Title: Situation awareness in critical infrastructures

Authors: Vincenza Abate; Ludovica Adacher; Federica Pascucci

Addresses: Dipartimento di Ingegneria, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale, 79, 00146 Roma, Italy ' Dipartimento di Ingegneria, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale, 79, 00146 Roma, Italy ' Dipartimento di Ingegneria, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale, 79, 00146 Roma, Italy

Abstract: Critical infrastructure (CI) protection and situation awareness are relevant topics in critical system domain. These issues go far beyond the academic world involving very often the national security framework. In this contribution, a review of the most attractive approaches proposed for addressing the situation awareness problems is presented. Most of the proposed approaches are based on multi-sensor data fusion, since the awareness is achieved by building a scenario using data provided by sensors spread into the systems. Humans are supposed to interact with the system, but only a few models are able to include their intervention. The review analysis is performed by considering models, architectures, and techniques adopted in each system and by highlighting their effectiveness and drawbacks. Finally an example in the field of air traffic management is presented.

Keywords: situation awareness; critical infrastructure protection; distributed data fusion; critical infrastructures; air traffic management; air traffic control; sensor fusion.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSPM.2014.061451

International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling, 2014 Vol.9 No.1/2, pp.92 - 103

Received: 16 Feb 2013
Accepted: 01 Dec 2013
Published online: 11 Oct 2014 *

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