information management - a green perspective - vinay mehta 2009

CBS E-Journal, Biz n Bytes,

Vol. 2, Dec., 2009

http://www.cgc.edu.in/ISSN 0976 0458

Proceedings

Of

National Conference

On

Information Management,

Computing and Security

(IMCS09)

3rd

November 2009

Convener:

Dr.Col. S.P.S Bedi

Director, CBS, Landran, Mohali

Co-Convener:

Ms.Bikrampal Kaur

Head of Deptt, MCA, CBS Landran, Mohali

Organized by:

Department of Computer Applications

Chandigarh Business School, Landran, Mohali


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Organizing Committee

Mr.Sudhanshu Shrivastava

Asst.Prof., MCA Dept

CBS,Mohali, Landran,Mohali

Ms.Jaspreet Kaur Sandhu

Lecturer.MCA Dept.

CBS,Mohali,Landran,Mohali

Mr.Ravikant Potdar

Lecturer,MCA Dept.

CBS,Mohali,Landran Mohali


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FOREWORD

It gives me immense pleasure to know that the Department of Computer Applications,

Chandigarh Business School, Landran is Organizing National Level Conference on Information

Management, Computing and Security (IMCS09) on 3rd

November 2009.I am sure that

IMCS09 is an excellent opportunity for researchers ,scientists and professionals from industry,

educational institutes and students to share and disseminate their innovative ideas and pioneering

views about the recent trends and development in the field of computer applications.

Today information includes both electronic and physical information. The information

management comprises of collection, compilation, collation and distribution of information.

Information management (IM) is the collection and management of information from one or

more sources and the distribution of that information to one or more audiences. This means the

organization of and control over the structure, processing and delivery of information.

Computing means any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computers.

Thus, computing includes designing and building hardware and software systems for a wide

range of purposes; processing, structuring, and managing various kinds of information; doing

scientific studies using computers; making computer systems behave intelligently; creating and

using communications and entertainment media; finding and gathering information relevant to

any particular purpose, and so on. Information security is the protection of information from a

wide range of threats in order to ensure business continuity, minimize business risk, and

maximize return on investments and business opportunities. Information security is achieved by

implementing a suitable set of controls, including policies, processes, procedures, organizational

structures and software and hardware functions. These controls need to be established,

implemented, monitored, reviewed and improved, where necessary, to ensure that the specific

security and business objectives of the organization are met. This should be done in conjunction

with other business management processes.

I welcome and thank all delegates, honorable guest, renowned speakers and participants for their

generous views, support and contribution n for the success of this conference. The organizers

have put in a lot of effort to make such a big event a grand success. I appreciate their planning,

coordination and hard work.

I wish you all a knowledgeable and rewarding experience.

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AUTHORS Vinay Mehta

AshwathaNarayana Shastry.

Arvinder Singh Kang

Bikrampal Kaur

Chamkaur Singh Dhillon

Deepti Tara

Divya Dhara Gupta

Garima Shrivastava (Paper-1) (Paper2)

Jaspreet Kaur Sandhu

Jaspreet Kaur

Narinder Kumar

Navita Shrivastava (Paper-1) (Paper2)

Nitin Bansal

Pawnee Mahendru

Parminder Singh

Sahil Sharma

Sandeep Singh Kang

Satish Alaria

Sudhanshu Shrivastava(Paper-1) (Paper2)

Upasna Sharma

Vimal Kumar

Vijay Kumar

Yogesh Kumar


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AUTHOR WISE PAPERS

Vinay Mehta

Information Management - A green perspective

AshwathaNarayana Shastry

Information Security in Information Technology Industry in India

Arvinder Singh Kang

Internet Security and Ethical Hacking

Bikrampal Kaur

Evaluation In Inforamtion Retrieval

Chamkaur Singh Dhillon

Improving the performance of search engine technology

Deepti Tara

An Empricial study on Network Security Mangement during data extraction and sharing

in SAN.

Divya Dhara Gupta


Garima Shrivastava

The State-of-the-Art Machine Learning Strategy for Predicting Protein Conformation from DNA

Sequence :Progress and Prospects

Application of Machine Learning Techniques to Explore Complex Networks in Cell Biology:

Simulating the Language of Living Cells

Jaspreet Kaur Sandhu

Criterias for evaluating the qaulity of information on the internet

Jaspreet Kaur

Search engines and Strategies

Narinder Kumar

Threats to Network Security and its Counter measures

Navita Shrivastava






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AUTHOR WISE PAPERS

Nitin Bansal

An Empricial study on Network Security Mangement during data extraction and sharing

in SAN.

Pawnee Mahendru


Parminder Singh

Performance Analysis of QOS for IEEE 802.11 E

Sahil Sharma


Sandeep Singh Kang

Performance Analysis of QOS for IEEE 802.11 E

Satish Alaria

A Software process improvemment Model

Sudhanshu Shrivastava





Upasna Sharma

Threats to Network Security and its Counter measures

Vimal Kumar

Search engines and Strategies

Vijay Kumar

A Software process improvemment Model

Yogesh Kumar



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PAPERS

Information Management - A green perspective by Vinay Mehta

Information Security in Information technology Industry in India.

Internet Security and Ethical hacking

Evaluation In Information Retrieval


An Empirical study on Network Security Management during data extraction

and sharing in SAN

The State of the Art Machine Learning strategy for predicting Protein

Conformation from DNA Sequence: Progress and Prospects.

Application of Machine Learning Techniques to explore complex Networks in

cell Biology :Simulating the language of Living Cells

Criterias for evaluating the quality of information on the internet

Search Engines and Strategies

Threats to Network security and its Counter measures

Performance Analysis of QOS for IEEE 802.11E

A Software process improvement model.


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Information Management A Green Perspective

Vinay Mehta

CEO, PoleVault Technologies Pvt Ltd, Chandigarh

[Keynote Presentation held on 3-Nov-09]

Abstract: In this age of information explosion, information management has become a huge

challenge for organizations and nations. What is noteworthy however is that information

howsoever it may have been created, by whosoever it may have been created, whatsoever

number of times it may have been used, and may have lost its relevance with time comes to be

treated at par with all other new information. And this is what increases the burden of

information management. The author expounds the basic tenets of nature with an example of

data storage mechanism of a tree - to come out with a new model of Information Management so

that instead of carrying loads of information in our storage media for years together, the

information manages itself on its own depending on the number of factors affecting it. This

would simplify our lives manifold and make us much more productive in everyday life.

1.0 Information

I would like to define Information as anything that carries no value or little value in itself, but its

proper use delivers great value. Often, I use an example of a newspaper advertisement or a web

advertisement that by itself does not cost us anything, but if someone uses the information inside

it and applies, it could change his / her life. Similarly that piece of information may be obsolete

after sometime and shall get stored by default somewhere. This way we keep accumulating

information in our cabinets, our drawers, our almirahs that are full of information but rarely used

for productive purposes. Imagine if the amount of data within an organization is so huge that it

needs scores of Storage Area Networks (SANs) to keep it safe and sound, the data of a nation

must run into trillions of megabytes to be stored for ages. This way the information management

becomes a humungous challenge, and in the coming centuries half of our efforts as a world

community might go into keeping what we have already generated, knowing what is relevant,

what is not and in the process, losing some of the key information to bring some order into

Information Management. Therefore the information of present age needs to be

organized,

managed and

processed (computed),

Secured and

Shared or communicated

2.0 Information needs an actor

It is obvious that any piece of information needs an actor to act upon it to process it. If you need

to cull out some data for previous years, you need to dig into your databases to get it out using

queries. If you need some old text out, you need to search it in your files you created months

back. So without action, you can not get the desired information. By itself it does not tell how

old it is, how irrelevant it is to you or how useful it could be to you before you use it. In other

words, Information Model of present times treats information as a static entity that neither

changes according to its exposure nor modifies itself destroys itself depending on the

environment it is in or based on how it was created or for whom it was created.


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In short, the information models of present age are not intelligent, they are static definitions of

constructs in which bits and bytes are stored as information that keeps lying like a dud till some

application acts upon them and do something with them. In contrast, let us see how nature is

managing its information since billions of years.

3.0 Natures Dynamic Information Model

Look us look at the Green way the way nature stores the information in a tree.

The smallest unit on a tree is a leaf. The information the leaves carry about their health and

growth is self- contained. The cells within the leaf have the information about how to grow, how

to make food, how to survive in storms or rough weather, how to live, and even when to fall. It is

not dependent on the branch for taking a decision on these in normal case of growth (most of the

times in their life-time).

If we look at the branch, information about its growth, its divisions into sub-branches, further

leaves, are all contained within its cells, and are not dependent on the stem for this information

in normal case. In fact in case of any obstruction or condition, it is able to take a decision on its

own about the direction it has to grow and how much.

Lets us look at the stem. It represents the life support system, apart from being a physical

support system as well. It can be said that the basic infrastructure is available to all components

of the tree through the stem - physical support, water, other nutrients, life support processes in

these they act as one entity, as a tree. The stem and its processes are similar to the passive and

active IT infrastructure in any network.

In all these components, the information storage is happening in their basic cell structure

according to the need, exposure, growth, potential to grow and other factors. And as a system the

information is changed or modified or destroyed or shed appropriately depending on these

factors with time.


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If we look at this model of Information, it is no doubt dynamic, constantly changing itself,

adapting itself and carries itself only as much as is needed (in the form of a seed), you may call it

the most relevant information in a compressed form, that can be used again!

Therefore in a tree adaptive changes in information happen. Whereas the core Information

genetic information - remains same, other information changes with time, weather and water or

resource availability.

4.0 Todays Information Systems

Compare the Tree (as Information Object) with the Information in IT processes of todays

Information Systems. You will find that there is absolutely no adaptive change in information

within them. You would find the core Information remaining same, and the other information

also remains same w.r.t. time and other factors, unless they are acted upon by applications.

This static behaviour is depicted by all of our passive Infrastructure, active Infrastructure,

application Infrastructure as well as information storages.

This is precisely the reason why information is not easily shared, it is not secure nor is it prone to

misuse. There are no adaptive changes happening in the data and there are no ways to change

how it is processed depending on what it is exposed to.

I give you a simple example:

A file shared with another user has same format and a static password.

If encrypted, it can be opened with a private key (that is same for all users)

Time relevant components of the information within the file remain same, they do not

change or nor do they get highlighted unless the application whos using it is aware

enough.

5.0 Imagine a Dynamic Information Model for IT world

Therefore I ask you not to think your information as data. Data usually connotes a dud or static

piece of information which does not change at all with time or exposure. It needs an intelligent

actor to make it useful. Instead I ask you to visualize an Information Object that contains data

and acts dynamically! Just for some time, forget all about what you have learnt in data

management systems, and visualize the following:

Any information (say, a worksheet) going out of your system or network having

Adaptive locks depending on who opens the information a trusted one within or outside the

network or a stranger;

Ability to tell before it is used that components in this file may be outdated since it old

Ability to kind of destroy itself beyond a certain time or age

Ability to get differently processed depending on the exposure

To reinforce this idea, I would give you another example from nature. Very often I have used a

particular road to my college campus, now my office campus as well. On the left side of it, there

are two kinds of trees as you can see in the images below. One planted in three rows on extreme

left, they stand straight adjacent to the boundary walls of Museum and Art Gallery and the

College of Art, sector 10, Chandigarh, and the others planted on the road edges and have lesser

space to grow in the vertical direction. Look carefully at the images below:


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Now see the Tree Information Object which is very adaptive in respect of its angle of stem, the

percentage of foliage, and even the location of flowers changes with respect to what it is exposed

to. And all this forms a part of the basic information system of the Tree. I would call it as

Adaptive Computing happening even in the primitive cells of the stem which calculates all the

physical parameters and changes the direction of its growth and way it grows.

6.0 Think Information Objects

Now that you have been imagining the tree information object, think of our own information

files or database as Information Objects, NOT data. This would make it adaptive and it would

have the

o Ability to get differently processed depending on the exposure

o Ability to have different encoding based on where they are going

o Ability to get differently transported depending on their state

o Ability to age with time

And think that these information objects are available to you as a part of OS or base network

layer in your information system setup! A simple example would make you understand the ease

it would bring to your life: Think of worksheets or files in your system behaving differently

depending on

o what they contain

o by whom they have been sent to you,

o how frequently you have used them, &

o what their age is!

7.0 Conclusion

I believe, once we start thinking in a different way on a totally different model or pattern, we are

sure to come up with ways to create it and generate it. The progress we can have with dynamic

information objects would help us achieve Information Management in much more easier natural

way and help us explore hitherto unexplored potential that human race is destined for. We at

PoleVault encourage ways to keep thinking different and as Steve Jobs said remain hungry all

the time.

[Copyright All ideas presented herein are original and are copyrighted in the author and the

PoleVault Technologies Pvt Ltd, Chandigarh]

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