We present, compare and contrast new directions in long term digital preservation as covered by the four large European Community funded research projects that started in 2011. The new projects widen the domain of digital preservation from the traditional purview of memory institutions preserving documents to include scenarios such as health-care, data with direct commercial value, and webbased...

The Integrated Technical Reference Model (ITRM) provides guidelines and design principles for development of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). This paper describes an approach to implement a localization application for WSN using the I-TRM. It also provides a comparison between a typically organized WSN, the I-TRM and the Moteworks software platform.

The market for derivatives with payoffs contingent on the credit quality of a number of reference entities has grown considerably over recent years. The risk analysis and valuation of such multi-name structures often relies on simulating the performance of the underlying credits. In this paper we discuss the simulation of correlated unpredictable default arrival times. Our algorithm is based on...

In this paper we propose the codification of argument and event structures in wordnets, providing information on selection properties, semantic incorporation phenomena and internal properties of events, in what we claim to be an affordable procedure. We propose an explicit expression of argument structure, including default and shadow arguments, through three new relations and a new order featu...

Information Technology (IT) used for business processes is not only provided by the organization’s IT department. Business departments and users autonomously implement IT solutions, which are not embedded in the organizational IT service management. This increasingly occurring phenomenon is called Shadow IT. The various opportunities and risks of Shadow IT challenge organizations and call for a...

Risk analysis is one of many tools for security improvement. The main idea of it is based on analysis of gathered information about an observed company and following searching for some group of countermeasures which can reduce a risk. The paper discuss inference mechanisms in the process of Risk Analysis called Risk Management. The progress is demonstrated by one example.

Recently, a novel approach towards semi-quantitative IT security risk assessment has been proposed in the draft IEC 62443-3-2. This approach is analyzed from several different angles, e.g. embedding into the overall standard series, semantic and methodological aspects. As a result, several systematic flaws in the approach are exposed. As a way forward, an alternative approach is proposed which ...

An overview is given of recent problems with food-borne enteric human pathogens originating from contaminated agricultural animals. The need for risk analysis is indicated, and the generally accepted procedure for risk assessment is outlined. Two main approaches to probability and risk calculations, namely the “frequentist” and Bayesian approaches, are described. Examples are given of microbial...

In the traditional methodology of risk management, a widely accepted practice is to seek rational means to maneuver anticipated risks in a rational way while excluding uncertain events whose probabilities are sufficiently low. The extensive damage caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake revealed the ineffectiveness of existing views on risk management in the area of unforeseen risk. Based on ...

Accreditation as a Chartered Meteorologist (CMet) will assure clients and employers that the individual has reached, and continues to maintain, a high level of competence in their specialist areas of meteorology and has agreed to subscribe to a Code of Conduct laid down by the Society. The scheme is relevant to all professional meteorologists, whether consultants or practising professional mete...