Handbook of Operations Research for Homeland Security

1. Using Operations Research Methods for Homeland Security Problems
Jeffrey W. Herrmann

2. Operations Research and Homeland Security: Overview and Case Study of Pandemic Influenza
Richard C. Larson, Anna Teytelman, Stan Finkelstein

3. Deployed Security Games for Patrol Planning
Fernando Ordóñez, Milind Tambe, Juan F. Jara, Manish Jain, Christopher Kiekintveld, Jason Tsai

4. Interdiction Models and Applications
Nedialko B. Dimitrov, David P. Morton

5. Time Discrepant Shipments in Manifest Data
James Abello, Mikey Chen, Neel Parikh

6. Achieving Realistic Levels of Defensive Hedging Based on Non-monotonic and Multi-attribute Terrorist Utility Functions
Vicki Marion Bier, Jaime Marie Bonorato, Chen Wang

7. Mitigating the Risk of an Anthrax Attack with Medical Countermeasures
Jeffrey W. Herrmann

8. Service Networks for Public Health and Medical Preparedness: Medical Countermeasures Dispensing and Large-Scale Disaster Relief Efforts
Eva K. Lee, Ferdinand Pietz, Bernard Benecke

9. Disaster Response Planning in the Private Sector and the Role of Operations Research
Özlem Ergun, Gonca Karakus, Paul Kerl, Pinar Keskinocak, Julie L. Swann, Monica Villarreal, Matthew J. Drake

Nyckelord: Economics/Management Science, Operation Research/Decision Theory, Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering, Social Policy