Description
Critical Infrastructure Systems (CIS) are complex interdependent systems that are vital to public life and national security. Failure of even a small part of such systems, caused by any natural or human-made disaster, can trigger widespread cascading failures impacting many other interdependent modules and disrupt the functionality of the entire system. Collaborating with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) we develop URBAN-NET system that quantifies CI vulnerabilities at region/component-level by accounting for the cascading impacts across multiple CI networks. URBAN-NET analyzes “what-if” scenarios and their propagation of effects within and across CISs using consequence cascade models based on the topology of the network. This is a robust operational system integrated with ORNL EAGLE-I tool by enabling real-time CIS interdependency analysis.
