A Special Section of Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing
Ching‐Hsien Hsu · Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing · 2010
Web and Pervasive Environments (WPE) are emerging rapidly as an exciting new paradigm including technologies of ubiquitous computing, wireless communication and ambient intelligence to provide computing and communication services any time and anywhere.It usually refers to the creation and deployment of computing technology in such a way that it becomes an invisible part of the fabric of everyday life and commerce.As pervasive computing presents a new trend of information and communication technologies for connecting cyber and physical domains, in such era, computers in the traditional sense gradually fade from view.Namely, information and communication mediated by computers is available anywhere and anytime through devices that are embedded in our environment, completely inter-connected, intuitive, effortlessly portable and constantly available.Although pervasive computing presents exciting enabling opportunities, the benefits will only be reaped if security aspects can be appropriately addressed.As a result, to realize the advantages of intelligent services in web and pervasive environments, it requires the security issue of its services and applications to be suitable for WPE.Therefore, the security of pervasive computing is an important challenge for commerce, the public sector, academia and the individuals.For example, threats exploiting infirmities of user interfaces, operating systems, networks, and wireless communications give rise to new concerns about loss of confidentiality, integrity, privacy, and availability.How can these risks be avoided to an acceptable level?This special issue is intended to foster the dissemination of state-of-the-art research in the area of secure WPE including security models, security systems, application services, and novel applications associated with its utilization as that security and privacy is the indefeasible right of individuals to control the ways in which personal information is obtained, processed, distributed, shared, and used by any other entity.