An Effective Approach for Cascading Effects Prevision in Critical Infrastructures

A Domain Ontology on Cascading Effects in Critical Infrastructures based on a Systematic Literature Review

“…Deriving from the common points of the first two concepts found, cascading effects and CIs, the concept of critical infrastructure interdependencies, which concerns a 'mutual relationship between two or more infrastructures' (Brabcova et al, 2018), was then identified. With the increasing digitalisation and consequent linking of systems of CIs (Grafenauer et al, 2018), they are becoming more and more interconnected among each other (Franchina et al, 2008;Schauer et al, 2018), making them interdependent (Abdelgawad et al, 2018;Abdelgawad and Gonzalez, 2019;Rahnamay-Naeini and Hayat, 2016). Due to the interdependencies among CIs, the effects and the unfolding of a crisis in certain CIs become hard to predict (Hagen et al, 2015).…”

“…The cascading effect phenomenon starts with an initiating event and is propagated through cascading events (Codetta-Raiteri et al, 2012). To analyse the cascading effects, the main analysis approaches proposed are modelling interdependencies (among CIs) and simulation approaches (Arief et al, 2020;Chen et al, 2017;Delamare et al, 2009;Foglietta et al, 2015;Franchina et al, 2008;Grafenauer et al, 2018;Guo et al, 2017;Heracleous et al, 2017;Kotzanikolaou et al, 2013;Peters et al, 2008;Rass and Schauer, 2019;Rehak et al, 2018;Hasan and Foliente, 2015;Ouyang, 2014).…”