Table of Contents	5
	Preface	9
	Chapter 1 Information Technology Security	13
	How can we justify trust in software based systems?	14
	The capacity of ciphers fulfilling the accessibility of cryptograms	24
	Parallelization of the Data Encryption Standard ( DES) algorithm	34
	Linked authenticated dictionaries for certificate status verification	46
	Integrated Payment System for Public Key Infrastructure Services	58
	Some methods of the analysis and risk assessment in the system services providers	72
	VAST: Versatile Anonymous System for Web Users	82
	Cryptography and Steganography: teaching experience	94
	Analysis of non-linear pseudo-noise sequences	104
	Tool support for detecting defects in object-oriented models	114
	The Proposal of Protocol for Electronic Signature Creation in Public Environment	124
	On Arithmetic Subtraction Linear Approximation	136
	Secure Data Transmission via Modulation of the Chaotic Sequence Parameters	146
	Chapter 2 Biometric Systems	155
	Some Advances and Challenges in Live Biometrics, Personnel Management, and Other " Human Being" Applications	156
	An environment for recognition systems modeling	168
	Modified Gradient Method for Face Localization	176
	Three stage face recognition algorithm for visitor identification system	188
	A New Approach for Hand-Palm Recognition	196
	An Experimental Criterion for Face Classification	206
	Contour Objects Recognition Based On UNL- Fourier Descriptors	214
	Sonar Image Simulation by Means of Ray Tracing and Image Processing	220
	The PCA Reconstruction Based Approach for Extending Facial Image Databases for Pace Recognition Systems	226
	Investigation of fingerprint verification algorithm based on local centers method	240
	Czestochowa's Precise Model of a Face Based on the Facial Asymmetry, Ophthalmogeometry, and Brain Asymmetry Phenomena: the Idea and Algorithm Sketch	250
	Chapter 3 Methods of Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Agents	265
	A fuzzy expert approach for comparing alternative end uses for requalification of contaminated sites	266
	Training assisting program with hybrid decision supporting system	278
	Numerical problems with evaluating the fractal dimension of real data	284
	Multi-stage ship control in a fuzzy environment	296
	Informative value of the possibilistic extension principle	312
	Intelligent Marine Control Systems	322
	How to deal with the data in a bankruptcy modelling	332
	Dependency Mining in Large Sets of Stock Market Trading Rules	340
	Choosing representative data items: Kohonen, Neural Gas or Mixture Model?	348
	Application of the Ant Colony Algorithm for the Path Planning	356
	Application of fuzzy logic for track corrector formation into flight simulator	364
	Algorithm for Automatic Definition of Validated and Non-Validated Region in Multi-Dimensional Space	372
	Adaptive simulation of separable dynamical systems in the neural network basis	382
	Improvement of the processors operating ratio in task scheduling using the deadline method	398
	Author Index	406