abstract the wave of islamic radicalism in central asia and separatism threaten china’s neighboring autonomous and muslim-populated xinjiang region. there is much evidence indicating that the threat is clear-cut, though in xinjiang muslim dissidents are not much strong because of increasing suppression of chinese people. in this article, the main question includes what is china’s main security ...

With their increasing popularity in cryptosystems, biometrics have attracted more and more attention from the information security community. However, how to handle the relevant privacy concerns remains to be troublesome. In this paper, we propose a novel security model to formalize the privacy concerns in biometric-based remote authentication schemes. Our security model covers a number of prac...

this study based on investigation for integration wind power into conventional power system with its impact on fossil fuel generators and their generation management. wind power as environmental friendly energy source can reduce the operational cost of the system due to considering no cost for energizing the generator in comparing with fossil fuel generators. however due to unpredictable nature...

Privacy and security risk are two primary concerns for end-users to consider adopting cloud applications. This study investigates two potential antecedents for these two concerns: functionality expectation and usability. In addition, this study tries to understand whether their relationships exist and are correlated positively or negatively. An online survey was sent to 211 college users asking...

This paper explores the representation of security concerns and their interactions appropriate for a Model Driven Development approach. The focus is on the representation of the security concerns early in the development process and as abstract forms easily related to the security aspects of the solution requirements, but in a manner that allows for the controlled refinement into a solution. Th...