Modelling Resilience: Innovative Approaches to Simulating Complex and Interconnected Infrastructure Systems
Description
As infrastructure systems are increasingly complex and interconnected, assessing their resilience requires the development of increasingly sophisticated methods to efficiently evaluate their performance with respect to potentially disruptive events. This session explores innovative approaches to simulating complex infrastructure systems that can be used to enhance our understanding of how these systems might behave in the future and how we can modify them to improve their resilience. The modelling can include system responses to one or more natural hazards and/or cyber-attacks. Of special interest is the consideration of cascading failures. This session will bring together researchers and practitioners to present cutting-edge methods, including hybrid optimization-simulation frameworks, agent-based models, digital twins, and system-level modelling. The presenters will showcase the use of their models to assess the resilience of real-world infrastructure systems of various types, including energy, water, and transportation. Join us to learn how advanced computational tools can be used to assist decision-makers, engineers, and infrastructure managers in assessing and enhancing the resilience of the complex infrastructure systems on which society depends, with respect to potentially disruptive events.
Abstract Submission Deadline: 15 October 2025
Manuscript Submission Deadline: 31 January 2026