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Enhancing Dutch Energy Safety: Unleashing Redundancy for Cyber-Resilient Industrial Operations at Gate terminal

Gaalswijk, Jonathan (author)

Critical infrastructures, such as the energy sector, are vital for the proper functioning of society. It is crucial to protect these infrastructures against cyberattacks on their operational technology, ensuring their operational performance, and safeguarding energy safety. There is a lack of existing research on improving cybersecurity in...

master thesis 2023

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Detection of critical infrastructure devices on the public Internet

Mladenov, Martin (author)

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are sometimes exposed on the public Internet. It is possible to quickly and efficiently identify such exposed services. They are commonly part of critical infrastructure, so they need to be protected against cyber attacks. In the past, researchers have scanned the Internet to detect such...

bachelor thesis 2023

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Social vulnerability and spatial inequality in access to healthcare facilities: The case of the Santiago Metropolitan Region (RMS), Chile

Contreras, Diana (author), Bhamidipati, S.K. (author), Wilkinson, Sean (author)

In Chile, the Metropolitan Region of Santiago (RMS) is exposed to several natural and anthropogenic hazards. This means that not only is there a constant need for healthcare, but also a significant increase whenever its inhabitants are affected by disasters. The RMS problem is not the lack of healthcare infrastructure; rather, the inequality in...

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Management of National eID Infrastructure as a State-Critical Asset and Public-private Partnership: Learning from the Case of Estonia

Lips, Silvia (author), Tsap, Valentyna (author), Bharosa, Nitesh (author), Krimmer, Robert (author), Tammet, Tanel (author), Draheim, Dirk (author)

In the management of national electronic identity (eID) infrastructure, cooperation between public and private parties becomes more and more important, as the mutual dependencies between the provision of e-services and the provision of the national public key infrastructure (PKI) continuously increases. Yet, it is not clear which key factors...

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Monitoring deformations of infrastructure networks: A fully automated GIS integration and analysis of InSAR time-series

Macchiarulo, V. (author), Milillo, Pietro (author), Blenkinsopp, Chris E. (author), Giardina, Giorgia (author)

Ageing stock and extreme weather events pose a threat to the safety of infrastructure networks. In most countries, funding allocated to infrastructure management is insufficient to perform systematic inspections over large transport networks. As a result, early signs of distress can develop unnoticed, potentially leading to catastrophic...

journal article 2022

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Multi-Agent Based Stochastic Dynamical Model to Measure Community Resilience

Valinejad, Jaber (author), Mili, Lamine (author), van der Wal, C.N. (author)

Emergency services and utilities need appropriate planning tools to analyze and improve infrastructure and community resilience to disasters. Recognized as a key metric of community resilience is the social well-being of a community during a disaster, which is made up of mental and physical social health. Other factors influencing community...

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Integrated platform to assess seismic resilience at the community level

Marasco, Sebastiano (author), Cardoni, Alessandro (author), Zamani Noori, Ali (author), Kammouh, O. (author), Domaneschi, Marco (author), Cimellarof, Gian Paolo (author)

Due to the increasing frequency of disastrous events, the challenge of creating large-scale simulation models has become of major significance. Indeed, several simulation strategies and methodologies have been recently developed to explore the response of communities to natural disasters. Such models can support decision-makers during...

journal article 2021

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The disruption transport model: computing user delays resulting from infrastructure failures for multi-modal passenger & freight traffic

van der Tuin, M.S. (author), Pel, A.J. (author)

Transport infrastructure owners are moving from reactive toward proactive infrastructure management. This involves computation of costs associated with failure or maintenance, including expected transport delays. These delays are often computed by multiplying additional travel time by the number of travellers. However, this does not reflect...

journal article 2020

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An integrated system approach to characterise a drinking water infrastructure system

Kloosterman, Ritsche Anne (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author)

The object of this article is the drinking water infrastructure (DWI), a critical societal infrastructure. To make effective decisions it is important to characterise and understand the complexity of DWI systems. DWI systems can be seen as a system of systems, consisting of the social-ecological system and the social-technical system. The...

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Metropolitan rail network robustness

Cats, O. (author), Krishnakumari, P.K. (author)

In large-scale urban agglomerations, heavy rail in the form of metro and commuter train serves as the backbone of the metropolitan public transport network. The objective of this paper is to investigate whether networks with strikingly different structure and development pattern exhibit different robustness properties in the event of random...

journal article 2020

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Critical Airport Infrastructure Disaster Resilience: A Framework and Simulation Model for Rapid Adaptation

Comes, M. (author), Warnier, Martijn (author), Feil, Wouter (author), van de Walle, B.A. (author)

Resilient critical airport infrastructures affected by a disaster need to sustain minimal functionality and quickly resume full operation, while at the same time coping with the increased operational demands imposed by the unfolding disaster response. In this paper, we develop a resilience framework and model-driven approach that focuses on the...

journal article 2020

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Cybersecurity of Critical Infrastructure

Viganò, Eleonora (author), Loi, Michele (author), Yaghmaei, E. (author)

This chapter provides a political and philosophical analysis of the values at stake in ensuring cybersecurity for critical infrastructures. It presents a review of the boundaries of cybersecurity in national security, with a focus on the ethics of surveillance for protecting critical infrastructures and the use of AI. A bibliographic analysis...

book chapter 2020

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Reply to Lanari, R., et al. comment on “pre-collapse space geodetic observations of critical infrastructure: The morandi bridge, Genoa, Italy” by Milillo et al. (2019)

Milillo, Pietro (author), Giardina, Giorgia (author), Perissin, Daniele (author), Milillo, Giovanni (author), Coletta, Alessandro (author), Terranova, Carlo (author)

We would like to thank our colleagues for their comment, as we believe that this discussion further highlights the importance of innovative research in the emerging field of InSAR applications to civil engineering structures. We discuss the statement from Lanari et al. (2020): “Our analysis shows that, although both the SBAS and the TomoSAR...

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Probabilistic framework to evaluate the resilience of engineering systems using Bayesian and dynamic Bayesian networks

Kammouh, O. (author), Gardoni, Paolo (author), Cimellaro, Gian Paolo (author)

Resilience indicators are a convenient tool to assess the resilience of engineering systems. They are often used in preliminary designs or in the assessment of complex systems. This paper introduces a novel approach to assess the time-dependent resilience of engineering systems using resilience indicators. A Bayesian network (BN) approach is...

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Adapting to Uncertainty: Re-thinking Critical Infrastructural Systems

Leung, Ranee (author)

There are several prevailing issues regarding major altered states of extreme weather events. For instance, storm surges, sea-level rise, and droughts have all resulted in many regions left with critical systems and interdependencies exposed. The impact and risk of modern disasters have caused substantial adverse socio-economic impacts by...

master thesis 2019

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A Multidisciplinary Definition and Evaluation of Resilience: The Role of Social Justice in Defining Resilience

Doorn, N. (author), Gardoni, P (author), Murphy, C (author)

This paper aims to explore how insights from the philosophical and social science literature can be incorporated into the definition of resilient infrastructure so that considerations of social justice can be accounted for and addressed more adequately. Building on the view that engineering ultimately aims to promote societal well-being, this...

journal article 2019

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Interdisciplinary Design of Vital Infrastructure to Reduce Flood Risk in Tokyo’s Edogawa Ward

Krishnan, S. (author), Lin, Jiabiao (author), Simanjuntak, Johannes (author), Hooimeijer, F.L. (author), Bricker, J.D. (author), Daniël, Maäyan (author), Yoshida, Y. (author)

Engineering for flood resilience of dense coastal regions often neglects the resultant impact on urban design quality. Vital subsurface infrastructure such as hydraulic systems, water networks, civil construction, transport, energy supply and soil systems are especially important in shaping the urban environment and integrating resilience....

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Simulating ecosystem-level cybersecurity for the future generation of critical infrastructures: Exploring the impact of cyber-defensive strategies on critical infrastructures through agent-based modelling

de Ronde, Xander (author)

The increased decentralisation and heterogeneity of critical infrastructure systems pose a threat to the safe and secure operation of critical infrastructures by complicating cybersecurity procedures. The increased frequency and impact of cyberthreats have led to the desire to develop coherent security policies. In order to explore the effects...

master thesis 2018

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Enhanced interconnection model in geographically interdependent networks

Rueda, Diego F. (author), Calle, Eusebi (author), Wang, X. (author), Kooij, Robert (author)

Interconnection between telecommunication networks and other critical infrastructures is usually established through nodes that are spatially close, generating a geographical interdependency. Previous work has shown that in general, geographically interdependent networks are more robust with respect to cascading failures when the...

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Understanding inter-organizational information sharing: A case-study in the context of Risk and Opportunity Based Asset Management for Critical Infrastructures (ROBAMCI)

Sardjoe, Nishchal (author)

On a daily basis we (in) directly make use of functions of various infrastructures: we drive on roads and bridges or we live without worries behind the safety of a dike. Only when there are cracks in the dike or a particular bridge is not accessible due to for example a broken pillar, we realize how critical these infrastructures are for our...

master thesis 2017