Vulnerability assessment of physical protection systems: A bio-inspired approach

International Journal of Unconventional Computing

Volumn 11, Issue 3-4, 2015, Pages 227-243

  Deng, Yong ^a,b   Mahadevan, Sankaran ^b   Zhou, Deyun ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Dempster shafer evidence theory; Information fusion; Physarum solver; Physical protection system; Risk analysis; Vulnerability assessment

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; INFORMATION FUSION; NUMERICAL METHODS; RISK ANALYSIS;

BIO-INSPIRED ALGORITHMS; BIO-INSPIRED APPROACH; DEMPSTER SHAFER EVIDENCE THEORY; EVALUATION INDEX; EVIDENCE THEORIES; PHYSARUM; PHYSICAL PROTECTION SYSTEMS; VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84937551473     PISSN: 15487199     EISSN: 15487202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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