Cascading effects of common-cause failures in critical infrastructures

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Volumn 417, Issue , 2013, Pages 171-182

  Kotzanikolaou, Panayiotis ^a   Theoharidou, Marianthi ^b   Gritzalis, Dimitris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^b ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cascading effects; Common cause failures; Infrastructure dependencies

Indexed keywords

PUBLIC WORKS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CASCADING EFFECTS; CASCADING FAILURES; COMMON CAUSE FAILURE; CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; INFRASTRUCTURE DEPENDENCIES; MODEL EXTENSIONS; REALISTIC SCENARIO;

CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES;

EID: 84979016704     PISSN: 18684238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-45330-4_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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