Scientific Support For The Decision Making In The Security Sector

Author : Ognyan Kounchev
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1586037609
Total Pages : 360 pages
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Download or read book Scientific Support for the Decision Making in the Security Sector written by Ognyan Kounchev and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Security environment is characterized by deep uncertainty. Threats are being posed not only by adversary (political) forces but may also come from natural challenges. This title reflects the initial state of a dialogue between specialists in security and specialists in mathematics, computer and information sciences on security topics.

Author : O. Kounchev
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1607502569
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scientific Support for the Decision Making in the Security Sector written by O. Kounchev and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2007-07-19 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s security environment is characterized by deep uncertainty. Threats are being posed not only by adversary (political) forces but may also come from natural challenges (be it energy, water, ecology or whatever). The types of operations that our civil security and military forces find themselves in today comprise a wide variety of tasks. The success criteria for these operations are a safe/secure environment for local population and stable conditions for state building rather than hit-kill ratio’s against adversaries – the criteria are soft and the many actors involved may have divergent if not opposing objectives. And where actors intentionally share common objectives, they come from different cultural and organizational backgrounds, and their systems and modus operandi (doctrine) have loose or no connectivity. Under these complex and uncertain conditions decision making is a challenging process. This publication reflect the initial state of a dialogue between specialists in security and specialists in mathematics, computer and information sciences on security topics. Papers included in this volume are naturally subdivided into four parts showing the wide future perspective for synthesis between science and security: Planning for Security; Mathematical, Computer and Information Sciences Methods for Security; Environmental Security; and Dynamic Optimization for Security.

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309218160
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethical and Scientific Issues in Studying the Safety of Approved Drugs written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2012-07-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An estimated 48 percent of the population takes at least one prescription drug in a given month. Drugs provide great benefits to society by saving or improving lives. Many drugs are also associated with side effects or adverse events, some serious and some discovered only after the drug is on the market. The discovery of new adverse events in the postmarketing setting is part of the normal natural history of approved drugs, and timely identification and warning about drug risks are central to the mission of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Not all risks associated with a drug are known at the time of approval, because safety data are collected from studies that involve a relatively small number of human subjects during a relatively short period. Written in response to a request by the FDA, Ethical and Scientific Issues in Studying the Safety of Approved Drugs discusses ethical and informed consent issues in conducting studies in the postmarketing setting. It evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches to generate evidence about safety questions, and makes recommendations for appropriate followup studies and randomized clinical trials. The book provides guidance to the FDA on how it should factor in different kinds of evidence in its regulatory decisions. Ethical and Scientific Issues in Studying the Safety of Approved Drugs will be of interest to the pharmaceutical industry, patient advocates, researchers, and consumer groups.

Author : I. Prezelj
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 160750300X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fight Against Terrorism and Crisis Management in the Western Balkans written by I. Prezelj and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2008-02-06 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrorism is not the only threat that causes the emergence of crises. The so-called ‘crisification’ of our security environment also seems to be rising due to many other factors. Such an environment is generating many crises related to politico-military conflicts, natural disasters, infectious diseases, information disruptions, ethnic or religious violence and others. Many of these crises are completely or nearly completely unexpected and have a strong effect on the security of individual people, states and the international community. ‘Crisis’ has become the key word instead of ‘war’. The awareness of this is partially driven by the growing role of electronic media, bringing negative news and reports to nearly all homes, and partially by objective technical factors that allow the fast escalation of local crises to the international level. Globalization therefore has a strong subjective and objective impact on the understanding of security.

Author : Robert D. Crangle
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1586035983
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bulgarian Integration Into Europe and NATO written by Robert D. Crangle and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of Paper for NATO Advanced Research Workshop: Assessing Research and Innovation Policies and Their ImpactDevelopment and State of the Art of Evaluation in Germany with Special Reference to Higher Education and Research; Models of Evaluation Systems in Greece; Out of Success, Success: How Ireland Refuses to Grow Complacent; The eFORSEE Malta Project: Spotlight on Science-Society Interactions and Learning; COS = The Netherlands Consultative Committee of Sector Councils for Research and Develop.

Author : Susanna Bearne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book National Security Decision-making Structures and Security Sector Reform written by Susanna Bearne and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the successes and failures of national security decision-making structures in various countries.

Author : Krassimir T. Atanassov
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030722848
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Research in Computer Science in the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences written by Krassimir T. Atanassov and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of papers devoted to the emergence and development in Bulgarian Academy of Sciences of some of the areas of informatics, including artificial intelligence. The papers are prepared by specialists from the Academy, some of whom are among the founders of these scientific and application areas in Bulgaria and in some cases – in the world. The book is interesting for specialists in informatics and computer science and researchers in history of sciences.

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Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 10439 pages
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Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309120462
Total Pages : 422 pages
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Download or read book Science and Decisions written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Risk assessment has become a dominant public policy tool for making choices, based on limited resources, to protect public health and the environment. It has been instrumental to the mission of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as well as other federal agencies in evaluating public health concerns, informing regulatory and technological decisions, prioritizing research needs and funding, and in developing approaches for cost-benefit analysis. However, risk assessment is at a crossroads. Despite advances in the field, risk assessment faces a number of significant challenges including lengthy delays in making complex decisions; lack of data leading to significant uncertainty in risk assessments; and many chemicals in the marketplace that have not been evaluated and emerging agents requiring assessment. Science and Decisions makes practical scientific and technical recommendations to address these challenges. This book is a complement to the widely used 1983 National Academies book, Risk Assessment in the Federal Government (also known as the Red Book). The earlier book established a framework for the concepts and conduct of risk assessment that has been adopted by numerous expert committees, regulatory agencies, and public health institutions. The new book embeds these concepts within a broader framework for risk-based decision-making. Together, these are essential references for those working in the regulatory and public health fields.

Author : Elena Rusconi
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889196003
Total Pages : 110 pages
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Download or read book Neuroscience perspectives on Security: Technology, Detection, and Decision Making written by Elena Rusconi and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In security science, efficient operation depends typically on the interaction between technology, human and machine detection and human and machine decision making. A perfect example of this interplay is ‘gatekeeping’, which is aimed to prevent the passage of people and objects that represent known threats from one end to the other end of an access point. Gatekeeping is most often achieved via visual inspections, mass screening, random sample probing and/or more targeted controls on attempted passages at points of entry. Points of entry may be physical (e.g. national borders) or virtual (e.g. connection log-ons). Who and what are defined as security threats and the resources available to gatekeepers determine the type of checks and technologies that are put in place to ensure appropriate access control. More often than not, the net performance of technology-aided screening and authentication systems ultimately depends on the characteristics of human operators. Assessing cognitive, affective, behavioural, perceptual and brain processes that may affect gatekeepers while undertaking this task is fundamental. On the other hand, assessing the same processes in those individuals who try to breach access to secure systems (e.g. hackers), and try to cheat controls (e.g. smugglers) is equally fundamental and challenging. From a security standpoint it is vital to be able to anticipate, focus on and correctly interpret the signals connected with such attempts to breach access and/or elude controls, in order to be proactive and to enact appropriate responses. Knowing cognitive, behavioral, social and neural constraints that may affect the security enterprise will undoubtedly result in a more effective deployment of existing human and technological resources. Studying how inter-observer variability, human factors and biology may affect the security agenda, and the usability of existing security technologies, is of great economic and policy interest. In addition, brain sciences may suggest the possibility of novel methods of surveillance and intelligence gathering. This is just one example of a typical security issue that may be fruitfully tackled from a neuroscientific and interdisciplinary perspective. The objective of our Research Topic was to document across relevant disciplines some of the most recent developments, ideas, methods and empirical findings that have the potential to expand our knowledge of the human factors involved in the security process. To this end we welcomed empirical contributions using different methodologies such as those applied in human cognitive neuroscience, biometrics and ethology. We also accepted original theoretical contributions, in the form of review articles, perspectives or opinion papers on this topic. The submissions brought together researchers from different backgrounds to discuss topics which have scientific, applicative and social relevance.