Systems and Human Science - For Safety, Security and Dependability
Subtitle: Selected Papers of the 1st International Symposium SSR 2003, Osaka, Japan, November 2003
Contributors: Tatsuo Arai (Editor); Shigeru Yamamoto (Editor); Kazuhisa Makino (Editor)
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Published: March 8, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780444518132
First sentence: At 4:11 p.m. on Thursday, August 14, 2003, the electrical supply system suddenly and unexpectedly shut down in the Canadian province of Ontario as well as seven nearby American states in the northeastern part of the United States [41,54].