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The author's primary focus is to provide consumers with an improved home life experience by integrating technology in their daily lives.

In this paper, the author uses smart home technologies used today to test and analyze human behavior patterns.

In this article, the author describes for consumers the different tools available for achieving an automated home.

This is an excellent report that was written for the Navy Office of Naval Research regarding semi and autonomous robots usage in the military. It covers everything from various land, sea, and space applications to rules of engagement and the decision making chain. A must read for those who find military robots fascinating.

This was an interesting source that talks about how our adversary can utilized off the shelf programs to defeat the multi-million dollars system of our UAV programs.

This article requires that you login into the UMUC Library in order to view it. It dealt with a more technical aspect of what the UAV is all about it. It contains drawings and addresses some ethical concerns.

This source describes various applications of robotic usage by the military. It also talks about damages caused by them whether intentional or by mistakes.

Conflicts are become ever increasing and I used this source to show that the U.S. will be relying more on small forces such as the SEAL team in conjunction with unmanned robots.

This article describes the device created by a Georgia Research team, known as Mactans that hacks iPhones through a compatible charger.

This publication describes the various applications and the future possibilities of Near Field Communication in the mobile market.

This publication discusses the necessary factors involved in making the mass use of NFC technology a reality.

This publication focuses on the security risks of NFC technology. Also discussed are the methods being developed to mitigate these risks.

The authors of this publication describe the technology behind NFC, the various applications for NFC, and the devices that are currently, or have the potential to be, NFC enabled.

This publication outlines the various companies that are offering "mobile wallets" as a payment option. The authors describe Google and Visa as leading the industry as companies who are leading the way with NFC technology implementation. Also discussed is state of acquisitions between the major credit companies and competing mobile wallet platforms.

Game Theoretic Solutions to Cyber Attack and Network Defense Problems

Queuing Model for Malicious Attack Detection.

The Role of Modeling in the Resilience of Cyberinfrastructure Systems and Preparedness for Cyber Intrusions.

School studies Net attacks.

Mathematical model on the transmission of worms in wireless sensor network.

Biometrics - Fingerprinting. This source is from Capella University. It explains how identity fraud can be reduced with the use of fingerprinting.