A Brief Overview of Some Methods and Approaches for Investigating Interdependencies in Critical Infrastructures

Summary, in English

This chapter presents methods for analysing interdependencies in critical infrastructures. In general, there are three groups of methods for analysing interdependencies; (1) conceptual, (2) model and simulation and (3) empirical and knowledge-based approaches. Examples of methods belonging to these groups are presented. The latter part of the chapter discusses challenges related to modelling, focusing on how to deal with complexity, trade-offs between abstraction and fidelity, choice of consequence measures and obtaining information.

• Author: Ingrid Bower Utne; Henrik Hassel; Jonas Johansson
• Editor: Hokstad Per; Ingrid Bower Utne; Vatn Jörn
• Department/s: Division of Fire Safety Engineering; Lund University Centre for Risk Assessment and Management (LUCRAM); Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety; Industrial Electrical Engineering and Automation
• Publishing year: 2012
• Language: English
• Pages: 1-12
• Publication/Series: Risk and Interdependencies in Critical Infrastructures – A Guideline for Analysis
• Volume: 1
• Links: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4471-4661-2_1
• Document type: Book chapter
• Publisher: Springer
• Topic: Social Sciences Interdisciplinary; Other Civil Engineering; Building Technologies; Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISBN: 978-1-4471-4660-5