A Generic Approach to Critical Infrastructure Modeling and Simulation

Abstract

Nowadays health, safety or economic wealth more than ever depend on the correct functionality of services (e.g. water supply, power supply) provided by critical infrastructures. To provide the demanded service level and to mitigate the effects of malfunctions and breakdowns of components it is vital to have flexible modeling and simulation capabilities. In this paper we therefore present a generic approach that aims to model and simulate critical infrastructure entities. We also briefly outline how the approach can be realized by introducing our proof-of-concept prototype architecture.