Terror Queues

Operations Research

Volumn 58, Issue 4 PART 1, 2010, Pages 773-784

  Kaplan, Edward H ^a  

^a YALE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Counterterrorism; Diffusion models; Informants; Intelligence; Markov models; Queues; Suicide bombings

Indexed keywords

COUNTER TERRORISM; DIFFUSION MODELS; INFORMANTS; INTELLIGENCE; MARKOV MODEL; QUEUES; SUICIDE BOMBING;

DIFFUSION; MARKOV PROCESSES; QUEUEING THEORY; RAILROAD ACCIDENTS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL MECHANICS; TERRORISM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 77955863380     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1100.0831     Document Type: Article

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