iv 1 Background and Assumptions 1 1.1 The Importance and Challenges of Software Assurance Measurement 1 1.2 Why Security Is a Concern 1 1.3 Purpose of This Report 3 1.4 Intended Audience 3 1.5 Scope 4 1.6 Constraints 5 2 Definition of Terms 6 2.1 What Is Software Assurance? 6 2.2 What Is Software Assurance Measurement? 6 2.3 Measurement Domains 7 2.4 Critical Programming Errors 8 3 Measurement ...

Federated Identity Management is an emerging paradigm that is rightly getting a lot of standardization and research attention. One aspect that is not receiving enough attention is assurance. Given the challenges enterprises faced trying to demonstrate appropriate control of their internal and monolithic identity management systems, the problem of how to provide assurance to multiple stakeholder...

he structure and organization of the Performance Assurance Program developed for the Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) spacecraft are discussed. Included is an overview of the engineering disciplines of the program: reliability, quality assurance, and system safety. The performance assurance role in each of the four MSX development phases is explained, followed by a review of MSX integration and...

Government involvement in quality assurance is becoming the trend in many countries, including New Zealand. What values underpin the systems that evolve in each country, and who has given legitimacy to them? In the context of the prevailing ideology of early childhood, this paper unpacks quality assurance in Australia and comments on the assumptions, taken for granted premises and values which ...

The question addressed in this analysis is whether endowing agents with various forms of asymmetric power makes cooperation more likely across a variety of structural settings of conflict and cooperation present in international relations. To address this question, an agent-based model incorporating asymmetric power among agents in a set of (2 2) games that represent different forms of conflict...

The desire to develop and evaluate drugs as potential countermeasures for biological and chemical threats requires test systems that can also substitute for the clinical trials normally crucial for drug development. Animal models have limited predictivity for drug efficacy, as is well known from many disappointments in clinical trials. Traditional in vitro and in silico approaches are not reall...

. . . During their last game Turing lost swiftly with an abysmal sequence of moves. He was searching for an algorithm to ensure board domination instead of adhering to the strategy of the moment. When Chris executed a move, deciding on the rook, Turing was flooded with a feeling of comfort — something like assurance because Chris chose. He exercised his free will and eliminated Turing’s knight ...

 The Design and Trial of an Educational Game Based on a Fifth Grade Course Y. MahdaviNasab H. Fardaanesh, Ph.D. E. Talaa’ee, Ph.D. J. Haatami, Ph.D. Games as enjoyable activities are of special interest to children, and their use as instructional tools can lead to better learning. In order to design and develop such a game from a constructivist perspective, one of ...

We propose that a "social exchange heuristic" is as important as the cheater detection mechanism for attaining mutual cooperation in social exchange. The social exchange heuristic prompts people to perceive a mixed-motive situation, such as the Prisoner's Dilemma (PD), as an Assurance Game (AG) situation in which cooperation is a personally better choice than defection insofar as the partner is...