Resilience theory plays a vital role in the practical design of modern engineered resilient systems composed of cyber-physical systems and components having interdependencies intended to make the entire system robust. In this paper, the percolation-based metric is applied to measure the...
Although the traditional intrusion detection problem has been well studied with the release of the KDD’99 and NSL-KDD datasets, recent intrusion detection has expanded to include wireless 802.11 networks and Industrial Control Systems & Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (ICS/SCADA)...
Electricity has become an invaluable commodity for the rest of humanity such that nations irrespective of their classification in the world economy will find it difficult to function without it’s reliable supply. For nations such as the United States and the rest of the developed world,...
The federal government currently collects information for the Information Technology (IT) Projects in which it invests, but it does not apply this information to more accurately predict the performance of these projects. As a result, project managers within the federal government are not...
The last thirty years have seen multiple DoD acquisition programs with significant cost and schedule overruns. This paper posits that the primary driver of schedule overruns is the difficulty of “inventing on a schedule” by undertaking risky technology development efforts within a Major Defense...
The problem of forecasting emerging technologies (FET) has attracted the attention of researchers in the patent-analysis community because it provides a starting point for organizations to introduce radical technology change or a new product or engage in a merger and acquisition. Many FET methods...
Current management and technical structures of the electric power system in Togo have shown their limits. Togo continues to suffer from limited access to electric power and endemic electric power shortages resulting in the slow-down of the country’s socio-economic development. For over 43 years,...
The US Air Force (USAF)’s goal is to achieve aircraft availability (AA) rates similar to those of the commercial airline industry. Improving AA rates while reducing operations and maintenance (O&M;) costs is a major challenge for the USAF. This Praxis research identifies field-level components...
This research study presents the concept of DevOps (or development and operations) performance clusters to measure DevOps teams performance, based on three metrics, two agility metrics (delivery lead time and deployment frequency) and a stability metric (mean time to recover). It uses a...
Forecasting of resource utilization in large cloud computing systems is essential to maintain high-quality service and fulfill service level agreements to ensure cost-effectiveness and profitability. Accurately forecasting long-term resource utilization can be challenging, as it is dynamic and...
The majority of steel manufacturers within the United States have employed electric arc furnaces (EAFs), which melt raw materials, for the production of steel. The raw material used in EAFs is referred to as steel, or ferrous, scrap. There are many different grades of ferrous scrap, which are...
An Easy-to-Implement Model to Determine the Percentage of Wake Energy from a Vessel Reaching the Shoreline Across the country, cities are considering implementing or have implemented ferry service as a method of transportation. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, there were...