GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE NETWORK OPTIMIZATION MODEL

Software for modeling the dynamic, collective behavior of highly interconnected, interdependent societal infrastructures, to provide for detailed understanding and assessment of the effects of varying resources, performance or cost of any one infrastructure on the cost, performance or effectiveness of other infrastructure, or of a full network of highly interdependent infrastructures; software for modeling techniques and processes that can effectively utilize broad, multi-infrastructure network knowledge to assess the cost, productivity or overall efficiency of any component infrastructure, or to optimize cost, productivity or efficiency of any component infrastructure, set of component infrastructures, or the network as a whole; software for modeling the effect, including potentially catastrophic effect, of infrastructure disruption of one or more infrastructures on multiple, interdependent industries, utilities and infrastructure elements; software for determining best remedial actions to be taken by particular industries, utilities and infrastructure elements in light of the overall effect of such actions on other industries, utilities and infrastructure elements