Performance of electric power systems under physical malicious attacks

IEEE Systems Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 854-865

  Bilis, Evangelos I ^a   Kröger, Wolfgang ^a   Nan, Cen ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cascading failures; centrality metrics; complex systems; industrial power system vulnerability; physical attacks

Indexed keywords

CASCADING FAILURES; CENTRALITY METRICS; ELECTRIC POWER INFRASTRUCTURE; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION GRIDS; INDUSTRIAL POWER SYSTEMS; OPERATIONAL CAPABILITIES; OPERATOR PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL ATTACKS;

ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 84885188346     PISSN: 19328184     EISSN: 19379234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2012.2223512     Document Type: Article

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