Security, Privacy, and Trust in Modern Data Management & Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies V

The vision of ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence describes a world of technology which is present anywhere, anytime in the form of smart, sensible devices that communicate with each other and provide personalized services. However, associated with these benefits are concerns with respect to security issues. Open interconnected systems are much more vulnerable to attacks and unauthorized data access. Furthermore, it becomes simpler to collect, store, and search personal information and endanger people's privacy.
In the context of this menace, Petkovic and Jonker provide a comprehensive guide to data management technologies with respect to security, privacy and trust. After the introductory part that offers a perspective on privacy and security issues in the modern digital world, the contributions from leading researchers are grouped into sections on data and system security, privacy-enhancing techniques, digital asset protection, and selected topics on privacy and security in ambient intelligence. Overall, the book delivers, from information on the ethical and legislative background, to chapters on the state-of-the-art technologies such as access control, identity management and digital rights management to advice on implementing fair information practices and preventing security and privacy violations.

With this broad approach, this book appeals equally to researchers and graduate students looking for an overview of this area of ever-growing importance and to professional developers who require sound theoretical grounds for the design and implementation of secure privacy-preserving ubiquitous applications.

Written for:
Researchers, graduate students, libraries

Table of Contents:

Part I Introduction
1 Privacy and Security Issues in a Digital World
2 Privacy in the Law
3 Ethical Aspects of Information Security and Privacy

Part II Data and System Security
4 Authorization and Access Control
5 Role-Based Access Control
6 XML Security
7 Database Security
8 Trust Management
9 Trusted Platforms
10 Strong Authentication with Physical Unclonable Functions

Part III Privacy Enhancing
11 Privacy-Preserving Data Mining
12 Statistical Database Security
13 Different Search Strategies on Encrypted Data Compared
14 Client-Server Trade-Offs in Secure Computation
15 Federated Identity Management
16 Accountable Anonymous Communication

Part IV Digital Asset Protection
17 An Introduction to Digital Rights Management Systems
18 Copy Protection Systems
19 Forensic Watermarking in Digital Rights Management
20 Person-Based and Domain-Based Digital Rights Management
21 Digital Rights Management Interoperability
22 DRM for Protecting Personal Content
23 Enhancing Privacy for Digital Rights Management

Part V Selected Topics on Privacy and Security in Ambient Intelligence
24 The Persuasiveness of Ambient Intelligence
25 Privacy Policies
26 Security and Privacy on the Semantic Web
27 Private Person Authentication in an Ambient World
28 RFID and Privacy
29 Malicious Software in Ubiquitous Computing

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies, DALT 2007, held in Honolulu, USA, in 2007.
It was an associated event of AAMAS 2007, the international conference on autonomous agents and multi-agent systems.
The 11 full papers, together with 1 keynote lecture and 2 invited papers from the AAMAS main conference were substantially enhanced after the workshop and carefully selected for inclusion in this publication.
The papers combine declarative and formal approaches with engineering and technology aspects of agents and multiagent systems.
They focus especially on modeling, goals, foundational concepts, and communication.

Written for:
Researchers and professionals

Table of Contents:

Invited Talk
Agent-Oriented Modelling: Declarative or Procedural

Invited Papers
Joint Conversation Specification and Compliance
Interoperation in Protocol Enactment

Contributed Papers: Modeling
Integrating Agent Models and Dynamical Systems

Contributed Papers: Goals
Composing High-Level Plans for Declarative Agent Programming
Satisfying Maintenance Goals
Towards Alternative Approaches to Reasoning About Goals

Contributed Papers: Foundational Concepts
Reflections on Agent Beliefs
Modeling Agents’ Choices in Temporal Linear Logic
Conflict Resolution in Norm-Regulated Environments Via Unification and Constraints
On the Complexity Monotonicity Thesis for Environment, Behaviour and Cognition

Contributed Papers: Communication
Structured Argumentation in a Mediator for Online Dispute Resolution
Extending Propositional Logic with Concrete Domains for Multi-issue Bilateral Negotiation
Component-Based Standardisation of Agent Communication