Quantitative estimates of critical infrastructures' interdependencies on the communication and information technology infrastructure

International Journal of Critical Infrastructures

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 220-242

  Rahman, Hafiz Abdur ^a   Martí, José R ^a   Srivastava, K D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

CITI; Communications and information technology infrastructure; Critical infrastructures; Cyber interdependency; ICT; Information and communication technology; Infrastructure interdependencies; Interdependency estimates; Interdependency function

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; PUBLIC WORKS;

CITI; CYBER INTERDEPENDENCY; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE; INFRASTRUCTURE INTERDEPENDENCIES; INTERDEPENDENCY ESTIMATES;

CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES;

EID: 80053980946     PISSN: 14753219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJCIS.2011.042974     Document Type: Article

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