Peer Reviewed Journals and Proceedings

Shen, M., Thomas, J., Crossland, M., and Paprzycki, M. (2003). "Location based approach for Energy efficient, Secure Mobile e-commerce." Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of e-Commerce and e-Government, Nanchang, China.

Mobile e-commerce using ad hoc networks poses huge challenges due to the constantly changing topology of the network. Existing ad hoc network protocols are not suitable for e-commerce applications and very little has been reported in the literature on e-commerce in ad hoc networks. In this paper we propose a predictive location triggered approach to obtaining new routes when communications links are broken due to mobility. Our approach facilitates authentication of new neighbors in the new route new neighbors without terminating the current e-commerce session. Simulation results show that fewer e-commerce sessions are aborted due to the changing topology. Our location triggered approach ensures that power expenditure is minimized by invoking the prediction algorithm when there has been a significant change in the location of a node. Finally, we propose a lightweight authentication protocol that is well-suited to the nature of ad hoc networks.p>

Meinert, D., Crossland, M., and Peterson, D. (2003) "The Efficacy of Web Site Privacy Policy Statements: An examination of the Influence of Prior Policy Familiarity." Proceedings of the Decision Sciences Institute.

A primary obstacle to the success of e-commerce is the development of consumer trust. The adoption of privacy policy statements is a direct response to this concern. This paper reports the results of an exploratory study which found that the level of privacy promised by the statements interacts with the consumer’s prior familiarity with policy statement in terms of the willingness of consumers to provide personal information.

Meinert, D., Crossland, M., and Peterson, D. (2003). "The Efficacy of Web Site Privacy Policy Statements: A Cross-Cultural Comparison." Proceedings of the 12th Annual World Business Conference.

E-commerce has had a profound impact on the marketing of many goods and services. This new paradigm for conducting business, including both sales and the collection and dissemination of information, has necessarily generated considerable interest in identifying obstacles to e-commerce. Not surprisingly, consumer confidence or trust has emerged as a primary area of concern. Ostensibly, the emergence of privacy policy statements on web sites was a direct response to this concern. Yet privacy policy statements have received comparatively little empirical attention. Understanding how consumers from distinct cultures perceive these statements would benefit both consumers and organizations engaged in e-commerce. This paper reports the findings of an exploratory study to examine whether cultural differences impact the efficacy of privacy policy statements.

Guard, L.M., Crossland, M.D., Paprzycki, M., and Thomas, J.P. (2004) “Developing an empirical study of how qualified subjects might be selected for IT system security penetration testing.” Annales UMCS Informatica.

This paper describes a planned program of investigation designed to determine what characteristics are significant in predicting performance of students used as subjects in testbeds for penetration testing. Four hypotheses are put forth, that subjects with more experience and/or education in computer programming, networking, telecommunications, operating systems administration, and systems security will be able to penetrate target systems in less time that those with less or no experience or education in these areas. In large part the experimental design replicates an earlier study by Jonsson et al., and extends that study to include factors describing the attacking subjects.

Meinert, D.B., Peterson, D., Crossland, M.D., and Criswell, J. (2005). "Privacy Policy Statements and Consumer Willingness to Provide Personal Information." Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations. Forthcoming.

Consumers’ concerns about information privacy are a primary obstacle to the success of e-commerce. The adoption of privacy policy statements is a direct response to this concern. This exploratory study examined the willingness of consumers to provide various types of personal information given varying degrees of protection offered by privacy policy statements. The results demonstrated that the willingness to provide information to web merchants increased as the level of privacy guaranteed by the statements increased. More importantly, the level of privacy promised by the statements interacted with the consumer’s prior familiarity with policy statement in terms of the willingness of consumers to provide personal information. The results also demonstrated that while most individuals were aware of privacy policy statements, less than half of the respondents had ever read a privacy statement.

Research Grants and Contracts

Principal Investigator: Dr. Johnson Thomas

A Secure Networked Sensor Environment (SENSE: DEFENSE EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM TO STIMULATE COMPETITIVE RESEARCH(DEPSCoR)Passed Phase I, now in Phase II, 2004.

CSR---PDOS: A Lightweight Hierarchical Cluster-Computing Middleware: Not a pure security proposal - but contains a significant component on security and trust for the cluster computing middleware, 2004.

Principal Investigator: Dr. Keith Teague

“Investigation of Enabling Technologies for Secure Multimedia on Your Desktop II,” Department of Defense, 2003-present.

Co-Principal Investigator with A. Cheville (PI) and others, “Relevancy Enhancement Achieved by Laboratories and Lecture Integrated for Engineering Education (REAL LIFE): Adoption of a Relevant Undergraduate Curriculum,” National Science Foundation, 2002-present, including REU supplements.

“Investigation of Enabling Technologies for Secure Multimedia on Your Desktop I,” Department of Defense, 2001-2003.

Co-Principal Investigator with G. Scheets, "Spatial/Temporal DSP Research and Implementation on an Embedded Multi-Processor System," Raytheon Corporation, 2000-2001.

“Secure Multimedia Digital Terminal,” Department of Defense, 1999-2001.

Co-Principal Investigator with G. Scheets, "Spatial Audio for Enhanced Operator Recognition," Raytheon Corporation, 1999-2000.

“Mid-Rate Excitation Speech Coding Algorithm Development,” Department of Defense, 1996-1998.

“FS1016 4800 bps CELP Improvements and Integerization,” Department of Defense, 1996-1998.

“MBE Algorithm Enhancement for Low Bit Rate Speech Coding,” Department of Defense, 1993-1996.

“Multiprocessor Research,” National Security Agency, 1987-1992.

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