Vulnerable Systems

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kröger works in the Mechanical and Process Engineering Department at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Enrico Zio (BS in Nuclear Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 1991; MSc in Mechanical Engineering, UCLA, 1995; PhD in Nuclear Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, 1995; PhD in Nuclear Engineering, MIT, 1998) is Director of the Chair in Complex Systems and the Energetic Challenge of Ecole Centrale Paris and Supelec, full professor of Reliability, Safety and Risk Analysis at Politecnico di Milano, Rector’s delegate for the Alumni Association of the Politecnico di Milano, adjunct professor in Risk Analysis at the University of Stavanger, Norway and at Universidad Santa Maria, Chile, and invited lecturer and committee member at various Masters and PhD programs in Italy and elsewhere. He is the past Director of the Graduate School of the Politecnico di Milano He is the current Chairman of the European Safety and Reliability Association (ESRA), which he has previously served as Vice-Chairman (2000-2005). He has also served as Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Risk, Decision and Policy (2003-2004) and is a member of the Korean Nuclear Society and China Prognostics and Health Management Society. He is a member of the editorial boards of the international scientific journals Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Journal of Risk and Reliability, Journal of Performability Engineering, Journal of Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations, plus a number of others in the reliability, safety and nuclear energy fields.

1. Introduction and Definition of Key Terms.- 2. Properties of Critical Infrastructures.- 3. Challenges to Methods for the Vulnerability Analysis of Critical Infrastructures.- 4. Basic Approaches.- 5. Conceptual Frameworks for Vulnerability Assessment.- 6. Methods of Analysis.- 7. Concluding Considerations.