Abstract

Data quality (DQ) is an important concept that is used in the design and employment of information, data management, decision making, and engineering systems with multiple applications already available for solving specific problems. Unfortunately, conventional approaches to DQ evaluation commonly do not pay enough attention or even ignore the security and privacy of the evaluated data. In this research, we develop a framework for the DQ evaluation of the sensor originated data acquired from smartphones, that incorporates security and privacy aspects into the DQ evaluation pipeline. The framework provides support for selecting the DQ metrics and implementing their calculus by integrating diverse sensor data quality and security metrics. The framework employs a knowledge graph to facilitate its adaptation in new applications development and enables knowledge accumulation. Privacy aspects evaluation is demonstrated by the detection of novel and sophisticated attacks on data privacy on the example of colluded applications attack recognition. We develop multiple calculi for DQ and security evaluation, such as a hierarchical fuzzy rules expert system, neural networks, and an algebraic function. Case studies that demonstrate the framework's performance in solving real-life tasks are presented, and the achieved results are analyzed. These case studies confirm the framework's capability of performing comprehensive DQ evaluations. The framework development resulted in producing multiple products, and tools such as datasets and Android OS applications. The datasets include the knowledge base of sensors embedded in modern mobile devices and their quality analysis, technological signals recordings of smartphones during the normal usage, and attacks on users' privacy. These datasets are made available for public use and can be used for future research in the field of data quality and security. We also released under an open-source license a set of Android OS tools that can be used for data quality and security evaluation.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Data protection--Evaluation; Detectors--Data processing--Security measures; Smartphones--Security measures; Computer security--Evaluation

Publication Date

6-1-2020

Document Type

Dissertation

Student Type

Graduate

Degree Name

Computing and Information Sciences (Ph.D.)

Department, Program, or Center

Computer Science (GCCIS)

Advisor

Leon Reznik

Advisor/Committee Member

Justin Cappos

Advisor/Committee Member

Mehdi Mirakhorli

Campus

RIT – Main Campus

Plan Codes

COMPIS-PHD

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