This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 16461 “Assessing ICT Security Risks in Socio-Technical Systems”. As we progress from classic mechanical or electrical production systems, over ICT systems, to socio-technical systems, risk assessment becomes increasingly complex and difficult. Risk assessment for traditional engineering systems assumes the systems to be dete...

Socio-technical systems integrate technical and organizational structures and are related to various stakeholders and their perspectives. The design of socio-technical systems has to support this integration and to take the differing perspectives into account. To support this goal, the design concepts have to be represented with appropriate documentation methods, which combine formal and inform...

In this article physical activity, screen time, and academic work are studied as mediators between socio-economic status and sleep duration among school children in India. Participants were 268 school children aged 10-15 from Pune, India. They were sampled from private schools and impoverished public schools. We found that the highest socio-economic status children reported almost an hour and a...

Citation: Tiller R, De Kok J-L, Vermeiren K, Richards R, Ardelan MV and Bailey J (2016) Stakeholder Perceptions of Links between Environmental Changes to their Socio-Ecological System and their Adaptive Capacity in the Region of Troms, Norway. Front. Mar. Sci. 3:267. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00267 Stakeholder Perceptions of Links between Environmental Changes to their Socio-Ecological System and...

various criteria are involved impacting trend of art and literature in a society. socio-political infrastructure and changes within it are of the parameters affecting literature in a society. in 19th century in iran, literature and poetry in particular was reformed fundamentally under impact of socio political structure. courtier poetry was replaced by practical protest one to achieve this whil...

This article is devoted to look at how the factors micro-loan risks in microfinance are related to the micro-borrowers. In this regard, the present analysis involves the using of a set representative and fundamental variables in our research. The study basically use the socio-economic and socio-demographic features specific to the micro-borrowers, which are expected to affect the repayment dela...

On the verge of the Constitutionalist Revolution in Iran, the three social forces existing in the socio-political arena were competing with each other and at the same time, struggling with the Monarchy to increase their share of power: independent intellectuals, traditional followers of religion, and merchants. This rivalry set the scene for a discursive battle in which, each social force was t...