Title :
Universal asset assessment system based on excel™
Author :
Markowsky, George
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
Abstract :
At the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security the author presented a paper entitled “Comparing Apples to Oranges” which showed the fundamental problem of ranking assets on multiple-factors. In particular, the talk showed that programs like Carver2 cannot consistently order targets. In particular, the author contends that using a spreadsheet such as Excel™ permits users to do as good a job of assessing targets as more dedicated systems. To improve the usefulness of Excel™ for target selection, the author has written a module that permits the spreadsheet to identify Condorcet cycles so that users will get a more realistic understanding of the vulnerability of their various assets. This paper describes the theoretical basis for this module and illustrates its operation. This module is available from the author.
Keywords :
security of data; spreadsheet programs; Condorcet cycle; Excel spreadsheet; asset ranking; asset vulnerability; universal asset assessment system; Bridges; Chemicals; Conferences; Databases; Focusing; Redundancy; Terrorism; CARVER2™; Condorcet cycles; Excel™; consistent decisions; multiple factors; risk assessment; target ranking; target selection;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems (IDAACS), 2011 IEEE 6th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Prague
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1426-9
DOI :
10.1109/IDAACS.2011.6072870