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In November 2005, Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada hosted the first annual symposium of the Joint Infrastructure Interdependencies Research Program (JIIRP). The objective of the Symposium was to present high-level summaries of the purpose, scope, timetable and status of the six research projects that make up JIIRP.

A detailed summary of the symposium and the researchers’ presentations are available below:

Note: These documents are only available in PDF

• Symposium report (106 kb)

Presentations

• Decision Making For Critical Linkages in Infrastructure Network (331 kb)
  Dr. Jose Marti, University of British Columbia
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• Modelling Interdependencies for Emergency Management (34.6 mb)
  Dr. Vincent Tao, York University
• Interdependencies and Domino Effects in Life-Supporting Network (817 kb)
  Dr. Benoit Robert, École Polytechnique de Montréal
• Developing a Model of Infrastructure Interdependencies (708 kb)
  Dr. Tamer El-Diraby, University of Toronto
• Models that Simulate Critical Infrastructure Networks (1.01 mb)
  Dr. Wenjum Zhang, University of Saskatchewan
• Improving the Resilience of Water System Infrastructures (mb)
  Dr. Edward McBean, University of Guelph