Title
Critical Infrastructures as Complex Systems: A Multi-level Protection Architecture
Abstract
This paper describes a security platform as a complex system of holonic communities, that are hierarchically organized, but self-reconfigurable when some of them are detached or cannot otherwise operate. Furthermore, every possible subset of holons may work autonomously, while maintaining self-conscience of its own mission, action lines and goals. Each holonic unit, either elementary or composite, retains some capabilities for sensing (perception), transmissive apparatus (communication), computational processes (elaboration), authentication/authorization (information security), support for data exchange (visualization & interaction), actuators (mission), ambient representation (geometric reasoning), knowledge representation (logic reasoning), situation representation and forecasting (simulation), intelligent feedback (command & control). The higher the organizational level of the holonic unit, the more complex and sophisticated each of its characteristic features.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/978-3-642-03552-4_36
Critical Information Infrastructure Security
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Conference
5508
0302-9743
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.48
9
Authors
8