Visualizing cascading failures in critical cyber infrastructures

IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

Volumn 253, Issue , 2007, Pages 351-364

  Kopylec, Jason ^a   D'Amico, Anita ^a   Goodall, John ^a  

^a Applied Visions Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Actor network theory; Cascading failures; Cyber infrastructure; Infrastructure dependencies; Situational awareness

Indexed keywords

EID: 36248950191     PISSN: 15715736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-75462-8_25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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