Towards QVA - Quantitative vulnerability assessment: A generic practical model

Journal of Risk Research

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 613-628

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

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC PHYSICS   (Romania)

Author keywords

Critical infrastructures; Quantitative assessment; Resilience; Risk; Stability; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; STABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT; RESILIENCE; VULNERABILITY;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 3342942694     PISSN: 13669877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1366987042000192219     Document Type: Conference Paper

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