Risk Modeling, Assessment, and Management - Hardcover

Haimes, Yacov Y.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470282371 ISBN 13: 9780470282373

Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 2009

Synopsis

Examines timely multidisciplinary applications, problems, andcase histories in risk modeling, assessment, and management

Risk Modeling, Assessment, and Management, Third Editiondescribes the state of the art of risk analysis, a rapidly growingfield with important applications in engineering, science,manufacturing, business, homeland security, management, and publicpolicy. Unlike any other text on the subject, this definitive workapplies the art and science of risk analysis to current andemergent engineering and socioeconomic problems. It clearlydemonstrates how to quantify risk and construct probabilities forreal–world decision–making problems, including a host ofinstitutional, organizational, and political issues.

Avoiding higher mathematics whenever possible, this importantnew edition presents basic concepts as well as advanced material.It incorporates numerous examples and case studies to illustratethe analytical methods under discussion and features restructuredand updated chapters, as well as:

• A new chapter applying systems–driven and risk–based analysisto a variety of Homeland Security issues
• An accompanying FTP site developed with Professor JoostSantos that offers 150 example problems with an Instructor′sSolution Manual and case studies from a variety of journals
• Case studies on the 9/11 attack and Hurricane Katrina
• An adaptive multiplayer Hierarchical Holographic Modeling (HHM)game added to Chapter Three

This is an indispensable resource for academic, industry, andgovernment professionals in such diverse areas as homeland andcyber security, healthcare, the environment, physicalinfrastructure systems, engineering, business, and more. It is alsoa valuable textbook for both undergraduate and graduate students insystems engineering and systems management courses with a focus onour uncertain world.

About this title

About the Author

Yacov Y. Haimes is the Lawrence R. Quarles Professor of Systems and Information Engineering and Civil Engineering. He is the Founding Director (1987) of the Center for Risk Management of Engineering Systems at the University of Virginia.

Risk Modeling, Assessment, and Management, Third Editiondescribes the state of the art of risk analysis, a rapidly growingfield with important applications in engineering, science,manufacturing, business, homeland security, management, and publicpolicy. Unlike any other text on the subject, this definitive workapplies the art and science of risk analysis to current andemergent engineering and socioeconomic problems. It clearlydemonstrates how to quantify risk and construct probabilities forreal–world decision–making problems, including a host ofinstitutional, organizational, and political issues.

Avoiding higher mathematics whenever possible, this importantnew edition presents basic concepts as well as advanced material.It incorporates numerous examples and case studies to illustratethe analytical methods under discussion and features restructuredand updated chapters, as well as:

• A new chapter applying systems–driven and risk–based analysis toa variety of Homeland Security issues

• An accompanying FTP site developed with Professor JoostSantos that offers 150 example problems with an Instructor′sSolution Manual and case studies from a variety of journals

• Case studies on the 9/11 attack and Hurricane Katrina

• An adaptive multiplayer Hierarchical Holographic Modeling (HHM)game added to Chapter Three

This is an indispensable resource for academic, industry, andgovernment professionals in such diverse areas as homeland andcyber security, healthcare, the environment, physicalinfrastructure systems, engineering, business, and more. It is alsoa valuable textbook for both undergraduate and graduate students insystems engineering and systems management courses with a focus onour uncertain world.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470282371
• ISBN 13: 9780470282373
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 1040