Defence and attack of systems with variable attacker system structure detection probability

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 124-133

  Levitin, G ^a   Hausken, K ^b  

^a ISRAEL ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Attack; Defence; Elements; False targets; Redundancy; System demand

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; REDUNDANCY; STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING;

ATTACK; DEFENCE; FALSE TARGETS; FULL INFORMATIONS; NON-COOPERATIVE; SYSTEM DEMAND; SYSTEM ELEMENTS; SYSTEM STRUCTURES;

PROBABILITY;

EID: 71749120428     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jors.2008.158     Document Type: Article

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