Meeting a demand vs. enhancing protections in homogeneous parallel systems

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 94, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1711-1717

  Levitin, Gregory ^a   Hausken, Kjell ^b  

^a ISRAEL ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Attack; Defense; Forced losses; Optimization; Planned losses; Protection; Redundancy; Risk; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ATTACK; DEFENSE; FORCED LOSSES; PLANNED LOSSES; PROTECTION; VULNERABILITY;

PLANNING; REDUNDANCY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 67949103527     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2009.05.011     Document Type: Article

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