Information service platforms or management information systems of various institutions or sectors of enterprises are gradually interconnected to form a multi-domain environment. A multi-domain environment is convenient for managers to supervise and...
Role-based access control (RBAC) continues to gain popularity in the management of authorization concerning access to knowledge assets in organizations. As a socio-technical concept, the notion of role in RBAC has been overemphasized, while very litt...
The Internet has become the main transmission media in modern information systems due to the popularization of information technology and the rapid development of network technology. To use the Internet, we need complete security mechanisms which inc...
Healthcare systems are increasingly vulnerable to security threats due to their reliance on digital platforms. Traditional access control models like Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) have limitations in mitig...
A medical record is an important part of a patient’s follow-up. It comprises healthcare professionals’ views, prescriptions, analyses, and all information about the patient. Several players, including the patient, the doctor, and the phar...
Large language models (LLMs) have transformed Natural Language Processing (NLP) by enabling robust text generation and understanding. However, their deployment in sensitive domains like healthcare, finance, and legal services raises critical concerns...
Role-based access control (RBAC) is a widely adopted security model that provides a flexible and scalable approach for managing permissions in various domains. One of the critical challenges in RBAC is the efficient assignment of roles to users while...
A global transition to power grids with high penetrations of renewable energy generation is being driven in part by rapid installations of distributed energy resources (DER). New DER equipment includes standardized IEEE 1547-2018 communication interf...
In this paper, we investigate how Cognitive Radio as a means of communication can be utilized to serve a smart grid deployment end to end, from a home area network to power generation. We show how Cognitive Radio can be mapped to integrate the possib...
Methods of applying deep learning to database protection have increased over the years. To secure role-based access control (RBAC) by learning the mapping function between query features and roles, it is known that the convolutional neural networks c...
A major development in the field of access control is the dominant role-based access control (RBAC) scheme. The fascination of RBAC lies in its enhanced security along with the concept of roles. In addition, attribute-based access control (ABAC) is a...
Conversational AI systems have emerged as key enablers of human-like interactions across diverse sectors. Nevertheless, the balance between linguistic nuance and factual accuracy has proven elusive. In this paper, we first introduce LLMXplorer, a com...
The increasing adoption of smart home devices has raised significant concerns regarding privacy, security, and vulnerability to cyber threats. This study addresses these challenges by presenting a federated learning framework enhanced with blockchain...
The area of smart homes is one of the most popular for deploying smart connected devices. One of the most vulnerable aspects of smart homes is access control. Recent advances in IoT have led to several access control models being developed or adapted...
Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART), particularly In Vitro Fertilization (IVF), generates highly sensitive medical data classified as Protected Health Information (PHI) under international privacy and data protection laws. Ensuring the secure, tra...
In traditional power grids, the unidirectional flow of energy and information has led to a decrease in efficiency. To address this issue, the concept of microgrids with bidirectional flow and independent power sources has been introduced. The compone...
Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and Supervisory Control systems and Data Acquisition (SCADA) networks implement industrial communication protocols to enable their operations. Modbus is an application protocol that allows communication between millio...
Significance and popularity of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is inevitable; however, its application is highly challenging in multi-domain collaborative smart city environments. The reason is its limitations in adapting the dynamically changing in...
As the functionality and services provided by cloud computing increase, control access to these services becomes more complex, and more security breaches are generated. This is mainly based on the emergence of new requirements and constraints in the...
In this paper, we present a secure datastore based on an Ethereum smart contract. Our research is guided by three research questions. First, we will explore to what extend a smart-contract-based datastore should resemble a traditional database system...
The rise of Internet hospitals has significant issues associated with data security and governance in managing sensitive patient data. This paper discusses an alliance blockchain (i.e., a private blockchain) model for governance innovation in interne...
Internet of Things (IoT) devices have revolutionized real-time monitoring and distant patient care in smart cities’ healthcare systems. However, this advancement has come with several issues, such as data security, scalability, operational effi...
Cloud data storage is revolutionary because it eliminates the need for additional hardware, which is often costly, inconvenient, and requires additional space. Cloud data storage allows data owners to store large amounts of data in a flexible way and...
Due to the rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT), IoT platforms that can provide common functions for things are becoming increasingly important. However, access control frameworks in diverse IoT platforms have been developed for individual s...
Cloud computing provides a ubiquitous data storage and access mechanism for organizations, industries, and smart grids to facilitate their operations. However, the concern in cloud storage systems is to secure data access control toward authenticatio...
A building information model (BIM) is of upmost importance with a full life-time cycle in architecture engineering and construction industry. Smart construction relies on BIM to manipulate information flow, data flow, and management flow. Currently,...
Access control has become problematic in several organizations because of the difficulty in establishing security and preventing malicious users from mimicking roles. Moreover, there is no flexibility among users in the participation in their roles,...
Role-based access control (RBAC) is a widely adopted access control model in various domains for defining security management. Role mining is closely related to role-based access control, as the latter employs role assignments to offer a flexible and...
The blockchain technology is transforming the mining industry by enabling mineral reserve tokenization, improving security, transparency, and traceability. However, controlling access to sensitive mining data remains a challenge. Existing access cont...
The enforcement of fine-grained access control policies in constrained dynamic networks can become a challenging task. The inherit constraints present in those networks, which result from the limitations of the edge devices in terms of power, computa...
The integration of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in healthcare has enhanced medical efficiency but poses challenges such as data privacy risks and internal abuse. Traditional IoT data access frameworks suffer from centralization, limited scalabili...
With the rapid development of digital economics, a large number of data have been accumulated in the supply chain system, and data islands have appeared. Data sharing is an imperative way to unlock the data value of a supply chain system. A safe and...
Location-based services (LBS) offer various functionalities, but ensuring secure access to sensitive user data remains a challenge. Traditional access control methods often need more detail to enforce location-specific restrictions. This paper propos...
End-to-end security is essential for relational database software. Most database management software provide data protection at the server side and in transit, but data are no longer protected once they arrive at the client software. In this paper, w...
The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) applications in safety-critical domains, such as healthcare, smart transportation, and industrial automation, demands robust solutions for data integrity, traceability, and security that surpass the capab...
Role-based access control (RBAC) is one of the most popular access-control mechanisms because of its convenience for management and various security policies, such as cardinality constraints, mutually exclusive constraints, and user-capability constr...
Indoor Air Quality monitoring is a major asset to improving quality of life and building management. Today, the evolution of embedded technologies allows the implementation of such monitoring on the edge of the network. However, several concerns need...
Role-based access control (RBAC), which has been regarded as one of the most popular access-control mechanisms, is featured by the separation-of-duty constraints, mutually exclusive constraints, and the least-privileges principle. Role mining, a bott...
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are a major cause of global mortality, underscoring the need for intelligent and accessible cardiac health monitoring. This paper proposes a non-wearable Internet-of-Medical-Things (IoMT) system combining real-time sens...
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in transforming software testing by automating tasks such as test case generation. In this work, we explore the integration of LLMs within a Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) approach...
Continuous and personalized monitoring are beneficial for patients suffering from neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis. However, such levels of monitoring are seldom ensured by...
With the growing emphasis on privacy awareness, there is an increasing demand for privacy-preserving encrypted image retrieval and secure image storage on cloud servers. Nonetheless, existing solutions exhibit certain shortcomings regarding retrieval...
Model evaluation is critical in deep learning. However, the traditional model evaluation approach is susceptible to issues of untrustworthiness, including insecure data and model sharing, insecure model training, incorrect model evaluation, centraliz...
While Internet of Things (IoT) technology has been widely recognized as an essential part of Smart Cities, it also brings new challenges in terms of privacy and security. Access control (AC) is among the top security concerns, which is critical in re...
Organisations are adopting new IT strategies such as “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) and remote working. These trends are highly beneficial both for enterprise owners and employees in terms of increased productivity and reduced costs. Howe...
The integration of blockchain technology into healthcare offers a robust solution to challenges in secure data sharing, privacy protection, and operational efficiency. Effective exchange of sensitive patient information among hospitals, clinics, insu...
Cloud computing has witnessed rapid growth and notable technological progress in recent years. Nevertheless, it is still regarded as being in its early developmental phase, with substantial potential remaining to be explored—particularly throug...
The rapid rise of virtual hospitals has created an urgent need for secure, interoperable, and patient-centered (PC) access to medical data across distributed healthcare environments. However, most existing hospital information systems and electronic...
Energy Transition (ET) needs actors to perform independent actions on multiple levels of governance. These actors may need to write and read their data, and at the same time they want to protect their data from unauthorized access. This is particular...
In the context of modern healthcare, the integration of sensor networks into electronic health record (EHR) systems introduces new opportunities and challenges related to data privacy, security, and interoperability. This paper proposes a secure dist...
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