Overcoming Barriers to Greater Scientific Understanding of Critical Infrastructure Resilience

Abstract

In this chapter we argue that progress in our scientific understanding of resilience for critical infrastructure systems has been limited because of several fundamental barriers that are restricting the research community as a whole. These barriers include (1) the interdisciplinary nature of CI systems, (2) an overemphasis on threat scenarios, (3) an inability to share information about real systems and (4) a lack of understanding about resilience itself. We elaborate on each barrier and offer recommendations for potential solutions, identifying ongoing efforts at progress for each.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2019
Accession Number
AD1116348

Entities

People

  • David L. Alderson

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Case Studies
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Ecology
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Environmental Protection
  • Geography
  • Governments
  • Homeland Defense
  • Homeland Security
  • National Security
  • New York
  • Operations Research
  • Public Policy
  • Risk
  • Risk Analysis
  • Social Problems
  • Systems Engineering
  • Transportation
  • United States
  • United States Government

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Systems Analysis and Design