WiseEye: next generation expandable and programmable camera trap platform for wildlife research

Funding: The work was supported by the RCUK Digital Economy programme to the dot.rural Digital Economy Hub; award reference: EP/G066051/1. The work of S. Newey and RJI was part funded by the Scottish Government's Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services (RESAS). Details published as an Open Source Toolkit, PLOS Journals at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0169758Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Relating the Chondrocyte Gene Network to Growth Plate Morphology: From Genes to Phenotype

During endochondral ossification, chondrocyte growth and differentiation is controlled by many local signalling pathways. Due to crosstalks and feedback mechanisms, these interwoven pathways display a network like structure. In this study, a large-scale literature based logical model of the growth plate network was developed. The network is able to capture the different states (resting, proliferating and hypertrophic) that chondrocytes go through as they progress within the growth plate. In a first corroboration step, the effect of mutations in various signalling pathways of the growth plate network was investigated

ANEMONE - A Network of Multi-Agent Platforms for Academic Communities

This paper presents ANEMONE, a multi-agent platforms network that provides services for the academic community implemented by using the JADE agent development framework. In particular, ANEMONE provides a set of services to support i) academic people in some of their recurrent activities (fix an appointment, organize a meeting and search documents on the Web, ii) students in getting information about courses and iii) information technology people (including students) in getting information on documents and people that may help them to solve their programming problems. Moreover, it also provides a set of system-oriented services for the management of agent platforms and services and for the realization of new types of service

Enabling privacy-preserving credential-based access control with XACML and SAML

In this paper we describe extensions to the access control industry standards XACML and SAML to enable privacy-preserving and credential-based access control. Rather than assuming that an enforcement point knows all the requester's attributes, our extensions allow the requester to learn which attributes have to be revealed and which conditions must be satisfied, thereby enabling to leverage the advantages of privacy-preserving technologies such as anonymous credentials. Moreover, our extensions follow a credential-based approach, i.e., attributes are regarded as being bundled together in credentials, and the policy can refer to attributes within specific credentials. In addition to defining language extensions, we also show how the XACML architecture and model of evaluating policies can be adapted to the credential-based setting, and we discuss the problems that such extensions entail

ANEMONE - A network of multi-agent platforms for academic communities

This paper presents ANEMONE, a multi-agent platforms network that provides services for the academic community implemented by using the JADE agent development framework. In particular, ANEMONE provides a set of services to support i) academic people in some of their recurrent activities (fix an appointment, organize a meeting and search documents on the Web, ii) students in getting information about courses and iii) information technology people (including students) in getting information on documents and people that may help them to solve their programming problems. Moreover, it also provides a set of system-oriented services for the management of agent platforms and services and for the realization of new types of service

Advances in access control policies

This chapter presents the results of the research on how the current standards for access control policies can be extended. In particular, Section 18.1 illustrates how privacy issues can be effectively tackled by means of a credential-based access control that includes anonymous credentials. Section 18.2 shows how the expressivity of policy languages can be exploited to introduce ontologies that model credential taxonomies and the relations among them, with a particular stress on the support for delegation mechanisms. Section 18.3 investigates the privacy issues that arise in those access control systems that are enriched with a dialog framework that enables servers to publish their policies. Finally, Section 18.4 maps these proposals onto a set a possible extensions of the architecture of the current de facto standard in access control policy languages: XACML