MECI-2022: Management and Engineering of Critical Infrastructures

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Management and Engineering of Critical Infrastructures

Elsevier Academic Press

Call for book chapters

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Editors

• Bedir Tekinerdogan, Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands
• Mehmet Aksit, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey
• Cagatay Catal, Qatar University, Qatar
• Will Hurst, Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands
• Tarek Alskaif, Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands

Background and Purpose

A Critical Infrastructure System (CIS) is a set of systems, networks, and assets that are essential for a society's functioning and for ensuring the security, safety, and economy of a nation. Various examples can be provided, including agriculture, water supply, public health, transportation, security services, power system, telecommunication, and financial services. These complex Critical CIS usually integrate a substantial and variant number of systems and system elements.

A disruption of CIS can have serious cascading consequences at a national level that would stop society from functioning properly and result in loss of life. For example, malicious software (a.k.a., malware) or natural disasters, can disrupt the distribution of electricity across a region, which in turn can lead to the forced shutdown of communication, health, and finance sectors. Proper engineering and management are important to anticipate possible risks and threats and provide resilient CIS. Although the problem of CIS has been broadly acknowledged and discussed, to date, neither unifying theory nor systematic design methods, techniques, and tools exist for such CIS. One reason for this is that a CIS has inherently an inter-disciplinary nature that requires distinct modelling techniques related to different disciplines to be employed while simultaneously enabling communication between all specialties. Yet, common background knowledge is needed. With the increased digitalization, traditional CISs are now changing to software-intensive CIS, which adds to the existing logistical and security challenges. It can be observed that the current management and engineering approaches do not always scale with the complex, dynamic, and open characteristics of CIS.

This book will focus on two important aspects of CIS including management, and engineering. On the one hand, the book will provide an ontological foundation for the models and methods for designing and managing CIS. On the other hand, the book will consider applications of the state-of-the-practice of CIS management and engineering approaches. Hence, the aim is to showcase the current best practices and advance state-of-the-art knowledge in this domain.

Topics

Topics include but are not limited to: 

• Management of Critical Infrastructures

• Governance structures for CIS

• Workflow models for CIS

• Management information system for CIS

• Strategic planning for resilient CIS

• Design of Critical Infrastructures

• Architecture/Design Modeling for Critical Infrastructures

• Dynamic Modeling for Critical Infrastructures

• Analysis/Evaluation approach for Critical Infrastructures

• Application domains of Critical Infrastructures

Submission Guidelines

Chapters need to be submitted using Word format. Each chapter proposal should be between 7,500 - 10,000 words. There are no strict formatting requirements, but all manuscripts must contain the essential elements needed to convey your manuscript, for example, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Conclusions, Artwork and Tables with Captions. 

Chapters will be reviewed by 2 to 3 reviewers.

Please submit your chapter to: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=meci2022

Important Dates:

• Submission of abstracts (approx. 300 words): 1 December 2021 (If ready, please send earlier)
• Full Chapters due: 1 February 2022
• Notification: 1 April 2022
• Camera Ready Copy due: 1 July 2022
• Expected publication: Fall 2022