A study on security grade assignment model for mobile users in urban computing

The relation between the information/knowledge expression and the physical expression can be involved as one of items for an ambient intelligent computing [2],[3]. Moreover, because there are so many contexts around user/spaces during a user movement, all appplcation which are using AmI for users are based on the relation between user devices and environments. In these situations, it is possible that the AmI may output the wrong result from unreliable contexts by attackers. Recently, establishing a server have been utilizes, so finding secure contexts and make contexts of higher security level for save communication have been given importance. Attackers try to put their devices on the expected path of all users in order to obtain users informationillegally or they may try to broadcast their SPAMS to users. This paper is an extensionof [11] which studies the Security Grade Assignment Model (SGAM) to set Cyber-Society Organization (CSO).

Mobile device-to-device distributed computing using data sets

The rapidly increasing computing power, available storage and communication capabilities of mobile devices makes it possible to start processing and storing data locally, rather than offloading it to remote servers; allowing scenarios of mobile clouds without infrastructure dependency. We can now aim at connecting neighboring mobile devices, creating a local mobile cloud that provides storage and computing services on local generated data. In this paper, we describe an early overview of a distributed mobile system that allows accessing and processing of data distributed across mobile devices without an external communication infrastructure. Copyright © 2015 ICST.

Context-aware personalization environment for mobile computing

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Pervasive adaptive data acquisition gateway for critical healthcare

The data acquisition process in real-time is fundamental to provide appropriate services and improve health professionals decision. In this paper a pervasive adaptive data acquisition architecture of medical devices (e.g. vital signs, ventilators and sensors) is presented. The architecture was deployed in a real context in an Intensive Care Unit. It is providing clinical data in real-time to the INTCare system. The gateway is composed by several agents able to collect a set of patients’ variables (vital signs, ventilation) across the network. The paper shows as example the ventilation acquisition process. The clients are installed in a machine near the patient bed. Then they are connected to the ventilators and the data monitored is sent to a multithreading server which using Health Level Seven protocols records the data in the database. The agents associated to gateway are able to collect, analyse, interpret and store the data in the repository. This gateway is composed by a fault tolerant system that ensures a data store in the database even if the agents are disconnected. The gateway is pervasive, universal, and interoperable and it is able to adapt to any service using streaming data.

Preventive medicine for epidemic outbreaks and risky behavior through mobile devices and ubiquitous computing

In this work, we have developed the first free software for mobile devices with the Android operating system that can preventively mitigate the number of contagions of sexually transmitted infections (STI), associated with risk behavior. This software runs in two modes. The normal mode allows the user to see the alerts and nearby health centers. The second mode enables the service to work in the background. This software reports the health risks, as well as the location of different test centers.

A Bayesian approach for pervasive estimation of breaststroke velocity using a wearable IMU

A ubiquitous assessment of swimming velocity (main metric of the performance) is essential for the coach to provide a tailored feedback to the trainee. We present a probabilistic framework for the data-driven estimation of the swimming velocity at every cycle using a low-cost wearable inertial measurement unit (IMU). The statistical validation of the method on 15 swimmers shows that an average relative error of 0.1 ± 9.6% and high correlation with the tethered reference system (rX,Y=0.91 ) is achievable. Besides, a simple tool to analyze the influence of sacrum kinematics on the performance is provided.

The Future of Mobile Services and Wireless Applications in the Finnish Healthcare Sector

Työn päätavoitteena oli tutkia mobiilipalveluita ja langattomia sovelluksia Suomen terveydenhuollon sektorilla. Tutkimus havainnollistaa avain-alueita, missä mobiilipalvelut ja langattomat sovellukset voivat antaa lisäarvoa perinteiseen lääketieteen harjoittamiseen, ja selvittää, mitkä ovat tähän kehitykseen liittyvät suurimmat ongelmat ja uhkat sekä tutkimustuloksiin pohjautuvat mahdolliset palvelut ja sovellukset 5-10 vuoden kuluttua. Tutkimus oli luonteeltaan kvalitatiivinen ja tutkimuksen toteuttamiseen valittiin tulevaisuudentutkimus ja erityisesti yksi sen menetelmistä, delfoi-menetelmä. Tutkimuksen aineisto kerättiin kahdelta puolistrukturoidulta haastattelukierrokselta. Työn empiirinen osuus keskittyi kuvailemaan Suomen terveydenhuollon sektoria, siinä meneillään olevia projekteja sekä teknisiä esteitä. Lisäksi pyrittiin vastaamaan tutkimuksen pääkysymykseen. Tutkimustulokset osoittivat, että tärkeät alueet, joihin langaton kommunikaatio tulisi vaikuttamaan merkittävästi, ovat ensiaputoiminta, kroonisten potilaiden etämonitorointi, välineiden kehittäminen langattomaan kommunikaatioon kotihoidon parantamiseksi ja uusien toimintamallien luomiseksi sekä lääketieteellinen yhteistyö jakamalla terveydenhuoltoon liittyvät informaation lähteet. Työn tulosten perusteellavoitiin antaa myös muutamia toimenpide-ehdotuksia jatkotutkimuksia varten.

What are the opportunities and challenges of cloud computing technology in the healthcare information systems

This thesis discusses the opportunities and challenges of the cloud computing technology in healthcare information systems by reviewing the existing literature on cloud computing and healthcare information system and the impact of cloud computing technology to healthcare industry. The review shows that if problems related to security of data are solved then cloud computing will positively transform the healthcare institutions by giving advantage to the healthcare IT infrastructure as well as improving and giving benefit to healthcare services. Therefore, this thesis will explore the opportunities and challenges that are associated with cloud computing in the context of Finland in order to help the healthcare organizations and stakeholders to determine its direction when it decides to adopt cloud technology on their information systems.

Development of agnostic mobile applications with cross-platform cloud computing platforms

Smart phones became part and parcel of our life, where mobility provides a freedom of not being bounded by time and space. In addition, number of smartphones produced each year is skyrocketing. However, this also created discrepancies or fragmentation among devices and OSes, which in turn made an exceeding hard for developers to deliver hundreds of similar featured applications with various versions for the market consumption. This thesis is an attempt to investigate whether cloud based mobile development platforms can mitigate and eventually eliminate fragmentation challenges. During this research, we have selected and analyzed the most popular cloud based development platforms and tested integrated cloud features. This research showed that cloud based mobile development platforms may able to reduce mobile fragmentation and enable to utilize single codebase to deliver a mobile application for different platforms.

Pocket data mining: towards collaborative data mining in mobile computing environments

Pocket Data Mining (PDM) is our new term describing collaborative mining of streaming data in mobile and distributed computing environments. With sheer amounts of data streams are now available for subscription on our smart mobile phones, the potential of using this data for decision making using data stream mining techniques has now been achievable owing to the increasing power of these handheld devices. Wireless communication among these devices using Bluetooth and WiFi technologies has opened the door wide for collaborative mining among the mobile devices within the same range that are running data mining techniques targeting the same application. This paper proposes a new architecture that we have prototyped for realizing the significant applications in this area. We have proposed using mobile software agents in this application for several reasons. Most importantly the autonomic intelligent behaviour of the agent technology has been the driving force for using it in this application. Other efficiency reasons are discussed in details in this paper. Experimental results showing the feasibility of the proposed architecture are presented and discussed.

A multi-agent system for pervasive healthcare

Wireless technology based pervasive healthcare has been proposed in many applications such as disease management and accident prevention for cost saving and promoting citizen’s wellbeing. However, the emphasis so far is on the artefacts with limited attentions to guiding the development of an effective and efficient solution for pervasive healthcare. Therefore, this paper aims to propose a framework of multi-agent systems design for pervasive healthcare by adopting the concept of pervasive informatics and using the methods of organisational semiotics. The proposed multi-agent system for pervasive healthcare utilises sensory information to support healthcare professionals for providing appropriate care. The key contributions contain theoretical aspect and practical aspect. In theory, this paper articulates the information interactions between the pervasive healthcare environment and stakeholders by using the methods of organisational semiotics; in practice, the proposed framework improves the healthcare quality by providing appropriate medical attentions when and as needed. In this paper, both systems and functional architecture of the multi-agent system are elaborated with the use of wireless technologies such as RFID and wireless sensor networks. The future study will focus on the implementation of the proposed framework.

Sincronizzazione e condivisione di file system tra sistemi operativi

La necessità di sincronizzare i propri dati si presenta in una moltitudine di situazioni, infatti il numero di dispositivi informatici a nostra disposizione è in continua crescita e, all' aumentare del loro numero, cresce l' esigenza di mantenere aggiornate le multiple copie dei dati in essi memorizzati. Vi sono diversi fattori che complicano tale situazione, tra questi la varietà sempre maggiore dei sistemi operativi utilizzati nei diversi dispositivi, si parla di Microsoft Windows, delle tante distribuzioni Linux, di Mac OS X, di Solaris o di altri sistemi operativi UNIX, senza contare i sistemi operativi più orientati al settore mobile come Android. Ogni sistema operativo ha inoltre un modo particolare di gestire i dati, si pensi alla differente gestione dei permessi dei file o alla sensibilità alle maiuscole. Bisogna anche considerare che se gli aggiornamenti dei dati avvenissero soltanto su di uno di questi dispositivi sarebbe richiesta una semplice copia dei dati aggiornati sugli altri dispositivi, ma che non è sempre possibile utilizzare tale approccio. Infatti i dati vengono spesso aggiornati in maniera indipendente in più di un dispositivo, magari nello stesso momento, è pertanto necessario che le applicazioni che si occupano di sincronizzare tali dati riconoscano le situazioni di conflitto, nelle quali gli stessi dati sono stati aggiornati in più di una copia ed in maniera differente, e permettano di risolverle, uniformando lo stato delle repliche. Considerando l' importanza e il valore che possono avere i dati, sia a livello lavorativo che personale, è necessario che tali applicazioni possano garantirne la sicurezza, evitando in ogni caso un loro danneggiamento, perchè sempre più spesso il valore di un dispositivo dipende più dai dati in esso contenuti che dal costo dello hardware. In questa tesi verranno illustrate alcune idee alternative su come possa aver luogo la condivisione e la sincronizzazione di dati tra sistemi operativi diversi, sia nel caso in cui siano installati nello stesso dispositivo che tra dispositivi differenti. La prima parte della tesi descriverà nel dettaglio l' applicativo Unison. Tale applicazione, consente di mantenere sincronizzate tra di loro repliche dei dati, memorizzate in diversi dispositivi che possono anche eseguire sistemi operativi differenti. Unison funziona a livello utente, analizzando separatamente lo stato delle repliche al momento dell' esecuzione, senza cioè mantenere traccia delle operazioni che sono state effettuate sui dati per modificarli dal loro stato precedente a quello attuale. Unison permette la sincronizzazione anche quando i dati siano stati modificati in maniera indipendente su più di un dispositivo, occupandosi di risolvere gli eventuali conflitti che possono verificarsi rispettando la volontà dell' utente. Verranno messe in evidenza le strategie utilizzate dai suoi ideatori per garantire la sicurezza dei dati ad esso affidati e come queste abbiano effetto nelle più diverse condizioni. Verrà poi fornita un' analisi dettagiata di come possa essere utilizzata l' applicazione, fornendo una descrizione accurata delle funzionalità e vari esempi per renderne più chiaro il funzionamento. Nella seconda parte della tesi si descriverà invece come condividere file system tra sistemi operativi diversi all' interno della stessa macchina, si tratta di un approccio diametralmente opposto al precedente, in cui al posto di avere una singola copia dei dati, si manteneva una replica per ogni dispositivo coinvolto. Concentrando l' attenzione sui sistemi operativi Linux e Microsoft Windows verranno descritti approfonditamente gli strumenti utilizzati e illustrate le caratteristiche tecniche sottostanti.