Civil infrastructure provides the range of essential services generally necessary to support a
nation's economy and quality of life-arguably entire economies rely on the ability to move …

Our national security, economic prosperity, and national well-being are dependent upon a
set of highly interdependent critical infrastructures. Examples of these infrastructures include …

The work in this paper is motivated by the weaknesses in communication networks that were
observed among government agencies while responding to the emergency situation posed …

Recent events have heightened our awareness of the vulnerability of civil infrastructure
systems. Most of the research on this topic has focused on individual systems, while more …

Critical infrastructures display many of the characteristic properties of complex systems.
They exhibit infrequent large failures events that often obey a power law distribution in their …

This paper discusses cross-sector infrastructure interdependencies and key risk
considerations, analysis approaches, research and development needs, and the range of …

Safety-critical systems are those systems whose failure could result in loss of life, significant
property damage, or damage to the environment. There are many well known examples in …

Multiple failures were involved in the response to Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent
flooding of New Orleans, Louisiana (and the surrounding Gulf coast). The flooding of the city …

Pervasive societal dependency on large scale, unbounded network systems, the substantial
risks of such dependency, and the growing sophistication of system intruders, have focused …

Maritime Transportation System (MTS) is a critical infrastructure system that enables
economic activity through transferring goods between national and international …