Census-based Social Vulnerability Assessment for Bucharest

Using SysML for model-based vulnerability assessment

This paper discusses the use of model-based systems engineering (MBSE) models for physical protection systems (PPS) evaluation. We discuss why MBSE methodologies can be valuable in assessment of PPS. Next, we review the steps in vulnerability assessment (VA) and describe the use of SysML models in these steps. The paper presents examples of SysML models for a VA scenario. Such models can enable...

ShoVAT: Shodan-based vulnerability assessment tool for Internet-facing services

Shodan has been acknowledged as one of the most popular search engines available today, designed to crawl the Internet and to index discovered services. This paper expands the features exposed by Shodan with advanced vulnerability assessment capabilities embedded into a novel tool called ShoVAT. ShoVAT takes the output of traditional Shodan queries and performs an in-depth analysis of service-s...

MRI-based biomechanical parameters for carotid artery plaque vulnerability assessment.

Carotid atherosclerotic plaques are a major cause of ischaemic stroke. The biomechanical environment to which the arterial wall and plaque is subjected to plays an important role in the initiation, progression and rupture of carotid plaques. MRI is frequently used to characterize the morphology of a carotid plaque, but new developments in MRI enable more functional assessment of carotid plaques...

GIS-based DRASTIC method for groundwater vulnerability assessment: a review

SISI Project: Developing GIS-Based Tools for Vulnerability Assessment

In the framework of a wider research project, aimed at developing an high performance computing infrastructures in Southern Italy, the SISI project aims at developing customized GIS tools for vulnerable site selection in Italian territory. Vulnerable sites will be defined based on co-presence of different dangerous/vulnerable geographic features in given areas. Morphological and topological cri...