Infranetics – a New Umbrella MABICS-Converging Technologies Science for Infrastructures Design, Resilience and Business Continuity Management

Abstract

The paper describes recent advances in Infranetics (Infrastructures + Cybernetics) – the new umbrella science based on the MABICS-converging technology (Digital Stochastic Mechanics and Design, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Information Technology, Cognitive and Social Sciences) that emerged in 2016 [1]. Infranetics is being constructed as a multidiscipline science to facilitate design and implementation of advanced resilient smart infrastructures-components of artificial nature, congruent with the new type of human performance that is emerging supported by NBIC technologies. The knowledge base and methodology of infranetics, as well as means of harmonized governance of urban and regional infrastructures and unresolved priority issues of infranetics are briefly outlined. The paper describes how to use infranetics when solving real life problems related to urban and regional development, resilience, and governance.