Title | A simple metric for interdependencies in the technological networks |
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Publication Type | Presentazione a Congresso |
Year of Publication | 2008 |
Authors | Fioriti, Vincenzo, and Fioriti A. |
Conference Name | 7th European Conference on Information Warfare and Security 2008, ECIW 2008 |
Conference Location | Plymouth |
Keywords | Classical theory, Computational costs, Data-driven methods, Gas networks, Infrastructures, interdependencies, Metrics, Networks (circuits), Physical significance, Power grids, Real time control, Real-time implementations, State vector, Technological networks, Topological features, Water distributions, Water supply systems |
Abstract | Interdependencies among elements of the technological networks are the most important source of concern for their reliability. Here we give a simple metric to quantify interdependencies in the framework of the classical Theory of Systems. We propose a data-driven method to quantify interdependencies among all technological networks (power grids, gas networks, water distribution, transportation, telecommunications etc), given a set of measurable physical, logical, topological features using the properties of reacheability and observability, that are still valid for (causal) nonlinear systems. We consider dependency as a consequence of reacheability and use the state vector to produce weighted indicators. Advantages of our method are simplicity, physical significance, independence from the measurable quantities, a reasonable computational cost, real-time implementation, and the possibility to reduce superior order dependencies. |
URL | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84873164556&partnerID=40&md5=1294877b04f4ab43d99e5b8c0a5481aa |
Citation Key | Fioriti200881 |