This paper describes research in heuristic riskbased testing. The aim of this research is to design and implement a risk assessment tool called QUART-ET (Quick Assessment of Risks for Engineering Testing) to facilitate the risk management process. The purpose of QUART-ET is to help software development teams manage risks specifically related to testing and to aid management in discovering an ac...

Due to the numerous data breaches, often resulting in the disclosure of a substantial amount of user passwords, the classic authentication scheme where just a password is required to log in, has become inadequate. As a result, many popular web services now employ risk-based authentication systems where various bits of information are requested in order to determine the authenticity of the authe...

This paper explores the relation between capital and risk in the life insurance industry in the period after the adoption of life risk-based capital (RBC) regulation. To examine this issue, we use a simultaneous-equation partial-adjustment model. Three equations express the interrelations among capital and two measures of risk: product risk and asset risk. The asset-risk measure used in this pa...

This paper proposes a risk assessment model for settling problems of microbiological origin in activated sludge systems (filamentous bulking, foaming and rising sludge). The aim of the model is not to diagnose microbiology-related solids separation problems with absolute certainty but to quantify in dynamic scenarios whether simulated operational procedures and control strategies lead to favour...

combating desertification which is a serious threat for the environment and human welfare requires understanding complex issues of this phenomenon using evaluation, awareness of severity of it's processes and determination of it's factors. so here, after recognizing the characteristics of the region showing existence desertification, we assess its current status with emphasis on clima...

In this paper, we present an agent-based system for distributed risk assessment of breast cancer development employing fuzzy and probabilistic computing. The proposed fuzzy multi agent system consists of multiple fuzzy agents that benefit from fuzzy set theory to demonstrate their soft information (linguistic information). Fuzzy risk assessment is quantified by two linguistic variables of high ...

Our project for the problem based learning (PBL) of Neurophysiology through the WebCT platform 6.2 Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) Virtual Campus is based on the essential role of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as new methods of teaching physiology within the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). PBL of Neurophysiology has been carried out by a group of twelve teac...

An inundation simulation has been done for the mid-eastern Dhaka (37.16 km 2 ) on the basis of Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data from Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) and the observed flood data for 32 years (1972-2004). The topography of the project area has been considerably changed due to rapid land-filling by land developers. So, collected DEM data has been modified according to the...

The knowledge of what career to specialize in could be a late discovery for adults who have traded their youthful years through several professions/vocations but found no fulfillment. On the other hand, it could be a strenuous exercise for children and youths who are exposed to different academic areas. The aim of this project is to develop a career-advisor expert system based on Myer-Briggs Pe...

The identification of risky areas along the railroad in the context of a railway system is a complex problem. A railway system is spatially and functionally distributed; its subsystems have a high degree of autonomy, and are in constant interaction with each other and with their geographic environment. In order to identify risky areas in the vicinity of rock falls zones we need to model and sim...