Proof-of-Concept Application - Annual Report Year 1

In this document the Cat-COVITE Application for use in the CATNETS Project is introduced and motivated. Furthermore an introduction to the catallactic middleware and Web Services Agreement (WS-Agreement) concepts is given as a basis for the future work. Requirements for the application of Cat-COVITE with in catallactic systems are analysed. Finally the integration of the Cat-COVITE application and the catallactic middleware is described. --Grid Computing

Analysis of current middleware used in peer-to-peer and grid implementations for enhancement by catallactic mechanisms

This deliverable describes the work done in task 3.1, Middleware analysis: Analysis of current middleware used in peer-to-peer and grid implementations for enhancement by catallactic mechanisms from work package 3, Middleware Implementation. The document is divided in four parts: The introduction with application scenarios and middleware requirements, Catnets middleware architecture, evaluation of existing middleware toolkits, and conclusions. -- Die Arbeit definiert Anforderungen an Grid und Peer-to-Peer Middleware Architekturen und analysiert diese auf ihre Eignung für die prototypische Umsetzung der Katallaxie. Eine Middleware-Architektur für die Umsetzung der Katallaxie in Application Layer Netzwerken wird vorgestellt.Grid Computing

Bioinspired Principles for Large-Scale Networked Sensor Systems: An Overview

Biology has often been used as a source of inspiration in computer science and engineering. Bioinspired principles have found their way into network node design and research due to the appealing analogies between biological systems and large networks of small sensors. This paper provides an overview of bioinspired principles and methods such as swarm intelligence, natural time synchronization, artificial immune system and intercellular information exchange applicable for sensor network design. Bioinspired principles and methods are discussed in the context of routing, clustering, time synchronization, optimal node deployment, localization and security and privacy

Security aspects of SCADA and DCS environments

Abstract SCADA Systems can be seen as a fundamental component in Critical Infrastructures, having an impact in the overall performance of other Critical Infrastructures interconnected. Currently, these systems include in their network designs different types of Information and Communication Technology systems (such as the Internet and wireless technologies), not only to modernize operational processes but also to ensure automation and real-time control. Nonetheless, the use of these new technologies will bring new security challenges, which will have a significant impact on both the business process and home users. Therefore, the main purpose of this Chapter is to address these issues and to analyze the interdependencies of Process Control Systems with ICT systems, to discuss some security aspects and to offer some possible solutions and recommendations

Islanding Detection and Power Quality Analysis in Microgrid

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Un système data mining en ligne pour la maintenance ontologique d'une mémoire corporative DM

L'intégration de la connaissance dans la mémoire corporative (Ribière et Matta, 1998), (Dieng et al., 1998) fait face à l'hétérogénéité des données (Visser, Jones et al., 1997). L'utilisation de l'ontologie est une approche possible pour surmonter ce problème. Cependant, l'ontologie est une structure de donnée comme n'importe quelle structure informatique, elle est donc dynamique et évolue dans le temps à cause des conditions dynamiques résultant des changements du domaine conceptuel, les changements de conceptualisation, les changements de spécification, les changements descendants, etc. (Yildiz, 2006). Ces dernières années, plusieurs approches ont été proposées pour résoudre le problème de la maintenance des ontologies. Cependant, la précision et le rappel ne permettent pas de satisfaire les besoins des utilisateurs. De plus, ces approches ne prennent pas en compte toute l'information disponible pour prendre une décision réaliste. Pour résoudre le problème de l'évolution de la connaissance dans les ontologies, nous proposons une approche hybride qui utilise l'apprentissage machine et un processus d'alignement qui contrôle les relations syntaxiques entre les entrées dans l'ontologie. De plus, des règles structurelles et des heuristiques sont appliquées pour améliorer le degré de similitude entre les entités ontologiques. Ce processus hybride crée des règles de correspondance qui définissent comment transformer les entrées dans l'ontologie en définissant tous les types d'associations possibles entre les entités ontologiques. L'approche d'enrichissement de l'ontologie exploite les techniques de la fouille de données, les techniques du traitement automatique du langage naturel et la recherche d'information pour améliorer la performance d'apprentissage durant la tâche d'enrichissement du domaine conceptuel. L'évaluation des ontologies demeure un problème important et le choix d'une approche appropriée dépend des critères utilisés. Dans notre approche, nous adoptons la vérification de la cohérence décrite dans (Maziar Amirhosseini et al., 2011) et (Abderrazak et al., 2011).\ud ______________________________________________________________________________ \ud MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Data Mining, Traitement automatique du langage naturel, Apprentissage machine, Recherche d'information, Intégration, Ontologie, Mémoire corporative, Web sémantique

Trust and Privacy Solutions Based on Holistic Service Requirements

The products and services designed for Smart Cities provide the necessary tools to improve the management of modern cities in a more efficient way. These tools need to gather citizens’ information about their activity, preferences, habits, etc. opening up the possibility of tracking them. Thus, privacy and security policies must be developed in order to satisfy and manage the legislative heterogeneity surrounding the services provided and comply with the laws of the country where they are provided. This paper presents one of the possible solutions to manage this heterogeneity, bearing in mind these types of networks, such as Wireless Sensor Networks, have important resource limitations. A knowledge and ontology management system is proposed to facilitate the collaboration between the business, legal and technological areas. This will ease the implementation of adequate specific security and privacy policies for a given service. All these security and privacy policies are based on the information provided by the deployed platforms and by expert system processing

Performance evaluation of cooperation strategies for m-health services and applications

Health telematics are becoming a major improvement for patients’ lives, especially for disabled, elderly, and chronically ill people. Information and communication technologies have rapidly grown along with the mobile Internet concept of anywhere and anytime connection. In this context, Mobile Health (m-Health) proposes healthcare services delivering, overcoming geographical, temporal and even organizational barriers. Pervasive and m-Health services aim to respond several emerging problems in health services, including the increasing number of chronic diseases related to lifestyle, high costs in existing national health services, the need to empower patients and families to self-care and manage their own healthcare, and the need to provide direct access to health services, regardless the time and place. Mobile Health (m- Health) systems include the use of mobile devices and applications that interact with patients and caretakers. However, mobile devices have several constraints (such as, processor, energy, and storage resource limitations), affecting the quality of service and user experience. Architectures based on mobile devices and wireless communications presents several challenged issues and constraints, such as, battery and storage capacity, broadcast constraints, interferences, disconnections, noises, limited bandwidths, and network delays. In this sense, cooperation-based approaches are presented as a solution to solve such limitations, focusing on increasing network connectivity, communication rates, and reliability. Cooperation is an important research topic that has been growing in recent years. With the advent of wireless networks, several recent studies present cooperation mechanisms and algorithms as a solution to improve wireless networks performance. In the absence of a stable network infrastructure, mobile nodes cooperate with each other performing all networking functionalities. For example, it can support intermediate nodes forwarding packets between two distant nodes. This Thesis proposes a novel cooperation strategy for m-Health services and applications. This reputation-based scheme uses a Web-service to handle all the nodes reputation and networking permissions. Its main goal is to provide Internet services to mobile devices without network connectivity through cooperation with neighbor devices. Therefore resolving the above mentioned network problems and resulting in a major improvement for m-Health network architectures performances. A performance evaluation of this proposal through a real network scenario demonstrating and validating this cooperative scheme using a real m-Health application is presented. A cryptography solution for m-Health applications under cooperative environments, called DE4MHA, is also proposed and evaluated using the same real network scenario and the same m-Health application. Finally, this work proposes, a generalized cooperative application framework, called MobiCoop, that extends the incentive-based cooperative scheme for m-Health applications for all mobile applications. Its performance evaluation is also presented through a real network scenario demonstrating and validating MobiCoop using different mobile applications