Vulnerable Systems

• Main Authors: Kröger, Wolfgang (Author), Zio, Enrico (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2011.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Complexity, Computational.; Quality control.; Reliability.; Industrial safety.; Electrical engineering.; Power electronics.; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk.; Complexity.; Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks.; Communications Engineering, Networks.

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, the...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction and Definition of Key Terms
• 2. Properties of Critical Infrastructures
• 3. Challenges to Methods for the Vulnerability Analysis of Critical Infrastructures
• 4. Basic Approaches
• 5. Conceptual Frameworks for Vulnerability Assessment
• 6. Methods of Analysis
• 7. Concluding Considerations.