ABSTRACT We review the Operations Research/Management Science (OR/MS) literature
on supply chain disruptions in order to take stock of the research to date and to provide an …

Vulnerability to sudden service disruptions due to deliberate sabotage and terrorist attacks is
one of the major threats of today. In this paper, we present a bilevel formulation of the r …

Facility location models have been applied to problems in the public and private sectors for
years. In this article, the author first presents a taxonomy of location problems based on the …

Ethics is important in the Information Systems field as illustrated by the direct effect of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act on the work of IS professionals. There is a substantial literature on …

Recent events have highlighted the need for planners to consider the risk of disruptions
when designing supply chain networks. Supply chain disruptions have a number of causes …

In this paper, we examine the decision of where to preposition supplies in preparation for a
disaster, such as a hurricane or terrorist attack, and how much to preposition at a location. If …

Distribution networks have been facing an increased exposure to risk of unpredicted
disruptions causing significant economic forfeitures. At the same time, the existing literature …

The work reported in this paper aims at develo** a practical and efficient tool for utility
transmission planners to protect critical transmission assets from potential physical attacks …

Supply systems are subject to disruptions whose impact may not remain confined, but might
actually propagate across the network. We consider the problem of optimally protecting a …

Having a robustly designed supply chain network is one of the most effective ways to hedge
against network disruptions because contingency plans in the event of a disruption are often …