@article{ref1,
title="Infrastructure interdependencies simulation through matrix partitioning technique",
journal="International journal of critical infrastructures",
year="2011",
author="Rahman, Hafiz Abdur and Armstrong, Mazana and Marti, Jose R. and Srivastava, K.D.",
volume="7",
number="2",
pages="91-91",
abstract="In recent years, there has been considerable interest in modelling and simulating interdependencies among critical infrastructures. For most cases, agent-based frameworks are employed for these types of simulation. In this paper, we present a new approach for interdependencies simulation that we have used in the infrastructures interdependencies simulator (I2Sim). I2Sim implementation is based on the matrix partitioning technique named multi-area Thevenin equivalent (MATE). The MATE model has been used for large-scale real-time power system simulation and is an efficient alternative to the existing agent-based critical infrastructure simulation frameworks. Another distinguishing feature of I2Sim is that, it is based on a cell-channel model where interdependencies among different infrastructures can be represented through a formal technique based on the extension of Leontief input-output model. In this paper, we present the implementation architecture of I2Sim. We also discuss some simulation results to show the usefulness of our approach. KEYWORDS: critical infrastructures; infrastructure simulation; matrix partitioning; MATE model; cell channel model; Kirchhoff current law; KCL; Leontief input-output model; infrastructure interdependencies; modelling.<p />",
language="",
issn="1475-3219",
doi="10.1504/IJCIS.2011.041534",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJCIS.2011.041534"
}