Engineering Systems Division (ESD) Working Paper Series: Recent submissions

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    • Bulk Power Grid Risk Analysis: Ranking Infrastructure Elements According to their Risk Significance 

      Koonce, A. M.; Apostolakis, George; Cook, B. K. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2006-09)
      Disruptions in the bulk power grid can result in very diverse consequences that include economic, social, physical, and psychological impacts. In addition, power outages do not affect all end-users of the system in the ...

    • House of Security: Locale, Roles and Resources for Ensuring Information Security Research-in-Progress 

      Ang, Wee Horng; Lee, Yang W.; Madnick, Stuart E.; Mistress, Dinsha; Siegel, Michael D.; e.a. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2006-08)
      In this paper we redefine information security by extending its definition in three salient avenues: locale (beyond the boundary of an enterprise to include partner organizations), role (beyond the information custodians’ ...

    • Reutilization and Legal Protection of Non-Copyrightable Database Contents 

      Zhu, Hongwei; Madnick, Stuart E. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2006-08)
      The availability of data on the web and the improvement of technologies have made it increasingly easy to reuse existing data to create new databases and provide value-added services. Meanwhile, initial database creators ...