“An ounce of Prevention is worth a pound of cure” - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). In the present day scenario of U.S. critical infrastructure security, one may ask if Benjamin Franklin's words can provide guidance and confidence on how decision makers and policy makers of this country treat...

Functional Dependency Network Analysis (FDNA) is a tool developed by engineer management researchers for developing systems that are more resilient and less prone to catastrophic failure. Considering financial networks as a system-of-systems, we introduce FDNA for analyzing non-engineering...

Many systems and projects that concern systems engineers, engineering managers, and business managers today can be defined as system of systems (SoS), which are described as ambiguous, uncertain and dynamic, among others. In addition to the traditional view on risk identification, analysis and...