From damage models to SIR epidemics and cascading failures

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 247-269

  Gathy, Maude ^a   Lefèvre, Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Binomial; Branching approximation; Cascading failure; Damage model; Epidemic process; First crossing problem; Generalised Abel Gontcharoff polynomial; Markov P lya and hypergeometric distributions; Stability by convolution; Total outcome distribution

Indexed keywords

BINOMIAL; BRANCHING APPROXIMATION; CASCADING FAILURE; DAMAGE MODEL; EPIDEMIC PROCESS; FIRST-CROSSING PROBLEM; GENERALISED ABEL-GONTCHAROFF POLYNOMIAL; TOTAL OUTCOME DISTRIBUTION;

CONVOLUTION; CROSSINGS (PIPE AND CABLE); POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; RELIABILITY THEORY; SYSTEM STABILITY;

EPIDEMIOLOGY;

EID: 67649635240     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/aap/1240319584     Document Type: Article

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