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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 the high rated vulnerability
in very many sustainability respects (social, economic,
biodiversity, urbanization, migration, poverty, etc.) to be found
in the Mediterranean region at large
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.
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.
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.
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 the high rated vulnerability
in very many sustainability respects (social, economic,
biodiversity, urbanization, migration, poverty, etc.) to be found
in the Mediterranean region at large
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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Critical Information Infrastructures Security - 9th International Conference, CRITIS 2014, Limassol, Cyprus, October 13-15, 2014, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
Christos G. Panayiotou, Georgios Ellinas, Elias Kyriakides, Marios M. Polycarpou
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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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