Title: Securing Android Applications using Location Based Policy Specification Languages

Abstract:
Nowadays, Smart phones have become very popular in the market. Their rich computational and communication capabilities have led to the dramatic rise in mobile applications. Excessive use of mobile device applications has greatly increased threats to the security and privacy of users. Security mechanisms for mobile device applications are currently limited, so users need more expressive ways to ensure that downloaded mobile applications do not act maliciously. In recent years, numerous policy specification languages have been developed to address the growing need in to express and verify that software in a wide variety of domains meets various security constraints. Policy-specification languages enable centralized security modules to be specified as a policy. Other policy specification language for mobile applications has been developed by researchers. However, most have been limited to access control-based policies. Location based policy specification language (LoPSiL) provides the opportunity to develop location-based policies and allows the enforcement of user-defined policies on third-party applications to make them trustworthy aapplications.