Defending simple series and parallel systems with imperfect false targets

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 679-688

  Peng, R ^a   Levitin, G ^b,c   Xie, M ^a   Ng, S H ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c ISRAEL ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attack; Defense; False targets; Parallel systems; Series systems; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

DEFENSE STRATEGY; DETECTION PROBABILITIES; FALSE TARGETS; NON-ZERO PROBABILITY; OPTIMAL DISTRIBUTIONS; PARALLEL SYSTEM; SERIES SYSTEM; SYSTEM ELEMENTS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; TARGETS;

DAMAGE DETECTION;

EID: 77949659051     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2010.02.008     Document Type: Article

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