Society depends on infrastructure systems such as water and electricity networks. This book probes numerous problems regarding the way infrastructures work today as well as intelligent methods and tools for the operation of current and future infrastructures.

Society heavily depends on infrastructure systems, such as road-traffic networks, water networks, electricity networks, etc. Infrastructure systems are hereby considered to be large-scale, networked systems, that almost everybody uses on a daily basis, and that are so vital that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on the defense or economic security and functioning of society. The operation and control of existing infrastructures such as road-traffic networks, water networks, electricity networks, etc. are failing: too often we are confronted with capacity problems, unsafety, unreliability and inefficiency. This book concentrates on a wide range of problems concerning the way infrastructures are functioning today and discuss novel advanced, intelligent, methods and tools for the operation and control of existing and future infrastructures.

The book shows in a coherent way several kinds of intelligence for infrastructures It is demonstrated how infrastructures can be made more intelligent Novel, state-of-the-art methods and tools for the operation and control of infrastructures are proposed Different points-of-view on how to use intelligence for modeling and control of infrastructure systems are brought together Analogies between different infrastructures are drawn

Inhalt
Generic Infrastructures.- Intelligence in Transportation Infrastructures via Model-Based Predictive Control.- Model Factory for Socio-Technical Infrastructure Systems.- Electricity Infrastructures.- Prevention of Emergency Voltage Collapses in Electric Power Networks using Hybrid Predictive Control.- Module-Based Modeling and Stabilization of Electricity Infrastructure.- Price-based Control of Electrical Power Systems.- Survivability and Reciprocal Altruism: Two Strategies for Intelligent Infrastructure with Applications to Power Grids.- Multi-agent Coordination for Market Environments.- Intelligence in Electricity Networks for Embedding Renewables and Distributed Generation.- Social and Cyber Factors Interacting over the Infrastructures: A MAS Framework for Security Analysis.- Distributed Predictive Control for Energy Hub Coordination in Coupled Electricity and Gas Networks.- Road Traffic Infrastructures.- Model-based Control of Intelligent Traffic Networks.- Intelligent Road Network Control.- An Integrated Dynamic Road Network Design Approach with Stochastic Networks.- Dealing with Uncertainty in Operational Transport Planning.- Railway Dynamic Traffic Management in Complex and Densely Used Networks.- Water Infrastructures.- Flood Regulation by Means of Model Predictive Control.- Predictive Control for National Water Flow Optimization in The Netherlands.- Decentralized Model Predictive Control for a Cascade of River Power Plants.- Enhancing the Reliability and Security of Urban Water Infrastructures through Intelligent Monitoring, Assessment, and Optimization.- Long-term Sustainable Use of Water in Infrastructure Design.