The Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) is becoming the dominant approach for the verification of large digital designs. However, new users often express concern about the effort required to generate a complete and useful UVM testbench. But the practical experience collected in numerous OVM and UVM projects during the last few years shows a different view. The UVM is a very suitable method...

The project is in the complicated natural and social environment, which is filled with a lot of uncertainty and the resulting risk often affects the smooth implementation of the project, project urgent need to strengthen risk management. Despite the current domestic and overseas engineering project Risk management theory research has quite high level, project risk analysis and evaluation method...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY IT management processes have been growing as the development of modern IT systems has grown. These are often complex with multiple interdependencies that can make it very difficult for Chief Information Officers (CIOs) to comprehend and be aware of potential risks. These risks have the potential to translate into decision making inefficiencies for an organization. Risk analysi...

Probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) is now a wellestablished discipline with growing applications in support of rational decision-making involving important technological and societal risks. Risk analysis provides a common platform for technical exchanges on safety matters between key stakeholders, such as regulators, industry managers, and system designers and operators. By doing a PRA we seek to

In the past decade, the Food Safety discipline has addressed the assessment of hazards in foods within the framework of Risk Analysis, a new science-based paradigm intended to guarantee human health protection contemplated by EU legislation (Reg.178/2002). The objectives of risk analysis are to estimate the risk to human health of a hazard associated with food consumption; and most importantly,...

Given the importance of IT investments in today’s organization, firms tend to spend increasing amounts of time and resources to better manage IT projects. However these projects continue to have high failure rates thus highlighting the need for improved risk management. A stream of IS research has focused on identifying several causes of managerial risks. The theory base that has been used in t...