Research contributions in secure dependable data management

This thesis consists of the research contributions made by Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham to secure dependable data management between 1985 and 2010. It provides a sample set of papers and my summary and analysis of these papers in the areas of (i) multilevel secure data management, (ii) dependable data management (iii) semantic web, web services and security and (iv) data mining for malware detection. The four areas will be described in four parts. Each part will have an introduction. There are three appendices. My vitae are given in Appendix E. The copyright permissions of all the papers are given in Appendix C. My contributions to each of the papers presented in this thesis are given in Appendix F.