Hybrid Data Mining to Reduce False Positive and False Negative Prediction in Intrusion Detection System -- Adblock Usage in Web Advertisement in Poland -- Open Algorithms for Identity Federation -- A Hybrid Anomaly Detection System for Electronic Control Units Featuring Replicator Neural Networks -- Optimizing Noise Level for Perturbing Geo-location Data -- Qualitative Analysis for Platform Independent Forensics Process Model (PIFPM) for Smartphones -- Privacy Preserving Computation in Home Loans using the FRESCO Framework -- Practically Realisable Anonymisation of Bitcoin Transactions with Improved Efficiency of the Zerocoin Protocol -- Walsh Sampling with Incomplete Noisy Signals -- Investigating the Effective use of Machine Learning Algorithms in Network Intruder Detection System.

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