Resilient manufacturing

On Manufacturing Resilient Opaque Constructs Against Static Analysis

Opaque constructs have developed into a commonly used primitive in obfuscation, watermarking, and tamper-proofing schemes. However, most prior work has based the resilience of these primitives on a poorly defined reduction to a known N P -complete problem. There has been little scrutiny of the adversarial model and little discussion of how to generate instances that are always hard. In this pap...

Logistics Options for Re-distributed Manufacturing in Resilient Sustainable Cities – a Pilot Study

Urban resilience has been defined as the capacity of (amongst others) communities and businesses to survive, adapt, and grow when faced with stresses and shocks. Redistributed Manufacturing (RdM) exploits technologies, systems and strategies to change the economics and organisation of manufacturing (in particular location and scale). A series of studies are being undertaken, in the city of Bris...

Resilient Families Help Make Resilient Children

On Resilient and Exposure-Resilient Functions

Resilient and exposure-resilient functions are functions whose output appears random even if some portion of their input is either revealed or fixed. We explore an alternative way of characterizing these objects that ties them explicitly to the theory of randomness extractors and simplifies current proofs of basic results. We also describe the inclusions and separations governing the various cl...

Resilient Infrastructure

A major challenge in designing resilient infrastructure is to meet the needs of sustainable development (Kennedy & Corfee-Morlot, 2013). Sustainable development requires a high degree of energy efficiency. Municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), in particular, have the potential to be much more sustainable. In the U.S., 3 – 4% of the total energy consumed is dedicated to WWTPs and drinki...