Critical infrastructures at risk: A need for a new conceptual approach and extended analytical tools

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 93, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1781-1787

  Kröger, Wolfgang ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Critical infrastructures; Hybrid modeling; Interdependencies; Risk analysis; Risk governance; System of systems

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS;

ANALYTICAL TOOLS; CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES; CURRENT MODELING; HYBRID MODELING; HYBRID MODELLING; INTERDEPENDENCIES; OBJECT-ORIENTED; OPERATIONAL FACTORS; POLICY OPTIONS; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK GOVERNANCE; SOCIAL VULNERABILITY; SUPPLY SYSTEMS; SYSTEM COMPLEXITY; SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS;

OCCUPATIONAL RISKS;

EID: 49949089091     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2008.03.005     Document Type: Article

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