Commercial organizations and government agencies that gather, store, share and disseminate data are facing increasing concerns over individual privacy and confidentiality. Confidential data is often masked in the database or prior to release to a third party, through methods such as data perturbation. In this study, reidentification risks of three major additive data perturbation techniques wer...

A new interpretation of Dempster–Shafer conditional notions based directly upon the mass assignments is provided. The masses of those propositions that may imply the complement of the conditioning proposition are shown to be completely annulled by the conditioning operation; conditioning may then be construed as a re-distribution of the masses of some of these propositions to those that definit...

This paper presents exploratory survey results on Requirements Engineering (RE) practices of some software development companies in Malaysia. The survey attempted to identify patterns of RE practices the companies are implementing. Information required for the survey was obtained through a survey, mailed self-administered questionnaires distributed to project managers and software developers wh...

Requirement engineering (RE) covers activities involved in elicitation, analysis, specification, management and verificationof requirements.All development processesfor safety related systems begin with timeintensive requirement tasks. Especially in the medical sector RE plays a major role as all development activities refer to the previously specified unique identified requirements.Nevertheles...

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We evaluated the appropriateness of use of restricted antimicrobial agents in the context of a newly implemented order form and delivery system for restricted antimicrobial agents, using sequential prospective audits of prescriptions. Four antimicrobial agents were selected: glycopeptides (61 prescriptions), ciprofloxacin (42), piperacillin-tazobactam (42) and imipenem- cilastatin (47). The jus...