Cascading Infrastructure Failures: Avoidance and Response

Download the Call for Papers PDF here.

Interested authors should submit abstracts of 300 words or less for presentations in the following subject areas:

Panel 1 -- Facility/System Real-World Cascading Failure Case Studies (Moderator: Harvey Ryland, Institute for Business & Home Safety)
- Natural Disasters
- Normal Accidents
- Malicious Events
- Regional Exercises
- Insurance Industry Experience

Panel 2 -- Multiple-Hazards and Vulnerable Intersections (Moderator: Hank Hatch,Chairman, NRC Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (BICE))
- Natural Hazards
- Malicious Insults
- Combined Physical/Cyber Contingencies
- Multiple Infrastructure Nodes
- Single Point Failures

Panel 3 -- Infrastructure Interdependency Assessment and Modeling (Moderator: Massoud Amin, UMinn,)
- Risk Assessment Models
- System Simulation
- System Coupling
- Complexity Theory
- Measuring Catastrophe

Panel 4 -- Cascading Failure Solutions (Moderator: Richard Little, USC)
- Avoidance
- Response
- System Design Approaches
- Public Policy Measures

The Symposium program will consist of invited and submitted presentations in panel and poster sessions. Authors whose abstracts are selected will submit a formal paper for the symposium proceedings.

The Logistics
Abstracts due ONLINE - December 8, 2006
Selection of finalists - January 12
Finalists' full papers due - March 30
EVENT: Wed., May 16, 2007 at the National Academies, Washington, DC

Questions?? Please contact Cheryl Elliott.