Nature plays with dice - terrorists do not: Allocating resources to counter strategic versus probabilistic risks

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 198-208

  Golany, Boaz ^a   Kaplan, Edward H ^b   Marmur, Abraham ^a   Rothblum, Uriel G ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Game theory; Resource allocation; Risk analysis

Indexed keywords

GAME THEORY; OPTIMAL POLICIES; PROBABILISTIC RISK; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RISK ANALYSIS;

PROBABILITY;

EID: 50849106725     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2007.09.001     Document Type: Article

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