Using Modeling and Simulation as a Framework for Testing New Solutions Devoted to Securing Global Flows of Goods and People

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This paper proposes an innovative initiative in the EU aim is to develop an interoperable simulation federation for analyzing security issues in Ports and Logistics Nodes. The goal of this initiative — GLOWS (Securing GLobal FLOWS of Goods and People) — is the development of a modeling and simulation (M&S) framework for resolving security issues in physical and ICT data infrastructures for managing people & goods flows, especially in Ports. GLOWS interdisciplinary models are designed to provide strong support for ports with the design and reorganization of people transportation and logistics. Indeed, the aim of GLOWS is to develop a simulation framework for assessing the impact of policies, data communication systems, innovative technologies, investments and reorganizations for increasing security and efficiency in global flows of people & goods in an international context. GLOWS integrates advanced research on policy, bioinformatics, Cyber Attacks on Transportation, Data Fusion Architecture, and M&S in Port Logistics. At the core of GLOWS is a new innovative simulation federation based on up-to-date technology (High Level Architecture), which has benefited from the input of Europe’s top experts. The GLOWS simulator is dedicated to the review, testing and certification of Ports Security Plans, Risk Assessments and Gaps Identification. The GLOWS federation supports the design and re-engineering of logistics procedures/infrastructures, and a definition of Standing Operation Planning for the preventive design of containment measures and partial or full recovery and continuity of operation in critical scenarios. GLOWS ideally provides very promising support for the design and evaluation of innovative data fusion architectures aimed at improving the security of logistics processes within ports. The GLOWS synthetic environment is expected to support training as per new security regulations (with dynamic links to real equipment and exercises). The GLOWS simulator is extensively tested in real Port case studies provided by partners (i.e. APV, IFF). The GLOWS initiative benefits from the support of a similar initiative, I-GERT [1], a USA NSF project involving several GLOWS partners that has established a research network on security for policy analysis, port operation M&S, data communication standards, and sensor & IT technologies.KeywordsSimulationsecurity