GMU Software <http://cs.gmu.edu/~smalek/seminar.html>  Engineering Seminar
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Date: Thur, 04/30/2009

Time: 12 - 1pm

Location: 3507 Engineering

Pizza will be served.

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Title: Privacy-Enhanced Trust Management

Speaker: Dalal Alarayed

Abstract
This talk will focus on research being conducted as part of Dalal
Al-Arayed's dissertation which aims to produce a conceptual framework that
extends current trust models to cover the needs of smart spaces (Trust in
Smart Spaces- TISS); and that is generalized to be applicable across
multiple problem scenarios (Generalized- TISS). It will cover the employment
of privacy policies right at the beginning of the trust formation function
to direct the application of the trust model for decision making. This adds
a human factor and enables the user to personalize the trust model.

 

Bio
Dalal Al-Arayed is a doctoral candidate in the IT program. She has her BS in
Computer Science with a minor in Business Administration from Coastal
Carolina University, and her MS in IT from the University of North Carolina
at Charlotte. She is an international student from Bahrain.

 

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Title: Game Theory for Dummies

Speaker: Zeynep Zengin

 

Abstract
Optimization problems are computational problems that address to find the
best solution among all feasible solutions. This field of research sits in
the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, and Software
Engineering. An optimization can be the interest of one or more users. One
user optimization problems can be like best choice of essentials, shortest
traveling route etc. Multi user optimization problems can be network load
distribution, bidding optimization, or QoS optimization when the system is
used by more than one person. This type of problems requires balancing the
outcome within all users. Game theory formalizes the outcomes of each user
considering every possible way of action for each user. It formulates the
best choice of a user depending of choices of other users. When there is a
global or local optimal solution where all users want to stay with their
strategies, this situation is called Equilibrium. The desired solution of a
multi user optimization problem is to formulate it game theoretically and
reach to an equilibrium point. 

 

Bio
Zeynep Zengin is a PhD student in Computer Science Department, Volgenau
School of Information Technology and Engineering. She got her bachelor's
degrees on Information Systems with double major of Computer Engineering
from Isik University, Istanbul, Turkey. She also holds a Master of Science
degree in Computer Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Her current research mainly focuses on end-user development, self adapting
systems, ubiquitous computing, and Computation Tree Logic. 

 

 

 

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