Authentication Mechanisms for E-Voting

2013 ◽  
pp. 71-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emad Abu-Shanab ◽  
Rawan Khasawneh ◽  
Izzat Alsmadi
Keyword(s):  
Voting Systems ◽  
Public Performance ◽  
The World ◽  
Ict Tools ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Essential Path

The e-government paradigm became an essential path for governments to reach citizens and businesses and to improve service and public performance. One of the important tools used in political and administrative venues is e-voting, where ICT tools are used to facilitate the process of voting for electing representatives and making decisions. The integrity and image of such applications won’t be maintained unless strict measures on security and authenticity are applied. This chapter explores the e-voting process, reviews the authentication techniques and methods that are used in this process and proposed in the literature, and demonstrates few cases of applying e-voting systems from different countries in the world. Conclusions and proposed future work are stated at the end of the chapter.

Authentication Mechanisms for E-Voting

2015 ◽  
pp. 766-781
Author(s):  
Emad Abu-Shanab ◽  
Rawan Khasawneh ◽  
Izzat Alsmadi
Keyword(s):  
Voting Systems ◽  
Public Performance ◽  
The World ◽  
Ict Tools ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Essential Path

The e-government paradigm became an essential path for governments to reach citizens and businesses and to improve service and public performance. One of the important tools used in political and administrative venues is e-voting, where ICT tools are used to facilitate the process of voting for electing representatives and making decisions. The integrity and image of such applications won't be maintained unless strict measures on security and authenticity are applied. This chapter explores the e-voting process, reviews the authentication techniques and methods that are used in this process and proposed in the literature, and demonstrates few cases of applying e-voting systems from different countries in the world. Conclusions and proposed future work are stated at the end of the chapter.

Text Writing Using Air Gestures for People With Limited Hand Motor Skills

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Ermidoro ◽  
Andrea Vitali ◽  
Fabio Previdi ◽  
Caterina Rizzi
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Motor Skills ◽  
Specific Interaction ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Interaction Style ◽  
The World ◽  
Software Modules ◽  
Ict Tools ◽  
Brain Stroke ◽  
Text Writing

Abstract Mobile devices and laptops are the main ICT tools to exchange information among people in the world. All the applications are designed by following a specific interaction style based either touchscreen or mouse and keyboard, which can be performed only with detailed movements of hands and fingers. Traditional interaction becomes difficult for elderly who have diseases limiting the hand motor skills, such as arthritis and brain stroke. The use of simple air gestures can be adopted as alternative interaction style to interact with smartphones, tablets and laptops. The aim of this research work is the development of an application that allows text writing using air gestures for people with limited hand motor skills. The application embeds several computer vision algorithms and convolutional neural networks software modules to detect and drawn alphanumeric characters and recognizing them using both mobile devices and laptops. The preliminary results obtained show that the approach is robust, and it can easily detect the alphanumeric characters written with the movement of the wrist.

scholarly journals Links between environment, diet, and the hunter-gatherer microbiome

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela K. Fragiadakis ◽  
Samuel A. Smits ◽  
Erica D. Sonnenburg ◽  
William Van Treuren ◽  
Gregor Reid ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Microbiota Composition ◽  
Hunter Gatherers ◽  
Carbohydrate Utilization ◽  
Industrialized Nations ◽  
The World ◽  
Traditional Societies ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Seasonal Shifts

AbstractThe study of traditional populations provides a view of human-associated microbes unperturbed by industrialization, as well as a window into the microbiota that co-evolved with humans. Here we discuss our recent work characterizing the microbiota from the Hadza hunter-gatherers of Tanzania. We found seasonal shifts in bacterial taxa, diversity, and carbohydrate utilization by the microbiota. When compared to the microbiota composition from other populations around the world, the Hadza microbiota shares bacterial families with other traditional societies that are rare or absent from microbiotas of industrialized nations. We present additional observations from the Hadza microbiota and their lifestyle and environment, including microbes detected on hands, water, and animal sources, how the microbiota varies with sex and age, and the shortterm effects of introducing agricultural products into the diet. In the context of our previously published findings and of these additional observations, we discuss a path forward for future work.

scholarly journals Using OpenStreetMap to Create Land Use and Land Cover Maps

2019 ◽  
pp. 1100-1123
Author(s):  
Cidália Costa Fonte ◽  
Joaquim António Patriarca ◽  
Marco Minghini ◽  
Vyron Antoniou ◽  
Linda See ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Level Of Detail ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Corine Land Cover ◽  
Online System ◽  
Urban Regions ◽  
The World ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Land Cover Maps

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a bottom up community-driven initiative to create a global map of the world. Yet the application of OSM to land use and land cover (LULC) mapping is still largely unexploited due to problems with inconsistencies in the data and harmonization of LULC nomenclatures with OSM. This chapter outlines an automated methodology for creating LULC maps using the nomenclature of two European LULC products: the Urban Atlas (UA) and CORINE Land Cover (CLC). The method is applied to two regions in London and Paris. The results show that LULC maps with a level of detail similar to UA can be obtained for the urban regions, but that OSM has limitations for conversion into the more detailed non-urban classes of the CLC nomenclature. Future work will concentrate on developing additional rules to improve the accuracy of the transformation and building an online system for processing the data.

Application of E-Government Principles in Anti-Corruption Framework

2017 ◽  
pp. 56-74
Author(s):  
Arjun Neupane ◽  
Jeffrey Soar ◽  
Kishor Vaidya ◽  
Sunil Aryal
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
The World ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Ict Tools

The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) plays a significant role in the economic, technological and social progression of a country. Corruption in government agencies and institutions is a serious problem in many countries in the world, especially in under-developed and developing countries. The use of ICT tools such as e-governance can help to reduce corruption. In this chapter, the authors discussed the application of e-government principles to mitigate corruption. Based on the available literature, this study identified some potential elements of e-government, which are currently practised around the world and how they are interrelated to fight against corruption. Finally, the authors present an evidence-based e-government anti-corruption framework.

Electronic Voting Machine

2011 ◽  
pp. 1234-1239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulo Roberto Santhias ◽  
Regis Cabral
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Voting ◽  
Voting Systems ◽  
Internet Voting ◽  
The World ◽  
Voting Machine

Electronic voting, as well as Internet voting, is in the process of being incorporated into most democracies in the world. The literature on the topic is abundant as well as the technologies offered. Most of the work, nevertheless, seems to bypass the actual origins of the modern (and current) electronic voting systems (Oudenhove et al., 2001).

Vulnerabilities of Virtual and Networked Organizations

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 20-34
Author(s):  
Zora Arsovski ◽  
Slavko Arsovski ◽  
Aleksandar Aleksic ◽  
Miladin Stefanovic ◽  
Danijela Tadic
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Virtual Organizations ◽  
One Dimension ◽  
Organizational Resilience ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
New Business ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Networked Organizations

Virtual organizations (VO) represent a future paradigm of business. Having in mind different types of perturbations in business today, from the economic crisis to the earthquakes in Japan and terrorists’ actions, new business solutions have emerged in order to sustain development all over the world. As a new field in scientific research, organizational resilience needs to be investigated in the context of VO’s. This paper has the intention to suggest a qualitative way to assess one dimension of organizational resilience in VO’s related to keystone vulnerabilities and to establish directions for future work, emphasizing the importance of quantifying overall organizational resilience.

scholarly journals Global Variation in Climate, Human Development, and Population Density Has Implications for Urban Ecosystem Services

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (22) ◽  
pp. 6200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Richards ◽  
Mahyar Masoudi ◽  
Rachel R. Y. Oh ◽  
Erik S. Yando ◽  
Jingyuan Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Population Density ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Ecosystem ◽  
Urban Ecosystem Services ◽  
Global Variation ◽  
The World ◽  
Tropical Cities ◽  
Future Work

Humans rely upon ecosystem services to regulate their environment and to provide resources and cultural benefits. As the world’s urban population grows, it becomes increasingly important to find ways of improving the provision of ecosystem services in urban areas. However, the kinds of ecosystem services that are most needed or demanded by urban populations, and the opportunities to provide these, vary widely in cities around the world. Here we explore variation in climate, Human Development Index (HDI), and population density, and discuss their implications for providing and managing urban ecosystem services. Using 221 published studies of urban ecosystem services, we analyse the extent to which existing research adequately covers global variation in climatic and social conditions. Our results reveal an under-representation of studies from tropical cities and from lower HDI countries, with implications for how we conceptualize and quantify urban ecosystem services, and how we transfer benefits across case studies. Future work should be aimed at correcting these deficits and determining the extent to which conclusions about urban ecosystem services are transferable from one city to another.

Shostakovich's Second Symphony

Tempo ◽  
1970 ◽  
pp. 14-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Lawson
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
October Revolution ◽  
Public Performance ◽  
Communist Manifesto ◽  
International Reputation ◽  
The World

The appearance of Shostakovich's Second Symphony on a gramophone record some time ago, and its public performance at a BBC symphony concert in London last October, marked its emergence from a period of over forty years of almost total neglect. Bearing the subtitle ‘To October: A symphonic Dedication’, it was composed in 1927 (two years after the highly successful First Symphony, which had established the composer's international reputation) in response to a commission from the State for a work to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the 1917 October Revolution. But while the score bears as its heading words from the Communist Manifesto, ‘Workers (Proletarians) of the World, Unite’, and the composer's avowed intention is ‘proletarian’, the musical idiom is often far removed from this. The symphony was given its first performance in Leningrad on the 6 November 1927, and as Dmitri Rabinovich, Shostakovich's Russian biographer, says in his book, “got a fairly good press but after a few performances disappeared from the repertoire”.

Layered Architecture for Mobile Web Based Application

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 51-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bimal Aklesh Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Web Browsers ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Mobile Web ◽  
Layered Architecture ◽  
Processing Power ◽  
Dynamic Web ◽  
The World ◽  
National University ◽  
Client Side ◽  
Future Work

Mobile and other PDA devices allow us to access the World Wide Web anytime and anywhere using fully functional mobile web browsers. This study utilizes the mobile web to deliver services to register students for courses at Fiji National University (FNU). Developing dynamic web based applications for mobile devices is a challenging task, because these devices have limited processing power and physical memory. In order to overcome these limitations, the author proposed layered architecture for the development of this system. This paper describes the architecture, design and implementation of the new system. Experimental results demonstrate that proposed architecture can effectively reduce the client side resource utilization (processing power and physical memory) of dynamic mobile web based systems. Furthermore the author conclude this paper by outlining future work for research in this area.

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