidentiality of the location of their monitors. If ...