Critical Infrastructure Protection importance is seen as basic element of maintaining vital societal functions from social and economic perspective. In relation to the needs of optimal and relevant protection and security measures selection is necessary to establish framework for Critical Infrastructure protection evaluation in relation and interconnection to risk assessment. This article discu...

This study examines the training needs of juvenile justice personnel regarding their work with youth who have disabilities, particularly learning disabilities. Proportionate stratified cluster sampling was used to survey juvenile detention and court services personnel statewide about previous training and confidence of knowledge in these areas. Findings indicate that less than two-thirds (62%) ...

ÐThe results of this paper can be applied to construct efficient algorithms for the adaptive assessment of the students' knowledge. The problem of knowledge assessment is a special case of the problem of assessing the state of a system. These results are obtained suggesting a new assessment algorithm whose formal equivalence to previously suggested assessment algorithms is proven. A simulation ...

Information is a perennially significant business asset in all organizations. Therefore, it must be protected as any other valuable asset. This is the objective of information security, and an information security program provides this kind of protection for a company’s information assets and for the company as a whole. One of the best ways to address information security problems in the corpor...

Knowledge sharing is an important variable in the knowledge management literature emphasizing the importance of social factors. Recent research has revealed that social-psychological and sociological factors are imperative to knowledge sharing. The theory of reasoned action (TRA) was designed to model how any specified behavior under volitional control is produced by beliefs, attitudes, and int...

The logistics of knowledge means managing the need for knowledge, as well as the supply and transfer of knowledge. The transfer of knowledge occurs between generations, in a regional innovation system and today, with increasing frequency and importance, across international borders. A company`s balance sheet of knowledge gives important arguments in support of material property, which is import...

The Flight Operations Risk Assessment System (FORAS) is a risk modeling methodology which represents risk factors and their interrelationships as a fuzzy expert system. A FORAS risk model provides a quantitative relative risk index representing an estimate of the cumulative effects of potential hazards on a single flight operation. FORAS systematizes the process of eliciting human expertise, pr...

This paper reports on a part of a larger study carried out within the HUMANIST network for excellence, within the remit of a post-doctoral research project. It examines the relationship between driver perceptions of risk and control, and the influence this has on their acceptance of advanced driver assistance systems. The paper describes in depth the unique methodology employed, the experimenta...

he U.S. health-care industry has exploded into 1 of the largest nd fastest growing economies in the world. Currently, it is arger than the Gross National Product of all countries except or the United States, Germany, and Japan. Unfortunately, it is ebatable whether the quality and the delivery of patient care ave kept pace with the economic growth rate of this garganuan entity. As the complexit...

The paper, according the investigation and research of the requirement of rural grid security risk management, designs a decision support system to assist decision-making of security risk management. System database and knowledge base were built, progress the model of security risk assessment. The application of methods of statistical analysis and reasoning, avoids, prevents and controls the se...