In recent years, we have witnessed a significant increase in the number of security related incidents in control systems. These include high-profile attacks in a wide range of application domains – from attacks on critical infrastructure, as in the case of the Maroochy Water breach [1], and industrial systems (e.g., the StuxNet virus attack on an industrial SCADA system [2], [3]), to attacks on...

There are two urgent questions in academic research on Communities of Practice. The first is how to safeguard the sustainability of a Community of Practice (CoP). The second is how to motivate people in order to participate in and to contribute to such a community. In this paper we try to answer these questions by assuming networked individualism. This notion refers to the observation that indi...

The fast growth of user-generated content puts a significant burden on the current network infrastructure. By implementing caching functionality on network infrastructure, we can effectively eliminate redundant traffic, reduce delay and achieve other goals. In my thesis, we utilize optimization model and design of heuristic to study and develop novel caching strategies with multiple objectives ...

Preliminary communication Automation of navigation at sea has partly been provided for with the use of integrated navigation bridge − INB. The functioning of INB is supervised by the officer who also takes the final decision during navigation. The complete automation of navigation can be improved by upgrading the existing equipment on board modern ships. To provide for automation of inland navi...

Users of networked services traditionally have to know the network address of the desired service. As the network evolves from a simple infrastructure offering basic services (e.g. printers) into a sophisticated programmable infrastructure that supports a rich set of services such as virtual reality games, realtime video transcoding, and content providers, manual configuration of services becom...

large water distribution systems can be highly vulnerable to penetration of contaminant factors caused by different means including deliberate contamination injections. as contaminants quickly spread into a water distribution network, rapid characterization of the pollution source has a high measure of importance for early warning assessment and disaster management. in this paper, a methodology...

AutoNet2030 – Co-operative Systems in Support of Networked Automated Driving by 2030 – is a European project connecting two domains of intensive research: cooperative systems for Intelligent Transportation Systems and Automated Driving. Given the latest developments in the standardization of vehicular communications, vehicles will soon be wirelessly connected, enabling cooperation among them an...

This paper explores the relationship between physical and cyber infrastructures, focusing on how threats and disruptions in physical infrastructures can cascade into failures in the cyber infrastructure. It also examines the challenges involved in organizing and managing massive amounts of critical infrastructure data that are geographically and logically disparate. To address these challenges,...