@article{ref1,
title="Research agenda for an integrated approach to infrastructure planning, design and management",
journal="International journal of critical infrastructures",
year="2006",
author="Hansman, R. John and Magee, Christopher and Neufville, Richard De and Robins, Renee and Roos, Daniel",
volume="2",
number="2/3",
pages="146-159",
abstract="Building on broad discussions between many universities, this paper presents a research agenda based on a holistic, comprehensive view of the issues. It proposes that our infrastructure is a system of systems involving different technical manifestations and social organisations. The implication is that we need a fundamental reconsideration of how we look at system design, away from traditional disciplinary considerations and toward a multi-domain, multi-disciplinary effort. To this end, it proposes an agenda of: comparative analyses across infrastructures and political structures, that would identify commonalities and larger lessons; creation of integrated socio-technical models that usefully describe the interactions between the technical infrastructure and its social context; methodological efforts, aimed largely at capturing the network characteristics, both technical and social, of the infrastructure system of systems; explicit testing and evaluation of the research through programs of collaboration with practitioners and governmental organisations.<p />",
language="",
issn="1475-3219",
doi="10.1504/IJCIS.2006.009434",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJCIS.2006.009434"
}