An Applet Recommendation System for Multi-Application Smart Cards

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As multi-application smart cards have become very attractive mobile devices, card users are able to add and to remove card-applets after card issuance. However, because of constrained memory on a smart card, it is necessary to manage card-resident applets. In this paper, we propose an adaptive applet management algorithm in order to recommend card-resident applets which can be removed. This algorithm's goal is to select card-resident applets in a way minimizes the number of applet downloads. To serve this purpose, our algorithm identifies the applets that are most likely to be executed again, and based on that, decides which should be kept in the memorY and which can be discarded.