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publications-4112
Type:
article
Year:
2007
Authors:
Patterson, Sean Albert and Patterson, Sean Albert and Apostolakis, G. and Apostolakis, George
Title:
Identification of critical locations across multiple infrastructures for terrorist actions
Venue/Journal:
Reliability Engineering & System Safety
DOI:
10.1016/j.ress.2006.08.004
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Abstract:
This paper presents a possible approach to ranking geographic regions that can influence multiple infrastructures. Once ranked, decision makers can determine whether these regions are critical locations based on their susceptibility to terrorist acts. We identify these locations by calculating a value for a geographic region that represents the combined values to the decision makers of all the infrastructures crossing through that region. These values, as well as the size of the geographic region, are conditional on an assumed destructive threat of a given size. In our case study, the threat is assumed to be minor, e.g., a bomb that can affect objects within 7m of it.
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