Robust and resilient critical infrastructure systems

Seven papers are included in this minitrack, presented in two sessions. First session concentrates on assessment of vulnerabilities in interconnected networked systems. Topics include a survey of interdependencies in critical infrastructure systems, assessment of performance and optimal investments in such interconnected architectures, assessment of vulnerabilities for robust design, and design of survivable distributed systems. The second session concentrates on failure modes in interdependent critical infrastructures, with focus on dynamic and probabilistic approaches to specific infrastructure systems such as blackout vulnerability of power transmission grid and load-dependent cascading failures power grids. In a more general setting, the session also considers control and state estimation techniques for building trustworthy systems.