Fuzzy integrated vulnerability assessment model for critical facilities in combating the terrorism

Akgun I., Kandakoglu A., Ozok A. F.

EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS, vol.37, no.5, pp.3561-3573, 2010 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 37 Issue: 5
  • Publication Date: 2010
  • Doi Number: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.10.035
  • Journal Name: EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.3561-3573
  • Istanbul Technical University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Critical facility vulnerability assessment is a highly complex strategic activity in combating the terrorism and necessitates a structured quantified methodology to support the decision-making process in defense planning. In the system perspective, the critical facility, such as airport, dam, governmental facility, harbor, nuclear power plant, oil plant etc., can be defined as a system that relies on a group of different interdependent logical and physical entities as system functions and system components.