Improving Homeland Security Decisions
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Improving Homeland Security Decisions

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Improving Homeland Security Decisions

About this book

What are the risks of terrorism and what are their consequences and economic impacts? Are we safer from terrorism today than before 9/11? Does the government spend our homeland security funds well? These questions motivated a twelve-year research program of the National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) at the University of Southern California, funded by the Department of Homeland Security. This book showcases some of the most important results of this research and offers key insights on how to address the most important security problems of our time. Written for homeland security researchers and practitioners, this book covers a wide range of methodologies and real-world examples of how to reduce terrorism risks, increase the efficient use of homeland security resources, and thereby make better decisions overall.

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Yes, you can access Improving Homeland Security Decisions by Ali E. Abbas,Milind Tambe,Detlof von Winterfeldt in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Mathematics & Linear & Nonlinear Programming. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Table of contents
  6. List of contributors
  7. 1 Improving Homeland Security Decisions
  8. 2 Probabilistic Risk Analysis and Terrorism Risk
  9. 3 Integrating Stakeholder Values into Strategic Planning through Comparative Risk Analysis
  10. 4 Validating Terrorism Risk Assessment Models – Lessons Learned from 11 Models
  11. 5 Coping with Uncertainty in Adversarial Risk Analysis
  12. 6 A Risk and Economic Analysis of Dirty Bomb Attacks on the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach
  13. 7 Regional Transportation and Supply Chain Modeling for Large-Scale Emergencies
  14. 8 Economic Consequences of Terrorism and Natural Disasters: The Computable General Equilibrium Approach
  15. 9 Economic Resilience to Terrorism and Natural Hazards
  16. 10 The Temporal Regional Economic Impacts of a Hurricane Disaster on Oil Refinery Operations: A FlexNIEMO Approach
  17. 11 Risk-Informed Benefit-Cost Analysis
  18. 12 Enhancing Post-disaster Economic Resilience: Public-Private Partnership for Insuring Terrorism
  19. 13 Economic Impacts of Changes in Wait Times at U.S. Ports of Entry
  20. 14 Organizational Decision Processes
  21. 15 A Value Model for Evaluating Homeland Security Decisions
  22. 16 Identifying, Structuring, and Comparing the Objectives of Al Qaeda and ISIL
  23. 17 Multi-objective Decision Making: Expected Utility vs. Some Widely Used (and Flawed) Methods
  24. 18 Achieving Multiple Objectives with Limited Resources: Using Utility Theory and Control Theory
  25. 19 Defender-Attacker Decision Tree Analysis to Combat Terrorism
  26. 20 Decision Making for Bioterror Preparedness: Examples from Smallpox Vaccination Policy
  27. 21 Stackelberg Security Games (SSG) Basics and Application Overview
  28. 22 Basic Solution Concepts and Algorithms for Stackelberg Security Games
  29. 23 Mixed-Integer Optimization Methods for Solving Stackelberg Security Games
  30. 24 Methods for Addressing the Unpredictable Real-World Element in Security
  31. 25 Learning to Play Stackelberg Security Games
  32. 26 Evaluating Deployed Decision Support Systems for Security: Challenges, Analysis, and Approaches
  33. 27 Homeland Security Resource Allocation Games: Considering Partially Strategic Attackers and Equity
  34. 28 Decision Analysis by Proxy for Adaptive Adversaries
  35. 29 Asymmetric Prescriptive/Descriptive Game Theory for Counterterrorism
  36. 30 Near-Misses and Decision Making Under Uncertainty in the Context of Cybersecurity
  37. Index