Data Management and Security

Contents Section 1: Coding theory and cryptography. Applications (Special session organised by V. Herranz) Review of simulations tools for channel coding; Key agreement protocols for distributed secure multicast over the ring; The degree of a Boolean function and some algebraic properties of its support; Improving image compression through the use of evolutionary computing algorithms; A construction of MDS array codes Section 2: Encryption Analysis of a security protocol in a cluster storage system; Design of two blocks of a speech coding system to be implemented on an FPGA based card Section 3: Data management Traffic matrix estimation using the Levenberg-Marquardt neural network of a large IP system; A novel remote access technical database for the offshore diving industry; A method for building desktop software automated update systems; Fuzzy logic modelling of a performance evaluation system for academic programmes in Nigeria higher education; Child cancer follow-up ontology and information system Section 4: Statistical processing and Data Mining to solve real problems (Special session organised by A. Rabasa) Monte Carlo simulation study under regression models to estimate credit banking risk in home equity loans; A methodology for evacuation route planning inside buildings using geospatial technology; Data management in drip irrigation monitoring for vineyards in pot by weighing lysimeter; Data management for an anaesthesiology department optimization Section 5: Applications in medicine Blood flow simulations in patient-specific coronary bypass grafts; Heat transfer analysis in the human abdomen with a focus upon correlation between the amount of visceral fat and skin temperature; Flow in re-stenosed artery after angioplasty; A medical knowledge management system based on expert tagging (MKMST); The importance of adequate data pre-processing in early diagnosis: classification of arrhythmias, a case study