On the use of non-coherent fault trees in safety and security studies

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 93, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1886-1895

  Contini, S ^a   Cojazzi, G G M ^a   Renda, G ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Mutually exclusive events; Non coherent fault trees; Safety; Security

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERRORS; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; PROBABILITY; RISK PERCEPTION;

ATTACK SCENARIOS; COMPONENT FAILURES; ESSENTIAL FEATURE; FAULT TREES; HIGH PROBABILITY; HUMAN ERRORS; MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE EVENTS; NON-COHERENT; NON-COHERENT FAULT TREES; SAFETY; SECURITY; SECURITY APPLICATIONS; SECURITY STUDIES; STOCHASTIC EVENTS; SYSTEM MODELLING; TOP EVENT PROBABILITY; WORKING CONDITIONS; WORKING STATE;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 49949105039     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2008.03.018     Document Type: Article

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