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An Integrated Approach For Simulating Interdependencies

Conference paper
Part of the The International Federation for Information Processing book series (IFIPAICT, volume 290)

The detailed simulation of interdependent critical infrastructures is a hard problem. Major challenges include modeling multiple heterogeneous infrastructures in a single framework and expressing internal dependencies and interdependencies between infrastructures. This paper attempts to address these issues by proposing a simulation framework where several sector-specific simulators (vertical simulators) are integrated into a general simulation environment (horizontal simulator). Specialized software implemented in the vertical simulators models individual infrastructures and their intra-domain dynamics. The horizontal simulator effectively captures inter-domain relationships and merges heterogeneous information from the vertical simulators to facilitate comprehensive infrastructure simulations.

Keywords

Heterogeneous infrastructures interdependencies simulation 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.RomeItaly
  2. 2.PorticiItaly

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