Background In recent years, the term 'resilience'has gained increasing currency in
discussions of emergency preparedness. This review identifies key concepts and explores …

Evaluating network infrastructures for potential vulnerabilities is an important component of
strategic planning, particularly in the context of managing and mitigating service disruptions …

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 …

Extreme events over the past decade in the USA, ranging from the 9/11 terror attacks to the
2003 Northeast power blackout to the 2005 hurricanes, have highlighted the urgent need to …

Resilience is often thought of as the ability to withstand a disruption and recover quickly from
it. Thus, improving the resilience of an infrastructure system is often associated with reducing …

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 …

We present the Stochastic R-Interdiction Median Problem with Fortification (S-RIMF). This
model optimally allocates defensive resources among facilities to minimize the worst-case …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to address the inefficiency in resource allocation for
disaster relief procurement operations. It presents a holistic and reconfigurable procurement …

Optimizing system resilience is concerned with the development of strategies to restore a
system to normal operations as quickly and efficiently as possible following potential …

This article introduces a game-theoretic approach for allocating protection resources among
the components of a network so as to maximize its robustness to external disruptions …