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Graph Models of Critical Infrastructure Interdependencies

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Inter-Domain Management (AIMS 2007)

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Critical infrastructures are interconnected on multiple levels, and due to their size models with acceptable computational complexity and adequate modeling capacities must be developed. This paper presents the skeleton of a graph based model and sketches its capabilities.

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Svendsen, N.K., Wolthusen, S.D. (2007). Graph Models of Critical Infrastructure Interdependencies. In: Bandara, A.K., Burgess, M. (eds) Inter-Domain Management. AIMS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4543. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72986-0_27

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