The main focus of risk management is technical and rational analysis about the operational risks and by those imposed by the occupational environment. In this work one seeks to contribute to the risk perception study and to better comprehend how a group of occupational safety students assesses a set of activities and environmental agents. In this way it was used theory sustained by psychometric...

The importance of information as a resource and competitive factor in today’s society and economy is constantly rising. As a consequence, it becomes necessary for organizations to manage the risks that arise from poor information quality (IQ) in the same way other operational and strategic risks are managed. Information is, however, an unique and intangible resource that requires special method...

In the context of process management, risk has been considered mainly from a project management perspective. But risk is an inherent property of every business process and techniques are needed to identify, represent and analyse business process risks. The absence of such techniques is a concern because both operational risk mitigation and legal compliance depend on the sufficient identificatio...

introduction: the effects of accidents vary from minor injuries to fatalities and from insignificant damage to very severe damage to the environment and property. in order to prevent accidents in the work place, the root causes of and events should be identified using a systematic method and the results should be published. the current study aims to investigate the given causes of an accident i...

Executive Summary Operational risk management inside banks and insurance companies is currently an important task. The computation of a risk measure associated to these kinds of risks lies on the knowledge of the so-called Loss Distribution Function (LDF). Traditionally this LDF is computed via Monte Carlo simulations or using the Panjer recursion which is an iterative algorithm. In this paper,...

Patch management is a crucial component of IT security programs. An important problem within this context is to determine how often to update the systems with necessary patches. Keeping the systems patched with more frequent patch updates increases operational costs while reducing security risks. On the other hand, leaving the systems unpatched with less frequent patch updates decreases operati...

he Integrated Systems Engineering Team (ISET) is a pragmatic means to integrate government, industry, and laboratory/academic organizations to develop national security space (NSS) systems. To ensure that the government can be an intelligent buyer and industry can be an informed provider of future operational production, including an ISET as part of the technical approach is highly effective fo...

The present paper introduces a comprehensive Transportation Security Risk Assessment Framework for assessing related risks and provides cohered contingency management procedures in interconnected, interdependent and heterogeneous transport networks. The proposed approach includes elements, methodological tools and approaches found in the literature, in addition to operational experience from th...

This paper describes a method and system for quantifying the variances in the semantics and syntax of electronic transactions exchanged between business counterparties. ContextMetrics enables (a) dynamic transformations of outbound and inbound transactions needed to effect ‘straight-throughprocessing’ (STP); (b) unbiased assessments of counterparty systems’ capabilities to support STP; and (c)...

In aerospace and in many other fields of engineering, it is common practice to forecast the behavior of a physical system by analyzing a mathematical model of it. If the model is accurate and the analysis is mathematically sound, forecasting from the model enables an engineer to preview the effect of a design on the physical behavior of the product. Accurate mathematical forecasting reduces the...