Complexity induced vulnerability

International Journal of Critical Infrastructures

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 76-85

  Gheorghe, Adrian V ^a   Vamanu, Dan V ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC PHYSICS   (Romania)

Author keywords

Complexity; Critical infrastructures; Decision support system; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ENTROPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; THERMODYNAMICS;

COMPLEXITY; CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES; MULTI-COMPONENT SYSTEMS; VULNERABILITY;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 10444255614     PISSN: 14753219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJCIS.2004.003797     Document Type: Article

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