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White Papers
An Introduction to Cryptography
Jun 2004
Cryptography is the stuff of spy novels and action comics. Kids once saved up Ovaltine labels and sent away for Captain Midnight's Secret Decoder Ring. Almost everyone has seen a television show...
Provided by PGP
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Case Studies
Joseph Brant Hospital Supports Performance Reporting and Funding Decisions With SAS
Dec 2007
Joseph Brant is a community hospital that provides a wide range of inpatient, outpatient and outreach services. It has an employee base of over 300 affiliated physicians, 1,400 full-time and...
Provided by SAS Institute
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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
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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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White Papers
Data Mining: An Overview
Dec 2004
Data mining is emerging as one of the key features of many homeland security initiatives. Often used as a means for detecting fraud, assessing risk, and product retailing, data mining involves the...
Provided by Congressional Research Service
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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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White Papers
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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White Papers
BPM Case Study: Financial Services Provider; Eliminated manual tasks and improved compliance with BPM
Dec 2010
HML is a financial outsourcing company and the largest mortgage servicer in U.K, providing outsourced mortgage administration solutions to over 30 U.K. and Irish lenders, and has around 1,800...
Provided by IBM
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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
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
Stochastic Programming Model Based on Compound Quantification and Its Application in Transportation Problems
Aug 2011
As a kind of particular programming problem, transportation problem attracts much attention in many fields, such as energy development, materials management, etc. In this paper, after analyzing...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Ontology-Based Metadata Integration in the Cultural Heritage Domain
Jan 2008
In this paper, the authors propose an ontology-based metadata integration methodology for the cultural heritage domain. The proposed real-world approach considers an integration architecture in...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
Online Data Fusion
Sep 2011
The Web contains a significant volume of structured data in various domains, but a lot of data are dirty and erroneous, and they can be propagated through copying. While data integration...
Provided by VLDB Endowment
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White Papers
Boundedness of Regular Path Queries in Data Integration Systems
Jun 2007
In this paper, the authors study the problem of deciding whether a regular path query over views in data-integration systems can be re-expressed without recursion. The problem becomes challenging...
Provided by Concordia University
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White Papers
Human Factors-Aware Service Scheduling in Vehicular Cyber-Physical Systems
Mar 2011
It is essential to consider drivers' perceptions and reactions when building Vehicular Cyber-Physical Systems (VCPS) since the effectiveness and efficiency of VCPS will largely depend on how...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Long PN Code Based DSSS Watermarking
Mar 2011
Cyber crimes often involve complicated scenes. In this paper, the authors investigate unidentified crimes committed through anonymous communication networks. They developed a long Pseudo-Noise...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
One Table Stores All: Enabling Painless Free-Âand-ÂEasy Data Publishing and Sharing
Jan 2011
In this paper, the authors present a free-and-easy data publishing and sharing system based on folksonomy. The system accepts data objects described with user-created metadata, called data units....
Provided by Tsinghua University
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White Papers
Bounded Regular Path Queries in View-Based Data Integration
Apr 2009
In this paper, the authors study the problem of deciding boundedness of (recursive) regular path queries over views in data integration systems, that is, whether a query can be re-expressed...
Provided by Concordia University
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White Papers
Advanced Persistent Threats: A Decade in Review
Jun 2011
This paper defines the term Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) in the context of cyber threats and cyber attack. It presents a timeline and summary of prominent cyber attacks likely attributable to...
Provided by Command Five Pty
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White Papers
Flexible Decision Support in Dynamic Inter-organizational Networks
Nov 2009
An effective Decision Support System (DSS) should help its users improve decision-making in complex, information-rich, dynamic environments. The authors present a feature gap analysis of current...
Provided by University of Minnesota
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White Papers
A Parallel Download Protocol for Internet-Based Distributed Systems
May 2008
Parallel transfer of large amounts of data is attractive as the data can be received in less time and is more resilient to connection failures. This is often used in e-Science under the field of...
Provided by Deakin University
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White Papers
Inducing Relatedness Graphs for Data Integration
Sep 2009
In this paper, the authors present the AbsMatcher system for schema matching which uses a graph based approach. AbsMatcher creates a graph of related attributes within a schema, mines similarity...
Provided by Indiana University
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White Papers
Evaluating the Impact of Cyber Attacks on Missions
Aug 2010
Using current methods, it is virtually impossible to determine the impact of a cyber attack on the attainment of mission objectives. Do the authors know which mission elements are affected? Can...
Provided by MITRE
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White Papers
Building Secure, Resilient Architectures for Cyber Mission Assurance
Jan 2011
Today's Information Technology (IT) environments are increasingly subject to escalating cyber attacks. Cyber threats vary widely in sophistication, intent, and the consequences to the targeted...
Provided by MITRE
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White Papers
Networked Control Systems Under Cyber Attacks With Applications to Power Networks
Jan 2010
Networked control systems under certain cyber attacks are analyzed. The communication network of these control systems make them vulnerable to attacks from malicious outsiders. The authors' paper...
Provided by Anne Arundel Community College(AACC)
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White Papers
Analyzing and Revising Data Integration Schemas to Improve Their Matchability
Aug 2008
Data integration systems often provide a uniform query interface, called a mediated schema, to a multitude of data sources. To answer user queries, such systems employ a set of semantic matches...
Provided by VLDB Endowment
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White Papers
Functional Dependency Generation and Applications in Pay-as-You-Go Data Integration Systems
Jun 2009
Recently, the opportunity of extracting structured data from the Web has been identified by a number of research projects. One such example is that millions of relational-style HTML tables can be...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Doctrine for Cybersecurity
Apr 2011
Successions of doctrines have been advocated in the past for enhancing cybersecurity: Prevention, risk management, and deterrence through accountability. None has proved effective, and their...
Provided by Cornell University
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White Papers
A Formal Analysis of Information Disclosure in Data Exchange
Nov 2006
The authors perform a theoretical study of the following query-view security problem: given a view V to be published, does V logically disclose information about a confidential query S? The...
Provided by University of Massachusetts Amherst
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White Papers
Efficient Data Integration: Automation, Collaboration, and Relaxation
Sep 2007
The rapid growth of distributed data has fueled significant interest in building data integration systems. However, developing these systems today still requires an enormous amount of labor from...
Provided by University of Illinois
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White Papers
SIDEKICK: Genomic Data Driven Analysis and Decision-Making Framework
Jun 2010
Scientists striving to unlock mysteries within complex biological systems face myriad barriers in effectively integrating available information to enhance their understanding. While experimental...
Provided by University of Texas
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White Papers
Justintime Data Integration in Action
Aug 2010
Today's data integration systems must be flexible enough to support the typical iterative and incremental process of integration, and may need to scale to hundreds of data sources. In this paper...
Provided by VLDB Endowment
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White Papers
Agent-Oriented Approach for Detecting and Managing Risks in Emergency Situations
Jul 2009
This paper presents an agent-oriented approach to build a decision support system aimed at helping emergency managers to detect and to manage risks. The authors stress the flexibility and the...
Provided by University of Le Havre
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White Papers
An Introduction to Cryptography
Jun 2004
Cryptography is the stuff of spy novels and action comics. Kids once saved up Ovaltine labels and sent away for Captain Midnight's Secret Decoder Ring. Almost everyone has seen a television show...
Provided by PGP
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Case Studies
Joseph Brant Hospital Supports Performance Reporting and Funding Decisions With SAS
Dec 2007
Joseph Brant is a community hospital that provides a wide range of inpatient, outpatient and outreach services. It has an employee base of over 300 affiliated physicians, 1,400 full-time and...
Provided by SAS Institute
-
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
-
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
-
White Papers
Data Mining: An Overview
Dec 2004
Data mining is emerging as one of the key features of many homeland security initiatives. Often used as a means for detecting fraud, assessing risk, and product retailing, data mining involves the...
Provided by Congressional Research Service
-
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
-
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
-
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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White Papers
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
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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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White Papers
BPM Case Study: Financial Services Provider; Eliminated manual tasks and improved compliance with BPM
Dec 2010
HML is a financial outsourcing company and the largest mortgage servicer in U.K, providing outsourced mortgage administration solutions to over 30 U.K. and Irish lenders, and has around 1,800...
Provided by IBM
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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
