THE CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM
Dennis R. Powell, Ignacio J. Martinez-Moyino · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 2007
The Critical Inf rastructure Protection Decision Support System (CIPDSS) is a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) risk assessment tool and analysis process that (I) simultaneously represents all seventeen critical infrastructures and key resources in a single integrated framework, and (2) includes a decision aiding procedure that combines multiple, nationally important obj ectives into a single measure of merit so that alternatives can be easily compared over a range of threat or incident likelihoods.As a system dynamics suite of simulations it has confirm ed the ability of system dynamics to support a wide range of analyses of interest to p olicy makers through aggregate level simulation of multiple infrastructure systems.CIPDSS goes beyond the sole calculation of first-order consequences in one or just a f ew infrastructures and models the primary interdependencies that link the seventeen critical infrastructures and key resources together and calculates the impacts that cascade into these interdependent infrastructures and into the national economy.