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20100017348 Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council of Governments (BCDCOG), Charleston, SC, USA
COASTIRS (Coastal Information Retrieval System) Library Users’ Manual
January 1982; 33 pp.; In English
Report No.(s): PB2010-104023; No Copyright; Avail.: CASI: A03, Hardcopy
The COASTIRS project had its initial inception in 1980, when the Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council of
Governments developed a special classification system designed for Coastal Zone and planning documents. This library users’
manual describes the use of the automated library system of COASTIRS.
NTIS
Coasts; Information Retrieval; Libraries; User Manuals (Computer Programs)
20100017499 Applied Visions, Inc., Northport, NY USA; Warrior, LLC, Arlington, VA, USA
Mission Impact of Cyber Events: Scenarios and Ontology to Express the Relationships Between Cyber Assets,
Missions, and Users
D’Amico, Anita; Buchanan, Laurin; Goodall, John; Walczak, Paul; December 2009; 12 pp.; In English; The 5th International
Conference on Information Warfare and Security, 8-9Apr.2010, Dayton, OH, USA; Original contains color illustrations
Contract(s)/Grant(s): FA8750-08-C-0166; Proj-063O; 65502F
Report No.(s): AD-A517410; AFRL-RI-RS-TP-2010-16; No Copyright; Avail.: Defense Technical Information Center
(DTIC)
Awareness of the dependencies between cyber assets, missions and users is critical to assessing the mission impact of
cyber attacks and maintaining continuity of business operations. However, there is no systematic method for defining the
complex mapping between cyber assets (hardware, software, data), missions and users. This paper reports the results of an
interdisciplinary workshop on how to map relationships between cyber assets and the users, missions, business processes and
other entities that depend on those assets. The workshop yielded information about types of impact assessment beyond mission
and financial analyses; scenarios illustrating the complex relationships between assets, mission and users; and models for
expressing those relationships. The results will be used to develop a system that will automatically populate an ontology from
commonly available network data and allow computer network defense, information technology and disaster recovery
practitioners to query the system for information about the impact of the loss or degradation a cyber asset.
DTIC
Security; Warfare
20100017685 Newcastle Univ., Newcastle, UK
Real Distribution of Response Time Instability in Service-Oriented Architecture
Gorbenko, Anatoliy; Kharchenko, Vyacheslav; Mamutov, Seyran; Tarasyuk, Olga; Chen, Yuhui; Romanovsky, Alexander;
December 2009; 11 pp.; In English
Report No.(s): PB2010-106083; CS-TR-1182; Copyright; Avail.: National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
This paper reports our practical experience of benchmarking a complex System Biology Web Service, and investigates
the instability of its behaviour and the delays induced by the communication medium. We present the results of our statistical
data analysis and the distributions, describing and predicting the response time instability typical of Service-Oriented
Architectures (SOAs) built over the Internet. Our experiment has shown that the request processing time of the target e-science
Web Service has a higher instability than the network round trip time. It was found that the request processing time can be
represented better than the network round trip time using a particular theoretical distribution, moreover the probability
distribution series of the round trip time have characteristics make it really difficult to describe them theoretically. The paper
concludes with discussing the lessons learnt about the analysis techniques to be used in such experiments, the validity of the
data, the main causes of uncertainty and possible remedial action.
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Real Time Operation; Service Oriented Architecture; Web Services
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