Critical infrastructure and its safety management
W Zhang · Guanli kexue xuebao · 2009
Critical infrastructure(CI) safety system is a complex and highly inter-dependent and networked social-technical system which,if disrupted or destroyed,would have a serious impact on the health,safety,security,or economic well-being of people and / or the effective functioning of governments.This paper is devoted to the study of the architecture of the CI safety system and problems in its management.We present the architecture of the networked CI system along with its disaster management system,in which the system is described with the notion of view,and the generic process of the disaster management.Also,it discusses how to apply the systems engineering approach to analyze and simulate the networked CI system,and how to find the underlying weak parts and efficient ways to improve them.Finally,we show the usefulness of the architecture by outlining a general procedure for disaster management which is systematic and rational.