Title : 
Ensuring the identity of a user in time: a multi-modal fuzzy approach
         
        
            Author : 
Azzini, Antonia ; Damiani, Ernesto ; Marrara, Stefania
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Univ. degli Studi di Milano, Crema
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This work proposes a fuzzy multimodal technique capable of guaranteeing the desired level of security while keeping under control the high costs typically associated to some biometric authentication devices. Specifically we describe a fuzzy controller choosing within a palette of authentication techniques to continuously check and confirm its trust in the identity of a user.
         
        
            Keywords : 
biometrics (access control); fuzzy control; security of data; authentication technique; biometric authentication devices; fuzzy controller; fuzzy multimodal technique; multimodal fuzzy approach; security; user identity; Authentication; Bioinformatics; Biometrics; Computational intelligence; Data security; Fingerprint recognition; Fuzzy control; Fuzzy systems; Information security; Time measurement;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications, 2007. CIMSA 2007. IEEE International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Ostuni
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-0824-5
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-0824-5
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/CIMSA.2007.4362546