International Journal of Critical Infrastructures (IJCIS)

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, methodologies as well as case studies, 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;
• Risk and vulnerability based decision making and governance;
• Decision making and decision support systems for risk, vulnerability and governance on local, regional and global scales related to critical / vital infrastructures;
• Complexity measurement of critical / vital infrastructures;
• Vulnerability economics of vital systems;
• 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 stakeholders interactions and trust building;
• Advanced concepts and information technologies in risk assessment and vulnerability management of complex networks, vital systems and societal trust and governance;
• Protection of critical infrastructures developing on vaste territories (e.g. production and transportation of energy resources from the Caspian area to relevant world markets, electricity transmission and distribution at continental levels, Internet networks at regional and global levels);
• Models and techniques for threat identification, assessment and monitoring for protecting vital systems

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International Journal of Critical Infrastructures (IJCIS) is published in 4 issues per year.

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