The recent development of technological systems implies a high complexity of behaviors for today’s systems. An answer to the increased systems’ complexity is to look at them as a multitude of heterogeneous subsystems and ...

Nowadays retrofitting strategies are a typical problem of public administrations. Due to the amount of essential and/or historic buildings that require seismic retrofitting and the restricted economic availability, it is ...

Nowadays, natural disasters are more frequents and destructives compared to the past, causing many deaths and injuries. Existing hospitals are defined essential structures that have the goal to protect the public health ...