Title :
The status and importance of robustness in the process of critical infrastructure resilience evaluation
Author :
Martin, Harold ; Ludek, Lukas
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Security Eng., Tomas Bata Univ. in Zlin, Zlin, Czech Republic
Abstract :
The importance of critical infrastructure is seen through the society functional continuity maintenance. In relation to this fact it is necessary to change the perspective from the critical infrastructure protection perspective to critical infrastructure resilience perspective. It is clear that the protection is a functional part of resilience. In connection with our security research project related to resilience evaluation system development, we are able to say that the protection is a component of robustness. Article will therefore discuss about the status and importance of robustness in relation to resilience evaluation and the mathematical approach to robustness definition and evaluation.
Keywords :
critical infrastructures; maintenance engineering; mathematical analysis; national security; risk management; socio-economic effects; critical infrastructure protection; critical infrastructure resilience evaluation; mathematical approach; resilience evaluation system development; society functional continuity maintenance; Complexity theory; Indexes; Network topology; Resilience; Robustness; Security; Topology; Critical Infrastructure; Critical Infrastructure resilience; Robusstness; Security Robustness; Structural Robustness;
Conference_Titel :
Technologies for Homeland Security (HST), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Waltham, MA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-3963-3
DOI :
10.1109/THS.2013.6699070
