Citation

Tu YL, Zhang WJ, Liu X, Li W, Chai CL, Deters R. Int. J. Crit. Infrastruct. 2008; 4(3): 274.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, Inderscience Publishers)

DOI

10.1504/IJCIS.2008.017441

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

A networked Critical Infrastructure (CI) system performs functions critical to national economy and security. It is a complex system in the sense of a social-technical system with time-varying boundary and topology, and there are dynamic, uncertain and stochastic factors throughout a whole disaster management process. In this paper, we first present a study aimed at developing a general methodology for disaster response management to view the response management as a process and production control problem. Based on this point of view the control system technology is employed to develop a general framework for the disaster response management system, which also incorporates an adaptive decision system. Finally, a case study is presented with networked CI systems to validate the proposed model.

KEYWORDS: critical infrastructures; modelling; simulation; Petri nets; PNs; socioechnical systems; disaster response; disaster management; emergency management; response management; process control; production control; adaptive decision making; control systems.