This chapter describes the integrated security verification and security solution design trade-off analysis (SVDT) approach. SVDT is useful when there is a diverse set of requirements imposed upon a security critical system, such as a required security level, time-to-market and budget constraints and end users’ expectations. Balancing these needs requires developers to evaluate alternative secu...

For decisions made under time pressure, effective decision making based on uncertain or ambiguous evidence requires efficient accumulation of evidence over time, as well as appropriately balancing speed and accuracy, known as the speed/accuracy trade-off. For simple unimodal stimuli, previous studies have shown that human subjects set their speed/accuracy trade-off to maximize reward rate. We e...

Trade-off analysis, one of the key elements of transportation asset management (TAM), helps decision makers to not only quantify how different resource allocations affect system performance but also investigate the trade-off relationships between cost and performance measures and between different performance measures. In the fast-growing field of TAM, researchers are beginning to quantify the ...

  In this paper imprecise target models has been proposed to investigate the relation between imprecise data envelopment analysis (IDEA) and mini-max reference point formulations. Through these models, the decision makers' preferences are involved in interactive trade-off analysis procedures in multiple objective linear programming with imprecise data. In addition, the gradient projection type...

As unmanned vehicles become smaller and more autonomous, it is becoming feasible to use them in large groups with comparatively few human operators. Design analysis of such distributed systems are complicated by the many interactions among agents phenomena behavior. In particular, susceptibility fatigue cognitive overload can introduce errors uncertainty into system. this paper, we demonstrate ...

BACKGROUND The risks associated with newborn circumcision have not been as extensively evaluated as the benefits. OBJECTIVES The goals of this study were threefold: 1) to derive a population-based complication rate for newborn circumcision; 2) to calculate the number needed to harm for newborn circumcision based on this rate; and 3) to establish trade-offs based on our complication rates and ...

In this paper, we propose a faceted requirement classification scheme for analyzing heterogeneous requirements. The representation of vague requirements is based on Zadeh’s canonical form in test-score semantics and an extension of the notion of soft conditions. The trade-off among vague requirements is analyzed by identifying the relationship between requirements, which could be either conflic...

Design of mobile autonomous robots is challenging due to the limited on-board resources such as processing power and energy source. A promising approach is to generate intelligent scheduling policies that trade off reduced resource consumption for a slightly lower but still acceptable level of performance. In this paper, we provide a framework to aid the designers in exploring such resource-per...