63^rd ESReDA Seminar on
Resilience assessment: Methodological challenges and
applications to critical infrastructures

1^st Call for papers

 

RELEVANT INFORMATION

There will be a bus on 25/Oct and 26/Oct leaving at 08.00 from Milano Malpensa Dolce hotel in Somma Lombardo to the JRC. Please don’t forget your ID or passport to enter the JRC. After the Seminar on 26/Oct, the bus will leave JRC at 16.00 to Malpensa airport Terminal 1 (estimated arrival 16.45) and then continues to the hotel.

The day before the Seminar, on October 24, we plan a kick-off meeting of the ESReDA project group “Resilience Assessment of Critical Infrastructure” at the JRC, bdg. 102/305. The meeting will start at 14:30 and end at 16:30. The bus from Milano Malpensa Dolce hotel in SommaLombardo to the JRC will leave at 13:30 and bring you back to the hotel after the meeting. You are all welcome to join and learn more about ESReDA activities.

Please note that if you are staying in different hotel, we expect that you come at the JRC yourself. You need to go to the reception and receive your permit. The Seminar will be in the Conference Center bdg 36 very close (3 mins walk) from the entrance and reception building.

All registered participants are invited to Gala dinner at the Milano Malpensa Dolce hotel inSomma Lombardo on Oct 25 at 19:00. In case your plans change, please notify us immediately as we need to confirm number for the dinner and catering services. We expect your cooperation.

Scope of the seminar

Research in resilience of infrastructure systems has been constantly increasing during the last decade and is expected to grow further. Although the term resilience was used in material science already in 19 th century, the current meaning of system resilience originates from research in ecology back in 70s. Self-repairable computer systems, being developed also in the same decade for space and defence applications, could be considered as examples of resilience applications in engineering. Resilience applications in technical systems domain have evolved most significantly during the last two decades and the term resilience has already been transferred to the policy domain, as the Directive on the Resilience of Critical Entities (CER Directive) went into force in January 2023 and replaced the Critical Infrastructure Directive, published in 2008.

Two fundamental points in resilience domain to be addressed by the Seminar are:

• The methodological development of resilience assessment from a conceptual framework to modelling approaches.
• The metrics for resilience assessment and development of quantitative tools for decision making.

The 63^rd ESReDA seminar will be a forum for exploring these points and other related questions. We aim to discuss theories, concepts, and experiences of resilience assessment methodologies and applications. Authors are invited to present their proposals and discuss successes and/or failures and to identify future needs in resilience research. We want to encourage new ideas, scientific papers, conceptual papers, case studies and cross-sectoral research on this topic with examples and applications of infrastructures exposed to both technological and natural threats, hazards. This seminar will bring together researchers, practitioners and decision-makers.

Target groups and domains of application (examples)

Papers for the seminar are welcome from various stakeholders (industry, academia, R&D consultancy organisations) and could address different infrastructure sectors:

• Energy sector (electricity, gas, hydrogen)
• Transport sector (rail, road, air and maritime)
• Other Critical infrastructures, networks and entities
• Urban development
• Public sector and government

This seminar is aimed at addressing resilience due to different hazards and threats, such as:

• Disruptions of infrastructures due to aging or random failures,
• Natural disasters,
• Intentional attacks or man-made hazards,
• Emerging threats (e.g. hybrid).

Interdependencies of infrastructures and cascading effects are also among the topics of the Seminar. It integrates as well technical, human, organizational, social, financial dimensions. Other topics may be included if they fit well within the topic on resilience assessment.

ESReDA project group on Resilience Assessment of Critical Infrastructure

ESReDA is currently considering a new project group (PG) on Resilience Assessment of Critical Infrastructure, pending approval by the General Assembly of ESReDA during the meeting in April 2023. This project group (PG) continues the work done in the previous ESReDA project group “Resilience Engineering and Modelling of Networked Infrastructure” during 2018-2021 years.

The aim of the PG is to develop and propose an integrated approach for quantitative resilience assessment including management decisions (comparison of solutions for investment, maintenance) in a context of uncertain scenarios (global change and emerging threats).

This Seminar will serve as a forum to discuss the work of the project group, exchange ideas and set a work plan for the next years. A dedicated project group meeting is planned on October 24, the day before the Seminar. The Seminar participants are welcome to join the meeting either as PG members or observers.

Seminar organisation

The Seminar is jointly organised by ESReDA and JRC.

Location

European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC)
Via Enrico Fermi 2749, I-21027 Ispra (VA), ITALY

Chairperson of the Seminar

• Kristine VLAGSMA (European Commission, Joint Research Centre)

Technical Programme Committee (TPC)

John ANDREWS, University of Nottingham	UK
Florent ARRIGNON, MAD-Environment	France
Anne BARROS, CentraleSupélec	France
Julien BAROTH, University of Grenoble	France
Christophe BÉRENGUER, University of Grenoble	France
Marko ČEPIN, University of Ljublijana	Slovenia
Nicolas DECHY, IRSN	France
Sebastien DELMOTTE, MAD-Environment	France
Mohamed EID, RiskLyse	France
Gianluca FULLI, JRC Directorate C – Energy, Mobility and Climate	Italy
Antonio J. GUILLÉN, Ingeman	Spain
Saulius GUDŽIUS, Kaunas University of Technology	Lithuania
Rainer JUNGWIRTH, JRC Directorate E – Space, Security and Migration	Italy
*Vytis KOPUSTINSKAS, JRC Directorate C – Energy, Mobility and Climate	Italy
Elisabeth KRAUSMANN, JRC Directorate E – Space, Security and Migration	Italy
Pierre-Etienne LABEAU, Université libre de Bruxelles	Belgium
Andre LANNOY, IMdR	France
Marcelo MASERA, Politecnico di Torino,	Italy
Tomasz NOWAKOWSKI, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology	Poland
Rasa REMENYTĖ-PRESCOTT, University of Nottingham	UK
Sigitas RIMKEVIČIUS, Lithuanian Energy Institute	Lithuania
Antonio Jesus SANCHEZ HERGUEDAS, University of Sevilla	Spain
Giovanni SANSAVINI, ETH Zürich	Switzerland
John STOOP, Kindunos	Netherlands
Jean-Marc TACNET, University of Grenoble	France
Agnieszka TUBIS, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology	Poland
Bogdan VAMANU, ‘Horia Hulubei’ National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering	Romania
Laila ZEMITE, Riga Technical University	Latvia

*Technical Programme Committee chairperson

Local Organization Committee

• Virginie PETITJEAN (JRC Directorate C – Energy, Mobility and Climate, Netherlands)
• Isabel ASENSIO (JRC Directorate C – Energy, Mobility and Climate, Italy)
• Hrvoje FORETIC (JRC Directorate C – Energy, Mobility and Climate, Netherlands)
• Vytis KOPUSTINSKAS (JRC Directorate C – Energy, Mobility and Climate, Italy)

Relevant dates, abstracts and papers submission, preliminary schedule:

Submission of abstracts:	26th of June, 2023.
Notification to the authors:	10th of July, 2023.
Submission of final papers or extended abstracts:	30th of September, 2023.
Deadline for registration:	4th of October 2023.
ESReDA Internal meetings:	24th of October 2023.
ESReDA Project group’s meetings:	24th of October 2023.
ESReDA Board of Directors meetings:	24th of October 2023.
ESReDA Seminar:	25th – 26th of October 2023.

Procedure to submit an abstract, paper and to register

The abstracts, not exceeding 400 words, should address:

• Tentative title
• Principal author
• Objectives
• Relevance for the Seminar and Novelty
• Methods and findings.

The language of the seminar is English.

Authors wishing to present a paper at the Seminar are invited to submit an abstract/paper online at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esreda63seminar

Extended abstracts are an alternative to full papers. An extended abstract should be at least one page in length, and it should include a list of most relevant references (5 or 6). Both extended abstracts and full papers will be published in the Seminar proceedings.

If there are any questions related to abstract/paper submission, authors could use functional e-mail of the Seminar: [email protected]

 

Registration and Seminar fee

The registration is only through the JRC meetings management system at the following link:

https://web.jrc.ec.europa.eu/remjrc/screen/meeting/13108/registration-form

Registrations will be accepted until 4 th of October, 2023. Please note this deadline as entrance to the JRC meeting facility is only by permit. You will need your ID and travel schedule in order to register.

If you fall into the following two categories, the Seminar is free of charge:

Speakers:	One speaker per accepted paper
ESReDA members:	(maximum of 3 participants per member organization)

Otherwise, the Seminar fee is 300 EUR to be paid by bank transfer to ESReDA:

For any questions, please contact the organising committee at [email protected]

Accommodation and travel

Ispra is located 35km north of Milano Malpensa (MXP) airport and the transfer to the JRC takes ~30 minutes. Due to unexpected and unilateral contract changes, JRC experiences temporal difficulties to provide transportation from the airport to the site/hotel upon your arrival and departure. To easy the situation, we ask you to consider only flights to Milano Malpensa (MXP) and if possible during the day time (avoiding late evening and early morning flights). If that is unavoidable you might need to rent a car of use airport taxi service (consider that cost of a taxi ride MXP-JRC is ~100eur).

Please do not book any hotel at the moment, unless you will be able to be self-autonomous (e.g.rent a car). We are currently working to make the Seminar attendance as smooth as possible, we will keep you informed as soon as an agreement with a hotel is reached to host majority of the participants.