This paper will describe the initial efforts to validate and calibrate the COQALMO model within the JPL environment. The risk to JPL software projects precipitated by higher than expected defect densities late in the software lifecycle impact spacecraWmissions in several ways. Among them are risks of missing “hard” schedule deadlines, which may be dictated by immovable launch dates and the timi...

The supply chain represents the critical link between the development of new product and the market in pharmaceutical industry. Over the years, improvements made in supply chain operations have focused largely on ways to reduce cost and gain efficiencies in scale. In addition, powerful regulatory and market forces have provided new incentives for pharmaceutical firms to basically rethink the wa...

As a long-term industrial initiative, we are developing a new method to support security risk analysis, closely integrated with the overall engineering process of our critical information systems. This method is building upon model-based engineering techniques. This paper presents a prototype domainspecific modelling language (DSML) that was developed in this context; this DSML aims at supporti...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications are changing the way businesses are run. IT Offshoring is changing the way IT Organizations are run. However, both ERP implementations and IT offshoring are fraught with risks. When both ERP implementation and IT offshoring happen together, the risks get even more pronounced. The paper presents the critical susses factors of offshoring ERP impleme...

The use of uncontrolled financial spreadsheets can expose organizations to unacceptable business and compliance risks, including errors in the financial reporting process, spreadsheet misuse and fraud, or even significant operational errors. These errors have been well documented and thoroughly researched by the European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group [EuSpRIG, 2005]. With the advent of regul...

Today, companies are required to be in control of the security of their IT assets. This is especially challenging in the presence of limited budgets and conflicting requirements. Here, we present RiskBased Requirements Elicitation and Prioritization (RiskREP), a method for managing IT security risks by combining the results of a top-down requirements analysis with a bottom-up risk analysis. Top...

The increasing dependence of Critical Infrastructures (CI) from Information and Communication Technologies might encompass significant risks to our society. Experimentation with CI before introducing a new technology has always been difficult mainly because the architecture complexity, the inability to conduct experiments within a mission critical environment as well as the lack of specialized ...

Business practices to strengthen competitiveness increase the vulnerability of supply chains risks. Risks that can adversely affect effectiveness and efficiency chain activities are events disrupt flow information, materials, money, products. Therefore, risk management is vital for companies. It necessary identify risks threaten prioritize them. In addition, examining effects on each other will...

Current public health strategies, policies, and measures are being modified to enhance current health protection to climate-sensitive health outcomes. These modifications are critical to decrease vulnerability to climate variability, but do not necessarily increase resilience to future (and different) weather patterns. Communities resilient to the health risks of climate change anticipate risks...