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Security of Water Infrastructure Systems

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Critical Information Infrastructure Security (CRITIS 2008)

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This paper formulates the security problem in critical water infrastructure systems for diagnosing quality faults. The proposed scheme is based on the discretized equations of advection and reaction of contaminant concentrations in pipes and tanks, expressed in a state-space form. Faults are signals affecting the states, and their impact is measured based on certain epidemiological dynamics. A multi-objective optimization problem is formulated for minimizing various risk-related objectives.

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  1. KIOS Research Center for Intelligent Systems and Networks, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

    Demetrios G. Eliades & Marios M. Polycarpou

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  1. Complex Systems & Security Lab, University CAMPUS Bio-Medico of Roma, Italy

    Roberto Setola

  2. IABG mbH Germany, InfoCom, Safety and Security, Dept. for Critical Infrastructures, Einsteinstr. 20, 855211, Ottobrunn, Germany

    Stefan Geretshuber

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Eliades, D.G., Polycarpou, M.M. (2009). Security of Water Infrastructure Systems. In: Setola, R., Geretshuber, S. (eds) Critical Information Infrastructure Security. CRITIS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5508. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03552-4_35

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