The resilience of networked infrastructure systems [electronic resource] : analysis and measurement / Mayada Omer.

ISBN:

9789814452823

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Author:

Omer, Mayada.

Personal Author:

Omer, Mayada.

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Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 219 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps.

Series:

Systems research series ; v. 3

Contents:

Ch. 1. Introduction. 1.1. Need for resilience in infrastructure systems. 1.2. Problem statement. 1.3. Research question. 1.4. Research hypothesis and its implications. 1.5. Hypothesis validation. 1.6. Research approach. 1.7. Research contribution. 1.8. Research assumptions. 1.9. Dissertation structure -- ch. 2. Literature review. 2.1. Resilience definitions. 2.2. Resilience in different disciplines. 2.3. Resilience and disruptions (shocks). 2.4. Methodologies for characterizing resilience. 2.5. Resilience measurement approaches. 2.6. Elements of resilience. 2.7. Resilience in organizations. 2.8. Resilience and risk management. 2.9. Summary -- ch. 3. Relationship between reliability, robustness, flexibility, agility and resilience. 3.1. Reliability. 3.2. Robustness. 3.3. Flexibility. 3.4. Agility. 3.5. Comparing R[symbol] in terms of type failures, uncertainty and adaptability. 3.6. Summary -- ch. 4. Resilience-enabling schemes. 4.1. Scheme identification. 4.2. Vulnerability reduction. 4.3. Increasing adaptive capacity through reorganization. 4.4. Summary -- ch. 5. Measuring the resilience of networked infrastructure systems. 5.1. Risk analysis. 5.2. Networked infrastructure resilience assessment (NIRA) framework. 5.3. NIRA framework: a systems approach for measuring resilience. 5.4. Summary -- ch. 6. Assessing the resilience of the global internet cable system. 6.1. Problem statement. 6.2. Structure of the trans-oceanic cable system. 6.3. Resilience assessment of the global submarine cable infrastructure system. 6.4. Summary -- ch. 7. Assessing the resilience of road transportation networks. 7.1. Problem statement. 7.2. Resilience assessment of Boston-New York corridor. 7.3. Resilience assessment of Manhattan's points of entry. 7.4. Summary -- ch. 8. Assessing the resilience of maritime transportation systems. 8.1. Problem statement. 8.2. Resilience assessment of main Pacific ports. 8.3. Summary -- ch. 9. Assessing the resilience of enterprise systems -- an ITS case study. 9.1. Problem statement. 9.2. Overview of National ITS. 9.3. Resilience assessment of the National ITS emergency operations. 9.4. Summary -- ch. 10. Conclusion. 10.1. Book summary. 10.2. Research validation. 10.3. Research contributions. 10.4. Research limitations. 10.5. Final word.

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Subject Term:

Reliability (Engineering)

Infrastructure (Economics)

Computer networks -- Reliability.

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World Scientific (Firm)

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Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2013

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Summary

This volume elaborates on both the qualitative and quantitative aspects of resilience. Reviewing the literature exploring the concept of resilience in engineering, it discusses resilience in terms of the various definitions used, the methodologies proposed to characterize resilience, and the metrics put forward to quantify the resilience of specific service infrastructure systems. The review also identifies the key factors that contribute to organizational resilience.The concept of resilience is compared to other system properties such as reliability, robustness, flexibility and agility, by taking into consideration what systems are prepared against (types of failure), the causes of failure in systems (uncertainty), and how systems react to overcome failure (level of adaptability). A review is also provided of several resilience-enabling schemes, which improve resilience by reducing vulnerability and increasing adaptive capacity. The book puts forward a new framework, the Networked Infrastructure Resilience Assessment (NIRA) framework, through which the resilience of systems can be measured by assessing the impact of disruptions on key performance measures. By applying the framework to various case studies, the book demonstrates the ability of the proposed framework to assess resilience across a wide variety of networked infrastructure systems. The case studies probe the resilience of the following critical infrastructure systems in the face of specific disruptive events: telecommunication, transportation, maritime transportation and organizational networks.This text is intended for all levels of academia -- from undergraduate through to research level -- as well as professionals and decision-makers involved in the development, analysis and evaluation of infrastructure systems.