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

基本信息

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

项目摘要

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.

尽管存在老化、自然灾害和人类威胁，基础设施仍能维持性能，这对社会功能至关重要。因此，基础设施的弹性再次受到重视，特别是开发应对不可预见或未预料到的问题或情况的手段。这项研究调查了商业通航内陆水道系统在发生破坏性事件后临时重新配置的方式。具体来说，系统如何平衡恢复目标的优先级与适当解决方案的开发和实施？这种平衡是系统针对资产所有者、运营商和利益相关者之间的关系进行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，这项研究提供的见解将增强所涉及的响应过程，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。他收集三种类型的数据：对私人和公共利益相关者的半结构化访谈、已发布的程序或法律等文件以及公司/机构通信和媒体等公开数据。所有定性数据都经过编码和分析，目的是开发协作过程的可视化模型以及随附的描述。编码过程从丰富的描述中提取通用知识，而这些描述可能无法在更正式的系统文档中捕获。半结构化访谈旨在从具有颠覆响应经验并参与组织间合作的利益相关者那里提取隐性知识。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的评估进行评估，被认为值得支持。影响审查标准。