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dr inż. Michał Wróbel
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Year 2024
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Towards Universal Visualisation of Emotional States for Information Systems
PublicationThe paper concerns affective information systems that represent and visualize human emotional states. The goal of the study was to find typical representations of discrete and dimensional emotion models in terms of color, size, speed, shape, and animation type. A total of 419 participants were asked about their preferences for emotion visualization. We found that color, speed, and size correlated with selected discrete emotion...
Year 2023
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AffecTube — Chrome extension for YouTube video affective annotations
PublicationThe shortage of emotion-annotated video datasets suitable for training and validating machine learning models for facial expression-based emotion recognition stems primarily from the significant effort and cost required for manual annotation. In this paper, we present AffecTube as a comprehensive solution that leverages crowdsourcing to annotate videos directly on the YouTube platform, resulting in ready-to-use emotion-annotated...
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DevEmo—Software Developers’ Facial Expression Dataset
PublicationThe COVID-19 pandemic has increased the relevance of remote activities and digital tools for education, work, and other aspects of daily life. This reality has highlighted the need for emotion recognition technology to better understand the emotions of computer users and provide support in remote environments. Emotion recognition can play a critical role in improving the remote experience and ensuring that individuals are able...
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Exploring the Prevalence of Anti-patterns in the Application of Scrum in Software Development Organizations
PublicationThe paper presents a survey-based study that aimed to determine the prevalence of anti-patterns in the Scrum software development methodology. A total of 35 anti-patterns were selected from the literature review, and 42 respondents indicated whether they had encountered each anti-pattern in their organizations. The study found that``Unfinished Tasks'' was the most prevalent anti-pattern, highlighting the importance of proper planning...
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Ontological Modeling for Contextual Data Describing Signals Obtained from Electrodermal Activity for Emotion Recognition and Analysis
PublicationMost of the research in the field of emotion recognition is based on datasets that contain data obtained during affective computing experiments. However, each dataset is described by different metadata, stored in various structures and formats. This research can be counted among those whose aim is to provide a structural and semantic pattern for affective computing datasets, which is an important step to solve the problem of data...
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Strategies for Dealing With Software Product Management Challenges
PublicationSoftware product management, which involves multiple processes and responsibilities and links to many activities within the organisation, increases the success rate of IT projects. However, the adoption of product management activities and the implementation of the software product manager role itself varies between companies. This research explores the topic of software product managers’ strategies for dealing with challenges...
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Using Continuous Integration Techniques in Open Source Projects – An Exploratory Study
PublicationFor a growing number of software projects, continuous integration (CI) techniques are becoming an essential part of the process. However, the maturity of their adoption in open source projects varies. In this paper, we present an empirical study on GitHub repositories to explore the use of continuous integration techniques in open source projects. Following the Goal-Question-Metric (GQM) approach, 3 research questions and 7 metrics...
Year 2021
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Graph Representation Integrating Signals for Emotion Recognition and Analysis
PublicationData reusability is an important feature of current research, just in every field of science. Modern research in Affective Computing, often rely on datasets containing experiments-originated data such as biosignals, video clips, or images. Moreover, conducting experiments with a vast number of participants to build datasets for Affective Computing research is time-consuming and expensive. Therefore, it is extremely important to...
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Ontological Model for Contextual Data Defining Time Series for Emotion Recognition and Analysis
PublicationOne of the major challenges facing the field of Affective Computing is the reusability of datasets. Existing affective-related datasets are not consistent with each other, they store a variety of information in different forms, different formats, and the terms used to describe them are not unified. This paper proposes a new ontology, ROAD, as a solution to this problem, by formally describing the datasets and unifying the terms...
Year 2020
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The Impact of Lexicon Adaptation on the Emotion Mining From Software Engineering Artifacts
PublicationSentiment analysis and emotion mining techniques are increasingly being used in the field of software engineering. However, the experiments conducted so far have not yielded high accuracy results. Researchers indicate a lack of adaptation of the methods of emotion mining to the specific context of the domain as the main cause of this situation. The article describes research aimed at examining whether the adaptation of the lexicon...
Year 2019
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Developing Novel Solutions to Realise the European Energy - Information Sharing & Analysis Centre
PublicationFor more effective decision making in preparation for and response to cyberevents in the energy sector, multilevel situation awareness, from technical to strategic is essential. With an uncertain picture of evolving threats, sharing of the latest cybersecurity knowledge among all sector stakeholders can inform and improve decisions and responses. This paper describes two novel solutions proposed during the formation of the European...
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Perceptions of Gender Diversity's Impact on Mood in Software Development Teams
PublicationGender inequality persists in IT teams. We examine how gender differentiation affects the workplace atmosphere and analyze the results of our study of the issue. We discuss the problem of gender discrimination and consider methods to reduce inequality
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Threat intelligence platform for the energy sector
PublicationIn recent years, critical infrastructures and power systems in particular have been subjected to sophisticated cyberthreats, including targeted attacks and advanced persistent threats. A promising response to this challenging situation is building up enhanced threat intelligence that interlinks information sharing and fine-grained situation awareness. In this paper a framework which integrates all levels of threat intelligence...
Year 2018
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Applicability of Emotion Recognition and Induction Methods to Study the Behavior of Programmers
PublicationRecent studies in the field of software engineering have shown that positive emotions can increase and negative emotions decrease the productivity of programmers. In the field of affective computing, many methods and tools to recognize the emotions of computer users were proposed. However, it has not been verified yet which of them can be used to monitor the emotional states of software developers. The paper describes a study carried...
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MaliciousIDE – software development environment that evokes emotions
PublicationEmotions affect every aspect of human live, including work. Numerous studies in software engineering have shown that negative emotions can lower the productivity of programmers. Unlike traditional approaches to managing software development, modern methods, such as Agile and Lean, take into account human aspects of programming. To thoroughly investigate the impact of negative emotions on the work of programmers, a malicious integrated...
Year 2017
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Behaviometrics of Digital Games for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
PublicationTe paper reports current stage of the project Automated Terapy Monitoring for Children with Developmental Disorders of Autism Spectrum (AUTMON), that aims at development of methods and tools to allow for the automatic evaluation of the therapy progress among children with autism. Finding objective measures suitable for evaluating therapy progress would let create a system supporting those who diagnose autism and the therapists...
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Limitations of Emotion Recognition from Facial Expressions in e-Learning Context
PublicationThe paper concerns technology of automatic emotion recognition applied in e-learning environment. During a study of e-learning process the authors applied facial expressions observation via multiple video cameras. Preliminary analysis of the facial expressions using automatic emotion recognition tools revealed several unexpected results, including unavailability of recognition due to face coverage and significant inconsistency...
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Przyjazne aplikacje dla dzieci z autyzmem – e-edukacja na poziomie przedszkolnym
PublicationArtykuł dotyczy możliwości wykorzystania aplikacji na tablety do wspomagania terapii dzieci z zaburzeniami rozwojowymi ze spektrum autyzmu. Przedstawia studium przypadku skutecznego zastosowania e-technologii w kształceniu specjalnym na poziomie przedszkolnym. Artykuł opisuje zestaw aplikacji edukacyjnych o nazwie Przyjazne Aplikacje, których celem jest wspieranie terapii dzieci z autyzmem opartej o stosowaną...
Year 2016
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Applications for investigating therapy progress of autistic children
PublicationThe paper regards supporting behavioral therapy of autistic children with mobile applications, specifically applied for measuring the child’s progress. A family of five applications is presented, that was developed as an investigation tool within the project aimed at automation of therapy progress monitoring. The applications were already tested with children with autism spectrum disorder. Hereby we analyse children’ experience...
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Badanie sieci świadomości sytuacyjnej dla infrastruktury elektroenergetycznej
PublicationWspółczesne systemy elektroenergetyczne są narażone na nowe rodzaje zagrożeń. Są one spowodowane lukami w zabezpieczeniach oraz słabościami architektonicznymi związanymi z szerszym zastosowaniem technologii teleinformatycznych (ICT) w tych systemach. Połączenie sieci elektroenergetycznych z Internetem naraża je na nowego rodzaju niebezpieczeństwa, takie jak ataki APT (ang. Advanced Persistent Threats) lub rozproszona odmowa usługi...
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Comparison of selected off-the-shelf solutions for emotion recognition based on facial expressions
PublicationThe paper concerns accuracy of emotion recognition from facial expressions. As there are a couple of ready off-the-shelf solutions available in the market today, this study aims at practical evaluation of selected solutions in order to provide some insight into what potential buyers might expect. Two solutions were compared: FaceReader by Noldus and Xpress Engine by QuantumLab. The performed evaluation revealed that the recognition...
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Friendly Applications: supporting education of children with autism
PublicationFriendly Applications is a project introducing a family of applications supporting education of children with autism at kindergarten level. The applications were developed as a joint initiative of Gdansk University of Technology and Institute for Child Development, which uses the applications in daily educational activities.
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Model inteligentnego systemu edukacyjnego rozpoznającego emocje ucznia
PublicationW niniejszym raporcie omówiono model afektywnego systemu edukacyjnego i jego składowe oraz wyzwania, jakie stoją przed konstruktorami tego rodzaju rozwiązań.
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Security Requirements and Controls for Incident Information Sharing in the Polish Power System
PublicationAmong the strategies of protecting information assets of the power system, sharing of information about current cybersecurity incidents between energy operators appears to be a prerequisite. Exchange of information leads to the effective detection of attacks and exploited vulnerabilities as well as the identification of countermeasures. This paper presents the results of continuation of our works on developing a secure and efficient...
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Situational Awareness Network for the Electric Power System: the Architecture and Testing Metrics
PublicationThe contemporary electric power system is highly dependent on Information and Communication Technologies which results in its exposure to new types of threats, such as Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) or Distributed-Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. The most exposed components are Industrial Control Systems in substations and Distributed Control Systems in power plants. Therefore, it is necessary to ensure the cyber security of...
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Towards the participant observation of emotions in software development teams
PublicationEmotions, moods and temperament influence our behaviour in every aspect of life. Until now plenty of research has been conducted and many theories have been proposed to explain the role of emotions within the working environment. However, in the field of software engineering, interest in the role of human factors in the process of software development is relatively new. In the paper the research design process that has been proposed...
Year 2015
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Affective reactions to playing digital games
PublicationThe paper presents a study of emotional states during a gameplay. An experiment of two-player Tetris game is reported, followed by the analysis of the results - self-reported emotional states as well as physiological signals measurements interpretation. The study reveals the diversity of emotional reactions and concludes, that a representative player's emotional model is hard to define. Instead, an adaptive approach to emotion...
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Evaluation Criteria for Affect-Annotated Databases
PublicationIn this paper a set of comprehensive evaluation criteria for affect-annotated databases is proposed. These criteria can be used for evaluation of the quality of a database on the stage of its creation as well as for evaluation and comparison of existing databases. The usefulness of these criteria is demonstrated on several databases selected from affect computing domain. The databases contain different kind of data: video or still...
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Evaluation of Open Source SIEM for Situation Awareness Platform in the Smart Grid Environment
PublicationThe smart grid as a large-scale system of systems has an exceptionally large surface exposed to cyber-attacks, including highly evolved and sophisticated threats such as Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) or Botnets. When addressing this situation the usual cyber security technologies are prerequisite, but not sufficient. The smart grid requires developing and deploying an extensive ICT infrastructure that supports significantly...
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Modeling emotions for affect-aware applications
PublicationThe chapter concerns emotional states representation and modeling for software systems, that deal with human affect. A review of emotion representation models is provided, including discrete, dimensional and componential models. The paper provides also analysis of emotion models used in diverse types of affect-aware applications: games, mood trackers or tutoring systems. The analysis is supported with two design cases. The study...
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Testing Situation Awareness Network for the Electrical Power Infrastructure
PublicationThe contemporary electrical power infrastructure is exposed to new types of threats. The cause of such threats is related to the large number of new vulnerabilities and architectural weaknesses introduced by the extensive use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in such complex critical systems. The power grid interconnection with the Internet exposes the grid to new types of attacks, such as Advanced Persistent...
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Testy platformy SAN dla sektora elektroenergetycznego
PublicationWspółczesna infrastruktura elektroenergetyczna jest narażona na zagrożenia związane z dużą liczbą nowych luk i słabo- ści architektonicznych wynikających z szerszego wykorzystania technologii informacyjnych i komunikacyjnych (ang. Information and Communication Technologies – ICT). Połączenie infrastruktury elektroenergetycznej z Internetem naraża ją na nowe rodzaje ataków, takie jak ataki typu APT (ang. Advanced Persistent Threats)...
Year 2014
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Data Model Development for Security Information Sharing in Smart Grids
PublicationThe smart grid raises new security concerns which require novel solutions. It is commonly agreed that to protect the grid, the effective collaboration and information sharing between the relevant stakeholders is prerequisite. Developing a security information sharing platform for the smart grid is a new research direction which poses several challenges related to the highly distributed and heterogeneous character of the grid. In...
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Emotion Recognition and Its Applications
PublicationThe paper proposes a set of research scenarios to be applied in four domains: software engineering, website customization, education and gaming. The goal of applying the scenarios is to assess the possibility of using emotion recognition methods in these areas. It also points out the problems of defining sets of emotions to be recognized in different applications, representing the defined emotional states, gathering the data and...
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Operating system security by integrity checking and recovery using write-protected storage
PublicationThe paper presents an Integrity Checking and Recovery (ICAR) system which protects file system integrity and automatically restores modified files. The system enables files cryptographic hashes generation and verification, as well as configuration of security constraints. All of the crucial data, including ICAR system binaries, file backups and hashes database are stored in a physically write protected storage to eliminate the...
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Security information sharing for smart grids: Developing the right data model
PublicationThe smart grid raises new security concerns which require novel solutions. It is commonly agreed that to protect the grid the effective collaboration and information sharing between the relevant stakeholders is prerequisite. Developing a security information sharing platform for the smart grid is a new research direction which poses several challenges related to the highly distributed and heterogeneous character of the grid. In...
Year 2013
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Emotion recognition and its application in software engineering
PublicationIn this paper a novel application of multimodal emotion recognition algorithms in software engineering is described. Several application scenarios are proposed concerning program usability testing and software process improvement. Also a set of emotional states relevant in that application area is identified. The multimodal emotion recognition method that integrates video and depth channels, physiological signals and input devices...
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Emotions in the software development process
PublicationThis paper presents the results of a survey on the experience of emotions in the work of software developers. Quantitative analysis revealed information about emotions affecting programmers, their frequency and impact on their performance. The concept of emotional risk to productivity was also presented. It allows to choose the emotional states, which should be avoided. Furthermore, all collected data were analyzed with information...
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MOŻLIWOŚCI POPRAWY PROCESU WYTWARZANIA OPROGRAMOWANIA W MAŁYCH FIRMACH INFORMATYCZNYCH
PublicationW artykule wykazano, że jest możliwa poprawa jakości procesu wytwarzania oprogramowania poprzez wdrożenie zaleceń standardu CMMI oraz wykorzystywanie doświadczeń z poprzednich udanych i udokumentowanych projektów. Wykazano znaczącą rolę szablonów dokumentacji w poprawie jakości procesu. Przeanalizowano praktyczne konsekwencje nierównomiernego zapotrzebowaniu na zasoby i zmiennej w czasie intensywności prac w cyklu życia oprogramowania....
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OCENA WKŁADU PROGRAMISTY W KOŃCOWY KOD ŹRÓDŁOWY PROGRAMU
PublicationOcena pracy programistów jest zadaniem złożonym. Kierownicy projektów biorą pod uwagę takie czynniki jak jakość tworzonego kodu, zdolność do rozwiązywania problemów technicznych i biznesowych oraz produktywność. Mierzenie produktywności poszczególnych programistów jest jednak zadaniem skomplikowanym. W artykule zostanie przedstawiona nowa metoda oceny wkładu programisty w końcowy kod źródłowy programu. Na podstawie przechowywanej...
Year 2012
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Mechanizmy ochrony integralności plików na poziomie monitora maszyny wirtualnej
PublicationMechanizmy ochrony integralności plików umożliwiają wykrywanie nieautoryzowanych zamian w kluczowych do działania systemu operacyjnego plików. Dotychczas rozwiązania tego typu działały jako aplikacje systemowe lub były integrowane z jądrem systemu operacyjnego. Wraz ze zwiększeniem dostępności technik wirtualizacji pojawiła się możliwość przeniesienia systemu ochrony na poziom monitora maszyny wirtualnej, co zapewnia izolację mechanizmu...
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Metoda wyboru informacji z dedykowanych zbiorów danych
PublicationPoszukiwanie skutecznych metod wyboru informacji wynika z obserwowanego obecnie nadmiaru danych. W artykule opisana jest metoda GQM wykorzystywana w informatyce między innymi do budowy wielowymiarowej funkcji jakości oprogramowania. W artykule wykazano, że metoda ta może być również wykorzystana do poszukiwania i wyboru danych z dedykowanych zbiorów informacji dziedzinowych.
Year 2011
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Mechanizm zapewniania wiarygodności stron internetowych
PublicationZapewnieni wiarygodności danych w Internecie to ważne zagadnienie współczesnej informatyki. Dynamiczny rozwój globalnej sieci komputerowej pociąga za sobą zarówno ogromne korzyści, jak i poważne zagrożenia. W artykule przedstawiono niektóre mechanizmy zapewniania wiarygodności stron WWW takie jak podpis cyfrowy, kryptograficzne podpisywanie mikrotreści czy pieczęcie kontrolne. Opisano wykonany system realizujący mechanizm pieczęci...
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Możliwości stosowania wirtualizacji w systemach komputerowych
PublicationWykorzystywana dotychczas głównie w zastosowaniach wojskowych i przemysłowych, na komputerach typu mainframe, wirtualizacja wchodzi obecnie do powszechnego użytku. Wzrost mocy obliczeniowej komputerów osobistych pozwala na wydajne wirtualizowanie nawet kilku systemów operacyjnych na raz. W artykule zostaną opisane trzy obszary zastosowań wirtualizacji: edukacja informatyczna, systemy mobilne oraz bezpieczeństwo systemów komputerowych.
Year 2010
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Funkcjonalność systemu operacyjnego Linux uruchamianego z pamięci USB
PublicationSystem operacyjny Linux z uwagi na swoją funkcjonalność, użyteczność oraz warunki licencyjne jest coraz powszechniej wykorzystywany. Wśród licznych dystrybucji tego systemu można wyróżnić takie, które są uruchamiane bezpośrednio z pamięci półprzewodnikowych USB. W artykule zostanie przedstawiona funkcjonalność i parametry użytkowe opracowanej dystrybucji cdlinux.pl uruchamianej z pamięci USB. Dystrybucja charakteryzuje się bezpieczeństwem...
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Metody zapewniania bezpieczeństwa systemów operacyjnych
PublicationCelem pracy było opracowanie nowych metod zapewniania bezpieczeństwa systemów operacyjnych opartych o trwały zapis istotnych danych systemowych na niemodyfikowalnych nośnikach oraz wykonanie mechanizmów kontroli dostępu do plików z wykorzystaniem skrótów kryptograficznych. Mechanizmy kontroli umożliwiają weryfikację poprawności treści plików oraz przywracanie ich oryginalnej treści w przypadku nieuprawnionej modyfikacji. Celem...
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Zapewnianie bezpieczeństwa kluczowych plików w systemie operacyjnym Linux
PublicationZagrożenie bezpieczeństwa systemów komputerowych wynika z możliwości niepowołanego dostępu do danych zapisanych w kluczowych plikach. Dlatego poszukiwanie mechanizmów zapewniania bezpieczeństwa informacji to współcześnie ważny problem w dziedzinie informatyki. W artykule zostanie przedstawione nowe podejście do polityki zabezpieczania plików systemowych w komputerach personalnych i serwerach. Zaprezentowany zostanie system o nazwie...
Year 2009
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Nowoczesne mechanizmy ochrony integralności systemów plików
PublicationJednym z najważniejszych zagadnień współczesnej informatyki jest zapewnianie bezpieczeństwa systemów komputerowych. Realne straty finansowe, które wynikają z ataków na systemy komputerowe z roku na rok są coraz większe. W artykule przedstawiono, opracowany przez autorów, innowacyjny system ochrony integralności plików o nazwie ICAR. System pozwala na wykrywanie zmian w plikach, a także, w odróżnieniu od dotychczas dostępnych systemów,...
Year 2008
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Modern approaches to file system integrity checking
PublicationOne of the means to detect intruder's activity is totrace all unauthorized changes in a file system.Programs which fulfill this functionality are called fileintegrity checkers. This paper concerns modernapproach to file system integrity checking. It reviewsarchitecture of popular systems that are widely used inproduction environment as well as scientific projects,which not only detect intruders but also take actions tostop their...
Year 2007
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Przegląd mechanizmów zabezpieczania systemu operacyjnego
PublicationZapewnienie bezpieczeństwa systemu komputerowego jest jednym z najważniejszych zadań systemu operacyjnego. W artykule zostaną przedstawione mechanizmy i technologie zabezpieczania systemu operacyjnego Linux. Zostaną opisane metody aktywnej ochrony systemów operacyjnych poprzez blokowanie połączeń sieciowych i ograniczanie praw dostępu aplikacji do zasobów. Przedstawione zostaną również rozwiązania ograniczające szkody dokonywane...
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