  The role of the services described in this paper is to support decisions in
the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) domain. Those services are
perceived as the most fundamental functionalities, that will serve as a basis
for the planned European simulation centre for modelling the behaviour of
Critical Infrastructures (CI). The proposed services are: CI-related data
accessing and gathering, threat forecasting and visualisation, consequence
analysis, crowd management, as well as resources and capability management. In
general, services proposed in the current paper will contribute to reducing the
problem of overwhelming decision makers by too large amount of information. In
the crisis, their decisions are made on the basis of the large amount of data
related to the current situation, such as the status of CI, localisation of
capabilities, weather and threat forecasts etc. The design of the services has
been established with the help of the future end-users. The work presented in
this paper is the result of preliminary activities performed in the FP7 project
CIPRNet.
