A Classification of non-Cryptographic Anonymization Techniques Ensuring Privacy in Big Data

Recently, Big Data processing becomes crucial to most enterprise and government applications due to the fast growth of the collected data. However, this data often includes private personal information that arise new security and privacy concerns. Moreover, it is widely agreed that the sheer scale of big data makes many privacy preserving techniques unavailing. Therefore, in order to ensure privacy in big data, anonymization is suggested as one of the most efficient approaches. In this paper, we will provide a new detailed classification of the most used non-cryptographic anonymization techniques related to big data including generalization and randomization approaches. Besides, the paper evaluates the presented techniques through integrity, confidentiality and credibility criteria. In addition, three relevant anonymization techniques including k-anonymity, l-diversity and t-closeness are tested on an extract of a huge real data set

Calculating and Evaluating Trustworthiness of Certification Authority

In  a  public  key  infrastructure  trust  model,  a  trust  is transferred along a set of certificates, issued by certificate authorities (CAs) considered  as  trustfully  third  parties,  providing  a  trust chain among  its  entities.  In  order  to  deserve  this trustworthiness,  a  CA should to apply the rigorous procedures for generating keys, checking the  identities,  and  following  reliable  security  practices.  Any deficiency in  these procedures  may in?uence its trustworthiness.  In this  context,  some  authorities  could  be  weaker  than  others.  Then, relying parties (RPs) and certificate holders (CHs) need a mechanism to evaluate CA trustworthiness. In this paper, we provide them this mechanism to have information about its trustworthiness. In fact, we propose  a  trust  level  calculation  algorithm  that  is  based  on  three parameters  which  are  the  CA  reputation,  the  quality  of  procedures described in the certi?cate policy and its security maturity level

Nuevos quelatos de cobre (II) conteniendo coligandos heterociclos nitrogenados: estudio estructural

Tesis Univ. Granada. Departamento de Química Inorgánic

A systematic literature review of undiscovered vulnerabilities and tools in smart contract technology

In recent years, smart contract technology has garnered significant attention due to its ability to address trust issues that traditional technologies have long struggled with. However, like any evolving technology, smart contracts are not immune to vulnerabilities, and some remain underexplored, often eluding detection by existing vulnerability assessment tools. In this article, we have performed a systematic literature review of all the scientific research and papers conducted between 2016 and 2021. The main objective of this work is to identify what vulnerabilities and smart contract technologies have not been well studied. In addition, we list all the datasets used by previous researchers that can help researchers in building more efficient machine-learning models in the future. In addition, comparisons are drawn among the smart contract analysis tools by considering various features. Finally, various future directions are also discussed in the field of smart contracts that can help researchers to set the direction for future research in this domain

A resilient inter-organizational workflow assignment plan selection approach: Application to a digital health use case

Workflow Management Systems are rapidly evolving and increasingly used in a variety of industries, allowing organizations to automate and enhance their business processes. Hence, they are open to collaboration throw inter-organizational workflows to achieve common objectives. Thus, organizations could thereby adapt to highly dynamic environments and abrupt sudden changes like during epidemics. One of the particular interests for security researchers is to ensure workflow resiliency, which means ensuring the completion of the workflow execution given a defined set of security constraints without violating the security policy. However, the rigid application of security constraints restricts some task-organization assignments, which leads to the workflow satisfiability problem. Moreover, a wise selection of collaborating organizations is very important for secure resilient inter-organizational workflow execution. Therefore, we aim in this paper to propose a resilient inter-organizational workflow assignment plan selection approach to select a valid task-organization plan that allows a resilient inter-organizational workflow complete execution. Our proposed approach, uses the task priority concept, Bayesian inference, and a hybrid multi-criteria decision-making approach based on the methods Analytical Hierarchical Process and Grey Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution. As a result, the proposed approach selects the best assignment plan for a resilient execution of the Inter-Organizational Workflow, in addition to delegates for each task-organization assignment if available

Mobility as a service a valuecentric approach to design

MAAS as a mobility model leans on the idea that a gap between private and public transport systems needs to be bridged as well as on a city, intercity, national and supranational level. The current situation is felt problematic due to the fragmented tools and services often organized in silos to meet a traveler needs to undertake a trip. One of the major concerns designing any platform system like Mobility as a Service is where to start modeling and how to express the notion of the platform system in some language that is understandable for all stakeholders of the platform system. Understandability buttresses the expectation of stakeholders whether some design will probably implement the intended platform services enabling users to actually buy and or use the platform system for what ever purpose. Building on the economic theories of two-sided markets and mechanism design we introduce the concept of value nets extending the Contract Protocol Net. Value net modeling offers a precise abstract representation which provides in the detailed informational requirements in a canonical form and it connects i.e. implements the abstract notion of Service Oriented Architecture characterizing systems without loss of crucial informational elements.Information and Communication Technolog

Cocrystallization of Mononuclear and Trinuclear Metallacycle Molecules from an Aqueous Mixed-Ligand Copper(II) Solution

The compound [Cu­(μ₂-NamIDA)­(2,4-dapyd)]₃·3­[Cu­(NamIDA)­(2,4-dapyd)­(H₂O)]·21H₂O (NamIDA = <i>N</i>-(1-naphtylmethyl)­iminodiacetate­(2-) and 2,4-dapyd = 2,4-diaminopyrimidine) is a spontaneous cocrystal with mononuclear and trinuclear metallacycle complex molecules, where extensive intermolecular H bonds play a key role