Simulation Modeling and Risk Assessment in Critical Infrastructure Systems

A special issue of Mathematics (ISSN 2227-7390). This special issue belongs to the section "Engineering Mathematics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 239

Special Issue Editors

School of National Safety and Emergency Management, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai 519087, China
Interests: infrastructure risk analysis and assessment; emergency evacuation; mathematical modeling
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Institute for Disaster Risk Management, School of Geographical Science, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Interests: climate change impact; natural hazards; landslides; statistical modelling; spatial analysis; extreme precipitation
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School of Traffic and Transportation, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China
Interests: humanitarian logistics; facility location; robust optimization; stochastic programming

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The current effects of emergencies on humans have been amplified by increasing extreme weather events and outbreaks of epidemic disease. The critical infrastructure system is crucial for daily life and threatened heavily by these emergencies. The accelerating globalization process brings together all the countries and regions in the world and their critical infrastructure systems to form a growing global network. Coupled with increased interdependences within critical infrastructure systems, the damage of an extreme event to critical infrastructure systems could be amplified. However, the understanding of the redistribute flows in critical infrastructure system, coupling relationship among critical infrastructure system, the impact of a critical infrastructure system under different types of extreme event, is still poor, which hinders the development of recovery approaches after disruption.

This Special Issue aims to collect research on simulation modeling for critical infrastructure systems, risk assessments in critical infrastructure systems under emergencies, and recovery strategies after critical infrastructure systems have been disrupted. The potential research topics include but are not limited to:

  • Simulation models and techniques for critical infrastructure systems (eg. transportation, power, and energy) under disruption.
  • Risk and impact assessment modeling under emergencies including extreme weather and outbreaks of epidemic disease.
  • Devising effective post-hazard recovery strategies.
  • Design and optimization for location, capacity, inventory and other logistics related strategies for critical infrastructure systems under uncertainty.
  • Supply chain dynamic decision-making and scheduling under emergencies.
  • Models and simulations in disaster relief/humanitarian logistics.
  • Hazard–infrastructure network interactions.
  • Occurrence and impact of multiple hazards.

Dr. Weiping Wang
Dr. Qigen Lin
Dr. Kanglin Liu
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • simulation modeling
  • risk assessment
  • critical infrastructure
  • system recovery
  • disaster relief logistics

Published Papers

There is no accepted submissions to this special issue at this moment.
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