On the outcome of a cascading failure model

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 413-427

  Lefèvre, Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

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Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

CASCADING FAILURE MODELS; CASCADING FAILURES; CENTRAL PROBLEMS; EPIDEMIC MODELING; GENERAL FAILURE MODEL; JOINT DISTRIBUTIONS; MATHEMATICAL TOOLS; ORDER STATISTICS;

ENGINEERING;

EID: 33745677463     PISSN: 02699648     EISSN: 14698951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0269964806060256     Document Type: Article

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