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2011 | Buch

Introduction and Definition of Key Terms Kapitel lesen Erstes Kapitel lesen

Vulnerable Systems

verfasst von: Wolfgang Kröger, Enrico Zio

Verlag: Springer London

Enthalten in: Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" , Springer Professional "Technik"

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The safe management of the complex distributed systems and critical infrastructures which constitute the backbone of modern industry and society entails identifying and quantifying their vulnerabilities to design adequate protection, mitigation, and emergency action against failure. In practice, there is no fail-safe solution to such problems and various frameworks are being proposed to effectively integrate different methods of complex systems analysis in a problem-driven approach to their solution.

Vulnerable Systems reflects the current state of knowledge on the procedures which are being put forward for the risk and vulnerability analysis of critical infrastructures. Classical methods of reliability and risk analysis, as well as new paradigms based on network and systems theory, including simulation, are considered in a dynamic and holistic way.

Readers of Vulnerable Systems will benefit from its structured presentation of the current knowledge base on this subject. It will enable graduate students, researchers and safety and risk analysts to understand the methods suitable for different phases of analysis and to identify their criticalities in application.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter
Chapter 1. Introduction and Definition of Key Terms
Abstract
The welfare and security of each nation rely on the continuous flow of essential goods (such as energy and data) and services (such as banking and health care). A large-scale array of wide area, man-made systems and assets, mostly privately owned or operated, that function collaboratively and synergistically to produce and distribute such a flow, are called infrastructures. Those infrastructures so vital to any country that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on the health, safety, security, economics and social well-being, including the effective functioning of governments
Wolfgang Kröger, Enrico Zio
Chapter 2. Properties of Critical Infrastructures
Abstract
Physical-engineered critical infrastructures (CIs) are characterized as large scale, spatially distributed, complex networks—either open or closed. According to Dueñas-Osorio and Vemuru (2009), these systems are made of “a large number of interacting components (real or virtual), show emergent properties difficult to anticipate from the knowledge of single components, are characterized by a large degree of adaptability to absorb random disruptions and are highly vulnerable to widespread failure under adverse conditions.” Indeed, small perturbations can trigger cascades and large-scale consequences in CIs; furthermore, disruptions may also be caused by targeted malicious attacks.
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Chapter 3. Challenges to Methods for the Vulnerability Analysis of Critical Infrastructures
Abstract
The required performance of critical infrastructures relies on intricate, often nonlinear interactions among a large number of interconnected and geographically distributed components of different types, including both technical and non-technical elements. Even their interaction with the regulatory, legal or institutional framework may eventually affect the overall vulnerability of infrastructure systems. Furthermore, the normal operation of these systems does not allow to detect ‘hidden’ interactions which might become crucial for the evolution of (cascading) failure events; the dynamic degradation of networks is sensitive to parameter variations and the system behavior cannot be described by linear equations.
Wolfgang Kröger, Enrico Zio
Chapter 4. Basic Approaches
Abstract
The two main outputs of a vulnerability assessment of critical infrastructures (CIs) are the quantification of system vulnerability indicators and the identification of critical elements
Wolfgang Kröger, Enrico Zio
Chapter 5. Conceptual Frameworks for Vulnerability Assessment
Abstract
Critical Infrastructures (CIs) have basic traits in common such as large-size, wide-area coverage, complexity and interconnectedness but show significant differences in detail, even when limited to physical-engineered CIs. The challenges for understanding, modeling and analyzing these systems with regard to vulnerability are immense and far away from being resolved. Approaches can be of two types, empirical and predictive, or a combination of both, as they complement each other (Johansson and Hassel 2010). By empirical investigations, previous events are studied in order to understand the behavior of CIs and the (inter)dependencies between them as well as to identify patterns, while predictive approaches aim to model the behavior of single or a group of CIs to find potential high consequence cases and non-obvious vulnerabilities.
Wolfgang Kröger, Enrico Zio
Chapter 6. Methods of Analysis
Abstract
Challenges to methods for vulnerability analysis have been distillated and approaches, framed into categories, have been explained briefly in the previous chapters. It has also been stated that no all-encompassing method exists but rather an interplay of methods is necessary to provide trustworthy information about vulnerabilities within and among critical infrastructures (CIs). Starting with the evaluation of statistical data this chapter introduces methods in detail which are regarded as most promising to deal with the complex behavior of these systems within screening and, in particular, in depth analysis.
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Chapter 7. Concluding Considerations
Abstract
 In this book, the subject of vulnerable systems has been addressed in depth. The focus has been on engineered physical Critical Infrastructures (CIs) such as the networks for energy supply, transportation, information and telecommunication. These are large-scale arrays of systems and assets that function systematically to produce and distribute services vital for modern economy and social welfare.
Wolfgang Kröger, Enrico Zio
Metadaten
Titel
Vulnerable Systems
verfasst von
Wolfgang Kröger
Enrico Zio
Copyright-Jahr
2011
Verlag
Springer London
Electronic ISBN
978-0-85729-655-9
Print ISBN
978-0-85729-654-2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-655-9

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