The mission of the TC is to contribute from a variety of disciplines, each with a different perspective on infrastructure system complexity, to an emergent theory and toolkit for the design and management of networked utility and infrastructure systems as complex socio-technical systems. In other words, the TC strives to organize a scientific stage for confronting, combining and possibly integrating the social and physical perspectives on infrastructure networks, in such a way that the insights can be made available for practitioners in the infrastructure sectors and help them to achieve better quality and reliability of infrastructure bound services.

IEEE SMC 2004 (The Hague):

• Keynote presentation on Innovating Infrastructures - Dealing with Complexities in Networked Systems
• Three special sessions on Next Generation Infrastructures (I, II, III)

• Intelligent Complexity - Innovative Control of Infrastructure Systems
• Flexible Infrastructures - Real Options in Infrastructure Syste ms

• Session: Energy and Transport Decision Making
• Session: Interdependencies with Public Information Infrastructure
• Session: Strategic Asset Management

• Annual workshops (workshop proceedings to be published)
• European IEEE SMCS conference on Infrastructure Systems & Services ("Next Generation Infrastructures"), Fall 2007
• Organizing special conference track on Infrastructure Systems & Services in the annual international conferences of IEEE SMC (2007 onward)
• Provide a discussion forum for topical debates in the world of infrastructures, such as critical infrastructure protection

We must face the challenge of understanding and steering the behaviour of infrastructures to social and economic advantage. There is not one discipline that in itself will offer a comprehensive answer to the infrastructure design and management challenge. Our TC on Infrastructure Systems & Services therefore aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from all parts of the globe with an active interest in the planning, design, operation, control, management and governance of networked infrastructure systems. Collectively, we may succeed in creating a common language and synthesis framework, enabling us to grasp the full complexity of the infrastructures on which society has come to depend.