Habtamu Abie, Ph.D.

Adaptive and Evolving Security (AES)
• Security for distributed systems, distributed object computing (CORBA, EJB, DCOM/ActiveX)
• Digital Rights Management, Privacy, Trust, Policy and Risk Management
• Mobile ad-hoc network, ubiquitous and ambient intelligent computing (self-containdness, self-protecting, self-learning, self-adapting, self-healing, expeditiousness, etc.)
• Architecture and methodology, formal methods and tools
• Data acquisition and control systems, hard real-time systems
• Mobile and personal computing.

Current Activities

• Conferences and Workshops
• The Second International Conference on Adaptive and Self-adaptive Systems and Applications (ADAPTIVE 2010), November 21-26, 2010 - Lisbon, Portugal
• The Fifth International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications (ICSNC 2010), August 22-27, 2010 - Nice, France
• The Third IEEE International Symposium on Trust, Security and Privacy for Emerging Applications (TSP-10), June 29-July 1, 2010 in Bradford, UK
• 2010 IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Information Security (WCNIS2010), Beijing, China, June 25-27, 2010
• World Computer Congress 2010: 3rd IFIP International Conference on Wireless Communications and Information Technology in Developing Countries, 20-23 September 2010, Brisbane, Australia
• Eighth Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST2010), August 17-19, 2010, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• Sixth European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications (ECMFA 2010): Second International Workshop on Security in Model Driven Architecture (SEC-MDA 2010), June 15-16, 2010, Paris, France


• GEMOM - Genetic Message Oriented Secure Middleware
  The GEMOM project is funded by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). Its focus is the significant and measurable increase in the end-to-end intelligence, security and resilience of complex, distributed information systems. The primary objective of GEMOM is to be able to rectify vulnerability to faults through researching, developing and deployment of a prototype of a messaging platform that is evolutionary, self-organising, self-healing, scalable and secure.
  
  GEMOM Publications:
  • Robust, Secure, Self-Adaptive and Resilient Messaging Middleware for Business Critical Systems,The First International Conference on Adaptive and Self-adaptive Systems and Applications, ADAPTIVE 2009, November 15-20, 2009 - Athens/Glyfada, Greece, Best Paper Award
  • Development of Security Metrics for a Distributed Messaging System, The 3rd International Conference on Application of Information and Communication Technologies, AICT2009, Azerbaijan, Baku, 14-16 October 2009
  • Adaptive Security and Trust Management for Autonomic Message-Oriented Middleware, IEEE Symposium on Trust, Security and Privacy for Pervasive Applications (TSP) 2009, October 12-14, 2009 in Macau SAR, P.R.China
  • Identification of Basic Measurable Security Components for a Distributed Messaging System, The 3rd International Conference on Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies (SECURWARE) 2009, June 18-23, 2009 - Athens/Glyfada, Greece, Best Paper Award
  • GEMOM - Genetic Message-Oriented Secure Middleware - Messaging is a business worth many billions of Euros annually
  • A new European concept for secure messaging - a more secure and cost-effective data communications solution developed in Europe
  • GEMOM - Significant and Measurable Progress beyond the State of the Art, The Third International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications, ICSNC 2008, October 26-31, 2008 - Sliema, Malta
  • Project factsheet
  
  GEMOM Case Studies:
  • Collaborative business portal: This portal is intended as a generic platform to facilitate collaborative working between professionals in a local government setting with the range of professionals – e.g., the emergency services co-ordination business portal.
  • Dynamic linked exchange: This exchange is intended to match the procurement needs to available suppliers and specialising in local government / SME actors.
  • Financial market data delivery: This service is to deliver trading signals for a range of financial markets to private and institutional investors.
  • Dynamic road management system: This system is a complex operational system for distributing road network traffic and mobility information to a wide range of potential consumers.
  • Banking Scenario: Money Transfers: This system is a “Universal Banking HUB” in a central architectural position as a pervasive pivoting component of the bank’s IT architecture that should be able to exchange, both internally and externally, several types of messages, each representing a specific kind of business fact.
• MARIAGE - Making Rich Media Accessible for Generations
  "A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only the degree of certainty which the evidence warrants, would, if it became general, cure most of the ills from which the world suffers."- Bertrand Russell
  Factsheet
• LongRec - Records Management over Decades
  To establish and maintain confidence in the preservation of trust and security in records over time, and to use evidential value of a record as an index for the degree of trust and confidence.
  Project factsheet
• SAMPOS - Strategies for Seamless Deployment of Mobile Patient Monitoring Systems
  Factsheet
• CORAS++ - A possible CORAS Adaptive Risk Management - follow-up project!