Metis: An integrated reference architecture for addressing uncertainty in decision-support systems

Deliver “actionable” intelligence instead of just raw information – this is what the Metis research project pursues for supporting operational work in domains characterized by constantly evolving situations with a diversity of entities, complex interactions and high-level uncertainty in the information gathered. Operating effectively in such...

METIS: Dependable Cooperative Systems for Public Safety

Much, if not most, information needed to assess a crisis situation originates these days from cooperative sources such as the Internet and social networks. Public safety authorities face the challenge to compile this information of uncertain origin and quality in their situation understanding and response planning. Time matters: the integration...

Understanding Cyber Threats and Vulnerabilities

This chapter reviews current and anticipated cyber-related threats to the Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) and Critical Infrastructures (CI). The potential impact of cyber-terrorism to CII and CI has been coined many times since the term was first coined during the 1980s. Being the relevance to consider possible threats and their impact...

Self organizing distributed state-estimators

Distributed solutions for signal processing techniques are important for establishing large-scale monitoring and control applications. They enable the deployment of scalable sensor networks for particular application areas. Typically, such networks consists of a large number of vulnerable components connected via unreliable communication links...

Goede code: De digitale samenleving in balans.

Onze geschiedenis laat een constante strijd tussen de burgers en hun bestuurders zien als het gaat om het beschermen van de grondrechten aan de ene kant en om het verhogen van de veiligheid en van de efficiëntie en slagkracht van het bestuur aan de andere kant. Dit is in de digitale samenleving niet anders. In het digitale domein woedt echter...

A Cloud Storage Platform in the Defense Context: Mobile Data Management With Unreliable Network Conditions

This paper discusses a cloud storage platform in the defense context. The mobile and dismounted domains of defense organizations typically use devices that are light in storage, processing and communication capabilities. This means that it is difficult to store a lot of information on these devices locally, but also that it is infeasible to rely...

Cyber resilience in de bestuurskamer

Op 16 oktober vond in Amsterdam The Grand Conference plaats. Deze conferentie werd georganiseerd door het Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI.NL) in nauwe samenwerking met de Europese Commissie, de Europese Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), het Amerikaanse Department of Homeland Security (DHS) en het World...

Procesbesturingen: Onbewust Onveilig - Procesbesturingen onveilig gekoppeld met publieke communicatievoorzieningen

Monitoring en besturing van steeds meer technische apparatuur,zowel lokaal als op afstand, gaat met computers. Zonder na te denken over enige vorm van informatiebeveiliging koppelt men de bediening van de apparatuur met het internet of publieke netwerken. Deskundigen maken zich al jaren zorgen. Recente incidenten laten zien dat bedrijven,...

In Things We Trust?: Towards trustability in the Internet of Things

The Internet of Things is nothing new. First introduced as Ubiquitous Computing by Mark Weiser [49] around 1990, the basic concept of the “disappearing computer” has been studied as Ambient Intelligence or Pervasive Computing in the decades that followed. Today we witness the first large scale applications of these ideas. We see RFID technology...