International Journal of Information Engineering and Electronic Business (IJIEEB)
IJIEEB Vol. 4, No. 3, 8 Jul. 2012
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Application of Biometric Security in Agent based Hotel Booking System - Android Environment
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Agents, SSL, MD5, JADE-LEAP, Android
Abstract
The process of finding the finest hotel in central location is time consuming, information overload and overwhelming and in some cases poses a security risk to the client. Some of the more advanced web sites allow for a search of the destination via a map for example hotelguidge.com and jamaica.hotels.hu. Booking of hotels is secured by the standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to confirm the identity of a website or server, encrypt data during transmission, and ensure the integrity of transmitted data. Even with this in place, hackers have broken the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) by targeting weaknesses in the MD5 algorithm.
Recently good amount of work been carried in the use of Intelligent agents towards hotel search on J2ME based mobile handset which still has some weakness. So taking the weakness in the current agent based system, smart software agents been developed that overcomes the weakness in the previous system In addition to smart agent based system been developed and published elsewhere, we here propose to extend the system with the booking capability that allows the user to book a hotel of choice where the authenticity of the client may be determined securely using biometric security and information transmitted using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) (Server-Gated Cryptography (SGC)) on the internet which is novel and unique. This will be facilitated on Android 2.2-enabled mobile phone using JADE-LEAP Agent development kit.
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Wayne Lawrence, Suresh Sankaranarayanan, "Application of Biometric Security in Agent based Hotel Booking System - Android Environment", International Journal of Information Engineering and Electronic Business(IJIEEB), vol.4, no.3, pp.64-75, 2012. DOI:10.5815/ijieeb.2012.03.08
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