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This book describes the challenges that critical infrastructure systems face, and presents state of the art solutions to address them. How can we design intelligent systems or intelligent agents that can make appropriate real-time decisions in the management of such large-scale, complex systems? What are the primary challenges for critical infrastructure systems? The book also provides readers with the relevant information to recognize how important infrastructures are, and their role in connection with a society’s economy, security and prosperity. It goes on to describe state-of-the-art solutions to address these points, including new methodologies and instrumentation tools (e.g. embedded software and intelligent algorithms) for transforming and optimizing target infrastructures. The book is the most comprehensive resource to date for professionals in both the private and public sectors, while also offering an essential guide for students and researchers in the areas of modeling and analysis of critical infrastructure systems, monitoring, control, risk/impact evaluation, fault diagnosis, fault-tolerant control, and infrastructure dependencies/interdependencies. The importance of the research presented in the book is reflected in the fact that currently, for the first time in human history, more people live in cities than in rural areas, and that, by 2050, roughly 70% of the world’s total population is expected to live in cities.

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·         Explains cutting edge research and education ventures that are transforming the re-emerging electric power engineering field ·         Covers key issues in power quality, transmission engineering, energy storage and distributed generation ·         Highlights renowned Professor Gerald T. Heydt’s seminal contributions to the field   This unique volume covers some of the most compelling areas of advance in electric power engineering, from distributed generation and dispatch to power quality improvement and transmission systems engineering. The authors particularly highlight the seminal contributions of Professor Gerald T. Heydt in the development and teaching of these technological advances, which have impacted the power industry and academia over the last four decades in areas such as transmission and distribution engineering, power engineering education, and power quality.

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This book sheds new light on the current and future challenges faced by cities, and presents approaches, options and solutions enabled by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the smart city context. By focusing on sustainability objectives within a rapidly changing social, economic, environmental and technological setting, it explores a variety of planning challenges faced by contemporary cities and the power of smart city developments in terms of providing innovative tools, approaches, methodologies and technologies to help cities cope with these challenges. Key issues addressed include smart city (e-) planning and (e-)participation; smart data management to facilitate decision-making processes in cities and insular communities on a variety of topics; smart and sustainable management aspects of climate change, water scarcity, mobility, energy, infrastructure, tourism, blue growth, risk assessment; etc. The book presents current and potential pathways and applications for the evolution of smart cities and communities, taking into consideration the unique problems and opportunities emanating from their specific geographical location. The case study examples mainly concern small and medium-sized cities and communities as well as insular areas in the Mediterranean region, while also incorporating lessons learned from other parts of the world. Their focus is on the specific opportunities and threats emerging in these urban and insular environments, which are characterized by their role as globally known tourist destinations, their coastal or port character, and unique cultural resources, as well as high rated vulnerability in very many sustainability respects (social, economic, biodiversity, urbanization, migration, poverty, etc.) to be found in the Mediterranean region at large.

Industrial economics --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Business policy --- Production management --- Business management --- Information systems --- Computer. Automation --- Environmental planning --- Architecture --- Economic geography --- Geography --- ICT (informatie- en communicatietechnieken) --- ruimtelijke ordening --- Smart City --- duurzaamheid --- industrie --- steden --- armoede --- architectuur --- ecologie --- informatiesystemen --- duurzame ontwikkeling --- informatietechnologie --- geografie --- landenkunde --- klimaatverandering

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book summarizes work being pursued in the context of the CIPRNet (Critical Infrastructure Preparedness and Resilience Research Network) research project, co-funded by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The project is intended to provide concrete and on-going support to the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) research communities, enhancing their preparedness for CI-related emergencies, while also providing expertise and technologies for other stakeholders to promote their understanding and mitigation of the consequences of CI disruptions, leading to enhanced resilience. The book collects the tutorial material developed by the authors for several courses on the modelling, simulation and analysis of CIs, representing extensive and integrated CIP expertise. It will help CI stakeholders, CI operators and civil protection authorities understand the complex system of CIs, and help them adapt to these changes and threats in order to be as prepared as possible for mitigating emergencies and crises affecting or arising from CIs.

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This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 9th International Conference on Critical Information Infrastructures Security, CRITIS 2014, held in Limassol, Cyprus, in October 2014. The 20 full and 19 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: cyber-physical systems and sensor networks; security of water systems; power and energy system security; security and recovery policies, cyber security; and security tools and protocols. .

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