Distributed usage control is concerned with controlling how data may or may not be used after it has been given away. One strategy for enforcing usage control requirements is based on monitoring data usage and reacting to policy violations by imposing penalties. We show how to implement monitors for usage control requirements using runtime verification technology.

Current research on artificial consciousness is focused on phenomenal consciousness and on functional consciousness. We propose to shift the focus to self-consciousness in order to open new areas of investigation. We use an existing scenario where self-consciousness is considered as the result of an evolution of representations. Application of the scenario to the possible build up of a consciou...

Many different monitoring systems have been created to identify system state conditions to detect or prevent a myriad of deliberate attacks, or arbitrary faults inherent in any complex system. Monitoring systems are also vulnerable to attack. A stealthy attacker can simply turn off or disable these monitoring systems without being detected; he would thus be able to perpetrate the very attacks t...

A person’s psychological well-being can be deduced by observing her past, current and future behaviors. However, little effort has been made to qualify, quantify and correlate a person’s behavior to her psychological well-being using nonintrusive health monitors. This report presents our attempts at using non-intrusive health monitors to observe a person’s diet, exercise and sleep patterns to d...

decreased level of consciousness in neonates may result from different etiologies, including rare metabolic and hormonal disorder due to anterior pituitary insufficiency. in this case report, a five-day-old newborn boy was referred to the neonatal intensive care unit of mustafa khomeini hospital of ilam, iran. he had an open anterior fontanel with no history of prenatal and familial diseases. c...