Parallel systems under two sequential attacks

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 763-772

  Levitin, Gregory ^a   Hausken, Kjell ^b  

^a ISRAEL ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Attack; Defense; Elements; Minmax; Optimization; Protection; Redundancy; Survivability

Indexed keywords

OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REDUNDANCY; RELIABILITY;

ATTACK; DEFENSE; ELEMENTS; MINMAX; PROTECTION; SURVIVABILITY;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 57649232110     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2008.08.006     Document Type: Article

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