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BOOK TITLE: CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY
SUBTITLE: Assessment, Prevention, Detection, Response.

TO BE PUBLISHED BY: WIT Press (Wessex Institute of Technology, http://www.witpress.com)

EDITOR: Dr. Francesco Flammini

EXPECTED NUMBER OF PAGES: about 320

SHORT DESCRIPTION:
The book surveys state-of-the-art methodologies and tools in the following areas which are relevant to the fields of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security:
− Threat and vulnerability analysis, risk assessment, modeling and simulation
− Protection mechanisms, including smart sensors and intelligent detectors
− Early warning, decision support and emergency management systems
Each area will be addressed considering both theoretical aspects and practical applications.

CALL FOR PAPERS:
Well-written and self-contained papers in any area included in book coverage are welcome. Each paper will constitute a chapter and should be about 20 pages long. Please refer to the table of contents reported below to better focus the aim of your contribution. For each part of the book, at least one review paper is welcome. Papers providing original results of an already mature research area are preferred. On-going research descriptions or introductive interdisciplinary articles can be considered for publication as well, provided that they fit the main topics of the book and they have not been published before nor they are being considered for publication elsewhere. Papers will be peer reviewed by known experts in the specific fields.

TABLE OF CONTENTS (TENTATIVE):

Part I: Risk Analysis for Critical Infrastructures − about 4 chapters
Qualitative and Quantitative Methods for Risk Management (Risk Assessment, Risk Mitigation). Model-based approaches. Usage of graphical formalisms for threat and consequence modeling (Attack Trees, Event Trees, Bayesian Networks, etc.). Statistical approaches. Uncertainty modeling.

Part II: Critical Infrastructure Modeling & Simulation − about 4 chapters
Homeland security issues (background and norms). Analytical and simulation-based techniques for failure and interdependence modeling. Intra and inter infrastructure models. Multi-paradigm approaches. Social and organizational aspects. Case-studies and applications to most important infrastructures.

Part III: Protection Mechanisms for Critical Infrastructures − about 4 chapters
Design and evaluation of innovative detectors for physical protection. Passive and active devices. Smart wireless sensors. Intelligent video and audio analytics. Intrusion Detection and Access Control. Biometric Identification. Logical / Cyber security (information systems, SCADA, computer networks).

Part IV: Early Warning and Decision Support Systems − about 4 chapters
Security management software. Advanced situational awareness tools for event correlation. Hierarchical model-based or agent-based systems for the detection of anomalies. Distributed monitoring. Data integration and fusion. Intelligent sensor networks. Soft computing approaches. Workflow-based emergency planning.