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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Critical Infrastructure Systems"”.
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Prioritized Reconfiguration of Interdependent Critical Infrastructure Systems
… problem of reconfiguration for restoration in critical infrastructure systems, with regard for the prioritization of those systems and the relationships between them. The complexity of the reconfiguration problem is demonstrated, and previous efforts to present solutions to the problem are …
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Publish-subscribe based middleware for heterogeneous critical infrastructure systems communication.
Critical Infrastructures (CIs) are physical assets and organizations responsible for the production and distribution of society’s vital goods and services. The increasing interconnection of CIs has resulted in interdependencies which effect the propagation of failure from one infrastructure to …
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Protecting critical infrastructure systems using cyber, physical, and socio-technical models
"Critical infrastructure systems are vital to all nations, and incapacitating such systems can result in devastating impact on the general public. Therefore, it is essential to protect such systems from malicious threats. Today, the increasing interconnectedness of critical infrastructure systems …
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Heavy equipment distribution framework for urban search and rescue operations and critical infrastructure systems restoration in disaster response
… lifesaving operations and restoration of critical infrastructures. How- ever, management of high demand equipment is usually inefficient during disaster response. Prioritization of limited resources is one of the greatest challenges in decision making for facilities management. Meanwhile, …
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Infrastructure Performance and Risk Assessment under Extreme Weather and Climate Change Conditions
… of climate change and extreme weather events on critical infrastructures as defined by US Department of Homeland Security. The focus is on two important critical infrastructure systems – Water and Transportation. Critical infrastructures are always under the risk of threats such as terrorist …
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The Utility of Cyberattack as a Tool For Military Operations: The Case of China Vs. the United States
… the government and military, and the SCADA systems underlying critical infrastructure systems, all contribute to the dilemma. A foreign government or other power could use cyberattack against the United States as a force multiplier in military operations or as a strategic weapon. The utility …
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Development of a Resilience Assessment Methodology for Networked Infrastructure Systems using Stochastic Simulation, with application to Water Distribution Systems
Water distribution systems are critical infrastructure systems enabling the social and economic welfare of a community. While normal failures are expected and repaired quickly, low-probability and high consequence disruptive events have potential to cause severe damage to the infrastructure and …
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Resilience optimization of systems of interdepedent networks
Critical infrastructure systems such as water, gas, power, telecommunications, and transportation networks, among others, are constantly stressed by aging and natural disasters. Just since 2001, adverse events such as earthquakes, landslides, and floods, have accounted for economic losses exceeding …
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Hydroclimate Drivers and Atmospheric Dynamics of Floods
… can evoke substantial damages to properties and infrastructure systems. These studies also fell short of fully assessing the interactions of coupled ocean-atmosphere and land dynamics which are capable of forcing substantial changes to the flood attributes by governing the exceeding surface flow …
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Optimal Resource Allocation Strategies to Protect Network-structured Systems
Protection of critical national infrastructure has received significant attention in the past recent years. As a result, researchers have developed methods to preserve and maintain critical infrastructure systems and minimize their vulnerability to disasters and disruptions. However, these models …
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Approach to flood mitigation - a post sandy study in New Jersey Meadowlands area
… days after Sandy due to the failure of their critical infrastructure systems. As part of this research (1) a Geodatabase is developed as the baseline model to investigate the vulnerability of the existing infrastructure to flooding; (2) fault-tree analysis helped understand the causes of …
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Segmenting, Summarizing and Predicting Data Sequences
… real problems in Epidemiology, Social Media and Critical Infrastructure Systems. Further, most of the algorithms and frameworks we propose can be extended to solve sequence mining problems in other domains as well.
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Characterizing the Dynamics of Vulnerability for Roadway Infrastructure Systems
Critical infrastructure systems, such as transportation, energy, water and communication, are the backbones of sustainable economic and social development. The tragedies and catastrophic events in the past few years have motivated researchers to study the vulnerability of infrastructure systems to …
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Nondestructive damage characterization of concrete and concrete-steel composites using contactless ultrasonic scanning
… is a widely used construction material for critical infrastructure systems such as bridges and nuclear power plants. During its service life, concrete and concrete-steel composite structures are subject to various deterioration mechanisms including freezing/thawing cycles, alkali-silica …
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Automatic verification of security policy implementations
Networked systems are ubiquitous in our modern society. They are found in settings that vary from mundane enterprise IT systems to critical infrastructure systems. The security of networked systems is important given their widespread use. In particular, the emerging scenarios and the likely trends …
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Critical infrastructure organisation management - An analysis of the transition to the Industry 4.0 era
Critical infrastructure systems (CISs) provide the services that are vital for the economic prosperity, security, and well-being of society. These include power transmission and distribution, telecommunications, transport, and water distribution networks, to name a few. CISs are comprised of both …
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Disaster risk management of interdependent infrastructure systems for community resilience planning
… model the damage and recovery of interdependent infrastructure systems under disruptive events for community resilience planning. The overall research can be broadly divided into two parts: developing a model to simulate the post-disaster performance of interdependent infrastructure systems and …
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Cooperative Autonomous Resilient Defense Platform for Cyber-Physical Systems
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) entail the tight integration of and coordination between computational and physical resources. These systems are increasingly becoming vital to modernizing the national critical infrastructure systems ranging from healthcare, to transportation and energy, to homeland …
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Developing Multi-Scale Models for Water Quality Management in Drinking Water Distribution Systems
<p>Drinking water supply systems belong to the group of critical infrastructure systems that support the socioeconomic development of our modern societies. In addition, drinking water infrastructure plays a key role in the protection of public health by providing a common access to clean and safe …
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Assessment of flood protection strategies for combined critical infrastructure failure and hurricane/storm surge events in the Meadowlands area
As a result of a wide-reaching comprehensive post-Sandy NJIT project entitled "Flood Mitigation Engineering Resource Center (FMERC)", a detailed investigation of alternative measures for flood mitigation in the Meadowlands area was completed in June 2014. The project involved the assessment of …