Dr Chun Ruan

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Biography

Dr Chun Ruan is currently a Lecturer in the School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Western Sydney, Australia. Before that, she was working in the Computer Science Department of Wuhan University, P.R China as an Associate Professor. She received her PhD degree from the School of Computing, University of Western Sydney, Australia, and her BSc and MSc Degrees from Computer Science Department of Wuhan University, P.R. China. She has published many research papers in scholarly international journals and conferences.

She has reviewed many research papers for international journals and conferences.

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

Access control systems, Information and networks security, database techniques, information modelling, computer forensics

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Grants / Current Projects

2009, Security and Trust in Mobile Agent based Internet Applications, UWS RGS (Co-CI with Prof. Vijay Varadharajan)

2005, A Logic Based Approach to Decentralised Authorisation, UWS seed grant (CI)

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Awards and Recognition

The Science Progress Award of Hubei Province, P.R. China for the project of Information System Environment (the second prize), 1998.

The Key Subject Award of Wuhan University, P.R. China for the subject of Principles of Operating Systems, 1997.

The Excellent Youth Scientific and Technique Award of Wuhan University, P.R. China (the first prize), 1996.

Lu Zhenwan Excellent Youth Scientific and Technique Award (the third prize), Wuhan University, P.R. China, 1995.

Excellent Youth Teacher Award of Wuhan University, P.R.China, 1992.

Science Progress Award of the State Educational Committee, P.R.China for the project of Distributed Database Systems Research (the third prize), 1991.

Excellent Scientific Accomplishment Award for the
Project of Distributed Database WDDBS (the second prize), Wuhan University, P.R.China, 1991.

Excellent Scientific Accomplishment Award for the project of Distributed Database Standardisation Research (the third prize), Wuhan University, P.R.China 1991.

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Publications

C. Ruan and V. Varadharajan, Reasoning on weighted delegatable authorizations. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2009. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5690, pp 279-286, 2009. ISSN 0302-9743.

C.Ruan and V.Varadharajan, Trust enhanced authorization for mobile agents.  Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies. Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5692, pp 84-95, 2009. ISSN 0302-9743.

C. Ruan and E. Huebner, Formalizing computer forensics process with UML, Proceedings of 8 th International Conference on Information Systems Technology and its Applications , LNBIP 20, pp 184-189, Springer, 2009.

C. Ruan, UML specification of e-Consent Requirement in a health care system,  Proceedings of International Symposium on Computer Science and Its Applications, Australia, IEEE Computer Society, 2008, pp 275-280.

E. Huebner; D. Bem and C. Ruan, Computer Forensics Tertiary Education in Australia, Proceedings of International Conference on Information Technology in Education, IEEE Computer Society, 2008, pp 1383-1387.

C.Ruan and V.Varadharajan, Implementing authorization delegations using graph, 17th International Conference Proceedings, DEXA 2006, pp 904-913. Also in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4080, 2006. ISSN 0302-9743

C.Ruan and V.Varadharajan, Integration of Graph Based Authorization Policies 16th International Symposium, ISMIS 2006. pp 359-368. Also in Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 4203, 2006. ISSN 0302-9743

C. Ruan and V. Varadharajan, Data protection in distributed database systems. In Proc. of the 15th international symposium on methodologies for intelligent systems, Springer, pp 191-199, 2005. Also in Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3488, 2005. ISSN 0302-9743

C. Ruan and V. Varadharajan, A weighted graph approach to authorization delegation and conflict resolution. In Proc. of the 9th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy, 2004, pp 402-413, 2004. Also in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3108, 2004. ISSN 0302-9743.

C. Ruan, V. Varadharajan, A formal graph based framework for supporting authorization delegations and conflict resolutions. In International Journal of Information Security, 1(4) 211-222, 2003.

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