Space weather research elucidates risks to technological infrastructure

Multiagent System to Prevent Technological Risks

The presence of chemical industry in urban area represents a very high technological risk. That is the reson the installation of alert’s sirens to prevent population from danger when an incident happens is became necessary. This installation should have some means which are sufficiently reliable in order to permit the detection of incident in an adequate time. The industrial site survey that pe...

Research Environment and Information Service of the Space Weather Cloud

For researches and information services of space weather, it is important to establish a comprehensive system which enables us to analyze observation and simulation data in an integrated manner. For this, we constructed recently a new computing environment called the “Space Weather Cloud Computing System” of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT). Now, the Sp...

Limits to research risks.

Risk-benefit assessment is a routine requirement for research ethics committees that review and oversee biomedical research with human subjects. Nevertheless, it remains unclear how to weigh and balance risks to research participants against the social benefits that flow from generating biomedical knowledge. In this article, we address the question of whether there are any reasonable criteria f...

Forecasting Space Weather

Forecasting space weather events presents the ultimate challenge to a space physics model. Not only should physical constraints be satisfied, but also practical issues such as timeliness, accuracy, and reliability must be adequately addressed. To address these needs, modern space weather forecasters and users rely on a great variety of space weather models, ranging from simple regressions and e...

Orientation in technological space