Realities of Security: Editor’s Introduction

Computer Security Technology: Guest Editors' Introduction

Guest Editors' Introduction: Special Section on Learning, Games, and Security

SECURITY applications are a point where machine learning and game theory naturally meet. This is true especially in contexts where some learning from data occurs, whose source may be adversarial, or where decision making involves interactions between multiple agents. Part of this special issue deals with principled approaches to security problems, which employ learning or game theory. This invo...

Guest Editors' Introduction: Special Section on Intelligence and Security Informatics

THE past several years have witnessed significant interest in security-related research in a wide range of application context spanning across homeland security, national and international security, economic and societal security, to personal and community security. A number of Information Technology-related academic disciplines including but not limited to information and computer sciences, in...

Realities of E-voting Security

E lectronic voting has been around since the 1970s, but until the US’s 2000 Gore-Bush presidential election, it was largely out of the public eye. After the Florida punched-card debacle, it became clear that our election infrastructure needed renovation. The Help America Vote Act of 2002 mandated a solution of sorts, making US$3 billion available to states to move away from their long-lived, we...

Healthcare [Guest editors' introduction]

W e’re moving closer to realizing pervasive computing devices that can monitor our health status, both individually and as a community. Imagine what doctors could do with ECG data collected on a more regular basis, as people carry on their daily activities. The ability to monitor day-to-day heart data would profoundly affect how the medical community tracks our individual health status. Likewis...