Critical infrastructures : state of the art in research and application

Critical Infrastructures: A New and Challenging Research Field.- I: Vulnerability and Risk.- The Vulnerable Internet.- System Implications of Distributed Generation.- The Wireless Revolution.- Regulatory Design for Disaster Preparedness and Recovery by Infrastructure Providers.- II: System Development and Adaptation.- Policy Enablers for the Development of a Space-Based Infrastructure.- A Framework for Modeling the Control and Management of Infrastructure through the Use of Critical Information Flows.- III: Institutional Change.- Infrastructure Investment after Liberalization.- Infrastructure Regulation Difficulties.- Delineating the Scope of Convergence in Infrastructures.- IV: Capacity Management.- Interruptible Physical Transmission Contract for the Deregulated Electric Power Industry.- Capacity Management in Infrastructure Sectors.- Synthesis.- Synthesis of Approaches and Insights.