Multiple Cyber-Threats Containment via Kendall's Birth-Death-Immigration Model

This work examines the problem of modeling and containing multiple cyber-threats that propagate across multiple subnets of a data network. With regard to threat modeling, we propose to employ the Birth-Death-Immigration (BDI) model pioneered by Kendall in his seminal work of 1948 [1]. With regard to threat containment, assuming that a certain resource budget is available to mitigate the threats, we illustrate how the notable properties of the BDI model can be exploited to provide the optimal resource allocation across the attacked subnets

Safety and Reliability - Safe Societies in a Changing World

The contributions cover a wide range of methodologies and application areas for safety and reliability that contribute to safe societies in a changing world. These methodologies and applications include: - foundations of risk and reliability assessment and management - mathematical methods in reliability and safety - risk assessment - risk management - system reliability - uncertainty analysis - digitalization and big data - prognostics and system health management - occupational safety - accident and incident modeling - maintenance modeling and applications - simulation for safety and reliability analysis - dynamic risk and barrier management - organizational factors and safety culture - human factors and human reliability - resilience engineering - structural reliability - natural hazards - security - economic analysis in risk managemen

Study on open science: The general state of the play in Open Science principles and practices at European life sciences institutes

Nowadays, open science is a hot topic on all levels and also is one of the priorities of the European Research Area. Components that are commonly associated with open science are open access, open data, open methodology, open source, open peer review, open science policies and citizen science. Open science may a great potential to connect and influence the practices of researchers, funding institutions and the public. In this paper, we evaluate the level of openness based on public surveys at four European life sciences institute