Intelligent Infrastructures Volume 2 || Model Factory for Socio-Technical Infrastructure Systems

✍ Scribed by Negenborn, Rudy R.; Lukszo, Zofia; Hellendoorn, Hans

• Book ID: 115509067
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: Dutch
• Weight: 581 KB
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 9048135982
• DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3598-1_2

✦ Synopsis

Society Heavily Depends On Infrastructure Systems, Such As Road-traffic Networks, Water Networks, Electricity Networks, Etc. Infrastructure Systems Are Hereby Considered To Be Large-scale, Networked Systems, That Almost Everybody Uses On A Daily Basis, And That Are So Vital That Their Incapacity Or Destruction Would Have A Debilitating Impact On The Defense Or Economic Security And Functioning Of Society. The Operation And Control Of Existing Infrastructures Such As Road-traffic Networks, Water Networks, Electricity Networks, Etc. Are Failing: Too Often We Are Confronted With Capacity Problems, Unsafety, Unreliability And Inefficiency. This Book Concentrates On A Wide Range Of Problems Concerning The Way Infrastructures Are Functioning Today And Discuss Novel Advanced, Intelligent, Methods And Tools For The Operation And Control Of Existing And Future Infrastructures.