Assessment of information impacts in power system security against malicious attacks in a general framework

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1087-1094

  Bompard, E ^a   Napoli, R ^a   Xue, F ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Homeland security; Interdiction; Malicious attack; Multi agent systems; Power system security

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; POWER TRANSMISSION; SECURITY SYSTEMS;

ANALYTIC TOOLS; DECISION-MAKING PROCESS; FICTITIOUS PLAYS; HOMELAND SECURITY; INTERCONNECTED POWER SYSTEMS; INTERCONNECTED SYSTEMS; INTERDICTION; MALICIOUS ATTACK; ON-LINE SECURITIES; POWER SYSTEM SECURITY; POWER SYSTEMS SECURITIES; TEST SYSTEMS; TRANSMISSION SYSTEM OPERATORS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 61349134071     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2009.01.002     Document Type: Article

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