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A Mutual P3P Methodology for Privacy Preserving Context-Aware Systems Development (프라이버시 보호 상황인식 시스템 개발을 위한 쌍방향 P3P 방법론)

  • Kwon, Oh-Byung
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.145-162
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    • 2008
  • One of the big concerns in e-society is privacy issue. In special, in developing robust ubiquitous smart space and corresponding services, user profile and preference are collected by the service providers. Privacy issue would be more critical in context-aware services simply because most of the context data themselves are private information: user's current location, current schedule, friends nearby and even her/his health data. To realize the potential of ubiquitous smart space, the systems embedded in the space should corporate personal privacy preferences. When the users invoke a set of services, they are asked to allow the service providers or smart space to make use of personal information which is related to privacy concerns. For this reason, the users unhappily provide the personal information or even deny to get served. On the other side, service provider needs personal information as rich as possible with minimal personal information to discern royal and trustworthy customers and those who are not. It would be desirable to enlarge the allowable personal information complying with the service provider's request, whereas minimizing service provider's requiring personal information which is not allowed to be submitted and user's submitting information which is of no value to the service provider. In special, if any personal information required by the service provider is not allowed, service will not be provided to the user. P3P (Platform for Privacy Preferences) has been regarded as one of the promising alternatives to preserve the personal information in the course of electronic transactions. However, P3P mainly focuses on preserving the buyers' personal information. From time to time, the service provider's business data should be protected from the unintended usage from the buyers. Moreover, even though the user's privacy preference could depend on the context happened to the user, legacy P3P does not handle the contextual change of privacy preferences. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to propose a mutual P3P-based negotiation mechanism. To do so, service provider's privacy concern is considered as well as the users'. User's privacy policy on the service provider's information also should be informed to the service providers before the service begins. Second, privacy policy is contextually designed according to the user's current context because the nomadic user's privacy concern structure may be altered contextually. Hence, the methodology includes mutual privacy policy and personalization. Overall framework of the mechanism and new code of ethics is described in section 2. Pervasive platform for mutual P3P considers user type and context field, which involves current activity, location, social context, objects nearby and physical environments. Our mutual P3P includes the privacy preference not only for the buyers but also the sellers, that is, service providers. Negotiation methodology for mutual P3P is proposed in section 3. Based on the fact that privacy concern occurs when there are needs for information access and at the same time those for information hiding. Our mechanism was implemented based on an actual shopping mall to increase the feasibility of the idea proposed in this paper. A shopping service is assumed as a context-aware service, and data groups for the service are enumerated. The privacy policy for each data group is represented as APPEL format. To examine the performance of the example service, in section 4, simulation approach is adopted in this paper. For the simulation, five data elements are considered: $\cdot$ UserID $\cdot$ User preference $\cdot$ Phone number $\cdot$ Home address $\cdot$ Product information $\cdot$ Service profile. For the negotiation, reputation is selected as a strategic value. Then the following cases are compared: $\cdot$ Legacy P3P is considered $\cdot$ Mutual P3P is considered without strategic value $\cdot$ Mutual P3P is considered with strategic value. The simulation results show that mutual P3P outperforms legacy P3P. Moreover, we could conclude that when mutual P3P is considered with strategic value, performance was better than that of mutual P3P is considered without strategic value in terms of service safety.

A Tour Guide System Based on a Context-Aware in Ubiquitous Environment (유비쿼터스 환경에서 상황인지 기반 문화재 답사도우미 시스템)

  • Park, Ji-Hyung;Lee, Seung-Soo;Kim, Sung-Ju;Lee, Seok-Ho;Yeom, Ki-Won
    • Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.11 no.5
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    • pp.365-374
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    • 2006
  • The ubiquitous environment is to support people in their everyday life in an inconspicuous and unobtrusive way. This environment requires information such as the person, his/her preferences, and habits which is available in the ubiquitous system. In this paper, we propose the context aware system that can provide the tailored information service for user in ubiquitous computing environment. Our system architecture is divided into 4 domain models such as context awareness, presentation, interface and inference domain. Each domain model can perform some predefined tasks independently. And we suggest the hybrid algorithm combined with fuzzy and Bayesian method in order to reason what is the suitable information for user. We show the possibility for the real application through applying the system to the TGA (Tour Guide Assistant) for Kyoungju historical site.

A Software Architecture for URC Robots using a Context-Aware Workflow and a Service-Oriented Middleware (상황인지 워크플로우와 서비스 지향 미들웨어를 이용한 URC 로봇 소프트웨어 아키텍처)

  • Kwak, Dong-Gyu;Choi, Jong-Sun;Choi, Jae-Young;Yoo, Chae-Woo
    • The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.240-250
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    • 2010
  • A URC, which is a Ubiquitous Robot Companion, provides services to users in ubiquitous computing environments and has advantage of simplifying robot's hardware and software by distributing the complicated functionality of robots to other system. In this paper, we propose SOWL, which is a software architecture for URC robots and a mixed word of SOMAR and CAWL. SOWL keeps the advantages of URC and it also has the loosely-coupled characteristics. Moreover it makes it easy to develop of URC robot software. The proposed architecture is composed of 4 layers: device software, robot software, robot application, and end user layer. Developers of the each layer is able to build software suitable for their requirements by combining software modules in the lower layer. SOWL consists of SOMAR and CAWL engine. SOMAR, which is a middleware for the execution of device software and robot software, is based on service-oriented architecture(SOA) for robot software. CAWL engine is a system to process CAWL which is a context-aware workflow language. SOWL is able to provide a layered architecture for the execution of a robot software. It also makes it possible for developers of the each layer to build module-based robot software.

A Study on Autonomic Analysis for Servicing Intelligent Gas Safety Management Based on RFID/USN (RFID/USN 기반 지능형 가스안전관리 서비스를 위한 자율적 분석 연구)

  • Oh, Jeong-Seok;Choi, Kyung-Seok;Kwon, Jeong-Rock;Yoon, Ki-Bong
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.51-56
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    • 2008
  • As RFID/USN technology is used in the latest industry trend, the information analysis paradigm shifts to intelligence service environment. The intelligent service includes autonomic operation, which select activity by defining itself to the status of industry facilities. Furthermore, information analysis based on IT used to frequently data mining for detecting the meaning information and deriving new pattern. This paper suggest self-classifying of context-aware by applying data mining in gas facilities for serving the intelligent gas safety management. We modify data algorithm for fitting the domain of gas safety, construct context-aware model by using the proposed algorithm, and demonstrate our method. As the accuracy of our model is improved over 90%, the our approach can apply to intelligent gas safety management based on RFID/USN environments.

Intelligent TV Recommendation Service Agent Using CAMUS Context-Aware Middleware (CAMUS 상황인식 미들웨어를 이용한 지능형 TV 추천 서비스 에이전트)

  • Moon, Ae-Kyung;Kim, Hyun;Lee, Seong-Jin;Lee, Soo-Won
    • 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.02a
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    • pp.299-304
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    • 2006
  • 기존에 개발된 사용자 선호 정보를 이용한 TV 추천 시스템은 대부분 사용자의 명시적인 요구에 따라 방송 프로그램을 추천하는 데 중점을 두고 개발되었다. 하지만, 유비쿼터스 환경이 도래함에 따라서 사용자의 요구에 따라 반응하는 수동적인 서비스 보다는 상황정보(Context)를 활용하여 능동적인 서비스를 지원할 수 있는 기술이 필요하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 CAMUS(Context-Aware Middleware for URC Systems) 상황인식 미들웨어를 이용하여 사용자 위치 상황정보에 따라 능동적으로 추천할 수 있는 TV 추천 서비스 에이전트를 제안한다. 제안된 시스템은 CAMUS 기반 서비스 에이전트와 태스크를 구현함으로써, 상황정보에 따라 능동적으로 다채널에서 방송되는 프로그램 및 사용자의 선호도 정보를 분석하여 사용자가 원하는 프로그램을 추천한다.

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Ontology-based Points of Interest Data Model for Mobile Augmented Reality (모바일 증강현실을 위한 온톨로지 기반 POI 데이터 모델)

  • Kim, Byung-Ho
    • Journal of Information Technology Services
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.269-280
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    • 2011
  • Mobile Augmented Reality (mobile AR), as one of the most prospective mobile applications, intends to provide richer experiences by annotating tags or virtual objects over the scene observed through camera embedded in a handheld device like smartphone or pad. In this paper, we analyzed the current status of the art of mobile AR and proposed a novel Points of Interest (POIs) data model based on ontology to provide context-aware information retrievals on lots of POIs data. Proposed ontology was expanded from the standard POIs data model of W3C POIs Working Group and established using OWL (Web Ontology Language) and Protege. We also proposed a context-aware mobile AR platform which can resolve three distinguished issues in current platforms : interoperability problem of POI tags, POIs data retrieval issue, and context-aware service issue.

User Context-aware based Interactive Display Service for Smart Collaborative Environment (지능형 협업 환경을 위한 사용자 컨텍스트 기반 인터랙티브 디스플레이 서비스)

  • Ko, Su-Jin;Shin, Hun-Yong;Woo, Woon-Tack;Kim, Jong-Won
    • 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.02a
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    • pp.286-291
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    • 2008
  • Intelligence of collaborative environments starts from a trial to provide optimal services to with users based on real-time information about participants and environments of the collaboration itself. Up to now, we can collect information such as temperature, light, time, each participant's gestures, faces, voices, and locations by adopting ubiquitous computing technologies. However, since social relationship is intrinsic to collaborative activities, the relationships and roles among participants should be fully considered to provide optimal services. To do so, we have to integrate collected data from various sensors and extracted data about relationships and roles among participants as unified one context. Thus, this paper designs collaborative services filtered, by using the integrated data as a context, and introduces an implemented example, context-aware based interactive display service, called as smart meeting system (SMeet system).

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Context-Aware Reasoning System for Personalized u-City Services (맞춤형 u-City 서비스 제공을 위한 상황인지 추론 시스템)

  • Lee, Chang-Hun;Kim, Ji-Ho;Song, Oh-Young
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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    • v.16C no.1
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    • pp.109-116
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    • 2009
  • Recently, there are many researches to realize context-awareness service that recognizes surrounding environments as context and provide the citizens with pervasive convenience based on ubiquitous computing technology. In the u-City, various sensors collect information as context, and citizens will receive various context-awareness service, making use of their wireless and mobile devices and the infrastructures of the u-City. We designed ontology that is useful to structure information of sensor or device that is linked to networks and use OWL (Web Ontology Language) that can express information of mutual relation and partial situation. And we propose a context-aware reasoning system for personalized u-City services based on collected context information and user's intention.

Design Patterns for Building Context-Aware Transactional Services in PaaS-Enabled Systems

  • Ettazi Widad;Riane Driss;Nassar Mahmoud
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.23 no.7
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    • pp.91-100
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    • 2023
  • Pervasive computing is characterized by a key characteristic that affects the operating environment of services and users. It places more emphasis on dynamic environments where available resources continuously vary without prior knowledge of their availability, while in static environments the services provided to users are determined in advance. At the same time, Cloud computing paradigm introduced flexibility of use according to the user's profile and needs. In this paper, we aimed to provide Context-Aware Transactional Service applications with solutions so that it can be integrated and invoked like any service in the digital ecosystem. Being able to compose is not enough, each service and application must be able to offer a well-defined behavior. This behavior must be controlled to meet the dynamicity and adaptability necessary for the new user's requirements. The motivation in this paper is to offer design patterns that will provide a maximum of automatism in order to guarantee short reaction times and minimal human intervention. Our proposal includes a cloud service model by developing a PaaS service that allows CATS adaptation. A new specification for the validation of CATS model has been also introduced using the ACTA formalism.

Model Based Approach to Estimating Privacy Concerns for Context-Aware Services (상황인식서비스를 위한 모델 기반의 프라이버시 염려 예측)

  • Lee, Yon-Nim;Kwon, Oh-Byung
    • Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.97-111
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    • 2009
  • Context-aware computing, as a core of smart space development, has been widely regarded as useful in realizing individual service provision. However, most of context-aware services so fat are in its early stage to be dispatched for actual usage in the real world, caused mainly by user's privacy concerns. Moreover, since legacy context-aware services have focused on acquiring in an automatic manner the extra-personal context such as location, weather and objects near by, the services are very limited in terms of quality and variety if the service should identify intra-personal context such as attitudes and privacy concern, which are in fact very useful to select the relevant and timely services to a user. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to propose a novel methodology to infer the user's privacy concern as intra-personal context in an intelligent manner. The proposed methodology includes a variety of stimuli from outside the person and then performs model-based reasoning with social theory models from model base to predict the user's level of privacy concern semi-automatically. To show the feasibility of the proposed methodology, a survey has been performed to examine the performance of the proposed methodology.

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