Optimal defense strategy against intentional attacks

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 148-157

  Levitin, Gregory ^a  

^a ISRAEL ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attacker's strategy; Defense strategy; Genetic algorithm; Multi state system; Optimization; Protection; Separation; Survivability; Universal generating function

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

MULTI-STATE SYSTEM; OPTIMAL DEFENSE STRATEGY; SERIES-PARALLEL SYSTEM; UNIVERSAL GENERATING FUNCTION;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 34047142655     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2006.884599     Document Type: Article

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