Sustainable and Resilient Critical Infrastructure Systems, 2010 Simulation, Modeling, and Intelligent Engineering

Sustainable and resilient critical infrastructure systems is an emerging paradigm in an evolving era of depleting assets in the midst of natural and man-made threats to provide a sustainable and high quality of life with optimized resources from social, economic, societal and environmental considerations. The increasing complexity and interconnectedness of civil and other interdependent infrastructure systems (electric power, energy, cyber-infrastructures, etc.) require inter- and multidisciplinary expertise required to engineer, monitor, and sustain these distributed large-scale complex adaptive infrastructure systems. This edited book is motivated by recent advances in simulation, modeling, sensing, communications/information, and intelligent and sustainable technologies that have resulted in the development of sophisticated methodologies and instruments to design, characterize, optimize, and evaluate critical infrastructure systems, their resilience, and their condition and the factors that cause their deterioration.

Specific topics discussed in this book include, but are not limited to: optimal infrastructure investment allocation for sustainability, framework for manifestation of tacit critical infrastructure knowledge, interdependencies between energy and transportation systems for national long term planning, intelligent transportation infrastructure technologies, emergent research issues in infrastructure interdependence research, framework for assessing the resilience of infrastructure and economic systems, maintenance optimization for heterogeneous infrastructure systems, optimal emergency infrastructure inspection scheduling, and sustainable rehabilitation of deteriorated transportation infrastructure systems.

Synthesis of Modeling and Simulation Methods on Critical Infrastructure Interdependencies Research.- Interdependencies between Energy and Transportation Systems for National Long Term Planning.- A Framework for Assessing the Resilience of Infrastructure and Economic Systems.- Regional Infrastructure Investment Allocation for Sustainability.- A Framework for the Manifestation of Tacit Critical Infrastructure Knowledge.- Intelligent Transportation Infrastructure Technologies for Condition Assessment and Structural Health Monitoring of Highway Bridges.- Maintenance Optimization for Heterogeneous Infrastructure Systems: Evolutionary Algorithms for Bottom-Up Methods.- A Swarm Intelligence Approach for Emergency Infrastructure Inspection Scheduling.- Optimal Highway Infrastructure Maintenance Scheduling Considering Deterministic and Stochastic Aspects of Deterioration.- Sustainable Rehabilitation of Deteriorated Concrete Highways: Condition Assessment Using Shuffled Complex Evolution (SCE) Global Optimization Approach.