Autonomous vehicles are being viewed with scepticism in their ability to improve safety and the driving experience. A critical issue with automated driving at this stage of its development is that it is not yet reliable and safe. When automated driving fails, or is limited, the autonomous mode disengages and the drivers are expected to resume manual driving. For this transition to occur safely,...

Since the 1950s there have been numerous contributions proposing solutions to failures of social systems. However, we have hardly found a holistic and interdisciplinary approach to a failed social system beyond “stove-piped” academic disciplines. This paper identifies a new holistic and interdisciplinary systems engineering methodology of systems engineering for a social system through a case s...

A recent poll showed that most people think of science as technology and engineering--life-saving drugs, computers, space exploration, and so on. This was, in fact, the promise of the founders of modern science in the 17th century. It is less commonly understood that social and behavioral sciences have also produced technologies and engineering that dominate our everyday lives. These include po...

In Internet security, traditional protection mechanisms such as anti-virus software, firewalls, and other add-ons are not capable of completely eliminating security risks [3]. As noted in [7], the management of information security needs to be addressed through economic, psychological, and policymaking approaches, in combination with engineering approaches. As a realistic and futuristic solutio...

How can we promote reuse of code, data and services? How can we make it easier to combine on-line resources to perform specific tasks? One serious impediment is the risk of relying on software that you do not control, especially the difficulty of determining whether the software is dependable enough for the specific task at hand. We concentrate on one form of economic risk mitigation, insurance...

the main challenge for any insurer/reinsurer has proved to be underwriting major refinery/petrochemical risk. insurers have already considered process risk management measures while accepting and evaluating the risks all over the world. erstwhile petrochemical tariff was adopting experiencing methodology as basis for premium calculation in iran. in the present de-tariff scenario decisions will ...

The objective of hazards (lifetime) analysis is to advance and promote statistical science in the various applied fields that deal with lifetime (survival) data including: actuarial science and reliability engineering. The lifetime data analysis provides special techniques that are required to compare the risks for failure. Bayesian semi-parametric methods have been applied to survival analysis...

Every profession today has a code of ethics which are used to hold their members to the highest degree of integrity and professional conduct. In engineering the observation and adherence to these ethics is of the upmost importance. Without a code of ethics to follow engineers could endanger the public and damage their profession’s reputation [8]. Biomedical engineers must take special considera...