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.