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05706327 Dellwing, Hermann Schmitz, Walter Expert system CRIPS: Support of situation assessment and decision making. Lopez, Javier (ed.) et al., Critical information infrastructures security. Second international workshop, CRITIS 2007, M\'alaga, Spain, October 3--5, 2007. Revised papers. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-540-89095-9/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5141, 124-134 (2008). 2008 Berlin: Springer EN situation assessment strategic decision making emergency management expert system

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-89173-4_11

Summary: The increased interconnection of critical infrastructures increases the complexity of dependency structures and -- as consequence -- the danger of cascade effects, perhaps causing area-wide blackouts in power-supply and communication networks. The network-operation is already supported by simulations providing information about the behavior of the network in real and planned situations. But blackouts nevertheless cannot always be avoided. To mitigate the danger of blackouts it is a precondition, that additional information about the current situation are available in time to support its assessment as well as the decision-making. For this purpose IABG develops an expert system CRIPS to support the assessment of current situations and the ``strategic decision making'' in emergency situations. The assumption is, that in addition to the results of simulations the results of emergency exercises, experience with real blackouts and the knowledge of experts should be immediately available in case of emergency situations to avoid developments towards blackouts.