Mission critical systems are characterized by their extreme availability and QoS requirements, often associated with time-critical operations in potentially compromised, adversarial environments. Such systems needed to be robust and resilient in order to handle benign anomalous behavior or intentional cyber attacks and learn from experience to improve its resistance to subsequent attacks. The s...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of silicone remover on tensile bond strength of eight silicone-resilient denture liners to a denture base resin. Durability of bond strength of resilient denture liner to denture base resin was also examined by thermal cycling test. Materials and Methods: Eight commercial silicone resilient denture liners were used. The specimens...

Asymmetric information is a major problem in e-commerce transactions as it gives rise to adverse selection and moral hazard problems. Reputation mechanisms provide a solution to this problem by discouraging fraudulent behavior and encouraging honest behavior of participants in the uncertain and un-trusted environment of e-market. This paper discusses trust and reputation relationships, and high...

| This paper studies resilient functions which have applications in fault-tolerant distributed computing, quantum cryptographic key distribution and random sequence generation for stream ciphers. We present a number of new methods for synthesizing resilient functions. An interesting aspect of these methods is that they are applicable both to linear and to nonlinear resilient functions. Our seco...

This paper studies resilient functions which have applications in fault-tolerant distributed computing , quantum cryptographic key distribution and random sequence generation for stream ciphers. We present a number of methods for synthesizing resilient functions. An interesting aspect of these methods is that they are applicable both to linear and to nonlinear resilient functions. Our second ma...

This paper studies resilient functions which have applications in fault tolerant dis tributed computing quantum cryptographic key distribution and random sequence gen eration for stream ciphers We present a number of methods for synthesizing resilient functions An interesting aspect of these methods is that they are applicable both to linear and to nonlinear resilient functions Our second major...

This correspondence studies resilient functions which have applications in fault-tolerant distributed computing, quantum cryptographic key distribution, and random sequence generation for stream ciphers. We present a number of new methods for synthesizing resilient functions. An interesting aspect of these methods is that they are applicable both to linear and nonlinear resilient functions. Our...

This note studies resilient coordination of networked multiagent systems in the presence of misbehaving agents, i.e., agents that are subject to adversaries modeled as exogenous disturbances. Apart from the existing relevant literature that make specific assumptions on the graph topology and/or the fraction of misbehaving agents, we present an adaptive control architecture based on distributed ...

Disasters garner attention when they occur, and organizations commonly extract valuable lessons from visible failures, adopting new behaviors in response. For example, the United States saw numerous security policy changes following the September 11 terrorist attacks and emergency management and shelter policy changes following Hurricane Katrina. But what about those events that occur that fall...

This study demonstrates the use of Class F fly ash in combination with lime or lime kiln dust in the full depth reclamation (FDR) of asphalt pavements. FDR, in the context of this paper, is a process of pulverizing a predetermined amount of flexible pavement that is structurally deficient, blending it with chemical additives and water, and compacting it in place to construct a new stabilized ba...