1st
International Workshop on
Resilience Assessment of Critical Infrastructures
News
03/05/2011 - Keynote and panel presentations
are available (click the titles below):
Panel
- "Resilience
Assessment of CI: challenges and promising directions"
Alberto Avritzer (Siemens, USA) - "
Facilitator
introductions"
Robin Bloomfield (City University London, UK) - "
Evaluating resilience of multiple
infrastructures: some challenges"
João Batista Camargo Jr. (University of São
Paulo, Brazil) - "
Challenges in Safety
Assessment of Complex Critical Infrastructures"
Mohamed Kaaniche (LAAS-CNRS, France) - "
Resilience
assessment of critical infrastructures: From accidental to malicious
threats"
William H. Sanders (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL,
USA) - "
Resilience Assessment of CI:
challenges and promising directions"
Scope
Critical Infrastructures
(CI) are complex and highly interdependent systems, networks and assets
that provide essential services in our daily life. They span a number
of key sectors, including energy, finance, government,
telecommunications, information technology, transportation, ports, and
many others. In particular, the deployment of communication
technologies to the power-grid has attracted worldwide industry and
government interest.
Assessing resilience is
thus a keystone for improving trustworthiness and/or maintaining the
reliability of critical infrastructures. Both academia and industry
have been researching methods and developing tools for resilience
assessment. However, in spite of decades of research and continuous
progress, resilience evaluation of critical infrastructures is still a
challenging problem. For Smart-grids there are mandatory requirements
in several countries for resilience assessment.
This workshop invites
researchers and practitioners to submit original research papers and
industrial reports describing experience with techniques to increase
the resilience of critical infrastructures. Topics of interest include,
but are not limited to:
- Infrastructure
Interdependencies Modeling and analysis
- Accidental threats and
Attack Modelling and evaluation
- Next generation IP
communication technologies (e.g. WiMax, ZigBee) and their application
for CI design, modelling, simulation, and management
- Smart-grids resilience
assessment
- Network and
Organizational Vulnerability Analysis
- Testbeds for assessing
critical infrastructure scenarios
- Benchmarks for
critical infrastructures
Please contact raci@dei.uc.pt
for additional information.