A new category of intelligent sensor network applications emerges where motion is a fundamental characteristic of the system under consideration. In such applications, sensors are attached to vehicles, or people that move around large geographic areas. For instance, in mission critical applications of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), sinks can be associated to first responders. In such scenario...

Mission-centric cyber-security analysts require a complete overview and understanding of the state of a mission and any potential threats to their completion. To facilitate this, we propose optimizationbased algorithms that can be used to predict in real-time how an attacker may try to compromise a cyber-mission with a limited amount of resources, based on a model that takes into account potent...

Real-time systems (RTS) require dependable delay guarantees on delivery of network packets. Traditional approaches for providing such guarantees for mission critical applications require the use of expensive custom built hardware and software resources. We propose a novel framework that reduces the management and integration overheads of the traditional approaches by leveraging the capabilities...

International institutions research has emphasized the organization but focused on sociological and real political responses while neglecting other approaches. This leaves a fundamental question unanswered: Does the organizational architecture of international institutions affect their ability to carry out their stated mission and the value they provide to actors or states? To that end, we put ...

Department of Defense (DoD) intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) assets; including manned and unmanned airborne, space-borne, maritime, and terrestrial systems; play critical roles in support of current and future military operations. However, military services and defense agencies face an ever growing challenge of effectively processing, exploiting, and disseminating ISR data f...

Techniques and tools are needed that allow Commanders and Analysts to intelligently plan and re-assess mobile networks that are supporting missions and courses of action in the battlespace and emergency response settings. Many techniques, simulations, and tools are available to model, represent, and analyze the RF environment, however they are typically used for a priori planning or after actio...