All Outputs (10)

Automating GDPR Compliance Verification for Cloud-hosted Services (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Barati, M., Rana, O., & Theodorakopoulos, G. (2020). Automating GDPR Compliance Verification for Cloud-hosted Services. In 2020 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC). https://doi.org/10.1109/isncc49221.2020.9297309

Cloud-hosted business processes require access to customer data to complete a transaction, to improve a customer's on-line experience or provide useful product recommendations. However, privacy concerns associated with the use of this data have led t... Read More about Automating GDPR Compliance Verification for Cloud-hosted Services.

COM-PACE: Compliance-Aware Cloud Application Engineering Using Blockchain (2020)
Journal Article
Singh Aujla, G., Barati, M., Rana, O., Dustdar, S., Noor, A., Tomas Llanos, J., …Ranjan, R. (2020). COM-PACE: Compliance-Aware Cloud Application Engineering Using Blockchain. IEEE Internet Computing, 24(5), 45-53. https://doi.org/10.1109/mic.2020.3014484

The COVID19 Pandemic has highlighted our dependence on online services (from government, e-commerce/retail, and entertainment), often hosted over external cloud computing infrastructure. The users of these services interact with a web interface rathe... Read More about COM-PACE: Compliance-Aware Cloud Application Engineering Using Blockchain.

Blockchain for energy sharing and trading in distributed prosumer communities (2020)
Journal Article
Petri, I., Barati, M., Rezgui, Y., & Rana, O. F. (2020). Blockchain for energy sharing and trading in distributed prosumer communities. Computers in Industry, 123, Article 103282. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2020.103282

The decentralisation of energy supply and demand can contribute decisively to protecting the environment and climate of the planet by consuming electricity in the proximity of the generation source and avoiding losses in transmission and distribution... Read More about Blockchain for energy sharing and trading in distributed prosumer communities.

GDPR Compliance Verification in Internet of Things (2020)
Journal Article
Barati, M., Rana, O., Petri, I., & Theodorakopoulos, G. (2020). GDPR Compliance Verification in Internet of Things. IEEE Access, 8, 119697-119709. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2020.3005509

Data privacy in Internet of Things (IoT) applications remains a major concern of regulation bodies. The introduction of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) enables users to control how their data is accessed and processed, requirin... Read More about GDPR Compliance Verification in Internet of Things.

Exploring the relationships between privacy by design schemes and privacy laws: a comparative analysis (2020)
Report
Aljeraisy, A., Barati, M., Rana, O., & Perera, C. (2020). Exploring the relationships between privacy by design schemes and privacy laws: a comparative analysis. Cardiff: Cardiff University

Internet of Things (IoT) applications have the potential to derive sensitive information about individuals. Therefore, developers must exercise due diligence to make sure that data are managed according to the privacy regulations and data protection... Read More about Exploring the relationships between privacy by design schemes and privacy laws: a comparative analysis.

Privacy‐aware cloud ecosystems: Architecture and performance (2020)
Journal Article
Barati, M., & Rana, O. (2021). Privacy‐aware cloud ecosystems: Architecture and performance. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 33(23), Article e5852. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.5852

With an increasing number of cloud providers offering services made use of by both individual users and other providers, there is a realization that service provision now involves an “ecosystem” of providers. Some providers may be directly visible to... Read More about Privacy‐aware cloud ecosystems: Architecture and performance.

Tracking GDPR Compliance in Cloud-based Service Delivery (2020)
Journal Article
Barati, M., & Rana, O. (2022). Tracking GDPR Compliance in Cloud-based Service Delivery. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 15(3), 1498-1511. https://doi.org/10.1109/tsc.2020.2999559

The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has had a far-reaching impact on data privacy for cloud providers. GDPR influences access to, storage, and transmission of personal data, requiring these operations to be verified by cloud users... Read More about Tracking GDPR Compliance in Cloud-based Service Delivery.

A Formal Technique for Composing Cloud Services (2020)
Journal Article
Barati, M. (2020). A Formal Technique for Composing Cloud Services. Information Technology and Control, 49(1), 5-27. https://doi.org/10.5755/j01.itc.49.1.23403

Recent cloud search engines lack a formal method in their service composition mechanisms to automatically build composite services realizing user requirements. This paper prescribes behavior composition framework as a formal tools for the search engi... Read More about A Formal Technique for Composing Cloud Services.

C-Blondel: An Efficient Louvain-Based Dynamic Community Detection Algorithm (2020)
Journal Article
Seifikar, M., Farzi, S., & Barati, M. (2020). C-Blondel: An Efficient Louvain-Based Dynamic Community Detection Algorithm. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 7(2), 308-318. https://doi.org/10.1109/tcss.2020.2964197

One of the most interesting topics in the scope of social network analysis is dynamic community detection, keeping track of communities' evolutions in a dynamic network. This article introduces a new Louvain-based dynamic community detection algorith... Read More about C-Blondel: An Efficient Louvain-Based Dynamic Community Detection Algorithm.

Privacy-Aware Cloud Ecosystems and GDPR Compliance (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Barati, M., Rana, O., Theodorakopoulos, G., & Burnap, P. (2020). Privacy-Aware Cloud Ecosystems and GDPR Compliance. In 2019 7th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud). https://doi.org/10.1109/ficloud.2019.00024

Understanding how cloud providers support the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) remains an imporant challenge for new providers emerging on the market. GDPR influences access to, storage, processing and tranmission of data, requiring... Read More about Privacy-Aware Cloud Ecosystems and GDPR Compliance.