Wayne Lawrence

Work place: Mona Institute of Applied Sciences, University of WestIndies, Jamaica

E-mail: wayne.lawrence.vip@gmail.com

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Research Interests: Computational Science and Engineering, Computational Engineering, Software Construction, Software Engineering, Software Organization and Properties, Data Structures and Algorithms

Biography

Wayne Lawrence is a final year Msc. Computer Science student in the Department of Computing at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica since 2009. Prior to that, he obtained Bachelor’s degree in Computing & Information Technology from University of Technology Jamaica in 2004.
He is currently working as Database Administration in Epayment Group Limited. In his Master’s Programme he did Master’s thesis on “Application of Intelligent Agents in Hotel Search and Secured Booking System which focused on using intelligent agents to search, the hotels based on user requirements and also booking the hotels online securely suing biometrics. His research interest includes Intelligent Agents, Mobile commerce, Software Engineering and Database.

Author Articles
Smart Agent Learning based Hotel Search System- Android Environment

By Wayne Lawrence Suresh Sankaranarayanan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijitcs.2012.09.02, Pub. Date: 8 Aug. 2012

The process of finding the finest hotel in central location is time consuming, information overload and overwhelming and in some cases poses a security risk to the client. Over time with competition in the market among travel agents and hotels, the process of hotel search and booking has improved with the advances in technology. Various web sites allow a user to select a destination from a pull-down list along with several categories to suit one’s preference.. Some of the more advanced web sites allow for a search of the destination via a map for example hotelguidge.com and jamaica.hotels.hu. Recently good amount of work been carried in the use of Intelligent agents towards hotel search on J2ME based mobile handset which still has some weakness. The proposed system so developed uses smart software agents that overcomes the weakness in the previous system by collaborating among themselves and search Google map based on criteria selected by the user and return results to the client that is precise and best suit the user requirements. In addition, the agent possesses learning capability of searching the hotels too which is based on past search experience. The booking of hotel involving cryptography has not been incorporated in this research paper and been published elsewhere. This will be facilitated on Android 2.2-enabled mobile phone using JADE-LEAP Agent development kit.

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Application of Biometric Security in Agent based Hotel Booking System - Android Environment

By Wayne Lawrence Suresh Sankaranarayanan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijieeb.2012.03.08, Pub. Date: 8 Jul. 2012

The process of finding the finest hotel in central location is time consuming, information overload and overwhelming and in some cases poses a security risk to the client. Some of the more advanced web sites allow for a search of the destination via a map for example hotelguidge.com and jamaica.hotels.hu. Booking of hotels is secured by the standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to confirm the identity of a website or server, encrypt data during transmission, and ensure the integrity of transmitted data. Even with this in place, hackers have broken the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) by targeting weaknesses in the MD5 algorithm.
Recently good amount of work been carried in the use of Intelligent agents towards hotel search on J2ME based mobile handset which still has some weakness. So taking the weakness in the current agent based system, smart software agents been developed that overcomes the weakness in the previous system In addition to smart agent based system been developed and published elsewhere, we here propose to extend the system with the booking capability that allows the user to book a hotel of choice where the authenticity of the client may be determined securely using biometric security and information transmitted using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) (Server-Gated Cryptography (SGC)) on the internet which is novel and unique. This will be facilitated on Android 2.2-enabled mobile phone using JADE-LEAP Agent development kit.

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