A system that can continue critical operations, perhaps in a degraded mode, in the face of a partially successful cyber attack can be termed “intrusion tolerant.” The workshop will provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of current efforts to develop subsystems and systems that display some degree of intrusion tolerance. The workshop will also provide the opportunity for demonstrati...

This paper derives upper and lower bounds on the secrecy capacity-memory tradeoff of a wiretap erasure broadcast channel (BC) with Kw weak receivers and Ks strong receivers, where weak receivers, respectively strong receivers, have same erasure probabilities and cache sizes. The lower bounds are achieved by schemes that meticulously combine joint cache-channel coding with wiretap coding and key...

Character segmentation is an important preprocessing step for text recognition. In degraded documents, existence of touching characters decreases recognition rate drastically, for any optical character recognition (OCR) system. In this paper a study of touching Gurmukhi characters is carried out and these characters have been divided into various categories after a careful analysis. Structural ...

This paper examines the importance of requiring a disk resource management mechanism for disconnected services and presents a robust system that embodies several features that are required of such a disconnected framework. Disconnected services in which clients access services in degraded mode (i.e without relying on network connectivity) are important for providing greater service availability...

a new model is proposed in this research to calculate the longitudinal strengthof unidirectional e-glass reinforced polymer composites exposed to sulfuricacid environment, using a micromechanics model. in the proposed method,it is assumed that the residual strength of the degraded composites under acidic environment can be calculated by knowing the degraded strength properties of the constituen...

The rangeland in the Khangai mountain region in Mongolia has degraded for the last decades mainly because of overgrazing and climate change. Livestock production is important part of the economy and is based on natural rangeland. In this research we seek to elucidate the influence of five years (2004-2009) of protection from grazing on vegetation cover of different degradation levels of Fes...

Land degradation continues to be an enormous challenge human societies, reducing food security, emitting greenhouse gases and aerosols, driving the loss of biodiversity, polluting water, undermining a wide range ecosystem services beyond supply water climate regulation. Climate change will exacerbate several processes. Investment in diverse restoration efforts, including sustainable agricultura...

In this study, a stochastic model is developed to analyze performance measures of a manufacturing cell, which is operated under degraded mode. The model is used to determine reliability and productivity of the cell, as well as the utilization of its components, under equipment failures and fault-tolerant states. The model and the results can be useful for design engineers and operational manage...