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Advancing Highways With Communication Solutions: Cost-Effective Ways to Address Growing Demands on Highway Infrastructure
Jun 2009
Highway authorities worldwide are facing rapid growth in the number of passenger vehicles, combined with constraints on budgets and available space for new roads. To leverage available resources,...
Provided by Alcatel-Lucent
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White Papers
Tips and Trends for Homeland Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection
Dec 2004
There are now 13 industry sectors classified as critical infrastructure. Identifying the assets, which collectively constitute a critical infrastructure sector, is not always easy to define....
Provided by Internet-Journals
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White Papers
Risks of Terrorism to Information Technology and to Critical Interdependent Infrastructures
Dec 2004
When the operability of IT-based controls and equipment is affected by acts of terrorism, then the performance of critical interdependent infrastructures such as railroads, electric power grids,...
Provided by University of Virginia
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Case Studies
Kraft Foods Eliminates 500,000 "Empty Miles" in One Year With Routing Tools
Feb 2010
Kraft Foods wanted to reduce costs of a large-scale food product distribution operation that, in the United States alone, includes 500 shipping points, more than 6,000 destinations, and...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Clinical Benefits of an Embedded Decision Support System in Anticoagulant Control
Jun 2009
Computer-based Decision Support (CDSS) systems can deliver real patient care and increase chances of long-term survival in areas of chronic disease management prone to poor control. One such CDSS,...
Provided by University of London
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White Papers
Xplorah Municipio, a Multi Resolution Spatial Decision Support System
May 2009
Processes of land use change take place at different spatial scales. Also land use planning takes place at different scales, each scale in proportion to its scope. Subsequently, tools to assist...
Provided by University of Puerto Rico
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White Papers
Decision Support System for Diagnosis of Power Transformers
Sep 2009
Given the complexity of the Brazilian Electric Power System, it is important to ensure that equipments work in satisfactory conditions and with high levels of reliability. Within those equipments,...
Provided by Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
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White Papers
An Evolutionary Computing Model to Implement Decision Support Systems for Buying Electronics
Oct 2009
The representation of data through a search engine in e-commerce systems using decision support systems can be considered a complex process due to lots of information and may grow exponentially,...
Provided by Universidade Federal de Alagoas
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White Papers
Tracking the Power in an Enterprise Decision Support System
Aug 2009
Enterprises rely on decision support systems to influence critical business choices. At the same time, IT-related power costs are growing and are a key concern for enterprise executives. Yet,...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
A Modular Framework for Clinical Decision Support Systems: Medical Device Plug-and-Play Is Critical
Apr 2009
This paper describes the design and initial implementation of a modular framework for Clinical Decision Support Systems and highlights the need for medical device plug-and-play standards. The...
Provided by Johns Hopkins University
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White Papers
GIS-Based Decision Support System for Identifying Potential Sites for Rainwater Harvesting
Jun 2008
Identification of potential sites for RWH is an important step towards maximizing water availability and land productivity in the semi-arid areas. However, selection of appropriate sites for...
Provided by Sokoine University of Agriculture
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White Papers
A Spatial Decision Support System for Property Valuation
Aug 2009
Off late it is increasingly recognised that land management is a multi faceted challenge, in which social, economic and physical dimensions must be considered. In addition, the call for...
Provided by University College London
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White Papers
A Multicriteria Spatial Decision Support System for Hazardous Material Transport
Nov 2008
The paper concerns the problem of routing and scheduling hazardous material (hazmat) in urban and suburban road networks. This problem involves conflicting objectives among interested parties: the...
Provided by Politecnico di Milano
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White Papers
Support Interoperability and Reusability of Emerging Forms of Assessment
Sep 2009
The current education system lays more emphasis on developing overall performance of an individual, from basic level of proficiency through to the highest level of excellence. This is also...
Provided by Open Universiteit Nederland
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Webcasts
Hiring the Next-Generation of Cyber Security Professionals in Government
May 2010
The need for cyber security professionals is an immediate concern, for all levels of government, and Lewis Shepherd of Microsoft Research, through this webcast tells you the necessity for hiring...
Provided by O'Reilly Media
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White Papers
Cartographic Support for Collaborative Spatial Decision-Making
Jul 2008
Collaborative spatial decision-making environments in which group members individually and collectively pursue solutions to ill-structured problems have a unique set of cartographic visualization...
Provided by University of Iowa
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Whitepapers
Value-Based IT Decision Support - Towards a Formal Business Value Model for Steering IT-Business Alignment
Sep 2009
Value creation and delivery are recurrently mentioned in the literature as important drivers for effective business and IT decision making. However, the knowledge concerning value creation is...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Fujitsu and Oracle Transportation Management (OTM) Make Transportation More Efficient
Feb 2010
TTI is a world-class supplier of superior home improvement and construction tools with a powerful portfolio of trusted brands and a strong commitment to innovation and quality. They wanted to...
Provided by Fujitsu
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White Papers
2009 Cyber Threats and Trends
Dec 2008
One of the most distinct characteristics of the Internet is how quickly and fluidly it evolves, how technology originally designed for research and collaboration today powers millions of lives,...
Provided by iDEFENSE
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Case Studies
Excellus BlueCross BlueShield Deploys SAS to Lay Data Foundation for Advanced Analytics
Jun 2010
The largest nonprofit health plan in upstate New York, Excellus BlueCross BlueShield is awash in data on its 1.7 million members across four upstate regions. But the health plan's actuarial team...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Evolutionary Approach to the Development of Decision Support Systems in the Movie Industry
Jan 2009
This paper reports the development and implementation of a decision support system in a non-traditional domain - the motion picture industry. The approach reported here is evolutionary, and the...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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White Papers
Adaptive Decision Support for Planning Under Hard and Soft Constraints
Jan 2010
Given the 60-month limit on services, it is crucial that advice from case managers or software take into account longer-term plans, rather than immediate gratification. The constraints on planning...
Provided by American Association for Artificial Intelligence
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White Papers
A Decision-Support System to Assess Surface-Water Resources in Massachusetts
Feb 2008
Federal, State and local water supply, regulatory, and planning agencies require easy-to use, technically-defensible, Decision-Support (DS) applications that can evaluate impacts of proposed water...
Provided by Tufts University
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White Papers
A Decision Support Tool for Locating an Impact of an Inland Port in Inland Empire
Dec 2009
By diverting port-related truck trips to rail, the development and operation of an inland port in southern California: increase transportation efficiency by switching from truck to train, create a...
Provided by California State University
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White Papers
Decision Support System for Long Term Planning of Rural and Urban Water Supply Systems Cost in Oklahoma
May 2007
The purpose of this paper is to develop an economic Decision Support System (DSS) to be used as a management and planning tool by regional and local water planners for the sequential expansion,...
Provided by Oklahoma State University
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White Papers
Projection and Reaction for Decision Support in Refineries: Combining Multiple Theories
Jan 2010
Modern decision support systems are forced to deal with perpetual change in their environment: change that includes a high degree of uncertainty over the current state of the plant, effects of...
Provided by American Association for Artificial Intelligence
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White Papers
Application of an Environmental Decision Support System to a Water Quality Trading Program Affected by Surface Water Diversions
May 2008
Environmental Decision Support Systems (EDSSs) are an emerging tool used to integrate the evaluation of highly complex and interrelated physicochemical, biological, hydrological, social, and...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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Whitepapers
Knowledge Based Decision Support System for Standardization in Professional Education
Apr 2012
Professional Education is a Global Issue, every country in each continent is striving hard to earn as much professional growth possible. Particularly, in India the professional education has taken...
Provided by International forum of researchers Students and Academician
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White Papers
Information Management and Cyber Security Policy
Mar 2010
Information security refers to the protection of information from accidental or unauthorized access, destruction, modification or disclosure. Digital information is defined as the representation...
Provided by SUNY Fredonia
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White Papers
AVOIDIT: A Cyber Attack Taxonomy
Oct 2009
Cyber attacks have greatly increased over the years, where the attackers have progressively improved in devising attacks towards a specific target. To aid in identifying and defending against...
Provided by University of Memphis
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White Papers
Cyber Power
May 2010
Power depends upon context, and the rapid growth of cyber space is an important new context in world politics. The low price of entry, anonymity, and asymmetries in vulnerability means that...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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White Papers
The CERT Approach to Cybersecurity Workforce Development
Dec 2010
For a cybersecurity workforce to be effective, its members must possess the knowledge, skills, and experience required to perform their job duties. Proficiency and relevance are key factors in...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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White Papers
Voting Systems With Trust Mechanisms in Cyberspace: Vulnerabilities and Defenses
Nov 2009
With the popularity of voting systems in cyberspace, there is growing evidence that current voting systems can be manipulated by fake votes. This problem has attracted many researchers working on...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Sailing the Information Ocean With Awareness of Currents: Discovery and Application of Source Dependence
Jan 2011
The Web has enabled the availability of a huge amount of useful information, but has also eased the ability to spread false information and rumors across multiple sources, making it hard to...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
TransDec:A Spatiotemporal Query Processing Framework for Transportation Systems (Demo Paper)
Oct 2009
This paper presents TransDec, an end-to-end data-driven system which enables spatiotemporal queries in transportation systems with dynamic, real-time and historical data. TransDec fuses a variety...
Provided by University of Southern California
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White Papers
TransDec: A Data-Driven Framework for Decision-Making in Transportation Systems
Apr 2009
This paper presents an end-to-end data-driven system, dubbed TransDec (Short for Transportation Decision-Making), to enable decision-making queries in transportation systems with dynamic,...
Provided by University of Southern California
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White Papers
How to Implement National Information Sharing Strategy: Detailed Elements of the Evolutionary Management Approach Required
May 2008
Data sharing is today's principal Information Technology challenge. All sectors - commercial, government, academic, and military - seek improved information exchange to achieve operational...
Provided by George Mason University
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White Papers
A Bayesian Network Approach to Control of Networked Markov Decision Processes
Sep 2008
The authors consider the problem of finding an optimal feedback controller for a networked Markov decision process. Specifically, they consider a network of interconnected subsystems, where each...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Optimized Distributed Data Sharing Substrate in Multi-Core Commodity Clusters: A Comprehensive Study With Applications
Feb 2008
Distributed applications tend to have a complex design due to issues such as concurrency, synchronization and communication. Researchers in the past have proposed simpler abstractions to hide...
Provided by Ohio State University
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White Papers
An exemplar data web integrating gene expression data on the fruit fly
Apr 2010
Integrating heterogeneous data across distributed sources is a major requirement for in silico bioinformatics supporting translational research. For example, genome-scale data on patterns of gene...
Provided by Cardiff University
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Case Studies
ILoveLeasing.com Completes Bi-Directional Data Sharing Integration With Yardi Systems
Dec 2012
ILoveLeasing has offered clients integrations with several accounting software providers over the years. The new Yardi version is the most comprehensive integration in the multi-family marketplace...
Provided by PRVsoft
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Whitepapers
A Wide Scale Survey on Botnet
Nov 2011
Among the diverse forms of malware, Botnet is the serious threat which occurs commonly in today's cyber attacks and cyber crimes. Botnet are designed to perform predefined functions in an...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
A Context-Aware Model to Support Ubiquitous Group Decision Making
Jun 2012
Due to the costs to create conditions that allow participants to meet in the same place at the same time (time, travel, etc.) the ubiquitous Group Decision Support Systems appeared allowing...
Provided by Meiji University
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Whitepapers
A Review of Fraud Detection Techniques: Credit Card
May 2012
In present scenario when the term fraud comes into a discussion, credit card fraud clicks to mind so far. With the great increase in credit card transactions, credit card fraud has increasing...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Context-Aware Rate-Adaptive Beaconing for Efficient and Scalable Vehicular Safety Communication
Sep 2012
Vehicular safety applications, such as cooperative collision warning systems, rely on beaconing to provide situational awareness that is needed to predict and therefore to avoid possible...
Provided by Scientific Research
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Whitepapers
Curve Fitting Analysis of Internet Traffic Sharing Management in Computer Network Under Cyber Crime
Jun 2012
Cyber crime is growing fast day-by-day through the spreading of Internet around the world. Many under-developed countries are using dial-up-setup network where a call is connected only after a...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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Whitepapers
Methods for Handling Uncertainty in Decision Support System
Mar 2012
Data uncertainty is common in real world applications due to various causes, including imprecise measurements, network latency, out dated sources and sampling errors. These kinds of uncertainty...
Provided by International Journal of Communications and Engineering
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Whitepapers
A Decision Support System for Performance Evaluation
Nov 2012
In this paper, the authors present a model based Decision Support System (DSS) for evaluating performance. Performance evaluation in business is difficult. Multicriteria methods are used for...
Provided by Cairo University
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Whitepapers
Information Integration for Heterogeneous Data Sources
Apr 2012
Information retrieval from heterogeneous information systems is required but challenging at the same as data is stored and represented in different data models in different information systems....
Provided by IOSR Journal of Engineering
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Whitepapers
To Crash or Not to Crash: Estimating Its Likelihood and Potentials of Beacon-Based IVC Systems
Oct 2012
Is it possible to estimate some 'Safety' metric to assess the effectiveness of Intelligent Transportation Systems? In particular, the people are interested in using Inter-Vehicle Communication...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
A Complete Axiomatization of Quantified Differential Dynamic Logic for Distributed Hybrid Systems
Nov 2012
The authors address a fundamental mismatch between the combinations of dynamics that occur in cyber-physical systems and the limited kinds of dynamics supported in analysis. Modern applications...
Provided by Creative Commons
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Whitepapers
Research on Service Management Data Modeling Based on SID
Aug 2007
In order to resolve problems related to information integration in Service Management System (SMS), this paper introduces Meta Object Facility (MOF) into SMS to propose the concept of universal...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Adaptive Calibration for Fusion-Based Cyber-Physical Systems
Dec 2010
Many Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are composed of low-cost devices that are deeply integrated with physical environments. As a result, the performance of a CPS system is inevitably undermined by...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Cyber Terrorism: Issues in Its Interpretation and Enforcement
May 2012
Cyber terrorism is a term which represents an act of terrorising using cyberspace as a medium. This phrase is controversial as there is no exact meaning of it. Generally, it is known as "The...
Provided by International Journal of Information and Electronics Engineering
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Whitepapers
Knowledge Based Decision Support System for Standardization in Professional Education
Apr 2012
Professional Education is a Global Issue, every country in each continent is striving hard to earn as much professional growth possible. Particularly, in India the professional education has taken...
Provided by International forum of researchers Students and Academician
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Whitepapers
Forensics Computing-Technology to Combat Cybercrime
Jul 2012
The advent of technological revolution in communications and information exchange has created sophisticated form of crime, cyber crime. Cybercrimes have more severe economic impacts than many...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering (IJARCSSE)
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Whitepapers
Impact of Malware in Cyber World: A Comparatively Study
May 2012
The boom in the cyber world can be seen as that various technologies has been developed and these technology has made a cyber life advanced the role of cyber is increasing day by day which has...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Engineering & Technology
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Whitepapers
General Design Structure of Ontological Databases in Semantic Web
Jun 2010
Ontologies are useful tool for data integration across heterogeneous data sets and the importance of ontologies is already widespread, yet ontology building is comparatively a less absorbed...
Provided by International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology (IJEST)
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Whitepapers
Extended Honeypot Framework to Detect Old/new Cyber Attacks
Mar 2011
In cyber space, a hot problem is to detect the newly emerged malicious objects. There are significant methodologies to detect the early detected malicious objects but not for newly emerged...
Provided by International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology (IJEST)
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Whitepapers
Looking Ahead in Pervasive Computing: Challenges and Opportunities in the Era of Cyber - Physical Convergence
Oct 2011
The physical environment is becoming more and more saturated with computing and communication entities that interact among themselves, as well as with users: virtually everything will be enabled...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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Whitepapers
Multimodal Data Integration for Computer-Aided Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation
Dec 2007
Image-guided percutaneous interventions have successfully replaced invasive surgical methods in some cardiologic practice, where the use of 3D-reconstructed cardiac images, generated by Magnetic...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
Research on Ontology-Based Emergency Situation Data Integration and Sharing
May 2012
The development of the Internet technology provides a carrier for the information sharing of the emergency field, and provides a lot of available knowledge. But the incident has the...
Provided by AICIT
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White Papers
A Conceptual Framework for Collaborative Decision Support Systems for Primary Health Care Managers
Aug 2010
In this paper, a collaborative architecture for intelligent Decision Support System (DSS) for health care systems is proposed. The framework embeds expert knowledge within the DSS to provide...
Provided by Dehradun Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Sequential Tests for the Detection of Voice Activity and the Recognition of Cyber Exploits
Nov 2011
The authors consider the problem of automated Voice Activity Detection (VAD), in the presence of noise. To attain this objective, they introduce a Sequential Detection of Change Test (SDCT),...
Provided by Scientific Research Publishing
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White Papers
Geolocalization of Proxied Services and Its Application to Fast-Flux Hidden Servers
Nov 2009
Fast-flux is a redirection technique used by cyber-criminals to hide the actual location of malicious servers. Its purpose is to evade identification and prevent or, at least delay, the shutdown...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Safeguarding Australia From Cyber-Terrorism: A Proposed Cyber-Terrorism SCADA Risk Framework for Industry Adoption
Feb 2010
Terrorist groups are currently using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to orchestrate their conventional physical attacks. More recently, terrorists have been developing a new form...
Provided by Deakin University
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White Papers
A Threat to Cyber Resilience: A Malware Rebirthing Botnet
Nov 2011
This paper presents a threat to cyber resilience in the form of a conceptual model of a malware rebirthing botnet which can be used in a variety of scenarios. It can be used to collect existing...
Provided by Edith Cowan University
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White Papers
Small Business - A Cyber Resilience Vulnerability
Dec 2010
Small business in Australia comprise 95% of businesses. As a group this means that they contain increasing volumes of personal and business data. This creates escalating vulnerabilities as...
Provided by Edith Cowan University
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White Papers
The Use of Governance to Identify Cyber Threats Through Social Media
Dec 2010
Identifying which website, Facebook page or Linked-in connection could lead to an engagement with a terrorist group is beyond the capabilities of ordinary people. Differentiation of one website...
Provided by Edith Cowan University
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White Papers
Simulating Cyber-Attacks for Fun and Profit
Feb 2009
The authors introduce a new simulation platform called Insight, created to design and simulate cyber-attacks against large arbitrary target scenarios. Insight has surprisingly low hardware and...
Provided by Core Security Technologies
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White Papers
Model Car Testbed for Development of V2X Applications
Feb 2011
Testing real world Vehicle To X communication (V2X) based applications is expensive and can be dangerous with security-relevant applications. This paper describes a model car test bed for research...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Modeling and Analysis of Resequencing Delay in Selective Repeat Automatic Repeat Request
Jul 2010
In Selective Repeat Automatic Repeat reQuest (SRARQ) used by a transmitter-receiver pair, data packets correctly received by the receiver need to be delivered to its upper-layer protocol in the...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Characterizing Cyberspace: Past, Present and Future David Clark
Mar 2010
This paper is funded by the Office of Naval Research under award number N00014091059 and N000140810898. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this email are those...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Analysis of Uncertainty Multi-attribute Group Decision Making Process Based on D-S Evidence Theory
Apr 2011
Group decision-making problem is a common and crucial human activity. By the characteristic of group decision making process, the model of Multi-Attribute Group Decision Making (MAGDM) process...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Synthesizing Switching Logic for Safety and Dwell-Time Requirements
Apr 2010
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) can be usefully modeled as hybrid automata combining the physical dynamics within modes with discrete switching behavior between modes. CPS designs must satisfy safety...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
A Meta-learning-based Approach for Detecting Profile Injection Attacks in Collaborative Recommender Systems
Jan 2012
Recent research has shown the significant vulnerabilities of collaborative recommender systems in the face of profile injection attacks, in which malicious users insert fake profiles into the...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Determinants of Strategic Utilization of Information Systems: A Conceptual Framework
Aug 2009
Information technology and information systems have been generally recognized as one of the greatest human inventions of modern times. Information System (IS) is an organized combination of...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
An Intelligent Model for Urban Demand-responsive Transport System Control
Sep 2009
Multi-agent simulation has been looked as an efficient tool for urban dynamic traffic services. However, the main problem is how to build an agent-based model for it. This research presents a...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Fuzzy Semantic Retrieval for Traffic Information Based on Fuzzy Ontology and RDF on the Semantic Web
Sep 2009
Information retrieval is the essential task for Traffic Information Service System in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). There a lot of fuzzy traffic information derived from human factor....
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Continuous Multi-Dimensional Top-K Query Processing in Sensor Networks
Mar 2011
Top-k query has long been an important topic in many fields of computer science. Efficient implementation of the top-k queries is the key for information searching. With the new frontier such as...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Advancing Highways With Communication Solutions: Cost-Effective Ways to Address Growing Demands on Highway Infrastructure
Jun 2009
Highway authorities worldwide are facing rapid growth in the number of passenger vehicles, combined with constraints on budgets and available space for new roads. To leverage available resources,...
Provided by Alcatel-Lucent
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White Papers
Tips and Trends for Homeland Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection
Dec 2004
There are now 13 industry sectors classified as critical infrastructure. Identifying the assets, which collectively constitute a critical infrastructure sector, is not always easy to define....
Provided by Internet-Journals
-
White Papers
Risks of Terrorism to Information Technology and to Critical Interdependent Infrastructures
Dec 2004
When the operability of IT-based controls and equipment is affected by acts of terrorism, then the performance of critical interdependent infrastructures such as railroads, electric power grids,...
Provided by University of Virginia
-
Case Studies
Kraft Foods Eliminates 500,000 "Empty Miles" in One Year With Routing Tools
Feb 2010
Kraft Foods wanted to reduce costs of a large-scale food product distribution operation that, in the United States alone, includes 500 shipping points, more than 6,000 destinations, and...
Provided by Oracle
-
White Papers
Clinical Benefits of an Embedded Decision Support System in Anticoagulant Control
Jun 2009
Computer-based Decision Support (CDSS) systems can deliver real patient care and increase chances of long-term survival in areas of chronic disease management prone to poor control. One such CDSS,...
Provided by University of London
-
White Papers
Xplorah Municipio, a Multi Resolution Spatial Decision Support System
May 2009
Processes of land use change take place at different spatial scales. Also land use planning takes place at different scales, each scale in proportion to its scope. Subsequently, tools to assist...
Provided by University of Puerto Rico
-
White Papers
Decision Support System for Diagnosis of Power Transformers
Sep 2009
Given the complexity of the Brazilian Electric Power System, it is important to ensure that equipments work in satisfactory conditions and with high levels of reliability. Within those equipments,...
Provided by Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
-
White Papers
An Evolutionary Computing Model to Implement Decision Support Systems for Buying Electronics
Oct 2009
The representation of data through a search engine in e-commerce systems using decision support systems can be considered a complex process due to lots of information and may grow exponentially,...
Provided by Universidade Federal de Alagoas
-
White Papers
Tracking the Power in an Enterprise Decision Support System
Aug 2009
Enterprises rely on decision support systems to influence critical business choices. At the same time, IT-related power costs are growing and are a key concern for enterprise executives. Yet,...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
A Modular Framework for Clinical Decision Support Systems: Medical Device Plug-and-Play Is Critical
Apr 2009
This paper describes the design and initial implementation of a modular framework for Clinical Decision Support Systems and highlights the need for medical device plug-and-play standards. The...
Provided by Johns Hopkins University
-
White Papers
GIS-Based Decision Support System for Identifying Potential Sites for Rainwater Harvesting
Jun 2008
Identification of potential sites for RWH is an important step towards maximizing water availability and land productivity in the semi-arid areas. However, selection of appropriate sites for...
Provided by Sokoine University of Agriculture
-
White Papers
A Spatial Decision Support System for Property Valuation
Aug 2009
Off late it is increasingly recognised that land management is a multi faceted challenge, in which social, economic and physical dimensions must be considered. In addition, the call for...
Provided by University College London
-
White Papers
A Multicriteria Spatial Decision Support System for Hazardous Material Transport
Nov 2008
The paper concerns the problem of routing and scheduling hazardous material (hazmat) in urban and suburban road networks. This problem involves conflicting objectives among interested parties: the...
Provided by Politecnico di Milano
-
White Papers
Support Interoperability and Reusability of Emerging Forms of Assessment
Sep 2009
The current education system lays more emphasis on developing overall performance of an individual, from basic level of proficiency through to the highest level of excellence. This is also...
Provided by Open Universiteit Nederland
-
Webcasts
Hiring the Next-Generation of Cyber Security Professionals in Government
May 2010
The need for cyber security professionals is an immediate concern, for all levels of government, and Lewis Shepherd of Microsoft Research, through this webcast tells you the necessity for hiring...
Provided by O'Reilly Media
-
White Papers
Cartographic Support for Collaborative Spatial Decision-Making
Jul 2008
Collaborative spatial decision-making environments in which group members individually and collectively pursue solutions to ill-structured problems have a unique set of cartographic visualization...
Provided by University of Iowa
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Whitepapers
Value-Based IT Decision Support - Towards a Formal Business Value Model for Steering IT-Business Alignment
Sep 2009
Value creation and delivery are recurrently mentioned in the literature as important drivers for effective business and IT decision making. However, the knowledge concerning value creation is...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
-
Case Studies
Fujitsu and Oracle Transportation Management (OTM) Make Transportation More Efficient
Feb 2010
TTI is a world-class supplier of superior home improvement and construction tools with a powerful portfolio of trusted brands and a strong commitment to innovation and quality. They wanted to...
Provided by Fujitsu
-
White Papers
2009 Cyber Threats and Trends
Dec 2008
One of the most distinct characteristics of the Internet is how quickly and fluidly it evolves, how technology originally designed for research and collaboration today powers millions of lives,...
Provided by iDEFENSE
-
Case Studies
Excellus BlueCross BlueShield Deploys SAS to Lay Data Foundation for Advanced Analytics
Jun 2010
The largest nonprofit health plan in upstate New York, Excellus BlueCross BlueShield is awash in data on its 1.7 million members across four upstate regions. But the health plan's actuarial team...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Evolutionary Approach to the Development of Decision Support Systems in the Movie Industry
Jan 2009
This paper reports the development and implementation of a decision support system in a non-traditional domain - the motion picture industry. The approach reported here is evolutionary, and the...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
-
White Papers
Adaptive Decision Support for Planning Under Hard and Soft Constraints
Jan 2010
Given the 60-month limit on services, it is crucial that advice from case managers or software take into account longer-term plans, rather than immediate gratification. The constraints on planning...
Provided by American Association for Artificial Intelligence
-
White Papers
A Decision-Support System to Assess Surface-Water Resources in Massachusetts
Feb 2008
Federal, State and local water supply, regulatory, and planning agencies require easy-to use, technically-defensible, Decision-Support (DS) applications that can evaluate impacts of proposed water...
Provided by Tufts University
-
White Papers
A Decision Support Tool for Locating an Impact of an Inland Port in Inland Empire
Dec 2009
By diverting port-related truck trips to rail, the development and operation of an inland port in southern California: increase transportation efficiency by switching from truck to train, create a...
Provided by California State University
-
White Papers
Decision Support System for Long Term Planning of Rural and Urban Water Supply Systems Cost in Oklahoma
May 2007
The purpose of this paper is to develop an economic Decision Support System (DSS) to be used as a management and planning tool by regional and local water planners for the sequential expansion,...
Provided by Oklahoma State University
-
White Papers
Projection and Reaction for Decision Support in Refineries: Combining Multiple Theories
Jan 2010
Modern decision support systems are forced to deal with perpetual change in their environment: change that includes a high degree of uncertainty over the current state of the plant, effects of...
Provided by American Association for Artificial Intelligence
-
White Papers
Application of an Environmental Decision Support System to a Water Quality Trading Program Affected by Surface Water Diversions
May 2008
Environmental Decision Support Systems (EDSSs) are an emerging tool used to integrate the evaluation of highly complex and interrelated physicochemical, biological, hydrological, social, and...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
-
Whitepapers
Knowledge Based Decision Support System for Standardization in Professional Education
Apr 2012
Professional Education is a Global Issue, every country in each continent is striving hard to earn as much professional growth possible. Particularly, in India the professional education has taken...
Provided by International forum of researchers Students and Academician
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White Papers
Information Management and Cyber Security Policy
Mar 2010
Information security refers to the protection of information from accidental or unauthorized access, destruction, modification or disclosure. Digital information is defined as the representation...
Provided by SUNY Fredonia
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White Papers
AVOIDIT: A Cyber Attack Taxonomy
Oct 2009
Cyber attacks have greatly increased over the years, where the attackers have progressively improved in devising attacks towards a specific target. To aid in identifying and defending against...
Provided by University of Memphis
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White Papers
Cyber Power
May 2010
Power depends upon context, and the rapid growth of cyber space is an important new context in world politics. The low price of entry, anonymity, and asymmetries in vulnerability means that...
Provided by President and Fellows of Harvard College
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The CERT Approach to Cybersecurity Workforce Development
Dec 2010
For a cybersecurity workforce to be effective, its members must possess the knowledge, skills, and experience required to perform their job duties. Proficiency and relevance are key factors in...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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Voting Systems With Trust Mechanisms in Cyberspace: Vulnerabilities and Defenses
Nov 2009
With the popularity of voting systems in cyberspace, there is growing evidence that current voting systems can be manipulated by fake votes. This problem has attracted many researchers working on...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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Sailing the Information Ocean With Awareness of Currents: Discovery and Application of Source Dependence
Jan 2011
The Web has enabled the availability of a huge amount of useful information, but has also eased the ability to spread false information and rumors across multiple sources, making it hard to...
Provided by Stanford University
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TransDec:A Spatiotemporal Query Processing Framework for Transportation Systems (Demo Paper)
Oct 2009
This paper presents TransDec, an end-to-end data-driven system which enables spatiotemporal queries in transportation systems with dynamic, real-time and historical data. TransDec fuses a variety...
Provided by University of Southern California
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TransDec: A Data-Driven Framework for Decision-Making in Transportation Systems
Apr 2009
This paper presents an end-to-end data-driven system, dubbed TransDec (Short for Transportation Decision-Making), to enable decision-making queries in transportation systems with dynamic,...
Provided by University of Southern California
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How to Implement National Information Sharing Strategy: Detailed Elements of the Evolutionary Management Approach Required
May 2008
Data sharing is today's principal Information Technology challenge. All sectors - commercial, government, academic, and military - seek improved information exchange to achieve operational...
Provided by George Mason University
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A Bayesian Network Approach to Control of Networked Markov Decision Processes
Sep 2008
The authors consider the problem of finding an optimal feedback controller for a networked Markov decision process. Specifically, they consider a network of interconnected subsystems, where each...
Provided by Stanford University
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Optimized Distributed Data Sharing Substrate in Multi-Core Commodity Clusters: A Comprehensive Study With Applications
Feb 2008
Distributed applications tend to have a complex design due to issues such as concurrency, synchronization and communication. Researchers in the past have proposed simpler abstractions to hide...
Provided by Ohio State University
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An exemplar data web integrating gene expression data on the fruit fly
Apr 2010
Integrating heterogeneous data across distributed sources is a major requirement for in silico bioinformatics supporting translational research. For example, genome-scale data on patterns of gene...
Provided by Cardiff University
