Workshop: Robust and Reliable Infrastructure Networks: Identifying Research Priorities; Iowa State University, Fall 2006

该奖项资助将于2006年秋季在爱荷华州州立大学举行的一个研讨会。 关键基础设施系统或多或少都是相互依存的-在各种重要“服务”方面相互依赖。相互依存的基础设施系统网络是高度复杂的元系统，提供了对人类福祉和现代社会运作至关重要的广泛服务。基础设施系统之间的意外或意外相互作用可能对自然环境、人类健康和经济活动产生深远的长期影响。基础设施系统、经济活动和生物圈的“承载能力”之间的相互依存关系使基础设施在可持续发展中发挥了核心作用，但这一作用往往未得到充分认识。拟议项目的中心任务是组织和主办为期两天的跨学科讲习班。研讨会将汇集一系列基础设施系统的专家，如交通，电力，水，信息，农业和自然资源，支持生态经济学，可靠性和系统理论等领域。全面的研讨会记录将以电子方式出版并广泛分发。 利用现有文献和跨学科规划研讨会的成果，该项目将制定一个跨学科研究议程，支持相互依存的基础设施系统的广泛视野，并解决其中的挑战性问题。

This award funds a workshop to be held at Iowa State University in the Fall of 2006. Systems of critical infrastructure are to a greater or lesser extent, interdependent - relying upon each other for various vital "services". Taken together, the networks of interdependent infrastructure systems are highly complex meta-systems that provide a wide range of services critical to human welfare and the functioning of modern society. Unexpected or unintended interactions between infrastructure systems can have profound long-term impacts on the natural environment, human health, and economic activity. The interdependence among infrastructure systems, economic activity and the "carrying capacity" of the biosphere places infrastructure in a central, but often under appreciated, role in sustainable development.This workshop is aimed at identifying research priorities related to the design of robust, reliable and sustainable networks of infrastructure, including social and environmental infrastructure. The central task of the proposed project is organizing and hosting a two-day interdisciplinary workshop. The workshop will bring together experts on a range of infrastructure systems, such as transportation, power, water, information, agriculture, and natural resources, supporting fields such as ecological economics, reliability and systems theory. Comprehensive workshop proceedings will be published electronically and widely distributed. Drawing on the existing literature and the output of the interdisciplinary planning workshop, this project will develop an interdisciplinary research agenda that supports a broad vision of interdependent infrastructure systems and addresses the challenging problems therein.