The success of the Internet has brought out extraordinary benefits to our society. Current Internet infrastructure has become much more complicated than that in the early 90's when it was first deployed for commercial use. Due to limitations in the initial design of the Internet, security issues...

Electricity has become a integral part of life during the nineteenth and twentieth century. As a society we have become more reliant on electric energy and it is consideredan essential service by the majority of customers. As such electric utilities are under increasing pressure to provide a...

This project investigates the potential for microphone arrays within a security setting,particularly through exploiting their ability to change their directivity pattern, thus,changing its direction of hearing.In single microphone systems speech and other signals of interest can be severely...

This Policy Brief proposes the establishment of an agreement on conformity assessment between the EU and the US that covers machinery and electrical equipment. The initiative aims to increase the number of European and US conformity assessment bodies authorized to test and certify EU and US...

This research involves the use of robust systems theory tools to deal with identification,model uncertainty and optimization in macroeconomic stabilization problems,in order to avoid Lucas Critique.This is accomplished by using time domain based robust semi-blind identificationto obtain models...

Since the Morris worm was released in 1988, Internet worms continue to be one of top security threats. For example, the Conficker worm infected 9 to 15 million machines in early 2009 and shut down the service of some critical government and medical networks. Moreover, it constructed a massive...

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