Enhanced Methods in Computer Security, Biometric and Artificial Intelligence Systems (eBook)

Table of Contents 5
Preface 9
Chapter 1 Information Technology Security 13
How can we justify trust in software based systems? 14
The capacity of ciphers fulfilling the accessibility of cryptograms 24
Parallelization of the Data Encryption Standard ( DES) algorithm 34
Linked authenticated dictionaries for certificate status verification 46
Integrated Payment System for Public Key Infrastructure Services 58
Some methods of the analysis and risk assessment in the system services providers 72
VAST: Versatile Anonymous System for Web Users 82
Cryptography and Steganography: teaching experience 94
Analysis of non-linear pseudo-noise sequences 104
Tool support for detecting defects in object-oriented models 114
The Proposal of Protocol for Electronic Signature Creation in Public Environment 124
On Arithmetic Subtraction Linear Approximation 136
Secure Data Transmission via Modulation of the Chaotic Sequence Parameters 146
Chapter 2 Biometric Systems 155
Some Advances and Challenges in Live Biometrics, Personnel Management, and Other " Human Being" Applications 156
An environment for recognition systems modeling 168
Modified Gradient Method for Face Localization 176
Three stage face recognition algorithm for visitor identification system 188
A New Approach for Hand-Palm Recognition 196
An Experimental Criterion for Face Classification 206
Contour Objects Recognition Based On UNL- Fourier Descriptors 214
Sonar Image Simulation by Means of Ray Tracing and Image Processing 220
The PCA Reconstruction Based Approach for Extending Facial Image Databases for Pace Recognition Systems 226
Investigation of fingerprint verification algorithm based on local centers method 240
Czestochowa's Precise Model of a Face Based on the Facial Asymmetry, Ophthalmogeometry, and Brain Asymmetry Phenomena: the Idea and Algorithm Sketch 250
Chapter 3 Methods of Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Agents 265
A fuzzy expert approach for comparing alternative end uses for requalification of contaminated sites 266
Training assisting program with hybrid decision supporting system 278
Numerical problems with evaluating the fractal dimension of real data 284
Multi-stage ship control in a fuzzy environment 296
Informative value of the possibilistic extension principle 312
Intelligent Marine Control Systems 322
How to deal with the data in a bankruptcy modelling 332
Dependency Mining in Large Sets of Stock Market Trading Rules 340
Choosing representative data items: Kohonen, Neural Gas or Mixture Model? 348
Application of the Ant Colony Algorithm for the Path Planning 356
Application of fuzzy logic for track corrector formation into flight simulator 364
Algorithm for Automatic Definition of Validated and Non-Validated Region in Multi-Dimensional Space 372
Adaptive simulation of separable dynamical systems in the neural network basis 382
Improvement of the processors operating ratio in task scheduling using the deadline method 398
Author Index 406