 International Journal of Critical Infrastructures (IJCIS)
(incorporating the International Journal of Infrastructures)
ISSN (Online): 1741-8038 - ISSN (Print): 1475-3219
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IJCIS is an inter-disciplinary and refereed journal that provides a professional and scholarly forum for cross-learning between different scientific and technological disciplines, and between business and economic, as well as between societal and managerial, disciplines in the area of critical infrastructures. Critical infrastructures are networks for the provision of telecommunication and information services, energy services (electrical power, natural gas, oil and heat), water supply, transportation of people and goods, banking and financial services, government services and emergency services.
By addressing commonalities and interrelationships between the various sectors, IJCIS enables scientists, policy makers and professionals in the field to learn from experiences in other countries and in other infrastructure sectors and to use these experiences for understanding and steering critical infrastructure development.
 Objectives
IJCIS aims to provide an authoritative source of information and an unique international forum in the field of Risk and Vulnerability Assessment and Management of Vital Societal Systems exposed to antropogenic and natural threats. It intends to establish channels of communication and to disseminate the best practice, knowledge and state of the art science, and stakeholders involvement between policy makers, practitioners, researchers and academia working in the field.
Readership
Professionals, academics, researchers and policy makers. Contents
IJCIS publishes: original papers, review papers; case studies; conference reports; briefs and reports and news; book review and notes. To encourage young students, at undergraduate and graduate levels, the Student Section will be open for the first time as a platform for the future specialists to promote new and fresh ideas and projects into the internationally reviewed literature. Commentaries on papers and reports published in the Journal are encouraged. Special Issues devoted to important topics in risk assessment and vulnerability management of vital systems/ critical infrastructures and related topics, will be published occasionally.
Subject Coverage
Coverage includes theory, models, and methodologies as well as case studies and software development, with emphasis on:
- Principles and theory of critical infrastructures design, protection, and management
- Life cycle approach to critical infrastructures and vital systems design and management
- Emerging systemic risks: policy, standards and regulations
- Institutional design, market structuring and network regulation for safeguarding future quality-of-service, legal and regulatory aspects of governing critical infrastructures
- Risk and vulnerability based decision making and governance
- Governance models and policy instruments for steering infrastructure management and innovation in liberalised market settings: arrangements for safeguarding public values and for consumer protection, market structuring
- Decision support systems for risk, vulnerability and governance on local, regional and global scales related to
critical/vital infrastructures: multi-actor and multi-objective decision making
- System dynamic behaviour of critical infrastructures: complex systems theory, physical networks, multi-actor networks, agent-based modelling, simulation, gaming
- Vulnerability economics of vital systems, economics of infrastructures
- Risk and vulnerability criteria development for assessing robustness of vital systems
- Integration of risk and vulnerability models, quantification, and the integration of their use for stakeholder interactions and trust building
- Advanced control engineering concepts and information technologies in capacity management, risk assessment and vulnerability management of complex networks
- Handling of cross-border interconnections, international harmonisation of policies and standards
- Geopolitical risk assessment for protection of critical infrastructures
- Models and techniques for threat identification, assessment and monitoring for protecting vital systems
Specific Notes for Authors
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently
under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may
only be submitted if the paper was not originally copyrighted and if it has
been completely re-written).
All papers are refereed through a double blind process. A guide for authors,
sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are
available on the Submission of
Papers web-page.
To submit a paper, please go to Submissions of Papers
AUTHORS MUST SUBMIT THEIR PAPERS THROUGH THE ON LINE SUBMISSION SYSTEM, OTHERWISE THEIR PAPERS WOULD NOT BE CONSIDERED FOR PUBLICATION All papers must be submitted online. If you experience any problems submitting your paper online, please contact submissions@inderscience.com,
describing the exact problem you experience. Please include in your email the title of the Journal.
Editors and Members of the Editorial Board
Editor Prof. Dr. Adrian V. Gheorghe
Batten Endowed Chair Systems Engineering
Old Dominion University
Batten College Engineering and Technology
Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering
241 Kaufman Hall
Norfolk, VA 23529
USA
agheorgh@odu.edu Editor At Large Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kröger
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
CH 8092 Zurich
SWITZERLAND European Editor Prof. Dr. Margot P.C. Weijnen
Chair, Process and Energy Systems Engineering
Delft University of Technology
Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management
Jaffalaan 5
2628 BX Delft
NETHERLANDS North American Editor Prof. Lamine Mili
Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Alexandria Research Institute
206 N. Washington Street, Suite 400
Alexandria VA 22314
USA Editorial Board Members Prof. Gülay BarbarosogluGü
Chair, Industrial Engineering Department
Boğaziçi Üniversitesi
80815 Bebek/Istanbul
TURKEY Prof. Erhan ErkutEr
School of Business
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2R6
CANADA Dr. Barry Charles EzellBa
Old Dominion University
Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center (VMASC)
1030 University Blvd
Suffolk, VA 23435
USA Prof. Florin FilipFl
Academician and Vice-President
Romanian Academy of Sciences (Academia Romana)
Calea Victoriei 125
Bucharest
ROMANIA Dr. Paulien M. HerderPa
Associate Professor
Delft University of Technology
Department of Infrastructure Systems and Services
Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management
Jaffalaan 5
2628 BX Delft
NETHERLANDS Prof. Hideyuki HoriiHi
Department of Civil Engineering
University of Tokyo
7-3-1 Hongo
Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo 113-8654
JAPAN Dr. Richard LittleRi
Director
National Academy of Sciences
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment
500 Fifth Street, NW, W916
Washington, D.C. 20001
USA Dr. Ioannis A. PapazoglouIo
Director of Research and Head of System Reliability and Industrial Safety Lab.
National Centre for Scientific Research ‘DEMOKRITOS’
153 10 Aghia Paraskevi
GREECE Prof. Arun G. PhadkeAr
Director, Bradley Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
International Institute for National Critical Infrastructures and Professor Emeritus
Blacksburg VA 24061-0111
USA Prof. Alexandre QuintanilhaAl
Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular
University of Porto
Rua do Campo Alegre, 823
P 4150-180 Porto
PORTUGAL Dr. Stephen RattienSt
Director
RAND Science and Technology
RAND Corporation
1200 South Hayes Street
Arlington VA 22202
USA Dr. Dan VamanuDa
'Horia Hulubei' National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering
RO 077125 Magurele Ilfov
ROMANIA Dr. Samuel G. VarnadoSa
Director
Information and Infrastructure Systems Center
Sandia National Laboratories
Albuquerque NM 87185-1140
USA Prof. Rae ZimmermanRa
Professor of Planning and Public Administration and Director
New York University
Institute for Civil Infrastructure Systems (ICIS)
4 Washington Square North
New York NY 10003
USA
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