E-business and Telecommunications: 4th International Conference, ICETE 2007, Barcelona, Spain, July 28-31, 2007, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science, 23)

This book constitutes the best papers of the 4th International Conference on E-business and Telecommunication Networks, ICETE 2007, held in Barcelona, Spain, during July 28-31, 2007. The 26 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 418 submissions. The papers are organized in four parts according to their conferences: ICE-B, SECRYPT, SIGMAP and WINSYS. Front Matter....Pages - Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Pragmatic Computing – A Semiotic Perspective to Web Services....Pages 3-15 Utility Computing: Reality and Beyond....Pages 16-29 A Novel Grid-Based Micropayment System for Heterogeneous Multi-party Accounting....Pages 30-54 Front Matter....Pages 55-55 Bidding Agents That Perpetrate Auction Fraud....Pages 57-71 A Platform for Mobile Service Provisioning Based on SOA-Integration....Pages 72-84 A Hybrid Data Mining Approach for Credit Card Usage Behavior Analysis....Pages 85-97 Critical Success Factors of Internet Shopping: The Case of Japan....Pages 98-109 An Adaptive Knowledge-Based Approach for Detecting Fraud across Different e-Government Domains....Pages 110-121 Front Matter....Pages 123-123 Timing to Block Scanning Malwares by Using Combinatorics Proliferation Model....Pages 125-138 Securing Biometric Templates Where Similarity Is Measured with Set Intersection....Pages 139-151 Score Equalization in SVM Multimodal Fusion for Person Recognition....Pages 152-161 Remote Algorithmic Complexity Attacks against Randomized Hash Tables....Pages 162-174 Securing Real-Time Sessions in an IMS-Based Architecture....Pages 175-187 IPSec Database Query Acceleration....Pages 188-200 Detection of Spoofed MAC Addresses in 802.11 Wireless Networks....Pages 201-213 K2 Stream Cipher....Pages 214-226 Two Types of Key-Compromise Impersonation Attacks against One-Pass Key Establishment Protocols....Pages 227-238 Reliable Intersection Computation within Malicious Environments....Pages 239-253 A Security Hardening Language Based on Aspect-Orientation....Pages 254-266 Front Matter....Pages 267-267 Facial Expression Synthesis and Analysis....Pages 269-283 Front Matter....Pages 267-267 Multi-sequence H.264/AVC Rate Control Based on the Linear Model....Pages 284-292 Non Parametric Stochastic Expectation Maximization for Data Clustering....Pages 293-303 Mapping Phonetic Features for Voice-Driven Sound Synthesis....Pages 304-314 The MiSPOT System: Personalized Publicity and Marketing over Interactive Digital TV....Pages 315-327 Knowledge Engineering Aspects of Affective Bi-Modal Educational Applications....Pages 328-339 Front Matter....Pages 341-341 Design of a Password-Based EAP Method....Pages 343-355 Bit and Power Allocation Strategies for OFDM Systems over Time-Varying Channels....Pages 356-370 Mobile Applications to a Pervasive World....Pages 371-383 Multi-service Networks: A New Approach to End-to-End Topology Management....Pages 384-396 Back Matter....Pages - This book contains the best papers of the 4th International Conference on E-business and Telecommunications (ICETE), which was held during July 28–31, 2007 in Barcelona, Spain. The conference reflects a continuing effort to increase the dissemination of recent research results among professionals who work in the areas of e-business and telecommunications. ICETE is a joint international conf- ence integrating four major areas of knowledge that are divided into four cor- sponding conferences: ICE-B (International Conference on e-Business), SECRYPT (International Conference on Security and Cryptography), WINSYS (International Conference on Wireless Information Systems) and SIGMAP (International Conf- ence on Signal Processing and Multimedia). The program of this joint conference included several outstanding keynote lectures presented by internationally renowned distinguished researchers who are experts in the various ICETE areas. Their keynote speeches contributed to the ov- all quality of the program and heightened the significance of the theme of the conference. The conference topic areas define a broad spectrum in the key areas of- business and telecommunications. This wide view has made it appealing to a global audience of engineers, scientists, business practitioners and policy experts. The papers accepted and presented at the conference demonstrated a number of new and innovative solutions for e-business and telecommunication networks and systems, showing that the technical problems in these fields are challenging, related and significant.