A fuzzy decision support system for IT Service Continuity threat assessment

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1931-1943

  Van de Walle, Bartel ^a   Rutkowski, Anne Francoise ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Decision support systems; Fuzzy sets; IT Service Continuity; Threat analysis

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FUZZY SETS; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

FURIA PROTOTYPE; FUZZY RELATIONAL MODELING; IT SERVICE CONTINUITY; THREAT ANALYSIS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750448993     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2006.05.002     Document Type: Article

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