Toward Understanding Resilient Outcomes

Toward inherently secure and resilient societies.

Recent years have seen a number of challenges to social stability and order, ranging from terrorist attacks and natural disasters to epidemics such as AIDS and SARS. Such challenges have generated specific policy responses, such as enhanced security at transportation hubs and planned deployment of a global tsunami detection network. However, the range of challenges and the practical impossibili...

Transcending Semiotics: Toward Understanding Design for Understanding

In this paper I intend to examine several epistemological difficulties one quite naturally encounters within traditional semiotics, especially when trying to apply it to design (industrial design and product semantics in particular). Disciplines Communication This book chapter is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/295

Toward Self-organizing, Self-repairing and Resilient Distributed Systems

Opportunistic resilience embedding (ORE): Toward cost-efficient resilient virtual networks

Network Virtualization promotes the development of new architectures and protocols by enabling the creation of multiple virtual networks on top of the same physical substrate. One of its main advantages is the use of isolation to limit the scope of attacks – that is, avoiding traffic from one virtual network to interfere with the others. However, virtual networks are still vulnerable to disrupt...

Toward Practical Automated Program Understanding