Multiset-based assessment of vulnerability of energy infrastructures to destructive impacts

Abstract

This paper is dedicated to the application of the multigrammatical framework to the assessment of vulnerability of energy infrastructures affected by impacts destroying (reducing capabilities of) their facilities (power plants, fuel producing plants, power transmission lines, fuel transporting pipes, as well as networking devices of both electricity and fuel subsystems of an energy infrastructures). A basic graph representation of energy infrastructures is considered, and technique of their multigrammatical representation is introduced. Criterial base for recognition of the energy infrastructures vulnerability, being a generalization of the similar criterial base developed regarding industrial infrastructures is proposed. Techniques of multigrammatical modelling reservation of energy infrastructures and their recovery after impacts is proposed. Directions of future research in this area are announced.