iosr-JCE   Volume-14 ~ Issue-6

Paper Type	:	Research Paper
Title	:	A framework for an Operating System-based Mobile Agent Interoperability
Country	:	Nigeria
Authors	:	Oyatokun Bosede O., Osofisan A. O., Aderounmu, G. A.
	:	10.9790/0661-1460106

Abstract: Mobile agent technology has grown in acceptance over the years for distributed applications, but it is yet to be adopted as ubiquitous solution technique. This is due to its complexity and lack of interoperability. Mobile agent executes on mobile agent platform, these platforms from different vendors are design, and language specific, and are thus non interoperable. In other words mobile agent built on one platform cannot interact with or execute on any other platform. There is a need to provide a common base on which agents from different vendors can interact and interoperate. This work presents a framework for mobile agent interoperability by providing an Embedded Mobile Agent (EMA) system into the Windows Operating System kernel so that it can run as a service; this was done to eliminate the overheads associated with the agent platforms and enhance mobile agents' interoperability. The targeted OS were Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows7.

Keywords: embedded mobile agent, interoperability, mobile agent platform, operating system service.

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Paper Type	:	Research Paper
Title	:	An Integrated approach for color Image Segmentation using edge and color information
Country	:	India
Authors	:	M. Mary Synthuja Jain Preetha, L. Padma Suresh
	:	10.9790/0661-1460713

Abstract: Image segmentation is a fundamental and complex task in many image processing applications. In this paper, we propose a hybrid method for color image segmentation by integrating color edge information and seeded region growing. We use the color edge information to decide the best position to place the seed and to control the growth of the region. By using color edge detection technique, regions without edges are labeled as the initial seed. Regions are grown from this seed point by adding neighboring pixels that are similar based on homogeneity criterion. The obtained edge map and the region growth map are fused together to produce homogeneous regions with closed boundaries. Finally region merging is done to merge small regions.

Keywords: Seeded Region Growing, Color Similarity, Edge detection, Region Merging

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Paper Type	:	Research Paper
Title	:	Secure Development - Web Application Security.
Country	:	India
Authors	:	Sayyad Arif Ulla
	:	10.9790/0661-1461422

Abstract: In Current scenario, many Web applications go through rapid development phases like adopting agile methodology of development with very short turnaround time, making it difficult to identify and eliminate vulnerabilities. This paper provides analysis of requirement of Secure Development and Web application security assessment mechanisms in order to identify poor coding practices that render Web applications vulnerable to attacks such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting. This paper also list out the different categories of vulnerability with the small examples along with prevention guidance and a sample of research by different vendors about the State of Software Security Report and Web Application Vulnerability Statistics of 2012.

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