Handbook of Operations Research for Homeland Security

Abstract

Nine papers explore the power of operations research and provide advice to help organizations, policymakers, and decisionmakers plan for, and respond to, terrorist attacks, natural disasters, and public health emergencies. Papers discuss using operations research methods for homeland security problems; operations research and homeland security--an overview and case study of pandemic influenza; deployed security games for patrol planning; interdiction models and applications; time discrepant shipments in manifest data; achieving realistic levels of defensive hedging based on nonmonotonic and multiattribute terrorist utility functions; mitigating the risk of an anthrax attack with medical countermeasures; service networks for public health and medical preparedness--medical countermeasures dispensing and large-scale disaster relief efforts; and disaster response planning in the private sector and the role of operations research. Herrmann is with the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland. Index.