INTRODUCTION As many medical workflows depend vastly on IT support, great demands are placed on the availability and accuracy of the applications involved. The cases of IT failure through ransomware at the beginning of 2016 are impressive examples of the dependence of clinical processes on IT. Although IT risk management attempts to reduce the risk of IT blackouts, the probability of partial/to...

Power grid is the vital life line of modern society that can be easily get affected by blackouts and outages. Therefore it is important to diagnose the faults and restore the service in a timely manner in order to minimize the fault induced losses. To add to this, the complex and stochastic nature of environment factors makes automated fault identification, its diagnosis and its restoration is ...

The abrupt breakup of the USSR and socialist bloc in the early 1990s dealt a devastating blow to the island's economy. Almost overnight, beneficial aid and trade provided by the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ground to a halt, including 80% of foreign trade previously conducted as barter and sales of 13 million tons of oil per year at preferential prices. When the Cuban economy bottomed...

this paper investigates the islands formation in initial stages of restoration process in blackout condition and studies the impacts of islands number variation on the process execution. in addition, a method is proposed to determining each island optimal boundaries. then the effects of transmission lines thyistor controlled series compensators (tcsc) to facilitate restoration process and impro...

Article history: Received 17 September 2016 Received in revised form 2 March 2017 Accepted 2 March 2017 Available online 4 March 2017

Internet blackouts are challenging environments for anonymity and censorship resistance. Existing popular networks (e.g., Freenet, I2P, Tor) rely on connectivity to function, making them impracticable during such blackouts. In a setting, mobile ad-hoc can provide connectivity, but prior communication protocols not designed attack resilience. We address this need by designing, implementing, eval...

In this article we study the simplest one-dimensional transport equation ut + aux = f and study the implementation of the boundary condition using a penalty