Protection vs. redundancy in homogeneous parallel systems

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 93, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1444-1451

  Levitin, Gregory ^a   Hausken, Kjell ^b  

^a ISRAEL ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Attack; Damage; Defense; Optimization; Protection; Redundancy; Risk; Survivability

Indexed keywords

DAMAGE DETECTION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; OPTIMIZATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RISK ANALYSIS;

ATTACKER-DEFENDER CONTESTS; EXTERNAL INTENTIONAL ATTACKS; PERFORMANCE REDUNDANCY;

SECURITY SYSTEMS;

EID: 43249094557     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2007.10.007     Document Type: Article

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