GMU Software
Engineering Seminar Series
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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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Sam Malek, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA 22030-4444 U.S.A.
Phone: +1-703-993-1677
Email: [log in to unmask]
WWW: http://www.cs.gmu.edu/~smalek/