Transcript Infrastructure Management?

Infrastructure Management
Review
H. Scott Matthews
April 30, 2003
Announcements / Agenda
 HW
4 Brief Review today
 HW 5, Final ‘Optional’, due next week
 SABIS Brief Demo
 Competing/replacing infrastructure
 Course Review
Recap of Last Lecture(s)
 VoIP
as potential replacement
technology / infrastructure for telephony
 Issues associated with infrastructure /
technology transition
 What are other general, big picture
issues?
Course Review in < 10 slides
What is Infrastructure?

“A civilization’s rise and fall is linked to its
ability to feed and shelter its people and to
defend itself. These capabilities depend on
infrastructure - the underlying, often hidden
foundation of a society’s wealth and quality of
life. A society that neglects its infrastructure
loses the ability to transport people and food,
provide clean air and water, control diseases,
and conduct commerce.”

NSF, ‘Civil Infrastructure Systems Research’,
1994.
What is Management?
 The
act, manner, or practice of
managing; handling, supervision, or
control: management of a crisis;
management of factory workers.
 The person or persons who control or
direct a business or other enterprise
 Source:
American Heritage Dictionary (00)
Management Involves:
 Decision
Making
 Issues across the (asset) life cycle
 Uncertainty
 Regulation/liability
 Multiple dimensions / stakeholders
 As
mentioned before: spatial/temporal,
deterministic/probabilistic, project/network..
What is Infra. Mgmt.?
 Administrative
process of creating,
planning, and maintaining our
infrastructures
 An integrated, inter-disciplinary process
that ensures infrastructure performance
over its life cycle
 Life cycle is entire time from design
through decommissioning
Life Cycle Cost Influences
Cum.
Cost
Level of Influence
100%
50%
Increasing Expenditure
0%
Planning
Design
Decreasing Influence
Construction
Maintenance
Disposal
Time
Approaches to Performance
 Condition Assessment
 Condition
Indices
 Reliability Theory
 Multi-dimensional Measures
“Failure”
 Failure
as not meeting expectations
 Happens when P(t) < PF

Need to maintain performance level
 Expectations
increase over time
P
PF
TD
Existing Interdependency
Diagrams
Transportation
Oil
Natural
Gas
Electric
Power
Water
Telecom
What do Mgmt Systems Do?

Organize and summarize large quantities of
information
 Automate repetitive, lengthy, complicated
calculations
 Scenario analysis in technical/economic
terms
 Sound a bit ‘soft’ perhaps because they are
so “high level” - i.e. used by managers not
engineers, technician, etc to see big picture
 Current hip lingo: management “dashboard”
Apply Data Mining to
Civil Infrastructure?
 civil
infrastructure meets guidelines for
selecting potential data mining problems
 significant
impact
 no good alternatives exist
 prior/domain knowledge
 effects of noisy data are mitigated
 sufficient data
 relevant attributes are being measured
The Bottom Line:
aka Good Advice about
Infrastructure Management
(and Life in General)
 Nothing
Lasts Forever..
 Plan Accordingly