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Modeling and analyzing critical infrastructures and their interdependencies are essential to discovering hidden vulnerabilities and threats. Several current approaches engage a holistic perspective and rely on abstract models; others incorporate a reductionistic perspective and focus on inter-domain and intra-domain interactions among elementary components. This paper proposes a mixed approach in which holism and reductionism coexist. A critical infrastructure is expressed at different, albeit interrelated, levels of abstraction, and intermediate entities that provide specific aggregate resources or services are introduced.
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De Porcellinis, S., Oliva, G., Panzieri, S., Setola, R. (2009). A Holistic-Reductionistic Approach for Modeling Interdependencies. In: Palmer, C., Shenoi, S. (eds) Critical Infrastructure Protection III. ICCIP 2009. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 311. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04798-5_15
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