Sustainable and Resilient Critical Infrastructure Systems Simulation, Modeling, and Intelligent Engineering /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gopalakrishnan, Kasthurirangan (Editor), Peeta, Srinivas (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Renewable energy resources.; Energy efficiency.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Computational intelligence.; Civil engineering.; Renewable energy sources.; Alternate energy sources.; Green energy industries.; Sustainable development.; Civil Engineering.; Sustainable Development.; Renewable and Green Energy.; Computational Intelligence.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Energy Efficiency (incl. Buildings).

Sustainable and resilient critical infrastructure systems is an emerging paradigm in an evolving era of depleting assets in the midst of natural and man-made threats to provide a sustainable and high quality of life with optimized resources from social, economic, societal and environmental considera...

Table of Contents:

• Synthesis of Modeling and Simulation Methods on Critical Infrastructure Interdependencies Research
• Interdependencies between Energy and Transportation Systems for National Long Term Planning
• A Framework for Assessing the Resilience of Infrastructure and Economic Systems
• Regional Infrastructure Investment Allocation for Sustainability
• A Framework for the Manifestation of Tacit Critical Infrastructure Knowledge
• Intelligent Transportation Infrastructure Technologies for Condition Assessment and Structural Health Monitoring of Highway Bridges
• Maintenance Optimization for Heterogeneous Infrastructure Systems: Evolutionary Algorithms for Bottom-Up Methods
• A Swarm Intelligence Approach for Emergency Infrastructure Inspection Scheduling
• Optimal Highway Infrastructure Maintenance Scheduling Considering Deterministic and Stochastic Aspects of Deterioration
• Sustainable Rehabilitation of Deteriorated Concrete Highways: Condition Assessment Using Shuffled Complex Evolution (SCE) Global Optimization Approach.