Modern societies are becoming increasingly dependent on critical infrastructure systems
(CISs) to provide essential services that support economic prosperity, governance, and …

Abstract Critical Infrastructure Protection is a relatively new scientific domain stemming from
an American Presidential directive PDD-63 of May 1998. Critical Infrastructure (CI) …

The sharp increase in global urban population and rapid expansion of impervious urban
surfaces is raising concerns over more than just the quality of human life; researchers are …

SUMMARY A resilience index is used to quantify preventive measures, emergency
measures, and restoration measures of complex systems, such as physical infrastructures …

Extant studies have presented various indexes for evaluating urban carrying capacity
(UCC), but there is no consistent perspective on UCC. This paper presents a guiding index …

The stability of infrastructure network is always a critical issue studied by researchers in
different fields. A lot of works have been devoted to reveal the robustness of the …

Greater urbanization does not only mean higher concentrations of population and economic
activities, but also increasing complexity and infrastructure interdependencies in the delivery …

Electric power systems are critical infrastructures subject to the possibility of extraordinary
events with high societal consequences. Although such possibilities are often associated …

Dependency analysis of critical infrastructures is a computationally intensive problem when
dealing with large-scale, cross-sectoral, cascading and common-cause failures. The …

The failure of critical infrastructures may be hazardous to the general population, the
economy, even national security. Disruptions in one type of infrastructure often transverse to …