Utilizing semantic big data for realizing a national-scale infrastructure vulnerability analysis system

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Abstract

Critical Infrastructure systems (CIs) such as energy, water, transportation, and communication are highly interconnected and mutually dependent in complex ways. Robust modeling of CIs' interconnections is crucial to identify vulnerabilities in the CIs. We present a vision of national-scale Infrastructure Vulnerability Analysis System (IVAS) leveraging Semantic Big Data (SBD) tools, Big Data, and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) tools. We first survey existing approaches on vulnerability analysis of critical infrastructures and discuss relevant systems and tools aligned with our vision. Next, we present a generic system architecture and discuss challenges including: (1) Constructing and managing a CI network-of-networks graph, (2) Performing analytic operations at scale, and (3) Interactive visualization of analytic output to generate meaningful insights. We argue that this architecture acts as a baseline to realize a national-scale network based vulnerability analysis system.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the International Workshop on Semantic Big Data, SBD 2016, in conjunction with the 2016 ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference
EditorsLe Gruenwald, Sven Groppe
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Print)9781450342995
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 26 2016
Event2016 International Workshop on Semantic Big Data, SBD 2016, in conjunction with the 2016 ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference - San Francisco, United States
Duration: Jul 1 2016 → …

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data
ISSN (Print)0730-8078

Conference

Conference2016 International Workshop on Semantic Big Data, SBD 2016, in conjunction with the 2016 ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco
Period07/1/16 → …

Keywords

  • Big data
  • Critical infrastructure network
  • Graph analysis
  • Interdependency
  • Large-scale
  • Vulnerability analysis

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