Doctoral Dissertation Research in DRMS: Protocol Driven Resilience: Modifiable Systems Architecture as a Resilient Strategy for Critical Infrastructure

DRMS 博士论文研究：协议驱动的弹性：可修改的系统架构作为关键基础设施的弹性策略

• 批准号: 1851886
• 负责人: Royce Francis
• 金额: $ 0.76万
• 依托单位: George Washington University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-04-15 至 2020-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1851886&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; DRMS; Protocol; Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; DRMS; Protocol

The ability of infrastructure to sustain performance despite age, natural disasters, and human threats is critical to societal functioning. As a result, infrastructure resilience has received renewed emphasis, especially on the development of the means to cope with unforeseen or unanticipated problems or circumstances. This research investigates the ways commercially navigable inland waterway systems temporarily reconfigure after a disruptive incident. Specifically, how does the system balance prioritization of recovery objectives and development and implementation of appropriate solutions? This balancing is a function of the system?s ability to self re-organize with respect to the relationships among asset owners, operators, and stakeholders. The effectiveness of this reorganization is largely dependent upon the cultural and physical characteristics present in the system. Therefore, this research provides insights that will enhance the response processes involved, and potentially lead to quicker and more effective recovery efforts. To investigate and elucidate these patterns of self reorganization, the graduate student completes case studies of the ports of Baltimore, New Orleans, and Rotterdam. He collects three types of data: semi-structured interviews of private and public stakeholders, documents such as published procedures or laws, and publicly available data such as corporate/agency communications and media outlets. All qualitative data are coded and analyzed with the intent of developing visual models of collaborate process with accompanying descriptions. The coding process extracts generalizable knowledge from rich descriptions that may not be captured in more formal system documentation. The semi-structured interviews are designed to extract tacit knowledge from stakeholders who have experience with disruption response and who engage in inter-organizational collaboration.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

尽管年龄，自然灾害和人类威胁，基础设施维持绩效的能力对于社会功能至关重要。结果，基础设施的弹性已经重新强调了，尤其是在应对不可预见或意外问题或情况的手段的发展上。这项研究调查了在发生破坏性事件后暂时重新配置的商业通航内陆水道系统的方式。具体而言，系统如何平衡恢复目标的优先级，开发和实施适当的解决方案？这种平衡是该系统在资产所有者，运营商和利益相关者之间的关系中自我重组的能力的函数。这种重组的有效性在很大程度上取决于系统中存在的文化和物理特征。因此，这项研究提供了可以增强涉及的响应过程的见解，并可能导致更快，更有效的恢复工作。 为了调查和阐明这些自我重组模式，研究生完成了巴尔的摩，新奥尔良和鹿特丹港口的案例研究。他收集了三种类型的数据：私人利益相关者和公共利益相关者的半结构化访谈，诸如已发表的程序或法律之类的文件，以及公开可用的数据，例如公司/代理商通讯和媒体。对所有定性数据进行编码和分析，目的是开发与随附的描述的合作过程的视觉模型。编码过程从丰富的描述中提取了可概括的知识，这些知识可能不会在更正式的系统文档中捕获。半结构化访谈旨在从具有中断响应经验并进行组织间协作经验的利益相关者中提取隐性知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准通过评估来进行评估的。