Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications VI : IFIP 18th World Computer Cong

SMART CARD RESEARCH AND ADVANCED APPLICATIONS VI: IFIP 18TH WORLD COMPUTER CONGRESS TC8/WG8.8 & TC11/WG11.2 SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SMART ... AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (153)) HARDCOVER – ILLUSTRATED, JULY 27, 2004  In the Information Society, the smart card, or smart device with its processing power and link to its owner, will be the potential human representation or delegate in Ambient Intelligence (Pervasive Computing), where every appliance or computer will be connected, and where control and trust of the personal environment will be the next decade challenge.  Smart card research is of increasing importance as the need for information security grows rapidly. Smart cards will play a very large role in ID management in secure systems. In many computer science areas, smart cards introduce new dimensions and opportunities. Disciplines like hardware design, operating systems, modeling systems, cryptography and distributed systems find new areas of applications or issues; smart cards also create new challenges for these domains.