As the computer, communication, and entertainment industries begin to integrate phone, cable, and video services and to invest in new technologies such as fiber optic cables, interruptions in service can cause considerable customer dissatisfaction and even be catastrophic. In this environment, network providers want to offer high levels of servicein both serviceability (e.g., high bandwidth) an...

This Special Issue, "State-of-the-Art Sensor Technology in Japan 2015", collected papers on different kinds of sensing technology: fundamental technology for intelligent sensors, information processing for monitoring humans, and information processing for adaptive and survivable sensor systems.[...].

The increasing number of cyber attacks against critical infrastructures, which typically require large state and long system lifetimes, necessitates the design of systems that are able to work correctly even if part of them is compromised. We present the first practical survivable intrusion tolerant replication system, which defends across space and time using compiler-based diversity and proac...

Combat Demographics From retrospective analysis, the majority of “potentially survivable” injuries resulting in death on the battlefield and after reaching a surgical facility are caused by hemorrhage.1–3 In combat, hemorrhage is the cause in 83% to 87% of all such potentially survivable deaths. Of these deaths, approximately 50% are attributed to noncompressible hemorrhage from penetrating tru...

The Survivable Software framework (SSW), developed under award AFOSR FA955009-1-0481, uses a synergistic combination of (1) compiler-assisted, aspect-oriented program instrumentation, (2) software monitoring with overhead control, (3) runtime verification with state estimation, and (4) adaptive runtime verification to closely monitor high-criticality monitor instances, thereby increasing the pr...