Information security is a crucial technique for an organization to survive in these days. However, there is no integrated model to assess the security risk quantitatively and optimize its resources to protect organization information and assets effectively. In this paper, an integrated, quantitative risk analysis model is proposed including asset, threat and vulnerability evaluations by adaptin...

This paper is about short review of earthquake statistics and efforts for earthquake mitigation, hazard and risk assessment studies in Pakistan. Pakistan and adjoining region lying between longitude 60 ̊E to 78 ̊E and latitude 20 ̊N to 45 ̊N are selected for the study as this region has a history of many large earthquakes because of its location in the region of intersection of three plates namely ...

Abstract: This paper presents the methodology and procedure for flood risk assessment using GIS and flood inundation model (FIM) based on the “micro-zonation concept” in which an entire floodplain considered is divided into numerous unit areas (meshes or grids). In this study, Shinkawa-river floodplain around Nagoya City of Aichi Prefecture in Japan an urbanized lowland area, which was greatly ...

The technology behind information systems evolves at an exponential rate, while at the same time becoming more and more ubiquitous. This brings with it an implicit rise in the average complexity of systems as well as the number of external interactions. In order to allow a proper assessment of the security of such (sub)systems, a whole arsenal of methodologies, methods and tools have been devel...

introduction: to promote the processes of providing medical services, patient's rights and establishing uniformity in treatment policy, the evaluation quality indexes were communicated to all general hospitals in 2002. this study evaluates the implementation of managed care guideline before their communication as evaluation quality indexes of hospitals and their relationship with communication ...

Nowadays Risk Management is a common practice in the Information Systems security field. It is usually supported by a Risk Assessment process, which is done at regular but unfortunately large intervals. This lack of a continuous Risk Assessment process in an ever-changing environment, such as Information Systems, tends to make Risk Management a more complex and less accurate task. In this paper...

Clinical family histories, in the form of clinical pedigrees, are recognized as valuable tools in the diagnostic, risk assessment and treatment of patients and their family members. The lack of adequate tools in present health information systems (HIS) is one of the factors that currently deter practitioners from making full use of these tools. In this paper we present OntoFam, an ontology-base...