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The MICIE project, being in line with EU initiative to establish a Critical Infrastructure Warning Information Network (CIWIN), will design and implement a so-called "MICIE alerting system" that identifies, in real time, the level of possible threats induced on a given CI by "undesired" events happened in such CI and/or other interdependent CIs. In particular, whenever such events occur, the MICIE alerting system will support the CI operators providing them with a real time risk level (e.g. expressed in a chromatic scale such as white, green, yellow, orange, red).
The alarm conditions will be evaluated by means of an on-line prediction tool making use of properly designed abstract CI models feeded with aggregated metadata describing the CI status.
The CI model will make use of hierarchical modelling in order to evaluate the "level of interdependency" existing among the different CIs, which will be characterized through proper ?thresholds? values. The CI model will also include the identification and the formalization of proper "metadata" suitable for describing the CI status, according to a "CI independent" approach which, as far as possible, leaves out of consideration the CI peculiarities.
The MICIE alerting system will also include a proper discovery, communication and composition infrastructure able to operate in an heterogeneous CI framework, aiming at discovering the "sensible" data in the different CIs, at translating them in CI-independent metadata, at transporting them via a secure and available communication network and at aggregating them by means of properly defined composition rules.
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