this study aimed at identifying critical factors affecting the security of iranian football stadiums and prioritizing them using the analytical hierarchy process (ahp) for future decisions. in the qualitative stage of the study, the main factors affecting the security of iranian football stadiums were identified in 12 semi-structured interviews with experts. in the quantitative stage, 17 expert...

The Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS) is a partnership of six major U.S. institutions with a strong focus on archiving social science research. The partnership is supported by an award from the Library of Congress through its National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). The goal of DataPASS is to acquire and preserve data at-risk of...

Coordinated and targeted cyber-attacks to Critical Infrastructures (CIs) are becoming more and more frequent and sophisticated. This is due to: i) the recent technology shift towards Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) products, and ii) new economical and socio-political motivations. In this paper, we discuss some of the most relevant security issues resulting from the adoption in CIs of heterogene...

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The Lake Winnipeg Basin Initiative was created as part of Canada’s Action Plan on clean water. Its focus is to deal with excessive lake inputs of nutrients from surface runoff and municipal wastewater. Understanding the dynamics of nutrient loading, the associated algal blooms and resulting changes in fish populations, beach closures, and ecosystem imbalance requires access to various sources o...

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The National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program will demonstrate a pilot tools platform called Recollection that supports access to distributed NDIIPP collections. The Recollection platform uses semantic technologies to make NDIIPP collections easier to find, access, share, and integrate with other digital information sources.

Dwaine Clarke a, Jean-Emile Elien b, Carl Ellison c, Matt Fredette d, Alexander Morcos e and Ronald L. Rivest f,∗ a Room 226, MIT Lab for Computer Science, 200 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA E-mail: [email protected] b Microsoft, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052, USA E-mail: [email protected] c Intel Corporation, 2111 NE 25th Ave, Hillsboro, OR 97124, USA E-mail: carl....