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EPSRC Reference:	GR/S01634/01
Title:	Secure Component Composition for Personal Ubiquitous Computing
Principal Investigator:	Merabti, Professor M
Other Investigators:	Shi, Professor Q Askwith, Dr B
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Department:	Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Organisation:	Liverpool John Moores University
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 March 2003	Ends:	28 February 2006	Value (£):	145,888
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Networks & Distributed Systems
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The aim of the project is to develop an extendable software framework using secure component composition techniques, to provide the runtime security evaluation and control of a PUC system based on its components, which operate in active/programmable network environments, in an automated, dynamic and adaptive manner. The extendibility will permit newly developed secure component composition methods to be incorporated into the framework to improve its cost-effectiveness. The automation means that the framework should operate autonomously with minimal interactions with users. The dynamic feature of the framework will enable the system security to be re-evaluated whenever a change to the system is made, which is an important goal for active networks. The adaptiveness will allow the framework to select appropriate methods available for security evaluation in relation to changes made to the system, and to decide alternative secure solutions when the changes fail to meet the system security requirements. This framework is crucial for PUC because expecting users, who today have difficulty in managing the security of simple systems, to control the security of their own much more complex PUC systems in the future is simply not realistic. One way to give users security assurance is by providing automated security evaluation and control at runtime, as proposed in this project. The project work is novel as there is no existing work on such a framework. The project involves a number of research issues, e.g. identification of security patterns of component composition for cost-effective dynamic security evaluation and control of a PUC system.
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