Overview
- Contains over 200 color illustrations and figures elaborating on models and concepts dealing with risk, vulnerability, resilience, fragility, and perception
- Introduces the concepts of space, undersea, and below-ground systems to the triplex of critical infrastructure, key resources, and key assets
- Presents a holistic approach to Quantitative Risk Assessment in different systems
- Elaborates a model for system resilience governance architectures that addresses systems management, system resilience governance evaluation, and complex situation management
- Features six standalone appendices, including a model for hierarchical holographic vulnerability assessment, complex system governance, system pathologies, and a lexicon for threat index
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (TSRQ, volume 34)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Foundations of the Wellbeing
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Governance Modeling, Simulation, and Visualization
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Working Examples
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About this book
This textbook offers research-based models and tools for diagnosing and predicting the behavior of complex techno-socio-economic systems in the domain of critical infrastructures, key resources, key assets and the open bazaar of space, undersea, and below-ground systems. These models exemplify emblematic models in physics, within which the critical infrastructures, as well as society itself and its paraphernalia, share the profile of many-body systems featuring cooperative phenomena and phase transitions – the latter usually felt as disruptive occurrences.
The book and its models focus on the analytics of real-life-business actors, including policy-makers, financiers and insurers, industry managers, and emergency responders.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dan V. Vamanu is a senior researcher at Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (Bucharest, Romania). He holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics (1978). He originally worked in the field of quantum theory of solids, publishing on elementary excitations - phonons and magnons in thin films and impure crystals. He co-authored a review on thin magnetic films in the American Encyclopedia Solid State Physics (vol. 27, Academic Press), and the book– ‘Emergency Planning Knowledge’ (VdF Verlag, 1996), ‘Integrated Risk and Vulnerability Management Assisted by Decision Support Systems: Relevance and Impact on Governance’ (Springer, 2005) and ‘Critical Infrastructures at Risk: Securing the European Electric Power System’ (Springer, 2006).
Polinpapilinho F. Katina is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the National Centers for System ofSystems Engineering and an adjunct assistant professor at the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering at Old Dominion University (Norfolk, Virginia, USA). He holds a B.Sc. in Engineering Technology, an M.Eng. in Systems Engineering and a Ph.D. in Engineering Management/Systems Engineering from the same university. He received additional training at Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy). He is a guest editor and has written more than 60 scholarly publications, as well as two books: ‘Infranomics: Sustainability, Engineering Design and Governance’ (Springer, 2014) and ‘Critical Infrastructures: Risk and Vulnerability Assessment in Transportation of Dangerous Goods - Transportation by Road and Rail’ (Springer, 2016).
Roland Pulfer is the founder and strategy officer of Action4Value GmbH (Kirchseelte, Germany). He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and is active in various roles for innovative software companies in the areas of enterprise digitization, holistic search technology, cyber defence, and conformance monitoring. Dr. Pulfer is a member of the Technical Supervisory Board for Old Dominion University (Norfolk, Virginia, USA). His book publications include: Business (re-) engineering: Best Practices: The TopEaseTM Approach (2001) and Control Your Business: The Balance between Principles and Pragmatism (2006). He holds several patents in Switzerland and the USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Critical Infrastructures, Key Resources, Key Assets
Book Subtitle: Risk, Vulnerability, Resilience, Fragility, and Perception Governance
Authors: Adrian V. Gheorghe, Dan V. Vamanu, Polinpapilinho F. Katina, Roland Pulfer
Series Title: Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69224-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-69223-4Published: 22 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88737-1Published: 23 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-69224-1Published: 12 November 2017
Series ISSN: 1566-0443
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0285
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 442
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 192 illustrations in colour
Topics: Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk, Computational Science and Engineering, Social Policy, Complexity, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography