Safety and Security Engineering VII

The seventh International Conference on Safety and Security Engineering took place in Rome, Italy organised by Wessex Institute, UK, represented by Prof Carlos A Brebbia, and the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, represented by Professors Massimo Guarascio, Fabia Garzia and Mara Lombardi The Conference was sponsored by WIT Transactions on the Built Environment; the International Journal of Safety and Security Engineering; the Foundation for the Basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi and the Senate of the Italian Republic. The meeting followed the success of the other conferences in the series, which started in Rome (2005), followed by Malta (2007); Rome (2009), Antwerp (2011); Rome (2013) and Opatija (2015). The Conference provided a forum for the presentation and discussion of the most recent research and industrial developments in the theoretical and practical aspects of safety and security engineering. All papers presented at the conference are archived in the Institute’s eLibrary (www.witpress.com/elibrary). Safety and Security, due to its special nature, is an interdisciplinary area of research and application that brings together in a systematic way, many disciplines of engineering, from the traditional to the most technologically advanced. The conference covered areas such as crisis management, security engineering, natural disasters and emergencies, terrorism, IT security, man-made hazards, risk management, control, protection and mitigation issues, and many others.