Multicriteria decision support for business continuity planning in the event of critical infrastructure disruptions

@article{Merz2009MulticriteriaDS,
  title={Multicriteria decision support for business continuity planning in the event of critical infrastructure disruptions},
  author={Mirjam Merz and Michael Hiete and Valentin Bertsch},
  journal={Int. J. Crit. Infrastructures},
  year={2009},
  volume={5},
  pages={156-174}
}
Industrial production sites and Critical Infrastructures (CIs) may be severely damaged by external events, such as man-made or natural hazards. Particularly, a disruption in the electricity supply may cause physical damages and production downtimes associated with substantial economic losses. Due to the tight interdependencies within the different CI sectors and the complex network structure of modern supply chains, these losses are (in most cases) not restricted to single companies and the… 
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