Exploring reliable strategies for defending power systems against targeted attacks

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1000-1009

  Chen, Guo ^a   Dong, Zhao Yang ^b   Hill, David J ^c,d   Xue, Yu Sheng ^e  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e NARI GROUP CORPORATION STATE GRID ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

Game theory; power system security; reliable strategies; risk management; targeted attacks

Indexed keywords

ALLOCATION ALGORITHM; DECISION MAKERS; INTERACTION MODEL; POWER SYSTEM SECURITY; RELIABLE STRATEGIES; STATIC MODEL; TARGETED ATTACKS;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; GAME THEORY; NUMERICAL METHODS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 79960851392     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2010.2078524     Document Type: Article

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