Identification of sources of failures and their propagation in critical infrastructures from 12 years of public failure reports

International Journal of Critical Infrastructures

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 220-244

  Rahman, Hafiz Abdur ^a   Beznosov, Konstantin ^a   Marti, Jose R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

CITI; Communication and information technology infrastructure; Critical infrastructures; Failure identification; Failure propagation; ICT; Information and communication technology; Infrastructure failure; Infrastructure interdependencies; Telecommunications

Indexed keywords

FAILURE (MECHANICAL); MACHINERY; PUBLIC WORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION;

CITI; FAILURE IDENTIFICATION; FAILURE PROPAGATION; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE; INFRASTRUCTURE FAILURES; INFRASTRUCTURE INTERDEPENDENCIES;

CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES;

EID: 65849395524     PISSN: 14753219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJCIS.2009.024872     Document Type: Article

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