In order to combat the present and future asymmetric threats to national and international security, information fusion developments must progress beyond current Level 1 (Object Refinement) paradigms. By focusing on the challenges of Continuous Intelligence Preparation of the Battlespace (CIPB), Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL) has begun to elicit an infrastructure and ena...

Restrained and unrestrained subjects were subjected to one of three distress manipulations prior to an ad lib taste task. The physical fear threat (anticipated electric shock) significantly decreased unrestrained subjects' eating and slightly increased restrained subjects' eating. Both ego threats (failure at an easy task or anticipating having to give a speech in front of an evaluative audienc...

Despite the growing amount of legislation being adopted at the global scale, biological invasions continue to grow at a rapid rate, with no indication yet of any saturation effect. Decision-making in this area is very challenging. The overall complexity of the problem, its interdisciplinarity, the scientific uncertainties and the large number of stakeholders that need to be informed and involve...

A sharp increase of internet plagiarism has become a major concern for educators. Despite the fact that an anti-plagiarism system has been reported as an effective and efficient tool for detection, deterrence, and education, its adoption rate has been found to be relatively low. The objective of this study is to investigate the facilitators and inhibitors affecting the adoption of an anti-plagi...

In addition to the basic monitoring capabilities that have been described in Chapter 13, the SERENITY monitoring framework offers mechanisms for diagnosing the reasons that have caused the violation of security and dependability (S&D) properties and detecting potential violations of such properties, called “threats”. Diagnostic information and threat detection are often necessary for deciding w...

In most industry nations there is a shift of employment and added value from production industry to service industry. In Germany in 1998 64% of all employees worked in the service sector and achieved 68% of added value . This trend can be observed in the publishing field as well. It influences the future expectations of the management. In 1999 about only 6% of the publishers in Germany expected...