CRISP Project

CRISP Type 2: Integrative Decision Making Framework to Enhance the Resiliency of Interdependent Critical Infrastructures

The reliable functioning of infrastructures is critical to national security and fundamental to social, economic, and environmental well-being. Cascading failures due to the interdependencies among different critical infrastructures (CIs) demonstrate the need to understand the interdependency and resiliency of the CIs. This CRISP research aims to understand the effects of physical-based (primarily co-location), virtual-based (primarily information), and socioeconomic-based (primarily resource management) interdependencies on the resiliency of critical infrastructures, focusing on water, transportation and cyber infrastructures, and to develop an integrative decision making framework to evaluate and enhance the resiliency of interdependent critical infrastructures under different scenarios.