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Informationen zum Autor Ali E. Abbas is Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Professor of Public Policy and Management at the University of Southern California. He also serves as the director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Decisions and Ethics (DECIDE). His research interests focus on all aspects of decision making under uncertainty broadly defined. He is author of two books, two edited volumes, and has over one hundred refereed publications. He has organized numerous workshops on decision making in large scale systems with NASA Langley, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the Department of Homeland Security, and the National Science Foundation. Milind Tambe is Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California. He is a founding co-director of the USC Center on Artificial Intelligence in Society. Among his pioneering contributions in Artificial Intelligence is the security games framework that has been deployed by agencies such as the US Coast Guard, Federal Air Marshals Service, and various non-governmental organizations for which he has received several commendations. He is a fellow of the Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Detlof von Winterfeldt is Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Professor of Public Policy and Management at the University of Southern California. His research interests are in the foundation and practice of decision and risk analysis. In 2004 he co-founded the National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) and serves as its current director. He is the author of two books, three edited volumes, and over one hundred refereed articles and chapters. He is a fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) and of the Society for Risk Analysis. Klappentext Are we safer from terrorism today and is our homeland security money well spent? This book offers answers and more. Zusammenfassung Showcasing the most important results from a twelve-year research program funded by the Department of Homeland Security! this book offers key insights for addressing the most important security problems of our time. Written for homeland security researchers and practitioners! it covers a wide range of methodologies and real-world examples. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction. Improving homeland security decisions Ali E. Abbas, Milind Tambe and Detlof von Winterfeldt; 2. Probability risk analysis and terrorism risk Barry C. Ezell, Steven P. Bennett, Detlof von Winterfeldt, John Sokolowski and Andrew J. Collins; 3. Integrating stakeholder values into strategic planning through comparative risk analysis Henry H. Willis and Russell Lundberg; 4. Validating terrorism risk assessment models - lessons learned from eleven models John Lathrop and Barry C. Ezell; 5. Coping with uncertainty in adversarial risk analysis Vicki Bier and Tony Cox; 6. A risk and economic analysis of dirty bomb attack on the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach Heather Rosoff and Detlof von Winterfeldt; 7. Regional transportation modelling for homeland security Maged Dessouky, Fernando Ordóñez, Zhihong Shen and Hongzhong Jia; 8. Economic consequences of terrorism and natural disasters: the computable general equilibrium approach Peter B. Dixon, Maureen T. Rimmer, Glyn Wittwer, Adam Z. Rose and Nathaniel Heatwole; 9. Economic resilience to terrorism and natural disasters Adam Z. Rose; 10. The regional economic impacts of hurricanes Katrina and Rita on oil refinery operations in the Gulf of Mexico Jiyoung Park, Peter Gordon, Yunkyung Kim, James E. Moore, II, and Harry W. Richardson; 11. Benefit-cost analysis and risk Scott Farrow; 12. Enhancing post-disaster economic resilience: public-private partnership for insuring terrorism Howard Kunreuther and Erwann Mic...
