Regional industries as critical infrastructures: A tale of two modern cities

International Journal of Critical Infrastructures

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 74-90

  Calida, Behnido Y ^a   Katina, Polinpapilinho F ^a  

^a Old Dominion University   (United States)

Author keywords

CI; Complexity; Crisis management; Critical infrastructures; Punctuated equilibrium; Self organised criticality; SoC; SoS; System of systems

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; DISASTERS; ECONOMICS; INVESTMENTS; PUBLIC WORKS; SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS; SYSTEM-ON-CHIP;

COMPLEXITY; CRISIS MANAGEMENT; EVOLUTIONARY CHANGES; MONITORING APPROACH; NATURAL DISASTERS; PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM; SELF-ORGANISED CRITICALITIES; STATE OF THE ART;

CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES;

EID: 84860261177     PISSN: 14753219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJCIS.2012.046555     Document Type: Article

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